# What celebrities \*could\* be dopers? Who would surprise you most? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 6, 2008, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-could-be-dopers-who-would-surprise-you-most/459006 "2008-08-06T06:34:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-could-be-dopers-who-would-surprise-you-most/459006/41 "2008-08-08T01:44:57Z")
[QUOTE=Stranger On A Train] I may or may not be Thomas Pynchon, though. [/QUOTE] No way. Your sentences are too short. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-could-be-dopers-who-would-surprise-you-most/459006/42 "2008-08-08T01:52:01Z")
[QUOTE=Mahaloth] Having said that, Paris Hilton is the least likely Doper. This board and site require being intelligent, literate, and open. [/QUOTE] I read this every once in a while in threads like this one or ones about why this is the best board on the internet, and there’s just something that doesn’t sit right with me. (I gave the broader context in the hopes that you’d know I wasn’t just singling you out, **Mahaloth** ) There’s nothing in the registration process that requires intelligence, literacy, or openness. We have plenty of long-standing Dopers who are regarded by the masses as being challenged in one or more of those areas. Paris Hilton might not make The Perfect Doper, but she could _be_ a Doper. Anyone with 15 bucks who manages not to break the rules too egregiously could. ---
**Author:** ![Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/48db29/32.png) [@Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Key_Lime_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-could-be-dopers-who-would-surprise-you-most/459006/43 "2008-08-08T01:53:27Z")
James Woods seems like an SDMB kinda guy. Who flamed out and got banned. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-could-be-dopers-who-would-surprise-you-most/459006/44 "2008-08-08T15:15:34Z")
[QUOTE=Lsura] [cite.](http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2002/12/over-at-straight-dope-message-board.asp) [/QUOTE] Epic! ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-could-be-dopers-who-would-surprise-you-most/459006/45 "2008-08-08T15:20:37Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] Wil Wheaton is smart, funny and self-deprecating. He’s an active blogger. I could see him fitting in with Doper culture. [/QUOTE] Years ago I had some back and forth email discussion with Will. He seemed like a really nice guy. I believe it started on Fark. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-could-be-dopers-who-would-surprise-you-most/459006/46 "2008-08-08T15:50:48Z")
[QUOTE=vetbridge] Years ago I had some back and forth email discussion with Will. He seemed like a really nice guy. I believe it started on Fark. [/QUOTE] I sat beside him once at a bar in Pasadena, and he talked about video games for about twenty minutes before his girlfriend (astonishingly cute) showed up and took him home. Nice guy, I guess, but I heard more about Super Mario Bros. than I ever cared to know. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-could-be-dopers-who-would-surprise-you-most/459006/47 "2008-08-08T17:25:07Z")
> [@](#): > > Quote: > Originally Posted by Mojo Pin > You’ll never guess who I am. > > Spartacus? I’M Spartacus! And so is my wife, Pepper Mill! And my daughter, MilliCal. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2008, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-could-be-dopers-who-would-surprise-you-most/459006/48 "2008-08-09T01:48:47Z")
Eve Golden, of course, is a published author and was a regular poster here. She’s famous enough I had heard of her before she revealed her idnetity here. Abby Miller, who runs a semi-famous adult website, has posted here. Ivan Stang and Gordon McAlpin have posted here in response to specific topics related to them. I don’t know if they were lurking, vanity searching, or were contacted by third parties. I think Asia Carrera might have lurked here. She is active online and this site would seem like something she might read. And I once read something she posted at her site which could have been a reference to something posted here. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2008, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-could-be-dopers-who-would-surprise-you-most/459006/49 "2008-08-09T01:53:32Z")
[QUOTE=Little Nemo] Abby Miller, who runs a semi-famous adult website, has posted here. [/QUOTE] I think you mean Abby Winters. ---
**Author:** ![horsetech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dec6dc/32.png) [@horsetech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/horsetech)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2008, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-could-be-dopers-who-would-surprise-you-most/459006/50 "2008-08-09T01:57:48Z")
CalMeacham, You may be Spartacus, but _I’m_ Brian. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2008, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-could-be-dopers-who-would-surprise-you-most/459006/51 "2008-08-09T02:05:59Z")
With his literacy, wit and style, Dan Savage would fit right in here, but I tend to doubt he posts/lurks. He doesn’t need the SDMB as a showcase for his writing ability, and I would imagine he gets something like, if I may coin an awkward phrase, “agony aunt fatigue” from all the letters he receives, which would diminish his enjoyment of reading message boards. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2008, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-could-be-dopers-who-would-surprise-you-most/459006/52 "2008-08-09T02:06:15Z")
I’ve never heard of any of the “celebs” that are suspected of posting here in RL. Perhaps we should define celebrity. A blog does not a celeb make, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2008, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-could-be-dopers-who-would-surprise-you-most/459006/53 "2008-08-09T02:11:03Z")
> [@](#): > > I think you mean Abby Winters. You’re correct of course. I knew someone named Abby Miller and I confused the two names. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2008, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-could-be-dopers-who-would-surprise-you-most/459006/54 "2008-08-09T13:10:55Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] I’ve never heard of any of the “celebs” that are suspected of posting here in RL. Perhaps we should define celebrity. A blog does not a celeb make, IMO. [/QUOTE] Someone who we could picture appearing on Letterman or at least Conan O’Brien? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2008, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-could-be-dopers-who-would-surprise-you-most/459006/55 "2008-08-09T15:51:28Z")
> [@](#): > > Perhaps we should define celebrity. A blog does not a celeb make, IMO. I figure if I’ve never met you but I’ve heard of you, then you must be a celebrity. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-could-be-dopers-who-would-surprise-you-most/459006/56 "2008-08-10T03:42:03Z")
[QUOTE=Little Nemo] I figure if I’ve never met you but I’ve heard of you, then you must be a celebrity. [/QUOTE] So every FoAF (e.g., my cousin’s roommate or my boss’s wife) is a celebrity? I didn’t realize I lived in such a glamour filled world! ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-could-be-dopers-who-would-surprise-you-most/459006/57 "2008-08-10T09:29:24Z")
[QUOTE=dangermom] But who would believe it? I mean, if someone posted “I’m Tea Leoni!” I’d do a mental eyeroll and think “yeah, right…” So how would we know that it was really Harrison Ford or whoever? [/QUOTE] Well, a really well thought out thread about flying helicopters might be a clue, as he happens to be a pilot as well as an actor… That’s the thing, most celebrities are actual people so it might be possible, based on a posting history, to corroborate enough details to establish identity. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-could-be-dopers-who-would-surprise-you-most/459006/58 "2008-08-10T13:21:49Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] I’ve never heard of any of the “celebs” that are suspected of posting here in RL. Perhaps we should define celebrity. A blog does not a celeb make, IMO. [/QUOTE] I agree completely with you. Defining “Celebrity” is hard, though, because there are lots of people who are really famous in a limited area but complete unknowns outside it. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2008, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-could-be-dopers-who-would-surprise-you-most/459006/59 "2008-08-10T13:57:53Z")
[QUOTE=Martini Enfield] I agree completely with you. Defining “Celebrity” is hard, though, because there are lots of people who are really famous in a limited area but complete unknowns outside it. [/QUOTE] True, so let’s go with **Koxinga’s** definition–although it lets out most of the world… :smack: I think someone being a household name is more accurate than “If I know the name but have never met them.” My teens’ worlds and mine have very different celebs, given the name recognition aspect for one example. Soap opera stars are considered celebs, although I’ve never heard of any of them (I doubt much of the Dope has heard of them either, a fact for which I am eternally grateful) to use another example. Perhaps celebrity is like pornography: we know it when we see it? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-could-be-dopers-who-would-surprise-you-most/459006/60 "2008-08-11T03:06:29Z")
[QUOTE=Mahaloth] I remember Weird Al citing Cecil Adams about a year ago, though I can’t find the interview/article. [/QUOTE] That’s who it was! :smack: It was Weird Al, like you and at least one other poster have pointed out. I don’t know why I was thinking it was Ben Stiller who mentioned Cecil. It was definitely Weird Al. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-could-be-dopers-who-would-surprise-you-most/459006.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-could-be-dopers-who-would-surprise-you-most/459006.md?page=4)