Can anyone link me up to the history of john and his paypig? I'm interested to know how a random college dropout and a rich asian dweeb met and hooked up because john's social circle seems entirely inherited off of frank (having no real friends of his own)
According to
Frank himself, the two of them met at MileHiCon in Denver in October 2007, which is where John was living after getting cut off from his parents and flunking out of college back in 2006 (
here's John protesting Bush in Denver during that time; warning: troon close-up). John has claimed he was living with an aunt there, although some kiwis found info that suggested that he was actually living with another troon there (I don't remember when/where this was determined, so if someone has better memory they can post it). Regardless, Frank proposed to John on his birthday the next year (although John has lied about this, claiming
they got engaged three weeks later), they got hitched, and John got a screaming paypig to fund all of his inane ventures for the next decade.
Beyond that, we can only speculate as to why Frank decided to marry John. He'd been married to an actual woman before (might have been two, can't remember), and
according to his ex-wife, he had been abusive in their relationship and essentially bullied her away from writing sci-fi, though she seems to be doing much better now. For whatever reason, Frank chose to marry a crazy fag, troon him out, and pay for whatever retarded ideas he had. I guess it helps that they both have the same general nerd interests like vidya and tabletop, so whenever he spends on John, he's also buying stuff for himself. Personally, I'd rather live alone and buy things for myself directly, but I guess I'm not Frank. Thank god.
Two things I found while going back to a Lolcow Wiki archive to dig up this information:
- When I looked up "milehicon 2007" on Google, the top image results were of Frank being Frank, and two furries choking each other out, so Frank was in good company.
- I also realized that it's John's 43rd birthday today. Maybe he'll celebrate with the "ice cream" abomination he created a couple days ago. We can only hope.