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Journal Surak's Journal: COSMO POLL: Favorite pick-up spot (or, where you met yours) 47

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Favorite pickup spot. Or for married/committed people where you met your sweetie:

A. Work/School
B. Laundromat
C. Grocery store
D. Bookstore
E. non-work convention (sci fi or similiar)
F. Bar
G. Neighborhood/apt. building
H. pr0n palace
I. under a rock
J. At Em's house
K. At a party
L. Not sure, but I *think* it involved interdimensional teleportation. And drugs.
M. Online. (and I'm INSANE)
N. Dating service (online or otherwise)
O. Other
P. STOP DOING POLLS OR I'LL KILL YOU (Em Emalb option)

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  • Through a school activity- he didn't go to my school.

    If you're asking for advice, however, I wouldn't recommend you stake out high schools. I hear that's a good way of getting into a bit of a legal skirmish. Try Em's house.

  • Comment removed (Score:3, Insightful)

    by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Monday July 21, 2003 @10:57PM (#6496222)
    Comment removed based on user account deletion
  • I've been with my girlfriend [slashdot.org] for over 3.5 years now. We both met online (she emailed ME first!) and the friendship blossomed from there. Now we live together and have for almost a year (without interruption). Prior online relationships didn't go so well, but this one has been great. Luckily I don't have to submit this as one as a Match Made in Hell [salon.com].
  • YOu said 'online', not 'teh intarweb', so Delphi counts. Summer of 1993 on the Star Trek discussion boards (Custom Forum 17). Knock yourself out if you can find anything geekier than that.

    • Absolutely Delphi counts. I'm a BBS baby, see my profile.

      Actually dated a few women from the BBS scene. Well, one of them I almost dated. I asked her out and she bailed on me at the last minute. To this day, I highly suspect a friend of mine told her not to go out with me because he wanted her for himself. I won't mention any names.
    • I knew someone around the same time who met his wife through some deal where you could download a list of singles and their email addresses. Meeting through FTP is about as geeky as it gets, except maybe for randomly pinging IPs.

      Incidentally, while my wife's subscription to Oprah Magazine mostly creates trouble for me, it did recently have what I thought was a verys sensible article. Basically, it said that instead of basing your social life around dating and trying to meet people, you should concentrate on

  • yes, i am insane. I met my wife online. Got bored one night and started randoming people on AIM, and met her best friend, who introduced us online.
  • I met my future fiance in Paris by the Eiffel Tower. (Well, actually we went to high school together for 3.5 years up to this point, and we were on a school trip with 40 people, but I just never talked to her before this point.)
  • At work, which happened to be a bar/restaurant. Or, as the sign said "Pub & Restaurant" (this was the seventies, you understand). Most of the time, the "s" was burned out, so it was a "Pub and Retaurant". Anyway, met 25 years ago, married 22 years this October, so that kind of thing can work out...
  • Be sure to have loads of change on you! ;-)

    Or wait, be sure not to have loads of change on you. Almost got to date a certain bombshell once, before I realised I also post on Slashdot...

  • match.com, baby!

    And no, I'm not insane at all. I met & dated dozens of guys from match.com over a period of about 15 months before I met my husband. With him, it was basically love at first date. And neither of us (to my knowledge... ahem!) has ever looked back.

    That was 7 years ago last May, and our 5th wedding anniversary is in a month.

    ....Bethanie....
  • My younger brother and I were throwing a party. I think it was my 22nd birthday party. All my brother's friends were there, and all my friends were there. I had planned the party months in advance, so all our friends brought friends. 40-50 people. Two nicknames, to protect the innocent: Ms. Bialli and Jessica Rabbit.

    I had seen Bialli around school, but mostly noticed her best friend, Jessica. Both of them were in my brother's high school class, and when they were freshman, all my senior friends gawked at t

  • E & O (Score:2)

    by Tet ( 2721 ) *
    Contestant number 1 was me being dragged in a drunken stupor into a Talisman game by a friend, 'coz they needed more players. She was there. Depending on how you look at it, that could be considered a sort of non-work scifi/fantasy convention of sorts (OK, so I'm stretching it a bit :-)

    Contestant number 2 was at a pagan gathering. Introduced by contestant number 1, who also fancied #2 (and her husband) at the time.

    • Contestant number 2 was at a pagan gathering. Introduced by contestant number 1, who also fancied #2 (and her husband) at the time.

      Ooh...this one sounds juicy. Do tell!

      • Re:E & O (Score:1)

        by Tet ( 2721 ) *
        Ooh...this one sounds juicy. Do tell!

        See here [google.com]. It wasn't a conscious lifestyle decision. It was entirely unplanned, and it just sort of happened. We existed as a four for a while, but after a few years, contestant #2 left in very unpleasant circumstances, and destroyed my life[1]. There are 3 of us left now (me, contestant #1 and contestant #2's husband). Seems to be a pretty stable setup so far, more so than when #2 was still around. But I miss her...

        [1] We're still friends, but she changed me when she

  • I met my wife at work. The first day she started there, we hit it off.

    I couldn't meet anyone anywhere else, since I'm a homebody and do'nt get out much. Just go to work, go home, play games, play with the kids, sleep (not necessaraly in that order).
  • I meet her on a family trip and my sister invited her best friend along. I'd seen her friend around before, but never talked to her. We became friends, but it took another 3 years before we started going out.

  • I met the only gf in my career on a school trip to Europe...

  • M... (Score:1)

    by njan ( 606186 )
    ...and this is fairly geeky... ...we met on h2g2.com, the (official) online version (earth edition) of Douglas Adams's Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy - which was started by his company, The Digital Village (which also wrote starship titanic) before it was sold to the BBC.

    Then we met up at a h2g2 meetup (only slightly an ulterior motive) and within two weeks of personal contact, we'd become engaged (on the steps of St. Paul's Cathedral in London). Ok, so it gets slightly less geeky at this point and slight
    • Y'know, no matter how vulnerable she may be trying to look [jeremiad.org], your wife still sorta scares me. I mean, she's absolutely beautiful, don't get me wrong, but I sort of get the feeling that she knows how to remove my still-beating heart from my chest if I displease her, y'know?

      Jouster
      • *laugh*

        you're not far from the truth there, y'know.. but I should go, before she catches me on slashdot and not doing the dishes. ;)

        nah, she's a sweetie. :-D
      • I married the two of them, and I get that feeling as well! But she really is a lovely person.
      • Yeah...that picture scares the hell out of me, too. A look of innocence, obviously feigned, with that twinge of pure evil behind it.

        njan, are you *certain* you met her on h2g2.com? ;)
  • he said someting untoward about women and shiny objects ( i was looking to see if the local goth store had any nice new pentacles in their window). so i said something snippy in response, i don't know what, and in the end we traded emails, and he emailed me two days later. two years (?) of friendship later...

    It was a science fiction bookstore (Pandemoniummmmmmmmmm)and i was on my way home and he was meeting some friends. Specifically, he followed me out of the bookstore to talk to me and saw his chance wh

    • A word of advice for the folks out there: insults are not a good way to get someone to go on a date with you, except when it works. *shrug* i have no idea how he managed it, really; i'm kind of impressed.

      *Mumbles something about this always working for goth chicks* /me ducks

  • And she became my Fan on slashdot, too!
  • Met at work, not much happened, she was just another coworker for weeks. Then the people at work met to drink beer and play football (soccer for the murrikans) at a club. We met, we weren't playing, we started to talk, talk, talk... you can guess the rest.

    The day was August 1, 1997. Woo hoo!

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