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Nutty - Aug 30, 2004 12:11:27 pm PDT #1840 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

My (admittedly limited) experience with Munchausen by Internet is that there are tell-tales. To pick on Betsy (sorry Betsy):

  • Betsy would become sick, and possibly become aggressively passive about it.
  • If she were really elaborate, Betsy would chronicle a disease in the most detailed fashion possible, including the rarest and direst symptoms, all the while failing to chronicle any real-world effects this disease was having on her attention span, energy, motivation to wash dishes, and other mundane details of life.
  • Betsy would announce in advance that she was going into the hospital.
  • Betsy (or her "family member") would not respond to email queries about what hospital/phone #/times to visit.

I'm sure there are other tell-tales, but the Buffistas luckily are world-travelers and inveterate hospital-visitors. (The first example of which I recall is Gar going to visit David's ex, Gar never having met David or the ex, solely because she was in hospital in a new city and would probably be lonely and freaked. That's the kind of Buffista mitzvah action I love to read about!)

...with apologies to Betsy, her "family member", and sundry.

Betsy HP - Aug 30, 2004 12:24:23 pm PDT #1841 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

I'm safe on the "family member": the Bay Area Buffistas have met him. And them, for that matter.

Nutty - Aug 30, 2004 12:38:56 pm PDT #1842 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

That's true (so have I!). Still, I feel the need to apologize for referring to any real person with air quotes.

Oh, he's your "husband". Ri-i-i-ight.

Consuela - Aug 30, 2004 12:43:33 pm PDT #1843 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Oh, he's your "husband". Ri-i-i-ight.

Suhnerk.

DXMachina - Aug 30, 2004 12:49:25 pm PDT #1844 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Hey, Victor, meet "Cindy."

libkitty - Aug 30, 2004 2:29:40 pm PDT #1845 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs

Hmmm...now I feel duty bound to visit any buffista within a reasonable distance, and their friends and family members, just so we can all be sure that we're real. Darn.

Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 30, 2004 3:13:32 pm PDT #1846 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Hmmm...now I feel duty bound to visit any buffista within a reasonable distance, and their friends and family members, just so we can all be sure that we're real. Darn.

Heh. It's such an onerous burden.

I do think that the unusually tight-knit community and our predilection for face-to-face gatherings helps a lot in this regard. Even for posters such as myself that live out of driving distance of their fellows, there are generally enough people with real-world means of contact that if we were to suddenly disappear from the board, someone would be able to find out what happened.

SailAweigh - Aug 30, 2004 3:24:14 pm PDT #1847 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

And we make such a big deal of where we're going, who we're seeing, there'd be a paper trail miles long. It's not something that I even worry about when it comes to the members of this board.

quester - Aug 30, 2004 5:00:16 pm PDT #1848 of 10001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

I'm just as imaginary as you all are.

sfmarty - Aug 31, 2004 8:00:32 am PDT #1849 of 10001
Who? moi??

Hey Betsy, remember Hammer? (The emotion vampire of GEnie)

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