kasie
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| | When you first joined and what you felt back then vs now.Page 1 of 3 (1, 2, 3) | I just wanted to see if we could stir up some memories from back then.. Here are a few of mine.
I joined originally in March 2006. I joined because when I happened across the site I found the forums. It was a great release to me to discuss things with strangers.
I found myself being drawn to watching all the forums..not just Ohio. I found so many unbiased opinions that I decided to join so I could start putting in my two cents.
Since that time I have went from knowing absolutely no one in any of the forums to feeling like I know EVERYONE in the Ohio forums. I have attended events for the past year and now feel like this is an extension of my life. I can't imagine not being able to get into the forums and learning from all of you that have become such wonderful friends or to help a friend in need that may be able to learn from me.
Do any of you remember the discussions between TJ7 and East side Eddie as they were always talking about something..lol 
I wanted to throw out some good memories on here for all of us to remember why we love this site so much and why we stay around even after we have found someone and moved on or gotten married.
What are your memories?  | |
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| When you first joined and what you felt back then vs now.
Posted: 7/12/2007 5:04:28 AM | There are lots of great memories from my start time here a little over a year ago to now. From time to time I go back and revive old threads to bring back some of those times. I've seen others have started to do that as well.
There are some interesting discussions from the days gone past! | |
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Posted: 7/12/2007 6:45:15 AM | I joined not that long ago and was turned on to this web-site by a someone who told me it would help me increase my social network. I didn't have a single friend in Ohio and was VERY lonely and missing my friends back home.
I've met some truly amazing people at events all over NOT just in Columbus. Many of these people are people I consider to be true friends. I knew nothing about the forums I was just here to meet people. As most of you know I'm now what I call a forum addict lol I can't seem to get enough. POF has really helped me learn to love Ohio and meet some of the greatest people EVER!!
The picture threads help me relive the memories over and over!!
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Posted: 7/12/2007 9:14:11 AM | Wow, I remember my first day on POF, I got almost 50 emails, and thought, 'This rocks over Yahoo, which I had to pay for!' But the funny thing is, I started for the dating, because after 8 months of seperation, I was lonely. What I didn't realize was how different this site was, with the forums, and the events. I got out and started making friends, having a social lilfe, and realized THAT was what I needed! I have made some of the best friends a girl could ask for on here. I hadn't had that since college days. Yes, the dating part sucks, but I think that's just the nature of dating, not exclusive to this site, or even internet dating. Yes, there is occasional drama, some that you even get pulled in against your will. But, all in all, I think that's life, and having a social network, a place to go where 'somebody knows your name' and meeting friends who I know would never try to live without makes it all worth it!
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| When you first joined and what you felt back then vs now.
Posted: 7/12/2007 9:48:23 AM | I've been here since January 2006...
I don't know anything about the "dating" side of it, but the friendships are PRICELESS! I take a break every once in a while when I get fed up with being surrounded with the childish drama, but I always come back because of the people that have become an integral part of my life.  | |
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Posted: 7/12/2007 1:39:42 PM | Wow I have so many wonderful memories! I joined over a year ago and started going to Lucky's the second week it started and have been going ever since. I have made so many new friends. I remember Stylinprofiling and Lonie always dancing with me every week. There was a group of us girls they called us the stroking girls because we would always dance when Rob sang that song every week. I remember the lap dances we auctioned off that Rene and I won. I always licked Rob's fingers when he would get them sticky from eating his wings! We had so many good times and still do and I hope the good times can just keep going on and on.  | |
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Posted: 7/12/2007 3:31:25 PM |
That's TMI!!!
Yeah, I kind of have to agree there, Jackie! 
One thing I have benefitted from greatly with this group, is the ability to really reach out and touch people, both on a physical and emotional level. I know those who were there my first night remember my reluctance to hug or let anyone touch me. I also had walls up against reaching out to friends. I'm one month short of my year anniversery on this site, and if you saw me now, you'd never know it. I hug and dance with all of my friends, and I have some very close, special friends who I know I can call up at anytime, for anything. That's such an improvement over my life before! | |
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Posted: 7/12/2007 5:54:32 PM | This thread got me to thinking about when I first signed up here at POF last October. I arrived because a guy who was playing me told me that I was the woman of his dreams while all the time he was on POF. So I signed up so I could send him a message through this system. He didn't care, but it made me feel better. Anyway, with a profile up, I started looking around here and got into the forums which was a very soothing thing for me to read late at night when I felt so alone.
I was really scared but I finally worked up the nerve to start a thread. And little by little overcame my fears of posting on other peoples' threads. I never realized that there were specific groups of threads for each state, but somehow arrived in the Ohio forums and starting reading those.
Then I saw where they were organizing events. People don't realize what a big step that was for me to work up the nerve to go and walk into Lucky's alone! I was a complete homebody. Just went to work and came home. Never went anywhere. Never socialized except with a few friends who lived quite far away. But I finally did it in November. I remember walking in there, and Gary (gentlegiant) met me before I even got up to the sign-up table. He introduced me to PawPawKen, who is probably one of the most mischievous men on this planet. Now that was an initiation! (muuuhaaahaaa) Gary introduced me to Pam (pammer) and she then took me under her wing.
Needless to say, it has been a life-changing experience. What an adventure! The newbies don't really realize what a neat collection of people were hanging around the Ohio forums earlier in 2007, some of which are gone now. I can honestly say I had a screaming good time posting on these threads! There have been times when I couldn't stop laughing when I finally went to bed about the stuff we talked about here. I loved the "Things I Wonder About Alone on a Saturday Night" thread (which eventually got deleted) where we discussed such things as the names men have for the p3nises. Or the time we had the discussion of what a Brazilian cut is on a hoohoo. One evening we had about three threads going where we jumped back and forth on such subjects as the use of a walker as a sex aid. I'm rolling on the floor laughing just remembering those.
Then with one innocent post where I was talking about something that sounded very medical and I signed it "Dr. Kimono," I became the resident quack doctor. The most fun was deviling mikeyohio and the other black team cornhole players on the Pucker's thread with the descriptions of the publications Dr. Kimono supposedly had available to help them with their game.
Oh, that was fun! And I do remember the first impression images when meeting some of the regulars on here for the first time at events, such as Petey patting TJ on the behind while she was shooting pool or discovering that Chappy really didn't look like a serial killer in real life.
I will never forget my experiences on POF. Thanks everyone for welcoming this shy homebody into your group. It made such a difference! Even the difficult things that POF brought my way was useful in making me grow. What is frightening, however, is that whenever anyone shouts "hey, Doc!" I actually answer. Who would have thought? | |
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Posted: 7/12/2007 6:33:28 PM | Sharon (Dr. K), you have been one of the greatest delights for me on this site. Looking for your posts is something I do when I really need to laugh... it will do it for me EVERY time!
You are one of the TRUE ladies! You NEVER step out of that character, even when you are playing on words in a way that leaves me speechless! You even manage to tell some one where to go at times, and you do it in a way that leaves no doubt that they have gone a little too far, and yet your gentle character still shines through.
I can't tell you how much you have been a central point of the enjoyment of my time here, both on the forums and at the events.
You are one of a kind!  | |
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Posted: 7/13/2007 9:08:37 AM | Jackie, thanks so much for those comments about me! I appreciate that greatly and really needed that right now. I enjoy your posts as well and all it takes is seeing Jackie1954 as the author and I am reading it!
I do wish we could get the innocence back that we had a few months ago when we frolicked on these threads. It was so fun.
However, during this time of thunderstorms in my life, I am hibernating in a cave until the sun comes out again. And if I kind of like this cave, I may not come back out! | |
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Posted: 7/13/2007 9:15:14 AM | Sharon, there are times that I need to hibernate too! It helps me to refocus. But I've learned to not let myself do that for too long. It isn't good for your soul!
It's like fasting... your body/mind needs it from time to time. If you fast for too long, it can do a lot of damage... sometimes long term or unrepairable. | |
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Posted: 7/13/2007 6:56:28 PM | I remember the first time I came to Lucky;s I was so scarred, I made a friend go with me because I had no idea what so ever it was going to be like. But much to my surprise I had a great time. I have meeeeeet so many wonderful people. I had never ever dreamed I would be playing pool, until Jody signed me up one Sunday and to my surprise I can not hardly go a Sunday with out going to lucky;s and playing pool as well as corn hole. I have net really meet anyone at this time but I am still searching. I have also kinda gotten into the routine when I see someone standing along to start introducing them to everyone else. I have so many new and old friends that I don;t have enough room to mention them all. Some of them I have not seen in some time and I do miss them dearly | |
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Posted: 7/13/2007 7:19:10 PM | I just joined POF in June 2007 because a friend directed me here... glad I came. Like others Yahoo and Match don't hold a candle to what POF has!
And, like others, I am working at getting out of my comfort zone and trying to get up the nerve to go to one of the events...
The forums are great! Have 'met' quite a few characters and would love to truly meet them in person, so I will have to go to an event soon...maybe the campout in September? LOL!
Anyway, POF, keep it coming!  | |
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| When you first joined and what you felt back then vs now.
Posted: 10/28/2008 7:07:32 AM | yes I'm bringing an old thread back to life.
I was talking with doc (crimson kimono/grannybritches) and we got on the topic of how we use to spend hours on the threads chatting and keeping people laughing with comments and topics. There have been many drinks sprayed on the screen when something was said over the years.
Over time there have been more restrictions and things have died down.
Maybe its time for a thread reuinon to get everyone back on the threads to have fun?
Some of us have come and gone and have different names then when we first joined pof. Talk it up what have you been up to since days gone by..... | |
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| When you first joined and what you felt back then vs now.
Posted: 10/28/2008 12:29:04 PM |
Maybe its time for a thread reuinon to get everyone back on the threads to have fun?
That does sound like a great idea Christy. I had completely forgotten about this thread. It's amazing how we talked about so many different topics . It was great to read so many opinions.  Yea those were the days huh..lol | |
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