A Blind Date, Sort-of
This was not a romantic kind of date, yet it was a blind first meeting. It was the first non-sanctioned get-together of the Super Happy Funtime Blog fan club.
The get-together was blind, because I never met this Captain Crab, nor have I ever seen his picture. Captain Crab is a fellow blogger, and we came to know each another through commenting on the Super Happy Funtime Blog. Yesterday, Capt. Crab came to Sioux Falls for business, and we got together to talk about how totally awesome Gwen is - (author of the Super Happy Funtime Blog).
Things I learned from Captain Crab:
- There are only THREE pirate jokes. (He remembers one. Another is on his blog sidebar.)
- In a few years, if Anna has a boyfriend I don't like, I should pretend to love him.
- Captain Crab loves to say, "Trust me. I'm a salesman."
- You can't really tell a joke on the Internet.
- The correct spelling of "YARR!" (pirate speak) has no "g" or "h". (I think the "y" is silent.)
- In spite of what I thought, pirates are highly intellectual. (They are also well-trained in smoking and drinking.)
- "Not my rabbit" is sometimes a noun, sometimes a sentence.
Captain Crab and I are also BIG fans of the Sociological Images blog. I'm also proud to say, you'll find me as a regular contributor to this provocative site. See here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here, and here. I told you I'm proud!
There's more...
It is interesting (to me) that two middle-age salesmen meet in South Dakota because they both know Gwen, a PhD college professor in Las Vegas.
See, how I know Gwen is that she's a best friend and former college roommate of Lisa. But it's still unusual that I would know Lisa. She's a PhD sociology professor teaching and writing at Occidental University in Los Angeles. How I met Lisa (more here and here) is that she's the daughter of one of my best friends, Kay.
So recently Gwen emails me to say her dad and other relatives work at a Cessna factory in southeast Kansas. Turns out, I totally know Gwen's dad too!
Captain Crab, I still have no idea who you are, but it was a lot of fun meeting you.
To my Facebook friends, I'm sorry if this was not the kind of "Blind Date" you were expecting.
PS Ladies. I'm still single. Sort-of.
Ha! I knew I could hear you chuckling merrily at all the facebook attention your "blind date/sort of" post got! I fell for it too...sort of! glad you met a blog-buddy and had a good lunch... It is indeed a small small beautiful world!
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with big beautiful people!
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Glad you survived meeting Captain Crab. Not everyone does. ARRRRRRRRRR!
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ROFL!
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Until now, I never realized that my neck was that long!
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What a fun blind date! If only mine went that well off of match.com. Hrmph.
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