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Post number 4340

dhartung — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:23:41 -0800

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.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:25:35 -0800

(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?

By: jmcnally

jmcnally — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:35:19 -0800

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.

By: pnevares

pnevares — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:46:55 -0800

dhartung: UofM is in Ann Arbor, MSU is in Lansing.

By: ethmar

ethmar — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:54:35 -0800

East Lansing, that is.

By: y6y6y6

y6y6y6 — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:54:52 -0800

(off topic) Actually UofM is in Missoula, MSU is in Bozeman.

By: palegirl

palegirl — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:54:57 -0800

maybe not a blow-by-blow but more of a play-by-play? [sorry.]

By: Skot

Skot — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 15:06:33 -0800

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.

By: Byun-o-matic

Byun-o-matic — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 15:09:44 -0800

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.

By: CrazyUncleJoe

CrazyUncleJoe — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 16:35:47 -0800

...or at least rank him on amihotornot.com

By: megnut

megnut — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 16:44:10 -0800

Well, you all know what I'd say about something like this, so I won't even bother.

By: brian

brian — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 16:51:45 -0800

ack it's high school all over again. (hiding)

By: tiaka

tiaka — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 18:38:08 -0800

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.

By: brent

brent — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 18:38:38 -0800

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.

By: baylink

baylink — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 19:52:52 -0800

ack it's high school all over again Hey, Neale!

By: dhartung

dhartung — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 23:49:31 -0800

There we go. "Hey, cutie, got a date for the bloghop? Everybody's gonna be there!"

By: dhartung

dhartung — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 23:51:17 -0800

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.

By: aekastar

aekastar — Sat, 18 Nov 2000 17:21:59 -0800

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.

By: gluechunk

gluechunk — Sat, 18 Nov 2000 17:56:23 -0800

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.

By: beefula

beefula — Sun, 19 Nov 2000 00:57:33 -0800

"i know he really likes me cause he voted for me to visit on my web poll 4950 times"

By: zempf

zempf — Sun, 19 Nov 2000 09:29:08 -0800

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).

By: beefula

beefula — Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:57:21 -0800

WHO CALLED IT!

By: MarkB

MarkB — Sun, 19 Nov 2000 14:09:08 -0800

TOO CLOSE TO CALL!