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Title: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: The extra letter on 13 Feb 2011, 02:09
I think I saw our very own Jimmy The Squid today.

Or, I was totally staring at a random stranger who's probably thinking I'm a creepy weirdo of the highest order.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: squawk on 13 Feb 2011, 02:56
One time I saw Patrick and I didn't say hi
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: est on 13 Feb 2011, 03:33
I unexpectedly bump into some of the other Sydney QC folk from time to time.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: E. Spaceman on 13 Feb 2011, 04:10
At my prom, some guy grabbed and asked if i was e. spaceman. He lurked here and was friends with a friend.

It was fairly weird
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: BlahBlah on 13 Feb 2011, 04:27
No, never. I've met a lot of people from the forums but I guess I've always met them deliberately rather than by coincidence.

The first time we met was kinda by coincidence, since you thought I was somebody else.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: Jimmy the Squid on 13 Feb 2011, 04:27
Damnit we really have to be better at saying hi to each other when we're at Broadway. How many times has this happened now? You were on the down escalator and I was on the up one. I thought that was you but again I didn't say anything to avoid looking the dick if I was wrong.

One time I saw a guy that looked like you, said hi, he said hi back then we were both really awkward because we both thought we were someone else.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: allison on 13 Feb 2011, 05:29
Julia saw me in a Burger King.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: tania on 13 Feb 2011, 08:39
me neither.

this isn't really the same thing but staedtlermars's roommate was (and still is, i think) a friend of mine from guelph that i used to work with, which is pretty wacky considering they both live in edinburgh. one time i saw a picture of him on the forum dressed as scott pilgrim for halloween and it really weirded the heck out of me until i remembered what was going on and why that made sense.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: KharBevNor on 13 Feb 2011, 08:48
Dan saw me from afar before we properly met and didn't say hello.

He also accidentally saw my balls but that was a different set of circumstances altogether.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: Joseph on 13 Feb 2011, 09:13
When I lived in Vancouver I used to run into this girl who posted as Coonstar at shows and record shops and things every once and a while. But she doesn't post any more
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: jhocking on 13 Feb 2011, 10:10
No, thank god.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: öde on 13 Feb 2011, 10:23
Dan saw me from afar before we properly met and didn't say hello.

I was in a car! Moving!
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: KharBevNor on 13 Feb 2011, 10:26
Excuses! Always more excuses! When will the lies stop!?
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: öde on 13 Feb 2011, 10:35
When I run you over.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: David_Dovey on 13 Feb 2011, 11:17
I unwittingly went to the same school as a Perth forumite for nearly a year, and didn't realise it until after he'd graduated. He doesn't post here anymore, either.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: Liz on 13 Feb 2011, 11:21
I first met Brittany in the elevator of my dorm sophomore year. She was standing with her cousins  and I came around the corner and we both kind of looked at each other. Once we realized how we recognized each other it was awesome but for a moment I though I was crazy.

Now we are friends!
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: IronOxide on 13 Feb 2011, 12:06
I bumped into Kat at the mall, but she was working there, so I guess that's not too weird.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: Lines on 13 Feb 2011, 13:16
I haven't bumped into anybody because nobody lives in the same city as I do. Now that Jon is elsewhere for grad school, I don't think anyone else is even in Ohio. But that's ok, Eed is within a reasonable distance.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: Tom on 13 Feb 2011, 13:41
If I was attending USYD, I'd have a greater chance of randomly bumping into my fellow Sydney forumites.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: De_El on 13 Feb 2011, 14:13
I haven't run into anyone coincidentally, but I have been stopped by a lurker, just a few weeks ago, asking if I posted here.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: Lunchbox on 13 Feb 2011, 14:18
I bumped into Chris (GodinPants) once at a show and we made awkward conversation. It was my first sort of not really date with Max which made it doubly awkward.
Other than that I see Est and Han and Jimmy around a lot, but we all live relatively close to each other.

Extra Letter, I don't know what you look like. :(
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: Jimmy the Squid on 13 Feb 2011, 14:22
I used to go to Uni with GodinPants. It was a bit weird because we'd see each other around, recognise each other but still be too awkward to say hi so we'd do that little nod thing that guys do when they're too nervous to say hi to each other.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: Eris on 13 Feb 2011, 14:23
Once I was walking down the street and Fatty walked past me with her cousin (who I had met before) and didn't notice me. I sent her a message saying "I can see you..." and she replied later after I had started work or whatever I was doing. Sometimes she would come into the cafe I worked at and eat/get coffee after classes and I would try and talk while trying to not get in trouble for talking rather than working.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: Melodic on 13 Feb 2011, 15:01
i live in canada
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: The extra letter on 13 Feb 2011, 17:32
Damnit we really have to be better at saying hi to each other when we're at Broadway. How many times has this happened now? You were on the down escalator and I was on the up one. I thought that was you but again I didn't say anything to avoid looking the dick if I was wrong.

One time I saw a guy that looked like you, said hi, he said hi back then we were both really awkward because we both thought we were someone else.

I was going to say hi, but it woulda been mega awkward if it wasn't you, but if I didn't say hi and it was you I was worried I'd look like a total dick.

We totally need a sort of secret gesture kind of thing. If one or the other of us uses it, we'll know it's them.

Hey, that's a thought. A QC gang sign.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: Buttfranklin on 13 Feb 2011, 19:29
I live in Kansas!  :mrgreen: <<<< placed in the earth by the devil to mislead us
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: Lunchbox on 13 Feb 2011, 19:49

We totally need a sort of secret gesture kind of thing. If one or the other of us uses it, we'll know it's them.

Hey, that's a thought. A QC gang sign.

May I suggest the Auslan symbol for Q.
Bonus points for looking slightly grotesque.

(http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/4048/screenhunter03feb141446.jpg) (http://img526.imageshack.us/i/screenhunter03feb141446.jpg/)
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: JD on 13 Feb 2011, 19:54
Or you could draw a dong on your hand and use that instead.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: Lunchbox on 13 Feb 2011, 19:54
Alternately we could use ASL, American Sign Language (this is much easier to look up online.)

An A handshape on the side of the cheek, near the chin, with a fast forward motion (similar to signing shy) means "slut"
"Dick" is a "d" handshape tapping the nose.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ABC_pict.png
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: David_Dovey on 13 Feb 2011, 20:18
Everyone get <DICK>< tattoos on yr neck
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: jwhouk on 13 Feb 2011, 20:33
No.

Thankfully.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: Blue Kitty on 13 Feb 2011, 20:41
The only person I've ever met from the forums is yelley, and we didn't meet by happenstance.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: valley_parade on 14 Feb 2011, 08:54
I've seen dopplegangers. Lots of them. There's a woman at my job who looks a bit like an older, shorter Linds (mostly though, she is older and shorter than Linds), I saw a Rachel on Friday at the bus station, and I've also seen dopplegangers for Jace (though it was a Ladyjace), Lunchy (ask Jon about that one), and Julia.

Plus there was that time I hung out with some of you guys for reals.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: Lunchbox on 14 Feb 2011, 13:33
How am I supposed to ask Jon when he doesn't post anymore?
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: Drill King on 14 Feb 2011, 14:19
I live in a city with a doppleganger Tommy and Gene. It is really really weird. I have been seeing them around the city for like two years and it never stops being weird.

I wish I lived in a city with more people to be all oh hai with. The one person that lives here I have not met.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: valley_parade on 14 Feb 2011, 14:34
How am I supposed to ask Jon when he doesn't post anymore?

Oh yeah, true.

We went to see Dropkick Murphys a few years back, and on the train back to Boston, we saw someone who looked like you, but less adorable and awesome. She was referred to as "ugly Lunchy".
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: Ballard on 14 Feb 2011, 14:44
I once started talking to a guy on the forums via PM and later via AIM who turned out to be the childhood best friend of my best friend, who used to live in his building.

We all reunited and played in a band together, briefly.

He never posted here much and still doesn't.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: Ballard on 14 Feb 2011, 15:22
(http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/2880/picardfacepalmi.jpg)
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: Inlander on 14 Feb 2011, 15:54
So basically, in the same city as Tommy Wiseau?

That was the Tommy she was referring to.

You didn't think she meant you, did you?
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: sean on 15 Feb 2011, 00:50
not gonna lie the only forumite i've seen is gene and that was well planned out so...

no, i have never seen a forumite by happenstance.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: nekowafer on 16 Feb 2011, 05:27
It seems that few forumites live 'round these parts. I know there are several in DC but that's sort of far from little Owings Mills over here. Also I'm still kind of new.

I was going to say that I need to meet more people from the internet but that's slightly weird. But I do need to make more friends and I don't drink so like my only other option is okcupid and all they want is the no pants dance.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: nekowafer on 16 Feb 2011, 05:58
Hey, at least you guys don't send me messages like "I like ur tities." Er, well, haven't yet anyway.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: Lines on 16 Feb 2011, 06:07
We save that for when we all meet in person. Then it's all butts lol and groping galore.

I have seen doppleganger Tyler and Gene, but both were far less fashionable and fake-Gene was super lame. (He was at a party I was at and did nothing but complain.)
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: Lummer on 16 Feb 2011, 06:23
None of people ever come by Copenhagen.

Just pointing that out.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: nekowafer on 16 Feb 2011, 06:34
We save that for when we all meet in person. Then it's all butts lol and groping galore.

I knew you guys were hiding something.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: Lummer on 16 Feb 2011, 06:55
What I'm saying is that some of y'all should come to Denmark sometime. We should hang out!
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: JD on 16 Feb 2011, 08:07
I could've when I lived in Maryland. One poster around here used to go to my old high school so there is that.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: The Seldom Killer on 16 Feb 2011, 08:15
Doubt it will happen anytime soon. I suspect forumengers don't frequent Yorkshire or the Peak District.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: Lines on 16 Feb 2011, 08:37
did nothing but complain

Place-holder post for my generic Jewish stereotype quip once I've had enough coffee to word it correctly.

I dunno if he was Jewish, but regardless his gf wasn't and she was just as bad. The only reason I remember him is because I kept thinking, "Dude is not cool enough to look like Gene."
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: schimmy on 17 Feb 2011, 03:30
Seldom. At least a couple of us live in Yorkshire! I live in Leeds.
Never knowingly seen anyone though.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: Gemmwah on 17 Feb 2011, 07:12
I have only ever met forumites on purpose, but while I was out in camden with Jodie and Dan I ran into another internet friend called Megan, which was rad because she's American, and we were planning on meeting up but never organised anything solid, but then both turned up in cyberdog at the same time! Magic.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: The Seldom Killer on 17 Feb 2011, 07:16
Seldom. At least a couple of us live in Yorkshire! I live in Leeds.

Cracking, we should all meet up sometime and reminisce about our upbringings.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: nekowafer on 17 Feb 2011, 07:20
Generally I'd meet random internet friends at these things called conventions. I'm guessing few of you are the sort of weirdo to attend such things? I'll be going to Anthrocon, Otakon, and Balticon this year because I have too much dorkiness to cram into one.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: The Seldom Killer on 17 Feb 2011, 07:22
Balticon?

Oh sweet mother of god I'm going to die and go to curry heaven.

When and where?
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: nekowafer on 17 Feb 2011, 07:29
It's not actually a curry convention! It's a sci-fi/fantasy convention in Baltimore, Maryland. Balti(more)con(vention).

Not half as delicious, I'm sure.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: Zingoleb on 17 Feb 2011, 09:04
I've never actually met anyone here but I'm pretty sure there's a Patrick duplicate around here.

Also I dreamed about meeting Khar once? it was pretty bizarre because he was Khar in the dream but looked nothing like him

also he wouldn't tell me his name
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: the_pied_piper on 17 Feb 2011, 09:34
I used to go to Uni in Sheffield but I live in Cheshire now.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: schimmy on 17 Feb 2011, 11:13
I grew up in Cheshire. Can't for the life of me figure out why someone would choose to live there.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: the_pied_piper on 17 Feb 2011, 16:56
I grew up in Cheshire. Can't for the life of me figure out why someone would choose to live there.

Hey now, it's not by choice. Just that while this current government fucks us all over I have nowhere else to go.  :-(
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: schimmy on 17 Feb 2011, 17:00
Where abouts are you in Cheshire, anyway?

edit: And I bet that smug fucking cat was married to a footballer or something.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: the_pied_piper on 17 Feb 2011, 17:32
The even more shit than the general Cheshire part (Runcorn).
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: Patrick on 18 Feb 2011, 02:13
Christophe goes to school and is friends with a guy I had classes in high school with. I only know this because I noticed that our mutual schoolmate and I both posted in the same comment thread for something on Chris's Facebook. Completely tripped me the fuck out.

Also it turns out I already knew a few forumites in person without even realizing it, although they hardly count since 1. they hardly, if ever, post(ed) here and 2. I have known most of them since before QC even existed.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: Elysiana on 18 Feb 2011, 14:38
Hey, I work in Leeds!

... Alabama

... USA

:(
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: Barmymoo on 18 Feb 2011, 14:39
Yeah we had a Leeds meetup years ago, back when I was finding my meeting-forumites feet, and there were four of us there with a few others who could have come but were too lame. Yorkshire is quite a good place for hunting forumites!
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: Odal on 19 Feb 2011, 16:08
I don't post on these forums much, but anyone on here live in Okinawa? Lol.  The chances are like 1 in a Bajazillion.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: celticgeek on 19 Feb 2011, 16:12
The only forumite I have seen in real life is Chad K., and it was not by happenstance.  His band was playing at a street fair, and we went to see him.. I liked that band by the way.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: Ballard on 20 Feb 2011, 15:03
In before Nickelback joke.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: Zingoleb on 22 Feb 2011, 11:14
The even more shit than the general Cheshire part (Runcorn).

I haven't been to Runcorn in years. Quite a bit of my family lives there. Or used to live there. I think they keep dying.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: axerton on 23 Feb 2011, 19:00
Right after that Sydney meet up a couple of years back I was working at a desk at my uni, getting people to sign up to one of the clubs I was involved with when someone came up to me and asked if I posted here. I think he was a lurker from above the divide who had only been down here to check the Auscon photo thread. Never saw him again either at uni or here
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: Inlander on 23 Feb 2011, 21:32
And I bet that smug fucking cat was married to a footballer or something.

I think as a rule dogs are more inclined to be WAGS.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: Metope on 24 Feb 2011, 04:53
There's a stencil of zombie Lunchy somewhere in Glasgow. I've seen it a couple times, but I can't for the life of me remember where it is. Each time I've passed it it's been really late and I've been pretty drunk, but I recall greeting it with 'Evening, Lunchy' and my friends going 'why are you talking to a stencil'. Who made that, by the way?
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: valley_parade on 24 Feb 2011, 05:55
I don't think it's correct, but I'd put my money on Ryan.
Title: Re: Have you seen other folks from here as a result of crazy random happenstance?
Post by: Lunchbox on 24 Feb 2011, 14:20
Kris - I don't know who made it but I know they are in a few places in Glasgow.

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2459/3558734179_dc31b334c8.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/slackadaisy/3558734179/)

I imagine it is this guy.

http://arakone.tumblr.com/