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View Poll Results: Have you ever met someone from MobileRead IRL? | |||
Yes and I want to again. | 19 | 32.20% | |
Yes and never again. | 0 | 0% | |
No, but I would like to. | 35 | 59.32% | |
No and I don't care to meet anyone. | 5 | 8.47% | |
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06-17-2009, 04:49 PM | #1 |
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Have You Ever Met Someone from MobileRead IRL?
I know I have and I plan to do it again at the next Washington, DC Area Meet-up (27 June 2009 in Alexandria, VA.)
So I ask you, "Have you ever met someone from MobileRead IRL?" Would you want to meet someone from MobileRead? Why? |
06-17-2009, 05:15 PM | #2 | |
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For example, my imagination has provided the following pen-portraits of some of the people here: DesertGrandMa - just the archetypal old (but not too old), white haired lady. Constantly baking an apple pie, always prepared to stop and play with the grandkids Montsnmags - surfer dude, bermuda shorts, blond hair, uses MR between bouts of surfing and barbecuing Zelda - big noise in Parisian literary circles. Mysteriously attractive. Has a large number of hopelessly devoted male admirers who all play second fiddle to Zelda's MR addiction |
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06-17-2009, 05:21 PM | #3 |
When's Doughnut Day?
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More shameless marketing of your meet-up, eh Master Wood? Well, okay. You and Zelda seem bent on blowing past Texas in meet-ups. (Isn't there another Paris meet-up last Tuesday?)
Anyway, yes, I've been to a meet-up and met several MRers and would gladly do it again. A perhaps more curious question is "Have you ever met someone from MobileRead in real life for the first time but not at a meet-up?" If anyone answers yes to that, I would love to hear the story. |
06-17-2009, 06:12 PM | #4 | |
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I haven't get, but since I'm going to the VA meetup I will be soon. |
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06-17-2009, 06:22 PM | #5 |
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I've met Zelda, Alexander, Natch, Hadrien, and a lot of the Parisian forum members, as a result of going to some meet-ups in Paris.
They are all utterly charming and lovely. At the moment I'm extremely tempted to jump on a plane and go to the Virginia meet-up. Then I'd be able to meet more of the American members and escape from work, which is horrid and stressful at the moment. But I have a load of deadlines to meet, so it's not possible, alas. |
06-17-2009, 06:26 PM | #6 | |
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06-17-2009, 06:26 PM | #7 |
When's Doughnut Day?
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I'm sorry, Patricia. I hate the universal truth that the time you most need a vacation is the time when you can least afford to take one. There should be a Law of Thermodynamics or something that guards against things like that.
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06-17-2009, 06:26 PM | #8 |
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There are quite a few people here I'd love to meet, and I do hope to make it to one of the Paris meet-ups!
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06-17-2009, 06:35 PM | #9 |
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If Rebarnmom and I can ever get our schedules together, a meetup is in the works. If BadgoodDeb would care to make a trip out to the sticks, we'll be glad to include her as well!
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06-17-2009, 06:41 PM | #10 |
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I attended the first 2 Texas meet-ups. Also had dinner with Dixie-Gal and her main squeeze.
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06-17-2009, 07:16 PM | #11 |
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I have never met someone from MobileRead in real life but i plan to do it at the first german meet-up (27 June 2009 in Frankfurt/Main). I can hardly wait until then...
(Yes, this is just another shameless marketing of our meet-up. ) |
06-17-2009, 09:24 PM | #12 | |
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By the way, Patricia, there isn't a link in your signature line. Can anyone sign the petition? I would very much like to support you. |
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06-17-2009, 09:35 PM | #13 |
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I have had the true honor of having dinner with Elsi and her loving husband (see above), and was charmed by Slayda and his daughter, and BookishDreamer at our southeastern meetup last autumn. If there was any way possible to go to NOVA, we would go there also.
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06-17-2009, 09:50 PM | #14 |
Enjoying the show....
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I have had the honor of meeting Ricky Maveety..........and hope to do so again sometime.
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06-17-2009, 10:45 PM | #15 | |
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I answered "no, but I'd like to", because I kinda met my dad loooong before MR... But the real answer is "no, but I'd really, really, really like to". ..........I'll may be able to catch a ride to N-Y this summer with a friend, and then be able to meet Alpha :crossingfingers: Don't say it too loud, I don't want to jinx it! |
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