So, How Many Dopers Have You Met IRL?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I’m another East Coast Doper that ended up being a BAD back in the day. I’ve probably met the same 40-50 people as Jack Batty, as we went to the same 2 in NYC and SLODope. I moved from RI to CA for someone I met here, over a decade ago. I dated and lived with a different one (that I met here) for years. There’s a few I still consider dear friends, even though we’ve all gotten families and marriages and kids and stuff and don’t talk much anymore. (Maeglin, FunkDaddy… I mean DOCTOR FunkDaddy, lno, elenfair… zyzzyva doesn’t count because I knew him from before.) I have a picture of 14 year old Mercutio picking me up like a sack of potatoes.

I think Nen was probably the last Doper I’ve seen, and that was a couple years ago now. I was going to try to meet up with some Toronto Dopers when I was living in Guelph, but I never got a chance to before I left.

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Oh! Haha, I also remember meeting Silver Fire and Caldazar. We rode the lions at the Chinese art museum in Golden Gate Park!

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I think I’m in the neighborhood of a hundred too. I’ve been to several pretty big Dopefests in Chicago, one in Minneapolis, one in Springfield, and met a few here in Madison (thinking of you, Cat Whisperer and Dread Pirate Jimbo). Plus a friend who introduced me to the Dope but has since stopped posting here.

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Probably in the 15 range, give or take a Doper or two.

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Ditto for me (hallo, Sam & Angua!) as well as others in that circle with whom I’ve never met face to face, but have shared email conversations (hallo, Gyrate!)

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Hello Ms Boods!!

107

About a dozen or so. We throw a HouDope whenever Little Nemo comes to town to visit relatives.

108

Many many dozen, as in “Hi, (read nametag) I’m UncleBill!” = met. 40 or so I could (and have) pick out of a lineup.

“Normal” Dopefests in Tampa, Red Top Mountain in GA (Hi, Nawth Chucka!) Baltimore, Philly, and a few Mega DopeFests in New York (twice), Spiffled II, Redondo Beach, CA (DopeToberFest), ChiDope. I, too, married one, and had five others at our wedding. Attended a wedding of one in Columbus, OH with maybe a dozen Dopers there.

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One. But not one of the Thailand Dopers.

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Probably a dozen when I once attended a Dopefest 4 1/2 years ago at the home of WeirdDave and Ginger of the North, who unfortunately don’t participate here any longer (but were great hosts!) I believe Scuba Ben was there and some others whose names escape me for the moment.

I’m game to meet a few more these days.

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Well we’re thinking of Edinburgh after Christmas time if you still reside there.

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I’ve never met a Doper Zombie, but I have met maybe a dozen real-live ones at various Chicago events.

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A hundred? More?

I used to host DopeFests and such at my place in the country outside of Washington DC. MADs Represent! It stands - stood? - for Mid-Atlantic Dopers. In addition I held one in southeast Ohio and I hosted a bunch - while I was fighting cancer - for the eclipse last year.

Hell, I just realized that at least three of them are dead, now.

I’m having an election day party. Who wants to come to that?

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And how did that work out- 6 years later?

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Would be great but I doubt you are going to spring for the fare :slight_smile:

You sure have met many of the members.

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I’ll ballpark around 30 or so. I’ve been to dopefests in Dallas and Phoenix as well as several in Chicago.

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None. I could name maybe a half-dozen that are near me, though.

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Around ten, total.

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I was introduced to the board IRL by a Doper, and then much later I introduced a different person to it. Other than that, none that I know of.

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0, that I know of.