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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Yup, the first UK annual flare forum-goers who live in London trip is on.
At the moment, it's pencilled for this Saturday. Confirmed as going as of...now.. are me and Lee. With probably Monty and Orion (whose real name we're gonna have to know unless he wants to get strange looks from everyone who hears us talking). Lee is in the process tomorrow of phoning Chris Howell and MaGiC. Anyone else interested, please say. It'll probably be Page's Bar, as MaGiC liked it there.
Oh, if anyone can't do this Saturday, say, and we might move it to next Saturday.
It'll probably be meet-up at 7 o clock. Or as Lee says, 1900 hours. Jeez. You're welcome to turn up in a Star trek uniform. Just expect to get beaten up.

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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

Alas, since my attending is out of the question (due to the facts that a. my tardis is in the shop for it's 30 millennium servicing and b. England is not conveniently located to New Mexico

) would it be too much to ask that someone hoist one to those of us who are unable to attend? After all, it sounds like there's a lot of hoisting planned anyway. One or two more will never be noticed

--Baloo

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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

We should pitch this as a new series to MTV. Etherworld??? Networld?

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Fool of a Took, throw yourself in next time!!
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Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on :

Oh, yeah. That. I'll get round to it eventually. . .

Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :

Hey - I thought that Pages bar had lots of people in "costume!?!" - ohhhhh you'll get beaten up on the "Tube!?!" - heh heh.

Baloo - I heard there is a space craft in a hanger around near you somewhere - maybe that'll get you there quick

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Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on :

Listen: no-one is going in costume, alright? Anyone turns up in costume gets beaten up by me!

*flash forward to next weekend*

Me: "Listen, I'm really sorry, OK? You just looked like how I thought this guy Liam would look. . ."

Anonymous Klingon: "Wuurgh. . . what hit me?"

Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on :

Hmmm.... I don't suppose anyone wants to buy me tickets to London?

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and a fading dream with a Mona Lisa smile
that whispers "are you thinking of me too?"

12 days till the dreams become reality...

Posted by Montgomery (Member # 23) on :

I can confirm the foxiness quotient of this get-together will be high.

I do not own a Trek uniform, so no bloody fear.
I do however take it that some form of clothing is customary. I shall, therefore, accomodate this on Saturday.

Tremble Puny Americans!
TREMBLE before the combined form of BRITICUS!

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Posted by Montgomery (Member # 23) on :

Ooer...just had a thought.

What the smeg do any of you look like?!
Are you all gonna hang around the doorway looking dodgy?

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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

Just look for the loud group!!

We have seen pics of Lee, I think there was one of Liam, and I clearly remember seeing one of Magic, in leather!! Those were back at SFCR. Remember "Pick the Face".

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Fool of a Took, throw yourself in next time!!
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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Well, in the interest of not looking like complete tits, we won't actually meet AT Page's bar. We'll meet at the nearest tube station, by the enterance. When someone finds out exactly which tube station that is.

And I'll be wearing some form of clothing too, so just look out for the clothed 20 year-old. I dunno. We could all ring each others mobiles and just head towards the talking noises.

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Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on :

I'll be the one thumping my phone a la Al from Quantum Leap and wondering why I had to get an Ericsson instead of a Nokia, and furthemore asking when the latter are going to release that cool auto-open one they had in The Matrix. . .

No response yet from Chris or MaGiC. Gimme another day and we'll decide for certain whether this Saturday or next, OK?

Posted by Montgomery (Member # 23) on :

*smites mobile phones*

Even the communicator-lookalike flip-up ones fall in my estimation when they blurt out a gratingly metallic "William Tell Overture".

As for meeting up, the nearest Tube station is Westminster, (rather busy to spot two other people standing there. Perhaps a quieter place. You know that little lawn opposite the Houses of parliament where idiots from ITN like to stand in all weather and look serious into camera? That's usually uncrowded...
Thoughts?

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Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on :

Hmm. . . Daisy Donovan from The 11 o'clock Show is often seen near there. . . *drools*

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Posted by Gaseous Anomaly (Member # 114) on :

*Would go only isn't invited*
Oh, and it's about 500 miles out of my way.

Let us know how it went, boys.

And just how many of you were threatened by marauding vigilantes intent on cleansing the earth of all things trek related.

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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

(Drinks coffee, and keeps track of meeting, in the interest of history)

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Fool of a Took, throw yourself in next time!!
Gandalf

Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :

I programmed my moblie to play the Simpsons theme

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Posted by JEM on :

I've just got a new mobile phone which comes equipped with what seems like three million different tones-at least it seems that many to the other people in the office after I decided to try them all out. However my girlfriend has advised me to just leave it on a standard ring setting otherwise 'when it goes off on a crowded train you look like a right prat'.

Nice to know she is looking after my wellbeing.

Incidentally, I think Pimlico station might be slightly closer.

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Ya coming along JEM?

And where's Pimlico (or whatever) station? In fact, does it even exist? Or have you made it up to facilitate some nefarious scheme?

And where's Orion? Eh? EH? He wanted to come. Why hasn't he called me? Why do they never call? Boo hoo.

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Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on :

John can't make it, he's in the process of buying a house. No sign of Orion. . . and Chris hasn't responded to my email. And MaGiC hasn't called me back. I'm gonna start taking this personally. . .

Posted by Montgomery (Member # 23) on :

Is this definitely on for this Saturday then?
Shall we all stalk in the dark shadows, lying in wait for Daisy Donovan?

"...a strange mixing of minds..."

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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

I've sent Chris two or three E-mails over the time I've been around the boards, and never gotten an answer.

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Fool of a Took, throw yourself in next time!!
Gandalf

Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Er, who's John?

Ahh, sweet Daisy. There she stands, in her bra and pants, having butchered Ian Lee to death for stealing other peoples jokes. Lovely.

I'll E-mail Chris as well, shall I?

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

You tried ICQ-ing MaGiC?

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Posted by Montgomery (Member # 23) on :

LOL!

I ponder what foul offsping said Ms Donovan might produce if one night she should be demonically possessed and impregnated with Chris Morris' sperm....

Quote for the day:
"A Briton would rather be told he was a poor lover than that he had no sense of humour"
- John Cleese

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You, your men, your ship, your WORLDS!"

Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on :

No, Liam, I left a mesage on her voicemail. And FURTHERMORE she's expressed an interest. So how about it - if she can't make this weekend, shall we make it next weekend?

Until then, are we go for this weekend?

CapCom?

GO!

Retro?

GO!

Guido?

GO!

Lee?

GO!

Monty?
Liam?
Orion?

Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

I will be as witty, amusing, charming, sexy, gorgeous and cool this weekend as next weekend, so either's fine with me.

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"Give me a f*cking..."
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Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on :

Uhm.... Excuse me? ... What was Lee saying? ... I can't see past Liam's Ego....

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is you, thoughts of you, hopes for you,
and a fading dream with a Mona Lisa smile
that whispers "are you thinking of me too?"

10 days till the dreams become reality...

Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

Hmmm... It does obscure the view, doesn't it?

Perhaps this isn't a bad thing?

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Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on :

OK, I called MaGiC today, and she's not unopposed to the idea, but has to speak to her partner about what their plans are for the weekend. Apparently, St. James' Park Tube might be best. So, we gonna take a chance on her turning up, and go for it?

Two things she did say, though: Page's is crap, and you can't get a seat if you go after five thirty in the evening. But Hey! It'll help us establish some common ground, like "we all hate this, let's go somewhere else."

Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on :

How to find it? Look on that Internet thing!
http://home.rednet.co.uk/homepages/stbob/map1.htm

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

*Walks in, with ego on a lead*

Well, I do have to take it for walks y'know.

I'm going out on Saturday Afternoon and won't be back home until 5, so getting there at 5:30 might be a problem. Next week I finish work at 1 though, so getting there early would be a piece of pie.

Did she say how expensive it was? And is it filled with fat sweaty people in Trek uniforms, all with Captain's pips? Because I might just be too cool for the place.

*ego pees in the corner*

So, HOW bad is it? Just a pit poo, or "I wouldn't go in this place even if Sarah Michelle Geller personally did me as I came in the door" bad?

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Hang on, it's run by someone called "Admiral Bob"? Now who does that not strike me as a very glamerous name for a military man? At the very least he could have some sort of bear related nickname.

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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :

"Admiral Bob"? NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

He was the admiral from ST5, Bob Justman.

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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

Actually, it was Admiral Robert Bennett (sp?), played by Harve Bennett (I think I'm spelling the name wrong, but I'm in C++ class at the moment, so I can't look it up).

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Posted by Montgomery (Member # 23) on :

Well I've never been there, so would like to check it out. Since this Saturday IMMINENT is also the England-Scotland match, it'll probably be at least 6.45pm before I'd be able to get into London. I worry about what "other place" MaGiC might take us to!

You'll have to tell me if we're gonna do this soon as right now I'm likely to be standing on that lawn at 7.30 freezing my fur off.

*roof groans under weight of parked ego*

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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :

Frank's right.

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Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on :

No, you misunderstand. I have no intention of going there at five thirty. We're going to meet at 7 or 7:30. And we probably can do better than Page's Bloody Bar too - it's good enough now for an interim plan.

Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Oh yeah, the England/Scotland game. Can't miss that. Altough I still don't know where I'm watching it.

And Lee said 'rim'. He he.

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Posted by Montgomery (Member # 23) on :

So 7.30pm...where?
The tube?
The lawn?
Atop the London Eye?

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Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on :

St. James' Park tube. It's a bit further away than Westminster tube, but easier to navigate from.

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

What about phone numbers? In case we can't find anyone? I haven't got a mobile alas. I've got a pager though, and I'll put up the number, when I can remember it, giving evereyone the opportunity to send me rude messages.

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Posted by Montgomery (Member # 23) on :

I have no pager nor mobile.
I will be at St James' tube station (I trust it only has the one exit!) at 7.30pm.
Eee had best make thyselves conspicious to me.

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Since no-one pages me anyway, and it's embarassing leaving rude messages anyway, I might as well give my pager number out here.

07669-002293

Anyone can page me. I'm very lonely.

I shall be at St James station at 7:30. Is there a dress code for Page's Bar?

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Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on :

I'll be there. The only dress code they have isn't one you'd want to observe, consisting as it does of badly cut and ill-fitting replicas of Starfleet uniforms.

My mobile, which I can happily give since I'm getting rid of it soon (bugger One2One and bugger Ericsson), is:

07932 740072

Oh, and by the way: anyone who says "my God. You really DO speak like that" gets thumped. 8)

Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Ooh, I can be Lt Com. Advatganjag, a Trill that has been put inside a Klingon body, serving aboard the USS Groovy, a Defiant-Clas sship with a phasing cloak, a Romulan Captain, a Borg helmsmen that comes equipped with a new proto-transwarp drive, enabling me to have adventured in all 4 Quadrants.

What will you two be wearing then?

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Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on :

Black.

Posted by Sunspot (Member # 77) on :

Umm... how would one dial those...phone numbers from the States?

Not that I have any money for an intercontinental call, mind you.

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Heh, he said 'Incontinent'.

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Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on :

And you certainly wouldn't have money to call an international mobile number. But in case you think my mobile number is suddenly hot property, I hate to bring you down to Earth but it's been in my ICQ info for months.

Posted by Montgomery (Member # 23) on :

I think I'm first to make it back to a computer after last night.

Just to get my version in before anyone else's:
I deny all accusations, and the young ladies in question expressed no regrets this morning...

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Oh, and Lee doesn't talk like that.

And Page's bar was...well...crap. Big pooey crap too.

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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

Did you guy's go somewhere else? And who all showed? I'mm going to go look at the BBC news for arrests on Saturday, into Sunday.

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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :

There was one on BBC World - it went something like:

A young man was arrested earlier outside London's Page's Bar... It was reported he was cavorting around with no pants shouting "beam me up or i'll shoot you with my phaser"...

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Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on :

To use politician-speak, my remarks were taken out of context.

Posted by Orion Syndicate (Member # 25) on :

Oh goody - I check in every day to see when the night out is scheduled for, and when I'm away for a week and a half, it gets scheduled in between then. Is it me? (just kidding).

I've been working my arse off at work these last two weeks because of an open day which I helped to organise, a huge mailshot which had to go out and also my moving office which meant that I couldn't get to the library because it was either closed, or I couldn't book a computer for just half an hour (which is all the time I had). Today's the first opportunity I've had to check my e-mail and the forums for about a week and a half, so I've missed all this. Ah well. Hopefully next time.

And as for my name, most people usually find it difficult to pronounce, but here it is anyway - it's Hamayoon. Everyone calls me Ham because of the pronounciation problems.

The bulk of my work has just finished and I just finished moving office today, so I'll be around a little more from now.

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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

With so many forumites so close together, I don't think that will be the last meeting!

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Fool of a Took, throw yourself in next time!!
Gandalf

Posted by Orion Syndicate (Member # 25) on :

I obviously couldn't make it as my previous e-mail shows, but pray tell, what was it like? Now that you've seen each other, are there going to be any more nights out in London or elsewhere?

Could you let me know please.

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

We all took an oath never to mention "Bloody Saturday" again. Sorry.

Actually, it was alright. When we get more people, we'll do it again. And it's still open to Yanks and Aussies. Not Canadians though, with their beady little eyes and flapping heads all full of lies.

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Posted by Montgomery (Member # 23) on :

Further meetings are certain. If only so we can together plot the downfall of the evil and vile American Empire....

...and distribte creme eggs out-of-season.

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"You will be swept away....
You, your men, your ship, your WORLDS!"

Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

Well, ya know, we all want to change the world!!

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Fool of a Took, throw yourself in next time!!
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Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on :

I don't know, maybe something before Christmas. . . let's think about it anyway. Monty can let us know when he heads up North to see the olds for Crimbo, Hammychops can let us know in advance if he's gonna disappear for two weeks again, I can go and beat my head against a brick wall, er, I mean talk to MaGiC, and maybe even Chris H can be tempted beyond the Coventry city limits (note: no cracks about the only thing limiting Coventry City being their inability to play!). . .

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

The only thing limiting Coventry city is their inability to play.

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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :

I know what we could do - a race around the world in 80 days... well leave from Leicster Square... the Queen herself will throw the chequered flag...

oops sorry Simpsons flashback *hee hee*

how about meting in a point central to everyone on the board... it'll probably be somewhere in the middle of the Indian ocean or Mongolia... how about the Seychelles Ulan Bator!?!

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Posted by Chris Howell on :

Believe it or not Lee, I have been known to take bold excursions outside Coventry, deep into Dominion space - I mean the surroundings areas.

Chances are good that I would be able to take a trip south around Xmas if another 'FlareUp' is arranged for around then.

PS - Seven games unbeaten for City

PPS - So how did it go anyway Lee? Do you have any photos? Any 18+ rated photos? C'mon, give us details! And please tell me you drank loads of Grolsch Premium lager. I'm addicted to the stuff and I can't get enough of it.

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Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :

HEY!

Canadians do not have 'beady' eyes, and 'flapping heads all full of lies.'!

We have kinda bugged out eyes, and are worried far too much about our hockey to lie.

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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

Grolsch? I avoid the stuff like the plague. It's very bitter-tasting.

Of course, I may have to try it again some day and see if it tastes better at 60° rather than the 40° that American brews taste best at.

Hey! Some American beers actually ARE good. It's just that the list is very, very short.

--Baloo

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Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on :

Bizarrely enough, I WAS drinking Grolsch.

Posted by Chris Howell on :

Men with great minds drink great lager I guess. :-)

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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

Does that apply even when one of then has no idea what temperature it tastes best at? Grolsch, when mispronounced properly, sounds like it tastes when served at American-traditional ice-cold temperatures. I understand the strain of yeast used to ferment it determines what temperature you should serve it at. Most American beers use a strain that makes the beer taste best between 30-40 degrees.

Of course, an ice-cold brew is a godsend during one of those days when the temperature (in the shade!) is over 110°. When having a brew near Christmastime, an ice cold beverage isn't the first thing you'd reach for. I was almost 40 when an English expatriate friend from the gunshop told me what temperature to serve Guinness. Before that I thought it was gag-awful stuff. What a difference.

--Baloo

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Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on :

Hmm, I'll start a new thread soon to plan the Flare UK Xmas bash. Maybe someone can bring some crackers along. . . 8)

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