Dallas Meetup Update

December 27, 2006 11:33 AM

World's smallest, most exclusive MeFi Meetup Evar: ufez, romakimmy's perennially lurking sister, romakimmy and a CareBears Checker Set were in Dallas these past two weeks. Despite a massive amount of obligatory family time, we did manage to do some shoutouts. Auguri y'all.
posted by romakimmy to MetaFilter gatherings at 11:33 AM (114 comments total)

Carebears Check Set OMG
posted by cortex at 12:05 PM on December 27, 2006

+er
posted by cortex at 12:05 PM on December 27, 2006

How do you tell which pieces are which?
posted by Faint of Butt at 12:09 PM on December 27, 2006

Good God, did anybody drink the vodka? It's just laying there.
posted by nj_subgenius at 12:12 PM on December 27, 2006

Was there an announcement of this? I must have missed it.

I still owe Ufez some drinks.
posted by dios at 12:19 PM on December 27, 2006

Reportedly, there were only two people at the second Sydney meetup. Also, a (non-mefite) friend of mine ran into enfa on the T a few months back. Would that count as a one-person meetup?
posted by Plutor at 12:35 PM on December 27, 2006

Heh. I've been more or less mutually exiled from 9622.net, but I'm grad to be remembered, Kimmy.
posted by jonmc at 12:41 PM on December 27, 2006

and glad, too.
posted by jonmc at 12:50 PM on December 27, 2006

I can't even remember my login for 9622.net. Still, it was nice to be..wha? huh? Where's my name?

I kid, I kid! Reminds me of my first Chicago MeFi meetup. It was me, my coffee and a shitty bar television set. We had fun though.
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 1:18 PM on December 27, 2006

Well, your coffee did most of the talking.
posted by jonmc at 1:21 PM on December 27, 2006

Was there an announcement of this? I must have missed it.

Nah. It wasn't really a meetup. Romakimmy's sister (the henchwoman, for those not in the know) and I are shacking up together, so when kimmy came in for the holidays, she stayed with us. Really, I've just been working the entire time. She heads back to Roma tomorrow.

It's been over two years since our last real Dallas meetup, though. I'd be down for trying to pull something together here in a couple of weeks, when the travel season is over and I can breathe again.

I can't even remember my login for 9622.net. Still, it was nice to be..wha? huh? Where's my name?

Heh. Sorry, Kevin. I had little to no say in them since I was in a heated drubken argument with a friend about the merits of Mitch Mitchell compared to those of John Bonham. I think the women got bored and began drawing on napkins.
posted by Ufez Jones at 2:59 PM on December 27, 2006

It's been over two years since our last real Dallas meetup, though. I'd be down for trying to pull something together here in a couple of weeks, when the travel season is over and I can breathe again.

That actually works well for me. I'll be a bachelor from 1/6-1/14, so anytime in there would be good for me. It's a bit easier for me to swing it that way so I don't have to explain to my wife that I can't do anything with her because I need to go get drunk with people I don't know.
posted by dios at 3:32 PM on December 27, 2006

Woo hoo. A shoutout I didn't have to grovel for!

(And romakimmy and I had one of those molto exclusivo two person meetups years ago in magica Roma.)
posted by CunningLinguist at 3:42 PM on December 27, 2006

What's 9622.net?
posted by eyeballkid at 4:05 PM on December 27, 2006

There is no 9622.net.
posted by cgc373 at 4:45 PM on December 27, 2006

Fuckin-a.
posted by ColdChef at 5:07 PM on December 27, 2006

dios: I should be down. I'll even throw an e-mail tog's way to see if she feels like making a road trip. I've a spare bed now that she can crash in. May I make a presumtive suggestion and offer up the Balcony Club (right next to Lakewood Theater) for some jazz and very nicely poured G&T's/Martinis. So long as it's not on a Mavs game night, I should be able to show up.

What's 9622.net?

While you ignored the offers from Montell to show up, we found a bit of your DNA in the monkey, ebk. We've collectively filed a paternity suit in Federal court, and, justifiably, the Judge ruled that you can either send us each $96.22 or do 9,662 hours of community service, you lecherous deadbeat bastard.

Teej is going down with you, by the by.
posted by Ufez Jones at 5:20 PM on December 27, 2006

9622.net: we found a bit of your DNA in the monkey
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 5:31 PM on December 27, 2006

Lies! I may have left a little DNA on the couch, but never in the monkey.

And if I did, I blame the free flowing alcohol!
posted by eyeballkid at 5:36 PM on December 27, 2006 [1 favorite]

How do you tell which pieces are which?
There are CareBears on blue clouds & CareBears on white clouds. The crowns are for "kinging" your CareBear. They screw on the ears. And those last two sentences sound inexplicably dirty.

Good God, did anybody drink the vodka?
Considering I've been drinking my weight in (good) tequila & margaritas made properly (con lime), I'll leave the vodka for ufez and my sis.

Romakimmy's sister ...and I are shacking up together
AHEM. What ufez modestly forgot to detail was that the sis & he met at the last MeFi Dallas International Meetup of 2004. Ain't that cute? Note to self: ask sis how the hell she explained that one to the 'rents. "Well, romakimmy dragged me to this Internet nerd thing where complete strangers meet up and get plastered and that's how I met ufez..."
posted by romakimmy at 6:08 PM on December 27, 2006

Nobody sends me shoutouts any more.

Well, sure; because I never spend time at the sites any more, but still . . .
posted by yhbc at 7:04 PM on December 27, 2006

Aw. C'mon people. Let's hear it for ybhc!
posted by ColdChef at 7:06 PM on December 27, 2006

My bad, dog.
posted by ColdChef at 7:06 PM on December 27, 2006

On the other hand, I do apparently have my own internet stalker.
posted by yhbc at 7:08 PM on December 27, 2006 [2 favorites]

Is there a way to "favorite" an item more than once?
posted by ColdChef at 7:13 PM on December 27, 2006

I used to spend entire days favoriting my item when I was a teenager.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 8:38 PM on December 27, 2006 [2 favorites]

This thread brings me back to the good ol' days, like 2002 or so.
posted by eyeballkid at 9:14 PM on December 27, 2006

Didn't you hate those days?
posted by Cyrano at 9:36 PM on December 27, 2006

Probably, but I hate everything.
posted by eyeballkid at 9:45 PM on December 27, 2006

It's true, you know.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 9:59 PM on December 27, 2006

Son, you got a panty on your head.
posted by dong_resin at 10:26 PM on December 27, 2006

You're all invited to a 9622 meet-up on January 27 in Kentucky. (note how I didn't say y'all're invited...
posted by tizzie at 4:15 AM on December 28, 2006

Forgot the link. Old age...
posted by tizzie at 5:08 AM on December 28, 2006

thanks! : >

(and where is thomcat, dammit!?!)
posted by amberglow at 7:24 AM on December 28, 2006

We'll never make 100.
posted by Ufez Jones at 8:47 PM on December 28, 2006

*throws kindling on the fire*
posted by tizzie at 7:14 AM on December 29, 2006

Adding random comments to a post just to achieve an arbitrary number is stupid.
posted by ColdChef at 7:22 AM on December 29, 2006

And pointless.
posted by ColdChef at 7:22 AM on December 29, 2006

What ColdChef siad.
posted by cortex at 7:35 AM on December 29, 2006

"Said", tha tis.
posted by cortex at 7:36 AM on December 29, 2006

That is.
posted by cortex at 7:36 AM on December 29, 2006

My involvement in boosting Ted Haggard to #1 most-commented thread in MeFi history absolves m
posted by cgc373 at 7:48 AM on December 29, 2006

e from further shenanigans.
posted by cgc373 at 7:49 AM on December 29, 2006

<Keanu>
Definitely.
</Keanu>
posted by cgc373 at 7:52 AM on December 29, 2006

I ain't going down... That ain't MY Monkey! I have no DNA.
posted by tj at 9:18 AM on December 29, 2006

*brachiates by, waggling bright red ass in the direction of the mefia*
posted by UncleFes at 9:29 AM on December 29, 2006

Hell, if you want this to be a long thread, I can just start calling out the trolls who follow me around this site and we can boost it a couple hundred.

But... on preview... I see UncleFes stopped by. I think we should just use this space to convince UncleFes to contribue more.
posted by dios at 9:45 AM on December 29, 2006

So the entire point of commenting in this thread is just to boost the numbers? Well that's just plain silly. I won't have any part of it.
posted by aine42 at 9:53 AM on December 29, 2006

Wise decision, aine42.
posted by cgc373 at 9:58 AM on December 29, 2006

And dios, I would consider your efforts to boost this thread, BY WHATEVER MEANS NECESSARY, to be ALL GOOD.
posted by cgc373 at 9:59 AM on December 29, 2006

UncleFes!
posted by tizzie at 10:02 AM on December 29, 2006

And can I just say, that ass looks hot.
posted by tizzie at 10:03 AM on December 29, 2006

Just so's you know, I'm *still* not talking to you people.
posted by jpoulos at 10:13 AM on December 29, 2006

Except just now.
posted by jpoulos at 10:18 AM on December 29, 2006

Thanks, jpoulos. Noted for the record. Us people will remember it.
posted by cgc373 at 10:26 AM on December 29, 2006

What was jpoulos saying?
posted by cgc373 at 10:27 AM on December 29, 2006

Who's jpoulos?
posted by mr_crash_davis at 10:31 AM on December 29, 2006

This comment is not here.
posted by Kafkaesque at 10:34 AM on December 29, 2006

I don't really know any of you except by way of stalking Elder Threads, but damn, I say, it's Kafkaesque! W00t!
posted by cgc373 at 10:36 AM on December 29, 2006

Hey, thanks, cgc373. I have to stick by my principles, you know.
posted by aine42 at 10:51 AM on December 29, 2006

Of course, aine42, of course.
posted by cgc373 at 11:07 AM on December 29, 2006

princeples? I heard about them once, what are they like?
posted by tj at 11:36 AM on December 29, 2006

principles even
posted by tj at 11:37 AM on December 29, 2006

Our principal was Sister Gerald. She was frightening.
posted by tizzie at 11:38 AM on December 29, 2006

Who is Elder Threads?
posted by tizzie at 11:38 AM on December 29, 2006

Elder Threads is one of princeples's innumerable sockpuppets. It's hard to keep track of 'em, but it can be done, with the help of True Grit.
posted by cgc373 at 11:40 AM on December 29, 2006

Now, if we can only keep Miguel from finding out about this.
posted by ColdChef at 11:42 AM on December 29, 2006

I was wondering about that Chef -- which will come first: #1 closing comments to this thread or a visit from Migs?
posted by aine42 at 11:45 AM on December 29, 2006

Miguel will never know. Hell, he still hasn't figured out that you seduced his youngest daughter.
posted by tizzie at 11:46 AM on December 29, 2006 [1 favorite]

I've never known how to post an inline image, but I would learn how for this thread, so's I could use the signal, if'n inlining images weren't verboten nowsabouts.
posted by cgc373 at 11:48 AM on December 29, 2006

*flings poo -- hits this chick*

PROBLEM SOLVED!!
posted by Ufez Jones at 1:27 PM on December 29, 2006

You can thank me later guy with freaky fetish girlfriend.
posted by Ufez Jones at 1:28 PM on December 29, 2006

Dude. I looked away for like a second, following stav's links to that peekvid.com site and watching like 40 minutes of American Wedding, with its stomach-churning Stifler scat-snarfing sequence, and when I looked back to MetaFilter, history was made in my absence. Eff-wording history.
posted by cgc373 at 1:55 PM on December 29, 2006

The hell?

Come on, people, now
Pile on your brother
It's all fun and games till
We stop tryin' to bother

We only need 26 comments to reach 100.

Make 'em alphabetical, if need be, but make 'em.
posted by cgc373 at 4:10 PM on December 29, 2006

Is
posted by Cyrano at 4:13 PM on December 29, 2006

this
posted by Cyrano at 4:13 PM on December 29, 2006

cheating?
posted by Cyrano at 4:14 PM on December 29, 2006

Not perzackly, but it ain't perzackly kosher, nor alphabetical, neither.
posted by cgc373 at 4:16 PM on December 29, 2006

Everyone's watching the Saddam thread, aren't they?

Damn.
posted by Cyrano at 9:15 PM on December 29, 2006

Wait, does that mean I don't have to wear pants anymore?!?

*flings pants*

w00t!
posted by Cyrano at 9:16 PM on December 29, 2006

Now who's hung?
posted by ColdChef at 9:20 PM on December 29, 2006

I looked at the hanging. I feel dirty.

Hold me?
posted by cgc373 at 9:30 PM on December 29, 2006

Okay. Somebody needs to start holding me now. It's getting cold.

I can't see anyone.

Hello?












It's really dark in here.
posted by cgc373 at 10:08 PM on December 29, 2006

Holy carp. A girl goes on a 16 hour trip home and comes back to find 9622.net moved here er 83 comments in her metatalk thread. *sniff* Who'd a thunk CareBears Checkers would be so provocative?
posted by romakimmy at 1:35 AM on December 30, 2006

Or holy crap, even. stupid jetlag
posted by romakimmy at 1:36 AM on December 30, 2006

Glad you had a safe trip, romakimmy!
83? Keep on keeping on....
posted by tizzie at 7:02 AM on December 30, 2006

Hi!
posted by Vidiot at 7:23 AM on December 30, 2006

Aren't holy carp gonna bring on the quonsar?
posted by cgc373 at 1:02 PM on December 30, 2006

Bring out your dead! Bring out your dead!
posted by tizzie at 4:12 PM on December 30, 2006

I told you so...

btw, Tizzie -- tomorrow is Coya's 1 year adoption anniversary. w00t!
posted by Ufez Jones at 6:25 PM on December 30, 2006

Ok, the 9622.net alum really need to pull through here and give Ufez Jones his 100.

I'm off to eat some frozen (*ding* now cooked) eggrolls, drink some gin and watch the second disk of the "Jack of All Trades" DVD set, so nine more of you fuckers need to pony up.
posted by Cyrano at 6:48 PM on December 30, 2006

I am sorry, but I am far too busy buffing my shiny metal ass to a high gloss to take time out to comment in this thread again.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 8:00 PM on December 30, 2006

Me too.
posted by UncleFes at 8:28 PM on December 30, 2006

I had to pay top dollar, but it was worth every damn cent, I'm here to tell you.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 8:32 PM on December 30, 2006

I just used a shoe polisher and some Brasso...?
posted by UncleFes at 8:36 PM on December 30, 2006

It's all about the love. And the wrist action.

God bless UncleFes.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 8:38 PM on December 30, 2006

No one's wrists are more action-packed than mine, my lovely.
posted by UncleFes at 8:40 PM on December 30, 2006

We'll never make it to ten trillion billion.
posted by ColdChef at 8:44 PM on December 30, 2006

We will if we count electrons, CC.
posted by cgc373 at 8:45 PM on December 30, 2006

No one has yet answered my question.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 8:48 PM on December 30, 2006

jpoulos is the alpha and the omega, he is the god of sex and death, he is the all-devourer, the destroyer of worlds. And he's a very nice boy.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 8:51 PM on December 30, 2006

And good with his wrists? I look for that in a man.
posted by cgc373 at 8:55 PM on December 30, 2006

Happy New Year, everyone.
posted by yhbc at 8:58 PM on December 30, 2006

Don't we have another 24 hours of the old year? Can't we use up everything before we start on the new one? Please?
posted by cgc373 at 9:07 PM on December 30, 2006

The Commish has it right. The old year sucked, best to get shut of it as soon as can be arranged.
posted by UncleFes at 9:35 PM on December 30, 2006

Push the button, for the love of god, push the button now!
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 9:38 PM on December 30, 2006

You know what was a good year?

1997.
posted by ColdChef at 9:50 PM on December 30, 2006

1986!

It was bitchin.
posted by UncleFes at 9:57 PM on December 30, 2006

It was a very good year for blue-blooded girls of independent means...
posted by Vidiot at 8:36 AM on December 31, 2006

Happy anniversary, Coya! Did she get along well with her Auntie Romakimmy?
posted by tizzie at 8:44 AM on December 31, 2006

And my, what a lot of shiny bright bottoms we have for the New Year!
posted by tizzie at 8:45 AM on December 31, 2006

In answer to mr_crash_davis, he's my hero.
posted by tizzie at 8:50 AM on December 31, 2006

In answer to mr_crash_davis and tizzie, he's everything I could hope to be.
posted by cgc373 at 9:20 PM on December 31, 2006

Coya'a a cutie. And I'm totally taking absolutely 100% undeserved credit for teaching her to sit & wait for a milisecond before you toss her the ball.

Shiny metal asses and action packed wrists? Phwoar, boys. *fans self*
posted by romakimmy at 8:37 AM on January 1, 2007