I mean do you come right out with the 'Hi Opal!'s …?
Do you make hints about Bacon-Salt?
There’s a Very good chance I was gaming with at least one poster here today. And I’m so mad at myself for chickening out…
What made you suspect that the other gamer was a Doper in the first place?
Ask him if he knows why pigeons bob their heads. Or what he thinks of toy blimps.
yell “I burning your dog” when you make a kill
Show off my “Property of Creative Loafing” tattoo and barcode.
I know I’ve trotted this out before. But at a gaming con about 10 years or so ago I was sitting down to play a game and the guy across from me was then mid John Corrado. His name badge gave his name and it matched his SDMB handle.
I just started with, “John Corrado…do the words ‘Straight Dope Message Board’ mean anything to you…”
“You going to finish off that kill I started? Cocksucker is only one shot left.”
“Are you a ‘Friend of Cecil’?”
“Do you post on the Straight Dope?”
Seriously, it doesn’t have to be very complicated.
“So, how long have you been fighting ignorance?”
Wish this game had a death ray. 1920s style.
I think I even got a hint. While their voices / dialects were spread from Maine to CA, they said they were from Illinois, near Chicago.
But I used the ‘Canada’ test & they failed.
“So, any of you from Canada?”
“Nope. We actually hate Canada.”
“We blame it for everything.”
“Its the Anne Murray thing.”
“But wouldn’t Alanis Morrisette & April Levine offset that? John Candy & Dan Akroyd? Shatner & Nimoy? Jerry O’Connell & Brendan Fraser? Paul Shaffer & Lorne Greene? Cobie Smulders & …Alex Trebek?”
See, this is where I had my doubts. I mean, C’mon, no self-respecting Doper could Really hate Canada.
(Think of all that Tim Horton goodness… I mean, they have their own Bacon!!!)
That reminds me, is there a SDMB community on Steam? That’s an affiliation I’d be more than happy to advertise in my Steam handle.
Yes there is.
But, a doper would appreciate something much more subtle. I know I would.
I’m in a situation like this IRL, so I looked up the doper’s old posts. When I see him again, I’ll ask something like “Do you still always take a parakeet with you on the train?”