# Strange people (on other message boards) re: celebrity worship **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 18, 2003, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-people-on-other-message-boards-re-celebrity-worship/202482 "2003-09-18T22:24:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Black\_Train\_Song](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@Black\_Train\_Song](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Black_Train_Song)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2003, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-people-on-other-message-boards-re-celebrity-worship/202482/21 "2003-09-19T13:34:45Z")
I forgot, I also go to the DOORS bbs although I don’t contribute much there(like I do here, wink wink). Some are rabid worshipers and others seem quite sane. ---
**Author:** ![Barks\_dog\_food](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@Barks\_dog\_food](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barks_dog_food)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2003, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-people-on-other-message-boards-re-celebrity-worship/202482/22 "2003-09-19T14:31:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by C K Dexter Haven \* > \*\*Unlike those other inferior message boards, at THIS message board, we in fact do have an idol who is – well, not a god, although I wouldn’t tell him I said so – but pretty-near omniscient. \*\* But maybe He has written other less perfect column in the past. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2003, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-people-on-other-message-boards-re-celebrity-worship/202482/23 "2003-09-19T14:36:59Z")
The “Michael Crawford for the Phantom Movie” site and campaign got totally out of hand. It’s a freaking MOVIE, for Chrissake’s. And Crawford would have been good 20 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2003, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-people-on-other-message-boards-re-celebrity-worship/202482/24 "2003-09-19T14:40:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jackelope \* > \*\*I know what you mean. There’s a musician I’m pretty fond of, and I recently, in searching for some guitar tablatures to his music, found a message board dedicated to him. “Aha,” thinks I, “I think I’ll go see if I can have an intelligent, knowledgeable discussion of his music with other people who share my interest!” > > Nope.\*\* If you are referring to Barry Manilow, you’d better not have anything negative to say about him on that board. I hear his fans are _really_ fanatical. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2003, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-people-on-other-message-boards-re-celebrity-worship/202482/25 "2003-09-19T17:29:47Z")
> [@](#): > > I post at the Jedi Council Boards over at [TheForce.NEt](http://TheForce.NEt), and the bashing of Lucas, the prequels, the actors, the Expanded Universe is just excessive! Aha! So you’re one of the TF.Netters, the ones that the fanboys over on [SD.net](http://SD.net) are constantly bitching about! Yeah, there ain’t no fandom more frightening than that of popular sci-fi or fantasy series. ---
**Author:** ![rivulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rivulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rivulus)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2003, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-people-on-other-message-boards-re-celebrity-worship/202482/26 "2003-09-19T22:23:32Z")
X-Files fan here. Heaven forbid I post at a shipper site that I enjoyed an episode with Doggett in it! You’d think I’d admitted to spitting on an effigy of Duchovny or worshiping Baphomet or something… ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2003, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-people-on-other-message-boards-re-celebrity-worship/202482/27 "2003-09-19T22:46:11Z")
For the truly strange TV obsessions, nothing beats the boards on the IMDb. There’s actually people chatting about _The Greatest American Hero_. ::shudder:: ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2003, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-people-on-other-message-boards-re-celebrity-worship/202482/28 "2003-09-19T23:23:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jackmannii \* > \*\*If you are referring to Barry Manilow, you’d better not have anything negative to say about him on that board. I hear his fans are _really_ fanatical. \*\* 😃 No, it’s not Barry Manilow. I am aware, however, of Barry’s cadre of zealots; I have a friend who has followed him on tour, like a Deadhead. I find it baffling, personally. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2003, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-people-on-other-message-boards-re-celebrity-worship/202482/29 "2003-09-19T23:36:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SPOOFE \* > \*\*Aha! So you’re one of the TF.Netters, the ones that the fanboys over on [SD.net](http://SD.net) are constantly bitching about! Yeah, there ain’t no fandom more frightening than that of popular sci-fi or fantasy series. \*\* [SD.net](http://SD.net)? What’s that? Yep, I’m a Jedi Council member, as well as an Icon Artist for the boards, and a member of many different groups there. 😃 Manilow Heads? ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-people-on-other-message-boards-re-celebrity-worship/202482/30 "2003-09-20T00:14:53Z")
Oh my gosh! These people are every_wheerrrrre!_ Scary! Jean Grey, I don’t want to say which Stargate board it is. You can email me if you really want to know! many of the people there do seem sweet and not terribly scary, but they know far, far, _far_ more about Stargate SG-1 than I can comprehend. I do think that there is some excessive worship of Richard Dean Anderson going with some of them too. But, oh well, as long as they don’t have an altar to the guy in their bedroom… Yeesh. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-people-on-other-message-boards-re-celebrity-worship/202482/31 "2003-09-20T09:45:16Z")
Y’all might be comforted to know that, while adults can often act like teenagers on a fan site, teenagers can sometimes act like adults on a fan site. At the Haley Joel Osment fan board I frequent, (yes, I saw **Secondhand Lions** this afternoon) when someone posts something hyperbolic, like “OMIGOD I love Haley so much, he is the g reatest thing to eva grace this earth blah blah blah…” someone always posts back to say, “Get a grip, please! He’s a terrific actor, and yeah, he’s hot, but he’s a kid like us! Don’t you think he’d be embarrassed if he knew people were saying stuff like that about him?” Then someone else will jump in to say, “Yeah, and you don’t even know him, so how can you say you’re in love with him?” And none of those “someones” are me. I’m sort of the mother hen around there, but these kids don’t need too much guidance to keep from becoming fangeeks. And in case you’re wondering, they seem to be fairly intelligent to begin with. No |33+, not too many !!!s, and they take their schoolwork pretty seriously, because they’re often posting about it. (I have given them advice a time or three on that front.) Incidentally, there was this one time that a rumor was going around that Haley had flipped someone off after an interview. It was a complete and total troll who posted it, claiming that they’d read about it in a gossip column that turned out not to exist, so please don’t go reporting it as fact! But my take on it was that I didn’t think it happened, because "Besides the fact that we all think he wouldn’t do that, and that his dad would flay him alive if he did, I would have heard about it from another source. Because on this other board I go to, people are always up on the very latest news and gossip, and a lot of them know I like Haley, so one of them would have linked to it by now, even if just to say, “‘Huh huh, Rilch, whaddaya think of your golden boy now?’” ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-people-on-other-message-boards-re-celebrity-worship/202482/32 "2003-09-20T10:03:00Z")
You could say the reverse is true too. Some people so hate an actor/ress, they will diss a good movie, just because said actor is in it. Any movie with Leo di Caprio or Nicole Kidman will get this. ---
**Author:** ![Toaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@Toaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toaster)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-people-on-other-message-boards-re-celebrity-worship/202482/33 "2003-09-20T23:44:22Z")
Boy am I glad I keep my idol/hero worship to cartoon characters. 😃 Although I steer away from fansite discussions of said, I spend too much time with SDMB and Neopets boards. Plus I can’t bear to fully comprehend I am not the only one highly enjoying the cartoon character. 😉 On cartoons though, oh cod, don’t get my started on the…you know…the fanfictioners, or the ‘artists,’ who draw those things…oh my. If I recollect an old cartoon from my heyday, and I google it, I honestly don’t want to see Rude Dog having an orgy, or Unico goring the West? Wind, or anything like that! Oh, my poor childhood memories ransacked by the _adult fans_. Well, I suppose folk do that too with real-life actors and all too. How awful it would be to realize people are writing dozens of slash fictions starring you and the author. ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2003, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-people-on-other-message-boards-re-celebrity-worship/202482/34 "2003-09-21T03:30:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dooku \* > \*\*For the truly strange TV obsessions, nothing beats the boards on the IMDb. There’s actually people chatting about _The Greatest American Hero_. ::shudder:: \*\* Believe it or not… ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2003, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-people-on-other-message-boards-re-celebrity-worship/202482/35 "2003-09-21T04:18:56Z")
Hey, remember that link I found for _Who’s the Boss_ Fan Fiction? _shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2003, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-people-on-other-message-boards-re-celebrity-worship/202482/36 "2003-09-21T07:27:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > \*\*Hey, remember that link I found for _Who’s the Boss_ Fan Fiction? > > _shudder_ \*\* This reminds me, **Juniper200** recently found a truly horrifying thing that she shared in her journal. I did not click on it, because I am not insane. Ent/elf slash. Gah! Even without having actually read it, I want to scrub my brain with bleach! ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2003, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-people-on-other-message-boards-re-celebrity-worship/202482/37 "2003-09-21T07:33:24Z")
Oh, don’t even get me started on the fan fiction. Some of it is fun. Hell, some of my friends write fan fic. Some respected and published authors have done fan fic. But some of that stuff is SO SCARY. (I don’t know what ent/elf slash is. Please don’t tell me.) ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2003, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-people-on-other-message-boards-re-celebrity-worship/202482/38 "2003-09-21T08:16:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Gaspode \* > You could say the reverse is true too. Some people so hate an actor/ress, they will diss a good movie, just because said actor is in it. Any movie with Leo di Caprio or Nicole Kidman will get this. I find that with most of my friends… if they hate an actor with a passion but will rave about a movie despite them being in it. I’d better get my butt out to see it cuz it’s gotta be good! Example: My roomie really really hates DiCaprio but he went to see Catch Me If You Can and came home raving about how good a movie it was. I can never quite get all the people who go nuts over their favourite movie star or music star, but in some ways I can see how it works. I’ve never been able to get into actors/singers like others do but I’ll admit to being a book nut. Okay I’m a Pern nut. I’ve read everything I could get my hands on and hold my own decently in a conversation about it but even then I’m not as much a ‘fan’ as some people online! So despite my obsession I can rest in the knowledge that somewhere out there someone knows even more than I do about it. Which means I haven’t hit full geekdom yet. ---
**Author:** ![Loneraven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c0e974/32.png) [@Loneraven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loneraven)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2003, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-people-on-other-message-boards-re-celebrity-worship/202482/39 "2003-09-21T15:18:16Z")
I think I know which Stargate boards are being talked about. I’m a recovering addict. Of course, like most addicts, I have simply traded one addiction for another, and am now spending too much time at [Fiction Alley](http://www.fictionalley.org/fictionalleypark/forums/index/php?). Thankfully they’re not too weird over there, but believe it or not, the SDMB is my sane-people message board. This is where I come when I realise I am a hopeless fangirl and need to spend time with people who are normal. **yosemitebabe** , I presume Ent/elf slash is fic featuring a homosexual relationship between a pointy-eared being and a walking tree. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2003, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-people-on-other-message-boards-re-celebrity-worship/202482/40 "2003-09-21T15:26:25Z")
**Loneraven** I think what was meant was… we don’t _want_ to know what it’s about… Elf/Ent slash? I agree with scrubbing the brain… but then again I used to hang with a group in chat who had this whole weird thing for ARTOD™ and Sheepo… [sub]ARTOD™ being _checks that this is the pit_ Ass Raping Tree Of Doom and Sheepo being… well a sheep… that ARTOD™ had a strange fascination for… of course no one ever explicitly _said_ what ARTOD did to Sheepo we all knew… we all knew…[/sub] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-people-on-other-message-boards-re-celebrity-worship/202482.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-people-on-other-message-boards-re-celebrity-worship/202482.md?page=3)