Do your internet friendships and real-life friendships coincide?

[chalwa]

The great thing about our board friends is it's like a pen pal. odds are you will never meet but you have a relationship. I can talk about my geek stuff that my wife just doesn't get. Would I like to meet Mikey, Earth2 Chris, Chalwa, and Wee67, sure but life makes it hard to even think about a road trip.

Dang, dude! I had plans to invite you over for a cookout and a mego admiration hour!
Maybe someday!
Chris

[johnmiic]

Well I had to get a restraining order for Samurainoir-The Shogun of Harlem, (who resides in the Great White North). He's just too darned friendly.

[emeraldknight47]

I have yet to meet any of you board folk [yet], but I'm still a relative greenhorn, so give me some time! RandomAxe, MIB41, and I were talking about a little get-together in Florence or Cincy sometime around the end of summer, so if anyone local is interested, just drop me a PM.

As far as relationships go with people on here, that would be me and Tom (MIB41). We met in the seventh grade at Crosby Middle School and discovered a common interest over issue number 7 of THE MAN CALLED NOVA (if memory serves).

In the thirty years plus since then, we've been friends, buds and have become brothers not by blood, but by choice, circumstance and a common history and bond we share. We've had our periods where we may not talk to each other for a while (sometimes a looooong while), but we always manage to come back into one another's orbits when it counts.

I wouldn't be posting here today if not for the urging of Mr. King. Kudos to you, my brother!!!

[Johnny]

I would feel awkward meeting you all in real life and having it revealed that I am actually
a tall, voluptuous, 24 yeard old blonde woman named Kiki.

[jimbutsu]

You still wouldn't be as pretty as the pic of you that floated around a few years back.

[LadyZod]

I'm weird.

A lot of my real life friends have BECOME my internet friends. (Over the years, we've moved away from each and pretty much stay in contact via Facebook and whatnot.)

Although I have been fortunate enough to meet from folks from here in real life on occasion, like Dave, Art and the good Doctor... I really want to make it to a MegoMeet to meet the rest of yall, but it just hasn't been in the stars for me recently.