# So, How Many Dopers Have You Met IRL? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 28, 2012, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-dopers-have-you-met-irl/614252 "2012-02-28T14:05:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-dopers-have-you-met-irl/614252/41 "2012-02-28T20:47:04Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > I’ve met: **tdn** , **Cal** and his wife. You also met **TriPolar** and **ElvisL1ves** , but you probably didn’t get much of a chance to talk to them. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-dopers-have-you-met-irl/614252/42 "2012-02-28T21:07:45Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > You also met **TriPolar** and **ElvisL1ves** , but you probably didn’t get much of a chance to talk to them. You’re correct on all counts. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-dopers-have-you-met-irl/614252/43 "2012-02-28T21:08:42Z")
A few dozen, in three time zones, on two continents. ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-dopers-have-you-met-irl/614252/44 "2012-02-28T21:26:35Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > I have met one Doper in person That’s it? Well, shoot, I was just in your town over the holidays. Next time I’m there, let me buy you a beer. To answer the question, I’ve met probably 12-20 Dopers over the years of playing Doper Pub Trivia in Seattle. Some dear friends among 'em nowadays. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-dopers-have-you-met-irl/614252/45 "2012-02-28T21:33:58Z")
My ex-roommate once posted a few comments in a thread on rats that I had shown her. Other than that, no. ---
**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:** [February 28, 2012, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-dopers-have-you-met-irl/614252/46 "2012-02-28T21:44:42Z")
Quite a few, I’d guess around 15-20. **Cisco, GIGObuster, dalej42** , and **ColdFire** , just to name a couple. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-dopers-have-you-met-irl/614252/47 "2012-02-28T21:50:38Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Lots. Between the SoCal and Vegas Dopefests, I must have met at least 35-40. Not to mention my wife, who is more of a lurker but still posts occasionally. Yeah, we kinda run with a pretty bad crowd…😉 > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > A few dozen, in three time zones, on two continents. Representing the PST! ---
**Author:** ![vix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a88e4f/32.png) [@vix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vix)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-dopers-have-you-met-irl/614252/48 "2012-02-28T21:52:04Z")
At least 50, mostly at New York and Chicago Dopefests. Plus, I married one. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-dopers-have-you-met-irl/614252/49 "2012-02-28T21:52:25Z")
I’ve met **KneadToKnow** , **melodyharmonius** , **Brown Eyed Girl** , **missmossie** , and **Southern Yankee**. **Southern Yankee** lives up the road from me, and our kids are in the same grade at the same school. He also works with my wife. I think he’s stalking me. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-dopers-have-you-met-irl/614252/50 "2012-02-28T22:00:28Z")
Dozens. Beyond three or four Dopefests, I’ve lived with a few Dopers, worked for another, and was the best man in a marriage where all three of us knew each other through the board. I was also good friends with another one for a number of years, but we’ve not talked 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:** [February 28, 2012, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-dopers-have-you-met-irl/614252/51 "2012-02-28T22:33:58Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > I’ve met **KneadToKnow** , **melodyharmonius** , **Brown Eyed Girl** , **missmossie** , and **Southern Yankee**. Not counting a couple of people I knew before they became Dopers, this is pretty much the same list for me, as well\*, seeing as we all met more or less at the same time\*\*. Too long ago, might I add. We need to get something together after this brutal winter has loosened its grip on the Carolinas. - Given the obvious reciprocity with **Maus**. \*\* Not counting **melodyharmonius** , of course, who I knew before she became a Doper. That’s right: like it or not, you all have me to thank for the Ron Thread existing. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-dopers-have-you-met-irl/614252/52 "2012-02-28T22:49:13Z")
I’m going to say around 100. I’ve been to Dopefests in Kansas City, Topeka, Chicago, Washington DC and NYC and I’ve stayed at the houses of Dopers in Oklahoma, Texas, Boston, Michigan. Possibly more. Strangely, I don’t think I’ve seen another Doper in real life in at least 5 years. Well, short of my wife, but she’s got like 3 posts so that barely counts. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-dopers-have-you-met-irl/614252/53 "2012-02-28T23:18:50Z")
AFAIK, none. Unless there are some out there who know me and haven’t fessed up. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-dopers-have-you-met-irl/614252/54 "2012-02-28T23:25:23Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > If my count is right I’ve met a dozen. Several in Ohio, several in Dublin. And I passed out on you once I think, good scotch! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-dopers-have-you-met-irl/614252/55 "2012-02-28T23:43:31Z")
I’ve met 4 or 5 that I know of; most at a Dopefest a few years ago, and one is my neighbor (who I met on the Dope first). I need to organize another Central Indiana Dopefest… ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-dopers-have-you-met-irl/614252/56 "2012-02-29T00:41:36Z")
Heh. I’ve met both **freckafree** and **Sticks and Scones**. Have also met several in travels to Chicago, Michigan and Washington D.C. (The Washington trip included meeting the Amish Santa referenced above; although he wasn’t in costume at the time.) Also, attended some camping events that **Rue DeDay** used to host. I’ve lost count, but probably 20ish. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-dopers-have-you-met-irl/614252/57 "2012-02-29T00:57:37Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > A handful. I don’t recall the exact number but I think it was half a dozen or less. I think one of them was **Twickster** and she gave me some puzzle books. She can correct me on that if I’m remembering wrong. I don’t specifically recall that, but since I used to work at the puzzle factor I may well have. I do know that we’ve met, and I think it’s been more than once. I’ve met several dozen over the years – lots of Dopefests, and I’ve met up with various people on my travels, including **Coldie** and **Heloise** in Amsterdam. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-dopers-have-you-met-irl/614252/58 "2012-02-29T01:00:29Z")
Quite a few, I’d estimate somewhere around 30. I’ve been to Dopefests in Philly, Gettysburg and Jersey. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-dopers-have-you-met-irl/614252/59 "2012-02-29T01:08:05Z")
I found a co-author for my book on this board and spent four days with her IRL working out much of the wording of it. Anyone in the NJ / NYC area is welcome to contact me for a get together. I went to one at **What Exit’s** house a few years back. It was a lot of fun. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-dopers-have-you-met-irl/614252/60 "2012-02-29T01:16:51Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > Strangely, I don’t think I’ve seen another Doper in real life in at least 5 years. This thread got me thinking - is it just me, or has the Dopefest phenomenon all but died out? I can’t remember the last time I saw a Dopefest thread. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-dopers-have-you-met-irl/614252.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-dopers-have-you-met-irl/614252.md?page=4)