The first rule of The Outcast Club is never talk about The Outcast Club.
I’m in the secret rival organisation, The Outcast Clique. We’re the contradictory folk.
I’ll be your friend. Just forward the $49.95 membership fee, and make sure you fill out the application truthfully, because I’ll check your references.
The best way to meet people is, as has been mentioned, to attend a Dopefest. I’ve been to one, and was grumpy and surly that day. I’m surprised half of the people there even acknowledge my existence, but they do. If you ever get a chance to go to a MADfest make sure Fairy Chat Mom is bringing cake.
Iv’e also been contacted by Dopers via e-mail, usually only to tell me that I’ve misspelled something in my sig, though.
If you don’t have any Doper friends, don’t sweat it yet. You’ve only been around a few months. I was a member for more than a year before I actually communicated with another Doper outside of this board, and that was an e-mail mention that my sig. was misspelled. Really.
Yeah, but you’re getting smaller pretty fast. Lucky for you you’re still meaner. 
When? I mean, we’re having a bit of a get-together this weekend, but it involves moving Dave and I from our current place to another one…
There is an IRC channel on Undernet. Just sign onto any Undernet server, then /join #straightdope
#Straightdope is not affiliated with the SDMB, the Reader, Ed Zotti, Cecil Adams, or anything else, for that matter. We’re just a bunch of people who hang around and chat.
Robin
You’re telling me! I still have welts from when she heaved boxes full of cat poop at me over at Opal’s. I may never get out of therapy.
You’ve been here for 4 months and have fewer than 400 posts. On the scale of this board that’s essentially zero. Those relationships, if they develop, develop over time.
The people that I’ve developed off-board relationships with have mostly come through off-board activities like games, with the odd random IM friendship thrown in, and recently getting to know people through livejournal. There are some people that I’ve been interacting with semi-regularly for a year or more, but there are still very few people from the board that I would consider my friends, though, and I suspect fewer still that would think that way about me.
Half the gray matter as the ** SDMB Clique**, yet twice the bitterness. ™
