The Top 9 Signs Your
Parents Met on the Internet

9> Instead of a birthday party your parents throw you a “Download Anniversary Celebration.”

8> No, it’s not a typo: Your middle name is actually “eHarmony.”

7> In real life your parents look like Roseanne and Tom Arnold, but in their wedding photos they look *exactly* like Jennifer Anniston and Brad Pitt.

6> After the wedding, your mom and dad moved into your grandma’s basement where the three of you have been living together ever since — for the past 30 years.

5> Every year on their anniversary they bring their laptops to separate rooms and make noise all night long.

4> Their ketubah was issued by jdate.com and still has the original e-mail header information printed on it.

3> She was a hot, young, barely-legal teen selling the latest software below cost. He was a manager of high-cap stocks with enormous growth potential who was ready to arrange your low interest mortgage. They now own an herbal Viagra supply house.

2> “… and then I took the keyboard in my hands, looked deep into the eyes of her picture on the monitor, turned

webcam and typed: ‘I LUV U! will u marry me????//?’”

and the Number 1 Sign Your Parents Met on the Internet…

1> Your mother’s dating advice: “Never have cybersex on the first IM.”

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Credits:

Selected from 54 submissions from 18 contributors.
Today’s Top 5 List authors are:

Laura Oberst, Columbus, OH — 1, 8
Gideon Griebenow, Potchefstroom, S. Africa — 2
Joe Terranova, Lake Orion, MI — 3, 5
James Knowles, Bellingham, WA — 3
Bruce W. Alter, Fairfax Station, VA — 4
Chuck Burke, Phoenix, NY — 4, 5
Brandon Hunt, Braintree, MA — 5, 7
Allen Evans, Cedar Rapids, IA — 5
Matt Hurlburt, Stow, OH — 6
Bill Livingston, Decatur, AL — 9
Kim Moser, New York, NY — List Moderator
Rabbi Crut, Bowling Green, OH — Topic