# What Dope story do you want to know more of? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 14, 2014, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dope-story-do-you-want-to-know-more-of/701267 "2014-10-14T03:27:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dope-story-do-you-want-to-know-more-of/701267/101 "2014-10-22T17:08:12Z")
> [@Clothilde](#): > > There was a young girl in the northeast somewhere who started posting about a “ghost” who talked to her and was her companion all the time. I never posted in that thread (I remember quite a few people did, though) and then she just disappeared. I remember being really concerned about her. Does anyone else remember this? I guess this is appropriate for the time of year and all… Wasn’t her name Meenie or something close to that? I think she had numerals after her name, too. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dope-story-do-you-want-to-know-more-of/701267/102 "2014-10-22T23:01:13Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > What more is there to know? Most of his funny stories were plagiarized, and when that started coming out, he made a new account claiming to be his daughter so “she” could announce his death a few months later. All doubt on the matter was removed when the board software started showing the “last activity” dates in profiles, and his was over a year after his “death”. > [@Moe](#): > > Actually I wasn’t aware that it was confirmed that his “daughter’s” account (Amy I think) was his creation and for that purpose, though I guess it’s possible I read this at some point and just forgot. But even with that confirmed, I think I’ve always just been curious as to _why_?? The image I had of him while he was still active on the boards was just so at odds with this strange revelation. I’m simply curious to know his story. > > Kinda curious to know what **Handy** is up to these days too, now that I think about it. Without going into a lot of detail (it’s still a touchy subject to some and the last thing I want to do is hurt anyone’s feelings) we were able to locate enough evidence to prove to the satisfaction of management that the situation was not at all as it was presented to us and in fact was most likely as Chronos reports it. (IIRC Chronos was on staff at the time and I’m sure all that is burned into his memory, those of us who were involved will sure never forget.) While we’re talking about staffers, I should take this opportunity to give a big shout out to samclem, who did a lot of investigative work on this situation. Huge props to him for his dedication and hard work on this and everyone else he does, it’s a monumental gift to all of us. One of these days I should write stuff down – 18+ years on the scene, that’s a lot of blood under the bridge. I have no doubt forgotten a ton of stuff – not counting the stuff I’d like to forget. Perhaps I need to go to a Dopefest and let people [del]ply me with liquor[/del] inquire. Like asking your grandfather what he did in the war. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dope-story-do-you-want-to-know-more-of/701267/103 "2014-10-22T23:15:38Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Well, I always feel like I ought to be doing more to connect with the kids. FWIW (as someone who has lived through similar stuff), I came out of it with these realizations: 1. If you have done everything you could do, you have done everything. 2. There is nothing more than everything. You don’t sound bitter as much as you do disappointed that there’s not better outcomes, but the lack of those better outcomes is not based on anything you have done or not done and you are not responsible. Which leads me to: “Hope for the best and let the rest go.” Keep doing what you need to do but don’t feel guilty in the wake of it. **There is nothing more than everything.** ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dope-story-do-you-want-to-know-more-of/701267/104 "2014-10-22T23:19:52Z")
I want to see what happened to PSYer’s mental girlfriend or something like, even though she had a boyfriend and was apparently stringing him along. I hope I spelled his username correctly. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dope-story-do-you-want-to-know-more-of/701267/105 "2014-10-22T23:21:05Z")
> [@urban1a](#): > > I have always what happened in the case in the south where an 80+ woman shot cops breaking down her door executing a no-knock warrant. They shot and killed her but I never heard any followup and don’t remember which southern city it was so I didn’t have anything to Google. The thread was in the Pit. Unfortunately I am afraid they got off scot-free. > > Bob Still a scandal in Atlanta. > **[Killing of Kathryn Johnston](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn_Johnston_shooting)** > > Kathryn Johnston (June 26, 1914 – November 21, 2006) was an elderly woman from Atlanta, Georgia who was killed by undercover police officers in her home on Neal Street in northwest Atlanta on November 21, 2006, where she had lived for 17 years. Three officers had entered her home in what was later described as a 'botched' drug raid. Officers cut off burglar bars and broke down her door using a no-knock warrant. Police said Johnston fired at them and they fired in response; she fir One of the ... And it happened again this summer, just not in downtown Atlanta. [http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/lawyer-county-refuses-pay-medical-bills-toddler-hu/ng3s9/](http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/lawyer-county-refuses-pay-medical-bills-toddler-hu/ng3s9/) ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dope-story-do-you-want-to-know-more-of/701267/106 "2014-10-22T23:34:37Z")
Re **Eve** **Una Persson** Interviewed **Eve** last year. Gimme a bit and I think I can find the thread with a link to the interview. The short version is that she is fine and owns a hat that looks like a fried egg. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dope-story-do-you-want-to-know-more-of/701267/107 "2014-10-22T23:48:22Z")
Found it! > **[My Interview with Eve Golden is Published](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=717513)** > > If any of you are Eve Golden fans, friends, or just miss her, she’s alive and very well, and consented to sit down to an interview with me. She was gracious enough to share some of her history which is not publicized, and told me quite a bit about... ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dope-story-do-you-want-to-know-more-of/701267/108 "2014-10-23T02:39:29Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > Found it! > > [My Interview with Eve Golden is Published - Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=717513) That was awesome, thanks for reposting it. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dope-story-do-you-want-to-know-more-of/701267/109 "2014-10-23T15:10:42Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > Wait – what happened to **Ogre**? He finished his doctorate. Previously he had encountered difficulty. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dope-story-do-you-want-to-know-more-of/701267/110 "2014-10-23T15:53:13Z")
Oh, yay! Wonderful news! 🙂 🙂 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dope-story-do-you-want-to-know-more-of/701267/111 "2014-10-23T16:06:27Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > And as for dopers that just mysteriously vanished, I still wonder where **lobstermobster** and **Scott Plaid** ran off to. The first posted a ton, back in the day, then disappeared…although she came back years later to reply to a topic asking about her. > **Scott** , on the other hand, was a regular poster (even once being Pitted for posting too much) and then one day he was just gone. Posting one day and never again afterwards. It’s slightly morbid, but I often wonder, especially when an old thread is zombified, how many of the no longer active posters have died and the circumstances thereof. Sort of like when I think about how there’s an ever growing network of dead people accounts on facebook and as time passes and their friends die, a network of connections fossilizes pointing from one dead person to other dead people and it just slowly grows. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dope-story-do-you-want-to-know-more-of/701267/112 "2014-10-23T16:09:33Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > Every time I saw **newcrasher** post, I’d think of [this topic he made](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=284668) and wonder if he really was anyone of note or if he was just pulling our legs. > > I guess we’ll never learn the answer. He confessed that he was jerking our chains [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7536421&postcount=248). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dope-story-do-you-want-to-know-more-of/701267.md?page=5)