I always thought I was a bit Geeky...
But this week I have been truly, truly humbled. I look at you all with a mixture of awe and lust. Some of these things I just don't understand - but it's all part of life’s great melting pot, eh?

About the geekiest thing I ever did then:

2005 was a bit of an odd year. Having moved back down South from the frozen North, living in London and horribly, painfully single, I joined MySpace.

I know. I know.

I linked up with my friends, and it was all going swimmingly. Then one drunken Friday night, feeling lonely, I was scanning profiles for things that would make me laugh.

I came across the profile of a girl whose picture was obscured by a camera. Reading her info, she had a quote from Bottom in it, and it gave me my first proper smile of the day. I e-mailed her to thank her for it, and didn't think anything of it.

The next day, I received a reply from her, and a friend request. We spent the next year e-mailing each other - sometimes daily, sometimes weekly, and sometimes monthly. Usually our e-mails consisted of comedy quotes, insane ramblings and top 10 list questions.

Eventually, she mails saying she was coming to London, would I like to meet for a drink to finally (after nearly 18 months) put a name to the face.

We met, we laughed, she went home again. I then visited her neck of the woods and visited Old Wardour Castle and Stonehenge.

To cut a long story short, not long after that we embarked upon a long-distance relationship - her living in Dorset and me in London.

Drawn together by an almost fanatical knowledge of the comedy of Monty Python, Eddie Izzard, Bill Bailey and Bottom, we're living together now and getting married next Summer (in Old Wardour Castle, the venue of our first ‘date’!)

The geekiest thing I did in my life? Fall in love with a girl off the internet.

(Normal service will, hopefully, resume next week when I actually have a story!)
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Wed 12 Mar 2008, 15:52, 8 replies)

That's
a nice story.
( browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Wed 12 Mar 2008, 15:54, closed)

NIce one
Fair play to ya squire. Nothing wrong with finding love on the internet. I met the most amazing woman in the world (online and off) over the internet. And believe me when I say I share your pain with long distance. Scotland to Tennessee is a pain. DOes give me nice holidays though.
(Teran Thinks Pogonophobia is funny, Wed 12 Mar 2008, 16:10, closed)

Nothing wrong with that.
That's how I met the Lunatic Artist, after all. She found me on Myspace, and we've been together ever since.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Wed 12 Mar 2008, 16:12, closed)

Cor!
@ Teran - Suddenly, Dorset doesn't seem like it was so far at all! Kudos to you both!

@ TRL - Good to see that it works out for other people too! I do like that tale.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Wed 12 Mar 2008, 16:20, closed)

Good work!
I love happy endings, me.
( Fathter Puddytat Kill Kill dat widdle boid is mine on, Wed 12 Mar 2008, 16:25, closed)

I too
Met my better half online. I'm a Scot, and Mrs Flesh is from Spain. I now live here, and we have a company together
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Wed 12 Mar 2008, 19:34, closed)

+1
... i met the current better half from myspace... *shudder*

The irony is the ex-girlfriend forced me to go on myspace, whereupon i met new girlfriend. (Who is fabulous!)
( Axai is in Montréal, Canada O.o, Wed 12 Mar 2008, 21:09, closed)

me too
the distance can be a problem. the 12,000 mile round trip is worth it
( Terry Oblong There's nobody here but us chickens on, Wed 12 Mar 2008, 22:22, closed)