February 25, 2005

• Marduk? It's snowing out there! Give me Baal-Hammon any day.
• I'll probably be able to make it. Should be in London that week with a friend. Yay! *prays for Marduk to stay away from Loughborough*
• Sounds good to me, although I can't guarantee anything. A month is a long way away...
• This is getting ridiculous! I fly out on the 17th of March... is there some kind of occult secret society arranging things so that I can't go to MoFi meetups?
• CAN WE PLEASE HAVE A PRE MEETUP MEETUP STOP I WILL BE IN FLORENCE THEN AND NEED BEER NOW STOP
• Quid: Aren't mothninja and DangerIsMyMiddleName in Florence? You should synchronize watches with Plegmund and have a simultaneous meetup with them while the other meetup is happening. Of course, do not let that fact dissuade you from obtaining beer now.
• They are indeed Florenteenies (as I believe the proper term is), or at least they were last time I checked. Simultaneous meetups is a good idea. We have the technology. Also a sound idea is a pre-meetup meetup, one that Friend Dreadnought may also attend. How about next Saturday (March 5th, I believe)? Marduk, King of Kings, has granted his blessing for such a venture.
• Weekends I don't have lodgings in London. Unless someone can offer me a couch to lie on for a night?
• YOU MAY HAVE MISUNDERSTOOD STOP FLORENCE IS MY LANDLADY STOP I HAVE A SPARE COUCH AL STOP
• As loud as hell A ringing bell Behind my smile It shakes my teeth And all the while As vampire (watermelon)s feed I seethe
• you've kissed mermaids, rode the el nino walked the sand with the crustaceans can't find your way to britanniana? for a wave of monkeyfiltration ...
• Snort! The Pixies are the new Simpsons: an appropriate quote for every occasion. :)
• quid, I would love to take up your offer (if it's not too much trouble) - provided you're not in Florence while I'm there!
• Quid? Here? In Florence? For a MicroMeetup? Simuldrinking with our London cousins? At a timezone when all the US is still at work? I shall summon the Mothninja to the thread! brb!
• Al: no worries! Ismy Danger Middlename: Well I haven't actually booked anything yet but maybe I should get a move on!
• *starts to wonder if quid has found a way to clone himself*
• *wonders what happened to the Mothninja summoning*
• Ta-daa! The mothninja was summoned and she is here! sorry I'm late 'twould be lovely to see you quid, let us know when you're in town. And the rest of you Englanders, have fun! Take pictures! Not wanting to derail the London meetup thread, but this is probably as good an opportunity as any to see if anyone would be up for a Florence meetup on April 23rd? We're having a big party, and any if monkeys wanted to join us for Chianti and cockpunch you would be more than welcome.
• Will some hot Euro monkey go and check out Pretty Generic? He's been regaling the MeFi AskMe boards for help with women, and seems young but not a bad sort.
• So are we set for a pre-meetup-meetup on 5th March?
• Where?
• I vote St Paul's Cathedral. You can illegally feed the pidgeons. Not that I can come, but that's an amazing place. : ) I hope you all have fun.
• Yay the 5th of March! Where? Brixton! Or, somewhere else!
• Actually: what about the ICA bar on the Mall?
• The ICA is members and paying customers only, isn't it? You can get day membership, but is it worth the faff?
• Fair point. What about the Carlton Club? Are we all members?
• Just someone meet me at the nearest tube station to wherever we're meeting , please? Sorry for the trouble. *bow*
• My butler informs me that I was blackballed from the Carlton, which is a bloody poor show, frankly. I don't mind going back to the Spice of Life as a starting point (or the Chandos). The Silver Cross (top of Whitehall, near Trafalgar Square, is serviceable and close to me. If you want to add a slight veneer of culture, we could go to Dr Johnson's local, the Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street. I still quite fancy a curry up Brick Lane, in which case it more or less has to be the Pride of Spitalfields. Or somewhere.
• Oh yeah curry sounds good. A meal would be fun.
• I'd like to come. Maybe we can go to a museum first. I've been meaning to go to the V&A's Architecture gallery for a while. (I've no idea if its supposed to be any good or not, though).
• Do they still have an ace caff?
• Hallo there, I'm all new and covered in egg yolk - friend of Mothninja and DIMMN - would I be OK to comejoinshare?
• Please do come along. Why can't I see www.venusberg.org, by the way?
• Museum trip is a great idea. I've been meaning to go to a few, but it's just no fun doing it alone. I'll try to get to London between 2 to 3pm, so anytime after that is fine. Anybody want my mobile phone number, just email me.
• Jealousy! We demand shoutouts of never-before-seen proportions, btw. Don't let the LA monkeys best you. Have fun.
• (Sports announcer's voice, slighly whispery) Do the British monkeys have the elan to film a slumber party? Will they take off their top layers and show a little undershirt? Or even flesh? Do they have tattoos? Will they be sorry in the morning? Only time will tell folks! Stay tuned for further developments.
• It's the Trans-Atlantic Meetup Wars of 2005!
• Does anybody have a) a film crew, b) a special effects unit, and c) a state-of-the-art post production facility just lying around spare? Because otherwise, I fear we'll be forced to draw pictures on pieces of paper again, which frankly is getting a little stale. And those LA bastards will be laughing at us. (Or: AudioBlogStyleShoutOut? Anybody have a recording mp3 - or minidisc - doodah and a mic?)
• You guys have an uphill battle ahead of you. Only one thing will work. Two words: NAKED SHOUTOUTS. To me.
• I think you should act out a story for us, using photos a la EmotionEric's adventures. A story about two ships passing in the night. With Humphrey Bogart. And some ox tongue.
• and Cher.
• Will they take off their top layers and show a little undershirt? You can see me in nothing but glorious 3D and grey underpants if you sign in here with id Mofipleg, password Mofipleg (case sensitive, I think). Er, please don't alter my vital statistics...
• Why, pleggers, it looks just like you!
• Come on then, what's the programme? 3.30 in the foyer of the V&A, (carrying bananas or monkeys) for those who want culture? 6.00 - where? Brick Lane's a bit of a schlep from the V&A, I think? Somebody plump for something.
• if'n i don't get my fireworks, i'm gonna be very upset...
• I have a great solution to shoutouts, guys. Next time we have a London meetup... we don't tell anyone else. Sshhh!
• I porbably won't be able to make it now. Sorry all...
• WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
• Sorry. I feel all bad now.
• GOOD!!!
• God damn you, sir. God damn you.
• Oh dear.
• I will try and make it, then. But I can't guarantee anything.
• I love bullying.
• I've been crying for an hour. And I just mutilated myself with a razor. I hope you're ahppy now! I feel so cold without my beard. Poor beard...
• There, there. It's gone to a better place, where there's no more pain. *pat pat*
• Heresy! Glorious Turkmenbashi has outlawed the evil beard and you have the temerity to mourn the loss of your filthy facial excrescences? Guards!
• gone to a better place, where there's no more pain An understocked boulangerie?
• BA-BAM! That is exactly the kind of quick-witted japery dng CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT and thus he must meet up with us wearing precisely 3.2 pairs of underpants.
• Mist they be a-sordid colours or all grey, Q-kid?
• Bees, I shall answer you via the medium of SONG. Un-der-pants! Un-der-pants! Every morning you greet me! Small and white, clean and bright - You look happy to meet meeeeeeee! Clothes of our crotches Please stay free of blotches, Dirt and ground-in-stains for-ever! Un-der-pants, un-der-pants, House my testes forever!
• OK. I assume that if dng is doubtful, the V&A isn't happening (I can't do the afternoon myself in any case). I also assume Brick Lane is agreeable. Meet here, at 6.30? Alnedra, happy to meet you at Aldgate East tube station at about 6.15 if that suits you. You've got my mobe number, but I'll put it in my profile again. Objections, alternatives, additions - speak now or forever hold your peace on pain of Marduk's displeasure.
• Ca ma va. Flash, Dreadnought, dickdotcom, the always reliable carolingian, etc? You in?
• Yes. Let us do that. Anybody else? tannhauser? Any other FOMNADIMMN (Friends of Mothninja and DangerIsMyMiddleName)? I know you exist, I've met you before. And I'm sure there's a whole bundle of other MoFites who've mentioned, offhand, living in London. WE CANNOT ALLOW LOS ANGELES TO GAIN THE ADVANTAGE. Not at this crucial stage of the season.
• I'll e-mail a small reminder to the usual suspects.
• Tell them to bring the requisite number of underpants (currently 15.38745)
• Plus, all my shout-outs will be underwear-related.
• do we need to arrange a Send-Some-Underwear-to-quidnunc campaign? I sense he's short some shorts.
• I moved to Europe but didn't bring enough underpants. Forsooth it is a tale of woe, told by an idiot, empty of underpants and interest.
• Oh, that quidnunc were bereft Of underpants, to support the heft Of his dangly bits, so precious to him Who exposes them by drunken whim. Whether boxers, briefs or manties, Bought by uncles or by aunties, Let his penis e'er go shod To protect from frostbite of the rod.
• Noble bard of my loin-clothing, I thank you for your song and create you a Knight Commander of the Most Noble and Ancient Order of the G-String (Civilian Division). Henceforth be known to all as Sir Middleclasstool KCG!
• Thy rod and thy staff comfort me, quidnunc. Thy rod and thy staff comfort me.
• Well, it's hard to get good staff these days. It's also good to get hard rod, but - yeah.
• I might be able to make the evening. I'm just playing hard to get.
• Good, I'd like to share another beer or two with yuz.
• You can keep away from my beer, you filthy cur!
• NO UNDERPANTS FOR YOU!!1!
• Dreadnought feels really really bad about this, but tomorrow night his best friend is holding a special dinner party, and this is the only night they could when roommates were away. He's feeling all guilty at me on the phone.
• Dreadnought: aawww... don't feel too bad. Enjoy yourself! There's still the rest of the year! Plegmund: Don't put your mobile number in your profile! It might get harvested. I've got you in permanent memory in my phone, along with flashboy I think. And it's all right, I've borrowed my friend's A-Z, so I'll make it to the Pride of Spitalfields all right. Thankee kindly (^_^) No musuem trip, really? *lower lip trembles* Oh well, I'll just go gallivanting around town again then....
• No biggie, Dread, really - see you another time. I thought profiles were fairly safe? Otherwise the e-mails would be vulnerable too, wouldn't they? I feel guilty about not doing the museum, but there is too much parental and domestic stuff which has to be done on Saturdays.
• I think the profile can be seen by anyone, except the emails are hidden until you log in. Let me give it a try, nonetheless... No worries about the musuem, I can fully understand (^_^)
• OK. I've put the mobe number in the e-mail space (plus a different e-mail address since the one I usually use has chosen this as the best possible time to develop a glitch of some kind. See you later.
• Awww, shame about that, Dread - but maybe we can still do a London-goes-to-Cambridge MoFi awayday type shenanigan later in the spring or summer, once the warmth has returned to these bleak, frozen lands? (My God, if it's this cold in London right now, it must be unthinkably cold in Cambridge...)
• So ... anymonkey wants a shoutout? You have approximately 25.7 minutes to lodge your request!
• How many underpants is that? I'd like 2.6757 metric shoutouts, please.
• Done!
• One hogshead of knickers please.
• Done!
• Aw, hey, d'you know what's really fizzy?
• Huh?
• Huh?
• . . ?
• BEER.
• So did y'all have fun?
• I think so. Beer ---> Brick Lane ---> Beer + Beer ---> Other bit of Brick Lane ---> Curry + Beer ---> Beer ---> Home. quidnunc has 5.8 underpantings.
• And here we are, folks, with the first wave of shout-outs (shouts-out?): mothninja sexyrobot rocket88 the_bone BlueHorse squidranch More to follow...
• Exceptional work
• God I wish I'd been there. Stupid me.
• Those are fantastic. Not naked, but fantastic nevertheless. Very creative shoutouts.
• dng, I believe we may have sent you a text message last night... er, sorry about that...
• dng, I believe we may have sent you a text message last night... er, sorry about that... Ooo! *swicthes on phone* haha! Cheers (Also, whose number is that from?)
• That would be, er, me.
• I'm going to send you abuse now (add you to my phone book). I hope you're suitably frightened
• *puts boots on, quakes in them*
• Whoo!! I got a shout-out! And what a shout-out - genius work, everyone. You guys are the rockingest.
• I second mothninja. Tight work.
• Some pictures (variable) in the Flickr Monkeyfilter pool.
• *applauds flashboy's brilliance and Pleg's variables* Bravo! Banana-ho!
• I have a couple of pictures (I think). But right now I'm pretty ill, and I have to go for classes. Bloody London air. So I'll try to post them this evening!
• Aww - sorry you're ill, m'dear. Did everybody get home okay on Saturday?...
• I'm still drunk. Also, I can't remember paying for dinner. Did I actually pay my bit for dinner, or am I just drunkenly paranoid?
• I can confirm that you paid for dinner. Your bit of dinner, that is.
• Yes and yes. You also most generously paid for a taxi to Victoria and steadfastly refused to accept a contribution (thank you). I caught the last train and arrived at Carshalton Beeches about one o'clock. Unfortunately, I don't live in Carshalton Beeches.
• Ha! I mean - oops! Well, it was all in the service of good fun, good food, and good chat. Plus, we solved 73.4% of current international issues involving armed conflict and worked out how to save Kiribati from rising sea levels. Unfortunately, I lost the piece of paper on which we wrote our recommendations ... all I remember is that it somehow involved a large cat, the Archbishopric of York Minster and 300 Lebenese pounds. Anyone?
• Who does live in Carshalton Beeches?
• I don't know - the only person I met there was a man who was throwing small pebbles at an upstairs window and stopped guiltily until I had gone past. Oh, and a fox.
• Fine work with the shout-outs, by the way.
• Ditto the kudos to the flashmaster. Pleggers - your adventure sounds like quite an interesting tale! Small pebbles? Surely this fellow was trying to wake some sleeping beauty - without realising that, every night, the object of his adoration transformed into a fox? Strange magic in the air of Carshalton Beeches!
• Sorry to have missed it ... rather frighteningly the friend I was meeting later on Saturday evening had spent the earlier part of the evening in ... The Pride of Spitalfields ... he saw another of our mutual friends in there at the same time ... 'tis a small world
• I've put up my sadly pitiful collection of meetup photos on flickr.
• Y'all are a damn fine looking bunch of monkeys.
• *claps hands*
• Oh great, I missed another meetup. Fabulous.
• Hey Darshon, where you been?
• Yes, nice to hear from you - we were saying the other night that we hoped you were OK.
• Yes, I'm okay. Was just overcome with a tense relationship, school, kids, depression, work. You know, regular, everday stuff. But spring is, full-on, in the air and I am feeling fine now. Thanks for asking!
• *Hugs Darshon*
• *waves to Darshon*
• Just thought I'd bump this up as a reminder. Anyone from Mofi going? Otherwise, I'm not; not peachy keen on seeing only strange faces this week. I'm in London right now, till Friday 1st April. Lunch, anybody? Internet access is intermittent at the moment, will take a long time to check back. Apologies.
• I think I'm going, the lure of watching Doctor Who at the appointed time (MeTa thread) probably insufficient to keep me away. God gave us VCRs for a reason*. *The reason is that He'd just found out they were dodgy - He got them off of a bloke in the pub, said they fell off a lorry - so He needed to get rid of them quick before the rozzers caught up with 'im.
• Can't make the meetup. I'm away for Easter after tomorrow (or the next day, depending on whether a planned strike goes ahead). I could do lunch on 30 or 31 March, if that suits.
• I, too, am away for Easter. Sorry.
• Ah well. I might not be along then. It's been a year since I last had time to spend with my friend, and she'll be flying off the very next day. We might just end up chatting the night away instead. Have a good time, Flashboy. Give us pictures!
• OH BOY!!! I gots a shoutout! And it's lovely. Going onto my wallpaper even as we speak. Thank you.
• oh god my first shoutout!!! it was so good for me... *retires to smoke cigarette*
• Shoutouts? Where?
• here.
• Your first time, SideDish?? Really? Hmmm... (first London meet-up).
• Y'all are as gay as a big gay homosexual bumgayer for not coming. *sulks*
• pleg! ha! i missed that one!!! *blushes* *not really*
• SideDish: I could tell by the way you were smokin' that you were just pretending to be a virgin.
• Awww. Anybody else got spooked with that Bone shout-out... (O_o)