Re: Aliens Among Us

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Aw, bummer. I'm out of town all next week.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 02-16-07 10:32 AM
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I could go!


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 02-16-07 12:11 PM
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What is the Emir from yon distant lands willing to bring us in exchange? Frankincense? I could really use some Frankincense.


Posted by: mike d | Link to this comment | 02-16-07 12:14 PM
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I could use some gold.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 02-16-07 12:17 PM
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If I recall correctly, Emir's faraway land is more known for its exports of beer and wool. What do you have against beer and wool, mike d?


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 02-16-07 12:18 PM
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Have you ever smelled beer-soaked wool? That's why I need the Frankincense.


Posted by: mike d | Link to this comment | 02-16-07 12:20 PM
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Maybe we can hook you up with some Patchouli.


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 02-16-07 12:25 PM
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I want to smell better, JM.


Posted by: mike d | Link to this comment | 02-16-07 12:40 PM
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Ah, then you need decongestant!


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 02-16-07 12:45 PM
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Which is why I need Frankincense (scroll down to "colds").


Posted by: mike d | Link to this comment | 02-16-07 1:10 PM
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Emir's faraway land is more known for its exports of beer and wool

Now I remember emir. Hasn't been around much lately, have they?


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 02-16-07 1:13 PM
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How come no Fargo meetups? I could go to one of those.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 02-16-07 1:13 PM
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With whom? Lileks?


Posted by: Tassled Loafered Leech | Link to this comment | 02-16-07 2:54 PM
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Beer and wool...you know, there aren't many countries that fit both of those qualifications. Poland?


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 02-16-07 2:59 PM
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How many countries have sheep but no beer? I'd think it was more unspecific than overspecified.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 02-16-07 3:08 PM
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How many countries have sheep but no beer?

Several Muslim ones, I suppose.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 02-16-07 3:10 PM
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Good point. And with a name like 'emir' things could get confusing.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 02-16-07 3:13 PM
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Chopper, me, and Lileks.

New Zealand in spades. Maybe Australia, Scotland, and Ireland.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 02-16-07 3:27 PM
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14: Pretty much all of northern and eastern Europe.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 02-16-07 3:28 PM
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Hey guys, looks like I could come! Is there going to be a meeting of minds? Will it be at that Donleavian place on 36th Ave?


Posted by: Clownaesthesiologist | Link to this comment | 02-16-07 4:31 PM
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Not that many countries export beer. Not New Zealand.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 02-16-07 4:45 PM
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Steinlager.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 02-16-07 5:03 PM
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Steinlager is not a trad NZ beer. It was launched in ~1955 and the name has no reference. I like it, though.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 02-16-07 5:05 PM
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Hey you guys should all drop by Stanley's place and leave him happy birthday wishes. Whilst he is out getting debauched.


Posted by: Clownaesthesiologist | Link to this comment | 02-16-07 5:27 PM
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Sweet, sweet alcohol.


Posted by: X. Trapnel | Link to this comment | 02-16-07 7:55 PM
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Falkland Islands.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 02-17-07 12:24 PM
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Yep, Jackmormon remembers me rightly, I think she was partly responsible for my handle, I had commented a couple of times as "emr" and then came the Great Renaming of Ought Six when unmemorable clumps of initials were swept away.

My land used to also export lots of its people ... the boot is on the other foot these days, actually. I don't much resemble an eastern potentate, either.

Anyway I have hardly been online at all the last few days since I left home, it's actually hard to find the time to go to an internet cafe and there aren't any close to my hotel. In Kinko's at the moment. No-wheel mouse driving me crazy.

Would be delighted to meet whoever is around, just let me know where the Lawyers Guns and Money meet up takes place and if say JM is going to be there I can email her with carnation-in-buttonhole type details.


Posted by: emir | Link to this comment | 02-18-07 5:44 PM
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I'm afraid I won't be able to make it tomorrow. But have much fun and merriment!


Posted by: Becks | Link to this comment | 02-18-07 6:09 PM
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Ok, Emir, I am just about the worst person on this forum to rely on plans-making with. I'm 85% certain that I'm coming out tomorrow night at, um, 7pm? I'm female, will be wearing dark-rimmed glasses and a long black wool coat, and, what else? I'm fidgety. I'll be in the back room, probably with Scott LeMieux (sp?), who is a somewhat larger person than I and has a nicely booming voice. You should identify yourself either by wearing a chysanthemum in your lapel or by declaring "knives out, mother-fuckers!"


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 02-18-07 6:58 PM
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Why the binary approach -- he could do both, surely?

I will be in the same place as Jackmormon with a similar degree of probability. I have short greying hair and a straggly beard, and wire-rimmed spectacles.


Posted by: Clownaesthesiologist | Link to this comment | 02-18-07 7:03 PM
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("in the same place as" s/b "close by")


Posted by: Clownaesthesiologist | Link to this comment | 02-18-07 7:04 PM
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Actually, Scott's at the GingerMan all the time, and I think knows most to all of the waitresses. So asking anyone who works there for Scott should find him, and therefore everyone else.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 02-18-07 7:09 PM
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And then say "knives out, mother-fuckers!"


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 02-18-07 7:23 PM
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how come all you clownish motherfuckas never want to have a meetup in SE Asia? unfoggeDBangkok would kick ass.


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 02-18-07 8:07 PM
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I'll go to SE Asia just as soon as I have a ton of money.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 02-18-07 8:15 PM
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Boston!


Posted by: arthegall | Link to this comment | 02-18-07 8:21 PM
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Klamath Falls!


Posted by: Clownaesthesiologist | Link to this comment | 02-18-07 8:22 PM
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Teoville!


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 02-18-07 8:28 PM
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despite the complete lack of exotic spices, i'll try to swing by tomorrow.

and my vote is that the next meet-up should be in Queens.


Posted by: mike d | Link to this comment | 02-18-07 9:30 PM
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I'm probably in D.C. Wed.-Fri....


Posted by: Katherine | Link to this comment | 02-18-07 9:32 PM
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going to SE asia isn't as expensive as you think, ben. you're young and healthy; you can stay in backpacker hostels. the $6 a day ones are kind of nasty, but you can spend just a little more and get a really nice place. they often have super-cheap air tickets. like try eva air, the taiwanese budget airline. and you can stay with me in singapore for freeeeeeee. you gotta bring your own weed, though.*

*don't actually do this.


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 02-19-07 2:35 AM
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Happy our birthdays everyone. See you tonight.


Posted by: George Washington and Abraham Lincoln | Link to this comment | 02-19-07 6:28 AM
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Lso don't really bring chewing gum into Singapore. Singapore has an amazingly long list of capital crimes.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 02-19-07 9:00 AM
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Right, see whoever there tonight - will be there sometime between 7 and 8, I hope. My grasp of how long it takes to get from A to B in this town not great.


Posted by: emir | Link to this comment | 02-19-07 3:18 PM
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Nine more! Before anyone notices!


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 02-19-07 4:41 PM
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emerson, it's not illegal to bring gum into singapore for personal use; it's just illegal to import it for sale in your mini-mart. singapore is not as insane as popularly believed, and the streets are astoundingly clean, way cleaner than any us city 've been to except maybe East Hampton. OTOH, a propos of apo's thread, they have piss-tested hs/college-age singaporeans returning fr4om abroad and gotten them in trouble for smoking pot while in another country. I imagine they still hold to the drugs-as-proxy-for-unwelcome-politics model.


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 02-19-07 9:30 PM
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Nice to

Happy trails, all!


Posted by: Clownaesthesiologist | Link to this comment | 02-19-07 9:47 PM
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(Nicholas) -- ok, that's all for me, for a little while. Back to work!


Posted by: Clownaesthesiologist | Link to this comment | 02-20-07 4:51 AM
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Great to meet you guys too!


Posted by: Nicholas | Link to this comment | 02-20-07 8:30 AM
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Hey New Yorkers, mark your calendars; on March 21st, Stanley's band will be playing at Vonnegut-themed club Goodbye Blue Monda, in Williamsburg. Also they are playing at most other population centers east of the Rockies, check Stanley's site for tour dates.


Posted by: Clownaesthesiologist | Link to this comment | 02-20-07 7:13 PM
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(The club is of course called Goodbye Blue Monday, and it is in Bushwick, not Williamsburg.


Posted by: Clownaesthesiologist | Link to this comment | 02-20-07 7:14 PM
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Posted by: Clownaesthesiologist | Link to this comment | 02-20-07 7:15 PM
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Thanks to all for turning out on a Monday night, it was a lot of fun. Also thanks to Scott for interesting N. American beer suggestions, everyone for the gossip, JM and her sweetie for subway guidance to my onward destination, and particular thanks to Becks for emailing etc. to set this up.


Posted by: emir | Link to this comment | 02-21-07 1:14 PM
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