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The fear of becoming 'real' through the purposeful pursuit of meeting other Jatraqueros.
I am real by accident (I met KACard and OSC @ bootcamp); and once I flirted with meeting other Jatraqueros in D.C. But in reality, I'm not too keen on all these real life meetings.
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Oh, I LOVE them. The only sad part is coming home again where the painful lack of hatrackers in day to day life is made all the more keenly obvious.
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Since I met a dozen or so Hatrackers in person before I ever joined the forum, it really seems like no big deal to me. Plus, it's a lot of fun.
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We usually talk about you during the meetings anyway. Just as well you aren't there to hear - you'd have to blush.
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Hatrack get togethers are great for me for one of two reasons--I get to see either Toretha (who lives across the street from me again ) or my beloved Bernard every time. Not that I'm showing favoratism...
Besides, Hatrack get-togethers are cool, no matter what.
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Then I am real. I met KACard as well. The only glitch here is that I didn't tell them I was "Tammy @ Hatrack". I did tell OSC that I enjoyed the Hatrack Forum. He nodded and looked at me funny.
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If I'm about to meet Javert, does that make me exist, or do I still have to meet another jatraquero after that? If so, will meeting Javert make me half-real?
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Tammy, if you didn't admit who you were, how could they vouch for you?
I am not sure you are realy yet....what do you think, guys?
You have to meet two people who are also real, but I don't know if it has to be at the same time....It's half a joke, although the reason the "rule" exists is the multiple names people go by here, and the fact that people do troll at times. This way we know that you aren't a figment of someones imagination, for good or bad...
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About a week after I started posting, my wife drug me off to a Jatrquero gathering at BYU. I never had a chance to enjoy my lack of existence. Posts: 16551 | Registered: Feb 2003
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I was real about a month after joining the forum. (Porter had been on "the other side" for perhaps a year already) There just happened to be a local gathering. Porter and I both felt like we were doing something really strange, going to meet a bunch of people from an internet forum. But we were really excited too and had a lot of fun.
I am sad that it will probably be a long time till I am able to meet many of the eastern Jatraqueros. Not to mention all the wonderful Jatraqueros around the world.
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This thread sounds like a chainletter I would find in my e-mail:
Become Real On Hatrack Can Change Your Life
I became real by meeting just three Jatraqueros and suddenly my life changed. I won the lottery, fell in love, met God in line at the Winn Dixie, and reached level 20 in KoL.
You too can have this fantastic stroke of Luck, just by passing on yourself to two or more Hatrackers.
Financial success.
Romantic success.
Better game play through cheat codes, all when you "Become Real"
Jack had the chance to become real, and chose not too.
Now Jack lives in a van down by the river.
And his video tape of Princess Bride broke in two.
And LDS Missionaries avoid him.
You don't want that happening to you.
So go, meet two other Hatrackers, Jatraqueros, Wenches or Burninators today. Pass on the Good Luck that only "Being Real" can bring.
I was a boring old man who could barely cross the street. Then I became real and now, not only am I the life of the party, I am President of the Street, in a way. Bob Scopatz
I was a liberal pawn totally enslaved to the vast Liberal Cabal and its Media until I became Real. Suddenly my eyes were opened as the light of truth, justice, and the American way burned into my brain. Now I fight to defend my country and the true conservative values for which it stands. Pixiest
I was just a standard program for Poland until I became Real. Now I know that I am the Queen of Hatrack and that everyone loves me for my accent, if not for Annie's pants. Kama.
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I'm real but I have never sought out meeting hatrackers. Last school year our lunch discussions could be pretty interesting with 4 or so hatrackers there most days.
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No, I think you have to meet your pants, along with some other piece of clothing that has met two Hatrackers.
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So, theoretically, you could meet my pants and the orange tights, or the infamous brown jacket.
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Hey, now that you mention it, I don't recall the infamous brown jacket being at Kamacon. I feel totally gypped!
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Kwea...you're probably right! If I recall correctly, I was busy trying not to confess my eternal love for Ender and my great awe at meeting his creator to properly introduce myself as a member of the forum.
I don't really feel real.
I have to go to Greensboro again sometime this week or next week. Anyone around? Maybe that's why I'm still not real, that scares the heck out of me...asking complete strangers to come meet me.
Our invisible fence blew a fuse during a recent lightening storm. The dogs don't know their really free, so don't tell them. The closest invisible fence office is in Greensboro.
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What, do they not have nighttime during the summer anymore? Or did Chicago just pick up and move to Alaska?
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I'm not saying that a coat was necessary while we were there, merely that it certainly wasn't too hot to wear a jacket for a few minutes so we could all have the experience of being in the presence of the Infamous Brown Jacket.
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For the record, to be truly real, you need to meet a minimum 2 Hatrackers who, through a chain of meeting at least 2 other Hatrackers, can trace their Jatraqueriosity back to Pat (or was it Slash?). It's all a vile Ponzi Scheme.
So you and your family/buddies who post on Hatrack don't count, unless two of them can trace their Hatracker lineage back to the top.
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Gah! Well, I've met pooka...and are there any other hatrackers an AZ who've met Pat, or someone from Utah, or someone who's met Pat? I need to be real!
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Okay, how am I ever gonna find out if I'm real?
Or maybe I'll just ignore the old laws and follow the law of my choosing.
I pick the second one. That way I'm not only real, but queen of Hatrack with many lovely maidens and handsome knights. Yes....fantasy IS better....
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PSI, you're in KENTUCKY and you didn't come to KamaCon? Why was I thinking you were in Arizona?
*brightens* Can you visit the campout in October? It's a day trip, right? Those states back east are so tiny...
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I met Hobbes, who was at EnderCon and met Papa Moose, who hangs out with Alvin Maker, who starred in Footloose with Kevin Bacon.
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I am not in Kentucky. I am planning to visit Kentucky in a few months to get together with some previously unmet Hatrackers that I need to meet. I'm just thinking, that's all. Posts: 6367 | Registered: Aug 2003
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