# Impressive Famous Dopers **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 17, 2000, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impressive-famous-dopers/13894 "2000-02-17T09:29:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pricciar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@pricciar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pricciar)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2000, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impressive-famous-dopers/13894/1 "2000-02-17T09:29:00Z")
Well, now thats twice I have read a thread and been impressed by the kind of crowd fellow dopers keep. Eve and Eden, they even have similar names. They didn’t simply have stories of celebrity brushes, but stories were they paled around with extremely cool famous people. They were also immortalized by these artists. Eve in Polyester (Isn’t that the smellovision Flick?) and Eden in a Slug original. I guess Eden wins, though. I mean Slug had a crush on her. I have my doubts that John Waters spent his nights dreaming of Eve. (No offense to Eve, I just figure had different way to spend his evenings.) Anyway. Its late and I was impressed. pat ---
**Author:** ![Abner\_Normal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@Abner\_Normal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abner_Normal)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2000, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impressive-famous-dopers/13894/2 "2000-02-17T09:33:00Z")
Interesting user name. May I ask where it came from? \Getting there…one post at a time.\ * * * “Tell me and I’ll forget; Show me and I may remember; Involve me and I’ll understand.” - Old Chinese Proverb ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2000, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impressive-famous-dopers/13894/3 "2000-02-17T14:29:00Z")
[blushing prettily] Well, John MAY have dreamed about me . . . It just didn’t involve sex. ---
**Author:** ![eden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5f9b8f/32.png) [@eden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eden)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2000, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impressive-famous-dopers/13894/4 "2000-02-17T15:17:00Z")
Oh jeepers, I can’t believe I’m in this thread with Eve! Clearly, she wins Impressive Famous Doper by a landslide. Three-time published author? Television personality? Movie expert and critic? All-around rapier-wit? I hope that someday I have even ONE of these accomplishments. But yeah, in the “cool name connoting a beautiful utopia” contest, I’m up there 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2000, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impressive-famous-dopers/13894/5 "2000-02-17T15:59:00Z")
[Eve and Eden skip off hand in hand to eat apples and gossip about Adam] ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2000, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impressive-famous-dopers/13894/6 "2000-02-17T16:22:00Z")
Let’s not forget David B., who has a VERY impressive magazine column (a lot more intelligent than my sarcastic blatherings!), and Ukulele Ike, who is one of the top book editors in New York. —Eve [modestly deflecting attention from herself] ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2000, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impressive-famous-dopers/13894/7 "2000-02-18T06:28:00Z")
Well, if we’re going to mention magazine columns, how about puttin in a good word for our own Cecil Adams? And speaking of editors, let’s not forget Ed Zotti. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2000, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impressive-famous-dopers/13894/8 "2000-02-17T21:01:00Z")
Say, where IS David B. these days? He hasn’t posted in awhile—you don’t suppose he’s been abducted by space aliens? ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2000, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impressive-famous-dopers/13894/9 "2000-02-17T21:27:00Z")
Well I’m a world-famous future world leader! THat has to count for something! Hehehe. And I did have a film crew in my house to interview me, but it was only aired on German tv. 😛 Sadly, my website is a lot more famous than I am. * * * – “it’s all real” “I KNEW IT!!!” O p a l C a t [www.opalcat.com](http://www.opalcat.com) ---
**Author:** ![Frankie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/258eb7/32.png) [@Frankie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frankie)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2000, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impressive-famous-dopers/13894/10 "2000-02-17T21:35:00Z")
Did you not have a speaking role on a World Famous Syndicated Television show?? (Well canadians have heard of ricki lake!) 🙂 * * * -Frankie “Mother Mercy, can your loins bear fruit forever?/Is your fecundity a trammel or a treasure?” -Bad Religion ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2000, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impressive-famous-dopers/13894/11 "2000-02-17T22:20:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Eve: > **Say, where IS David B. these days? He hasn’t posted in awhile—you don’t suppose he’s been abducted by space aliens?** David’s grandfather died last week. Though I don’t know, I’d guess he’s been involved in family events surrounding that. -Melin ---
**Author:** ![Chicksan\_Line](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7feea3/32.png) [@Chicksan\_Line](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicksan_Line)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2000, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impressive-famous-dopers/13894/12 "2000-02-17T23:29:00Z")
Eve said: > [@](#): > > Let’s not forget David B., who has a VERY impressive magazine column (a lot more intelligent than my sarcastic blatherings!) I didn’t know this. For what magazine does he write? Does it have an on-line version? ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2000, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impressive-famous-dopers/13894/13 "2000-02-18T00:01:00Z")
(Hoping there’s isn’t a simulpost) DavidB is chairman of the board at [REALL](http://www.reall.org/index.html) and his writings have appeared in [CSICOP](http://www.csicop.org/). * * * “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy [The Kat House](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/home.htm) [Join the FSH Muscular Dystrophy Webring](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/fshwebring.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2000, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impressive-famous-dopers/13894/14 "2000-02-18T00:07:00Z")
Kat: You’re KIDDING! Man, if _I_ was the Chairman of the Board at REXALL, I wouldn’t waste my damn time moderating a Straight Dope Message Board, I’d be living large in a penthouse love nest, surrounded by buxom and scantily-clad pharmacists pouring me champagne and applying the Dr. Scholl’s… Waitaminnit. REALL? What’s REALL? * * * Uke ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2000, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impressive-famous-dopers/13894/15 "2000-02-18T00:11:00Z")
Scantily-clad pharmacists? * * * Livin’ on Tums, vitamin E and Rogaine ---
**Author:** ![MrKnowItAll](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrknowitall/32/87_2.png) [@MrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrKnowItAll)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2000, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impressive-famous-dopers/13894/16 "2000-02-18T02:08:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Ukulele Ike: > REALL? What’s REALL? > > \*\* If you’re gonna get into philosophy, you should take it to GD. 😉 * * * _What’s another word for euphemism?_