thanks for fact-checking my hoops knowledge but:
1. okafor has been kicking ass everywhere this season, he’s allowed to suck for one night
2. yeah no doubt
3. was exaggerating for humorous effect, obv target unachieved as usual
I will probably not go to Wizards game, would much rather hang out with DC ILXors. Please advise. I have to work until 4 p.m. tomorrow and then am pretty much good to go (check my DC go-go terminology!)
little known fact: i am incapable of recognizing or understanding humor unless drunk. you should come out tomorrow so you can evaluate the accuracy of that statement.
DUDES though, let’s all be cool and stop analyzing the Wizards, we must come to critical consensus re: where for tomorrow. DC people, commence planning!!
I vote Saturday! Saturday Saturday! I realize that this may make me a dickbag.
Why not tomorrow? Do you have a hot date or something tomorrow?
whatever is cool with all of you, i brought a bunch of 4 hour indian movies on dvd but i’d rather actually see human beings (although, come on, the first shah rukh khan / kajol movie...pretty tempting)
so i have to go set shit up in the booth, will check in in a couple of hours to see what all y’all have decided. as long as i can get there on the metro or on my legs I will attend and make you all happy you live here and not in wisconsin, where it FUCKING SNOWED LAST NIGHT
xpost:
What about our guests, duder? We’re ditching them?
YES!!!
No. I vote Saturday.
“Hi dere guests here is your key we have an engagement after work we’ll see ya later OK bye now have fun finding a single family home big enough for three dogs and two cats walking distance to Metro in a safe neighborhood for 250K good luck with that bye”
Srsly why would we have to hang out with them tomorrow?
Srlsy why would you ditch houseguests like that? We won’t see them tonight. You can explain we’re ditching them I’ll make sure they have fresh towels. And we can both stop clogging u[p the board with dumb boring married person crap
(I’m on the right, obviously.)
It’s more being really, really, really sick of the constant up-and-downtime here
That’s the whole point of this rewrite stuff, though. It should all be completely shifted over to new server, site and code by turn of the year, I’m thinking.
making the decisions re: OHNOES NOT SPAM are posting borderline racist missives on other threads. SO 2001, ILX, SO 2001.
Is this me, you mean? cos I know I made an anus of myself on the MR thread, but I’m not behind locking unreg.
It is a total fucking pain in the ass trudging about deleting spammy shit, though, when there’s much better stuff to be doing with my time.
All the complaints seem to come from people who can’t work the registration — which hasn’t changed, at all, from the ILX one.
Why don’t you guys just bring your houseguests with you?
They’re really old (50’s?) and would not be any fun, really.
But I’m fine with Friday, I’m just being a pain in the ass. Everyone can just ignore me, it’s cool.
Also, stet, IIRC the moderator board was regularly blighted with complaints about the settings + password reset not working properly on “old ILX,” so I’m not sure what your point is. But thanks for stopping by and solidifying my decision.
xpost OHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Old ppl no go to beerfest ;_;
What we need is more ppl giving input on the day. I could do Saturday if that is easier for everyone.
Yr welcome. I’m sorry if I had any part in you goin, tho.
Nah, dude, no apologies, this has been a decision that had been bantered about between me and a few other people (not all ILXors) for like 2 years now. Maybe it will fail spectacularly!
My vote is still Friday after work. M, we don’t have to be late or anything. They have their own agenda, anyway.
yeah friday works best for me because i’m already going to be here. off around 4, as per usual. will be drinking by 4:30 or so, also as per usual. preferred locales?
ps pete was it this weekend or next that you wanted to go try and hit on art chicks?
we could just do the usual
ugh, we were at the black cat the night those assholes were there.
Her boyfriend, Jeremy Frank, wears checkered trousers in deference to his heroes, Wes Anderson and Woody Allen.
^^^^ this guy sucks.
Oh I was reading an article in a newspaper while waiting at the deli about how to keep certain houseplants (some kind of lilly, maybe? Something that is known to be wilty and easy to kill) from wilting with BOOZE, and not just the old wives’ tale of vodka. ANY hard liquor worked. The scientist’s name who just sat there pouring all manner of shots into houseplants? Brian Miller!!
No way! I glanced at that article (it was about paperwhites and amaryllisessss [amarillisi?]) but failed to catch the name of the booze botanist.
Matt “the usual” refers to the Big Hunt, which is at the Dupont metro (1345 Connecticut, near the south metro exit). I can be there five-fivethirtyish.
But maybe we should go somewhere, you know, different?
JALEO except that place always crowded every time I go by it now :(
Last time I was at Big Hunt I called one of the barbacks a dick and he accused me of being uncivil and I said if he was being civil himself he wouldn’t get called a dick. Then we left cos it was hella late.
ah, tuesday
It seems like only yesterday.
Well, listening to my angry friend R.‘s problems for an hour cured the Emo. I can’t even begin to talk about them for fear of the man.
Laurel, you are getting one of my black balls for that outburst.
I like the big hunt.
Ed that sounds dirty.
xpost There must be other places to consider, in Dupont.
Why did the Childe Harolde fall off the map?
not really...
Outburst? I am so un-outbursty today I’m practically comatose.
I like the Bug Hunt
GIS black balls not as bad as I expected
Pluses for Big Hunt:
1) Good beer selection at a reasonable price
2) DELICIOUS GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICH???! WHO KNEW SUCH A THING COULD BE BROUGHT TO A NEW LEVEL
3) Good hummous and spinich/artichoke dip
4) Central location that appears to be fairly easy for most people to occur upon
5) number of turbos and capitools at a minimum generally
6) pete would have sex with all of these waitresses
7) internet jukebox
xposts we could do childe harold, I think they actually moved coke dealer night to Saturday!
Minuses for Big Hunt:
1) that retard barback who refuses to let people use the bathrooms if he is in the general area
2) internet jukebox
whoa how the hell did the xpost thing get in between those two??
We should do something completely batshit insane and unheard of, like 51st State on a non-football day, or a hotel bar with $15 martinis.
I like the Bug Jar
big hunt occurs
i miss the bug hunt
My only issues with Bug Hunt are:
1) Can get v. loud
2) Not so comfy if there are more than like 4 ppl involved, which I appears to be the case for tomorrow night.
OK it is not as convenient for me but I’ll throw it out there anyway: Saloon?
’Cause I kind of love that place.
I could do with a $15 martini.
DC needs Sloths:
Gosh, this is easier in New York: someone says “The W—— W—?” and someone else says, “Dude” and you’re on.
OK, I’m in, at last. I did not realize how much I was missing on these DC threads by having my images turned off!
Re, happy hours. Friday or Saturday doesn’t really make a difference for me, nor does the place. I’m easy like that.
Re, new board. I would follow, though my goal is to post less on the internets, not more.
PS: Do I really have to show a real e-mail here? How much longer till this intermediary board is over?
Gosh, this is easier in New York: someone says “The W—— W—?” and someone else says, “Dude” and you’re on.
— Laurel (sininspac...), November 30th, 2006.
Yeah, we’re sorta lame like that here.
So guys, the Big Hunt, tomorrow, after work?
Mary I had the same real e-mail problem—just go back to your settings, make your real e-mail your “private” (optional) e-mail, and put in fake e-mail in the box above the private one. It will re-set your password but will send it to private e-mail, so it doesn’t matter that you entered a fake one in the top box.
We only go to one bar, though. For the most part.
Laurel, that is a dirty lie, at least back in the day when I was trying to get people together. Your weekly Monday night drinking club does NOT count as we have the same type of thing. The thing is that there is a new person and we are trying to impress, not bring to old dingy. But, I think old dingy it is :D
xpost SEE?
laurel, what bar(s)? i need bars.
Thanks, Q, I’m here again. My name is no longer Mary though. We have a Monday night drinking club? (This time the password came right away; the other time it came after a few hours.)
Why don’t I know about this supposed Monday night drinking club?
I’ll email ya, Mooks.
the bar for the MNDC in NYC totally puts the place chicago goes for thirsty thursday’s to shame.
1. Laurel lives in NYC, boozies.
2. NYC has a weekly Monday drinking club.
3. Y’all don’t live in NYC
Ergo, etc.
Your weekly Monday night drinking club does NOT count as we have the same type of thing.
type of thing, drinking club is therefore not necc on monday?
I thought everyone was aware that about 80% of Fridays feature the Big Hunt
Big Hunt sounds okay to me but if not allowed to use restroom I might just start marking some territory
the bar for the MNDC in NYC totally puts the place chicago goes for thirsty thursday’s to shame.
— otto midnight (effyouto...), November 30th, 2006. (otto midnight)
whiskey ward rules!
also, zack—nah—the bunnybrains show is 12/8 in bmore
pete where did you guys go when you were in chicago? i think that was the weekend i was in san diego or something.
speaking of chicago who wants to make my trip next month worthwhile by giving me a reason to leave the airporthotel (they are fucking connected; I don’t even have to bring a coat!) on the evening of Dec. 14?
like, somewhere on the blue line or whatever it is that goes to O’hare
the 14th is, in fact, a thursday. i have a bartendress friend that i sometimes visit after TT’s breaks down who lets me drink for free for a good portion of the night. it takes very little arm twisting to get me to go out.
yay! waht is TT?
Thirsty Thursdays. we convene at a dive bar in the loop, first person off work tries to stake a claim to the tables in front near the window then as the others get off work we come in and drink. usually goes from 5:30 to nine or so. after nine i head north to the bar where my friend works and continue with the liver abuse.
I’ll probably be able to make it to loop are by sixthirty-sevenish that night. Unless my meeting goes all to hell. But I think a bunch of ppl are flying out that night (meeting ppl, that is), so I doubt it can drag on too too long.
MW have you ever read Cliff Yablonski Hates You?
No dude, I haven’t, should I?
Also guys: If I ask (via email) someone in another office (Worker A) a question, a question that one of my co-workers,(Worker X) and I have about something on one of our databases, something that Worker A is supposed to take care of, and I cc Worker X on the email, why does Worker A not hit reply all? Why does he only reply to me?
otto—on tuesday i saw some randomish show (where man man headlined) with nick, sarah, kenan, and john. wednesday, i saw canasta play. both shows were on damen, at that—UH place i cant remember—upstairs, biggish room, bar in back... then friday, i went to big bowl with nick and sarah, then top of the cock with nick, sarah, john, jenny, jeff, and kenan, then stayed with N/S. everybody was totally nice!
oh my god that website is good. i can’t stop laughing
the one that always gets me is the photo with the drag king, the big fat white lady and the elderly black man, all posing for a portrait together. Mainly because, yeah, wtf IS going on there?
oh shit, pete, i was totally in town then, sorry i didn’t make it. if it was on damen i’m guessing you went to subterranean. in the ’20s that place was a brothel and there is/was an underground tunnel that led from the basement to the flat-iron building across the intersection. it was used by the clients in the event of a police raid.
s’ok yo next time!
i can only look at two of those things at a time and i start laughing so hard i have to close the window
everyone at my workplace thinks I’m crazy, sitting here laughing to myself half the day
the guy at the bottom of page 26 is the funniest picture I’ve ever seen in my life
hey m & q,
wanna get vace and have a beer at atomic at like 615/630?
c/d: your friend fucking freaking out and sorta friend-breaking up with you because you mostly jokingly said you liked the creation (band) better than creation records? by fucking freaking out i mean she actually got up and said “i’m leaving now” and angrily stormed out and followed it up this morning with an email that reads in part “if you’re standing by that statement i can only assume that you currently do and always have thought my taste is total crap, in which case i have no idea why you are friends with me, because (unlike many worthwhile people who have other traits to compensate for awful taste) that’s pretty much all i’ve got going for me.”
i mean fine i know you hate yourself ok? so do i but at least i try to take it out in a respectable fashion, ON MYSELF. jesus fucking christ. i suck with girls this week.
You shoulda asked How Does It Feel to Feel, bro.
Pete, I’m checking with k to see if that’s cool, it’s cool with me, but we have houseguests arriving tonight and i don’t know if i/we will be forced to get more ready tonight post-work or not.
Also, ZR that is some crazy psycho bullshit going on.
i cant stay past 715, so itll be quickish...
Be all understanding and ask what’s really wrong, because you know it’s not really about the music and et sympathetic cetera.
yr tops L
I can’t help it, i mean fine i know you hate yourself ok? made me laugh.
Laurel is On The Mouth about it not really being about Creation vs. Creation records.
To mis-quote Wanda Sykes, “Everything makes me hate myself. That’s why I drink.”
ZR i sympathize. i just got a crzy freak-out what-the-hell-did-i-say email too!