# How well do we know one another? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 2, 2010, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-we-know-one-another/541595 "2010-06-02T02:42:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-we-know-one-another/541595/1 "2010-06-02T02:42:48Z")
From the notification of **betenoir** ’s death: > [@Betenoir has passed away.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/betenoir-has-passed-away/541505/35): > > God…this is why I wish I was better with names, especially online. Whenever one of these damned things gets posted, I’m struck with the hideous feeling that I might have known this someone better than I realize, but it’s all swept into the dark because I can’t put a name to the voice. ☹ I’m the same way. I recognise most of the names here, of course. But I tend to read threads for their content more than for who posted, and answer the same way. Like **Ranchoth** , I sometimes wonder if I’ve interacted with someone. There are many posters I interact with regularly, and a few whose opinions and knowledge I respect greatly. Some make me laugh, and some annoy the hell out of me. I can think of one or two in particular whose political views are polar opposites of mine; yet there are things we agree on. And these ‘adversaries’ of whom I’m thinking put up strong and well-reasoned arguments – even if I disagree. Since I’ve never been very good with names, I suggest that everyone stay healthy. Selfish, I know; but it will really help me out. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-we-know-one-another/541595/2 "2010-06-02T03:23:31Z")
Which one were you again? That Hollywood hotshot guy? ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-we-know-one-another/541595/3 "2010-06-02T03:26:23Z")
He’s the guy that’s in to boats. Boats and bicycles. ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-we-know-one-another/541595/4 "2010-06-02T03:32:07Z")
Even though I have not ever had much interaction with Johnny L.A. I know he is interested in good food and guns, and that he recently saw the Pouges play. I think Zipper JJ has mentioned that she is gay needscoffee I can’t recall too many specifics about right now… ---
**Author:** ![Stealth\_Potato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Stealth\_Potato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stealth_Potato)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-we-know-one-another/541595/5 "2010-06-02T05:07:39Z")
I think **MBP** may be in Salt Lake. 😉 I don’t know; I don’t post here as often as some, maybe, but I really love this place and all the crazy, delightful, messed-up-in-the-head people who inhabit it. Secretly I’m keeping tabs on all of you. You know, to get to know you better. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-we-know-one-another/541595/6 "2010-06-02T05:17:20Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Since I’ve never been very good with names, I suggest that everyone stay healthy. Selfish, I know; but it will really help me out. You’re one of the names I remember because you were nice to me and talked about astronomy. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-we-know-one-another/541595/7 "2010-06-02T05:22:17Z")
Well, I recognize you, Johnny. This issues has come up for me in the past couple of days, in an odd way. I started a thread about a drive I’m taking Friday, from Madison to Tulsa. My sister and another real world friend are astounded that I would trust the information people here posted about route options. Frankly, it didn’t even cross my mind that anyone here would post bogus crap to jerk me around. I have built up a pretty high degree of trust in the posters here. Admittedly, some of that is a hight degree of trust that some people here are disingenuous assholes, but I don’t think even they would do something malicious like try to send me to Maine instead of Oklahoma. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-we-know-one-another/541595/8 "2010-06-02T05:29:56Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Well, I recognize you, Johnny. > > This issues has come up for me in the past couple of days, in an odd way. I started a thread about a drive I’m taking Friday, from Madison to Tulsa. My sister and another real world friend are astounded that I would trust the information people here posted about route options. > > Frankly, it didn’t even cross my mind that anyone here would post bogus crap to jerk me around. I have built up a pretty high degree of trust in the posters here. Admittedly, some of that is a hight degree of trust that some people here are disingenuous assholes, but I don’t think even they would do something malicious like try to send me to Maine instead of Oklahoma. Huh. I’ve never even thought about that but you’re right. I ask questions and just accept what people say on here. I don’t know if that’s a good or bad thing. I guess because if you make some sort of claim on this board, someone will always say “cite!” so I just accept people’s answers as true. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-we-know-one-another/541595/9 "2010-06-02T05:35:43Z")
> [@FloatyGimpy](#): > > Huh. I’ve never even thought about that but you’re right. I ask questions and just accept what people say on here. I don’t know if that’s a good or bad thing. I guess because if you make some sort of claim on this board, someone will always say “cite!” so I just accept people’s answers as true. I accept they believe what they say, even if I know they’re wrong. The exceptions are the political threads, where sometimes I just can’t buy that everyone believes the bullshit they are spouting. I am, of course, the exception to that, except when I put on my smartass helmet. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-we-know-one-another/541595/10 "2010-06-02T07:37:37Z")
Geez, I must let \*\*Ranchoth \*\*know that when reading my posts to put a deep, rambling God-like voice to them. That way, if I’m ever not here anymore he’ll know who to forget. \*\*FloatyGimpy \*\*I will never lie to you. (Unless of course that’s a lie.) **Boyo Jim** , I’m sure there’s a shortcut you can take through Sydney. **Stealth Potato** be careful with keeping tabs on everyone. Someone might cut out your eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-we-know-one-another/541595/11 "2010-06-02T09:35:51Z")
Over the years I have exchanged gifts with Dopers-m principally from the USA. Trouble I have is remembering who I actually got what from. I am sure it was **Baker** who sent me the beer jelly. Wasn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-we-know-one-another/541595/12 "2010-06-02T14:44:42Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > Even though I have not ever had much interaction with Johnny L.A. I know he is interested in good food and guns, and that he recently saw the Pouges play. > > I think Zipper JJ has mentioned that she is gay > > needscoffee I can’t recall too many specifics about right now… No, not gay. But…thanks? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-we-know-one-another/541595/13 "2010-06-02T15:08:14Z")
There are a lot of names here I recognize in the sense that I’ve seen them over and over and over again. There are very few people whose name I can connect to any sense of personality. Out of that small group, there are only one or two of whom my impression is positive - that is, if I know who you are, it’s much more likely to be because you’re a tremendous asshole than because I’m impressed with your posts. I think that’s just because it’s easier to stand out by being a dick than by being intelligent. For me, anyway. So, for most of the members here, if we met on the street, it’d be sort of a head-nod, “Hey, how’s it going?” kind of interaction. Some I’d ignore completely, and with a very few, I’d stop to chat for a while. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-we-know-one-another/541595/14 "2010-06-02T15:25:11Z")
If something happens to **Johnny** , who will I argue with about what constitutes being rich? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-we-know-one-another/541595/15 "2010-06-02T15:31:54Z")
The rich don’t know what constitutes being rich! They never have enough. Only the poor know what being rich is. (I’m practicing.) ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-we-know-one-another/541595/16 "2010-06-02T15:36:06Z")
**Johnny L.A.**? He’s the guy who flies a MG converted into a helicopter and uses it to dive-bomb crabs in birch bay using a blowgun that fires titanium sporks. Who could forget him? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-we-know-one-another/541595/17 "2010-06-02T15:38:05Z")
Good to know you’ve got my back, **Boyo Jim**. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-we-know-one-another/541595/18 "2010-06-02T15:44:09Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > **Johnny L.A.**? He’s the guy who flies a MG converted into a helicopter and uses it to dive-bomb crabs in birch bay using a blowgun that fires titanium sporks. Who could forget him? Stalker! :eek: Seriously, though. Have I interacted with **betenoir** or _LiveOnAPlane_? I think I have, but I don’t know. This has been a bad year for Doper deaths. I think it’s making me think too much. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-we-know-one-another/541595/19 "2010-06-02T15:53:18Z")
I am awful at knowing names here. I tend to read down the threads without looking at the names. I was much better when I lived in the NoVa area and got together with dopers IRL all the time. ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-we-know-one-another/541595/20 "2010-06-02T16:00:51Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > No, not gay. But…thanks? 🙂 I really hesitated posting that, as I was 90% sure that it was you I was thinking of—I guess I was obviously thinking of another poster. I have a really good memory for certain things, and there are a few posters here on SDMB who I can recall much better than others, probably because we either share certain hobbies or hold similar positions or outlooks on things, or in a few cases see things in polar opposite ways… ZipperJJ, I apologize for mixing you up with someone else, and will try to pay closer attention to your future posts.😉 Matthew [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-well-do-we-know-one-another/541595.md?page=2)