Apparently I no longer know who is who. Many people have left over the years and others have changed their names. **Cat Whisperer/b] - I never would have known it was featherlou, which I would have recognized.
The crust was from scratch, too.
It’s nice to be remembered.
lorene - Hurt her foot in a foot accident. Has a child who likes ice skating in theory more than in practice.
Ack! That second one is supposed to be Oakminster!
Wait … so Oakminster is your brother Doug ?? I knew it !
Huh. 
Malacandra - feels sorry for him- (or her-?) self a lot.
I am not Doug, and my brother is neither Dinsdale nor a lawyer. But I do have a pony tail and enjoy casino gambling. 
Uh NinetyWt - seems to either be infatuated with me or have difficulty keeping names straight… 
Wow - how did I miss that? That’s a special kind of…special.
{Waves at Gorgon Heap!}
Awesome, so far. Howboutyou!
jjimm created a barfy smiley.
Aesiron knows his Trek, as does carnivorousplant, who also knows his Patrick O’Brien.
ivylass has been through an ordeal.
Cervaise knows an awful lot about film.
Pffft. Like you’re going to spend all that time making the filling (sour cherries, right?) and then dump it in an ol’ Pillsbury crust.
I’m terrible with names and remembering details, so although I recognize most usernames, I only remember details about about a few, mostly posters I’ve had board crushes on. And I probably misremember most of the details, too. Nonetheless, here goes:
Swampbear - Gay, southern, friendly, funny.
Mattmcl - Also gay, lives in Quebec (Montreal, I think), very politically involved, has run in local elections with the Green Party, does translation work.
WhyNot - Hasn’t been around in a while, may have left. Poly, always had great parenting advice.
Autolycus - Haunted by a story he told about an incident with a ladle. Funny guy.
Twickster - Always very helpful with gardening advice.
Hal Briston - Username is Not Sir Blah backwards, has M&M fights, the sheep thing, got married before I could get to him, has a young daughter, bought a house a couple years ago, lives in Jersey (New).
Scylla - Politically conservative, tells a good story.
Sampiro - Gay, southern, tells a great story.
AHunter3 - Very liberal and strongly opinionated, has had a terrible time with the mental health system, great person to have in a discussion of feminism or treatment of mental illnesses.
Argent Towers - Currently references Hogg in every post he makes. 
Qadgop the Mercotan - Prison doc, lives in Wisconsin, tells a good story.
Anaamika - Of Indian descent, is subjected to family drama, draws awesome cartoons.
Inigo Montoya - My first board crush, bitterly funny. Sometimes starts bizarre threads I enjoy reading but almost never post to.
tdn - Perpetually trying to find the right woman.
Colibri - Currently living in Panama, studies birds. Colibri is Spanish for hummingbird, as I found out when I was in Panama to visit my mother, saw a hummingbird and asked a friend of hers what the Spanish word for it is.
It’s been a number of years since I’ve seriously hob-nobbed on the Dope, and most of the folks I was tight with have long since gone, but here are a couple:
Sampiro - as funny IRL as on the Dope. Nay, more so. Modern reincarnation of Wilde in a Southerner’s body.
elelle - also very Southern, and eerily similar to myself in avocation and personal passions. Roots music aficionado (ditto, although she is infinitely more qualified than I to discuss it), and native plant guru (also a major interest of mine).
I often think the same thing about myself and Shagnasty. Out of everyone here, and there are a lot of Dopers, sometimes I feel like the way he looks at the world is almost an exact match for how I look at it, albeit with more life experience and maturity since he is a good deal older. Our narrative “voices” are also similar, I think.
Hey, either way, they’re not on the team I like or my fantasy team, so it doesn’t impact me at all. Besides, everyone gets their career day against the Lions.
Hey, Argent. Apologies for insulting you. That wasn’t my intention. Just to explain my opinion, sometimes you strike me as someone who wants others to think he’s tough, when really he’s just a normal dude. Not a softie or wuss, but not really as hard-ass as you come across on the internet.
Maybe it has something to do with your affinity for guns.
No hard feelings. Though I have no delusions of being a hardass. A real hardass wouldn’t even need a gun, anyway, he could kill you dead in one clean blow like the subject of the song Fred by Zager & Evans.
Aw, thanks…for all the username shout outs.
And the “shares views on issues” thing is cool, too, because I didn’t know people noticed my posts enough to pick up on trends like that–nice to know I’ve been noticed!
Whatever happened to zoggie, though? It’s like she assumed body and soul up into the clouds…
Oh, she still looks down on us, benevolently, from time to time.