# Which dopers do you "know", and what do you know about them? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 7, 2009, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-know-and-what-do-you-know-about-them/520361 "2009-12-07T20:48:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-know-and-what-do-you-know-about-them/520361/101 "2009-12-09T19:23:38Z")
I’m glad that this hasn’t derailed and gone off to the pit. **Maiira** - only one thread? All I know is that you’re forgetful. **Argent Towers** - Always I think Ivory Tower, then wonder if a silver tower is better. Armor guy, fresh-ish out of college, used to have cute girlfriend with a gun, as I recall. **MeanOldLady** :Smokin’ hot, pretty mean, not so old. **Freudian Slit** : Brilliant name. **Diogenes the Cynic** : Liberal. Sometimes to a fault. **Shodan** : He regards us. **norinew** : No Renew. And yet, she remains. **Malleus, Incus, Stapes!** It all makes sense except for the exclamation point. **Skald the Rhymer** : One of the favourites, but only seems to poll these days. Has he gone to another board for his other needs? **olivesmarch4th** : Dopercrush. **Chez Guevara** : Great name **Johnny L.A.** - not in LA **Elendil’s Heir** - Trek **SHAKES/Shakes** - is less emphatic than usual, and has no friends. **ivan astikov** - another name I like \*\* Twickster \*\*- a favorite mod and poster. \*\* Covered\_in\_Bees\*\* - a favorite, and apparently has a gender. But wait, which one? \*\* Giraffe \*\*- Former mod and spinoff board creator, famously flirted with a teenybopper. **Cesario** - One trick pony. **pseudotriton ruber ruber** is apparently some sort of newt and biology geek **Really Not All That Bright** - really is **BellRungBookShutCandleSnuffed** - Aren’t these the tools used in exorcism? So she or he’s done been exorcised? I almost forgot **Shagnasty** , who considered a career change, and is such a decent person. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-know-and-what-do-you-know-about-them/520361/102 "2009-12-09T19:32:27Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Well, in the other thread I said I was probably quite recognizable (50+), because my name is long and therefore distinctive, and I post a lot, everywhere… but my name has only popped up two or three times in this thread, so I was starting to wonder. > > Not that I’m a publicity whore or anything, of course. Really. I swear. I’m not. And all this street cred goes away in an instant when I come up with your new screenname. Muwhahahaha! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-know-and-what-do-you-know-about-them/520361/103 "2009-12-09T19:51:06Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > **Cesario** - One trick pony. The trick in question being elementary school age… ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-know-and-what-do-you-know-about-them/520361/104 "2009-12-09T21:24:28Z")
> [@attack from the 3rd dimension](#): > > i’m glad that this hasn’t derailed and gone off to the pit. > > **maiira** - only one thread? All i know is that you’re forgetful. > > **argent towers** - always i think ivory tower, then wonder if a silver tower is better. me too! ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-know-and-what-do-you-know-about-them/520361/105 "2009-12-09T21:32:03Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > me too! Maybe you guys should organize a sabbatical tower exchange. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-know-and-what-do-you-know-about-them/520361/106 "2009-12-09T21:36:06Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > Maybe you guys should organize a sabbatical tower exchange. But they don’t let me leave. ☹ I’m here right now… waiting for a student who is late!!! 5 more minutes and I am gone. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-know-and-what-do-you-know-about-them/520361/107 "2009-12-09T21:38:58Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > **Argent Towers** - Always I think Ivory Tower, then wonder if a silver tower is better. Armor guy, fresh-ish out of college, used to have cute girlfriend with a gun, as I recall. Still have her. She doesn’t actually have a gun. I once posted a picture where she was posing with one of mine. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-know-and-what-do-you-know-about-them/520361/108 "2009-12-09T21:41:57Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > Still have her. She doesn’t actually have a gun. I once posted a picture where she was posing with one of mine. That would be the picture. I presume this was during the gun phase to which you alluded previously. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-know-and-what-do-you-know-about-them/520361/109 "2009-12-09T21:56:34Z")
> [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](#): > > And all this street cred goes away in an instant when I come up with your new screenname. Muwhahahaha! I had totally forgotten about that bet. Or I was hoping you forgot. Either way. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-know-and-what-do-you-know-about-them/520361/110 "2009-12-10T01:30:40Z")
**Manda Jo** - teacher at a very diverse high school **Sarafeenah** - conservative woman **astro** - attractive, white-haired man **Argent Towers** -macho, thinks he’s a hard-ass **Shagnasty** -has a rich family **Nzinga,Seated** -lives in NY, has a daughter, funny **you with the face** -people get us mixed up for some reason **Dangerosa** -has an adopted son **jsgoddess** -first name Julie, very cool **wevets** -biologist (like myself) **Zoe** -older woman, easily given over to dramatics, must tread carefully **Hippy Hollow** -academic at an Ivy League, not born in the States, very smart **mswas** -hard to pinpoint what he’s all about, has a daughter **FinnAgain** -overly pedantic **Bricker** -conservative, lawyer, smart but not very humble, nitpicker **Chief Pendant** -has a hard-on about race and genetics **Miller** -gay, very cool **Sampiro** -verbose, loves to talk about family and history, works at a university **Anaamika** -Indian, adopted, has a boyfriend, doesn’t want to own a house **even sven** -world traveler, Peace Corps worker, worked in Cameroon and is now in China **Wesley Clarke** -stopping posting for a while and how has returned, young guy **brickbacon** -not afraid to jump in the fray, especially when it comes to race discussions **DianaG** -does not wear jogging pants to the grocery store **ivylass** -does not like Obama, has a son who once dropped out of college **jali** -has curly hair **Biggirl** -has twins, is black and Puerto Rican, and is an atheist ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-know-and-what-do-you-know-about-them/520361/111 "2009-12-10T01:46:02Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > Just be careful picking which exotic hobby to follow. Something like “tribal dance choreography” or “the history of gladiator movies” may not work that well. 😃 > > (Please, God, let him understand that I really am just funning and not trying to pick a fight or anything.) The real question is, how will I work tribal dance choreography into every thread? This could take some doing. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-know-and-what-do-you-know-about-them/520361/112 "2009-12-10T03:28:49Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > **Argent Towers** -macho, thinks he’s a hard-ass This one really has me confused. Do I really come off that way? When did I ever claim to be a hard-ass or act “macho”? I don’t think either of those things about myself. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-know-and-what-do-you-know-about-them/520361/113 "2009-12-10T03:48:14Z")
It fits with my impression of you. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-know-and-what-do-you-know-about-them/520361/114 "2009-12-10T03:48:42Z")
> [@Antinor01](#): > > The real question is, how will I work tribal dance choreography into every thread? This could take some doing. Try reading _Hogg_, it may have useful tips. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-know-and-what-do-you-know-about-them/520361/115 "2009-12-10T04:05:57Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > This one really has me confused. Do I really come off that way? When did I ever claim to be a hard-ass or act “macho”? I don’t think either of those things about myself. Maybe from when you were offering to pass out e-beatings when someone said your girlfriend was ugly? ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-know-and-what-do-you-know-about-them/520361/116 "2009-12-10T04:10:52Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > It fits with my impression of you. Well, I don’t know where you’d get that impression from. Anyway, saying someone “thinks he’s a hardass” is definitely a very insulting thing to say. I’m not sure why she decided to get so personal in this thread. It was going really well so far. Anyway, I’d like to know what I’ve said that would make _anyone_ think that I thought I was a hard-ass. And if it has anything to do with my interest in guns, someone who really thought he was a hard-ass would say something like, “I don’t need guns, if someone fucked with me, I’d beat the shit out of him.” The very use of guns implies a dependence on a technology instead of confidence in one’s own physical strength which, I would think, would be contrary to an attitude of macho puffery. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-know-and-what-do-you-know-about-them/520361/117 "2009-12-10T04:12:35Z")
> [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](#): > > Maybe from when you were offering to pass out e-beatings when someone said your girlfriend was ugly? Ah, that. You’re never going to let that go, are you? You had to dredge up some ugly shit from a year ago to try to discredit me? One incident - I guess that makes me a real macho, arrogant, internet-fake-tough-guy forever. I’ve ruined my reputation for good! I should just go move into my mom’s basement! ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-know-and-what-do-you-know-about-them/520361/118 "2009-12-10T04:19:50Z")
Okay, gang, lets get back to the index cards now. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-know-and-what-do-you-know-about-them/520361/119 "2009-12-10T04:23:38Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > Ah, that. You’re never going to let that go, are you? You had to dredge up some ugly shit from a year ago to try to discredit me? One incident - I guess that makes me a real macho, arrogant, internet-fake-tough-guy forever. I’ve ruined my reputation for good! I should just go move into my mom’s basement! Try to discredit you? What on earth? You asked how someone might arrive at that opinion of you and I gave one example. Perhaps you should take a breath or two and then rejoin us. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-know-and-what-do-you-know-about-them/520361/120 "2009-12-10T04:24:04Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > Ah, that. You’re never going to let that go, are you? You had to dredge up some ugly shit from a year ago to try to discredit me? One incident - I guess that makes me a real macho, arrogant, internet-fake-tough-guy forever. I’ve ruined my reputation for good! I should just go move into my mom’s basement! That sounds like a threat. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-know-and-what-do-you-know-about-them/520361.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dopers-do-you-know-and-what-do-you-know-about-them/520361.md?page=7)