No way. Your sentences are too short.
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.
James Woods seems like an SDMB kinda guy. Who flamed out and got banned.
Epic!
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.
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
I’M Spartacus!
And so is my wife, Pepper Mill!
And my daughter, MilliCal.
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.
I think you mean Abby Winters.
CalMeacham,
You may be Spartacus, but I’m Brian.
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.
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.
You’re correct of course. I knew someone named Abby Miller and I confused the two names.
Someone who we could picture appearing on Letterman or at least Conan O’Brien?
I figure if I’ve never met you but I’ve heard of you, then you must be a celebrity.
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!
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.
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.
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?
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.