# Wow! The places that you run into dopers! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 2, 2000, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-the-places-that-you-run-into-dopers/35358 "2000-10-02T17:18:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Oicu812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f475e1/32.png) [@Oicu812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oicu812)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-the-places-that-you-run-into-dopers/35358/1 "2000-10-02T17:18:23Z")
For those that didn’t catch my earlier thread, I belong to a Medieval / Renaissance re-enactment group, known as the Society for Creative Anachronism, SCA for short. Anyway, this last Saturday evening, I was talking with a group of people at this small event, when I heard someone mention the Straight Dope Message Board. Surprised, I took up conversation with the lady, who turns out to be **screech-owl**! Thanks, milady for the wonderful conversation, and will you be attending Baronial Bash this upcoming weekend? O * * * vidi vici veni! ---
**Author:** ![SaxFace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SaxFace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaxFace)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-the-places-that-you-run-into-dopers/35358/2 "2000-10-02T17:29:57Z")
I know what you mean. I’ve run into Biggirl (aka Pink Slinky) on the subway and on the street. It’s always a treat and it makes one feel sooooo popular. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-the-places-that-you-run-into-dopers/35358/3 "2000-10-02T17:39:59Z")
You are right! It was an odd place to run into a fellow Doper. Conversation was wonderful, and perhaps there may be some more potential members. :cue eerie music: :whispered: weeeee’re evvvvverywheeeere! Not sure about attending the event this weekend. The Orlando-UCF ShakespeareFest is up and running “The Woman in Black” (well worth the drive to Orlando) and I am helping them get ready for the next show, “Complete History of America, Abridged (New Expanded Condensed Millenium Edition)”. Not to mention a heck of a lot of other theatre things in town (October 16th reading of “Eleanor of Aquitaine”) and my regular job, as well as trying to get all the garb washed and dry-cleaned and studying for my herald’s examination and a few backlog scrolls to finish. But maybe if my brand-new car doesn’t break down like the last time driving from Wyvernwood to Swamp Keype, we’ll see. Any other Dopers involved with SCA? Known World people, make yourselves heard! ---
**Author:** ![Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-the-places-that-you-run-into-dopers/35358/4 "2000-10-02T17:47:28Z")
Another SCAdian Doper checks in. Hey I think that we are in the same kingdom too! VIVAT!!! ---
**Author:** ![Oicu812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f475e1/32.png) [@Oicu812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oicu812)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-the-places-that-you-run-into-dopers/35358/5 "2000-10-02T17:50:54Z")
Perspiring minds want to know… O * * * vidi vici veni! ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-the-places-that-you-run-into-dopers/35358/6 "2000-10-02T17:51:32Z")
VIVAT! TRIMARIS! VIVAT! TRIMARIS! VIVAT! TRIMARIS! **BOOM!** Glad to see another raptorial around here! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-the-places-that-you-run-into-dopers/35358/7 "2000-10-02T17:59:50Z")
It’s true—I was dumping body parts in the Gowanus Canal at 3:00 in the morning, and there were Ukulele Ike, PLDennison and Vanilla doing the exact same thing! Did we have a good laff! ---
**Author:** ![Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-the-places-that-you-run-into-dopers/35358/8 "2000-10-02T18:08:37Z")
Good Gentles, I am Maura of Amurgorod. I am still working on my persoana and a surname or byname but I am living on the Isle of Man during the last quarter of the 14th century. I was not at either of the events happening this past weekend though. Perhaps there should be a Trimarian Doper get together at a kingdom event sometime? ---
**Author:** ![Oicu812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f475e1/32.png) [@Oicu812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oicu812)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-the-places-that-you-run-into-dopers/35358/9 "2000-10-02T18:21:55Z")
And it is funny that you mention Amurgorod! I was one of the founding members of the Shire, circa 1987. Rurik still there? And who is now the seneschal? O * * * vidi vici veni! ---
**Author:** ![Oicu812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f475e1/32.png) [@Oicu812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oicu812)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-the-places-that-you-run-into-dopers/35358/10 "2000-10-02T18:24:35Z")
Just what type of “_BODY PARTS_” are you referring to, Miss Eve? O * * * vidi vici veni! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-the-places-that-you-run-into-dopers/35358/11 "2000-10-02T18:37:00Z")
Just what type of “BODY PARTS” are you referring to, Miss Eve? —Well, I never encase the head in concrete and dump it. Heads is good eatin’! ---
**Author:** ![Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-the-places-that-you-run-into-dopers/35358/12 "2000-10-02T18:45:23Z")
No, Master Rurik had left the Shire before I found it. Our current seneschal is Lady Becca deEmmerling. VIVAT TRIMARIS!! VIVAT TRIMARIS!!! VIVAT TRIMARIS!!! BOOM!!! ---
**Author:** ![Oicu812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f475e1/32.png) [@Oicu812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oicu812)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-the-places-that-you-run-into-dopers/35358/13 "2000-10-02T18:51:49Z")
😉 ---
**Author:** ![Oicu812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f475e1/32.png) [@Oicu812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oicu812)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-the-places-that-you-run-into-dopers/35358/14 "2000-10-02T18:56:34Z")
Well, in case you are wondering, Kestrel, my Society name is Lord Daffydd ap Gryffn, and I usually wear Templar garb, so you will know who to acost next time we are at the same event. Are you going to Baronial, or is Martinmass your next event? O * * * vidi vici veni! ---
**Author:** ![Oicu812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f475e1/32.png) [@Oicu812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oicu812)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-the-places-that-you-run-into-dopers/35358/15 "2000-10-02T19:35:51Z")
Make that “whom” and “accost”… I was suffering from a nap-attack… O ---
**Author:** ![Tymp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Tymp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tymp)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-the-places-that-you-run-into-dopers/35358/16 "2000-10-02T20:10:44Z")
Now that you mention it, I seem to run into the same doper almost every freakin’ day! The bastard, **Nen** keeps coming into my house, drinking beer, eating food, and petting cats. He acts like he lives there! He’s even moved furniture into the place. Also, I end up talking to his wife, another doper who goes by the handle **lilah** , every couple of days. I can’t escape the influence of the Straight Dope even in the privacy of my own home! ---
**Author:** ![Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-the-places-that-you-run-into-dopers/35358/17 "2000-10-02T23:46:53Z")
I’m not planning on going to Baronial Bash but I’ll be at Martinmass. I just have to see how Bytor goes out. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2000, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-the-places-that-you-run-into-dopers/35358/18 "2000-10-03T02:27:36Z")
> [@](#): > > —Well, I never encase the head in concrete and dump it. Heads is good eatin’! **Eve** - do you make head cheese with the left-overs? ---
**Author:** ![Oicu812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f475e1/32.png) [@Oicu812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oicu812)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2000, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-the-places-that-you-run-into-dopers/35358/19 "2000-10-03T11:14:50Z")
MMmmmmmm Long-Pork chitlins! O * * * vidi vici veni!