December 8, 2006

5:44 AM

Twin Cities Meet up tonight at 8, at Britt's Pub at 1110 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis. Meet me in the front area, I will be the one with the wheels and the John Lennon sweatshirt. Cheers!
posted by wheelieman to MetaFilter gatherings at 5:44 AM (14 comments total)

I am so there.

So. There.

I remember when Nigel opened this place. He moved to Florida, I think, in the late 90’s.
But, when it opened, it was much cooler than the restaurant he ran before that. Except it has (had?) less popcorn. No popcorn at all, in fact. And, after just a few years, no more Nigel.

This is a small price to pay for dart boards and pool tables, though. :-)
posted by Yeomans at 6:13 AM on December 8, 2006

Oh, and beer. Good beer.
posted by Yeomans at 6:43 AM on December 8, 2006

I think that's 'dartboard' - irregardless, you have fun now - may you shout "180" often. Oh! and I'm afraid I can't make it, Sydney is such a long long way away from Minneapolis.
posted by tellurian at 8:41 AM on December 8, 2006

So sad about the last minute invite! I already have places to be tonight, but it would have been fun to meet some of you. I hope there are more MN meetups in the future.
posted by vytae at 9:21 AM on December 8, 2006

“So sad about the last-minute invite!”

I was just wondering about that (instead of, say, listening to my professor’s lecture). Was this posted someplace? Is there a ‘MeFi meet-ups’ entry on meetup.com?
posted by Yeomans at 9:47 AM on December 8, 2006

Oh, and I didn’t compound ‘dart board’ because, in the sentence in which I used the phrase/compound word, ‘dart’ could only have been modifying ‘board’.

Just as above, where I formulated an example of what I mean: ‘compound’ is modifying ‘word’ in a way that precludes the otherwise-necessary compounding (and, in the preceding paragraph—the 1st, in this response—precludes the hyphenation I would have had to have used under other circumstances so that, as in my example of what I’m saying here—‘otherwise-necessary’ modifying ‘compounding’—would act as a single modifier upon the accusative article in the clause in which I’m using it. Otherwise, ‘otherwise’ would then, to your point, tellurian, be modifying ‘necessary modifying’. So, yeah. Hyphens or words-compounding sometimes, but I wanted ‘dart’ to modify ‘board’, not for ‘dart board’ to modify something else.).
posted by Yeomans at 10:12 AM on December 8, 2006

I first posted this early last Saturday. Sorry you missed this. To all attending parties, please wear nametags with your MeFi names so I can scour you out.
posted by wheelieman at 10:51 AM on December 8, 2006

“I first posted this early last Saturday.”

Ahh, ok. Sorry I missed it.


“nametag”

Name tag. Check. Though, it may be made of filing-folder labels that I’ve taped together for the occasion. :-)
I’ll root around.
posted by Yeomans at 11:56 AM on December 8, 2006

Yeomans, you should use more commas.

I didn't see the Saturday post either, I'm afraid -- not certain I can make it.
posted by nickmark at 2:32 PM on December 8, 2006

Somehow I missed it as well. Next time.
posted by gimonca at 7:59 PM on December 8, 2006

I was there as unregistered; I am now here as detour.

Yeomans: You were so not there.
posted by detour at 10:05 PM on December 8, 2006

I was there. Got as far as Freddie (the guy with the striped oxford shirt + tie & messy, bone-white hair) and “I’m here to meet a fellow who must have wheeled in here by now. Have you seen him?” before my brother called about one of my dogs (I’d left them with him until I was done schmoozing. There was supposed to be a beer-for-dogs exchange after that.). She’s ok now, but it took two of us to get her to the after-hours vet clinic my friend works at.

And, yeah, commas. I was trying to figure out how to use gerunds vis vulgar Latin to talk about stuff in the ’completed’ aspect. And, I was trying to figure out whether the gerunds should keep the same conventions as whichever conjugation they would’ve come out of. Didn’t mean to sound like a jerk, up-thread. :-)

…I even taped together a name sticker. Everyone I spoke to at the vet’s agreed that it looked quite dashing. Trying to explain that I had the name sticker plastered to my shirt because I had planned to use it to hang out with a group of people I’d never met, couldn’t name, and couldn’t for the life of me pick out of a crowd—that may have left me looking hopelessly nerdy. Or at least slightly less debonair. :-)
posted by Yeomans at 12:59 AM on December 9, 2006

Trying to explain that I had the name sticker plastered to my shirt because I had planned to use it to hang out with a group of people I’d never met, couldn’t name, and couldn’t for the life of me pick out of a crowd—that may have left me looking hopelessly nerdy.

that was me tonight asking the person at the front little restaurant seating stand for a 'metafilter' table. he laughed. and then pointed me to the nerds up the stairs and to the left. i had a great time. sorry 'bout the vet problems yeoman, i had to skip work yesterday for my cat's cough. and now to bed. my one picture of the evening will be posted tomorrow-
posted by localhuman at 1:18 AM on December 9, 2006

Oh. I was so stuck inside a Roseville chain restaurant last night.
posted by nathan_teske at 7:10 AM on December 9, 2006