November 17, 2000

2:23 PM

More dating webloggers.Online journallers, really: Stephanie polled her readers as to whether she should go out with Mike. They voted overwhelmingly in favor, and now she's traveled from Detroit to Columbus to meet him. Everyone's watching with bated breath. Well, every one of their readers, anyway ... but five thousand people voted in her poll.
posted by dhartung (22 comments total)

(Whoops, I thought it was Detroit, but MSU is actually in Ann Arbor.)

I don't see what could go wrong. First dates are always no-pressure, right?
posted by dhartung at 2:25 PM on November 17, 2000

Do you think each of them will post a blow-by-blow of their meeting? OK, do you think each of them will post an HONEST blow-by-blow? It feels like watching a car wreck.
posted by jmcnally at 2:35 PM on November 17, 2000

dhartung: UofM is in Ann Arbor, MSU is in Lansing.
posted by pnevares at 2:46 PM on November 17, 2000

East Lansing, that is.
posted by ethmar at 2:54 PM on November 17, 2000

(off topic)

Actually UofM is in Missoula, MSU is in Bozeman.
posted by y6y6y6 at 2:54 PM on November 17, 2000

maybe not a blow-by-blow but more of a play-by-play? [sorry.]
posted by palegirl at 2:54 PM on November 17, 2000

Is there a way for them to carry PDAs or something and update during the actual date?

Stephanie: Well, I'm at his door and . . . oh god . . . what a weird nose.

Mike: I'm trying to smile sincerely while I check out her rack.

. . .

Stephanie: He's so CHARMING!

Mike: She's still talking . . . dammit, Blogger is down aga

. . .

Stephanie: Could this really be love?

Mike: Could this really be the bill?

. . .

Stephanie: That was magical. Magical.

Mike: Zzzzzz.


posted by Skot at 3:06 PM on November 17, 2000

Blog Love is cool. If the date goes well, instead of kissing him goodnight she can just go to Bloghop and give him a favorable rating.
posted by Byun-o-matic at 3:09 PM on November 17, 2000

...or at least rank him on amihotornot.com
posted by CrazyUncleJoe at 4:35 PM on November 17, 2000

Well, you all know what I'd say about something like this, so I won't even bother.
posted by megnut at 4:44 PM on November 17, 2000

ack it's high school all over again. (hiding)
posted by brian at 4:51 PM on November 17, 2000

Hmm, how come no one goes out with me? No body likes me. hehe. No, I'm kidding. Hmm, I'm not. Yes, I'am. No, I'm not.
posted by tiaka at 6:38 PM on November 17, 2000

Fast forward 20 years, 2.2 kids later.......So how did Mom meet Dad? Well, this online poll was conducted, a recount was done since 5,000 people really didn't vote, and I was soon on my way driving some oh, 258 miles to meet the unknown, only later to give sketchy details on how things really went.
posted by brent at 6:38 PM on November 17, 2000

ack it's high school all over again

Hey, Neale!
posted by baylink at 7:52 PM on November 17, 2000

There we go. "Hey, cutie, got a date for the bloghop? Everybody's gonna be there!"
posted by dhartung at 11:49 PM on November 17, 2000

Oh, damnit, here I am doing sequential one-liners again. Anyway, I was a little skeptical of the 5000 voter figure until I considered that it might have been passed around campus.
posted by dhartung at 11:51 PM on November 17, 2000

I get more hits when I like a new online person. it's fun. too bad none of them ever had a blog. would have gotten me even more hits....hah!

it'll probably be a good "date" unless there's no chemistry; it happens.
posted by aekastar at 5:21 PM on November 18, 2000

well it's been over 24 hours since either of them have updated their blogs. i don't know if that's good or bad.
posted by gluechunk at 5:56 PM on November 18, 2000

"i know he really likes me cause he voted for me to visit on my web poll 4950 times"
posted by beefula at 12:57 AM on November 19, 2000

Ok, this is Mike of frantic.org and I have to be honest with you- I run the site that she was using to poll people on whether or not she should go out with me. (Cheap plug - go, sign up, put polls on your site, it's cool) Anyway, I MAY have gone into the SQL database and added 5000 votes or so for myself, but.. you can't prove anything. She just left to go back home to Michigan, so I'm sure we'll both update later today on our impressions of the whole thing (I know I had a lot of fun).
posted by zempf at 9:29 AM on November 19, 2000

WHO CALLED IT!
posted by beefula at 1:57 PM on November 19, 2000

TOO CLOSE TO CALL!
posted by MarkB at 2:09 PM on November 19, 2000