Re: Have yourself a merry little meetup.

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With this comment, I've killed four threads!


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 12-25-11 2:49 PM
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Perhaps you could get a pair of underwear made up that say "4 In One Blow" across the bottom. It would be totally unambiguous.


Posted by: Natilo Paennim | Link to this comment | 12-25-11 3:28 PM
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Such panties are how we all recognize each other at meetups.

I'll be in New York this coming week and could probably do a meetup Wednesday or Thursday. Fresh Salt isn't the worst idea; it's kid-friendly when not crowded. But there are probably better places.


Posted by: Bave | Link to this comment | 12-25-11 3:41 PM
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Thursday would work for me!


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 12-25-11 4:21 PM
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Thursday works.


Posted by: Mister Smearcase | Link to this comment | 12-25-11 4:55 PM
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Here's an idea: Thursday.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 12-25-11 6:20 PM
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The plan right now is for Val and Alex to go home within a month, after which the other plan is that Mara, Lee and I will treat ourselves to a trip to NYC. I'm hoping my aunt will want to babysit so we won't even need a kid-friendly locale, but there will probably be a similar Marchish meetup request. (And maybe someday we'll even meet the Tiny Jacobians, who'd probably get along well with Mara.)


Posted by: Thorn | Link to this comment | 12-25-11 6:30 PM
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Don't ram your norse deity down our throats.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 12-25-11 6:32 PM
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8 to 6.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 12-25-11 6:33 PM
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Keep the Thor in Thursday. And Thursday would be great. Venue may be adjusted from the default... Though fresh salt also sounds fine


Posted by: Turgid Jacobian | Link to this comment | 12-25-11 7:08 PM
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10.1: Right. No one should be a Thor loser.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 12-25-11 7:11 PM
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One time back in the Big O, I was at a party attended by a lot of sorta post-college, not-quite-hipster people. There was a young woman there who had just about the scratchiest gin-and-menthols voice I've ever heard from someone in their 20s. She seemed really tough -- one of those slightly butch straight women who pride themselves on being anti-feminine, especially when it comes to emotions.
So anyway, she tells this story about being out at the bar one night, and some guy comes up to her and starts chatting her up. She finds it hilarious that his name is actually "Thor", so she tells him the "You think you're thore?" joke, and he slinks away in disgrace.
A week or two later she comes back to the bar and the bartender tells her that this guy Thor has killed himself. "Was it thomething I thaid?" she replies.

This was told as though it were a true story, but with so much hilarity that I felt like probably she was just having her interlocutors, a pair of much femme-ier women, on.


Posted by: Natilo Paennim | Link to this comment | 12-25-11 7:22 PM
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He was disgraced by a joke implying his namesake had a huge penis and had sex with a woman who lisped?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 12-25-11 7:49 PM
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Presumably he worried he could never measure up.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 12-25-11 8:00 PM
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13: Well, right, that's one of the reasons it seemed less likely to be a true story.


Posted by: Natilo Paennim | Link to this comment | 12-25-11 8:05 PM
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I know someone named Thor, but the initial sound is just a t -- the h is silent.


Posted by: Blume | Link to this comment | 12-25-11 9:48 PM
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I get called that with just an h sound, but I choose to assume that there's a silent t.

I can do Thursday.


Posted by: Mr. Blandings | Link to this comment | 12-25-11 9:55 PM
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Sometimes I get called that with a silent h and o and r, and the "t" is preceded by an unwritten "fucking idio."


Posted by: Mister Smearcase | Link to this comment | 12-25-11 10:17 PM
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There's no o in Thursday, but they call you 'fucking idiotsday'?


Posted by: Heebie-Geebie | Link to this comment | 12-25-11 10:21 PM
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8: So you're only okay with Saturday, Sunday, and Monday?


Posted by: essear | Link to this comment | 12-25-11 10:46 PM
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One is in wild New England until Saturday.


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 12-26-11 8:11 AM
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One should send me his email, Flip.


Posted by: mcmc | Link to this comment | 12-26-11 8:30 AM
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It is, as linked, the least imaginative Gmail address one can imagine.


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 12-26-11 11:20 AM
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I'm in Poland for another week and a half, but enjoy yourselves.


Posted by: teraz kurwa my | Link to this comment | 12-26-11 11:39 AM
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Do Poles have a genre of jokes about Americans?


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 12-26-11 11:48 AM
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Maybe Chukchis.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 12-26-11 12:12 PM
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Did you hear the one about American voter?

Rejected half-dozen neo-facist racist pigfuckers and still elected an asshole president.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 12-26-11 1:05 PM
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I don't get it.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 12-26-11 1:48 PM
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Great, start 'em young.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 12-26-11 2:06 PM
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Okay so I'm looking at a few people to show up Thursday. Fresh Salt since noother alternatives have surfaced. Suppose 6pm? I know that is early for evening but previous mention of small ones holds and we're staying over in queens (will be transiting).


Posted by: Turgid Jacobian | Link to this comment | 12-27-11 3:47 PM
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noöther


Posted by: Sifu Tweety | Link to this comment | 12-27-11 4:04 PM
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noöther's theorem says you can find a conserved revelry current for any change of venue.


Posted by: Turgid Jacobian | Link to this comment | 12-27-11 4:44 PM
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I can't make it, won't be in NYC.


Posted by: Unfoggetarian: "Pause endlessly, then go in." (9) | Link to this comment | 12-27-11 4:58 PM
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6 is fine. I'll try to think of a more convenient place. But kid-friendly drinking spots are relatively rare in Manhattan.


Posted by: Bave | Link to this comment | 12-27-11 5:41 PM
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FS is fine if they'll let us in. Other restaurants and whatnot also fine.


Posted by: Turgid Jacobian | Link to this comment | 12-27-11 6:21 PM
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I can be emailed at this linke address.


Posted by: Turgid Jacobian | Link to this comment | 12-29-11 5:56 AM
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Okay not seeing other comments on this topic. Planning on being At FS 6pm to maybe 8pm, unless there is a quorum elsewhere. Internees intermittent. Currently at the metropolitan museum of art.


Posted by: TJ | Link to this comment | 12-29-11 2:00 PM
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I'll be there!


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 12-29-11 2:06 PM
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I'm here.


Posted by: Bave | Link to this comment | 12-29-11 3:39 PM
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Bave's not here.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 12-29-11 3:44 PM
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I just went to a meetup with my family. Not so much as good as the unfogged kind.


Posted by: Sifu Tweety | Link to this comment | 12-29-11 5:02 PM
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Fewer random sexual encounters, probably.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 12-29-11 5:33 PM
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More deterministic ones.


Posted by: essear | Link to this comment | 12-29-11 5:36 PM
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We eventually had Jackmormon, Bave, Smearcase, Blandings along with myself, Bonsaisue and our issue, and Bonsaisue's cousin, whom we'll call Actoria Regina. Was much fun.


Posted by: Turgid Jacobian | Link to this comment | 12-29-11 8:50 PM
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We had an impassioned discussion about the evils of The Shawshank Redemption


Posted by: Turgid Jacobian | Link to this comment | 12-30-11 6:43 PM
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I'm sorry I missed it (got stuck in the frozen north a little longer than I expected).


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 12-30-11 8:58 PM
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46: We were sorry you couldn't come. It was pretty frozen all over Thursday, though. I had to borrow a scarf just to make it through the morning.


Posted by: Turgid Jacobian | Link to this comment | 12-30-11 9:08 PM
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