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27 June 2007

My husband just said you guys are my unimaginary friends. That is all.

post by: bunnyfire at: 19:24 | 35 comments

Awww. I call y'all my imaginary friends, actually. Because I'm not actually positive that all of you exist.

posted by occhiblu 27 June | 19:32

I am convinced that the only two people on the net are me and this fat, hairy guy in a Tenack, New Jersey basement who has a REALLY fast computer.

posted by danf 27 June | 19:34

Sweet! This makes my monetary and relationship troubles non-existent!
Life is good, again.

posted by the great big mulp 27 June | 19:35

Any excuse to tell this joke:

Descartes runs into a friend at his local cafe.

"Would you care to join me in a glass of wine, Rene?", the friend asks.

"Oh, I think not", replies Descartes, and promptly vanishes.

posted by bmarkey 27 June | 19:37

Um.

Um.

I speak of you all to my partner (and I do, with great affection!) as The Internerds.

It's true.

The name was coined back before I realized y'all aren't nearly so nerdy as I am.

posted by Elsa 27 June | 19:39

Ahahahaha The Internerds! I love it.

I'm uncreative. I say "the people on MetaChat."

posted by CitrusFreak12 27 June | 19:42

If we're imaginary friends, I got dibs on Bloo.

posted by wendell 27 June | 20:17

Mom, I'd like you to meet my Online Friends.

No, I don't know their real names.

posted by mdonley 27 June | 20:21

...going by this criteria, I have fewer actual friends than unimaginary imaginary friends. Sigh.

posted by casarkos 27 June | 20:53

unimaginary friends? wait, what? i'm mildly insulted by that! i'll have you know i have QUITE a lot of imagination!

i like 'internerds'. a lot. because the mister just refers to all'y'all as 'the metagang'... the diffs between all the various permutations of mefi and mecha being a bit too much to explain. mainly cos he shuns the internet (well and basically anything to do with sitting still) for the most part.

posted by lonefrontranger 27 June | 20:53

I am actually imaginary. You people have sick minds.

posted by jonmc 27 June | 20:56

Oops, I thought you said "imaginary".
Drat.

posted by the great big mulp 27 June | 21:08

Hey, I just think of y'all as the bunnies.

We are all bunnies.

(Actually my husband and I were bunnies together long before this place was a gleam in the founders' eyes. Just sayin'.)

posted by bunnyfire 27 June | 21:30

*waves imaginary hand at Mr. b-fire*

posted by jason's_planet 27 June | 22:11

Ah HA! Now wait till we show up at your house!

My husband was ok with The People From The Computer, in the abstract, but freaked the first time they became Real. Luckily, these manifestations took the form of a very nice, very extroverted, very obese middle aged woman accompanined by her well-behaved twelve year old son.

Now? You're from the computer? Come on in. He'll make you a meal and give you a door prize.

posted by rainbaby 27 June | 22:20

"Hi. I'm from the computer."

posted by wendell 27 June | 22:46

I got my start way back in '86-90, playing extremely amateur softball with the Edmonton Citadel-86 crowd. We also did winter activities, ie. toboganning down the valley ski hill.

Good times, good times.

posted by Five Fresh Fish 27 June | 23:03

Well, hey, I don't believe you have a husband, so maybe we're even.

Just maybe.

posted by Eideteker 27 June | 23:15

I felt alien LONG before mefi/cha existed. Get stuffed, Mr. BF.

posted by brujita 28 June | 00:08

You're all my invisible friends.

Er, apart from those of you I've actually met, I guess.

And, er, I guess also everyone of whom I've seen a photo.

I clearly haven't thought this through enough.

posted by chrismear 28 June | 03:36

My wife thinks everyone I've ever spoken to online is a dangerous nutter and won't let me go to any meet-up type of things (I usually have to make an excuse).

It's not her fault; when she was in HS, some pervy dude called her house after the paper did a story on her... so she's naturally (and probably reasonably) quite suspicious.

Anyway, I'm Tyler, you internerds, and y'all know what I look like because I did the geek-out video trip on the metafilter wall.

posted by chuckdarwin 28 June | 03:53

You're from the computer?

Ha, you jog my memory: I used to refer to the people I knew only through blogrolls and email as "the tiny people who live in my computer."

Accurate, sure, but it's wordy.

posted by Elsa 28 June | 07:25

Hi, we're from the internet

Seems like only yesterday.

posted by danostuporstar 28 June | 08:04

and we're here to flirt with you

and we're here to insult you

posted by rainbaby 28 June | 08:55

We should have a lunch meet-up sometime, bunnyfire. I'd like that a lot.

My husband says "computer people" are weird and he can continue to think what he wants. oh gosh I'm dying to elaborate on one aspect of this but will. not. do. it. He teases that my "internet news" is bullshit even when many things I get from here or meta show up on our local channel's sidebar days later. He doesn't know about mecha, which means there are so many funny, insightful things we don't share. My daughter has commented on extra music on itunes and gets a lot of unusual/funny/cool links sent her way.

posted by auntbunny 28 June | 10:04

Anyway, I'm Tyler, you internerds, and y'all know what I look like because I did the geek-out video trip on the metafilter wall.

What's this? Linkage, plz?

posted by taz 28 June | 10:12

I'm here from the Internet to glue captions onto your cats.

posted by matildaben 28 June | 10:55

yay, 'tilda! anyone who quotes xkcd wins.

posted by gaspode 28 June | 10:57

I usually have a tough time explaining to my mom what kind of a relationship I have with the people here and over at Mefi, so I usually say: those guys who are way smarter than I am and help people out a lot.:)

posted by hadjiboy 28 June | 10:58

Matildaben, you name them you take them with you. House rule. I'll help carry their stuff out to your car.

posted by auntbunny 28 June | 11:29

link

There's another mefite on there as well... linked to me. Can you guess who it is?

posted by chuckdarwin 28 June | 12:06

It's not her fault; when she was in HS, some pervy dude called her house after the paper did a story on her... so she's naturally (and probably reasonably) quite suspicious.

Tell her I said " So what?"

The same thing happened to ME. Literally. I don't walk around terrified of internerds.

Besides, people you have known for years can turn out to be monsters. Don't believe me? Watch CNN or Fox News for a couple of days.

posted by bunnyfire 28 June | 16:13

I never speak of this place, because I am afraid that I just dream it and, if I mention it to anyone, it will vanish, along with all my best friends.

posted by dg 28 June | 16:14

Hadjiboy, tell her to meet me at a secluded location out in the countryside.

She should come alone, and have a fair amount of cash on her.

Oh, and have her car gassed up.

I'll answer all her questions then.

posted by danf 28 June | 16:43

When I mentioned to a nonmechazen guest at gaspode's last party that we first met via the internet, I got quite the strange look before the person slowly backed away.

I often feel imaginary.

posted by Pips 28 June | 18:10

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