# Tell me something interesting about another SDMB member that I didn't know **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 18, 2007, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-interesting-about-another-sdmb-member-that-i-didnt-know/419559 "2007-09-18T00:49:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-interesting-about-another-sdmb-member-that-i-didnt-know/419559/21 "2007-09-18T06:18:55Z")
[QUOTE=bigbabysweets2000] And I planned to stalk **Auto** , but . . . [/QUOTE] Ixnay on the ‘allcay emay eadkillerthray’ 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-interesting-about-another-sdmb-member-that-i-didnt-know/419559/22 "2007-09-18T06:30:53Z")
[QUOTE=Alice The Goon] Ha- no. That just surprised me, for some reason. I was like, “Wow! I did not know that!” That is all. I’m assuming you guys knew each other before the Dope? That would be weird, to find that a Doper was my neighbor, just out of the blue. [/QUOTE] This should probably go in the “small world” thread, but here it is anyway: When I first moved up to Santa Fe, I looked up the local Hash club. I joined the email list, and when they started flowing, one of the names looked pretty familiar. It had a .gov email address, so I looked it up on the system. Hmm, same technical area as me, that’s odd. Same Building as me, too. And look at that, his office number is one less than mine. So I walked across the hall and introduced myself. We were both kinda surprised by it, crazy stuff. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-interesting-about-another-sdmb-member-that-i-didnt-know/419559/23 "2007-09-18T06:42:57Z")
\*\*pinkfreud \*\* was one of the professional “answerers” on Google Answers, where the answerers earned money for correct/worthy answers to poster’s questions. When that part of the site shut down, one poster asked where she might be found afterwards, and she refered them to… **here**! (promise, I ain’t stalking you, **pink**!) ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-interesting-about-another-sdmb-member-that-i-didnt-know/419559/24 "2007-09-18T07:13:08Z")
**MacTech** works in the same rather huge building that I did up until two and a half years ago. At least I think he still does. Neither of us knew it at the time, though. I belatedly figured it out from the flooding pictures he posted last year. I miss that building. We could take long walks _inside_ on our breaks during the winter… ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-interesting-about-another-sdmb-member-that-i-didnt-know/419559/25 "2007-09-18T08:19:24Z")
matt\_mcl holds (held?) public office in Canada and speaks Esperanto. Pochacco was a designer for the game Rainbow Six. Angua is an astrophysicist. Anaamika is learning the drums. Tracy Lord had a date with a dude dressed like Jayne Cobb at the Serenity premier. Cartooniverse is a cameraman and paramedic, and was in the area of the WTC when it went down. Miller is a machinist and has an… interesting collection of manga. Amazon Floozy Goddess draws really funny cartoons. Sandyhook likes to take long road trips on his motorcycle. Guinistasia is a Star Wars ubergeek. Qadgop the Mercotan is a Tolkien ubergeek, to the point of knowing things that [lesser geeks don’t even believe are true.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=4534220&postcount=39) He’s also a prison doctor. The Bad Astronomer runs [www.badastronomy.com](http://www.badastronomy.com) and has appeared on radio and TV shows. OpalCat (you know, “3. Hi Opal!”) is a juggler and runs the Fathom board. Una Persson used to be called Anthracite, which is a type of coal. She is some sort of expert on coal power plant operations (an inspector?) and runs the Unaboard. ultrafilter’s username is a term used in advanced mathematics. He is also a weightlifter. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-interesting-about-another-sdmb-member-that-i-didnt-know/419559/26 "2007-09-18T08:52:22Z")
**Distended Pendulous Frenulum** ( I know, he doesn’t post much) met his wife on a Chinese air flight when he asked her to give him the crabs. (He’s also my brother :eek: ) **CowgirlJules** is a certified water system operator. **AnArky** is in a band and is well known in their locale. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-interesting-about-another-sdmb-member-that-i-didnt-know/419559/27 "2007-09-18T10:56:07Z")
[QUOTE=sturmhauke] matt\_mcl holds (held?) public office in Canada and speaks Esperanto. [/QUOTE] **Sunspace** , another Canadian, also speaks Esperanto, and is getting involved in green building. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Socks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a8b319/32.png) [@Captain\_Socks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Socks)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-interesting-about-another-sdmb-member-that-i-didnt-know/419559/28 "2007-09-18T11:04:42Z")
Her location says Rockville, Maryland, so I’d guess that I live about 15-20 minutes fro\*\* Miss Mapp\*\*. ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-interesting-about-another-sdmb-member-that-i-didnt-know/419559/29 "2007-09-18T11:05:20Z")
**glee** is a chess Grand Master. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-interesting-about-another-sdmb-member-that-i-didnt-know/419559/30 "2007-09-18T13:10:11Z")
**FairyChatMom** and my daugher went to the same high school, but about 30 years apart. **GingeroftheNorth** and **WeirdDave** throw great DopeFests. **danceswithcats** fixed the smoke detector and the closet doors in my new apartment. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-interesting-about-another-sdmb-member-that-i-didnt-know/419559/31 "2007-09-18T13:14:27Z")
[QUOTE=sturmhauke] Miller is a machinist and has an… interesting collection of manga. [/QUOTE] **Tuckerfan** , perhaps? I think \*\*Miller \*\*does something with videos games. Or computers. Stuff like that there. ---
**Author:** ![CateAyo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@CateAyo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CateAyo)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-interesting-about-another-sdmb-member-that-i-didnt-know/419559/32 "2007-09-18T13:33:27Z")
**Twickster** holds a Ph. D. from a real university. Yeah, I know! I was shocked too! CA ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-interesting-about-another-sdmb-member-that-i-didnt-know/419559/33 "2007-09-18T13:43:47Z")
**SwampBear** works in a brewery. **Bumbazine** makes soap as a sideline. **Sean Factotum** is a retired crusty old Navy Chief Petty Officer. **FairyChatMom** has a pink telephone in her basement. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-interesting-about-another-sdmb-member-that-i-didnt-know/419559/34 "2007-09-18T13:47:08Z")
**VunderBob** is a volunteer firefighter and EMT. ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-interesting-about-another-sdmb-member-that-i-didnt-know/419559/35 "2007-09-18T13:54:30Z")
[QUOTE=Alice The Goon] Ha- no. That just surprised me, for some reason. I was like, “Wow! I did not know that!” That is all. I’m assuming you guys knew each other before the Dope? That would be weird, to find that a Doper was my neighbor, just out of the blue. [/QUOTE] Former member **Mr Blue** found out a few years back that his next door neighbor was also a Doper (I forget who). Freaky! ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-interesting-about-another-sdmb-member-that-i-didnt-know/419559/36 "2007-09-18T13:55:49Z")
[QUOTE=BiblioCat] **VunderBob** is a volunteer firefighter and EMT. [/QUOTE] As is **BiblioCat** … ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-interesting-about-another-sdmb-member-that-i-didnt-know/419559/37 "2007-09-18T14:29:31Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] **Sunspace** , another Canadian, also speaks Esperanto, and is getting involved in green building. [/QUOTE] I met **matt\_mcl** through Esperanto, and he intorduced me to DopeFests. 🙂 **Spoons** has an unbelievable radio voice–easily professional quality. Or Chuck Jones cartoon-character quality. Or something. And he also speaks Russian. **Booker57** is probably one of the few Dopers to have travelled on the Rochester-to-Toronto ferry when it was running. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-interesting-about-another-sdmb-member-that-i-didnt-know/419559/38 "2007-09-18T14:37:45Z")
**Asimovian** hates chocolate ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-interesting-about-another-sdmb-member-that-i-didnt-know/419559/39 "2007-09-18T14:53:24Z")
\*\*An Gadaí \*\* is the only SDMB member who hasn’t got an interesting factoid attached to his person. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-interesting-about-another-sdmb-member-that-i-didnt-know/419559/40 "2007-09-18T15:20:01Z")
[QUOTE=CateAyo] **Twickster** holds a Ph. D. from a real university. Yeah, I know! I was shocked too! CA [/QUOTE] 😛 **CateAyo** , despite (because of?) his okra fetish, is really good at playing silly games that are made up as you go along. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-interesting-about-another-sdmb-member-that-i-didnt-know/419559.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-something-interesting-about-another-sdmb-member-that-i-didnt-know/419559.md?page=3)