Re: Bay Area Meetup IV: A Question

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Because we're going to be at the beach...


Posted by: Brad DeLong | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 3:44 PM
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And even though BPhD assures us we shouldn't, we do fear the Ogged...


Posted by: Brad DeLong | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 3:46 PM
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But Jupiter is very nice. Have a good time...


Posted by: Brad DeLong | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 3:47 PM
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All very good points.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 3:48 PM
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Which beach?


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 3:50 PM
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We won't all show up there. We almost promise.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 3:53 PM
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Beach better than Ogged, admittedly. But don't worry, Brad, when you do manage to make it to a meetup, I'll protect you from O's vicious tongue. BY CUTTING IT OUT if necessary.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 3:55 PM
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Y'all have a good time, hear. The rest of us will be rooting for you, and expect some urban legends to be generated, only to be debunked by Snopes after much effort.


Posted by: Tassled Loafered Leech | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 5:06 PM
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Was there some talk of a later in the summer Bay Area meetup?


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 5:23 PM
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I'll be having my own meetup all by myself. So there.

(takes ball, goes home)


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 5:28 PM
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Was there some talk of a later in the summer Bay Area meetup?

Yeah, heebie was teasing about being in town later. Don't know the status there.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 5:30 PM
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Heebie was talking about coming out for a visit in a couple of weeks. Not sure if that's still happening, though.


Posted by: Magpie | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 5:31 PM
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Heebie: all hat no chattel.


Posted by: Clownaesthesiologist | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 5:32 PM
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Ogged-pwned! Oh, the humiliation!


Posted by: Magpie | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 5:33 PM
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Because Brad doesn't like us.


Posted by: slolernr | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 5:35 PM
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Fear of Ogged? That's weird. The man takes pains to be courteous, no?


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 5:38 PM
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Eat your hearts out, guys. Brad and me will be at the Fargo beach. The surf there is good this time of year.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 5:39 PM
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But he's Persian! It's a trap!


Posted by: Jake | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 5:39 PM
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The man takes pains to be courteous, no?

Maybe I love the noobs, after all.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 5:41 PM
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Heebie: all hat no chattel.
s/b
Heebie: small ass no chattel.


Posted by: TJ | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 5:42 PM
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Maybe I love the noobs, after all.

Someday maybe I'll discover what constitutes a noob. If it means maintaining innocence, I'll keep it.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 6:02 PM
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Was there actually an L.A. meetup, or was that all talk? If not, want to have one?


Posted by: TJ | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 6:03 PM
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21 -- it means he thinks you are n00bile.


Posted by: Clownaesthesiologist | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 6:14 PM
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The LA meetup, like most meetups, took place in Fargo.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 6:16 PM
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Probably Bolinas... or some other beach town where dogs wander around off-leash, chase tennis balls in the water, and pee on people's beach-gear bags, and where the streets are filled with 60-year-old hippies in tie-dyed shirts with long white beards and glazed expressions.

I am convinced that the beards are fake, and that the hippies are senior partners at San Francisco law firms. Who else can afford to live in West Marin these days?


Posted by: Brad DeLong | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 6:40 PM
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Where can I get a tie-dyed shirt with a long white beard and any kind of expression?


Posted by: TJ | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 6:44 PM
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People who bought their little hippie shacks 30 years ago, I'm guessing. Either that or the houses I've been in in Bolinas were an extremely convincing front.


Posted by: Magpie | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 6:44 PM
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Who else can afford to live in West Marin these days?

Pot farmers.


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 6:49 PM
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I'll be having my own meetup all by myself. So there.

Cry, cry, meetup, cry.


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 6:53 PM
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Bolinas? if you're not from there, somebody will ask you your business.


Posted by: froz gobo | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 7:04 PM
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Probably a good idea to hire a native guide.


Posted by: Clownaesthesiologist | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 7:07 PM
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You guys want to watch a campaign advertisement?


Posted by: Clownaesthesiologist | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 7:12 PM
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I've found Tennessee beach to be a bit more friendly, Brad. And your dog can still run around off-leash.


Posted by: froz gobo | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 7:19 PM
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Anyone who'd accept the money would be run out of town.

Speaking of which, the Bolinas Border Patrol changed its name to Bolinas Community, so as to no longer offend Bolinas' whopping Latino population.


Posted by: Magpie | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 7:21 PM
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Maybe the big earthquake will hit in time and Utah and Arizona will be become the Bay Area, and I'll get to go.


Posted by: Gonerill | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 8:38 PM
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Great plan, Lex.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 8:43 PM
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When the big earthquake hits, everything to the east of the San Andreas fault will slide off into the Atlantic Ocean.


Posted by: froz gobo | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 8:44 PM
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37. I'm fattening myself up in anticipation.


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 9:18 PM
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37: If the big earthquake hits, Superman will simply spin the world backward, thereby spinning time backward, and stop the nukes that start the earthquake.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 9:25 PM
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I'm fattening myself up in anticipation.

You'll feed a crowd for days.


Posted by: gswift | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 9:27 PM
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Great plan, Lex.

I'm not sure how it happened, but this was really funny.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 9:36 PM
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Fear of Ogged?

No. Fear of an Ogged Planet.

(There's a meet-up in my pants right now, so nyah.)


Posted by: Populuxe | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 9:37 PM
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Meat-up in your pants?


Posted by: DaveB | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 9:53 PM
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Sorry, I ban myself.


Posted by: DaveB | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 10:09 PM
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ben took me for duck+fig sausage and cardomam ice cream today. i don't even NEED a meet up!


Posted by: catherine | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 10:52 PM
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cardomam

Ben must be getting desperate.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 11:05 PM
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it's not ben's fault i can't spell. it's the mission's.


Posted by: catherine | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 11:09 PM
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Similarly, the mistranscriptions I perpetrated in the other thread are not my fault, but catherine's, for plying me with beer.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 11:12 PM
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Look, I'm not going to lie to you. If you two have sex, I'm going to cry, and I don't think I'll be alone.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 11:16 PM
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I, at least, have no particular interest in forestalling your tears, ogged.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 11:19 PM
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49 was funnier before you edited it, ogged.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 07- 6-07 11:20 PM
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Jupiter is decent I suppose, but I predict all involved will end up at White Horse and enjoy themselves.


Posted by: foolishmortal | Link to this comment | 07- 7-07 12:40 AM
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btw, not that anyone gives a shit, but I might be in town mid to late august. Dates not finalized, but partially adjustable.


Posted by: foolishmortal | Link to this comment | 07- 7-07 12:44 AM
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52: What, not King's X? (Okay, it's a tiki bar now, but you get my point...)


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 07- 7-07 12:45 AM
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King's X is a tiki bar??? You step away for five years and catastrophe eats everything. How the mighty have fallen. Does the Kerry House still let you smoke upstairs?


Posted by: foolishmortal | Link to this comment | 07- 7-07 1:08 AM
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woo white horse! also, w00t to having the internet, which I do, AOTW. did anything happen on the internet while I was gone?


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 07- 7-07 8:10 AM
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If you two have sex, I'm going to cry, and I don't think I'll be alone.

Nope. I feel a creeping nausea I haven't felt since childhood.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 07- 7-07 8:26 AM
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Go to it Lobofilho! Get it on, Catherine! Break those motherfuckers! Fuck your brains out!


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 07- 7-07 10:10 AM
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catherine, don't put out until he buys you some of the macapuno ice cream at Tucker's.


Posted by: Magpie | Link to this comment | 07- 7-07 10:17 AM
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I have this sinking feeling that the majority of our commenters are now thinking, in sadness and anger, "wait, I thought duck+fig sausage was our special treat! Damn that pimpish--yet irresistable-- w-lfs-n!"


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 07- 7-07 10:21 AM
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Except spelled as "irresistible," because we've all internalized w-lfs-nism that way.


Posted by: Magpie | Link to this comment | 07- 7-07 10:27 AM
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Wait, catherine is in town? I'm so confused.


Posted by: slolernr | Link to this comment | 07- 7-07 10:30 AM
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In town and coming to the meetup, as I understand.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 07- 7-07 10:32 AM
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Ah, this is not referring to THE Bay aka the Chesapeake Bay. I guess I won't be there then.


Posted by: will | Link to this comment | 07- 7-07 10:39 AM
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we've all internalized w-lfs-n...

My worst fears have come to pass. And here I thought he was a bottom.


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 07- 7-07 10:40 AM
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I hope that Lobofilho and Catherine are happy together, but mostly I want to see Tim, Ogged, and FL confronted with the horrible emptiness of their own lives.

I do confess that, while I don't think that it will actually play out that way, I would indeed be willing to sacrifice Lobofilho and Catherine in the pursuit of that goal. Omelettes, you know.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 07- 7-07 11:01 AM
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Better the omelette you know, than the scramble you don't.


Posted by: arthegall | Link to this comment | 07- 7-07 11:04 AM
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I hope that Lobofilho and Catherine are happy together, but mostly I want to see Tim, Ogged, and FL confronted with the horrible emptiness of their own lives.

Surely we can trade: w-lfs-n's enforced chastity for some sort of joint admission.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 07- 7-07 11:21 AM
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Yeah, I'm with Tim: I'm confronted by the horrible emptiness of my own life every morning anyway; why not use it to block w-lfs-n?


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 07- 7-07 11:24 AM
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Wait, life isn't supposed to be empty?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 07- 7-07 11:27 AM
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That's a commitment from two of three. One more and we can use Emerson's relationship plenary powers to enjoin catherine from enjoying w-lfs-n. If Ben gets laid, it's ogged's fault.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 07- 7-07 11:29 AM
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Cross post. Do your magic, Emerson.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 07- 7-07 11:29 AM
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w-lfs-n and Catherine are exempt from the non-relationship imperative to whatever extent is necessary for the purpose of crushing FL"s, Ogged's, and Tim's hopes and dreams. They have the special wartime 007 license to relate.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 07- 7-07 11:37 AM
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Ok, this thread is creepy.


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 07- 7-07 11:43 AM
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There is considerable overlap between "creepy" and the ideal Unfogged thread.


Posted by: Clownaesthesiologist | Link to this comment | 07- 7-07 11:45 AM
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Go on Catherine. I'd do it.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 07- 7-07 11:45 AM
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B, I was just wondering when you'd show up, but I expected that you'd criticize us for failing to respect catherine's autonomy.


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 07- 7-07 11:47 AM
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So cockblocking w-lfs-n is fun, but trying to destroy FL's hopes and dreams is creepy? I question FL's objectivity.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 07- 7-07 11:47 AM
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How could anyone pass up the opportunity to skewer you, Ogged, Tim, *and* Ben all at one go?


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 07- 7-07 11:49 AM
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Go on Catherine. I'd do it.

B reveals herself as a coprophile.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 07- 7-07 11:50 AM
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It hurts to admit that 80 is funny.


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 07- 7-07 11:52 AM
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70: empty and unfair. Don't forget unfair. Oh, and brutish. And short.


Posted by: will | Link to this comment | 07- 7-07 11:53 AM
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for failing to respect catherine's autonomy.

Yeah, I wondered about whether #71 was over vaguely that line. I retract it on those grounds; of course catherine's life is her own, as it should be, yada yada. It would still be wrong for w-lfs-n to have (a) happiness, or (b) sex. Both would be unbearable.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 07- 7-07 11:53 AM
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Nothing can enhance a romantic relationship like knowing that there are hundreds of kibitzers.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 07- 7-07 11:55 AM
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My God, I've killed the internet.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 07- 7-07 12:23 PM
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Fear the power of Emerson!


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 07- 7-07 1:52 PM
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80 -- I thought "coprophile" referred to the go-ee, not the goer.


Posted by: Clownaesthesiologist | Link to this comment | 07- 7-07 6:29 PM
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