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09-21-2012, 12:46 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: NC
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Zero. But I do feel I "know" some people here reasonably well. I most certainly know more about some members here than some of my real neighbors...ain't technology grand.
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09-21-2012, 02:55 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Eastern WV Panhandle
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None, but I would like to if there's ever a meetup outside one of those loathsome big cities.
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09-21-2012, 02:59 PM
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#43
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Lawn chair in Texas
Posts: 14,183
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Originally Posted by Walt34
None, but I would like to if there's ever a meetup outside one of those loathsome big cities.
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Welp, Dallas is off the list... 
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09-21-2012, 03:45 PM
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#44
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 2,985
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I refuse to join any group that would have me as a member.
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09-21-2012, 04:00 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 723
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One, but now that I think about it she was probably the one that told me about this forum!
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09-21-2012, 04:20 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 47,500
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I guess it is due to living in a tourist town in a fairly central location, or for some maybe my lovely former Eva Habermann avatar, but anyway about 1-2 dozen members passing through town have contacted me and suggest that we meet. I said "no" to all of them, even to several that I greatly respect, admire, and like. I have met nobody from the forum IRL.
That has nothing whatsoever to do with my opinion of any of them, and everything to do with my INTJ personality. I am just not the social butterfly type and would rather read your posts than eat lunch with you. 
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09-21-2012, 05:04 PM
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gone traveling
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Eastern PA
Posts: 3,851
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Quote:
Originally Posted by W2R
I am just not the social butterfly type and would rather read your posts than eat lunch with you.
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Illusion usually trumps reality  ...
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09-21-2012, 06:26 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Collin County, TX
Posts: 9,296
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I've met a couple of forum members and am open to meeting others...
....and you're right MuirWannabe, ' Of course, imagination is almost always better than reality.'
That's why I insist on buying lunch to soften the devastating blow of reality. After all, I don't wear my stiletto boots to the meeting, I usually wear sandals.
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09-21-2012, 06:27 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Bossier City
Posts: 2,183
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Originally Posted by Dawg52
Zero. In fact I have never met anyone that I have crossed paths with on the internet.
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While I haven't met anybody from this forum (yet), I did meet 3 new fishing buds on a bass fishing forum several years back. One of them has since died, and one I see only rarely anymore, but the third guy is now my most regular fishing bud. We've fished a bunch together and most likely will keep that going.
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09-21-2012, 06:35 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 47,500
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bbbamI
....and you're right MuirWannabe, 'Of course, imagination is almost always better than reality.'
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Wow - - I have met people from the internet quite a few times, just not from this forum and not lately. And 100% of the time, they were exactly what I thought they would be like, and vice versa. This doesn't say anything good at all about my capacity for imagination, or for inspiring the imagination of others!
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Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost in its unshored, harbourless immensities. - - H. Melville, 1851.
Happily retired since 2009, at age 61. Best years of my life by far!
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09-21-2012, 06:47 PM
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#51
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 5,596
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None. I'm an INTJ. Extreme on the "I" part. One reason I retired. Not one who wants to meet many people.
Open to meeting some of the pets of members though ;-)
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09-21-2012, 06:49 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 47,500
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Purron
None. I'm an INTJ. Extreme on the "I" part. One reason I retired. Not one who wants to meet many people.
Like to meet some of the pets of members though ;-)
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+100,000!!
Well, minus the pets. Some of our members might have big dogs that would scare me.
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Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost in its unshored, harbourless immensities. - - H. Melville, 1851.
Happily retired since 2009, at age 61. Best years of my life by far!
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09-21-2012, 06:56 PM
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#53
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 5,596
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09-21-2012, 07:20 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: near Canadian border and near Mexican border
Posts: 1,142
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Two. Willing to meet others if no great effort is involved.
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09-21-2012, 07:37 PM
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#55
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 7,746
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Just 1 person. Would meet up again with this person (hope to some day!) or other regulars from the forum.
There are a few local posters that have stated they live in the same city as me, but I have never gotten up the motivation to contact them and suggest a meet up.
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Retired in 2013 at age 33. Keeping busy reading, blogging, relaxing, gaming, and enjoying the outdoors with my wife and 3 kids (8, 13, and 15).
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09-21-2012, 07:39 PM
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#56
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Southern Louisiana
Posts: 519
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None that I know of. I am not against meeting with others but just have not had the chance. I wouldn't initiate the contact either.
There's just something about a forum that says you should remain anonymous.
I will say that some of the characters on this forum would be fun to meet with though.
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09-22-2012, 07:07 AM
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Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Sarasota,fl.
Posts: 11,447
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I have met two members . They were both lovely people .
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09-22-2012, 09:50 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 102
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My guess is that the group of forum members who are interested in physically meeting other forum members correlates with the group that have posted their (real) picture here.
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09-22-2012, 08:56 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Oahu
Posts: 26,860
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Grainiac
... correlates with the group that have posted their (real) picture here.
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Judging from my small survey, um... no.
It just shows that they're able to post a photo, perhaps taken during their life, maybe even of them.
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09-22-2012, 11:04 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 102
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nords
Judging from my small survey, um... no.
It just shows that they're able to post a photo, perhaps taken during their life, maybe even of them.
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Hmm. I'm able but not willing. Ether to meet or post a picture.
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