Bob mentioned recently that because of the nature of the BB, we may all be having conversations with people who don't exist, except as multiple pseudonyms for the same person. We can all remember several examples of those who do this on purpose, some for evil intent, some not. I myself have a second pseudonym here that I trot out very occasionally, on dune related topics.
So, I thought it would be nice to create a list of verifiably real people. To be real, you need to have been physically met by two or more other hatrackers who can attest to your existence. A list of your witnesses is required. Those able to produce such a list are automatically granted more credibility in the hatrack community. I have decreed it as the lizard king, and thus it is law.
My personal list of witnesses to my existence:
Sarfa Dean Perfect Gentleman AKA DocMagic OrsonScottCard kacard GeoffCard Richard Berg OlavMah PapaMoose Olivet CalebVarns FlyingCow Jenny Gardener Edited to add: Mr. Flibble Deirdre Ralphie POD
If you should be on my list, and for some reason I have forgotten you, please let me know and I will edit.
I hope this thread helps us keep straight who really exists, and who is just a figment of someone's twisted sociology experiment .
Lizard King out
[ April 02, 2003, 01:52 PM: Message edited by: Slash the Berzerker ]
Posted by NdRa (Member # 2295) on :
I attended endercon. Do I really have to list every hatracker I've ever met?
Posted by Slash the Berzerker (Member # 556) on :
Well, at least two of them.
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
But Slash, I've never met ANY of those people in RL.
How do I know that any of you exist?
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
I and my wife and child were probably met by hundreds at Endercon. I am not going to list them here, for they are many. They might even be named Legion, like Geoff's bicycle. In addition to Endercon folk, my existence can also be verified by Slash, OlavMah, Dean, Perfect Gentleman, Jacare (non-Sorridente), and DocMagic. Eddie Whiteshoes theoretically saw me, but did not approach and introduce himself, so I cannot verify his existence.
--Pop
Posted by David Bowles (Member # 1021) on :
Leto and Lead. Patrick and Pod have both heard my voice over the phone.
Posted by Slash the Berzerker (Member # 556) on :
Strider:
My hope is that we can create a network of cross verifications. That way, even those who have never met each other can be sure of the others existence through a complex series of associations. I've met papamoose, who met leto, who met you, and so on.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
EnderCon folk Amka pepperuda Dante ladyday Irami The Cards
Posted by NdRa (Member # 2295) on :
Well, it's probably more fun to list all you people that I have met. The list will make me elite, and I can use it to get into hoity toity restraunts that require a list of who's who to get in.
Jeni, Leto, Papa Moose, Mama Squirrel, Ladyday, Katharina, Pod, Jaiden, Aretee, Patrick, Zevlag, Marce, Orson Card, Kcard, Geoffery Card, Ronin, Calvinmaker, Ela, JaneX, Shlomo, Irami, Amka, Chris Kidd, Ladydove, Analog Kid, Theca, Miro. I'm sure I'm forgetting someone.
edit: to add on to list
[ April 02, 2003, 12:45 PM: Message edited by: NdRa ]
Posted by Javert (Member # 3076) on :
Well, I've met OrsonScottCard...and I know Eyes from the Virtual Battle School.
Does that count? Do I exist??? Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
I can also verify that Kevin Bacon exists, but only indirectly.
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Olivet aka Belle porcelain girl Ladyday KarlEd Miro Paul Goldner Pod Fernando Martinez Ela Shlomo JaneX OrsonScottCard kacard (though I think they don't know who I am. Kristine told porce I was a nice girl but thought I was brunette while I am most distinctively blond. )
...there SHOULD be more on the list, stupid Northwest Airlines.
Edited because I'm a dolt and forgot the hosts.
[ April 02, 2003, 12:44 PM: Message edited by: mackillian ]
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
I have met personally:
OSC kacard
(I assume they are unimpeachable)
plus: Icarus Cor their daughters
Chris_Bridges & his wife
zgator & his wife
Ela & her husband JaneX Shlomo Narrativium pH
dkw (and she's a woman of the cloth, so you know she'd never lie!)
Posted by cyruseh (Member # 1120) on :
hmm, the only ones ive met in real life were kacard and OrsonScottCard... though they might not remember me since it was at a book signing...
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
ok, well even though i think this is silly and just a way for people to flaunt who they met , I'll play along.
I've met Leto and Frisco on multiple occasions. As well as whoever else was at Grenmecon: Icarus, Cor, Leonide, Coil. I forget what Leonide's sister's screen name is. But she was there.
Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
Heh. Only other jatraquero who can verify my existence is my wife. Posted by msquared (Member # 4484) on :
I have met the Card at a book signing.
I will met Paul Goldner this summer at the OrneryCon II, as well as his brother.(Unless the world ends before then).
I have met several members of Ornery who can vouch for my existance, but I do not think that they post over on this side.
msquared
Posted by Javert (Member # 3076) on :
Hey, my pic just got on the Hatrack Album. I think that verifies my existance Slash. Posted by msquared (Member # 4484) on :
A pic does not mean you are for real. How do we know that that is really a pic of you. It looked an awful lot like Harrison Ford or Cindy Crawford. You have to actually meet another member.
What happens if someone with several names starts having each name verify that the others exist?
msquared
Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
um, i wonder if i exist! dkw can verify that there is someone who responds to my mailing address and that that person (me, i tell you!) sent her a check. jebus i've spoken to on the phone.
maybe i'm not real!
well, if hobbes exists, he'll be able to validate or invalidate my existance this fall.
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
good point msquared.
i can have upwords of 8 or 9 people verify my existence who for all intents and purposes don't exist themselves.
Posted by Slash the Berzerker (Member # 556) on :
Msquared:
That won't work. See, we are trying to build a cross linked database of names. If one group of names is only verifying the existence of others within that same group, then the entire group is suspect.
Posted by msquared (Member # 4484) on :
I post there for I am.
msquared
Posted by Stanlie (Member # 3333) on :
I've met Katharina and Post Reply.
Posted by Jeni (Member # 1454) on :
Hmmm... I think I've met enough people to be verifiably real.
peekaboo BYuCnslr Carrie Severian Claudia Therese Primal Curve Tom Davidson Vana Lime dkw Ced OSC and about 50 others at Endercon I won't list because I KNOW I would forget a bunch.
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
Slash, you got some sort of database going with all this stuff?
Posted by Tstorm (Member # 1871) on :
I'm not sure this is necessary, but I'll enter to prove my validity. I've never attended the big events, so pardon the short list.
Possum can verify my existence. Plus, I can verify his.
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
MPD!
Posted by zgator (Member # 3833) on :
Icarus Cor Ela and husband Narrativium pH JaneX Shlomo
And there's Bob Scopatz. as well, but he's not really a reputable source.
I wonder how K.A.M.A. is going to handle this one.
Posted by xnera (Member # 187) on :
I've met Vána and Lime.
Posted by Hatrack (Member # 2291) on :
I haven't met any of you.
But you can't tell me I don't exist, because that would mean none of you had ever met, which would also mean that none of you exist.
So there.
Posted by Leonide (Member # 4157) on :
Strider: SingingRing. duh! Posted by porcelain girl (Member # 1080) on :
mack: i have no idea what you are referring to with that kristine comment. seriously. apologies to anyone i leave out below.
i have met: lady day one lucky cricket miro pod flying cow caleb varnes/john keats mackillian risuena frisco naledge dante odouls and i knew eachother before hatrack.
i saw calvinmaker. i've talked on the phone to leto, nndra, and ralphie.
khav was on the same mission as my brother at the same time, they knew of eachother.
i am down with the card family.
i have kissed two hatrackers.
[ April 02, 2003, 05:48 PM: Message edited by: porcelain girl ]
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Hey! How come I'm not on any of these? I was even in the trivia final! If I need to list two people: JaneX, Papa Moose, Pod. That's how important I am.
Hobbes Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
Well, since it has been long ago agreed that I don't exist, there is nothing to handle.
Although, :Locke keeps looking through my window all the time. Is one witness enough?
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
T_Smith popatr Diosmel Duda Damandar hansenj
And of course:
OrsonScottCard kacard
I also saw Geoffrey at a signing, but it was several months before I joined Hatrack, and I was only interested in getting OSC's signature. Sorry, Geoff!
Posted by Leonide (Member # 4157) on :
I have met:
My sister Caitlin(SingingRing) My best friend Alana (TheBlueFairy) neither of them post...ever...
Strider Frisco Leto coil Icarus Cor the Icaracorettes they're honorary Hatrackers, right?
that's the lot 'o' them.
Posted by David Bowles (Member # 1021) on :
zgator:
I thought we'd established on grenme that Kama doesn't exist...
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
yeah, but she's being really stubborn about it.
Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
dangit, hobbes! i did mention you!
*starts to seriously doubt existance*
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Sorry Celia, I meant of existing Hatrackers, plus you said "if he exists" so anyways!
(P.S. My Dad and Grandpa and I are coming to Purdue on the Saturday of Memorial day weekend, I'm not sure we could do something with you, but we might. Are you going to be there?)
[EDIT: Next time I'm using preview post! I promise!]
Hobbes
[ April 02, 2003, 01:38 PM: Message edited by: Hobbes ]
Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
hahahahaha! we bought tickets yesterday. we'll be very far out of town visiting the same people we were visiting last time you were here.
Posted by ludosti (Member # 1772) on :
pepperuda and slacker can both vouch for my physical existence
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Ahh well, it probably wouldn't have worked anyways. Still......
Hobbes Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
Slashy, Dean, Mikey, Alvinender, Richard Berg, Brian Worth, sarfa, Jacob Porter, mac, Pod, Saudade and Andrei, Olivet (with Ron and kids), Ian Ohlander, John Hansen, c.k.dexterhaven (though I didn't know at the time it was her), and Uncle Orson in person.
Talked on the phone many many hours with both Amira and Black Fox. Also spoke on the phone one time to otaku Paul, and on one memorable occasion to Pod's dad and stepmother. <laughs>
I think we need one more category, too. People you've known online quite well for a number of years, who have built up internally consistent pictures of themselves, and who seem in all ways to be real people.
[ April 02, 2003, 01:47 PM: Message edited by: ak ]
Posted by Zevlag (Member # 1405) on :
Hm, I have met a numbers of people, they can vouch that I am real, Jeni, NdRa, Amka, Taalcon, CalvinMaker, Pat, kacard, OrsonScottCard, Geoffery Card, JaneX, Shlomo, Ela, Pod, Jaids, LadyDay, Moose and family, Hobbes, Leto, Lead, aledge.
Bokonon has sent me computer hardware.
Telephone conversation with Paul, and someone else, who was it....
I know I am missing some, I didn't realize I knew so many people...
[ April 02, 2003, 02:18 PM: Message edited by: Zevlag ]
Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
Other witnesses i have are Sheep and my brother Koraxe who posted here once or twice.
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
Well, I know blacwolve and meltingsnowman.
Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :
ack. i've met no one...
Posted by Kama's Teddy (Member # 4435) on :
quote:Other witnesses i have are Sheep and my brother Koraxe who posted here once or twice.
Don't listen to her! It's all a sham!
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
I have met Tom Davidson, Jeni, Vana, Lime, & Bob Scopatz.
I can also verify that I received a check from someone claiming to be Celia, although I haven't met her in person.
Edit: Bob and I can cross-check the Midwestern clump with the Florida clump, and Tom and CT cross check the midwesterners with WenchCon. But did anyone from any of those three groups cross-check with EnderCon, Utah, Oregon or California? It seems like we might have two distinct groups that don't link together.
Edit again: Bob to Icarus to GreNMECon to EnderCon! Yay!
[ April 02, 2003, 02:16 PM: Message edited by: dkw ]
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
anne kate, I REMEMBER that conversation. o_O
Posted by Slash the Berzerker (Member # 556) on :
Anne Kate:
I'm interested in your idea. Who would be on that list for you?
Posted by Vána (Member # 3262) on :
Lime and I have met xnera, Jeni, dkw, and TomDavidson.
They're all very fun people.
Posted by Pod (Member # 941) on :
Okay i know i'm going to forget people, so please remind me if i have!
Chronological order of sorts: Shimmrcat Starsnake Slash the Berzerker Sarfa Olav Mah Porcelian Girl Anne Kate Mackillian LadyDay Everard Jaiden Kathrina Papa Moose Mama Squirrel Mooselet (the pre-hatracker) Nndra Leto II Jeni JaneX Shlomo Ela Zevlag CalvinMaker Hobbes Pat Lead Miro Naledge OSC KCard KathrynHJanitor LadyDove (and family, who are cool) and other assorted EnderCon attendants.
[ April 02, 2003, 02:00 PM: Message edited by: Pod ]
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
I do not exist. These posts are actually the product of a system using 75 SiAs X-Operation Neural parallel processors to simulate the inner workings of an electrical engineer.
Posted by Hatrack (Member # 2291) on :
And it's a poor simulation at that. Electrical engineers are so much cooler than you are.
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
Funnier, too.
Posted by Cassandra (Member # 4566) on :
But . . . I've never met anybody on the forum, and I don't think I will any time soon. That's what being 16 years old and having an overprotective mother does to you.
Does that mean I don't exist? Posted by Slash the Berzerker (Member # 556) on :
Yes. You do not exist.
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
Met:
Frisco Khavanon DeathofBees BYuCnslr Shan Nato Shigosei Narnia
Known for years:
Deidre Mr. Flibbles
Talked on the phone to:
Pod porcelain girl NdRa Patrick
Soon to be added to "met" list:
NdRa porcelain girl Moose and Squirrel Emily Card and whoever else shows up at the SoCal BBQ
Have been personally tortured by:
Slash the Berzerker
[ April 02, 2003, 08:16 PM: Message edited by: Ralphie ]
Posted by Trogdor the Burninator (Member # 4894) on :
I am officially protesting this thread and Slash's use of 'Lizard King.' As everyone knows, I was officially elected Hatrack's Lizard President and as such effectively ruined the career of our onetime Lizard citizen.
I may have a place for you in my cabinet, Slashy boy. Maybe we can work something out.
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
To the best of my knowledge, I have never actually met anyone from Hatrack. I have communicated with several people via e-mail, posted my picture, provided links to my department web site and a technical paper I wrote. Still, I suppose, I don't actually exist.
Posted by Slash the Berzerker (Member # 556) on :
Rabbit, you receive special dispensation from the King, as I can't imagine anyone who isn't real being so much smarter than I am.
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
Slash, how do you know that the Hatrackers you meet in person are really the same people that post on the board? Posted by Chris Kidd (Member # 2646) on :
I meet Ndra and Leto at endercon. I just can't remember the other lady that was with the two of them. I also meet OSC who gave me a strange look when i mentioned i've been writeing at VBS since 97. ;O)
I don't think i talked to, to many people at endecon. Im a sy guy when it comes down to it.
Slash since i only have the minimum of two contacts.does that mean i barely exist. actualy it wouldn't be te first time i was told i was a nobody.
Posted by Jeni (Member # 1454) on :
Ahem.
Edit - I do believe that's one of the only times I've ever been addressed as a lady, though. Assuming you are referring to me.
[ April 02, 2003, 03:53 PM: Message edited by: Jeni ]
Posted by Xaposert (Member # 1612) on :
I would like to point out that my existence remains very much in question.
Posted by Jeni (Member # 1454) on :
In question? I was convinced long ago that you do not exist.
Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
Caleb Varns/John Keats
Posted by Pod (Member # 941) on :
Strangely i forgot to mention that i met Geoff Card. Who was wearing a bicycling helmet and tin foil at the time.
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Fael! And I've met Fael!
Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
I've been confirmed by two or three people, so I will claim boldly that I am. I will attest to the existence of Ralphie & Frisco, and will acknowledge Porce as she is the sister to a fellow I once knew in Arizona, and only she could possibly discover my nickname.
The rest of you are bits and data.
Posted by kwsni (Member # 1831) on :
I've met:
Belle Olivet CT Jenny Gardener Rakeesh Fael Psycho Triad Policyvote
And Celia sent me a game...that probly doesn't count for anything
Ni!
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
I've sent letters. I have pictures.
People who have met me: Amka and Husband Jon Boy Damander Hansenj Diosmal Popatr OSC
And SDG managed to get a glimpse of me.
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
Oh ya, and Pat has my voice on a message... thank goodness he doesn't know how to convert it to an MP3 and share. In case he manages to in the future, just for the record: I hate phones and answering machines.
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
Umm...I'm not real?
I've talked to Pod on the phone. Does that count?
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
Oh! I forgot -- I went to high school with somedeadguy, but we didn't actually know each other.
Kayla, I know you're real. Real enough to break my heart, anyway.
Posted by Doug J (Member # 1323) on :
No credentials.
Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
Slashy, the people I know quite well and have complete confidence in their personhood, whom I've nevertheless never talked to on the phone or met in person are Bernard Yu (BYuCnslr), Richard Chiu (Survivor) and his brother Sam Chiu (Masdibar), Human, Pixie, and now Manuel (Devil will cry for me).
All these are certainly real people. I feel I can vouch for them as well.
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
Man, I'm not even real to aka? Posted by CalvinMaker (Member # 2032) on :
Okay, I won't get into all the 'rackers I met at Endercon and the 2001 Writer's Class cuz I'm positive I'd forget a ton people.
Other than that, I've met Paul, Billie, Risuena, DawnMaria, and Naledge.(Though I met him originally at Endercon.)
Posted by CalvinMaker (Member # 2032) on :
If you have two or more user-names, couldn't you just say you met that person? Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
Well, Kayla, I feel I knew you under another name but this new name I have only talked to you once or twice so I'm not completely sure yet. Posted by ^Saudade^ (Member # 175) on :
I am not real, I am just a figment of your imagination. AKA just seems to hallucinate specially bad.
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
I have witnesses!!
Ralphie Nato Shigosei BYuCnslr DeathofBees Shan Deidre
I truly exist. *sigh of relief*
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
Hmm, I've met fugu and meltingsnowman. And I think fugu can vouch for all of us.
Oh, and I'd love to meet celia if she'd show me around Purdue. Please?
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
I just realized that I have met saxon45, but that probably doesn't count because he isn't real either, being the product of an earlier model Engineer-simulator (one that has only 45 processors). Besides, that's only one and you said we needed at least two.
Posted by Troubadour (Member # 83) on :
This makes it a little hard for overseas Jatraqueros.
However, I have met Ethics Gradient and can confirm that his photo in the album is indeed him.
I can go to some length to confirm my true identity as well.
Take these steps to confirm my indentity:
Go to the website www.cgc.com.au you will find the site of the company I work for.
Go to the "About CGC" button, and choose "Contact/Locations"
You will see a full address, phone number and email for the admin. The adminmel email address.
If you email that address, it will come to me, and I'm willing to reply to any emails. The reply will come back from the address in my profile.
To confirm the company's existence, go to www.whitepages.com.au and do a search on the name "Computer Graphics College" at the address on the site's contact page.
I am also willing to be called by anyone on the number listed.
You can also mail CGC Sydney to confirm MY existence
That'll be the best I can do - but it's pretty good confirmation of my existence, I think.
[ April 02, 2003, 08:28 PM: Message edited by: Troubadour ]
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
I will soon know if NdRa, Mooselet, Mama Squirrel, and Papa Moose are real (though I'm pretty sure Papa Moose was sitting in the front row of my round of the trivia contest, bragging about how he cheated by using the PWeb )
[ April 02, 2003, 08:27 PM: Message edited by: Frisco ]
Posted by Nato (Member # 1448) on :
Ah, I suppose I'm a real Jatraquero after all. I've met a few of you guys and it was ever so much fun.
Posted by Paul Goldner (Member # 1910) on :
I have met LadyDay, Mackillian, Pod, and pH
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
What Paul doesn't mention is that he is hot. Posted by Toranaga-sama (Member # 4966) on :
New, but facts remain:
Human
Toretha
Advaru
...more to come in future, I hope
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Nighthawk Cor zgator Ela JaneX Narrativium Shlomo pH Leto Strider Leonide SingingRing Frisco
And for the record, I have never met "Bob_Scopatz." Posted by KEGE (Member # 424) on :
aka,
I remember years ago when we were all worried about one of your cats who was lost, but came home again. I never realized you were also "ak" but don't think I ever saw you posted as that until today.
People who were real to me back in 1999-2000: TomDavidson, brettly, PieMan, MOTO, userAnnie, dean, annie, aka, Slash (when his sis-in-law left her kids for an internet romance), Hobbes, JohnHansen ...
Posted by Taalcon (Member # 839) on :
Does being mentioned in the afterword to an OSC book prove reality? ;O)
Also, I was seen by MANY at EnderCon, right on stage in the infamous Pweb Mod Skit. I was the 'Student Filmmaker'. The guy who was taping everything all over the con as well. All the Pweb Staff can vouch for me (Amka, Locke, Demosthenes, Zevlag, CalvinMaker, Ssywak, Rahl22, Ethan, and KennEnder, wherever he may be), and many other Jatraqueros as well.
-Taal
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
Icarus...
Remember me? I'm the guy you told Cor you were out with until 4 am the other day...
I'm tired of covering for you.
I'm sure Cor would understand that you really just want to go out and sing karaoke at the Parliament House some nights... She seems pretty cool about that kind of thing.
She might be upset you didn't take her, but then she likes to steal the show whenever karaoke is involved.
Speaking of karaoke.............
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
*sings and snaps fingers* Fly me to the moon...
Posted by SANTA (Member # 580) on :
Everyone should be able to vouch for me! I've been around a long time and if I posted my picture I'm sure you would all recognize me.
PS: The Janitor is helping me with my List ... who's naughty or nice? Posted by Nick (Member # 4311) on :
In the order that Pod posted (except taking out my name and adding his )
Pod LadyDay Kathrina Papa Moose Mama Squirrel Mooselet (the pre-hatracker) Nndra Leto II Jeni JaneX Shlomo Ela Zevlag CalvinMaker Hobbes Pat Lead Miro Naledge OSC KCard KathrynHJanitor LadyDove Geoff Card assorted EnderCon attendants
Posted by JaneX (Member # 2026) on :
*gets out journal with list of Hatrackers and PWebbers she met at EnderCon*
(Yes, I wrote down all the people I met. Shut up. )
People I met at EnderCon:
OrsonScottCard kacard Geoffrey Card KathrynHJanitor Amka Ethan Taalcon Rahl22 ssywak Locke (not :Locke, I mean Locke from PWeb) IdemosthenesI Pod Jaiden ladyday katharina Patrick Jeni NdRa Theca Leto II Zevlag Moose Squirrel Mooselet aretee CalvinMaker Miro Marce al'Meara Luet Crono Ronin LadyDove Hobbes naledge/frescokid Pepek Raventh1 (before he was a Hatracker! ) Chris Kidd (I remember you, even if you don't remember me...)
Quite a list. It's so nice to have a parent on HatCrack...
~Jane~
[ August 06, 2003, 01:30 AM: Message edited by: JaneX ]
Posted by Pod (Member # 941) on :
Oh and i've talked to Kayla on the telephone on a couple occasions. Posted by Pat (Member # 879) on :
Oh fine, you get to talk to Kayla on the phone and I dont.
Posted by Nick (Member # 4311) on :
I would be willing to call anyone past 9:00 PM PST because I get free long distance on my cell phone after then. Posted by Pod (Member # 941) on :
Hey pat, i'm special. And you're not. Its that simple, why can tyou get that?
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
One of these days Patrick.
::shakes fist at sky::
Posted by Pat (Member # 879) on :
Pod:
--I--
Kayla:
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
So, do phone calls count? You know, cause if they do, I'm half real. And to be all the way real, I might even consider calling Patrick. For real. And not just cause I'm trying to track down relatives or anything. Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
Thanks, Ralphie and Narnia for verifying the existence of those of us that attended Oregon's Hatrack get-together.
And if you all don't believe them, just ask my darling son. He'd NEVER tell a lie!
(Unless it had to do with teethbrushing, room cleaning, garbage emptying . . . )
Posted by enjeeo (Member # 2336) on :
I need two, huh?
The only Hatracker I've met personally is Skyweir. Damn, I hate not existing!
quote: Rabbit, you receive special dispensation from the King, as I can't imagine anyone who isn't real being so much smarter than I am.
Hmmmm....maybe the Rabbit is so smart because she is actually a team of experts who consult and then post as one.
*rechecks verifying information* Hmmm...seems okay for now. But we'll be watching you. Posted by Pat (Member # 879) on :
You got the number....
Posted by Troubadour (Member # 83) on :
Hell, I'd be willing to make a call to prove my authenticity, but of course, someone calling me on my listed work-number and asking the secretary for me by name would be more convincing!
Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
I have been privileged to meet Slash the Berserker, Olivet, ladyday, Fael, Belle, Rakeesh, Psycho Triad, kwsni, Claudia Therese, OSC, kacard, Flying Cow, and a few others at Boot Camp/Writing Class 2001 that I'll remember when I see your names.
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
Yes, actually, I do. It's in my stalker notebook. Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
Well, I'm kinda, sorta halfway there - I was at LosCon the year OSC was GoH. Not that he would remember, I was the one in the idea generation panel who kept trying to turn the story we were generating ideas for into a romance. He also signed my copy of Enchantment. But since he wouldn't remember either of those encounters, they probably don't count.
Oh, well. If I can make it to the Southern California BBQ on the 20th, I should have my bona fides to make the list.
I know this doesn't count, but if we could count e-mails, I've corresponded with Belle when I read her play for her church about Daniel, and I've corresponded with enjeeo, khavanon, and others over on the Writer's Workshop side.
I know I'm real - but I want to be REAL, too.
Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
KEGE! Hi! It's been so long! Yes, that was Mouse and I'm so glad she came home to me!
We've never met but don't you live like in Huntsville or somewhere close?
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
Hey Pat, you deleted that message I left on your answering machine, right? I mean... no chance its going to surface... ever?
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
Patrick, your message box is full!! Empty it. Posted by Pat (Member # 879) on :
Oh, I archived it. It's flying around the Deseret News voice mail system.....
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
*curse*
Im just glad that you don't know how to convert it, and if any certain people here happen to know and they just happen to let slip how, I'll hunt them down and throw a pie at them. And thats a promise. Posted by Troubadour (Member # 83) on :
Well hey, come October/November I may well be looking for couches to crash on on the east & west coasts as I do my round-the-world trip to Mexico... so bona fides could well be established that trip!
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
Come to Utah. Smell our lake. Eat our jello.
Posted by Trondheim (Member # 4990) on :
Hey, being a new member and living in Norway, how will I ever get confirmed as real?? Anyone going to Norway for their summer holidays? (It's a rather safe world corner...)
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
Alright, dual K.A.M.A's!
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
I've been to Norway! My favorite part is when the trolls say "Disappear! Disappear!" and then send your boat careening backward!
Although, I must admit, the disembodied voice at the beginning saying "You are not the first to pass this way" is pretty cool, too.
*sigh* I went there seeking adventure and excitement, but found beauty and charm instead...
The movie at the end sucks, though...
As does the bakery. And the restaurant.
Pretty cool playground, though. Between Norway and Mexico. Posted by FlyingCow (Member # 2150) on :
My list is relatively short:
Slash the Berzerker Jenny Gardener Olivet Porcelain Girl OrsonScottCard kacard John Keats (aka Caleb Varns) Edit: Emily Card (though I've never seen her post here, and I sent her an email she never responded to... probably thinks I'm a stalker. )
I don't think I've left out anyone, though that's entirely possible. Then again, I met every one of these people before I came to hatrack. I have not met a single jatrequero since I became one myself.
Okay, wait... I did hang out with Olivet after "FlyingCow" was born... but I met her beforehand, so that doesn't really count. I should say I haven't met any more jatrequeros since becoming one.
[ April 03, 2003, 12:57 AM: Message edited by: FlyingCow ]
Posted by Yozhik (Member # 89) on :
I've met OSC and Kristine, but that's it.
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
Ooh, I forgot. Though I didn't speak to either for more than a minute, I've met both OSC and kacard. It was at the most recent Saint Louis signing, and the line had to be moved outside because the library closed. It was very fun, we all posed and Kristine took a picture.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
I spoke to OSC for about a minute and lurked near the table for about a half hour after the signing wrapped up, occasionally jumping into the conversation. Both Cor and I did get to talk to Kristine at some length, Cor more than I as I recall. Cor even tried to convince the Cards to look into Celebration!
Posted by KEGE (Member # 424) on :
aka,
Yep! I'm up here north of you in Huntsville. I haven't been around much since 2001 because we opened our own business late in 2000 and it's taking ALL of my time. It's an internet based company so its a 24/7 commitment cause we get customers worldwide.
Since Jeni emailed me when Khav listed me on the Historical Archive thread, I've been checking back at Hatrack whenever I can.
Since I know that if anyone knows you will know, I'll ask you. How is everyone I remember as real?
Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
KEGE: of the people on your list TomDavidson, Slash (whatever did happen about your sister in law?), and Hobbes are still here. dean and Mikey live with me now (though they don't hatrack anymore) and they are doing okay though finding the transition to adulthood harder than perhaps they expected.
annie and JohnHansen recently made a reappearance as you have. It's good to see them again.
brettly, PieMan, MOTO, and userAnnie have disappeared and we miss them! I get nostalgic for people when I stop and remember them. There have been so many great hatrackers over the years! But I guess they have lives now and stuff, so maybe this is a good thing for them... but still it is awfully inconsiderate, I think, for them to just run away and leave bereft those of us who don't.
[ April 03, 2003, 08:35 AM: Message edited by: ak ]
Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :
Ladyday, Mackillian, Godric. . . and I think there was one other person at the Baltimore picnic a year or so ago. Oh well, I guess at least I squeak by.
Posted by Risuena (Member # 2924) on :
Well since several people have been kind enough to verify my existence, I should probably return the favor (not that they need it).
I've met: Oneluckycricket CalvinMaker Paul Frisco Ladyday Porcelain Girl
Maybe I'll get around to meeting more of you...
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
Well it is offical, I don't exist. Or maybe I do but in a wierd dimension. Though I plan on meeting quite a few jatraqueros a week from now. I guess then I will exist in a jatrarquero dimension.
AJ
Posted by ChaoticBlizzard (Member # 2914) on :
I have never met one person from hatrack, so I guess I don't exist. Does this mean I still have to pay taxes though? Anyways, if any of you live around Nashville, TN I'm always up for a nice meeting
-ChaoticBlizzard
Posted by Godric (Member # 4587) on :
Well, I meet the minimum requirements... I've met KarlEd and Ladyday. Woohoo! I exist! Posted by JaneX (Member # 2026) on :
quote:I've been to Norway! My favorite part is when the trolls say "Disappear! Disappear!" and then send your boat careening backward!
Grr...*wishes for scanner*
~Jane~
Posted by Amka (Member # 690) on :
All the EnderCon folks saw me, as I hosted the trivia contest and appeared in a skit. T_Smith
I also have a picture of having my head squished by OSC. I think that should bring special significance to the reality of my existance.
Posted by Chris Kidd (Member # 2646) on :
Jeni
quote:Ahem.
Edit - I do believe that's one of the only times I've ever been addressed as a lady, though. Assuming you are referring to me.
Im sorry Jeni but for some reason when i tried o remember your name. the name linda kept popping into my head but it didn't sound like the right name. so I wasn't to sure about the name.
JaneX
quote: Chris Kidd (I remember you, even if you don't remember me...)
Im sorry JaneX.now that Ive been reminded you whee in th group that talked after the pool party right.
I mighthave talked to a few other people. thinking about it now. i talked to darian from Pweb. Itried to tl hi into doing an igsignia for griffin army. Sine that was the army i ws commandng at the time.
Posted by Jeni (Member # 1454) on :
AKA: There is still a Brettly around, though I'm not sure it's the same one you speak of.
Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
Yeah, I thought I saw a Brettly10 ripping it up in our NCAA Tournament Yahoo group.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Amka, that is quite obviously a cleverly photoshopped picture of Patrick...
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
The question is, do any of these validations exist in small circles, like Three people validating each other? If so, they can still not exist. I think you need two people *plus* a link to Endercon to be real.
Hobbes Posted by Slash the Berzerker (Member # 556) on :
Littlemissattitude:
Sarfa, Docmagic, Olavmah and I were at that same LosCon! Too bad we didn't know you back then. At OSC's keynote speech on Saturday, Sarfa and I were the ones in the front row that OSC came off the stage to meet.
Were you at that speech?
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
I have met everyone on JaneX's list.
And I have exchanged snailmail packages with CKDexterhaven (books and buttons, mostly).
**Ela**
Posted by Slash the Berzerker (Member # 556) on :
Ela flirts with me shamelessly, causing me to doubt her realness.
Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
Hey, KEGE I was up your way last weekend in Huntsville.
Who knew I was going to sit in traffic for more than 2 hours to get to see the Blue Angels fly. Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Ela, the question is: have you met JaneX?
Hobbes Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
quote:Ela flirts with me shamelessly, causing me to doubt her realness.
I, on the other hand, am convinced of the reality of the Lizardman. Guess he has me fooled.
**Ela**
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
quote:I am officially protesting this thread and Slash's use of 'Lizard King.' As everyone knows, I was officially elected Hatrack's Lizard President and as such effectively ruined the career of our onetime Lizard citizen.
Really, Pat? I don't remember anyone officially electing you as the top lizard.
There is only one lizard at Hatrack and that's Slash. Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
Okay, I've let this go on long enough. "Xavier" is a program I helped write a couple years ago to post on internet forums. This is Jeff Haynes, the lead programmer in the research project responsible for Xavier's creation. He's been fun, and I think we've gotten pretty good at passing the internet Turing test, but I think its time to destroy Xavier and start from scratch. Maybe I will come back with Xavier2 sometime later this year.
P.S. No, I did not create Kama, but I'm friends with the guys who did.
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
quote:Ela, the question is: have you met JaneX?
Hobbes, I've known her since before she was born.
**Ela**
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Really? What was she like back then?
Hobbes Posted by Slash the Berzerker (Member # 556) on :
Small and covered in slimey stuff.
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
LOL, Slash.
Uh, Taalcon:
quote:The guy who was taping everything all over the con as well.
Yes, and we're still waiting to see what you taped...
**Ela**
Posted by KEGE (Member # 424) on :
Belle,
Sorry about your long wait, but hope you had some fun here in Huntsville.
AKA,
How in the world did dean and Mikey come to be living with you in Birmingham? I'm astonished and consumed with curiosity. The last I recall I was terribly worried about dean's safety b/c she was working a night job and waiting for a bus in Los Angeles? Did I just make all that up or did they move? Their situation seemed like a tragic story about to happen - and now they live with you?! I am awed and so impressed that my jaw dropped when I read your post. I was WAY underestimating you when I gave you kudos for saving lost animals!!! WOW
Khav and Jeni - It was brettly10 who I knew here at Hatrack and we lamented the cancellation of The Pretender together!
Posted by Ethics Gradient (Member # 878) on :
I've met...
pYx (ha, if anyone other than Tom & Slash remember her) Martha Troubador
Almost met...
Slash
Have spoken to Pod on the phone, I think. Possibly Sarfa as well.
Posted by Pod (Member # 941) on :
Mike:
i recall pYx. (not that thats a surprise)
and yes i recall talking to you on the phone as well, and i think voice chat perhaps?
Posted by Badhousewife (Member # 4934) on :
Does anyone remember when that Ghostbusters cartoon came out and then the "REAL" Ghostbusters cartoon came out (I guess some kind of copyright thingy got overlooked). Anyway, this thread title reminded me of that. I was at Endercon. I was that chick that lost the a prelim trivia round by failing to answer the same question twice. I guess I should rename myself Mothertree, but most people wouldn't understand how that is as shameful to me as Badhousewife.
Posted by Ethics Gradient (Member # 878) on :
Heh. Of course you would, Ted-san. DUH! I think it was a three-way phone conversation!
Posted by Troubadour (Member # 83) on :
Does that mean that I'm real? Can I be granted conditional reality status since Ethics Gradient has met two US hatrackers, and he's worked with me? That plus my elaborate example of how to track me down should be enough surely?!?
Posted by Pod (Member # 941) on :
Indeed it twas Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
I gained two more IDs in the race to Member # 5,000. So now Badhousewife and mothertree can vouch for me.
Posted by mothertree (Member # 4999) on :
Yes, pooka and I and Badhousewife.
Posted by porcelain girl (Member # 1080) on :
i remember pyx, too.
Posted by Pod (Member # 941) on :
::laughs::
and hence why this still isn't good confirmation
it can be internally consistent, but what is necessary is that there is a large amount of overlap, not just dual confirmation from others. It needs to be interrelated
Posted by Ethics Gradient (Member # 878) on :
Quiet, Troubs. You know you're just my alter-ego.
Posted by Toranaga-sama (Member # 4966) on :
...add one: Sticker Goddess, and no matter what she says, the name isnt "spot"...
Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
Awwww, EG! And all along I thought pYx was just your inner bad girl! Posted by KEGE (Member # 424) on :
So how do we become REAL Hatrackers if we haven't met anyone in person? I'm feeling like Pinocchio. Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
I think you need to drive down one afternoon and visit deany and mikey and me. We can collectively certify you as real.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
I remember pYx vividly. Pre-Baldar, that was the only time I'd seen Tom go bezerk.
KEGE, you ARE Pinnochio! Wow!
Posted by Ethics Gradient (Member # 878) on :
I'm sure I remember pYx alot more vividly *ahem* than any of you want to know. Posted by Jeni (Member # 1454) on :
Even I remember pYx. I remember a thread where EG was traveling around and stayed with her for a while, right?
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
*scandalized* Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
"Pre-Baldar, that was the only time I'd seen Tom go bezerk."
Yeah. Baldar got on my nerves because he constantly insulted ME; Pyx had the nerve to insult my WIFE, who wasn't even posting on Hatrack at the time. For all of you who were wondering how to tick me off, that's a VERY good way to do it. Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
Yes, I remember her doing that, Tom. I remember how appalled I was. Ah, remember back in the good old days when behavior like pYx's from a hatracker was shocking? Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Insulting people never really crosses my mind because I think, "They'll just call me something WORSE."
Besides. Who can insult Christy?!
Tom, on the other hand...it's the pies.
*hugs ak*
Posted by porcelain girl (Member # 1080) on :
too bad some of us do know, eg.
inner bad girl, indeed. more like he was her--oh nevermind.
Posted by Chveya (Member # 2623) on :
I haven't met anybody----- mwahaha I don't exist!!!!! Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
Slash...Yes, I was at OSC's keynote speech at LosCon. It would have been so cool to meet you. I was sitting on the left side of the room in about the third or fourth row, near the aisle, as I recall. I can't remember if I was dressed as a civilian or if I had my Ren costume on - I know I had it with me that year. My badge that year said that I was Lady Christiana. It's a long story that has to do with the two friends I was with that year and our alternate personalities as the Wicked Ladies - although we are really quite nice most of the time (and as long as no one crosses us). Posted by Slash the Berzerker (Member # 556) on :
My badge said Slash.
Weird, that.
LosCon had one highlight of my life. I got to hang out outside with OSC and Harry Knowles of AICN and talk movies for about half an hour.
I also got to chat with Larry Niven about TV shows made from his stories, and with Barbara Hambly about dragons. I talked to Bob Eggleton for awhile and found out we are both huge Michael Whelan fans.
It was also the first time I met Olavmah and Geoff Card in person, and the first time I talked to Kristine Card. She was very nice, even after I called her Kathy.
My only regret, is that a guy basically attacked OSC in the hallway, and I didn't realize it was happening until it was over. I missed my chance to play paladin for OSC, and it bothers me to this day. I'm fairly sure I could have backed that guy away (he was dressed in a wizard outfit ) without *much* violence. Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
I didn't know anything about anyone attacking OSC at LosCon. But the guy in the wizard costume sounds awfully familiar. Did he have really thick, black-framed glasses? If it's who I'm thinking about, he is there every year, and I personally find him kind of scary.
The thing that's cool about LosCon is that even though there are a sizeable number of people who attend every year, it still seems quite intimate. There are opportunities to interact with the writers and artists there that I imagine aren't available at a lot of cons. The majority of the writers, especially, don't seem to try to isolate themselves to a huge extent. I've come to the conclusion that this is at least partly due to the fact that so many of them are local and actually members of LASFA (Los Angeles Science Fantasy Association, the group that puts LosCon on and I think the oldest continually operating SF fan group in the world, for those of you out of the area) and so feel that they are among friends. Many of them don't just appear for panels and talks and then disappear again; they will hang out and talk to attendees. I also like that it is a writers and artists con, and not a media con. It's also cool that there are fairly large contingents there from Cal Tech and JPL, and so the science panels are usually very good.
Posted by Pepek (Member # 3773) on :
Can I not exist despite the fact there are many who could admit to have seeing me truthfully? I don't want to exist.
~Sir Montague
Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
KEGE, they wanted to start their lives together and needed a way to do that. Cost of living is much lower in Alabama and jobs more plentiful. I had a spare room which Saudade and Andrei very kindly helped me clear to get ready for them. <i.e. Saudade cracked the whip and put us to work.> So we decided they should come live here to start their grown up lives together. They moved in last July and then we moved into a new bigger house in January.
It took them far longer to find work than we thought, and still only Deany has a job and it's just in a bookstore so no benefits which really terrifies me. No medical insurance and no way to save for tuition, etc.
Hopefully Mikey will find one soon so they can afford to live. Also Deany may get promoted soon we hope but it's doubtful whether the promotion will bring benefits or a substantial raise. I sure hope so.
The cat families merged fairly well with only one casualty, really. My cat Drive By has never adjusted (she was feral as a kitten) and now hides terrified in my room most of the time. Poor Drive By. I hate it that she is unhappy.
Deany and Mikey adopted another cat from Deany's mom (she flew her home to get it) since they moved in and Heidi is very sweet and we love her a lot. (Well, all of us but Drive By and Tiki (Dean's cat who is also afraid of everyone).)
They have yet to get married legally, though they are actually married in truth. I wish very much at least one if not both of them could get a good job with benefits, they could get married, and Mikey could get his drivers license, but all these things are taking far longer than we ever expected.
Posted by KEGE (Member # 424) on :
Maybe there should be convention for all the people who need "real" certification to attend ... held somewhere like, hmmm?
Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
Birmingham? I'm so for that!
Posted by KEGE (Member # 424) on :
Birmingham would be pretty good if we were at that restaurant with the weird name, something like the Purple Onion? I just remember it's painted purple and has gyros.
Of course, if we held it in lets say, Huntsville, we could all hold hands and encircle the life sized Saturn rocket at the Space Center - now wouldn't that make a pretty picture! I even have my daughter's spacecamp jumpsuit that I could wear and pretend that I was an astronaut getting aboard the space shuttle.
Surely then everyone would believe I was REAL! (Real crazy)
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Wow, what a great thread I've been missing! I read it right when Slash started it, and though "well, nobody's met me", and hadn't bothered to check in again until just now.
I'd always wondered what the details were of dean and moonflower's move; nice to have some of those details filled in. If I'm ever hurt and alone, I know exactly where I'm going to head. Well, actually I don't know the geographical location, but I'll bet I'll be able to get directions.
I remember pYx; I always liked her, and enjoyed her irreverent style, until she insulted Tom's wife and aka both. Insulting Tom's wife, especially when she didn't participate on the board, seemed bizarre, but insulting aka, of all people, led me to believe that while she was quick witted and funny, she actually wasn't kind. People grow, though, and she was pretty young. Whatever happened to her, EG?
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
*bump*
I just remembered this thread and realized that I now qualify as a real Hatracker, having met Papa Moose, rivka, LadyDove, and Ralphie. And, of course, Juliette/jsaxon.
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
Yeah, yeah, so you say. Where're the pictures?!?
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
On an apparently unreadable CD. Although, it has been verified.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Ooooh! I'm real now too, then! Posted by JaneX (Member # 2026) on :
I've added another Hatracker to my list: sarahdipity. I guess that means I'm even more real now!
~Jane~
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Your real since you were at Endercon Jane! Which is going to happen next year!
[EDIT: meaning that Endercon is the definition of real, you can't get any "realer"]
Hobbes
[ August 06, 2003, 01:34 AM: Message edited by: Hobbes ]
Posted by Laurenz0 (Member # 5336) on :
aw man. No one can verify that I exist. except those crazy crazy gnomes. Garden gnomes in fact.
They're watching me. Watching me I tells ya!
Posted by asQmh (Member # 4590) on :
I've met Lissande, but I doubt her realness. I mean, right now she lives in the Czech Republic which, as we all know, is a communist fantasy. So by following an irrefutable chain of logic (trust me on this one), I have come to the conclusion that I, also, may not exist.
That's a kicker.
Posted by Evie3217 (Member # 5426) on :
HMMMMMMM...I Don't believe any of you. Since I have never met you, I sincerly doubt that any of you exist. I think that you all are trying to sham me, or are just a figment (mmmm...fig newtons) of y immagination
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
Well then, looks like Bob the Lawyer, Pod, Jaiden, Ophelia and myself are now all officially REAL. Posted by Marek (Member # 5404) on :
I haven't met anyone from Hatrack that I know of, so I guess I don't exist. That is too bad because (unavoidable Dilbert refrence) "existing is pretty much all I do". Hey if it will help I can start making up people who don't exist, then they can verify that I exist, and that each other exist.
Okay I'm not going to do that, I'm content to be counted among those who do not count, but why wouldn't that work?
Posted by Marek (Member # 5404) on :
Seriously, if I were going to make up someone I could make up someone more interesting than this.
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
I met Nathan at Amka's party Friday... By the way, shouldn't it either be Hatrackers or Hatrackers' but not Hatracker's? Where is the Grammar Nazi?
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
It makes sense if you consider Slash to be The Real Hatracker.
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
Besides, it's the [Lizard] King's English, isn't it?
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
WAH HAH!!! (belongs)
I remember reading this thread at the first and thinking "I'll never be real! ;_;"
(is real)
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
Hmmm.. Six degrees of Hatrack?
Ryuko, Bob, Icarus, saxon75
Look at that, only three steps!
Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
Oh! I'm real!
I've met: Mack Martha Mike Paul Goldner Paercival Godric */Myr Suneun Saradipity Bokonon
Spoke with Ela, Shlomo and JaneX on the phone.
Posted by * (Member # 4842) on :
Sweeeeeet! I must be real too, then. That's rather exciting.
Posted by Maccabeus (Member # 3051) on :
I don't think the poster OrsonScottCard is real. From the quality of his posts, I would say he is probably a 'bot. Posted by ana kata (Member # 5666) on :
My mother does not consider any of you real. Saudade and Andrei she thinks are real. The rest of you are not real people at all to her. Not just real people she hasn't met yet, but people who in fact do not exist.
Has anyone found a way to successfully convince a non-online person (e.g. a parent) that people you've known for a long time online and have talked to on the phone for hours and so on are not any more likely to be lying to you than people you know in real life? That their status as real people is the same?
Showing her counterexamples (in the persons of Saudade and Andrei) hasn't had any effect. Acquainting her over a period of time with the people by relating anecdotes hasn't either. To her I think Saudade and Andrei weren't real until I met them in real life (with no explanation for how that could have come about) and then after that they were real. The anecdotes she dismisses because they aren't about real people. <laughs>
[ September 23, 2003, 02:18 AM: Message edited by: ana kata ]
Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
quote: Has anyone found a way to successfully convince a non-online person (e.g. a parent) that people you've known for a long time online and have talked to on the phone for hours and so on are not any more likely to be lying to you than people you know in real life?
Yes, I brought my Mom to the Boson Hatrack Picnic and she decided that the Boston Clump are nice, normal people (to which some of them took offense )
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
Okay, I'm feeling left out. No one knows I exist. And I think in our state, we are too spread out and too few to have a Hatrack picnic or whatever...
What do you say -- Screechowl and Kayla, can us Kansans get together? Any others on here?
Farmgirl
Posted by Marek (Member # 5404) on :
hey a few weeks ago I met Fugu13, Snow, blacwolve, Rhaegar and um what was the other girl's name? Oh yeah it was... Raia ((((((((((((((((Raia)))))))))))))))) so I think I might be real, or well on my way anyway.
Also I knew nihon before he joined, and he has met Raia so there is proof he is real.
anyway I figured after all the get togethers, and the signings some more people might be real now. Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
I'm a level 31 real hatracker with The Infamous Brown Jacket that has a defense of +20
::rolls dice::
Posted by fiazko (Member # 5812) on :
I'm real! I'm real!
My witnesses are msquared and beatnix19. (and the Cards)
*frolics gleefully back to cage*
Posted by Lalo (Member # 3772) on :
I'm so not real. Technically, I've met both the Cards at a signing, and I recognized Moose after I got back from the signing and looked at a picture -- but for all you know, I could be the Cards myself.
Though, on the side of my existence, I DO have it that there couldn't be two such personalities in all the world.
Plus, I'm pushing the sex appeal legal limit with just this personality. No way I could have more than one.
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
I can't remember if I posted in here before but my list is growing longer so here's an update.
TomDavidson Christy Primal Curve Vana Lime dkw xnera (I think that was everyone from the first gathering, if I'm leaving someone out holler)
Wierd Al Concert additions celia6000 Dan_Raven dan raven's wife (can't remember her screen name it involves a cat though)
barbcue addition(s?) msquared mcubed (is she actually on Hatrack?)
AJ
So a total of at least 19 Hatrackers (so far) can verify my existance.
I've spoken to Mackillian and ak on the phone.
[ November 30, 2003, 09:39 PM: Message edited by: BannaOj ]
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
If they weren't already real, Caleb, Tabithecat and Kayla are now real.
Boon is only 1/2 real since she only met me and it takes 2 Hatrackers to confirm reality.
Posted by jexx (Member # 3450) on :
I had mack over at my house, so I'm real!
And so is she.
Really.
And she is not a chicken or a computer program like Kama
edited to add: Oh, I didn't read Bob's post. It takes 2 hatrackers to confirm reality? I've also met Leto and Lead, even though they haven't been around much lately. I'm sure I am real, though. Aren't I?
[ November 30, 2003, 09:58 PM: Message edited by: jexx ]
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
That's what we let you think.
Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
I am not a chicken computer program.
Or if I am, I have the greatest voice software ever.
Posted by Maccabeus (Member # 3051) on :
Do phone conversations count? I can't remember. I have talked with Ralphie, though not with anyone else.
Perhaps Ralphie is of such inestimable value that she counts for two?
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
Well, at least I qualify.
Met: CT Jeni Severian
Phone: BlackFox
And I'd like to meet more... hinthint... Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
Ok, time to list them all...
OSC KACard Jon Boy Brinestone (Diosmal Duda) Hansenj Damandar popatr Amka Pepperuda SomeDeadGuy Raventh1 Zevlag Annie Speed Zemra Pooka SarcasticMuppet Pajeba Advice for Robots Pat (insert someone I'm forgetting but can't for the life of me place) Narnia Zotto Abbrynne Ralphie Dierdre Hobbes JonnyNotSoBravo Shig. Mr. Funny Nato MoonRabbit Jeniwren Kimo Crystal
Talked to but not seen on phone: Troubs Celia
Hmm.... Im a level 37 hatracker, apparently.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
okay, which one of you wants to drive to Kansas so I can have proof that I'm real?
Kayla? want to do lunch sometime? <grin>
Farmgirl
Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
When I met Icarus and Cor we were wandering around looking at animals at Gatorland, where we encountered a *very* large snake in an open doghouse. My son wanted to know if it was real, and my husband suggested that the best way to find out would be to poke it in the eye with his finger. (He was joking, I think, and no, the snake wasn't real.) Cor and I looked at each other and she said something like, "Okay, Jen, we have to poke you in the eye to make sure you're real." Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
quote: Has anyone found a way to successfully convince a non-online person (e.g. a parent) that people you've known for a long time online
Sad story: if I even mentioned Hatrack to my parents, they'd give me a long lecture and wasting time, resposibilty and 'living in a dream. I guess I'm going to remain unreal (and possibly non-existant!) until I leave home... Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
By the way, jeniwren et al. met ME TOO on that trip where they met Icarus and Cor. I guess I didn't do anything memorable though.
Posted by Lissande (Member # 350) on :
I've met asQmh, Tzadik and Ophelia. Though I'm not sure the first two count since I brought them to Hatrack in the first place and they're not real people anyway. So I still need one more. Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
My list has grown a bit over the past four months:
Cor Icarus Juliette katharina LadyDove Lazer King Mama Squirrel Mooselet Papa Moose Ralphie rivka
I hope this January SoCal thing ends up happening so I can add a few more names.
Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
Bob, our fear in meeting any more Hatrackers was that they'd get divorced right afterward. (I hope it's okay to tease you a little on that ...it's not a very teasible topic, so please take it in the manner it was meant -- teasingly.)
Actually, you're the first Hatracker I met in person, so you count at least twice on my "Special Hatrackers" list. I figure that we need to make a trek to Texas to see you again, and to get to meet kat. We have relatives out that direction, so maybe someday.... Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
Does it count if several hatrackers heard me on the radio?
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
::contemplates mailing a video of self to people to boost stats:: Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
jeniwren, you aren't responsible for my divorce. That was Icarus' fault. (j/k)
Anyway, I sure hope you'll come to TX and bring the whole family. Your hubby is a great guy. Your son is the best kid I've been around in MANY years. And your daughter is just a cutie. So bring 'em on! We'll barbecue a slab of something and wear hats.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
saxon, you forgot Superstation. Yeah, he was in utero at the time. So? Posted by Crystal (Member # 5437) on :
I guess I'm officially real now, too. yay! I've met:
Jeniwren Ralphie T_Smith Shigosei Mr.Funny Narnia Annie Nato JohnnyNotSoBravo Hobbes Zotto!
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
I've met Scythrop....
I think I should only have to provide one, to make up for being Australian.
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
What, four? Yeah, heaps...
But I don't care, cos I'm real!
Edit: HEY! There was a post there! It said I was real ! Now I just look slightly crazy. *grumble* silly T_Smith *grumble*
[ December 02, 2003, 01:42 AM: Message edited by: imogen ]
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
Hahahaha. T just wasted his 6666th post! Delete it if you want, buddy! It still counts!
Posted by Nick (Member # 4311) on :
I have pictures to prove I'm real. Plus, nobody does gatherings in Nor Cal. Porce is about 75 miles from me, esl is in the SF area, but I haven't met either of them. I might someday. Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
Hey, I was just thinking...when I was at EnderCon, I got a ride to the Star Party with some guy from somewhere down South (I think). On the way down the hill, we slid off the road and smacked into a small tree. Luckily, it was a rental.
Does that sound like any of you Hatrackers? If it is, you've had two Hatrackers in your car, and can be considered real.
Posted by odouls268 (Member # 2145) on :
Personally i think i am a lying bastard who never existed except in bastien's mind as he reads that damn book that just goes on and on. it never seems to end.
and if anyone has ever met me, i doubt that they want to relive the experince enough to even fess up to the fact. Posted by Sid the SIoth (Member # 5654) on :
But someone who I would LIKE to meet is Toni aka Ralphie. She just seems like great fun. Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
Just wait until you get to carry her.
Posted by Traveler (Member # 3615) on :
Well...I'm real. Perhaps if there is any gathering in Minnesota then I'll get an opportunity to prove it. Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
quote:I figure that we need to make a trek to Texas to see you again, and to get to meet kat.
Oh yeah. I just saw this - that would be awesome!
I'd like to point out that I have not yet met Bob, despite he being less than two hours away. Maybe he'd come to Dallas if I bribed him with the Wren family?
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
quote:saxon, you forgot Superstation.
Yeah, that's true. I feel like I didn't get to know him very well, though. He was pretty quiet.
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
Yeah, he was kinda quiet, wasn't he. Ah, the good ol' days....
Anyone else find it ironic that someone named "Traveler" doesn't seem to be able to get to a gathering unless it's in his home state?
--Pop
Posted by Traveler (Member # 3615) on :
True true.
I'd love to make it to out-of-state gatherings..however, with limited vacation time I haven't been able to convince my wife that we should spend it that way. Perhaps someday though... I'll have to get her online more and into reading forums. Perhaps then she'll 'get' online communities. She isn't really all that techno-savvy.
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
Oh man, thats so unfair!! I deleted that 6666th post, I demand that I get to use it again!
Gosh friggin dang it.
Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
Bob, I knew you'd take that the right way...I should have left off the disclaimer. Icarus is such a homewrecker isn't he? (j/k)
kat, that *would* be fun. It'd be a long way off, but someday I hope...
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
::bump::
The question as to what it takes to be considered real keeps coming up. Now, I've had this argument with a number of people who claim that you have to be connected to Slash, or to someone who was at the first Hatrack picnic way back when, but as it is clearly stated (by royal decree, no less) in the first post of this thread, all it takes is having met two other Hatrackers.
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
YAY!
I think it should have to be Hatrackers who've been already verified, but that's just my opinion, not the law.
For instance, you can't get your two neighbors to post once and say you've met two, it would have to be two that have already met two OTHER previously verified rackers apiece (and those would also have to have met two others, etc.)
But we can do it Slashy's way.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
I have met :
JenniK Bob_Scopatz Bokonon Suneun/dabbler Mike T_Smith Mackillian Myrddyn Fyre martha Kale (before he was kale... ) Beca sarahindipty Elizabeth Kama
All of them except for Bob_S, martha,Kale and Beca, I met at the WMASS Hatrack Picninc this weekend...oh, and JenniK, who is my wife...lol...
I met Bob, martha, Kale, and Beca at Bob's visit to Boston this spring.
I think the point of "real" is that you have to have met people who can trace it back to some of the old-timers here who all have met IRL.
If the only people you have been seen by are your friends who post here, but none of you have ever met anyone outside of the clump, then you are not real.
Bob, Mack, Kama, and T_Smith have all seen/been seen by many of the originals, which makes everyone who was at the WMASS picnic real. And in turn, now that we are real we can confer that status to anyone we can seen IRL.
Kwea
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
Especially if they are friends that you encouraged to join. *rasslefrassin*
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
blacwolve fugu13
allegra
but I knew all of them before they were hatrackers and all of them were at kama con, one was at wench con and one has been to a book signing, so they are real
[ August 23, 2004, 04:58 PM: Message edited by: breyerchic04 ]
Posted by Derrell (Member # 6062) on :
I've met ludosti, PSI Teleport, Feyd Baron/Architraz Warden, slacker, Peterh, and pooka.
Posted by K.A.M.A. (Member # 6045) on :
<-- realest
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
I've met all those, minus me, and plus Derrell.
Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
PSI, are you implying that you don't know the real you? Oh, you poor thing, you.
I met Primal Curve and keedokes, though I haven't seen keedokes post much.
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
Who ever does, Goatee?
Posted by MaydayDesiax (Member # 5012) on :
Hmn, lots of you seemed to have forgotten me and Bernard...
I was lucky to become real scant months after joining Hatrack--Bernard knew I existed before I joined, and then I met Toretha when I got to school.
Posted by Tammy (Member # 4119) on :
Posted by Javert (Member # 3076) on :
Kama and Strider.
I'M REAL! *does happy dance*
Posted by Jess N (Member # 6744) on :
I haven't met anyone... Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
Um, don't sweat it...I was around for a year before I met anyone.
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
I have met....
Annie Jon Boy Brinestone sarcastic muppet hansenj pooka Amka T-Smith
then
Frisco
then
Shigosei Mr. Funny
Oh, and of course, mr_porteiro_head. I *know* him. Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
O_O
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
quote: jeniwren, you aren't responsible for my divorce. That was Icarus' fault.
o_O
Wait. Does that mean I also get credit for your impending un-divorce?
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Since I was the second Hatracker sndrake met, I got to make him real. What a rush! Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
Icarus, you get partial credit, since it was partially you guys’ friendship that made me think I’d enjoy meeting him in the first place. Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
This realness thing needs to be better defined. I think I must have said this before on another thread. Just like for a mathematical system we need axioms and provable theorems, precision and repeatability. So here is the actual, mathematical definition of reality.
All reality originally derives from the very first hatrack picnic in 2000 in Los Angeles, which Slashy thought up and several of us hosted. The attendees there were Slash, Richard Berg, Brian Worth, sarfa, Dean, Moonflower, Jacob Porter, and myself. All subsequent realness must derive from members of this group. They subsequently had other gatherings in SoCal which included the Moose family, for instance, at which they gained their reality, to pass along to all of Endercon. (OSC wasn't even real until Endercon. <laughs> No wait, he met Slash before that at some LA signing when Geoff and Olavmah were there, that's right!) The writer's boot camp thing gave many more people reality including Olivet and Flying Cow. Saudade and Andrei got their reality from me. Everyone else who's real seems to be linked back through some Endercon attendee or another.
This system is much better defined than the one Slash proposed, because it rejects clumps with no connection to the main body of the group. Those may be given provisional reality status, of course, before such time as a link to actual reality is established, but one must always keep in mind the tenative nature of such a state.
[ August 24, 2004, 10:07 AM: Message edited by: ak ]
Posted by zgator (Member # 3833) on :
dkw, do you mean that Bob's patience with someone like Icarus led you to believe he must be a swell, understanding type of guy? Any friend of Joe's, must be a saint.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
*hands over ears*
La la la la la!
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
Not exactly, although it was a relief to know in advance that my obsession with mustard varieties and insistence on REAL maple syrup wouldn’t be a barrier to our relationship.
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
I think I may be in the clear, by AKA's definition. I missed the bunching that sarfa attended, but then I met the group after they met sarfa. And I already mentioned that we met Pooka, who I can't imagine isn't real because of her connections up in Utah. I may be okay.
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
quote:This system is much better defined than the one Slash proposed
It may well be, but as the Lizard King no longer frequents Hatrack, I don't think he'll be rescinding his decree.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Nor does it particularly matter anymore, as I think every large clump currently in existence has at least one member who's directly connected even under AKA's method.
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
You're such an anarchist, Tom. Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
Slashy pointed out to me on AIM how the very first hatrack picnic was his idea, and how he was the one who got everyone started going into chat via the "we are chatting now" thread, how he was the first to be my high priest (though he mostly sacrificed virgins... I think he just really liked sacrificing virgins) and how he originated many other memes and traditions that make this place so great. "I am the rock upon which your church is founded," he said.
So, I'd like to pause here and just have a moment of awed silence for all the Slashyness we still have with us, and by which was are so blessed day by day. And to add a prayer that our slashiness remain with us ever undimmed, and that one millennial day, perhaps ages and ages hence, we might arise from the shining waters of sleep to discover that once again the universe has turned and we can enjoy a new advent of Slashy himself among us in all his greatness.
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
Amen.
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
Good grief.
Is it the right of the siblings of Slash to roll their eyes at his ham-handed 'reminders'?
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
quote: This system is much better defined than the one Slash proposed, because it rejects clumps with no connection to the main body of the group. Those may be given provisional reality status, of course, before such time as a link to actual reality is established, but one must always keep in mind the tenative nature of such a state.
I don't think so.....
If, under your plan, OSC wasn't real until he connected with you......then I don't think it works at all!
Even Slash needed a site to meet people ot, and we have this site due to OSC.
The first clump would therefore be his family....
Right Geoff?
Kwea
Posted by Lupus (Member # 6516) on :
I'm a figment of my own imagination.
I've not met anyone from this board...so I guess I cannot be verified. Though I am sure one of these days kaioshin00 and I will run into eachother since we go to the same university. Until then I guess people will have to go to Goodkind's board to confirm that I am real. Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Sorry. Not worth it.
Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
Kwea, Uncle Orson? That dude hardly ever posts anymore, he never was very active to start with, and the last posts I've seen by him were just asking for people to help him with his homework! He's barely even a hatracker! What do you mean you think he should be the source of all realness???
Now Aunt Kristine, she's a different story! If Uncle Orson is real it's totally because he lives with her. Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
I would agree with that, Anne Kate.
But only because I lost that thread where he said some killer stuff about me. My ego will never forgive me for that one.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
AS IF there were ever such a thread.
[ August 25, 2004, 11:46 PM: Message edited by: Icarus ]
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
The word "cogent" was used. You can't turn your back on "cogent".
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
I wouldn't turn my back on a chimera either, but that doesn't mean they exist . . .
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
Ralphie, I wouldn't turn my back on you one way or another...no telling what you might do!
Just because all the newbies might not remember who you are doen't mean that all the rest of us have forgotten...
[ August 26, 2004, 01:51 AM: Message edited by: Kwea ]
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
Kwea - That's wise. I may or may not commit dangerous acts when people's backs are to me, but I'd place money that they would be illicit.
Icarus - I'll bet Bok would vouch for me.
And now that I think about it... wait just a gull derned rackem frackem moment. I thought we were a power-duo, Joe! WonderEgos - Activate!
Posted by Little_Doctor (Member # 6635) on :
So....am I imaginary? or maybe i'm omniscent(sp)?
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Perhaps you're neither.
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
I wish I were cogent... Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Aw, c'mon Ralphie! Here I am trying to start a good old fashioned flamewar and you have to go bringing up things like friendship. Jeez, what's a guy gotta do?
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
You could try telling her about her own religion. . .
'Ralphie-ists beleive in nictating membranes.'
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
Maybe your Omnaginary.
Am I the only person who remembers pre-celebrity Ralphie? The one full of passion and life. The one who would stay up late and welcome newbies on ParaChat? I miss that Ralphie.
Now all we have is post-celebrity Ralphie who spends her days locked up in her castle up in Beverly hills writing her memoirs and shooin' chilluns off the lawn. Damn hermits.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
"locked up in her castle up in Beverly hills writing her memoirs and shooin' chilluns off the lawn."
Hmm. Do you think she is getting lots of face lifts, too, to try to stave off the aging process? I just hope she does not start doing really pathetic commercials for barely-known products. It would be so sad.
Oh, no! What if, a few years down the line, she becomes a Hollywood Square!
Come back, Ralphie, before it is too late!
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Rack-lifts.
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
People who are real, and in turn, can verify my existance:
OSC Kristine Amka Jon Ruth Damandar HansenJ Popatr Pat Pepperuda Somedeadguy Raventh1 Zevlag Annie Speed Zemra AFR Epidictus Mr. Gumby Pooka Bev Porter Pajeba SarcasticMuppet Toni Deirdre JonnyNotSoBravo Crystal Mr. Funny Shigosei MoonRabbit Jenny something... curse my head! Nato Hobbes Zotto Narnia Abrynne (Narns sister) Olivia JenGardner Mackillian Noah Taalcon Xnera Psychotriad Kwsni Ela JaneX Shlomo Narritivium Fugu Maccabeaus Morbo Ophelia Ben Kat BannaOj Bernard Mayday Bob Dana Eljay Sndrake Mama Squirrel Papa Moose Mooselet Superstation Christy TomD Sophie... does it count? Celia Frisco Kama Ryuko Fiazko Happy Camper Marek MeltingSnowman Blacwolve Allegra Theca saxon75 Ivygirl Farmgirl SpaceOpera Vana Lime TheTick Telperion RRR Rivka RichardBerg Punwit Juliette Myr Kwea JenniK Elizabeth Mike Suneun
Umm... crud, I think I forgot someone. But thats about it. I know theres someone I'm missing.
Edit: AHA! Sarahdipity and Bokonon
[ August 29, 2004, 02:25 PM: Message edited by: T_Smith ]
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
Wow, T_Smith, that's 101 people. I'm impressed.
Posted by JonnyNotSoBravo (Member # 5715) on :
You forgot Diane, sndrake's wife...why am I looking at this? I'm sure I can do more constructive things with my time, like level up on DII expansion or KoL...
Posted by keedokes (Member # 6301) on :
Don't worry, I'm still around. And I exist...I went with about five existing 'rackers to a Tolkien exhibit at Marquette University in Milwaukee awhile ago. As I'm tired it will take me far too long to remember the correct spellings of screen names, so you guys'll have to be content with that.
There are pictures...somewhere. There's also a picture of Da_Goat and Primal Curve from a trip to AZ in the beginning of the summer, but as I don't have access to a scanner, you guys are out of luck.
edit: Because I'm so sure you guys are worried.
[ August 29, 2004, 08:45 PM: Message edited by: keedokes ]
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Sarahdipity Paul Goldner Bokonon
[ August 29, 2004, 09:36 PM: Message edited by: Elizabeth ]
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
quote: Am I the only person who remembers pre-celebrity Ralphie? The one full of passion and life. The one who would stay up late and welcome newbies on ParaChat? I miss that Ralphie.
I was never very cool. I just said I was a lot and people started buying into it.
Suckers.
Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
But I've been doing that since before I registered at Hatrack, and I've gotten nowhere.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
*pat pat* She's just more convincing than you are.
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
She's not REALLY that convincing, though, rivka.
Which makes me wonder how Ralphie got so popular. I'm putting my money on bribery.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
*slips Scott some money under the table*
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
quote:I was never very cool. I just said I was a lot and people started buying into it.
Not true. You said it a lot and talked about your chest a lot. Big difference.
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
Ok I need a jury decision on this:
I'm going to go to the Science and Industry Museum in a few weeks with Goody Scrivener. I'm thinking xnera might want to come, but if she doesn't and Steve decides to come along and he meets Goody, would that make Goody real? While Steve isn't actually a hatracker, he's met enough to be real by the original standard.
What do you think?
AJ
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Only if he posts here to confirm it.
Posted by eslaine (Member # 5433) on :
I'm not real, so don't ask me.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Steve isn't a Hatracker. Ergo, he isn't real.
Posted by Space Opera (Member # 6504) on :
Can I plead the fifth?
space opera
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
quote:Steve isn't a Hatracker. Ergo, he isn't real.
So if he joins, and he's already qualified from meeting everyone, does that make me real???
Goody
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
quote: Not true. You said it a lot and talked about your chest a lot. Big difference.
I've actually talked about my chest very little. In fact, I'd venture to say you've talked about my chest more than I have.
Because you're a pervert, Pervert.
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
Oh, right, you prefer to talk about your behind. Please excuse my mistake.
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
*psst* saxy, she's got no behind. I think they stood her on her head a lot as a teenager, and her buttocks all ran up to her ta-tas
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
Not a bad trade.
Frisco, you DO know that the next generation of female Hatrackers are all going to have flat heads from listening to you too much.
But they will be stacked, so no one will care.
Ralphie:
quote: but I'd place money that they would be illicit.
Well in that case I will promptly reconsider....
Nah, I still wouldn't...I like life too much...
Although you did make me think about it....
Kwea
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
quote: *psst* saxy, she's got no behind.
*sigh*
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
We still love you, and you can always get implants.
Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
I can link my picture or something you know, I live in So. cal, san diego county, senior in hs, mexican, girl, conducting a survey, wish I had attended comicon, how real can I get? Any jatraqueros in El cajon?
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
Goody, the problem would be getting him to register and post. Even though he often reads hatrack over my shoulder and funny threads, he's got an inexplicable phobia.
AJ
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
Xavier was in Pacific Beach but left. AndrewR lives somewhere in San Diego, but doesn't post much here anymore (and I don't think he's real yet anyway). My parents, brother, sister-in-law, sister, brother-in-law, two nephews, one niece, and two future as-yet-to-be-determined-gender children-of-siblings all live in Clairemont. Perhaps the next time we go to visit we can try to schedule a meeting to make you real.
--Pop
Posted by Marek (Member # 5404) on :
Raia is real, and has met plenty of real hatrackers to prove it.
Namely:
Marek MeltingSnowman Blacwolve Allegra Fugu
And will soon meet rivka, so I'sd say she is real.
[ September 01, 2004, 09:25 AM: Message edited by: Marek ]
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Thanks, Marek! It's most kind.
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
Oh Blue Fairy, I'm a real.... errr.... girl!
That's right, this weekend I went to Xnera's birthday party, where I met AJ (well, okay, I actually met HER at the train station LOL), Tom and Christy (and little Sophie, what a cutiepie), Bernard and Jeni!
I am no longer a figment of my own imagination!
Goody
Posted by tt&t (Member # 5600) on :
I'm half-real, which I think is pretty good considering how far away I live.
I met twinky, who is real. Also, I think he should count for two people. I may even meet him twice, so that should definitely count. Mmyes.
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
I'm real! KamaCon baby!
Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
quote: KamaCon baby!
I am not responsible for any KamaCon babies!
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
There were two Kama Con babies Superstation and Sophie!
Oh my. Maybe they destined for each other. A second generation Hatrack romance!
AJ
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
Kama, that is too bad.....but I bet it wasn't for lack of trying....
Right Frisco?
Kwea
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
Wendybird obtained reality this past weekend. Though I'm still not sure that Bison Witches is a real place.
Posted by Wendybird (Member # 84) on :
After many many years of Hatrack lurking I am finally real!
Those that can attest to my realness:
Pooka Shigosei Architraz Warden PSI Teleport (and her hubby)
Woohoo! I feel honored to join the ranks of real Hatrackers
**Pooka may be right in her musing of the realness of Bison Witches
Posted by Grisha (Member # 6871) on :
quote: I'm half-real, which I think is pretty good considering how far away I live.
I met twinky, who is real. Also, I think he should count for two people. I may even meet him twice, so that should definitely count. Mmyes.
I think kylie is real now, since i beleive she has met Ronnie too.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Wow, I must be lucky.
I've only been here 3 1/2 months, and I'm real twice over.
Actually, I've met Papa Moose and rivka, so I think I should count as real 3 times over. Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
I've met Bob the Lawyer, and talked to Lyraluthuen on the phone a few times. I've also traded mail with ReikoDemosthenes.
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
If I was still at Waterloo, I could have met you too and then you would have been real
Actually, I'll probably be in Waterloo visiting Bob sometime this spring, so the possibility may still exist.
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
I've met my husband, and he's met me, so does that make us real?
Although he only ever joined Hatrack after I told him about it and has posted here perhaps a dozen times total.
We're not real at all, are we? *slinks off into the nether void*
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
Nope...not yet, anyway.
Youo have to meet two people who ARE real to become real...so you can't count each other.
Nice try though.....
Kwea
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
What are the odds that you can talk Fahim out of leaving Sri Lanka?
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
I think, therefore...
Hey pass the Doritos!
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
oooo.....shiny........
Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
I've never met anybody. I guess that means I'm not real.
Except that I'm sitting here, and I know I have a body, and a consciousness, and at the moment, an awful head cold. You can't convince me I'm not real while I can only breathe from one nostril and cannot swallow without pain. So I know I must be real. But since I've never met any of you, I can't prove that any of you are real!
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
*blink* Tom, did you maybe mean in to?
And quid (and Fahim) will be real after we have SriLanCon 2006! (Assuming that will be enough time.)
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
You know, I think a TorontoCon would be ideal .
Edit: Although if it was not during the school year I wouldn't be able to go.
Ah well, Anonymity (sp?) and unreality adds a sort of enigmatic quality .
[ January 16, 2005, 04:23 PM: Message edited by: Teshi ]
Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
Fahim was once denied a visa. They might, though not necessarily, grant him one now that he's married to a Canadian.
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
Gee, someone's been paying attention. Yeah, in theory, they'll probably let him have a visa into Canada now, providing we actually translate our marriage certificate into English, which we haven't done yet, and provide it to the Canadian High Commission. But then you're assuming that I want to go back to Canada. Well, for a visit, sure, but definitely not to stay. I like it here. Although I'd be willing to live in other countries, too. Maybe Thailand, or Belize, or Algeria, or Morocco, or Peru, or Chile, or Egypt, or Kuwait, or Dubai, or . . .
Tourism is happening again in Sri Lanka. Not in the coastal areas so much because there's a lot of reconstruction work to be done, but in Colombo and the centre of the country and the cultural triangle, it's all back to normal. So yes, y'all can come for LankaCon anytime! Party on!
Edit: Not the phone company, dagnabbit!
[ January 16, 2005, 09:11 PM: Message edited by: quidscribis ]
Posted by Katie DeShane (Member # 7026) on :
Ok well, since I've yet to touch this topic yet..
I've met only OSC and Mrs K. She was the one to prod me out and actually be a person instead of a shadow here.
I've yet to attend any Cons.. altho I would love to do that... I wonder if there's any Enderverse/OSC Meetups nearby?
For the record, I've lived only an hour or two (at the most) from the Cards since 1984. (I think.. when did OSC set up shop in Gbo?) Even when I enlisted, I still ended right back to being an hour or so from the Cards.. only in the opposite direction So anyhow.. still I wonder about those OSC Meetups
*goes off to search cos being bored is.. boring (and it sucks monkeys)*
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
Hm. I need to update! I'm MORE real now than ever before!!
I've known JemmyGrove and Abrynne (my sister) forever.
After that, I met:
Ralphie Nato Shigosei BYuCnslr (Insanity Plea) DeathofBees Shan Deidre
I also met Ralphie's hubby, jeniwren's hubby and children, MoonRabbit's wife, Shigosei's parents, Shan's Nathan...
Then I met:
Frisco
I did not, however, get to meet his two fish.
Posted by Vadon (Member # 4561) on :
*snaps fingers*
Curse it, I can't confirm my exsistance! I prefer to hide out and not allow others to find me. Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
I'm real. Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
<-- High Five, Corwin! Me too! I met rivka and Adam613 and narritivium and Frisco.
Feels nice being real. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Did I ever post on this thread? I feel like I've been real forever, even though it's only actually been-- oh, less than a year?
Btw, I love the name SriLanCon. We have to call it that if we ever have it!
Posted by no. 6 (Member # 7753) on :
<--Not Real.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
But I'm pretty sure that 6 is a real number...
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
I can finally post in this thread .
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
Stan the Man is real too.
Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
I'm real now.
You can ask rivka, who I met last November, and now you can also ask romanylass, who I met last week when she and her family came by to visit me while they were visiting in Fresno.
Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
I met Raia and CalvinMaker! I'm Real! You're [/i]stuffed[/i]! Yeah, that's it, thinking you could get away with it!
But I'm a REAL boy now!
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
Man, I should keep notes. I vouch for all these people. If I've forgotten anyone, let me know. Did this off the top of my head, with a little help from Nathan's list. Don't think I'm as big a nerd as he is yet, but I'm probably an easy second.
It's funny that the clumps I haven't met are the Utah and Oregon ones. And I haven't met the other Hatracker in my city!
Adam613 Allegra Amka Annie BannaOJ Ben Bernard beverly blacwolve Bob_Scopatz cal_meecham CalvinMaker CaySedai celia Christy coil Cor Dierdre dkw Ela ElJay Enigmatic Farmgirl fiazko fugu13 gnixing Happy Camper Hobbes Icarus IvyGirl JaneX Jenny Gardner JNSB Juliette Kama katharina KathrynHKidd ketchupqueen ketchupprincess Khavanon KrabbyPatty KristineCard Kwea kwsni ladyday LadyDove Lalo Leonide Leto Lime Lucky4 Luet mackillian Mama Squirrel Marek Mayday Megan meltingsnowman Miro Mooselet Morbo mr_porterio_head Narnia narrativium NdRa Olivet Ophelia OSC Papa Moose penguinavere Plaid Pod porceain girl PosableNurse Psychotriad punwit Ralphie RRR Richard Berg Risuena rivka Ryuko saxon75 Shigosei SingingRing Sophie Space Opera sndrake Starla Stray Strider Superstation T_Smith Taalcon Tante Shvester Telperion The Tick Theca TMedina TomDavidson Valentine14 Vana Xavier xnera Zevlag
[ September 26, 2005, 10:04 PM: Message edited by: Frisco ]
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
Also, I'm real.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Really real.
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
I can vouch for all these folks.
Ralphie Nato Shigosei BYuCnslr (Insanity Plea) DeathofBees Shan Deidre Jonnynotsobravo Annie Hobbes Crystal OrsonScottCard kacard jeniwren Moonrabbit Zotto! Mr. Funny T_Smith Frisco Brinestone sarcasticmuppet Jon boy MPH beverly Mr. Gumby Magson raventh1 romanylass hansenj pooka JemmyGrove Abrynne
I know I'm probably forgetting someone.
Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
I like the idea that my list of Hatrackers I'm related to is probably longer than many people's lists of Hatrackers they've met. Heck, last night there were four of us at my place eating chinese food and watching Firefly, that's practically a Con!
Also, I've met more Hatrackers before I was actually registered than I have since. I warp reality.
--Enigmatic
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
I think my list is over 100 now, but I'm not really sure. . .
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
Surely you know someone with the ability to count. Ask nicely and they'll help, I bet.
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
You missed Enigmatic on your list, btw. I notice because I was using yours to help figure out mine.
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
I still don't exist!
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
I think this is it, so under 100 after all. I'm going to meet msquared this weekend, though! I keep getting the feeling I'm still missing someone. . . my apologies if so.
Allegra Annie Arthur Astaril BannaOJ Bernard blacwolve Bob_Scopatz CalvinMaker Carrie CaySedai celia Christy Claudia Therese Cor Desdemona dkw Enigmatic Eaquae Legit Farmgirl fiazko Frisco fugu13 Happy Camper Hobbes Icarus Intellegence3 IvyGirl Jaiden Jenny Gardner JNSB Juliette Kama katharina KrabbyPatty kwsni Lime mackillian Mama Squirrel Marek maui babe Mayday Mister Boy Mooselet Noemon Papa Moose Plaid Pod PosableNurse Primal Curve Psychotriad punwit RRR ReikoDemosthenes Richard Berg rivka Ryuko saxon75 Shigosei Sophie Space Opera sndrake Stray Superstation T_Smith Traveler Teshi Telperion The Tick Theca Ticklet TomDavidson twinky Valentine14 Vana Xavier xnera Zevlag
Edited to add:
msquared Kristin kmboots
Adding:
Ben El JT de Sprang Ophelia racingbird Tante Schvester
Adding:
Billie/LadyDay
[ August 24, 2007, 09:33 PM: Message edited by: ElJay ]
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
I'm pretty sure that Frisco's met Geoff, too.
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
Actually, no. I wasn't yet a Hatracker at EnderCon, though I did see him do the Thor sketch.
Posted by Little_Doctor (Member # 6635) on :
I don't quite exist just yet. I need to meet one more of you nut jobs. I don't know how I'm going to do it.
Posted by Avadaru (Member # 3026) on :
I'm real.
Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
Are there any Jatraqueros in Hawaii?
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
Oh, thanks for reminding me! I forgot maui babe!
There's also Zotto, but I haven't met him.
Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
I have a hunch that Maui Babe might live in Hawaii.
--Enigmatic
Posted by tt&t (Member # 5600) on :
Zotto lives in Hawaii. And, I think, Maui Babe.
Edit: Jeez. I wasn't even that slow. Posted by Khavanon (Member # 929) on :
I'm about to embark on a three year tour over there. So I'll be stuck in the West Pole without many places to venture off to.
Posted by Kasie H (Member # 2120) on :
I met TomD!! And Pixie! And KarlEd!
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
We're doing lists now? Forget it.
Too much like work.
I will, however, vouch for lma and Tante. Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
I just took Frisco's list and took off a few people and put on a few people. I figured since we were both at KamaCon and the wedding they'd have a lot of overlap, and they did. . .
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
Yeah, those lists are prodigious. I can't remember on what page I first posted who I've met, and the list has increased since then. Posted by Stan the man (Member # 6249) on :
Ya see Rivka, my list is pretty short. => not so much work.
Shigosei Rivka Intelligence3 the Moose family (ok, but this was just to keep the list short) Telperion the Silver
Posted by Treason (Member # 7587) on :
I'm sad I'm not a real girl. (yet!)
Narnia - "Then I met:
Frisco
I did not, however, get to meet his two fish."
What's Frisco really like? I'm sure he won't give me a straight answer, and I find him interesting. Also, I don't remember if I ever told you before but I love your name. If you look on the HP questions thread I mentioned wanting to live in you!
Posted by ? (Member # 2319) on :
Anyone live near South Jordan or Logan, UT. I wish I was a real boy!
?
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
If I convince my niece to sign up at Hatrack, and she's here in my house, can she, Fahim, and I be made instantly real together?
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Since we have 3 Hatrackers living in our house, anyone from Hatrack-- or who joins later-- who comes over to visit is now instantly real. Wow. Scary! That also applies to all the married couples and roommates and everything else on Hatrack, of course. But I just realized it.
Posted by Allegra (Member # 6773) on :
I think it take meeting two already real people to make you real. Otherwise you could just have multiple personalities Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
I just counted. I think I've met 64 Hatrackers.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
I have no idea what my list would be. Everyone but the New England clump and the Northwest clump, I think.
Posted by pepinaso (Member # 8639) on :
I'm not sure but i think that after this last weekend i will go down as fastest to become real registered hatracker. With only 2 posts to my name I am real.
Heres my list
Katharina Kama Choobak Corwin
Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
*blink*
*blink blink*
Steve!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
Replace "Corwin" with "pepinaso"/"Steve" in pepinaso's list, and you have mine.
Oh, and hi, Steve! I'm glad you and kat arrived ok. I'm not sure about the "fastest to become real" part... Depends on how you define the rules for becoming real, for example if you already met two real hatrackers when you sign up here you're already real. Complicated, huh? Anyway, you're real, that's what matters! Posted by pepinaso (Member # 8639) on :
What i mean by fastest is from the time that i registered to the time that i met other hatrackers was less than 24 hours. i say thats preety good.
hi Kama!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
We've had several people be real the instant they signed up, actually. But you might be the fastest to become real without already having met two real Hatrackers prior to joining.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
quote:Originally posted by rivka:
I will, however, vouch for lma and Tante.
Mother and Aunt?
Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
I've met three. One whom I persuaded to join, and is by no means real.
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
But Steve, you were already real before you signed up, just required the signing up part. Don't I remember reading you met Beverly at a book signing? If so, I'm pretty sure you know Kat right, since she's your sister and went with you to Spain, so you must (unless there are some weird issues). Which makes you real before you met Corwin, Choobak, Kama, or any others.
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
quote:Originally posted by TomDavidson: We've had several people be real the instant they signed up, actually. But you might be the fastest to become real without already having met two real Hatrackers prior to joining.
I am having a hard time trying to figure out what that statement means, exactly. Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
If breyerchic's right, then Steve joins the ranks of people who became real immediately after joining.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Breyerchic is correct, so he also gets to add beverly and MattB to his list of Hatrackers he has met.
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
That's what I thought. I'm also on that list, having met fugu, raia, blacwolve, kyrie, meltingsnowman, and stryker by registration, fugu had been to wenchcon2, blacwolve and meltingsnowman had been to a signing with aj, celia, happycamper, and hobbes, as well as met osc, and somehow msquared.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by Tante Shvester:
quote:Originally posted by rivka:
I will, however, vouch for lma and Tante.
Mother and Aunt?
*giggle* Except that is an L, not an i.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Ooooh! I see. Never mind.
Posted by Astaril (Member # 7440) on :
I guess I was real upon registering too. I'd met Bob the Lawyer, and twinky (however briefly), and Eaquae Legit (sort of). However, now I can also vouch for:
Desdemona Eaquae Legit (for real this time) ReikoDemosthenes Teshi ElJay (like she needs more verification)
And this reminds me, I never did scan my few paltry pictures from Hatrack.ca and now I can't. Sorry, guys.
Posted by gossip (Member # 4849) on :
I just wanted to say that I'm real.
Posted by Allegra (Member # 6773) on :
I signed up for hatrack while at KamaCon. I was real immediately.
Posted by B-HAX (Member # 6640) on :
I am a bot.
Posted by genius00345 (Member # 8206) on :
Well, I just met Orson Scott Card and kacard at a book signing/lecture today. So that makes two. But I also know disgruntled webdesigner. So that's three.
I'm real now. Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
*bump for firebird and others* finally got it to work, needed to get the caps and the punctuation in the right spots.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Hey, I've got a question.
There are three currently Real Jatraquero/as in this household. When the new baby is born, is s/he Instantly Real as soon as s/he has a screenname? Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
yes actually, I bet if you registered it a name, pre birth, it'd be real, pre birth, though I'm not sure, you'd probably need to ask Slash. But at least by birth, it's real. Like, if Enigmatic were to have a girlfriend that wasn't on hatrack, if she met his mother or sister, and registered, she'd be real (sorry to use him as an example, but it worked in my head).
Posted by firebird (Member # 1971) on :
Thanks breyerchic! Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
quote: yes actually, I bet if you registered it a name, pre birth, it'd be real, pre birth,
*giggles* Well, it obviously did come out of a meeting of two Real Jatraqueros...
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
and it can hear you, no different than if it were a blind jatraquero right ?
anytime firebird
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Heck, pretty soon it'll even be kicking me.
But I think I'll wait until it's born to declare it "Real".
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
heh, yeah having a true birth name might be good for being real, even if no one else knows it.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
I think you have to actually post on Hatrack before you can be real, though. Merely having a screenname shouldn't cut it.
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
so that means an unborn child can't post, but a newborn can? I think that's where it gets hard.
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
No, it means you're not real until you're posting under your screenname.
In other words, just because both parents are Real and they post under their child's screenname doesn't make the child real.
Just my take on Tom's statement.
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
But sophie's real, and she's tom's kid, and I think christy posted as her.
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
Not according to Tom's definition.
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
Maybe, but the way I took Tom's definition, isn't the way you took it, babies "posting" counts, if there is a post, at least that's how it's been discussed before. He said it actually has to have posts, just having it registered doesn't count.
Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
From the first post in this thread:
quote: Bob mentioned recently that because of the nature of the BB, we may all be having conversations with people who don't exist, except as multiple pseudonyms for the same person.
If the original intent was to verify that a screenname was not actually a different Hatracker posting under an alternative name, I don't think that parents posting as their babies would make the babies Real. That's pretty clearly an alt until such time as the child can type and takes over the screenname.
On the other hand, if the point is just to attest that a person actually exists, the baby would still be real if two other Hatrackers (presumably the parents) had met him/her, whether the baby is responsible for any posts or not.
--Enigmatic
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
I don't consider Sophie "real" in the Hatrack sense. Posted by Zarex (Member # 8504) on :
Well, I suppose I'd better post here to "officialize" my "realness." I have met Will B., who is in my writing popular fiction class, and Scott Card, who teaches my writing popular fiction class.
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
Is Will B. "Real"?
It's not enough to merely meet two Hatrackers, you have to meet two "real" hatrackers. In other words, every "real" hatracker is connected to every other "real" hatracker.
Real hatrackers cannot exist in a vacuum.
Posted by kmbboots (Member # 8576) on :
pH is at least half real! I've met her. Although I'm not sure if that counts because I may not be real. I've only otherwise met Hatrackers who aren't around anymore.
Posted by Ophelia (Member # 653) on :
pH has been real for awhile.
And it's not how recently the old jatraqueros were around, it's whether or not they themselves were real. Slash doesn't post here anymore, and he's the root of all the real.
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
kmboots, are the people you've met on the first page of this thread kmboots (or anypage really), also if only one is, and you've met pH, you're real.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
There are real jatraqueros who haven't posted on this thread. I'm real several times over, but I don't think I've posted in here before. I'm sure there are others.
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
yeah but I think (just a guess) that most of the really old Utah ones are listed even if they didn't post it, and I'd say many others, though yeah there are real people who haven't been mentioned on this thread.
Posted by kmbboots (Member # 8576) on :
No...I think the only other Hatracker I've met is Grayson Towler and he was from back in the old days and hasn't posted for years.
But now I've met pH and, since she is real, can I be half real?
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
Yea, You live in chicago? If I were any closer, I'd drive up and meet you.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
If you're in Chicago, you have the opportunity to be VERY real very easily. Posted by kmbboots (Member # 8576) on :
Well, Evanston actually. But I'm the queen of the el. Cool! I get to be a real girl someday! How many of you are nearby?
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
There are four regulars in Madison, three in Milwaukee, and I think another five in the west suburbs of Chicago.
Posted by firebird (Member # 1971) on :
How many REAL hatrackers are their in London?
I just want to know how difficult it is going to be ....
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
One, as far as I'm aware. So you'll need your second to be a traveller, more than likely, or you'll have to do some traveling yourself.
Posted by firebird (Member # 1971) on :
Who?
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
Amira Tharani.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Wasn't there some map somewhere where the 'rackers marked where in the world they are? This was back many many months ago.
Posted by Jhai (Member # 5633) on :
Just for the record - I'm real. I've met both Raia and blacwolve.
If I travel to London, firebird, I'll confer Realness on you in exchange for a place to crash. Posted by firebird (Member # 1971) on :
Jhai ... anytime!
ohh ohhh I'm going to be real!
Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
just to get this straight. If someone met a real hatracker before they registered, and then another real hatracker after they registered, it makes them real, no?
Posted by Grisha (Member # 6871) on :
wow, i need to visit hatrack more often, so many posters i've never heard of (who I'm sure have never heard of me either) are already real. Oh well, welcome to reality y'all.
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
quote:Originally posted by TomDavidson: I don't consider Sophie "real" in the Hatrack sense.
I think you should let her post. If KP can do it... Posted by Yank (Member # 2514) on :
I met with several other Hatrackers in Salt Lake some years ago; but, shame upon my head forevermore, don't recall their aliases. I'm fairly certain I do exist, though. I've met Geoff and Scott Card on several occassions, but as they were book-signings I'm certain they don't remember.
Posted by sweetbaboo (Member # 8845) on :
I have been lurking for awhile and just joined this morning. Here's my question. Why does it matter if someone is "real" if they are contributing in a positive/interesting/valuable way? Since I'm a newbie, I don't know when (if ever) I will meet anyone, as "real" life might not permit that but I wouldn't want to be discounted right off the bat.
Posted by Jhai (Member # 5633) on :
Oh, it doesn't really matter, sweetbaboo. It's just a fun to get to know Hatrackers not only here in the forum but IRL as well.
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
It's just for fun, you'll be ok if you don't, but it's fun to meet people.
Posted by sweetbaboo (Member # 8845) on :
Gotcha. Posted by Omega M. (Member # 7924) on :
I'll confess that this is the second name I've used at Hatrack---the third I've used at either Hatrack or Ornery. I've started a new name whenever I've come back to Hatrack or Ornery after a long absence (at least a year), and I've never pretended to be two different people at the same time.
(A few of my posts under my old name still survive, though.)
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
kmbboots is now at least half real!
Kate and I went to lunch over the weekend so I could deliver Girl Scout cookies. We aren't sure if she's completely real, though, because although she's also met with pH, we don't know if the Hatrackers conferring reality must themselves be real (which I certainly am) and whether pH has attained reality.
By the way, Kate is a lovely and attractive lady and we had a great time together. Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
I'm only all too real.
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
I'm pretty sure pH is real, but I forget who made her that way.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
I'm real; I met Paul Goldner in Boston...and Bob Scopatz...and narr...and Ela...and JaneX and everybody else who went to Epcot that one time.
And I met a couple of you in Chicago.
-pH
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
Sweetboo, some of people here don't WANT to be real, not in the Hatrack sense, and that's fine as well.
I can't recall a time where anyone I respect discounted someones opinion here just because they were real and the other person wasn't, it doesn't matter in that way at all.
It is just fun to meet Jatraquero's, IMO. Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
Teehee.
And I was listening to this song: "'cause you were never really real to begin with...
...there is no you; there is only me."
In conclusion, you are all figments of my imagination, and I am the only one who is real.
-pH
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Glenn Arnold got realified on Sunday at KosherCon.
Really.
Posted by JemmyGrove (Member # 6707) on :
quote:Originally posted by breyerchic04: I'm pretty sure pH is real, but I forget who made her that way.
Either God or Evolution. But that's a debate for another thread. Posted by kmbboots (Member # 8576) on :
Yay! pH and Goody made me a real girl! And lunch was really fun! And I haven't eaten all the cookies yet.
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
Then you have admirable self-restraint.
Posted by Chris Kidd (Member # 2646) on :
can people become unreal. im just asking cause if only meet a few people at Endercon. I don't know am i fadeing away.
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
quote:Originally posted by sweetbaboo: I have been lurking for awhile and just joined this morning. Here's my question. Why does it matter if someone is "real" if they are contributing in a positive/interesting/valuable way? Since I'm a newbie, I don't know when (if ever) I will meet anyone, as "real" life might not permit that but I wouldn't want to be discounted right off the bat.
I'm not real, and living in Sri Lanka, it's doubtful I'll ever become real.
I guess that means anything I say is immediately discounted and unimportant. :cries: What will I do??????????? *wails*
Posted by Celaeno (Member # 8562) on :
I'm real now!
I knew erosomniac and jennabean before I joined, but I also met KetchupPrinceConsort.
And some day we'll do a NorCal MiniCon and I'll get to meet a few more of you. Will that make me more real?
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
quote:Originally posted by kmbboots: And I haven't eaten all the cookies yet.
:::thud::: What's takin' you so long?? LOL
Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
quid, don't despair, who knows what the future brings? I mean, I also never thought I'd become real, and it happened. Maybe you could convince Arthur C. Clarke to join Hatrack and maybe he can make you real. Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
Oh, and Kate, the necklace turned out to be a huge hit. She hasn't taken it off since she got it, not even to shower. I knew the bag of toys would go over big. Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
Corwin, someone would have to make him real first. And considering how old he is, there isn't much time... Posted by kmbboots (Member # 8576) on :
quote:Originally posted by Goody Scrivener: Oh, and Kate, the necklace turned out to be a huge hit. She hasn't taken it off since she got it, not even to shower. I knew the bag of toys would go over big.
That is really cool. We did goooood.
Posted by Dr Strangelove (Member # 8331) on :
I am REAL!!!
Compliments of beverly, mr_porteiro_head, Brinestone, Jon Boy, pooka, and sarcasticmuppet. I fear I was a bit of a dull-blob in person (much like I fear I am here ), but hey, regardless, I now exist other than as a concept and 13 letters and a space. Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
Congrats! I worry that we might have been a bit intimidating to hang with. We all know each other fairly well, and have quite a bit of history. I hope you enjoyed yourself, though! Good to meet you!
Posted by JennaDean (Member # 8816) on :
Well, OSC doesn't remember me from the handshaking hordes, so Strangelove, you've my only chance. We must meet, dahling.
*whispers* Quid, I believe in you. Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
You even spelled my name right. Posted by Dante (Member # 1106) on :
You know what would be a really good idea? Two Hatrackers should get together and travel around the country in a van, visiting other Hatrackers to make them "real" and solving crimes. Since I'm not really doing anything important, I'll nominate myself.
Who's with me?
Posted by Dr Strangelove (Member # 8331) on :
Hey JennaDean! You're from North-East Florida! Where exactly?
And bev, no, not intimidating at all. I'm just ... not very social. . Even around people I've known all my life I tend to hang back and ... whats the word ... observe.
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
What is fire and how does it.. what's the word? . . Buuuuuuuuurn!
Posted by Dr Strangelove (Member # 8331) on :
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
quote:You know what would be a really good idea? Two Hatrackers should get together and travel around the country in a van, visiting other Hatrackers to make them "real" and solving crimes. Since I'm not really doing anything important, I'll nominate myself.
Who's with me?
I nominate starLisa. Cuz that would be the funniest thing EVER.
Posted by JennaDean (Member # 8816) on :
Jacksonville, Strangelove. An hour and a half.
I thought of you as I drove through Daytona last Friday night. Posted by Dr Strangelove (Member # 8331) on :
Well heck, whenever you're down my way, let me know. I don't get up to Jacksonville all that often, but if/when I do I'll be sure to let you know.
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
There's something a little bit wrong about PC singing Little Mermaid... I blame Emma Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
Ella
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
(duh.... I did know that... now I blame Nickelodeon, because there was a commercial for some movie with Emma Roberts on)
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
New people asking what real is, read the first page.
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
I'm half Real now! Thanks to the lovely Raia.
Posted by Ereneth (Member # 9532) on :
None of my friends ever frequent message boards, therefor, there are 10+ Ereneths on the web, none of them are 'real'.
Search for Ereneth on Google if you want all my internet IDs, about 4-5 of the matches aren't mine.
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
Real only applies to Hatrack, at least in this sense.
So even if you and your 30 closest friends had your own message board, it wouldn't make you any more 'real' here. So to speak.
<---- still not real.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
I'd forgotten how people would name all of the other forum members they'd met, way back when. Let's see...In rough order of appearance, I've met:
ElJay Posable Nurse celia60 msquared fiazko Farmgirl Kayla Ivygirl John Keats punwit CT kwsni Psychotriad twinky Suneun Pod Jaiden KarlEd Phoenix Stray Jenny Gardener Kristen Coatesie kmbboots dkw Bob_Scopatz Krabby_Patty Enigmatic Xavier valentine014 rivka
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
quote:Originally posted by El JT de Spang: Real only applies to Hatrack, at least in this sense.
So even if you and your 30 closest friends had your own message board, it wouldn't make you any more 'real' here. So to speak.
<---- still not real.
I thought that you'd met both pH and Avadaru.
[ July 08, 2006, 09:33 PM: Message edited by: Noemon ]
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
Nuh uh. We've had a couple of tentative get-togethers planned but they've never gotten off of the ground.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
MWAHAHAHA! You will never be real, JT!
-pH
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
Fine by me. I like being a hateful sarcastic computer program. A very clever one.
Posted by Lalo (Member # 3772) on :
For the record, I exist now. I've met Frisco, Avadaru, and pH -- and maybe even more someday, unless I train myself to run faster.
My reality should be complete on 8/20. So far I've met Jim-Me. In August the number of people supporting my reality should jump dramatically, because everyone who meets in D.C. who's not real will become real.
Posted by Ereneth (Member # 9532) on :
Anyone here from the Durango Colorado area? cause who knows, maybe I saw you at the store or something. Posted by FlyingCow (Member # 2150) on :
I just passed through Durango in April, spent two nights there. So, I guess it's possible. Posted by Dr Strangelove (Member # 8331) on :
I was in Durango last May. A long time ago, to be sure, but I was there. There's a Super Walmart if my memory serves. Perhaps we saw each other! Though I'd wager conversation is necessary to establish Realness.
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
Knowing that you're talking to a real hatracker seems nessesary to me. Though it's ok if they aren't real, and go meet other reals later, If I remember correctly.
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
I feel sort of sad because I didn't get to celebrate a moment of becoming real. Reality as a concept post-dated my first hatrack meetings. We used to call hatrack gatherings "hatrack picnics" back in the ancient days of which I speak.
My list: Dean Mikey Slash sarfa Jacob Porter Brian Worth Richard Berg Saudade Andrei Pod Mackillian BunnV kaioshin00 Grisha
Most of those don't post anymore.
People I have known long enough and talked to enough on the phone that I have absolutely no doubts of their reality, and find it hard to remember that I've not yet met them in person.
Amira Toretha Black Fox Jaiden Pixie
Probably more that I've forgotten, so I apologize in advance. My memory sucks.
Most of these post rarely nowadays or not at all. I wonder if my reality can lapse if I don't keep forming new hatrack connections?
Posted by Jhai (Member # 5633) on :
For all those interested, Celaeno is now real!
She's previously met KetchupPrinceConsort, and she just hung out with human_2.0 & I (and my boyfriend) up in San Francisco. We had a good time eating seafood in Chinatown, then driving around, enjoying the night lights and the big hills.
Now she has, like, 12 hours to pack for Europe. Posted by Celaeno (Member # 8562) on :
[ August 07, 2006, 08:02 AM: Message edited by: Celaeno ]
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
Mountineer48 is real. He is my friend Pete, and he knows VelourMan, JenniK, and me.
Posted by human_2.0 (Member # 6006) on :
I don't think I've posted here before. I'm real too!
Posted by SoaPiNuReYe (Member # 9144) on :
I exist Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
I'm fairly sure I'm real.
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
I'm finally realized, courtesy of T_smith, mackillian, Laitment, Myr, sarahdipity, and rav.
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
quote:Originally posted by Slash the Berzerker: So, I thought it would be nice to create a list of verifiably real people. To be real, you need to have been physically met by two or more other hatrackers who can attest to your existence. A list of your witnesses is required. Those able to produce such a list are automatically granted more credibility in the hatrack community. I have decreed it as the lizard king, and thus it is law.
I just want to say that I have now achieved uber-realness, as Slash the Berzerker mowed my lawn.
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
Showoff.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
I got to meet Slash in July. Posted by B34N (Member # 9597) on :
I'm a figment of my own imagination!
Posted by Miro (Member # 1178) on :
quote:Originally posted by Dagonee: My reality should be complete on 8/20. So far I've met Jim-Me. In August the number of people supporting my reality should jump dramatically, because everyone who meets in D.C. who's not real will become real.
*cough*
Posted by cmc (Member # 9549) on :
Actually, if B34N's a figment of his own imagination, then I'm there too... I can attest to his realness now.
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
So you're both half real.
Posted by Libbie (Member # 9529) on :
I'm real! I've met erosomniac and juxtapose and, uhhh, I can't remember the other dude's forum name.
I AM VAAAAAALLLID!!!
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
quote:Originally posted by Libbie: I'm real! I've met erosomniac and juxtapose and, uhhh, I can't remember the other dude's forum name.
I AM VAAAAAALLLID!!!
Tragically, since neither Juxtapose nor I is real, your real-ness is in question still. Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
I've met Libbie, though I don't think she remembers me. It was in the Artisans Gallery at breyerfest this year.
Posted by B34N (Member # 9597) on :
quote:Originally posted by breyerchic04: So you're both half real.
No - cmc is real and I'm still just a figment of my imagination, just very good at Jedi-Mind-Tricks and making people think they are seeing something they aren't seeing.
+ edited for capitalization +
[ September 24, 2006, 03:56 AM: Message edited by: B34N ]
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Btw, Jhai can attest to the fact that Lyrhawn is totally real now! Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
Oh! I'm real for sure now.
<~~~Real!!
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Haha I win!
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
You fast little typer you!
You'll pay, somehow.... Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Heh... is that right? Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
You know it my love. Posted by B34N (Member # 9597) on :
Get a room you two. Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
*giggle*
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
Excellent suggestion B34N!
She'd be so lucky Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
*writes that down*
Posted by B34N (Member # 9597) on :
oh no, I actually fed it! Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
We're like a hydra... the more you try to deter us, the less successful you are!
(Wow... that's possibly the geekiest thing I've said all day!)
Posted by Evie3217 (Member # 5426) on :
I'm officially real! I was real about a month ago, but I didn't really remember about this thread till just now.
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
Actually I think we're more like a caged tiger.
Always hungry, naturally beautiful to behold, rare, and always looking to break free of any restraints.
And wild as the jungle.
Feed at your own risk. =)
Posted by B34N (Member # 9597) on :
Here have a peanut!
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
*starts giggling again*
I'm not sure how to respond to that... I don't have your natural gift of words... Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by Evie3217: I'm officially real! I was real about a month ago, but I didn't really remember about this thread till just now.
*attests*
Hey, someone want to help me figure out how many Hatrackers I have met? Including both those I have met for 5 minutes or less, and those I have had actual face-to-face conversations with?
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
You've met me.
[Edit--and:
ElJay dkw Bob_Scopatz kmboots Xavier Valentine014 Stray Enigmatic twinky posable_nurse krabbypatty Smokey]
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lyrhawn: I'm fairly sure I'm real.
We're all facebook friends... does that make me real? Or just really stalkerish?
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
I think it makes you real creepy Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
*laugh* Let's limit this to human Hatrackers, ok? Which makes 12 so far.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
quote:Actually I think we're more like a caged tiger.
Oh, God. I started having tiger kisses flashbacks.
It's like bamboo under the fingernails.
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
I can't remember-- did we ever decide if meeting the Cards made one real?
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
rivka, just grab my list from page 8 and go through adding and subtracting from it. That'll give you everyone from KamaCon, the wedding, and RaspberryCon, you'll just have to add California, Dallas, and East Coast people. It'll be a good start, at least. Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
There was a list on page 7 that Nate had met 101, so Rivka you've gotta beat that.
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
I've met
quote: Narnia Brock Kristine Card Scott Card Alethea Kontiss Eric James Stone
There's one other person I met while in Seattle, but alas-- I don't remember her name.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
quote:Originally posted by Scott R: I can't remember-- did we ever decide if meeting the Cards made one real?
I think that we decided that it didn't, since anybody could say that they'd met the Cards at a signing or whathaveyou, and there was no real way to verify such claims one way or the other (the Card's could verify it, assuming that the person stood out enough to be distinct from the thousands of other fans they'd meet in the course of a signing, but they aren't frequent enough participants in the forums for them to be relied upon to do so).
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
quote:Originally posted by TomDavidson:
quote:Actually I think we're more like a caged tiger.
Oh, God. I started having tiger kisses flashbacks.
Heh--I thought the same thing, Tom.
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
I have no idea how many Hatrackers I've met. I've been to cons on the East Coast and in Georgia, Utah, Texas, and California as well as KamaCon and EnderCon, though, so I think the numbers should be up there.
Posted by MyrddinFyre (Member # 2576) on :
Hmm this thread made me curious, so I have made my list just for the heck of it. Definitely not 101, but not bad for someone who lives in frequin RI
Haha, lists make me sad, it's like turning Hatrackers into a check in the box. I know it's not the intention... there are many good friends included! Also, I hope I'm not forgetting anyone. That would be sadder.
adam613 Alien Touring (though he hardly counts, he doesn't post and I knew him before ) Beca Bob_Scopatz Bokonon Calvin Maker Dragon Ela Elizabeth El JT de Spang Feyd Baron godric greNME JaneX JenniK Kama Kwea Laitment mackillian martha Mike narrativium Paercival Paul Goldner pod Raventh1 sarahdipity Suneun T_Smith
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
::snort::
I was in the process of composing a list of people I've met. I forgot that I'd done so after the last gathering I attended, back in July. So if you want to see who I've met, just go back a page or two.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Ok, I took ElJay's suggestion. Except it was hard to remember whether I had actually met a couple people, or just spoken to them so much online that I think I have! I also pulled a couple people who I have met in person, but not said much more than "hi" to. I also pulled all people-too-young-to-type-their-own-posts.
And I bet I left off several people. Some of whom are probably so blatantly obvious that I will be humiliated when they are pointed out.
But this is what I have so far: adam613 Allegra Amka Annie BannaOJ Bernard beverly blacwolve Bob_Scopatz Boon Brinestone CaySedai celia Christy Cor Diana dkw docmagik ElJay Enigmatic Evie Farmgirl fiazko Frisco fugu13 greNME hansenj Hobbes Icarus Intelligence3 IvyGirl Jaiden Jenny Gardner JNSB Jon Boy Juliette kacard Kama KarlEd katharina kmboots kq kqpc KrabbyPatty kwsni LadyDove Lime mackillian Mama Squirrel Marek Mayday Miro mph narrativium Noemon OrsonScottCard Papa Moose plaid pooka PosableNurse Psychotriad punwit Puppy Raia Ralphie raventh1 Risuena RRR Ryuko sarcasticmuppet saxon75 Shigosei sndrake Son of Shvester Space Opera Stray T_Smith Tante Shvester Telperion Teshi The Tick Theca TomDavidson twinky Valentine14 Vana Xavier xnera Zevlag
[ September 25, 2006, 02:56 PM: Message edited by: rivka ]
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
quote:Some of whom are probably so blatantly obvious that I will be humiliated when they are pointed out.
Um, yeah. You forgot me. :sniff:
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
I love that frisco is listed twice, rivka.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
*whistles innocently*
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
It just seemed like two personalities or something, put it back. But yeah, meeting ElJay would be good.
Posted by FlyingCow (Member # 2150) on :
When people you've met stop posting, does that make you less real?
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
No, it makes you a bad influence.
Posted by Miro (Member # 1178) on :
quote:Originally posted by rivka: And I bet I left off several people. Some of whom are probably so blatantly obvious that I will be humiliated when they are pointed out.
*poke*
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
eep! *goes to fix*
Posted by Dr Strangelove (Member # 8331) on :
I think that's everyone I met up in Park City. My list is pretty pitiful compartively speaking. One of these days I'm gonna go on a Hatrack tour of America .
Posted by Swampjedi (Member # 7374) on :
I've met:
Noemon msquared Tinros
I'm so barely real that a breeze could blow me away.
Posted by Jeesh (Member # 9163) on :
I'm still unreal.
Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
I've never met any Hatrackers in person BUT I have done a few things to prove that I am a real person and not a ghost, 14 chimpanzees locked in a room typing, or a deadly computer virus. I've exchanged phone numbers with pH and we talk once in a while. I also participated in the Hatrack gift exchange last year and got to send something to Raia. OH, and I had a few other people on my Facebook list way back when you needed a school email address to register.
I've done all this, and still I am incredibly unrealistic.
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
Hey, Jeesh, don't feel bad. I'm still unreal, and I've been here way, way, way longer than you. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
erosomniac is now Real. He met the Ketchup Clan (me, KPC, the Princess, and HRH) and the Meeses (Papa Moose, Mama Squirrel, Mooselet, Superstation, and Squoose) at IKEA Burbank last night for dinner and conversation. An excellent time was had by all and we can now attest to his existence. Posted by dean (Member # 167) on :
IKEA Burbank! I used to live right there! Just by dint of being at IKEA Burbank, you become real.
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
And you were one of the first Hatrackers I ever met (along with Slash, Olavmah, and PerfectGentleman), so it's like one of those circle of life things. 'Sgood to see you around, dean.
Posted by docmagik (Member # 1131) on :
You know, this thread kind of sums up my place on Hatrack. I'm around enough that I'm in the first two posts that defined the term "real," but not enough that they spelled my name right. <grin>
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
I think Heffaji/palimpesett and Little Doctor became real yesterday.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
If I ever get my boyfriend to start posting here, is he automatically real? I mean, he's met narr and me.
-pH
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
If you and narr are both real, then yeah. The meeting doesn't have to have taken place after the person started posting here.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
The Grimace was also realified yesterday.
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
It's catching... STOP THE INFECTION!!!!!!! IT'LL KILL US A
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
quote:Originally posted by ketchupqueen: erosomniac is now Real. He met the Ketchup Clan (me, KPC, the Princess, and HRH) and the Meeses (Papa Moose, Mama Squirrel, Mooselet, Superstation, and Squoose) at IKEA Burbank last night for dinner and conversation. An excellent time was had by all and we can now attest to his existence.
I cannot emphasize enough how incredibly difficult it was to keep track of the forum names and keep them associated with the real ones, especially since Papa & Mama managed to refer to their three kids almost exclusively by forum names.
It's also really fun to watch the reaction of passers-by at a mother referring to her child as "superstation." Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Do the kids all know their Hatrack names? Do they answer to them?
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Mooselet does. Squoose and HRH are too young. Superstation and Ketchup Princess, probably not yet, although Ems will occasionally turn if you call out "Hey, Princess," as if she thinks she has a right to it, I don't think it's forum related. Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
I'm halfway real! I just met Olivet.
Posted by Marlozhan (Member # 2422) on :
I have met Orson Scott Card and Unicornwhisperer (who happens to be my wife).
How many of you can claim to have had Uncle Orson's hand planted on the side of your face, as I have?
I thought not.
Posted by Me, Myself, and I (Member # 10003) on :
I met two hatrackers, but I can't say their names. Of course, I have met Myself and I, also, but I don't think they count. I guess that makes me fake.
Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
I met Uprooted! So all we have to do to get her all the way real is to have her over for dinner when Ophelia and Ben visit. Then she'll be set.
Posted by Celaeno (Member # 8562) on :
esl is now real.
I'm not sure which of us in particular transferred realness to her, but rivka, Mike, Abhi and I were all there.
This brings my Hatrackers-I've-Met Count to eight.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Well, Mike was on her right and I was on her left. And I gave her the Touch of Realness. Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
As of 6:07 PM tonight, I became real.
I met Jim-Me last summer, and KarlEd, Phoenix (Chris), and msquared and his wife in Baltimore this evening. A good time was had by all.
Posted by Flaming Toad on a Stick (Member # 9302) on :
And here I thought that over 22 thousand posts were written by a spambot. Silly me.
Posted by Tinros (Member # 8328) on :
I'm still only half-real, as I've only met swampjedi, and the cards don't count...
Which is really sad, considering Noemon lives in Dayton, which is a mere twenty minute drive from my hometown.
...Hey Noemon, feel like having lunch sometime?
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Sure Tinros, that sounds great! I've been wanting to go to an Ethiopian place in Columbus for a while; maybe we could do that one of these weekends. Or alternatively, we could meet up in Yellow Springs for some delicious food from the Sunrise Cafe. Amazingly good food--well worth trying if you haven't had it (and well worth going back for, as you probably know if you have had it).
Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
quote:Originally posted by Scott R: I've met
quote: Narnia Brock Kristine Card Scott Card Alethea Kontiss Eric James Stone
There's one other person I met while in Seattle, but alas-- I don't remember her name.
Hmmm -- was that the Seattle Center convention? 'Cause both my son and I was there and we met you, along with Narnia, JNSB . . . I think romanylass and her delightful children left before we hit the convention . . . or am I totally lost and thinking of a different Scott altogether? At any rate, Narnia, JNSB, romany and clan, and Nathan and myself had a fine time at the Seattle Science Center and then met someone at a conference . . . *puzzled*
Posted by Tinros (Member # 8328) on :
well, Noemon, here's the problem: I don't have a car on campus, as I'm only a freshie. However, starting Wednesday, I'll be home in Springboro for a week and a half for Spring Break. So there's a possibility of going to PF CHang's or Bravo by the Dayton Mall, if you're interested.
Sunrise Cafe in Yellow Springs? I may have been there... I'm not entirely sure though. I went to this one place with my family that had their own little store next door where I bought the msot AMAZING tea... but I'm not sure of the name of it.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Do you like Indian? Amar India (across from the Dayton Mall--not the crap Indian place behind the mall) is about the best Northern Indian place in town (it's a toss up between it and Ajanta, I think).
Posted by Tinros (Member # 8328) on :
I've never actually had Indian food. Do they have vegetarian dishes?
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
Yeah Shan, that was Scott. He just underestimated our numbers. And I think he was a little distracted that night. Winning some award or other. I don't remember.
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
I'd say traditional Indian food is mostly vegetarian. If you haven't had a lot of adventures in food from different cultures, you might want to have Noemon guide you with regard to spices (i.e., making sure you have at least one thing to eat that tastes somewhat familiar).
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Edited to add: If you eat cheese, palak paneer might be a good choice. It has a spinach base, and even people who don't like Western-style cooked spinach often like it.
You would probably like the various forms of naan bread to be tasty. It's kind of like a puffed pita. Samosas are easy on a virgin palate, too: fried dough with a filling (usually) of potatoes and peas, sometimes chickpeas as well. Dal is a thick soup made with a bean or legume product such as lentils or chickpeas. There often are also grilled vegetable dishes (either on kabobs or on a hot iron plate, similar to a fajita filling).
Don't be afraid to try the new spices and flavors, though. Some people take to them right away, while for some it is a more gradual process to come to enjoy them. My mother was a very Midwestern cook who had a deep and abiding distrust of the "funny-tasting food" from other cultures; for us, stuffed green peppers with so-called Spanish rice was quite exotic. However, I have come to adore curries, sushi, Mongolian barbeque, dim sum, and all sorts of things which would have shocked and appalled her.
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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
I know that Amar India has some vegetarian dishes. Maharaja of India, which is up by the Fairfield Commons mall, is a southern Indian place and has a much larger selection of vegetarian stuff, as well as some vegan options as well.
If we do have Indian I'll be glad to help you navigate the menu to find stuff that will appeal, but if you'd prefer to go somewhere else that's cool too.
Posted by Tinros (Member # 8328) on :
Amar India sounds cool. I'm actually home now, but I'm busy this weekend. However, if there's a weekday next week, or possibly next saturday, that you'd want to meet, I'm up for it.
Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
At long last! I thought I'd never get to become real, since I live all the way up in Alaska and can't afford to travel much. But today I got to hang out with Bokonon and MyrddinFyre in Boston (well, okay, in Somerville), so they can now confirm my existence! Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Hatrack seems to be pretty good about introducing people to Indian cuisine. I'll never forget the look on Farmgirl's face... Posted by SoaPiNuReYe (Member # 9144) on :
I'm partly South Indian. Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
Congratulations, Verily!
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
Welcome to our ranks....
//evil laugh
You know, I don't think that actually counts.
I have heard, from a reliable source, that Myr is really just a huge wheel of cheese. Posted by MyrddinFyre (Member # 2576) on :
Shhhh, Kiwi, you're blowing my cover!!
Verily is indeed real and wins bonus points for appreciating the New Enlgandese architecture of Boston!
I was searching for this thread before and totally couldn't find it, so I could announce SenojRetep's real-ness as well. We also owe him for paying for dinner, which I shall now use as an excuse for more Candlepin Bowling at some point Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Tinros, I somehow didn't see your March 16th post until just now. Sorry about that. I assume you're back in Columbus now?
Posted by Luet13 (Member # 9274) on :
I just met Goody Scrivener, her daughter and Narnia. Yay!!!
They came to my show. Again, yay!!! Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
BlackBlade is now real but he's probably still on vacation. Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Posted by Luet13 (Member # 9274) on :
Also, I think in my flurry and nervousness of introducing myself to them I introduced myself as Ellia, and my name is Elly. I'm still wondering how that happened....
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
I thought I heard Ella. Course it was a little noisy with the conversation going on behind us...
I wish I'd thought to pull out the camera, though.
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
I don't exist. I'm certifiably either an alt, or a communal electronic hallucination.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Hello, fellow star-bellied Sneeches!
Posted by docmagik (Member # 1131) on :
I am really sorry to sully this fun thread with refrences to the current petty (and, I suspect, ultitmatly transitory) debate. I suspect this post will just seem weird six months from now when this arguement has gone away, and this thread is still going strong, as people find joy in the way our community grows and affects our real lives.
But Dag, for this thread to be anything like yours it would have to be called, "PLEDGE TO GO OUT RIGHT NOW AND HUNT DOWN A BUNCH OF HATRACKERS TO MEET SO WE CAN DECIDE WHETHER WE WANT TO TALK TO YOU."
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Perhaps you would care to explain the difference between actively soliciting evidence that someone is not an alt and my idea. Both unannounced alts and thread deletion are permitted activities that are both frowned on and that people want to know about before posting.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Perhaps you would care to explain the difference between actively soliciting evidence that someone is not an alt and my idea. Both unannounced alts and thread deletion are permitted activities that are both frowned on and that people want to know about before posting.
Posted by docmagik (Member # 1131) on :
Alright, I'll give it a shot.
But the prerequisite is, you got to read the post I made explaining why I made the sneeches comment, and why it was so easy to see that thread in a negative way.
Seriously, go read it again. Even if you think you remember it.
Great.
Okay, so what's the difference between that thread and this thread?
1. This thread was started by Slash. It's hard to really put into words why that makes a difference, but it does. This thread started out with the context of everything else he was doing on Hatrack at the time, and that put it in a place where nobody really saw it as an attack.
Or, if they did, it was the same part of the general attack that Slash, being a lizard king, always tended to make on everybody, meaning that it was just as possible that this thread was made to attack the people who were calling out alts as it was that he was attacking people who used alts.
At any level, when the idea was brought up it did not feel retaliatiory, it did not feel like it was picking on anyone, and it did not feel like it was trying to distance anyone from anything.
It was just a fun idea for a thread.
Nobody was really being excluded here. The person with the most alts on hatrack could have joined. The only people excluded were, well, not really "people" at all.
2. This thread is not worded negatively. It does not say The Thread For People Who Are Above Using Alts or anything like that. Many of the "Real" hatrackers here use alts. Slash acknowledged using alts in the thread topic.
In your thread, by specifically making the thread title negative (Basically saying, "We're the people above a certain kind of behavior"), it feels more like it's about distancing yourself from different people than about acknowledging a common bond.
This thread, by wording it positively, is able to pass itself off as being more about shared bonds than about separation from "lesser" others a little more easily.
3. Regardless of anybody's intent when a thread gets started, once it's released into the ether, a thread takes on a life of its own. This one has proven, over time, to have become a very positive thing in the world of the Hatrack forums. It's become more about a right of passage as people become a stronger part of the community than it is about figuring out who those alts are so that we can remain suspicious of them.
Really, I don't think anybody's going to treat BlackBlade any differently now than they did before he got on this list. Nobody's thinking, "Oh, I can finally allay my suspicion that BlackBlade is just an alt for cheirosdeender."
Sure, Slash said anyone who did it would "automatically granted more credibility in the hatrack community," but he did it by his authority as "lizard king," meaning the worst that might have happened if someone had failed to grant such credibility is that they would have been eaten by him.
Meaning this was all in fun.
And quite frankly, if anybody wanted on this list, they could just make up a bunch of alts, pretend they all lived in Antartica, post a thread about PenguinCon, pretend to hold it, and then declare all their alts real.
This thread isn't really about that.
There was no enforcement declared, no position put in place for "People who pretended to be real but turned out not to be" to be edited in, so everybody would eventually know who to shun.
Everybody can become real, if they care to, and are willing to go where the closest hatrackers are. The only requirement for getting into this club, basically, is wanting to be in it bad enough to do that.
Your thread is basically, "Here is where you can find the trustworthy Hatrackers," and then makes specific decsions about what constitutes trustworthy that would be debated by some hatrackers.
This thread makes no such moral judgements. All it does is acknowledge existance.
Nobody would read this thread and come away thinking Slash or anybody who played along in the game didn't like them. They'd know that if they ever cared to, they could eventually join it.
I mean, even the name of the thread is tounge in cheek. "Real" hatrackers. Everybody's real!
Your thread was nothing like this. Your thread was very official. Your thread contained a punishment (a list ready to be edited) for violation. There was nothing "fun," "tounge in cheek," or anything approaching slash's aknowledgement of having engaged in the use of ALTs himself.
Your thread, quite frankly, felt mean, serious, and judgemental.
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
doc, I'm sorry, but this does sully this thread. It would have been much better elsewhere. Instead...
quote:Originally posted by SoaPiNuReYe: I'm partly South Indian.
Tamil, soap? That's cool. And, um, sorry for being so late to catch that comment... Have you been to/lived in India as well, or is it purely ancestry in action?
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
quote:Originally posted by quidscribis: doc, I'm sorry, but this does sully this thread. It would have been much better elsewhere. Instead...
doc wasn't the one who brought it over here. He was responding to dag's post further up this page about "sneeches" - which dag brought over here from the other thread.
Just saying.
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
Oh. Didn't know that. Thanks, Ela. I'd read about sneeches, but I've been sick for the last week, so I don't know if it's just my brain or what, but I really just don't get what it's about or where it originated.
ETA: So, the significance of it went over my head, is what I'm trying to say.
Still, does the infection have to spread? Can't it stay restricted to the five or ten already existing threads about thread deletion?
Posted by brojack17 (Member # 9189) on :
Quick question. I met three Hatrackers back in April. They were: Amanecer pfresh85 vonk
All of us were first time Hatrack people meeters. Are we real yet?
I know I wouldn't have this problem if I met KQ and Boon at the little TulCon they had. Maybe next time.
Posted by docmagik (Member # 1131) on :
You have no problem. You're all real.
If you want to get technical, you're all real and a half.
[ August 12, 2007, 12:18 AM: Message edited by: docmagik ]
Posted by LargeTuna (Member # 10512) on :
i wanna be real!!! anyone in DE? i am : )
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
No, they had none of them met anyone real before, right? You have to meet previously real people to become real. Although some subscribe to the theory of retroactive realness, so if one of them became real thereafter some would say they are then all real.
Posted by docmagik (Member # 1131) on :
Wow, you're right. I just went back and re-read the thread and around page 6 they changed the definition.
Sorry, brojack. Never mind.
This is now the "Six Degrees of Separation From Slash" thread.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
docmagick, let's be clear here. The accusation made was that my thread was equivalent to ""PLEDGE TO GO OUT RIGHT NOW AND HUNT DOWN A BUNCH OF HATRACKERS TO MEET SO WE CAN DECIDE WHETHER WE WANT TO TALK TO YOU."
quote:This thread was started by Slash. It's hard to really put into words why that makes a difference, but it does. This thread started out with the context of everything else he was doing on Hatrack at the time, and that put it in a place where nobody really saw it as an attack.
If you can't put it into words, then you've hardly even attempted to explain it to me. In-group acceptance of behavior by another, with the only attempt to explain why this matters amounting to "because everyone knew it was OK" is a lot more star-belly sneechlike than anything I've done.
quote:In your thread, by specifically making the thread title negative (Basically saying, "We're the people above a certain kind of behavior"), it feels more like it's about distancing yourself from different people than about acknowledging a common bond.
Again, that's what YOU'RE bringing to this. It's a group of people banding together based on a common characteristic.
quote:This thread is not worded negatively. It does not say The Thread For People Who Are Above Using Alts or anything like that. Many of the "Real" hatrackers here use alts. Slash acknowledged using alts in the thread topic.
Every time you reword what I said, you add your own value judgment to it. Your attacks can't stand on their own - you have to make up stuff that I said to even get them off the ground. The concept of "above" is something YOU'VE added to this, not me.
Further, I didn't say those people had a problem with alts. I said they had a problem with unannounced alts - the specific behavior that being "real" targets.
Let's look at the opening post again: "To be real, you need to have been physically met by two or more other hatrackers who can attest to your existence. A list of your witnesses is required. Those able to produce such a list are automatically granted more credibility in the hatrack community. I have decreed it as the lizard king, and thus it is law."
You might think the "lizard king" thing makes it somehow different than what I did, but your relying on "the worst that might have happened if someone had failed to grant such credibility is that they would have been eaten by him."
Whereas my thread had no consequences for anyone EXCEPT THOSE WHO PUBLICLY BREAK THEIR WORD. Not people who choose not to participate. Not people who insist on deleting threads. Just those who break their word.
quote:And quite frankly, if anybody wanted on this list, they could just make up a bunch of alts, pretend they all lived in Antartica, post a thread about PenguinCon, pretend to hold it, and then declare all their alts real.
No, they couldn't.
quote:Everybody can become real, if they care to, and are willing to go where the closest hatrackers are. The only requirement for getting into this club, basically, is wanting to be in it bad enough to do that.
The only requirement to being in my "club" (I'll use y our loaded word for clarity) is to promise not to delete others' words. That's it. Anyone can join.
quote:Your thread is basically, "Here is where you can find the trustworthy Hatrackers," and then makes specific decsions about what constitutes trustworthy that would be debated by some hatrackers.
For the last time: NO IT DOES NOT!!!! It says here is where you can find the people who have voluntarily chosen to refrain from exercising a particular power.
Quite frankly, all this does is confirm my original impression that the reason you see this so negatively is YOUR distrust of others.
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
Some people don't know when to quit arguing, methinks.
Posted by Shigosei (Member # 3831) on :
I think of being "real" as being more about celebrating the fact that you met some cool people from the site. There really isn't much status involved with it, except that you'll probably be closer to the people you meet than ones you haven't. Technically, to be real, there must be a chain linking you back to Slash, since he started the thread.
In my opinion, Dagonee, people were being too hard on you in the thread you started. However, your comment on this thread was out of line. I'd really appreciate it if you'd avoid spreading the hostility to other threads.
Posted by Marek (Member # 5404) on :
is it possible to be made un-real by never posting?
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
Oh, I'm half real. I met pH.
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
I added to the reality matrix by visiting saxon75 and Papa Moose a couple of weeks ago. We're all real, but now we're more real.
Posted by Asher (Member # 10422) on :
Is this sort of like putting a star on your belly to make sure everyone knows who the good people are?
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
No, I think we've firmly established that it is not.
Posted by cmc (Member # 9549) on :
I'm not 'real' - and I'm okay with that...
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
quote:Really, I don't think anybody's going to treat BlackBlade any differently now than they did before he got on this list. Nobody's thinking, "Oh, I can finally allay my suspicion that BlackBlade is just an alt for cheirosdeender."
Fools, my plan has been exacted to perfection!
Also,
*Materializes* I'm a real boy!
Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :
Darnit! Docmagic, I was so excited for a whole two posts when I thought I was real. But no, only to have my joyous celebration dashed against the rocks by KQ! Oh the horror! Sniff. Oh well, one day, one day I'll be real.
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
Vonk and I have played at the same scrabble table, does that count?
Speaking of, anytime for a game today vonk?
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
quote:Originally posted by The Pixiest: Oh, I'm half real. I met pH.
If I could get Mark to join up here, I think you'd be 100% real...
-pH
Posted by SenojRetep (Member # 8614) on :
I was made real during Verily's trip to NE (thanks Bok and Myr). I don't think I (or they) ever posted it, though.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
quote:Originally posted by vonk: Darnit! Docmagic, I was so excited for a whole two posts when I thought I was real. But no, only to have my joyous celebration dashed against the rocks by KQ! Oh the horror! Sniff. Oh well, one day, one day I'll be real.
Come to L.A. We happily make anyone real. Heck, come have dinner with my family, or with the Meeses, if none of the rest of the clump are free, and you'll be real right there, since both families contain at least two Real Jatraqueros (although of course we accept any excuse to get together so most likely you'll get at least a few more than that.)
Bring gifts. Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
quote:Originally posted by ketchupqueen:
quote:Originally posted by vonk: Darnit! Docmagic, I was so excited for a whole two posts when I thought I was real. But no, only to have my joyous celebration dashed against the rocks by KQ! Oh the horror! Sniff. Oh well, one day, one day I'll be real.
Come to L.A. We happily make anyone real. Heck, come have dinner with my family, or with the Meeses, if none of the rest of the clump are free, and you'll be real right there, since both families contain at least two Real Jatraqueros (although of course we accept any excuse to get together so most likely you'll get at least a few more than that.)
Bring gifts.
Come now, clearly the next meeting should have positions switched where the hosts give gifts to the visitors. It can rotate every time
I'd hate to think I'd spoiled you KQ.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Hey, I brought gifts to Boon and her kids when we went to the Tulsa GirlyCon we just had.
Which no one else bothered to attend.
Okay, so they were hostess gifts and mostly chocolate. And I ate some of it.
So sue me. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
(And KPC will tell you I was spoiled rotten LONG before you met me. )
Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :
quote:Originally posted by ketchupqueen:
quote:Originally posted by vonk: Darnit! Docmagic, I was so excited for a whole two posts when I thought I was real. But no, only to have my joyous celebration dashed against the rocks by KQ! Oh the horror! Sniff. Oh well, one day, one day I'll be real.
Come to L.A. We happily make anyone real. Heck, come have dinner with my family, or with the Meeses, if none of the rest of the clump are free, and you'll be real right there, since both families contain at least two Real Jatraqueros (although of course we accept any excuse to get together so most likely you'll get at least a few more than that.)
Bring gifts.
Sounds like a plan! Next time I'm near the West Coast there will be presents aplenty!
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Awww, I was just joking 'bout the gifts. Although if you REALLY wanted to give me one, of course I would not say no!
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
quote:Originally posted by ketchupqueen: Awww, I was just joking 'bout the gifts. Although if you REALLY wanted to give me one, of course I would not say no!
It's true, she really wouldn't
KQ and Rivka were brilliant hosts.
Posted by docmagik (Member # 1131) on :
Vonk, I apologize.
I think we could call what you are in "The State Formerly Known as Real."
Or "Old-School Real."
Or maybe "Classic Real."
Or maybe "Real Light: All The Flavor Of Regular Real, With Only Half The Miles On Your Car."
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
quote:Originally posted by BlackBlade:
quote:Originally posted by ketchupqueen: Awww, I was just joking 'bout the gifts. Although if you REALLY wanted to give me one, of course I would not say no!
It's true, she really wouldn't
I wouldn't, either, if it were chocolate... Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
quote:Originally posted by Luet13: I just met Goody Scrivener, her daughter and Narnia. Yay!!!
They came to my show. Again, yay!!!
I'm just now adding my testimony to Luet's solidity. She really does exist and she's talented like crazy. The show was a great time. Posted by Marek (Member # 5404) on :
this thread always makes me jealose of all the hatrackers i have never met and always want to meet
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
But you've met me! What more could you ask for?
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Meeting me.
And he has. Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
You met me without totally realizing it! That must count for something.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I am pleased to announce that brojack17 is now Real, having met the entire Ketchup Family (which includes 2 or 3 Real Jatraqueros, depending on who you talk to) at Pie N Burger in Pasadena tonight.
And he didn't finish his chili. I ate him under the table.
But other than that, he is very nice. I look forward to seeing him again sometime, and have threatened to invade his home next time we are in Tulsa. Posted by brojack17 (Member # 9189) on :
KQ, Just because we have the same size belly does not mean we both have 1 1/2 people to eat for.
Thank you for the wonderful meal, I enjoyed the leftovers in my hotel room.
You have a beautiful and wonderful family and I wish you luck with the new baby.
vonk, pfresh, and amancener (sp),
I'll be back in Houston next week and I could bestow some realness on you then if you would like to meet again. I know vonk and pfresh are still in Houston.
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
There are some people who believe in retroactive real. Though if those people have just met you, they'd only be half real.
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