My husband doesn’t understand the appeal. He’s been to a few Dope gatherings, and he has a crush on Ginger 
, and he was even a member very, very briefly. He just couldn’t get into it, and he thinks most Dopers are weird - can you imagine??
But he does ask me to post questions once in a while. And it works out well, since we’re a one-computer family.
Oh well of course he does. That’s only because I call him Captain Steve, though.
Husband is a mostly-lapsed Doper (reads very rarely); boyfriend wonders why I spend time arguing with people online; dear competitor posted like three times once well before it went pay and now I think only reads when someone finds a thread particularly entertaining and shares a link.
So, guys like that, eh? I’m going to have to start calling Jim “Captain Steve.” He might wonder about it at first, but he gets used to stuff pretty quickly these days.
He’s not a captain, he’s a PIRATE.
Ok, I know that we’re all about cites around here. But needing a cite that you’re married?? Me thinks we’re taking this a bit far. 
I’m very happy for you both. I love Tripler. He is a dollface, and I am very happy that you have found each other. Bless you both, and I pray it all works out to the very best outcome.
My Love,
Cheri
Occasionally you’ll see auntie em post when she’s not hot on the trail of her missing co-worker. You’ll never know when auntie em’s set to strike next, so ya’ gotta kinda keep looking over your shoulder until you hear someone–maybe in Cafe, possibly in IMHO–scream. Then, run in the other direction. Quickly.
Thank you, that’s very sweet of you! I love him, too…
MrWhatsit is a registered member but mostly only because I pestered him about it when the boards went pay. He’s posted only a handful of times, mostly in submarine threads in GQ. I’ll often point him to a thread I think is particularly interesting or funny, and he usually reads them, and he’s always saying, “Hey, here’s a good SDMB question…” but he just never gets around to posting himself.
[off-topic]Scotticher, seeing your name in this thread reminded me to tell you that the duck PJs you sent for Whatsit Jr. lo these many years ago saw excellent use and have just now been retired now that my daughter (MiniWhatsit) has grown out of them. They’ve been washed so many times that the ducks wore off. 
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My husband is in fact a Doper. Actually, it is his fault I am a Doper. You have him to blame!
He is also, however, primarily a lurker. Most of his Dope interaction is in the form of regular participation in the weekly poker game. In fact, I’m not even totally sure of his handle hereabouts. I think it’s NorthShoreNanook, but I could well be mistaken!
I would venture to guess that my future SO is either a Doper now (hello, whoever you are), or will be once we’ve gotten acquainted.
Truth be told, the latter is more likely.
SDSAB Fierra is my SO. We met on the SDMB, and have been together now for getting close to 6 years, and I love her more and things get better for us with each year.
Nope, not my SO. He posts on other boards that have more to do with comic books. This one is too random for him, I think.
I have family on the board, though. My brother introduced me to the Dope.
No way. He spends all of his time at IGN on their Nintendo boards :smack: and wouldn’t wait the requisite 2 minute load time for a thread if his life depended on it. In fact, he bristles at the very mention of this board.
One of my ex’s racked up a whopping 5 posts before melting down, so maybe it’s best if I keep the Dope to myself.
I thought he was your fiance. Commence washing out your brain.
My partner is/was briefly. ** Freudian Slip** was her name and she only posted twice. She’s not to be confused with Freudian_Slip who posts fairly regularly. She finally joined because I go on about the Dope all the time. When we need an answer to someting and the my Google Fu runs afoul, she always says, “You’re going to Straight Dope it aren’t you?” (We’re a verb!!! 
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I think she finds this board a little (waaay) too geeky for her tastes. I’m the geek of the household.
I get you all to myself. Mwooohahhahh!
Actually, I think it would be fun if she posted more often (at all) but whaddyagonnado?
I don’t think Mr Faerie is either a poster or a lurker…he might be, he’s never actually said! Mostly he’s being unemployed and playing computer games all day, when he’s not sleeping and being a cat-pillow. Bless 'im.
Same here. She’s more chic than geek, and if I try to relate something from here that takes more than twenty seconds to articulate, she rolls her eyes at me and says “Larry! Too geek!”
Anyway, her written English is a bit sub-par for these boards, anyway. (That’s not to say that she isn’t fecking brilliant and much more intelligent than I am – it’s just that she’s only been speaking English for a relatively short time, and her conversational English is much better than her written English.) Anyway, the night before last she more-or-less indicated that she thinks Dopefests are sexual free-for-alls, so either her view of online socializing has been inordinately warped by her frequent perusal of craigslist listings, or I’ve been missing out.
My previous SO was too crackpot for the board culture, to be frank. We’re all brainwashed dupes of the Western Medicine Conspiracy, dontcha know? Oh, and none of the debate regarding the Iraqi conflict touches on the core issues, like how the Americans are positioning themselves to take control of that region in anticipation of the return of the Ancient Astronauts.
My only other SO (more of a long-standing diddle-buddy, really,) during the time that I’ve been posting here finds the place too socially and politically mainstream for her comfort.
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After looking at that ugly picture?