# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Pucette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@Pucette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pucette)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-first-doper-you-met-irl/86830/41 "2001-10-12T13:12:02Z")
I _think_, and I might very well be mistaken, but I seem to remember that I met **Rasa** and **oldscratch** before the big NYC January Dopefest. Man my memory is shot… ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-first-doper-you-met-irl/86830/42 "2001-10-12T13:15:31Z")
**Silo** gave me a lift to my first Dopefest, so it’d be him. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-first-doper-you-met-irl/86830/43 "2001-10-12T13:41:15Z")
It was **Mullinator** , **Mjollnir** , **Rosebud** and whomever else was at that place in Peachtree Center back in June 2000. They didn’t really know me, I didn’t really know them at the time; I barely remember it at all, except of course for meeting **Rosebud**. ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-first-doper-you-met-irl/86830/44 "2001-10-12T14:38:48Z")
TVeblen and ChrisCTP for drinks at a local pub…don’t ask about the giant inflatable penis™ ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-first-doper-you-met-irl/86830/45 "2001-10-12T15:25:08Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Jomo Mojo \* > **RTFirefly** ,_\* Peta Tzunami\*\*, and **pldennison**. The loveliest birthday present a Doper could ask for. They are lovely, are they not? (For once, I’m not going to take the bait. Somebody call _Ripley’s_.) Those three are among the first Dopers I met, at a DC 'fest last year. Others present were **John Corrado** , **Lucretia** , **Bluesman** , **Weirddave** (tho he wasn’t capitalized back then), **Wendell Wagner** and **Attrayant** ( **Opus** at the time). ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-first-doper-you-met-irl/86830/46 "2001-10-13T06:41:18Z")
**hedra** , at the [Philly Dopefest](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=51167) we sponsored. 😉 Esprix ---
**Author:** ![Rosebud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rosebud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rosebud)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-first-doper-you-met-irl/86830/47 "2001-10-13T22:50:58Z")
Also in attendance in Altanta, June 2000 were **StarTrekker777** (I know I’m not spelling that right :(, but I haven’t seen him around in a while and I bet if I do a search on “Star” to get the right spelling, I’ll be here all day) and a couple of friends, like my Kat, who came along for the hell of it. Then there was the NYC January 2001 Dopefest, featuring a whole lotta people I barely got to speak to as well as some I actually managed to chat with for more than three seconds. The latter group included **Billdo** , **Silo** and **Zebra**. I also recall sitting near **delphica** and I think **Sua Sponte** at Chumley’s,a brief chat with **Green Bean** , being introduced to **quietgirl** via the picture **andygirl** passed around and having none other than **Cecil Adams** himself attempt to get into the ladies’ room. While I was in there. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-first-doper-you-met-irl/86830/48 "2001-10-13T23:01:04Z")
**UncleBeer** and I had dinner and a handful of beers about a year or so ago when he was in town on business. Since then I have met **spoke, Fiver, and Lsura** at our lame attempts for Atlanta gatherings. (Not lame people, but lame that we can’t ever get a large rowdy crowd together.) ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-first-doper-you-met-irl/86830/49 "2001-10-19T21:40:41Z")
I knew **PuRpLe PrIdE** and **Spider Woman** , before they, or I, were members of the SDMB. So that means the first doper I met irl, was **chique** , after Spider Woman found out that another Doper lived in St Cloud. We had dinner with her and talked about the SDMB. Of course, this was before she became a fugitive from the law, and changed her name from **sandyr**. [sub]uh oh, maybe I wasn’t supposed to say that[/sub] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-first-doper-you-met-irl/86830.md?page=2)