Here's a question, mostly for the lurkers: how do you refer to stuff you learn here @ b.org to non-buffistas? I have started so many sentences with "I just saw/read this really interesting thing, and..." and then I realize I have no good way to explain who ya'll are. My hubby knows, but most of my friends and coworkers don't get the concept of such an online community ("No, it's NOT like FB!"), and I'm reduced to mumbling, then quickly changing the subject. Of course, that hasn't kept me from dropping hints to new kewl people I meet, in wild hopes that they might already be a buffista. Is there a secret handshake we should know about?

Totally, dude. It's like one of the Bitches is an actual bitch. Those steaks were awesome, yeah.

I have started so many sentences with "I just saw/read this really interesting thing, and..."

That's pretty much how I do it. Also, some really good stories happen to "a friend of a friend."

With co-workers, I can usually get away with "I saw [x] on the internet" or "A friend sent me this link."

how do you refer to stuff you learn here @ b.org to non-buffistas?

If I'm linking on my LJ, I actually say "from the Buffistas" because, well, there are like only three people who read my LJ anyway, so it's mostly for me.

In everyday conversation, it's usually "a discussion board on the Internet."

I outed my b.org-ness to my friend in NY, who won't even sign up for Facebook. Once he got over the initial shock, he was like, "I never realized you were such a geek."

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"A friend sent me this link."

That is my fallback.

I usually say something like, "Hey, a friend of mine..."

But, you know, most of my peeps are online.

I'll tell my sister I "saw it on the board," but my mom will get the generic "I saw this" because if I tell her all the stuff I learn here, she starts to ask "Well, how much time do you spend on that board, anyway?!?"

Here's a question, mostly for the lurkers: how do you refer to stuff you learn here @ b.org to non-buffistas?

I'll attribute if I'm linking to other people in fandom, but generally I just dazzle people with my knowledge without bothering to explain how I learned it. Mostly because half the time it's something I looked up while I was writing slash, like how the original Batman TV series has never been released on VHS or DVD because of complicated legal and rights issues.

Back when being on the internet was weird, my standard way of explaining how I knew a Buffista was "mutual friends".

I'm Vortex, I think that I was the original Stephanie. I started posting in 1997 when you HAD to use your real name on Table Talk. I never minded because my real name is ridiculously common, in fact I had to use my middle initial because there was already one of me on Table Talk.

I found the Buffistas through a side link on an unrelated article that I was reading on Salon, and there went my tribe. I probably lurked for, oh, 5 minutes or so before jumping in, as I am the shy type.

My current moniker is short for "Vortex of Drama", as the drama always seems to be around me, but I'm not actually involved, thank goodness. I'm thinking about changing it, if for no other reason than a consistent online presence, but, you know, effort.

The Buffistas have been with me and there for me through good times and bad, like when I was working for the evil law firm fondly referred to as "Wolfram and Hart East" or the recent loss of my father (the love that poured through the interwebs was palpable and helped more than you all will ever know).

I love olives and muffulettas (I was just in NO and had the original muffuletta at Central Grocery), cilantro (although I once had it in a Thai restaurant where it was soapy, but that was an aberration (and a scare, I thought that you all had ruined cilantro for me forever) ), and the serial comma.

I am confused by this one space after sentences thing, this is the first I've ever heard of it. I'm old school, two spaces, man! But, I full justify everything, so spacing is relative to me anyway.

Even though I voted for the thread (does anyone else want to know who the lone "no" was?), I forgot it was here until billytea got COMMed, and waded through the 400 plus posts to get here.

I'm known for my quick wit (by me at least), my fearsome temper if you have wronged me or someone I love, my spoiler nazi tendencies, my impeccable taste in food and drink (especially drink), and last, but not least, my prodigious boobage (see tagline).