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Re: What are some of your first remembories
That was Humpfest, THE first ever GTG and it was at my house. The missing player from your list was the ever-so-sweet Middy. That was the start of wigs and costumes and made-up drama for all the other GTGs to come.
Humpfest! That's right! Man, wasn't middy like the first afber to have a bebeh?
I remember that post because I was all "Groomz is way too funny for this sort of thing" because I despised Chad.
I forgot all about Fredalina. It was so thuper thecret that they felt the need to post "MOOOOOOOOO" posts every other thread to summon the masses.
Yep, little Addison. And now she has another little girl. We're all growing up. *sniff*
Also, to bring this full circle... Cali, correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't your inburrito siggy created because you said you were going to spy on the Humpfest GTG in my ficus bushes?
After discovering the Knot, I think I just cruised boards until I found NEY and the cruel hilarity that abounded. My first post was about jeans. Amynumbers was the only one to respond.
Over the years I didn't like Fallin sometimes. She cuts deep. But now she's on my bucket list of people to meet. That list is pretty extensive. I haven't a bestie here, but I've always been a gooby one man wolf pack.
Hmm, it's possible. I don't remember what the context was for me saying I was inburrito, but that would make sense. I really did just want to hide in a ficus and observe you guys in your natural habitat. Kcms was soooooooooo jealous when Asha or someone said that I should have been invited to Humpfest (which, to this day, I still don't understand one bit but fills me with a warm squishy feeling regardless).
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
I started lurking after Wendy or somebody brought a link to our local while I was planning the wedding in spring 2007. The first time I posted was late one night in the fall of 2007 when Mod and I tag-teamed some beebee-type person.
I now consider Wendy one of my IRL BFFs, and I don't really talk to anyone else off-board.
I did have a great time meeting SB, Winged, Fitty, and Shamwow last year, but I'm pretty sure I came off as awkward, because, well, I AM awkward.
Um, false - what are you talking about! I thought you were delightful and fun.
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
I started lurking long before I was even engaged, but I wasn't drawn in by anything so then I left the boards for a long time. Then I came back again but had forgotten my original login information. I mostly hung around P&E for a while, but there were only a handful of people that I liked over there (buddha being one of them, she cracked me up on he regular).
Then I started lurking on AFSB and loved pretty much everyone. I decided to jump right in and post one day, and wasn't met with the most welcoming reception. But I stuck around and kept posting and pretending everyone liked me, even though they didn't. One time in one of those "who do you like/who do you hate" threads Tasty said she didn't like me, something along the lines of "shamwow bugs. For cereal". And yet I stuck around and kept posting, because I'm either a glutton for punishment or an oblivious eternal optimist. I tend to grow on people slowly. Like a fungus.
Then one day Fallin said I had been cracking her up lately, and then Christin and someone else agreed, and Christin welcomed me to her bosom. And then all my sticking around annoying everyone was paying off.
I don't think I ever disliked anyone. I was scared of Fenton for a long time, can't really pinpoint a reason why, I just found her intimidating but hilarious.
I don't know that I have a BFF, but I do enjoy the hell out of most of you, and think I would like everyone IRL. I've really enjoyed everyone I've met so far
Aw, me too. I don't think I ever didn't like you, but I did think you were going to be totally rbttf, which you turned out not to be at all. I was glad when you came back after Maggie was birthed.
man, some of my first memories are pretty cloudy. that was a long time ago. i remember initially posting on the spring board here and there but they were so darn boring that i started poking around to see what i could see.
so i landed on AFB as the place i wanted to post, after a few days. at the time it seemed really fast paced and aggressive and there were all kinds of nods and winks and secret handshakes and special collections of boob icons that appeared at a certain time of day. i went the less reserved route and just tried to jump in, fake it till you make it baby! my main strategy involved posting funny pictures or song lyrics in response to things. i bet that got annoying before i tired of it!
i guess i was accepted, though i definitely sensed there were a few that didn't warm up to me right away, or ever.
i also had an unfortunate dork-magnet problem, namely the day i got there iluvmysteelers or whoever with the yellow mustang glommed on to me until she got R-U-N-N-O-F-T. awkward!
i remember roses' jacking off colin farrell avatar being very distracting. i remember hezz asha proud and roses essentially being 'in charge'. i remember liking cali a lot and thinking we would get along in real life. (though i realize i made a pretty pisspoor impression at hoaraween because i kind of think nobody remembers i was there
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i don't know about bffs. i used to post SO much and don't as much anymore and do more lurking and roaming around the nest and bump independently. i am still very close to the girls who get their hairs did at the old salon, o'course.
I lurked on AFB for a couple of months before I jumped in. My first post was the morning after I was sleepfvcked by my husband. I thought it was a funny, unique-like-a-snowflake story that was the perfect way to break the ice. Needless to say, I was disappointed when a couple of people were like, "yeah, my husband does that to me too," or "I do that to my husband." It was such a buzzkill, man.
I didn't like expee at first. Then I realized she was awesome. I like maggots.
I don't have any BFFs on the board. I don't really talk to anyone offboard (other than FB), except Mashed since we're going through some of the same stuff. I wish I could be here more so I could make some bffs.
We need more black magic and wizardry for sure.
Husbands should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable.
That was just the fumes after I tried to asphyxiate you with my dying car talking!
Until the day I moved, I couldn't pass that place without breaking out in a cold sweat. And who came up with that ridiculous cap on how many Munchkins one person could buy!?
Husbands should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable.
I remember you were there, Willis. Whatchoo talkin bout? We sat and had a nice little chat.
I originally started on the boards because I was working in Seattle and waiting on my F22 program clearance (translation: for 4 months I had a 'job' with a paycheck and zero actual tasking or responsibility, so I surfed the net and planned my wedding). I was a regular on WW for a while and I remember thinking "the difference between WW and NEY is that on WW they're only mean to outsiders and NEY is even mean to their own." Since I was on the west coast, that place died in the afternoon without fail, so I wandered over to NEY where there were more people and eventually abandoned WW.
I talk to Mod and J&J most off-board (besides Okla, who really is my best local female friend these days, no exaggeration) and I really adored everyone I met at the cupcake GTG, so I wish I talked to them more. I suspect Winger thought I was a tool for (naively) defending bloomie some. I'd love to meet Buddha and Fallin, among others, one day.
Elaborate please!
Husbands should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable.
I had been talking to her off-board recently at that point and in talking to me she seemed to be remorseful for how she'd handled things and that she would have done things differently if she had the chance to do them over, so I felt like I should defend her. I did and then was immediately dumped afterwards. Go figure.
Ah ha! Yeah, that's how it kind of went for me, too. One day she was all "You need to come visit me at my new place! It's on the beach!" and the next I was dumped/blocked. Alrighty then!
Husbands should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable.
ET: Put my actual post outside of the quote.
And even now I feel like I'm being a 'bad friend', which is oh so dumb.
It is scary how long some of us have been around. I found the fall board first and posted there and then P&E (back in the no wedding talk after 7PM rule days). Then the mass bannings occurred and I turned to the bossoms of AFB for comfort. One day I posted on NEY and Jenm was all up in my grillz. I went back to AFB and Lanie followed me to tell me not to get scared off.
I was posting on AFB before Hodown but then found my local right before my wedding and started posting there and not on AFB any more. A few months after the wedding I went back to AFB and stayed there for good.
I remember jumping into some conversation on NEY about someone who fell outside of a Walmart and they wanted to sue and I was all "I know this crap" and was posting stuff and someone (Mulva?) told me to STFU and not give the poster any ideas.
I was scared of Exp the most for some reason. Then she invited me to the secret board and I was all "THEY LOVE ME"
I remember Bewty fascination with poop (and it hasn't changed), how hot Hezz and Popular are. I miss Kapow
I talk the most with the hair saloners, Sam and Wendy.
Plus I believe I am the only International Delegate to attend an official GTG with old skool AFB'rs.
My first memory is the day AFB invaded my local board on the Knot and made fun of all the people I made smart ass comments to on my own. I jumped in and agreed with their assessment of some beebee spazzes and they said, Hey come back to AFB with us and I was all, "PLEASE take me with you." Then I came over and tried to snark Tasty for eating a lot of burgers or something and almost got my ass kicked.
I don't think I really have any BFFs anymore because I've been MIA and have had life crap to deal with lately. Sometimes I think, WTF am I even doing coming back? I guess it's kind of lucky that the Caribbean is so isolated. If you were getting new blood with the regularity that you used to, my time would be over for sure. Like the time I worked in that office where I couldn't knot because my computer screen faced my boss, then when I did come back there was that one person who was an AFB celebrity for like a month (I can't think of her name; she's hated now and posts on other boards...MrsBoo? is that right?) and I was all like, the dynamic has changed, it's all over now! But I stuck around and things had changed less than I thought.
I miss the drama of getting randoms wandering in. That's why I like to dabble on ML.
"As of page 2 this might be the most boring argument ever. It's making me long for Rape Day." - Mouse
From: MSN NicknameMrsDonkey2BMrsK (Original Message) Sent: 2/8/2007 6:31 PM
It went really well, but I'm super nervous.
They were interviewing 2 other people. I saw the girl right after me and she seemed older = more experienced, but she wasn't all that photogenic. I dunno...I want it sooo bad, but I'm trying really hard not to get my hopes up.
From: MSN NicknamePopularNottie2 Sent: 2/8/2007 6:39 PM
ooh ... you saw the competition? Older isn't always better, if you are friendlier and have the bigger personality, that is what matters for something like this.
Big LOL at "not as photogenic" ... well, DUH ... you know you smoked that ***. You'll be fine.
From: MSN Nicknameproud-wife Sent: 2/9/2007 5:42 AM
did you see pics of her? how would you know if she was't photogenic just by seeing her? me no comprende. did they interview you together? did she see your pics?
From: MSN Nicknamejapiening Sent: 2/9/2007 5:47 AM
I was totally confused by the "photogenic" remark too. Please 'splain.
From: MSN NicknameFentonChick Sent: 2/9/2007 7:34 AM
Donkey, you can say "fugly" if you mean "fugly."
From: MSN NicknamePopularNottie2 Sent: 2/9/2007 8:52 AM
I think it's safe to say she means fug.
From: MSN NicknameMrsDonkey2BMrsK Sent: 2/9/2007 9:26 AM
LOL. In the description of the person they were looking for, it specifically states "photogenic." I guess thats their PC term for pretty.
I didn't think she looked "photogenic."
From: MSN Nicknamejapiening Sent: 2/9/2007 9:34 AM
I've seen a ton of beautiful girls who don't photograph well they have the "chandler syndrome" and on the flip side, I've seen average girls who photograph extremely well. Hard to judge what a camera will do after just seeing someone in person.
From: MSN NicknameMrsDonkey2BMrsK Sent: 2/9/2007 2:52 PM
Point taken. I was just trying to say I didn't think she was what they were looking for, but who was I to judge, right?
From: MSN NicknameUnkkleFukka Sent: 2/10/2007 1:59 PM
this convo reminds me of when you see pics of, like, Pam Anderson before and after makeup...
::dryheaves::
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What GTG did you go to, Jen?
I bet her FUPA's name is Shane, like the gunslinger/drifter of literature.--HappyTummy
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"As of page 2 this might be the most boring argument ever. It's making me long for Rape Day." - Mouse
Oh and if the knot hadn't changed formats, we could relive chopgate, because I saved the post IDs (they were too extensive to C&P full text. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUKCCCCKKKKKK.
StarGBCK
48826224
catalyst for star gbck
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undeleted bethie crap to send to knot
48819801
48820343
48820284
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lurker posted IDs, nothing special but WTH
48763364 - mo checks mail
48789448 - jane hunter and sands come back
48809558 - Amy's theory on AA lesbians
AFB discussion, after confessions
48782735
chop sike (its psych, dipshit) confession
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convo switch to NEY from bomb shelter
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bomb shelter convo
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vegaskayla
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knot email reaction
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sam.mo cage match
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chop answers my personal Qs
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CHOP aka whats going on I feel ill ??WTF????
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Hezz full disclosure
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lines = crossed x 30
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call 911 for the 411 on me
48635188
fake chop confession
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chop returns
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fug ruins her surprise
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peace accord
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chop imposter fragrance
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fauxchop debut
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"As of page 2 this might be the most boring argument ever. It's making me long for Rape Day." - Mouse