# Wait....people develop characters here? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 18, 2014, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129 "2014-01-18T04:47:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2014, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/21 "2014-01-19T02:33:02Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Gender is often hard to guess on this board. > > I’ve wondered if some posters leave it ambiguous on purpose. Perhaps they feel it irrelevant. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2014, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/22 "2014-01-19T10:57:07Z")
OK, I’ll 'fess up. In real life, I’m a chirpy teenage quadriplegic. I’d post about that, but some things are just too unbelievable. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2014, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/23 "2014-01-19T13:57:52Z")
Well. I am not mighty, and no longer a girl. Just so you know. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2014, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/24 "2014-01-19T22:04:16Z")
Whereas I am both. ---
**Author:** ![CatherineZeta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@CatherineZeta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatherineZeta)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2014, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/25 "2014-01-19T23:08:07Z")
I’m actually Kirk Douglas. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2014, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/26 "2014-01-19T23:16:32Z")
I kinda liked this character: ლ(ಠ益ಠლ) Developed by, IIRC, **Rachellelogram**. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/27 "2014-01-20T00:58:00Z")
> [@OldGuy](#): > > Whereas I am both. You’re a mighty girl? ---
**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/28 "2014-01-20T00:59:22Z")
I’m pleased to say that I am no longer tethered. So that’s progress, I guess. Swoop, swoop. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/29 "2014-01-20T01:45:00Z")
I’ve been playing a character all along, but chances are nobody much knows or cares except me. ---
**Author:** ![Cognoscant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Cognoscant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cognoscant)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/30 "2014-01-20T03:09:38Z")
I might know. (And someone might get that.) ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/31 "2014-01-20T03:48:19Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > So **Blinky** aint real?? ☹ **Blinkie** (note spelling – there is another poster named Blinky), posted a link to one of his appearances on [Good Morning America](http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=2835149&page=1). I was reminded of it recently because there is a GMA ad running currently in which I’m pretty sure he is featured (at least they show a locked-in guy, and he’s been featured multiple times on the show). Now it’s always possible that someone has gone to the trouble of adopting the persona of the guy on GMA, but that seems unlikely to me, particularly since Blinkie was here for a while before he mentioned it. Anyway, I have excellent trolldar, and instantly figured out the most notorious SDMB fakes, and I have always believed that Blinkie is for real. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/32 "2014-01-20T04:16:04Z")
> [@Cognoscant](#): > > I might know. > > (And someone might get that.) 🙂 I’m neither Digital, nor Analog. Or maybe I am. Hmm. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/33 "2014-01-20T07:36:47Z")
I think people would be much more likely to develop characters on narrow subject forums, rather than this one where any poster is likely to discuss an extremely broad range of subjects. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/34 "2014-01-20T08:14:16Z")
I’m not actually named “susan.” ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/35 "2014-01-20T11:23:35Z")
I am 100% authentic at all times. I am too dumb to fake it. Derp :smack: ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/36 "2014-01-20T12:45:54Z")
I must also confess, I am not Shimrod in disguise as a charlatan and mender of sore knees at the Glass Blowers Fair, despite the origin of my name. I am presently also not a real professor of Applied Paleontology at Miskatonic University. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/37 "2014-01-20T14:13:32Z")
There was a poster here who claimed to have had an extremely rare operation where they removed the lower half of her body, a “hemi…” something or other. Thinking about her this past December, I tried to see if I could find this poster and I did - there were references to her condition on other websites and some quotes. To the best of my ability to find out, it seemed like she entered the hospital for the final time within a year after she stopped posting here (which wasn’t long at all.) It was all rather depressing (y’all can feel free to dig up the links), and I said a quick prayer for her. ---
**Author:** ![CatherineZeta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@CatherineZeta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatherineZeta)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/38 "2014-01-20T23:14:31Z")
Was her name Angel and she’d had a hemicorporectomy? I did a Google search and as of Jan 2013 she was doing well and taking college classes. I hope she’s still doing well. I’m on my phone and can’t post links, but I searched “Angel hemicorporectomy” and found several local news stories about her. ETA: I found her blog and she last updated Dec. 31st, so I think she’s ok assuming this is the correct person. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/39 "2014-01-21T01:35:08Z")
It’s possible that I “found” the wrong person, **Catherine**. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/40 "2014-01-21T01:54:09Z")
I am **EddyTeddyFreddy** here, but I am not, in fact, even one neutered male orange tiger cat, let alone three. Elsewhere on the Web, I am Janicket, but that does not mean I am portions of two deceased geldings and a deceased pony. In fact, despite my appearance in other environs as Never Ben Better, I am not an elderly but still living bay Thoroughbred gelding. Why, no. No, I don’t have any trouble telling my various personas apart. Why do you ask? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129.md?page=3)