I actually joined by complete accident one night. It was about 2 AM, and I was a bit drunk, and stuck in my fire red game (For the record, pokemon is actually alot more fun while playing under the influence). I didn't know where to go next, so i did the practical thing, and decided to google-search it. I forget exactly what i typed in, but this site was on of the first links that showed up, so just for the hell of it I clicked it, and decided to register on here. I posted around in the fanclubs section for a bit, then signed off, expecting never to actually bother coming back here again. The next day I was looking through my IE history, only to see that this site was still there. Having a clouded memory of what had actually happened the night before, I was all like "...wtf?" and clicked into it.
...Basically, I joined here for the pokemon-aspect of the forums, but only ended up staying this long because of all the kick-ass people I've met here. <3