# Slainte Is My "Buddy"! Who is yours? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 11, 2002, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slainte-is-my-buddy-who-is-yours/141882 "2002-12-11T00:04:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slainte-is-my-buddy-who-is-yours/141882/1 "2002-12-11T00:04:43Z")
**Slainte** and I have gotten to know each other here on **SDMB** and have decided we are both kinda nice folks, and so in keeping with a recent thread asking who has died and stuff, we have decided it would be great to keep in touch at least weekly to let each other know how we are doing. There is no romance involved. I just think of this young lady as a friend that I would like to “keep in touch” with, and we both urge you to do the same if you live alone and consider **SDMB** your “family”. Anyway… Just as I will not dive without a “buddy”, I now no longer have to wonder if anyone will miss me if I get sick or something worse happens to me. **Slainte** is my buddy! (And I got her permission before posting this!) :D:D:D:D:D:D:D **SLAINTE** :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D Quasi ---
**Author:** ![Slainte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Slainte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slainte)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slainte-is-my-buddy-who-is-yours/141882/2 "2002-12-11T00:19:36Z")
🙂 Wow - a thread with my name in the title. Yep the basic idea is that my IRL friends and family probably don’t know enough about the SDMB to post if something happened to me… as sad as that is to think about, it’s reality. So, get a buddy. Call or E-mail them weekly and make sure they’re OK. 🙂 Thanks, **Quasi**. I’m honored to count you (and a few other Dopers) among my friends. ---
**Author:** ![roadrunner70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slainte-is-my-buddy-who-is-yours/141882/3 "2002-12-11T00:57:36Z")
**Slainte** is definitely, as we say here in the south, “good people”. I feel priviledged to have gotten to know her, and look forward to continuing our friendship. I like the buddy system idea, though. After the passing of **choopah** , I was telling my wife about it, and she mentioned that she would have no way of telling my Netfriends what’d happened if I were to become organically inactive. I mean, what if **lieu** had a disgruntling bowel movement, and didn’t return. Oh sure, Elvis gets the pub, but none of us do. Pretty kewl idea, **Quasi**. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slainte-is-my-buddy-who-is-yours/141882/4 "2002-12-11T00:59:59Z")
Yay for buddies. 🙂 **Qadgop the Mercotan** and I discovered we have a RL connection (a friend of mine goes to his church), so one of us would probably get notified if the other met an untimely demise. ---
**Author:** ![Slainte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Slainte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slainte)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slainte-is-my-buddy-who-is-yours/141882/5 "2002-12-11T02:10:00Z")
Hijack… **superbee** I got nothin’ but love for ya. 🙂 You are one of the best people I have met here. ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slainte-is-my-buddy-who-is-yours/141882/6 "2002-12-11T02:19:07Z")
I am new, just started posting last week, but I am touched by the genuine caring and love I see here. I look forward to get to knowing you all better. I do think I know **Guinistasia** from another board. In fact, it may be through one of her posts that I learned of Straight Dope. _Hi, Guin!!_🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slainte-is-my-buddy-who-is-yours/141882/7 "2002-12-11T02:31:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Slainte \* > \*\*Yep the basic idea is that my IRL friends and family probably don’t know enough about the SDMB to post if something happened to me… as sad as that is to think about, it’s reality. > > So, get a buddy. Call or E-mail them weekly and make sure they’re OK. :)\*\* The same is true of me, also. Tried to get my brother to register over the weekend so he could tell the people here if something happened to me. No go, as he said he didn’t use message boards ever. (well, there is one that he posts on very occasionally, but that’s for church stuff) So I guess I will now have the pleasure of trying to select at least one “buddy” from among all you kind folk out there. Don’t know who it is as yet, but I guess I will see. F\_X ---
**Author:** ![jessicala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@jessicala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jessicala)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slainte-is-my-buddy-who-is-yours/141882/8 "2002-12-11T02:40:13Z")
Maybe we should have a sign-up sheet. (Didn’t someone have that idea already?) Better yet, a buddy-matching service that would match you with someone with similar interests/location/posting times and frequencies. Like an Internet dating service, only not so much. Or, we could draw names out of a hat, which would probably be just as effective. ---
**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:** [December 11, 2002, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slainte-is-my-buddy-who-is-yours/141882/9 "2002-12-11T03:54:54Z")
Well, sorta. I was in a Bennigan’s restaurant, and it’s all over the drink menus. ---
**Author:** ![XJETGIRLX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9fc29f/32.png) [@XJETGIRLX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XJETGIRLX)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slainte-is-my-buddy-who-is-yours/141882/10 "2002-12-11T04:03:08Z")
Ooooh…where can I sign up for this ‘buddy’ thing? I need looking after. I tend to get lost easily. :😁: ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slainte-is-my-buddy-who-is-yours/141882/11 "2002-12-11T04:34:33Z")
I’ve seen a lot of Slainte too 😉 My buddy would have to be diku. I’m sure he’ll let everyone no if anything should happen. I’d do the same for him. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slainte-is-my-buddy-who-is-yours/141882/12 "2002-12-11T05:11:59Z")
Hm. My buddy would most likely be \*\*Xploder, \*\* because he’s one of my best friends IRL, and he does live here in the same city as me. If he wasn’t notified immediately, he’d at least read my obit in the paper. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slainte-is-my-buddy-who-is-yours/141882/13 "2002-12-11T05:29:55Z")
BeagleDave and I are blocks away from each other and on the other side of the river there is Veb and her new housemates. I also asked a friend of mine to register the next time we are online together in case something happens to me. Not really sure too many would notice my demise but it would be nice to think I would be missed just a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Slainte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Slainte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slainte)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slainte-is-my-buddy-who-is-yours/141882/14 "2002-12-11T11:37:11Z")
**Mjollnir** you also met me at the **Eve** fest here in October. BTW, I picked up the name in Ireland - not at Bennigan’s. 🙂 But yeah, I have seen that too. **Max Carnage** 😉 Behave. Wait - that’s no fun… never mind. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slainte-is-my-buddy-who-is-yours/141882/15 "2002-12-11T15:19:15Z")
If I die in the toilet, I hope it’s superbee that finds me. Otherwise, bizarrely (sp?) it would probably be Biba in England who notices that this Houstonian is missing. ---
**Author:** ![Biba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Biba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biba)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slainte-is-my-buddy-who-is-yours/141882/16 "2002-12-11T15:32:44Z")
That’s how far the sound of lieu’s farts travel… ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slainte-is-my-buddy-who-is-yours/141882/17 "2002-12-11T15:39:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Biba \* > \*\*That’s how far the sound of lieu’s farts travel… \*\* Holy Shit! wait a minute…that didn’t come out right… oh hell…neither did that… Ruby The one that couldn’t shut up fast enough ---
**Author:** ![BottledBlondJeanie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/0ea827/32.png) [@BottledBlondJeanie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BottledBlondJeanie)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slainte-is-my-buddy-who-is-yours/141882/18 "2002-12-11T16:44:56Z")
Popping in **Ms. Slainte** to give you a hello… And to echo other thoughts, she’s not only good people, she’s HOT HOT HOT 🙂 Re the OP, if I die, I wonder if anyone will find out prior to the Kitties of Doom eating me. Sniff. Poor me. ---
**Author:** ![Zanshin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e274bd/32.png) [@Zanshin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zanshin)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slainte-is-my-buddy-who-is-yours/141882/19 "2002-12-11T17:22:53Z")
I am in total agreement. **Slainte** , in addition to being an absolute sweetheart, is a total hottie-pants. Why do the good ones have to be all the way in South Carolina? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![roadrunner70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slainte-is-my-buddy-who-is-yours/141882/20 "2002-12-11T17:27:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BottledBlondJeanie \* > \*\* > Re the OP, if I die, I wonder if anyone will find out prior to the Kitties of Doom eating me. Sniff. Poor me. \*\* This probably isn’t a good time for a necrophilia joke, so I’ll just shut up. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slainte-is-my-buddy-who-is-yours/141882.md?page=2)