Difference is, "ita" has hired a talented actress to front for her posts, and our 7-foot crippled scientist (what was his specialty again?) Gus kept finding reason after reason to rescind opportunities to meet him. I started making bets with myself about anyone actually meeting the guy, and you know how that turned out.
Do I wish I was somebody else right now. Somebody not... married, not madly in love with a beautiful woman who can kill me with her pinkie!
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Feb 24, 2010 2:53:22 pm PST #10629 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Atropa - Feb 24, 2010 2:54:31 pm PST #10630 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Well, everyone tells me I'm a cartoon character.
What you didn't know is that "ita" is actually a series of 13 year old boys at a private school in Michigan.
I knew it!
flea - Feb 24, 2010 2:55:10 pm PST #10631 of 30001
information libertarian
Having actually interacted with 13 year old boys on the internet (I staff a public chat help service), I can assure you that ita is not one.
Jesse - Feb 24, 2010 2:59:04 pm PST #10632 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
As one ages out of 8th grade, a new one takes over.
Exactly. And the actress knows Colin.
Anyway, I do agree that there are more unlikely real people here, and that other people have actually met all of them.
Jessica - Feb 24, 2010 3:00:19 pm PST #10633 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The thing about Gus was, yeah, his backstory was kind of incredible. But then, so is ita's (Jamaican daughter of a research scientist, can kill you with her pinky, old friend of CFerg?). Or Jilli's (would *you* believe in her if you hadn't seen her?). Or Jon B.'s (silver. pleather. thereminist. actuary. in a White Castle commercial).
Yeah, but I've met ita, Jilli and Jon B. (And Colin, for that matter, who quite cheerfully vouched for ita's existance and overall awesomeness.)
Jesse - Feb 24, 2010 3:03:11 pm PST #10634 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
ION, I still didn't really feel like eating it, but I make a damn fine meat sauce.
flea - Feb 24, 2010 3:04:26 pm PST #10635 of 30001
information libertarian
I've met Jon B., but not Jessica. (Blue-haired BBC documentarian?) Yeah, the elusiveness was an issue, but I believe in Rick V., even if he's a rare poster and I don't think anyone's met him.
billytea - Feb 24, 2010 3:06:23 pm PST #10636 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Well, everyone tells me I'm a cartoon character.
Hee. Wallybee says the same thing about me. (More precisely, that living with me is like living with an overgrown cartoon character. And her nickname for me is 'Pangzi', which is Chinese for 'Fatty McFatfat Fatterson, King Fatty of Fattown.' She tells me it's a term of endearment.)
§ ita § - Feb 24, 2010 3:10:00 pm PST #10637 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Well, there's no proving anything now. But I can say I believe everyone here is who they say they are, and that they're within inches of any stated height. Gus is the only poster I've ever doubted, and that was before he died. Or whatever.
And Fast Eddie really doesn't help. It avalanches.
javachik - Feb 24, 2010 3:15:43 pm PST #10638 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
That Gus thing is weirdcakes.
Why does Annalee's name sound so familiar, DavidS and P-C? Is it the KFOG host?
ETA: Nebbermind, I know of her through Writers with Drinks.