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.
Mal: Inara, think you could stoop to being on my arm? Inara: Will you wash it first?
'Heart Of Gold'
The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
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
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)
Daisy Jane - Aug 31, 2004 8:03:36 am PDT #1850 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Matt, aren't you AK? That's driving distance from me (granted like a 4-6 hour drive). It seems like those of us in the middle/south aren't really near anyone. Astarte and hayden are the closest to me, and I've only met hayden (and his lovely wife) once there and once up here (though up here, was unfortunately without the lovely wife).
sumi - Aug 31, 2004 8:04:45 am PDT #1851 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
I thought that AK was Alaska -- if AK is Arkansas, what is Alaska?
Daisy Jane - Aug 31, 2004 8:05:45 am PDT #1852 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I could have the wrong abbreviation. I do. AR is the one for Arkansas?
lisah - Aug 31, 2004 8:06:51 am PDT #1853 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
It seems like those of us in the middle/south aren't really near anyone.
Your states are too big!
Signed,
Can drive to 4 other states in about an hour depending on traffic (which is usually bad because we're so freakin' overpopulated here)
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 31, 2004 8:20:36 am PDT #1854 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
AR is for Arkansas, but I'm in Memphis TN now. It's about an 8-hour drive from Dallas if the I-40 Road Construction Gnomes are feeling benevolent.