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post #1 of 90
6/4/04 at 11:17am
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Okay, let's make some concrete plans.

DATE: SATURDAY 17TH JULY

PLACE: MANCHESTER

TIME: AFTERNOON/EVENING

I have space for two on my floor, one of which is being taken up by his Straxness. Expect beer, SPIDER-MAN 2, more beer, an evening meal, and yet more beer.

Just one question remains: Are you in or out?
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post #2 of 90
6/4/04 at 11:24am
In.
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post #3 of 90
6/4/04 at 6:41pm
In my stead, I send warm hugs across the ocean to you all.
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post #4 of 90
6/7/04 at 8:38am
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::hugs back::

btw... BUMP!
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post #5 of 90
6/7/04 at 12:44pm
Most assuredly IN. And here's the proof...
LL
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post #6 of 90
6/7/04 at 6:13pm
Working that night and no idea if i can get the time off.......sucks
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post #7 of 90
6/8/04 at 7:08am
There's also a good chance that the wonderful Mrs Dan will be joining us - although I suspect that may be so she can reassure herself that you're all real and that I don't spend my online time "doing a Leslie Grantham".
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post #8 of 90
6/8/04 at 8:52am
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That would be awesome.

I'm assuming Giles is in, even though he hasn't graced us with his presence yet.
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post #9 of 90
6/8/04 at 8:56am
Alas, matters are complicated by the fact that I have to fly to Connecticut on the 18th on this super deadly-dull work thing. I should still be able to go, but whether I can stay overnight that night remains to be seen.

Boo.
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post #10 of 90
6/8/04 at 8:58am
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Flying from Heathrow or Manchester?
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post #11 of 90
6/8/04 at 9:57am
This is the thing. I don't know yet, and probably won't know for about another ten days.

This also puts a bit of kibosh on me giving people lifts back, but again, it may work out. We'll see.

I never thought I would hear the day where I bitched about being flown up to New England, somewhere I've never been, but these meetings are such a trial - there's no small talk, not from breakfast until the end of the evening meal which has been delayed because the meeting agenda inevitably over-runs and when that ends it's dark out and you can't go anywhere and you're knackered anyway. So, yeah. It's a bitch that I have to go, and no amount of reflecting on my spoiled bastardness will make me think that spending 16 hours in airports and the air for the sake of three days of corporate brainstormin is going to be fun or can be regarded as a "perk".

At least I haven't been asked to cancel my holidays to go, like some have.
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post #12 of 90
6/9/04 at 12:28pm
Cocktastic.

The "dude" is mostly definitely in.

Though I promise not to refer to myself in the third person in quite such a ridiculous and uncrucial fashion.

So: who's spooning with me on Charlie's floor ? (gracious thanks for that by the way, and I shall try as last time and not make any "messes")
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post #13 of 90
6/9/04 at 12:34pm
Emergency over - I now am officially excused from the Flight To Hell, meaning I'm good to drive folx down and possibly back, depending on how long I stay - I have to iron that out with the mate who'll be giving me houseroom for the night.
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post #14 of 90
6/9/04 at 12:46pm
What a rather fortuitous turn of events.
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post #15 of 90
6/9/04 at 12:52pm
Indeed. There are three places in the car, for those wishing to dice with the Grim Reaper.

I'll probably leave on Saturday morning, and come back Sunday sometime, hopefully after lunch since any earlier on a Sunday simply isn't a) civilised or b) me.

(Edited to clarify - for those wanting to attend and needing a lift from the South to the North and back again, I'm good for a lift.))
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post #16 of 90
6/9/04 at 1:01pm
Bagsy the boot ?


(trans. -- for our american readess: would it be acceptable to appropriate the space inside the "trunk" of your automobile for the duration of the journey ?)
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post #17 of 90
6/9/04 at 1:03pm
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I think you should PM Alice #2 and ask her.
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post #18 of 90
6/9/04 at 1:09pm
Strax, you've met her in RL, why don't you ring her? She's about till then, isn't she (I thought I heard she was going back to the US)?

But no problemo - I'll tentatively book her a seat.
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post #19 of 90
6/9/04 at 1:23pm
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Quote:
Originally posted by Alice in Wonderland
hopefully after lunch
Maybe some of us can do lunch on Sunday somewhere.
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post #20 of 90
6/9/04 at 1:33pm
Charlie, is that the End Of Act 1 power ballad for you new Sondheim-esque musical A Zombie Between Two Morgues ?
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post #21 of 90
6/9/04 at 2:34pm
Out. Boo-hoo.

Let me put it this way: if I'm in London I'll be working, no doubt. If I'm out of the UK... well I obviously won't be able to make it.

I would have loved to have a London get-together in the next 2 weeks though. But I realise it probably won't happen
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post #22 of 90
6/10/04 at 6:15am
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Quote:
Originally posted by Straxboy - An Anthony Hickox Film
Charlie, is that the End Of Act 1 power ballad for you new Sondheim-esque musical A Zombie Between Two Morgues ?
I have no idea what you are talking about, sir.
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post #23 of 90
6/10/04 at 6:35am
"May-be -- some-of-us-can-do-lunch-on-Sun-daaaaay, some-wheeeeere"

You just have an inately musical typing style, sparky.

/quits the Red Bull
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post #24 of 90
6/10/04 at 6:44am
Quote:
Originally posted by Dan Whitehead
Most assuredly IN. And here's the proof...
You know, I only just looked at that picture, and to be honest, I'm *really* sorry I did.
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post #25 of 90
6/10/04 at 9:42am
Shame. I thought the hard work on my abs and deltoids really showed in that pic. Oh well.
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post #26 of 90
6/10/04 at 9:59am
I would write some smart alecky comment, but your dangling genitalia make me feel faintly self-conscious and subtly intimidated.
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post #27 of 90
6/10/04 at 9:59am
Then my mutant power remains strong!
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post #28 of 90
6/10/04 at 10:06am
Indeed. They must all live in terror of you down at Magneto's hideout.
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post #29 of 90
6/10/04 at 10:19am
Indeed. All tremble before the might of Acorn Cock.
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post #30 of 90
6/10/04 at 10:22am
That's kind of non-commercial invention that drove them out of the computer business.
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post #31 of 90
6/10/04 at 10:36am
If a fellow wanted to make me tremble with that thing, he'd have his work cut out for him.

*Silence*

Sorry. It was the obvious joke, and I had to get it off my chest.

Ah.

I do feel better now.
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post #32 of 90
6/17/04 at 5:13pm
I'd love to meet up with all you fellow chewers but I have a little problem, I know pretty much none of you cats. So is it still cool to tag along?
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post #33 of 90
6/17/04 at 5:40pm
Only if you're the real Dr Venkman. We had a guy turn up once who claimed to be Doc Emmett Brown, but he was just a shop assistant from Luton. We were crushed.
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post #34 of 90
6/21/04 at 8:11am
That's pretty much what I did - I just appeared at the meeting point, and mooched about, looking for persons that appeared sufficiently geeky enough to be candidates.

Must say, didn't take me *that* long to locate them...
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post #35 of 90
6/21/04 at 1:25pm
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Although I do remember we pretended to not know what the hell you were on about when you said 'Are you chewers?'...

Venkman - sure, man.
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post #36 of 90
6/22/04 at 5:59am
Quote:
Originally posted by Charles B
Although I do remember we pretended to not know what the hell you were on about when you said 'Are you chewers?'...

Venkman - sure, man.
I remember. And I was nervous as all hell too, you bastards.

One day I shall reap my rewenge.
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post #37 of 90
6/22/04 at 6:32am
The simple way is to look for someone attractive and witty and full of life. That's Alice. We're the shattered, hollow, curmudgeonly husks sitting next to her.
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post #38 of 90
6/29/04 at 4:10am

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My lady can no longer make it (no, Giles, that is not an invitation to paw my ass like a drunken labrador) so it's just me for the Spidey glee.

So...let's do this thing. Where? When? How thick? And does that mark come off in warm water?
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post #39 of 90
6/29/04 at 6:30am

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Since it worked so well last time, same time same place in Printworks ?

And Charlie, to save the £50 taxi fare, we'll check the last train times, eh ?

Is Elle Callahan still on wheels duty ?
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post #40 of 90
6/29/04 at 6:58am

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She is. I'm going to Guilfest on Friday, but should be sufficiently recovered to drove those needing driving up on Saturday.

That said, I'm not bonkers about taking the car into town, as I was rather hoping to drink something and get loud and overbearing and possibly banned from a pub or two for shrieking like a harridan over how the Matrix trilogy is reelly reelly graet, which kind of clashes with the driving agenda. So I was going to pull up outside my mate's place and we could get a taxi to the Printworks from there, or even a bus if you really want to slum it. Chorlton's not far from the town centre, about three miles.
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post #41 of 90
6/29/04 at 1:12pm

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Ooooooooh! Chorlton is it? Well, lah-dee-dah!
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post #42 of 90
6/29/04 at 6:35pm
Silence, peasant!

Or else I will beat you about the head and neck with my rolled-up copy of the Guardian...
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post #43 of 90
6/30/04 at 11:44am
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Okay, I'm ready to book. If you're in, post saying 'yes'.

There's showings on SATURDAY 17TH JULY at 2pm and 5pm, I'm thinking 5 if this is ok?

Also, where do we want to sit? Middle back?

Choose or perish....
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post #44 of 90
6/30/04 at 11:53am
Yes.

5 = rad

Middle please.
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post #45 of 90
6/30/04 at 11:57am
5 is best. To be there for two I'd have to leave really early to be sure, and I don't do really early. It's simply rude.

And possibly blasphemous.
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post #46 of 90
6/30/04 at 12:41pm
I don't care where I sit as long as there's room for me to writhe around in nerd ecstasy.
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post #47 of 90
6/30/04 at 12:45pm
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Tickets are booked, true believers!
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post #48 of 90
7/1/04 at 8:10am
So what's the final headcount, and who be they?
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post #49 of 90
7/1/04 at 8:33am
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The Fantastic Four: You, Alice, Strax and Me.
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post #50 of 90
7/1/04 at 8:35am
Well, there's me, and as far as I know so far, I'm only driving Giles up, unless he's made other arrangements. Wasn't Dr. Venkman considering coming?

The good news is that I am now not going to Guilfest, so people are not staying at my house overnight and having to be hassled out of the door, so things are pleasantly uncomplicated.

Now, if the Suvvenners can suggest a point for me to pick them up, bearing in mind that I am not at all crazy about driving into Central London on a Saturday if we want to be in Manchester at any point before Monday morning, and so they'll have to come out a bit in order to be met, then that's cool. Anywhere near the M25 works for me, though the South and West is optimal.

As for when we leave, It would be nice to meet up beforehand and possibly do some lunch in Manchester, so I'm going to suggest that the pick-up time should be ten, which should get us there about two-ish, depending on traffic and other issues. What do people think?
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