damerell

Recently on IRC there was a discussion of where one first met people who subsequently became partners - USENET, CUSFS, Monochrome BBS, even the occasional one in real life. I'm thinking of posting a poll about this, but first I'd like to get the categories sorted out. Ones that spring to mind are;

Actually in real life and not doing anything mentioned below.
Gigs and clubs and suchlike (subdivided goths and normal people. Nice boots!)
Monochrome or other BBS or talkers or meets for same.
USENET / old-school mailing lists or meets for same (and the same goes for all online thingies).
Livejournal or other meat-market^W social websites.
Roleplaying or other gaming (but face-to-face).
Church (freaks).
Conventions.
MUDs or MMOs.
Common shell account (like tezcat or sable.ox or chiark).
IRC.
Werk (boo!)
Hobby groups like bridge clubs or university societies.
Suspiciously healthy outdoor activity like hill walking.
Bellringing (filthy perverts).
Actually at some sort of filthy pervert activity.
Dating Websites / small ads / speed dating / blind dates except...
... specifically Private Eye smalls.
Bicon / polyday / some other thinly disguised meat market.
Mail-order bride.
Arranged marriage.
Fell for 419 scammer, still awaiting ONE POINT TWO MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS.
Talked to at bus stop in Glasgow.
During law enforcement activity (arrester, arrestee, banged up in cells together, etc.)
HELLO I'M ON THE TRAIN (or boat/plane/whatever).
At school (special points if one of you was a teacher).
Lifelong playmate since age three, now playing "freelance ob/gyn specialist".
Actually ob/gyn specialist (or other medical procedure).

[Poll #863523]

Answers visible to me only, so you can avoid outing your weird partner-meeting method. Except to me, ahahahahaha!