I get two categories of obner-related comments from the wife:

- "What does the board think about (insert movie / album here)?"
or
- "See if you can find (insert album here)."

most of my real life friends know about my "internet friends," and they think it's kind of funny and probably a little weird, but they're all on friendster and myspace so they kind of get it.

i have not told my new boyfriend about it, although i did show him the smashing pumpkins reuniting thread the other day (just refrained from telling him what he was looking at). if we ever ran in to anyone, i would probably say i knew people from going to shows a lot. honestly, i'm not sure what is the best way to bring it up to him.

i would never tell my parents, they would freak and/or never stop making fun of me.

as far as obners met, i knew robotboy and charli (and spade kitty, sort of) before i joined CMJ. since then i've met cap'n and busty. i think that's it?

i'm sure i'll meet chuck(d) at sxsw and aural if she's still going. i'm not sure who else was going to be there.

Well, first things first -- find out if your S.O. is a furry. And then when the indignation resides, you can tell them you're not into that stuff...but you do have some friends from the internet.

It was actually pretty funny... when I was down in the LA area in November for a training seminar, I had made plans to meet up with puma and Aural (didn't know billy g was coming til later). My husband asked me about them, like he was worried they were going to chop me up into bits, so I gave him their cell numbers as a fallback... so puma and Aural, if you ever screw with me, the cops might come calling, ha ha! He knows about the board and how much fun I have with it. He might be leery if I started bringing guys around the house, saying, "This is so-and-so... you know, one of the guys on obner?"

See, my now ex boyfriend and my now husband were/are members of the board.

So it's never been weird for me. Well, I do have to be more careful about answering certain posts in threads. Some stuff has to stay secret you know.

Ive met a handful of people from here- NYC and Chicago based ppl... nice people, but bad taste in music;)

Is that so?


howzitgoin?

Todd, see other post (babies babies...) c-section on Monday... oh and I may be back in Chitown this year for the same conference.. during which we drink scotch and play pool. You are welcome (as is Spade).. things otherwise couldnt be better..

Let me know the exact dates well in advance and I will make sure I'm there!

who do you think you are?

Hey I'm an international dignitary with diplomatic immunity

DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY!

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Proof. I think that other than the people that I knew pre-Obner, I've only met TinyE, Drinky, and DiscoStu....

TinyE, you really ARE tiny! Either that or Yail and Derris are giants.

I'm generally unopposed to ghey adoption, but I have to think that the only way Child and Family Services would have allowed this would have been that palms were greased.

He he...

Not for nothin, but yail's up-turned thumb and face are both screamin "i fuh" there.

I can see that... But, damn, any offspring that would result from that fuh'ing would be one bad eyed muh'fuh.

haha! i didn't know you gave him our cell #'s. that's funny.

most of my friends don't care if i know people from other internet sites because they do the same thing via myspace and other msg bb's.

No worries... he doesn't have the numbers anymore and would never have called them. It was just my way of making him feel okay about me going out with people I "met" on the internet.

I think my whole expression is screaming "lets get out of here and hit a rail"

if i had known it was going to be so long before i saw cap'n and busty again, i would have demanded a picture.

We'll fix it soon, I promise. But we're both hermits.

Happy home lives + job/school = shut-ins.

That's pretty much what I was gonna say. Derris looks BLEARY.