Lois & Clark Forums Forums General Discussion Off Topic What do your fellow FoLC's look like?

I don't have a digital photo of myself, and if i had one I wouldn't know how to post it... but I am a little ashamed of not having posted anything. But thank you so much, all the rest of you who have posted! It's been great to see you!!!

Ann

Yeah Smirky. Find out if there are other FoLCs in the area, then arrange a get together maybe. My sister did that with a few other people last summer (see troll pic).

Then there's LAFF, which is a big get together in LA. there's an thread about that pinned at the top of the "Lois & Clark" area.

All right, I'll show a picture of myself as well. It's not as if most people around here haven't seen me or pics of me before...



That's the most recent picture taken of me. My hair is all done because I had a big party that evening. And I'm not usually brown, it's died. Originally, I'm dark blond.

Saskia

Rachel, you do look like a smirking bird! How adorable!
Let's see if this works:
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I'm the girl on the far left in the dark blue saree. This was taken at Northwood University, during a Junior Acheivement conference a few months ago.

Forgive the horrible orange T-shirt, but that's what FedEx wanted us to wear to their luncheon.
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Me again.

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That's me on the far left. I'm a bit dishevelled after seven hours in the same flight.

Hey, Ann, your pic doesn't have to be digital. You can scan a pic in. I imagine there's a scanner at the school you work at, and I'm betting a student or another teacher can help you! Then you can email it to yourself or save it on disk so you'll have a copy at home. Then post it with image shack or some other free hosting agent.

Smirky! You're a girl! (I have no clue why I thought otherwise )

Okay, here's one of me:



What?

LabRat

Oh Labby, You look just like I thought you would!!!

Okay, fun's over Labby, get back here and post a real one.

I can see that many of you are having fun with this thread, but doesn't it sort of spoil the 'mystery' of who folcs actually are?

Part of the fun is the creation of a mental image based only on hints and clues provided by the words, and work each of us has done on these boards.

If anyone is truly interested (they'll have to work for it), my good friend Peter Krause drew me into issue 10 of "Power of Shazam". I'm the bartender there.

Tank (who knows there is a photo of Wendy and I floating around somewhere, but points out that like Wendy, he has lost some weight since then... and gotten older... and grayer )

Oh, I think I've lost count of the number of FoLCs I've met in person over the years. It's been a lot of fun. If I tried to list them all, I know I'd miss people out, so I won't try - but I can at least try listing the countries I've met FoLCs from.

Surprisingly enough, I've never met any Irish FoLCs in person, though I know of a few *waves to EvilSara* I've met FoLCs from: England, Scotland, France, Italy, Australia, something like a dozen US states and, of course, Canada.

As for how it happens, I did once go to a general FoLC fest, but mostly it's been individuals meeting up - I've invited FoLCs to stay at my house, for example, and been invited to theirs, and when I first moved to North America we went on a road trip around two Canadian provinces and about eight US states. On that trip, I managed to fit in meetings with, I think, nine FoLCs. The following year we went to the US again with Kaethel in tow, hitting Cedar Point and Annette's place in Pennsylvania, and that time we met five FoLCs.

And I should add that some of the FoLCs I've met over the years, who started off as people I just chatted to online and perhaps exchanged the odd email with, have become some of my husband's and my closest friends. And that's something special

Mind you, when said husband goes gallivanting off to Las Vegas with the husband of one of these close FoLC friends... :rolleyes:

(just kidding! They had a great time, and I'm glad because they needed the break).


Wendy

Oh, and PS: Ditto on the older and greyer too, Tank *runs out to buy more hair colour*

Capes said:
SmirkyRaven said:
Beyond getting together with FoLCs in our geographic areas, a few of us have seen fit to drive or even fly hundreds (sometimes thousands!) of miles to meet FoLCs. WAFF 2006, for example, was held near Seattle at my place. I invited a few FoLCs to come spend a week with me. Paul and Kaylle flew in from the east coast and Sara flew in from Arizona. In 2005, DocJill, Kaylle, LauraU, Kathy Brown and I drove from various parts of Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana to Maryland where we rented a house for a week. At other gatherings, Kaethel, Yvonne, and Wendy have flown from Europe to the States to hang out with FoLCs. I guess we just like our online friends enough to want to travel to go see them.

~Anna

I've wanted to go to a LAFF, but I think by the time I can go (mentally (shy) ready and $$ ready) it will be no more.

In the beginning, people thought I was a boy. It was fun.

This *reminds* me I need to take more pics of myself. I have maybe a dozen of myself as a teen/adult, most of which cannot be given out b/c they are just horrid! This does not include the yearly school pictures.

I think my next picture may include glasses. I had perfect eagle vision until about a year ago. I never really sat in front of a computer a lot (beside writing essays) until I went into CGA/my new job/Folcdom and it seems like I'm in front of one 24/7. Everything blurs when I'm lazy. That's part of the reason I have not been reading as much lately.

I'll get cool glasses to show off!

Have any of you ever got to talking to/emailing/pming a FoLC so much using their first name, that you've forgotten their screen name?

I feel kinda bad, because I recognized symbolicangel's picture, but not the name "sybolicangel."

Turns out, I know her by a name that begins with C, and I first saw that pic on her MySpace profile when I started beta-reading the story she's been working on for months now. I'd been afraid to try and PM her through the boards here, 'cause I COULDN'T REMEMBER HER SCREEN NAME!

Does something like that ever happen to any of you?

On another note:

Once we get the LnC wiki going, it might be cool to have bios of FoLCs, with the pictures posted in threads such as this one attached to the bio.

Just searching the main page - me still sleepy on a Sunday afternoon so pls excuse the hair.


Yay! I made it smaller

Off to do some laundry now *grumble* and work out. UGH

[edit - I made this a day afterwards and forgot to put it....

LabRat wrote:

Hehee. Lol. Indeed I am. Hello! <waves>

<shrugs> Kind of. I figure I represent myself pretty well here--bouncy, excitable, with a very odd contradicting dark side. But still, I find it fascinating to be able to see people and realize they are more than a name. And, perhaps the best part, is that we're finally finding out which FoLCs are male and which are female!

SmirkyRaven

Woohoo! Nice to see so many faces!

Here's one of me at the tender age of 12, all dolled up and allowing my true nature through.



And while I'm an Army Dude during the day, I moonlight as Marvel comicbook heroes.

I have come out of hiding! I'm not really gone... I'm just on hiatus! (Hopefully you haven't forgotten about li'l ol' me!) Love this thread, and love everyone's photos!

Here is me:


Here is me on New Year's Eve, notice the "striking" resemblance to Lois (ha ha)!


Finally, here is the man in my life. Notice the striking resemblance to...

(That Halloween costume was my idea. Finally fulfilled some kind of super-fantasy for me... hee hee!)

--Wanda Detroit xo

Not really. Unless I memorize all the faces, everyone goes back to being an icon. <g> But at least I know things like, Smirky is a girl, for instance. (So sorry you had to go through a sex change in my head!)

JD

I am far too amused by this, for some reason.

lol.

SmirkyRaven

I don't think I've had to make any sex changes (don't have the medical background for it anyway) but there were some mental pictures of people that got changed.