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Where did you find your significant other?

post #1 of 130
5/9/08 at 3:47pm
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Or where did he/she find you?

I found my current relationship in a theatre... during The Exorcism of Emily Rose. There were only like ten people in the screening and while I still don't know why, I took the seat directly beside her. I still don't know why I didn't pick an empty seat (which I usually do because people can't shut up or eat like monsters). When she began a talk by saying "I heard Wilkinson is great in this", I knew that it was going to be interesting.
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post #2 of 130
5/9/08 at 3:55pm
You sat right next to someone in an almost empty theater? Kudos to you sir but I'm sure 99% of the time that ends in disaster.
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post #3 of 130
5/9/08 at 3:56pm
I'm interested in finding out how did you follow that conversation?

She said that, and you answered, and then? you kept talking throughout the movie? Went for coffee after that?
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post #4 of 130
5/9/08 at 4:04pm
I could only ever pick up a girl in a theater during a midnight or packed showing where we're forced to sit next to one another. Call me a cynic, but I assume everyone else in the theater, male or female, is a complete and utter jackass. It helps me focus more. (I guess watching movies in NYC will do this to you, especially when you frequent the Times Square theaters because they're close to work and your train)

But hey, I met my girlfriend on craigslist, so what the hell do I know?
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post #5 of 130
5/9/08 at 4:06pm
I woke up from a blackout during a pub crawl with an unfamiliar number programmed into my cell phone. I called it, got the message prompt, felt weird about leaving a message on a stranger's phone and terminated the call. Two hours later, I got a text message from her inviting me out to lunch. I haven't had the best track record in Berkeley, so I was seriously contemplating not showing up. I'm glad I did. She turned out to be a smoking hot and sane Honors student and I had somehow made a good impression on her when I was in a blackout. So, I basically ended up with an insanely hot and intelligent girl without having to do any of the heavy lifting. That was impossibly awesome.
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post #6 of 130
5/9/08 at 4:06pm
I washed dishes when I was sixteen in her mom's restaurant; she waited tables. She couldn't stand me at first as she rightly recognized me as a dork. I helped her with her poetry homework and we became good friends. We went to different colleges but re-entered each other's life in the summer of 1990. She told me she loved me and then fell asleep during "Ghostbusters 2" (she'd worked a split shift for a fishing tourney at the restaurant that day...). We then began to date and were married in 1992. We'll be celebrating our sixteenth annivesary in September.
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post #7 of 130
5/9/08 at 4:14pm
High School, 1993
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post #8 of 130
5/9/08 at 4:15pm
I went to a cookout with my roommate and her boyfriend because I was hungry and bored.

3 days later my roommate tells me this girl at the cookout was interested in me.

That's all it took. We've been married 7 years.
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post #9 of 130
5/9/08 at 4:20pm
saw her on myspace in 05' meet up on campus (Purdue) for dinner and we are getting marred in November
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post #10 of 130
5/9/08 at 4:22pm
The current gal ... I was her manager at a place of employment. She left to pursue her masters degree. I asked. Going strong.

My former wife -- met her when we were both actors at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Good story: she was pulled out of her undergraduate acting program (at Cal Arts in Valencia, CA) to play the princess in "The Winter's Tale". She shows up at the gathering cast party to find the actor playing Florizel. She comes up to me. "Are you my prince," she asks. Well, for 11 years I was.
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post #11 of 130
5/9/08 at 4:24pm
Met my wife via a dating service (not online). We met, started dating, got married 6 months later, and are coming up on 11 years of marriage.

And no, she's not from another country.
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post #12 of 130
5/9/08 at 4:24pm
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post #13 of 130
5/9/08 at 4:28pm
In a bar, behind a drum kit, on the 1st of June, 2001.
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post #14 of 130
5/9/08 at 4:29pm
UkrainianBrideShop.org
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post #15 of 130
5/9/08 at 4:32pm
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UkrainianBrideShop.org
Winner.
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post #16 of 130
5/9/08 at 4:33pm
Met her in high school my Senior year, as she had just transferred there, and she pegged me as an asshole, despite not really knowing me. Flashforward to the following year, and one of my friends happened to be friends with her, as they would hang out every now and then, and we all went to hang out together once. He told her that I was actually a great guy, and to at least get to know me.

She and I started talking after that. I didn't take anything with her seriously (and in retrospect, I should have, but I was just a dumbass who thought he had the world by the balls, and it took a big "slap of reality" to get me with the program.) and now we've celebrated 1 glorious year together. Not up to the par of some of the other posts on here, but I'm looking forward to many more enjoyable years with her.
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post #17 of 130
5/9/08 at 4:40pm
Well, I found her at a trashy honkytonk kind of bar. She was blitzed, alone and very close to reenacting THAT scene from The Accused. I tossed her a pack of smokes, gave her a cheap line, and got her out of there before the townies did something evil.

And that's how your mom and I have been bumping uglies ever since.


Yeah, that's right. I went there. A mom joke. Take that.
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post #18 of 130
5/9/08 at 4:44pm
She was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar... no. She was workin' in a topless place, and I stopped in for a beer... no.

I was holed up in a Tijuana flophouse, recovering from a rare venereal disease. The Feds had cut off my funding, and the Ukrainian brothers of the last guy I killed had hired seven of the guys on the C.I.A.'s ten most-wanted list to take me out. At around 3 a.m., two of the biggest goddamn bruisers you've ever seen busted down the door. Their lower lips quivered and glistened with the saliva of a hunger that only my dismemberment could sate. Soon, I was on the first guy. Thrusting into his neck a page from a complimentary bible I found in the nightstand, I left a deep and thin cut across his jugular.

What was the question again?
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post #19 of 130
5/9/08 at 4:47pm
See, I turn away from the PC for just a couple minutes and my thunder gets stolen not just by my wife, but via random references to the Ukraine and trashy honkytonks (great mom joke, by the way).
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post #20 of 130
5/9/08 at 4:51pm
You killed a man with a Gideon Bible? Damn, that's impressive.
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post #21 of 130
5/9/08 at 4:55pm
I thought it was the King James that was found in hotels across the world?
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post #22 of 130
5/9/08 at 4:58pm
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Originally Posted by Doc Happenin View Post
I thought it was the King James that was found in hotels across the world?
Dude, I have heard "Rocky Raccoon." I know what I'm talking about.
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post #23 of 130
5/9/08 at 5:00pm
I met mine at work in 1996. I worked with her boss and we crossed paths one day. I though that she was cute, so I asked the HR person a few questions about her (which she shouldn't have told me, but that's another story) and I asked her out a week later. We're coming up on 9 years of marriage this July.
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post #24 of 130
5/9/08 at 5:10pm
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She was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar... no. She was workin' in a topless place, and I stopped in for a beer... no.
Let's keep the jokes that imply that I've worked in a topless bar at an absolute minimum, please.

Not that I wouldn't be awesome at it...
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post #25 of 130
5/9/08 at 5:11pm
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I was holed up in a Tijuana flophouse, recovering from a rare venereal disease.
Ah, yes, Tijuana flophouses... cockroaches, pink stuff you are hoping to God is Pepto Bismo thrown all over the walls, Mexican truckers roaming around the halls, and close proximity to both the red light district and establishments dealing in prescription and illegal drugs. What is not to love about those places?
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post #26 of 130
5/9/08 at 5:16pm
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You killed a man with a Gideon Bible? Damn, that's impressive.
Well, the Gideons are ninjas.
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post #27 of 130
5/9/08 at 5:17pm
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Well, the Gideons are ninjas.
It's amazing what passes for a ninja, nowadays.
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post #28 of 130
5/9/08 at 5:19pm
Now I want to listen to Rant in E-Minor.
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post #29 of 130
5/9/08 at 5:20pm
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It's amazing what passes for a ninja, nowadays.
Hey, pal, have you ever seen someone put one of those Bibles in a hotel room?

Didn't think so.

Ninjas!
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post #30 of 130
5/9/08 at 5:26pm
Blind date. I'd just had a couple of dates that went nowhere (one was with a girl I worked with who I lusted after and everyone at work tried to hook me up with - long, weird, story). I was pretty much convinced I'd be living a bachelor lifestyle when my buddy Sean said "My fiancee knows this girl, and wants to know if you want to meet her?". I said sure, couple of phone calls later, and that night I met my future wife. At a Finnegan's.

Not as cool as DaveB's story, but there we are. So, Dave, was it before or after you reached down the second bruiser's mouth and tore out his uvula (a Dim Mak technique you learned from your sensei when you were travelling in the Far East) that you met MissZooey? And what was she packing - two .45s or an Ingram Mac 10, with a Bowie knife in her teeth?
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post #31 of 130
5/9/08 at 5:38pm
born in the same hospital, 2 days apart (same doctor; different moms) We married after hight school and have been married for 16 years this month.
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post #32 of 130
5/9/08 at 5:42pm
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UkrainianBrideShop.org
I wanted to keep it local, so I went with this site.
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post #33 of 130
5/9/08 at 5:42pm
I almost met my wife during the run-up to the Episode I premiere. I had sent out a mass email to to my group of friends, detailing our war plan for getting a large number of tickets. The email was forwarded to her, she discovered what she thought was a flaw in my directions...and called me out of the blue to school me. She left a message that got garbled by my answering machine, so I never responded. But she was the only one out of our entire extended circle of friends that bothered to do a *trial run* of the plan. It was destiny, man.

We ended up actually meeting at a party a few weeks later, I asked her to the movies, and the following day we drove 90 miles to Minneapolis to see Run, Lola, Run. She spent an hour and a half in a car with someone she just met to go to a German indie movie. That, my friends, is a good catch. We've been together for nine years, and have two kids...one named after everyone's favorite one-eyed vampire-slayer sidekick.
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post #34 of 130
5/9/08 at 5:46pm
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Blind date. I'd just had a couple of dates that went nowhere (one was with a girl I worked with who I lusted after and everyone at work tried to hook me up with - long, weird, story). I was pretty much convinced I'd be living a bachelor lifestyle when my buddy Sean said "My fiancee knows this girl, and wants to know if you want to meet her?". I said sure, couple of phone calls later, and that night I met my future wife. At a Finnegan's.

Not as cool as DaveB's story, but there we are. So, Dave, was it before or after you reached down the second bruiser's mouth and tore out his uvula (a Dim Mak technique you learned from your sensei when you were travelling in the Far East) that you met MissZooey? And what was she packing - two .45s or an Ingram Mac 10, with a Bowie knife in her teeth?
She was unarmed, and it was during the pummeling of goon number two. She took him high, I took him low, and we met somewhere around the oh-so-vulnerable kidneys. Romance is not dead.
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post #35 of 130
5/9/08 at 5:48pm
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Thank you.
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post #36 of 130
5/9/08 at 5:51pm
I'm just bummed that it took so long to show up.
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post #37 of 130
5/9/08 at 5:51pm
Behind a dumpster.

Slightly used.

Still salvageable.



I keep her on ice till I get lonely.



It's a good relationship.
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post #38 of 130
5/9/08 at 5:55pm
Once again I would like to invite every single responder to this thread to kiss my ass.
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post #39 of 130
5/9/08 at 6:02pm
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Once again I would like to invite every single responder to this thread to kiss my ass.
Incidentally, I met my *last* girlfriend in this manner. A random invitation for ass-to-mouth in a forum...good times.
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post #40 of 130
5/9/08 at 6:19pm
Surprise, you've got the clap!
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post #41 of 130
5/9/08 at 6:27pm
I graduated from the VFS film production program a couple years ago, he's taking the VFS classical animation program right now. He was browsing the VFS network on Facebook, thought I looked cool, and wrote me a neat little message. I looked at his profile and discovered that he plays guitar, loves psychedelic drugs and art, has various piercings, wears eyeliner, is an amazing artist who does draws really cool shit and is incredibly hot. We ended up talking on MSN for a couple months and then eventually met, spent another month kinda sorta dating and things went from there. Life is good.
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post #42 of 130
5/9/08 at 6:32pm
So a walking cliche?
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post #43 of 130
5/9/08 at 6:34pm
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wears eyeliner,
Sharing is caring...
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post #44 of 130
5/9/08 at 6:37pm
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Originally Posted by Werewolf Girl View Post
I graduated from the VFS film production program a couple years ago, he's taking the VFS classical animation program right now. He was browsing the VFS network on Facebook, thought I looked cool, and wrote me a neat little message. I looked at his profile and discovered that he plays guitar, loves psychedelic drugs and art, has various piercings, wears eyeliner, is an amazing artist who does draws really cool shit and is incredibly hot. We ended up talking on MSN for a couple months and then eventually met, spent another month kinda sorta dating and things went from there. Life is good.
I smell a Diablo Cody/Jason Reitman reunion.
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post #45 of 130
5/9/08 at 6:38pm
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So a walking cliche?
Being interesting and attractive is a cliche now? Shit.
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post #46 of 130
5/9/08 at 6:50pm
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Originally Posted by Sammy Jankis View Post
born in the same hospital, 2 days apart (same doctor; different moms) We married after hight school and have been married for 16 years this month.
Well, I hope so!
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post #47 of 130
5/9/08 at 6:51pm
On the bed, on the floor, on a towel by the door, in the tub, in the car, up against the mini-bar.
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post #48 of 130
5/9/08 at 6:52pm
You're fucking Matt Damon? Good job.
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post #49 of 130
5/9/08 at 6:55pm
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I I looked at his profile and discovered that he plays guitar, loves psychedelic drugs and art, has various piercings, wears eyeliner, is an amazing artist who does draws really cool shit and is incredibly hot.
Hearing about this makes me feel so inadequate about my skills. Not so much about the eyeliner and drugs though.
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post #50 of 130
5/9/08 at 7:00pm
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Hearing about this makes me feel so inadequate about my skills. Not so much about the eyeliner and drugs though.
I could have listed more but this is the wrong forum.
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