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Juliette and I were in my high school's production of Little Shop of Horrors my junior year (her sophomore year). At the time, she liked me but I liked her friend, who didn't like me. Then Juliette got a boyfriend and I got a girlfriend and we didn't think about each other much at all. The following year we were in Witness for the Prosecution together, at which point she had already broken up with her boyfriend and I was just about to break up with my girlfriend. (We were going to break up anyway, but Juliette being in the picture probably sped things up by a month or so.) I liked her, she liked me, but unfortunately my younger brother also liked her. In fact, we got in a fist fight in front of her, which I lost. While that was quite embarassing for me, she still liked me, and we started dating shortly afterward. In the interim my brother has forgiven me and, apparently, has all but forgotten that he ever had a crush on her at all.
I was actually kind of a turd for the first year we were together, especially the first couple of months. I've no idea why she stayed with me, but I'm glad she did.
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quote:I may have the steal the "geekiest" prize from you, Pixiest. I met my husband in a MUD (which is like an all-text everquest, for those of you who aren't familiar with the concept). We did, in fact, get mud-married before we met IRL. We talked for about 2 or 3 months, at which point he asked to come down to Atlanta to meet me. He met me and my parents (who absolutely insisted that he stay with them...so that they could "keep an eye" on him) at the same time (poor guy).
Megan, mind if I inquire which MUD? Wouldn't, by anychance, have been MUME would it?
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Met my SOs online. Been together for 9 years.
We corresponded for 2 months, then met in Nashville for a weekend, then decided it was right and joined up. That was in late 1995.
Pixiest: I lost my SOs to EQ. We have 3 computers in the house, and they're generally logged into Seventh Hammer, unless the kids are playing. We spend more time thinking about Norrath than Colorado.
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this thread has been helping to get me in the mood for my 4 year anniversary! any more stories?
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How do you pronounce your name? Mine is a little odd (with a long e--Meeeeegan).
Alcon, it was a MUD called Aardwolf; I haven't played it in years, as it was starting to be overrun by little thirteen-year-old boys who spoke in l337 and said things like, "will u marry me so I cn c ur boobeez?????!??!?!?!"
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You pronounce your name Meegan? Interesting, I've never heard that before.
But don't worry, nobody ever pronounces my name right first time! Not Raia, but Shani... my real name.
And I completely verify Alcon's SO story.
I met my first one on Hatrack, but I'm not a good example of a Hatrack SO success story, I guess, since I'm now with someone else! I guess I could say that the previous SO's current fiancee was met online, and happens to be a close friend of mine, so I have some connection somewhere, though not sure where...
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I think I would probably say "Shah -- nee"; is that close?
As for the "Meegan" thing, it's Welsh. Most people have either never heard of it, or respond with, "Oh, I once knew a girl who pronounced her name that way..."
I also occasionally get, "Meegan? That's weird. ...are you pronouncing your name wrong on purpose?"
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It's close, but the emphasis is on the second syllable, rather than the first... "Sha-NEE," or even "Shuh-NEE." I don't really know how else to describe it online! It has the same rhythm as "capri" or "Marie," if that helps.
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Paul and I met here on Hatrack three years ago.
We didn't really talk to each other on or off the forums for the first six months, but then one day I remember reading one of his posts and reflecting on his others and thinking, "Hey, he must be a very nice and interesting man to get to know well". So, I randomly IMed him looking for a little intelligent conversation and within a week or so we were talking to each other online for at least an hour each day. A few months later we spent our first phone call talking straight until morning. Thus, six months after we first started talking we became a couple, and two months later he proposed to me the day before he left for Iraq. Two years after that and here we are today: we met in person for the first time a year ago (after Iraq), he's in Germany for just under the next three years, I'm entering my first year of college in the fall, and a wedding is being planned for two years from now.
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Since this is still on the first page, I figure it's not too late to jump in...
I met my now-fiance at a springtime "chocolate & champagne" party hosted by the college buddy of one of my co-workers. It was an annual party that I'd attended 2 of the previous 3 years I'd lived in the area. The fourth year was going to be my last chance, as I was moving overseas that summer...so even though I wasn't feeling particularly sociable that night, I decided to go anyway.
It just so happened that the host of the party had recently found another college buddy of his, and invited her to the party. She attended, but since her long-time S.O. wasn't interested in such shindigs, she brought another of her friends--a handsome redhead. Since I'd come to a couple of the previous parties, I knew I hadn't seen him before, and told him so, and we got to talking. (That's how I found out he wasn't "with" the lady he'd been escorting, so I knew I wasn't poaching!) We talked for 2.5 of the 3 hours we spend at the party, and at the end I gave him my number. He called me the next afternoon. I made him wait nearly 3 weeks for the first date, but we've been an item ever since.
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Now how did I miss this the first time around?
Megan wrote:
quote: Indeed! ...maybe we're actually the same person!
How do you pronounce your name? Mine is a little odd (with a long e--Meeeeegan
The normal way. Like a million Ns. Mega with an N. In fact I once had a .sig that was just NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN but no one got it =(
Anyway, on this board there's another Megan and another Pixie. I'm losing my uniqueness. (uh oh.. here come the snarky comments...)
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College. It was love at first sight. Well, at least "OMG he's so cute!" at first sight. Twice, because by the second time I met him, the first time had slipped my mind.
Still, I firmly believe we had a crimson thread.
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No, really. Which means we both have larger-than-average black wardrobes. Neither of us consider ourselves goth at all, mind you. It's mostly the clothes.
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Father Time met Mother Nature in God's house. She was a heavenly vision. Since that moment, time has stood still.
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My husband and I were both serving LDS missions in Utah of all places. He went home very soon after I started, so we wrote for a year. I was from Arizona and he, from Miami. We like to say that God had to work very hard to get us together. I was NEVER going to Miami and he was NEVER leaving Florida.
We also like to say that we would date on our Preperation Day and our companions never knew. . .
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Father Time met Mother Nature at God's house. She was a heavenly vision--and time has stood still for him ever since.
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I met my wife in college. We lived on the same floor her freshman (my sophmore) year. She had a Star Trek Calendar and Gummy Bears. It wasn't quite love at first sight but it was pretty close.
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My husband and I met in university. We both were taking Differential Caluclus and when we showed up the lecture was in some sort of computational theory (4th year comp sci.) It turned out the the class we wanted had been moved to a different lecture hall and none of the students had been notified but the ones who took that prof's previous class. There were about 30 of us standing in the hall looking bewildered.
In the subsequent wandering around campus confused we both ended up at the Math dept. office. There was an extremely irate student giving the secretary hell about our situation. It was actually pretty funny so I looked across the hall at my then unknown husband and smiled. He smiled back and the rest as they say is history.
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i guess this is an appropriate time to post in here since my 2-year anniversary with my gf is this friday (oct 14).
We met at a party i was having at my house when my biggest dork friend said he knew a couple girls he could call (and that he had met one of them on the internet and this was the first in person meeting). the two girls came over right as i had come out of the shower to the laundry room to get some clean clothes on. No i wasnt naked; i had a towel on. This is also the first time my gf ever saw me. The next time i saw her was in the college town of Athens, GA (UGA), at one of my friend's houses. He was trying his best to flirt with her and was failing miserably, and i ended spending the night on his couch with her. We started dating about a couple weeks later and have had a great relationship ever since.
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i forgot to mention that my "friend" who introduced my gf to me also had a huge crush on her, but was very shy in nature around girls. After it was known that i was dating her, he never spoke to me again and moved from about a block away, to about an hour away from me. before i met my gf he was probably one of my closest friends. i had known him for about 4 years.
Wait, he did talk to me before i was actually dating my gf tho. He kept telling me that she was a big slut, and tell her that i was fat and an asshole. in the end i guess i am happier not having someon like that for a friend anymore, but it definently hurt to have a close friend just hate you and then fall of the face of the earth as far as you are concerned.
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Earl, - "I found her attached to my wrist when I was 14."
ROFLMAO
I met my boyfriend of 4 years in high school, 14 years ago. We've been off and on for 14 years, wow. This time it looks like it will stick.
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I met my wife when she came over to propose to my roommate in the middle of winter in a swimsuit and towel.
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All right, Beren - stop holding out on us. Who is she? I seem to recall you were on your way out the door to a date a few weeks back. Spill the beans - come on . . .
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This was a fun thread to catch up on. I love a good meeting story.
I met my hubby, Tim, on an internet dating site called Matchmaker. I joined after my brother gave me a free trial on the site (which is where he met his wife too).
I sent Tim an email first since I liked the cute pic of him holding his cat and the witty answers to the questions on his profile. He claimed that he was new to town (true) and wasn't really interested in meeting someone serious (true until he met me). We IMed for a week or two and I had met another guy from the same site and would talk to Tim about our dates so he could give me guy advice. The other guy was sending huge mixed signals and I was sick of him after just a few dates; besides the fact that I was smitten with Tim. I didn't have a scanner or a digital camera so I had no way at the time to get a picture on my profile and Tim was afraid to meet me. I am not sure what he was all that scared of, since he is not really that shallow. Anyway, things fizzled out with the other guy in a way that made me want to stop dating for a while so I agreed to meet Tim and his friend "as friends" to play some pool. There was HUGE chemistry and we have been together ever since. We have been married for more than three years now. Posts: 1319 | Registered: Jul 2005
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My wife and I met at BYU Hawaii about 10 months before my mission. It was summer and she was working on the cleaning crew that was cleaning my dorm while it was (mostly) empty. It was love at first sight, for me anyway. We got married 3 weeks after I got home from my mission. 30 years later it's better than ever!
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