# MIA Posters **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 3, 2013, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mia-posters/657421 "2013-05-03T15:36:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2013, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mia-posters/657421/21 "2013-05-06T17:04:08Z")
There was a guy named edwino who posted here, oh, a dozen or so years ago. He used to be quite active in the chat room, too. He was doing grad school working with fruit flies. I won’t say he inspired me to do what I’m doing, but he did answer some questions for me and offer some advice. And now I’m in grad school, working with fruit flies. He might be interested in knowing that. More likely, he’s completely forgotten about all of this. On the other hand, maybe he can get me a job… ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mia-posters/657421/22 "2013-05-07T14:03:15Z")
I heard a rumour that \*\*Cicero \*\*decided to move on last month ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mia-posters/657421/23 "2013-05-07T14:16:36Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > There was a guy named edwino who posted here, oh, a dozen or so years ago. He used to be quite active in the chat room, too. He was doing grad school working with fruit flies. I won’t say he inspired me to do what I’m doing, but he did answer some questions for me and offer some advice. And now I’m in grad school, working with fruit flies. He might be interested in knowing that. More likely, he’s completely forgotten about all of this. On the other hand, maybe he can get me a job… Well, he has quite a web presence in his real life capacity. He’s not hard to find if you want to send him a message. It’s bad form to identify poster’s real names, but if I can find it, I figure anyone can. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mia-posters/657421/24 "2013-05-07T14:29:52Z")
Don’t see much of **Stranger on a Train** lately, but perhaps I’m just reading the wrong threads. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mia-posters/657421/25 "2013-05-07T14:47:19Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Don’t see much of **Stranger on a Train** lately, but perhaps I’m just reading the wrong threads. He’s still around. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mia-posters/657421/26 "2013-05-07T15:44:22Z")
Arnold Winkelried’s absence is unusual. He organized the [Straight Dope Photo Gallery](http://www.nouilles.info/index.html), which as you can see remains up, but he hasn’t posted any new photos sent to him for a very long time now. He does log in from time to time, the last occasion being April 16, but never posts. Odd. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mia-posters/657421/27 "2013-05-07T18:51:09Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > Well, he has quite a web presence in his real life capacity. He’s not hard to find if you want to send him a message. It’s bad form to identify poster’s real names, but if I can find it, I figure anyone can. Yeah, I knew his real name. I just never bothered to look him up any time recently. Maybe when I’m starting the job hunt for real… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2013, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mia-posters/657421/28 "2013-05-08T03:42:16Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Arnold Winkelried’s absence is unusual. He organized the [Straight Dope Photo Gallery](http://www.nouilles.info/index.html), which as you can see remains up, but he hasn’t posted any new photos sent to him for a very long time now. He does log in from time to time, the last occasion being April 16, but never posts. Odd. Maybe he just logs in to check for PMs or something, but he is trying to lay low. Damn. Folks can’t just be low key on this board without some detective putting them on blast! Eve left again. I think she said she was fed up with how the board members dealt with transgender issues. I may be mis-remembering. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2013, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mia-posters/657421/29 "2013-05-08T03:46:17Z")
I used to enjoy **Scott Plaid** , but one day he just disappeared. Stopped posting all of a sudden, was active one more time about two weeks after his last post, and then never again logged in. It’s been about seven years now. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2013, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mia-posters/657421/30 "2013-05-08T04:41:30Z")
I see where **matt\_mcl** has been logging in, but has not posted much. I miss his contributions; I often disagreed with him on a topic, but he always brought a thoughtful and reasoned position to a discussion. I haven’t seen many contributions from **Hypnagogic Jerk** lately. Similar to my views on Matt’s contributions, I didn’t always agree with HJ; but his contributions made me think. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2013, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mia-posters/657421/31 "2013-05-08T05:25:05Z")
Agreed - I miss both of them. **Cunctator** hasn’t been around much either for the last six months. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2013, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mia-posters/657421/32 "2013-05-08T07:16:13Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I wonder what ever happened to **SwimmingRiddles**. Swiddles had a blog she posted on infrequently, but she hadn’t posted on it for a few years so I stopped following it. I’ll see if I can remember its name. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2013, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mia-posters/657421/33 "2013-05-08T11:13:42Z")
**GorillaMan** is someone whose posts I miss - haven’t run into him for ages. I, too, am missing **matt\_mcl** and **Hypnogogic Jerk** , especially in the Canadoper Café. I’m assuming matt is just too busy to post much these days… ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2013, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mia-posters/657421/34 "2013-05-08T11:21:01Z")
I miss my friend **Normal Phase** , and not just from our days of playing mafia together on umpteen forums including this one. Such a wonderful person. Why can’t online friendships last forever… ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2013, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mia-posters/657421/35 "2013-05-08T14:22:19Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Arnold Winkelried’s absence is unusual. He organized the [Straight Dope Photo Gallery](http://www.nouilles.info/index.html), which as you can see remains up, but he hasn’t posted any new photos sent to him for a very long time now. He does log in from time to time, the last occasion being April 16, but never posts. Odd. > [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > Maybe he just logs in to check for PMs or something, but he is trying to lay low. Damn. Folks can’t just be low key on this board without some detective putting them on blast! Well, his is an unusual case. He went to all the trouble of setting up and sponsoring the new portrait gallery – and he did go to a lot of trouble – the MPSIMS thread for it has been made a sticky, and then Poof! he disappears suddenly. He’s not posted any new photos that have been sent to him for a long time now. Has not answered anyone’s PMs that I know of, at least none sent by people in the sticky thread. And despite still logging on once in a blue moon, he doesn’t even bother to post something saying something like, “Hey, guys, I’m taking some time off for a while, will let you know when I’m back.” I find it very strange and not a little worrying. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2013, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mia-posters/657421/36 "2013-05-08T18:05:59Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > Eve left again. I think she said she was fed up with how the board members dealt with transgender issues. I may be mis-remembering. It was more than that, but that was a big part of it. Eve never really liked debating transsexual issues nor really discussing them, and she always seemed to be uncomfortable by both the level of questioning and abuse she sometimes received. Yet because she had been tagged as the “ask the transwoman” locus of the board, she kept getting dragged into the discussions, mailed by people, etc. She wanted to be known as Eve Golden, author - and not Eve Golden, transwoman. Something I understand completely - I didn’t out myself as a fellow transwoman until this year because I wanted to be known for science contributions and helping Cecil each week. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2013, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mia-posters/657421/37 "2013-05-08T18:35:12Z")
> [@Una\_Persson](#): > > She wanted to be known as Eve Golden, author… She may be interested to know that, the other night, one of the hosts on TCM was plugging one of her books. I can’t remember which book, but it was definitely our Eve who was the author. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mia-posters/657421/38 "2013-05-15T14:19:57Z")
According to her profile **Kalhoun** hasn’t been around since 08-02-2010 and she could always be counted on for a laugh or at least something skewed away from the mundane and trivial. Anybody know her status these days? ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mia-posters/657421/39 "2013-05-15T18:24:47Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > According to her profile **Kalhoun** hasn’t been around since 08-02-2010 and she could always be counted on for a laugh or at least something skewed away from the mundane and trivial. Anybody know her status these days? She and I used to text - she lives near me - and had plans to meet for a few drinks one day. I haven’t heard anything in the last couple of years. I really do miss her. ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mia-posters/657421/40 "2013-05-15T18:36:26Z")
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