Please lurkers, come out and play!
And one of those benefits of being a writer is that so much is done online, I can use "online friends" and no one questions me anymore.
Yesterday, my life's like, 'Uh-oh, pop quiz!' Today it's like, 'rain of toads.'
Xander ,'Beneath You'
Delurking 1: Because we don't always check our e-mail.
Barb - Oct 06, 2009 5:09:59 pm PDT #707 of 3094
“Not dead yet!”
d - Oct 06, 2009 5:31:00 pm PDT #708 of 3094
It's nice to see some brave pretenders trying to make it interesting.
I refer to my knowledge as learned from the "online message board".
I think I shocked poor Sox's mom when she asked me how I knew her daughter and I replied that I met her online. It was kind of fun. My mom makes her own friends from the internet, and my dad picks up people on planes and brings them home for dinner, so they are not bemused by references to the board. Facebook, on the other hand...
askye - Oct 06, 2009 5:36:20 pm PDT #709 of 3094
Thrive to spite them
My Mom knows about the Buffistas, I've told her about all about y'all and showed her pictures (especially of the cutie head Buffista sprog). When I went to the first F2F it wasn't weird because I'd actually gone to meet some people online in DC before. That online community fell apart (partly because the forum owner got pissy and flounced off with the website).
When TT was not going to be an option was I really worried that things would fall apart but luckily there were plans and we've grown.
Also that other online forum looked a lot like the way TT and now b.org does so I had a really hard time getting used to other formats. So I was really glad we stuck with this.
sarameg - Oct 06, 2009 5:45:32 pm PDT #710 of 3094
I've invited buffistas to my parents' for Xmas morning! Kat and lori had xmas dinner with us.
P.M. Marc - Oct 06, 2009 5:47:02 pm PDT #711 of 3094
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I can always claim I met Sox at Sparky's wedding! Which is also where I met Sparky.
Steph L. - Oct 06, 2009 5:56:14 pm PDT #712 of 3094
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Buffistas hung out with my mom and stepdad in a whole other state, while I was back home in Ohio! My mom and stepdad were in Vermont on vacation, and megan walker and Trudy were also in Vermont, and they all planned to meet up at my brother's restaurant (Trudy had met my mom when she previously visited Cincinnati, so it wasn't a totally out-of-the-blue thing).
Trudy Booth - Oct 06, 2009 5:56:46 pm PDT #713 of 3094
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Because it's the Buffistas, I knew it wouldn't be long before someone mentioned the other way.
And risk pregnancy ?
Vortex - Oct 06, 2009 6:01:15 pm PDT #714 of 3094
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Whoo!! Look at the size of Vortex's Oxford comma!
almost as big as my busoms.
Trudy Booth - Oct 06, 2009 6:02:48 pm PDT #715 of 3094
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Buffistas hung out with my mom and stepdad in a whole other state, while I was back home in Ohio! My mom and stepdad were in Vermont on vacation, and megan walker and Trudy were also in Vermont, and they all planned to meet up at my brother's restaurant (Trudy had met my mom when she previously visited Cincinnati, so it wasn't a totally out-of-the-blue thing).
All part of my elaborate white slavery axe murder plan. Just FYI.
beekaytee - Oct 06, 2009 6:13:14 pm PDT #716 of 3094
Compassionately intolerant
Well, I didn't know I was dyslexic until really late.
Skipping a couple dozen to claim Seska as my sistah! When I was a kid, there was a different technical term for it...'stupid.'
No joke, it wasn't until Cher started talking about dyslexia that anybody put 2 and 3 together to look into what caused my slow reading, mixing up letters, leaving out portions of sentences, etc.
One college professor, bless him, used to drop my bluebooks, ungraded, on my desk with a time when I was required to verbally tell him what I knew.
Most other instructors just shook their heads and tsked, "How can someone so smart be so..."
In a way, I'm glad. I'm not sure I would have taken to the accommodations my faux son uses now. Plus, I work really hard to figure things out.