You'll remember that last year, I met Mr. Brian Rada, aka Jeff Raven in person. This year, last Sunday to be exact, I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Chris Martin, aka Fabrux, aka Topher. We spent a good hour and a half walking around the Downtown Core in Toronto and chatting out about miscellaneous blotter. Too bad I had prior commitments on that same day. If we did have more time, chances are is that I would have made him duck for cover at the Air Hockey table.
Oh well.
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
You must come visit DLU some afternoon. We have free air hockey in the Bison room. And I WILL make all your base belong to us.
Posted by Magnus Pym Eye (Member # 239) on :
AND WHAT ABOUT THIS?
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
I imagine Australians the world over would roll around clutching their sides after reading the name "Sheila Banga."
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
They have given us nads.com. They have no more right to laugh.
Posted by Magnus Pym Eye (Member # 239) on :
"Nads, the runaway hit from Australia...You do it at home, and you can hardly feel it."
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
I really don't want to meet any of you people. You frighten me... Posted by Prismatic EdipisReks (Member # 510) on :
come to cincinnati! i'll buy everyone a round of Guinness! except for BWC. you can stay wherever the hell it is you are.
Posted by Colorful Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Remember: just because you're paranoid does not mean we're not out to get you.
Posted by Prismatic EdipisReks (Member # 510) on :
are you out to get me, big boy? *blushes*
Posted by Colorful Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Is that a yes? Posted by Prismatic EdipisReks (Member # 510) on :
nar? Posted by Red BWC (Member # 818) on :
Edipis: Why in the hell would I want to leave when there work to be done. Use yer common sense people!
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Darn. All State College has to offer is incredibly hot women.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Like a female human torch?
Tahna: What prior commitments could you have possibly had that were more important than haning out with Fab Fabrux? Eh? EH?
Posted by Prismatic EdipisReks (Member # 510) on :
quote:Originally posted by Red BWC: Edipis: Why in the hell would I want to leave when there work to be done. Use yer common sense people!
well, you might want to go somewhere and buy an "English as a second language" book (i will throttle the pet hamster of anyone who says that i'm being hypocritical due to my own aversion to capital letters).
Posted by Magnus Pym Eye (Member # 239) on :
I don't own a hamster! Gerbils for me, thank you. For me indeed.
Posted by Prismatic EdipisReks (Member # 510) on :
quote:Originally posted by Magnus Pym Eye: I don't own a hamster! Gerbils for me, thank you. For me indeed.
just don't tell us where the gerbils are.
Posted by Magnus Pym Eye (Member # 239) on :
That certainly wasn't where I was going. No.
Posted by Prismatic EdipisReks (Member # 510) on :
well, it's too late to take it back. or to take the gerbils out.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Truthfully there are several of us that aren't all that far apart.... I mean as opposed to having an ocean in the way, or a majority of the US....
Between MI, PA, and the area of Canada inbetween I think there are 6 of us... perhaps more...
Hell, Toronto is only about 182 mi. (293 km) from Port Huron....
Too bad in real life I am even more boring then I am here....
Posted by Captain... Mike (Member # 709) on :
my grandmother wont let me have any of my friends over. otherwise, we could have a party here.
could you imagine a Flare party?! wed all bring our computers and our DVD/VHS collections and a large supply of our preferred intoxicants and just go wild knocking the internet and sci-fi/fantasy on its ass, all night long!
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Er, have you met the people here? Simon would DJ and bring all the latest hits from "Delightful Quackery", or whatever obscure band he's listening to at the moment. Half the lot would should and be incomprehensible all the time. Tom and Lee would shout at each other about Enterprise, the other half would go home early incase they accidentally saw alcohol, there would be at least 3 road fatalities from people driving there, and it would take forever to cook Tim.
It would be like Jerry Springer, except really, really nerdy.
quote: Hell, Toronto is only about 182 mi. (293 km) from Port Huron....
Which really does make the UK people look bad. Even when we were all here, there was never more than 200 miles between, and me and Lee even live in the same city. Tsk, eh?
quote:Too bad in real life I am even more boring then I am here....
Not possible. Ha!
Posted by Colorful Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Why, whe'd even have our own resident stand-up comedian to liven the party. Fun! Joy! Just TRY to picture all those happy campers. No comparison for Jerry Springer, really.
Posted by Nim Pim Pim (Member # 205) on :
PsyLiain: "Half the lot would should and be incomprehensible all the time"
And you know all about leading by example.
I, for one, would never "should" a person without asking.
Posted by Magnus Pym Eye (Member # 239) on :
That's incomprehendable! Go Oxen!
Posted by Prismatic EdipisReks (Member # 510) on :
i think that bringing the flare together in person should be reserved for emergencies.
scared presidential advisor: "mr president, a comet is heading towards us! what do we do!?!"
non scared president: "there is only one thing we can do! we must bring the flareite dweebazoids together! only their intellectual prowess and nerdiness can possibly bore that comet into leaving the solar system!"
PsyLiam: "radical!"
koy'peled Oy'tio: "Ahem hence summary"
Vogon Poet: "the 'fuck'?
CaptainMike: "i've never trusted comets, mr president.. and I never will.. i can never forgive them.. for the.. death of my boy."
Magnus Pym Eye: "tee hee."
[ August 02, 2002, 09:04: Message edited by: Prismatic EdipisReks ]
Posted by Magnus Pym Eye (Member # 239) on :
"Radical." Tee Hee.
Posted by Captain... Mike (Member # 709) on :
i must point out there are several who invoke the italicized version of that curse much more often that me.
its more like:
CaptainMike: "I've never trusted comets, Mr President.. and I never will.. I can never forgive them.. for the.. death of my boy."
Posted by Prismatic EdipisReks (Member # 510) on :
thank you for the suggestion, El Capitan. change duly made.
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
Eric said he had to do something for his girlfriend when we departed... Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"For" or "to"?
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
It is so possible... With less hair even....
I think it would be interesting... in a warped, strange way, that is...
Posted by Tahna Los (Member # 33) on :
I deny the charges.
Posted by Nim Pim Pim (Member # 205) on :
Damnit Mike don't do that, I hate when you burptalk like that.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
I'd like to meet some* of ya'll in person. Unfortunately for me (but probably fortunately for the rest of you), I'm stuck all the way down in Texas. The closest Flare-ite to me is Ryan McReynolds, and he's still about six hours north of me.
*Yes, only some. Just the sane and well-adjusted ones.
Posted by Ryan McReynolds (Member # 28) on :
Only four and a half hours if one speeds.
Posted by LOA (Member # 49) on :
I'm thinking about moving to TN next spring. February, to be exact..... Just thought I'd throw this in here, though there's no real reason for it....
~LOA
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
quote:Only four and a half hours if one speeds.
Or eight hours if your driver doesn't know where she's going, is driving a big-ass van that she has no experience driving, and you manage to hit traffic in Houston, Conroe, and Dallas as well as major construction outside of Huntsville.
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ryan McReynolds: Only four and a half hours if one speeds.
Speeding == not good idea. I used to speed. Got hit with a $300 fine today. Ouch. Will probably loose my license. Posted by Magnus Pym Eye (Member # 239) on :
Then Tighten it up.
Posted by Matrix (Member # 376) on :
I don't any of you guys coming to my house. Then again, none of you know exactly where I live except that I live in NJ. Not that anyone cares or anything.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
**begins hunting down Matrix's address**
Yes! I'm coming to your home and sleeping on your sofa!
Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :
Too much socializing!
*goes into hiding*
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Yes! I'm going to sleep on your sofa, too!
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
I'mma go see Rob one day & help him scare the kids in the library.
Posted by Colorful Cartman (Member # 256) on :
IKEA sales will skyrocket nationwide.
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
I went to the San Diego Comics Convention this past weekend and it was pretty damned excellent. There were huge numbers of geeky people which I found to be strangely comforting. I wondered whether there might be other flare members around since I have no idea what many of you look like. Mojo was supposedly there, thought I didn't see him. I don't know that Mojo qualifies as a regular flare-ite, but it got me thinking it might be kind of fun to hang out with some of you in the physical plane, and was trying to think of a good place/reason to do so. I don't know if any one convention would be convenient, but I was also thinking that the Star Trek experience in Las Vegas might also be an appropriate venue...
Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :
quote:Originally posted by Siegfried: Yes! I'm going to sleep on your sofa, too!
No you're not. Half the time, _I_ sleep on my sofa. The other half, _she_ does.
quote: I'mma go see Rob one day & help him scare the kids in the library.
YOu missed my job change, then. I don't work with kids now. Unless you wanna scare college kids. You probably could. Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
How about if I bring my own sofa, then?
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
quote:Originally posted by First of Two: Half the time, _I_ sleep on my sofa. The other half, _she_ does.
Y'know, using the plain text shorthand for italics on a board which accepts UBB and HTML code is really, really lazy. For shame, Robert.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
"No man is an island"...except when emphasized by...THE LIBRARIAN!! (DundunDUUNNNN!!)
And of course I can scare college kids. Scaring college kids is why I was out of work for 3 months.
Posted by Captain... Mike (Member # 709) on :
I'd love to meet all of you at a secret prearranged location far from my home, with security escorts. I see up one Flarite on my property and imma shoot you dead on the lawn!
Posted by Matrix (Member # 376) on :
Haha, you can't sleep on my sofa because I don't have a sofa! ...wait... crap.
Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :
quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam:
quote:Originally posted by First of Two: Half the time, _I_ sleep on my sofa. The other half, _she_ does.
Y'know, using the plain text shorthand for italics on a board which accepts UBB and HTML code is really, really lazy. For shame, Robert.
Whatever gave you the impression that I _wasn't_ really, really lazy?
Posted by Springfield Armory Snay (Member # 411) on :
First off: cool new graphics. Er. Why is the background when I type my posts a medium gray?
Second: Shik has slept on my sofa. I forget if all of him fit, there might have been some dangling feet (tempty treats for ze furballs).
Third: Rob may soon be visiting me ... my uncle is building an outdoor range on his property in Princess Anne.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
I fit, but at a haplessly mediocre 5-foot-6, I'm hardly the yardstick of sofa fit-ness ability.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
quote:Originally posted by Springfield Armory Snay: my uncle is building an outdoor range on his property in Princess Anne.
There's a rude joke begging to be made here...
Posted by Colorful Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Well, what are you waiting for?
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
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