My mom loves my "Buffy friends." She's met quite a few of them and loves our friendships. As soon as she realized you were real people and not axe murderers, she was all in. My dad was somewhat bemused by the concept (he's become more and more of a lovable curmudgeon the older he's gotten), but he, too, has come around finally and is utterly unfazed when I talk about seeing/staying with/confiding in you all. Of course, given the board is how I met their son-in-law, they're pretty well convinced it's a good place full of good (if weird, in the best possible way) people.

Congrats, msbelle and mac!

lori and ita DID get a little scary with the rifle that time....

Bobcat vs Optimus Prime at the B'ham Zoo. I take sucky video, but you get the gist.

lori and ita DID get a little scary with the rifle that time....

UNLOADED.

Plus, I can totally kill with my bare hands.

FWIW.

HOW DID WE KNOW.

And I figured I'd have to piss you off in scrabble or something for you to try to kill me with your bare hands...

FWIW, never play UNO with me.

My mom loves my "Buffy friends." She's met quite a few of them and loves our friendships.

Heh. My mom has met Buffistas WITHOUT ME (Trudy and megan walker were in Vermont the same time as my mom and stepdad, and they all met up at my bro's restaurant).

(If anyone else has met my mom without me also being there, please speak up now.)

I haven't met your mom, Teppy, but my cousin Buffy (and her wife) has met vwbug and I haven't yet.

And now for a totally different topic -- just so I'm sure I understand the meaning of the term, "code-switching" is using more than one language in the same sentence/conversation, and using the languages such that they're grammatically and syntactically correct?

Like, "I was not avec Trudy and megan when they met my mom" -- is *that* code-switching?

I haven't met your mom, Teppy, but my cousin Buffy (and her wife) has met vwbug and I haven't yet.

It's still so weird to me that you were in my city while I was here -- and the location you were at was less than 10 minutes from my apartment, but since it was a day I could NOT leave the office under pain of firing, and my office is ~25 minutes away, we couldn't meet up.

That still kills me.

My sister hung out with Alibelle in the UK. She was all pissed because I hadn't told Ali her name. Except she was calling Ali her real name, and I had no idea who she was talking about, since I call Ali Ali to her face too.

I have no fucking idea how I hooked those two up together, if I couldn't introduce them to each other.

My sister has also dated other internet people I've introduced her to, so she's pretty okay with me socialising this way. Pays off for her.

FWIW, never play UNO with me.

Duly noted.