# Who was the first Doper you met IRL? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 11, 2001, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-first-doper-you-met-irl/86830 "2001-10-11T17:33:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TheThill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheThill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheThill)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-first-doper-you-met-irl/86830/21 "2001-10-11T22:44:52Z")
Uh, unless I’m mistaken, nobody… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-first-doper-you-met-irl/86830/22 "2001-10-11T23:43:22Z")
**Nymysys** , on a layover in Chicago on my way to meet **oldscratch**. Then **Nen** , then **Maeglin**. Then I moved to CA and met a ton over and over again. Go BAD’s! ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-first-doper-you-met-irl/86830/23 "2001-10-12T00:33:39Z")
The lovely and talented **Nymysys**. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-first-doper-you-met-irl/86830/24 "2001-10-12T00:42:29Z")
I’ll let you know when it happens… ---
**Author:** ![Verrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/46a35a/32.png) [@Verrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Verrain)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-first-doper-you-met-irl/86830/25 "2001-10-12T01:11:46Z")
I met **Arden Ranger** in the Atlanta airport as we shared a cab to DragonCon. Shorrly thereafter I met **Manhattan** and **Fiver** and we ogled creatively dressed sci-fi women. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-first-doper-you-met-irl/86830/26 "2001-10-12T01:31:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ethilrist \* > **[SilverspaceFire** Thank you! But you don’t really need to spell out “space”. 😉 I met **Caldazar** when I was in Tracy, CA with my dad. He drove there to pick me up and drive me to SF where I met Rasa, zyzzyva, and oldscratch. ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-first-doper-you-met-irl/86830/27 "2001-10-12T01:32:31Z")
I won’t count **enilorac** , **KKBattousai** , or **Mao Mao** , as I introduced them to the board or met them before they became posters. I picked out **SPOOFE** and **Monster104** out of the group of waiting Dopers when **KKB** and I attended the February LA 'fest. We also met **Johnny L.A.** , **Shayna** , **phouka** , **Ashtar** , **Arnold Winklereid** , **Esprix** , and a handful of others that night. 'Twas a great time. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-first-doper-you-met-irl/86830/28 "2001-10-12T01:34:57Z")
**Shayna**. She’s originally from St. Louis and when she came back to town for family reasons, she dropped me a line. I opened a thread to get an impromptu DopeFest together, but no one else was available on short notice. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-first-doper-you-met-irl/86830/29 "2001-10-12T01:39:21Z")
I met **Zyada** on the way into the Olive Garden for my first Dopefest. I recognized her from her description of the purple skirt and flowery top she planned to wear. A few minutes later she introduced me to the other locals as they arrived–I remember meeting **JimB** , **Aglarond** , and the not-so-local **Irishman**. I know there were more people there, but I can’t quite remember which ones–so many Dopefests, so few brain cells. I do remember that one of the waitresses liked the way we called each other by our screen names, and delighted in referring to us as the “Adams family”. That gathering seems so odd, looking back on it–I wasn’t taking notes. ---
**Author:** ![Sue\_Duhnym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-first-doper-you-met-irl/86830/30 "2001-10-12T01:43:58Z")
**Doobieous** Then shortly after that, I met most of the rest of the famous BADs. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-first-doper-you-met-irl/86830/31 "2001-10-12T02:05:13Z")
**Geobabe**!!! She was wearing her Straight Dope T-shirt! She had gathered unto her **RTFirefly, Peta Tzunami** , and **pldennison**. The loveliest birthday present a Doper could ask for. [sub]there I go with the flirt again[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Pammipoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/87869e/32.png) [@Pammipoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pammipoo)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-first-doper-you-met-irl/86830/32 "2001-10-12T03:43:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Pantellerite \* > \*\*The _only_ doper I’ve met IRL is **Fillet** , at last year’s GSA meeting in Reno. (I only make it out of town and to a “big city” once a year or so and always for something boring like a professional meeting–anybody gonna be in Boston the first weekend of November?) \*\* I’ll be in Boston, I work there. I’m not sure if I’ll be free to do anything or not, but I’ll show you what little I know of the city if you’d like 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-first-doper-you-met-irl/86830/33 "2001-10-12T03:49:45Z")
That would be **Nu Vo Da Da** when NghtCrwlr and I drove down to Northfield to pick him up for a Dopefest. Later that day, we met **chique** , **Spider Woman** , **imthjckaz** and son, **Rysdad** , and if I’ve left you off, I apologize. Robin ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-first-doper-you-met-irl/86830/34 "2001-10-12T03:55:49Z")
Whoever answered the door the time I went to Chef Troy’s place for the Mardi Gras celebration…I can’t remember who it was, it wasn’t Chef, maybe Zyada? ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-first-doper-you-met-irl/86830/35 "2001-10-12T04:19:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Verrain \* > \*\*I met **Arden Ranger** in the Atlanta airport as we shared a cab to DragonCon. Shorrly thereafter I met **Manhattan** and **Fiver** and we ogled creatively dressed sci-fi women. \*\* And played _Where’s Boba Fett?_ and _OHMYGOD! There’s Claudia!_. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JimOfAllTrades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@JimOfAllTrades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimOfAllTrades)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-first-doper-you-met-irl/86830/36 "2001-10-12T05:38:09Z")
The first (and only, so far) was **Andros** when he was in SLC last year for business. Much like his posts here, he was fun and intelligent. One of these days, the Utah dopers are going to have to get together! Ugly ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-first-doper-you-met-irl/86830/37 "2001-10-12T06:47:30Z")
That would be **StoryTyler**. Tyler was a reg back on the Old SDMB - we had lunch one afternoon in San Francisco, several months before this MB came into existance. She still posts over at Fathom. ---
**Author:** ![Redboss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8baadc/32.png) [@Redboss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redboss)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-first-doper-you-met-irl/86830/38 "2001-10-12T07:36:20Z")
**AKAmame** offered to buy me a beer during a heated boards discussion (we were both on the right side of the argument). We eventually settled for tea at a smart bookshop in Sydney. I was actually nervous at the time, but she was cool. She may not post much but she is a great conversationalist with a very wide range of interests. More fraternising ahead I trust, especially when **pldennison** is in Melbourne soon. ulp! when exactly is he here? I better get busy… Redboss ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-first-doper-you-met-irl/86830/39 "2001-10-12T09:31:54Z")
Met **deb2world** at Edison INTL to cheer on the Angels a couple of weeks ago. ---
**Author:** ![reprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-first-doper-you-met-irl/86830/40 "2001-10-12T10:08:20Z")
**TheLoadedDog** and I met up for a beer (or 6) in the City a few months ago, and it’s way past time we repeated the exercise. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-first-doper-you-met-irl/86830.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-first-doper-you-met-irl/86830.md?page=3)