MeFi Multinational Meetup in Dallas

December 20, 2004 11:01 PM

I hear that someone, somewhere, is waiting for pics from the insanity that was the weekend long MeFi multinational meetup in Dallas. Chicobangs, doing his best Matthew Brady impression, managed to document it quite well. As per usual, I played second fiddle to his Cotton Ginnee.
posted by Ufez Jones to Bugs at 11:01 PM (34 comments total)

And just for you, matteo, my friend Charlene made a somewhat inadvertent shoutout to you (see #3 - C).
posted by Ufez Jones at 11:03 PM on December 20, 2004

Can't remember the last time I got a shoutout from any of you bastards.

I'm taking my ball and going home.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 2:15 AM on December 21, 2004

Stavrosthewonderchicken - can I come and play with you? I got missed off the #mefi cabal as well...!
posted by mattr at 2:36 AM on December 21, 2004

Can't remember the last time I got a shoutout
At least you've had a shoutout. I've asked and asked, I've outshouted other people, I've gone to meetups. I've hung out on IRC, I've removed spam from the wiki, I've contributed to things and still nobody ever remembers my name.
One day, I hope that tucked into the bottom of a straggly piece of paper will be the word 'seanyboy'
One day. That's my dream.
posted by seanyboy at 2:37 AM on December 21, 2004

I've outshouted other people, I've gone to meetups. I've hung out on IRC, I've removed spam from the wiki

Hell, you do deserve it more than me, cap'n! Now where the fu.ck is seanyboy's shoutout, damn it?
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 2:40 AM on December 21, 2004

fu.ck you too. mo.fo. :-)
Damn. I feel this one could go memetic.
posted by seanyboy at 2:52 AM on December 21, 2004

No, seriously, I wasn't pulling your di.ck. I ain't done none of that stuff....
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 3:05 AM on December 21, 2004

We have the technology....


posted by taz at 3:37 AM on December 21, 2004

yeah me.

Of course the wiki spam removing thing has slowed down. Numptie that I am, I thought RichardP had taken it upon himself to spend all day removing spam. I thought. That man's like the Terminator in his desire to rid the world of wiki spam. Like a Spam killing robot or something. Like.... Oh.
I can be really stupid.
posted by seanyboy at 3:49 AM on December 21, 2004

Stav, for what it's worth, which I understand may be nothing at this late date, you came up often enough over the three days that if we had your phone number we'd have friggin' called you at what no doubt would have been a totally inappropriate hour. Seriously. (Also, your memory is obviously very short. Don't make me comb Vidiot's copious photo archives.)

Seanyboy, apologies. It was merely hubris, cumulative jet lag and huge alcohol what kept us from shouting you out.

Do we suck? Well, probably, yeah. That said, it was a sublime pleasure meeting everyone. I'm up for Rome next time. (Or Seoul, if we can swing it.)
posted by chicobangs at 5:45 AM on December 21, 2004

[whispers Toronto! Toronto! in Chicobangs' ear while he sleeps]
posted by orange swan at 5:48 AM on December 21, 2004

Romakimmy, did chico bring you a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos like I told him to?
posted by jonmc at 6:46 AM on December 21, 2004

You told me nothing of the sort.
posted by chicobangs at 7:26 AM on December 21, 2004

Also, Toronto is lovely. I don't know why I'm thinking of it, but there you go.
posted by chicobangs at 7:27 AM on December 21, 2004

Yes, I did, but we'd both been drinking. Ah, c'est la vie.
posted by jonmc at 7:29 AM on December 21, 2004

If there's a shoutout to me at the bottom of this page, mille grazie (Gracious Millie)! (And can somebody remember what the illegible stuff after the hypothetical "languagehat" says?) If not, I'm going off to have a beer with seanyboy.
posted by languagehat at 7:46 AM on December 21, 2004

I'd also like to add that for a conservative midwestern family man, Fes spends an alarming amount of time in the vicinity of attractive liberal young women's nether reigons. And by fes, I mean his name on a peice of paper. and by alarming, I mean envy inducing.
posted by jonmc at 7:54 AM on December 21, 2004

I have a higher-res shot of that, languagehat. I'll replace the photo tonight. (If stav's name is on the bottom of that page, someone owes all of us a round.)

Hell, I envy Fes, and I'm part of the problem.
posted by chicobangs at 8:04 AM on December 21, 2004

Yo if anyone can find my chin which seems to have disappeared for the fotos, I'd be much obliged.

'Twas lovely meeting you all. And by lovely I mean dangerously fun. And by dangerously fun I mean I can't believe my ass is now all over the Intarweb. Heh.

Languagehat, below your name was some drunken scribblings in Italian, but I'll be damned if I can remember what I wrote. Any other illegibilities y'all can blame on my fantstically crappy penmanship.
posted by romakimmy at 8:14 AM on December 21, 2004

That looks like it was a great time.
posted by sciurus at 8:20 AM on December 21, 2004

I think ass shoutouts should become de rigueur for all MeFi meetups.

Of course, I exclude myself from this requirement. Believe me, you'll all be happier that way.
posted by filmgoerjuan at 8:36 AM on December 21, 2004

You know, Mister Juan, everyone says that, but really, if too much ass in the meetup photos is wrong, I don't want to be right. Not all the time, anyway.
posted by chicobangs at 8:52 AM on December 21, 2004

We definitely must have asses in the meetup pix, the better to facilitate the spankings.
posted by orange swan at 9:09 AM on December 21, 2004

Wow, I'm surprised and delighted to discover that chicobangs has no bangs. Yes, I know, I read your userpage and all, but the mental image formed when I first read your name still stayed until superseded.

I will have to spend some time getting acclimated to the new reality. So in case I start a ridiculous MeTa thread and completely flame out, you know, that'll be why.
posted by soyjoy at 9:43 AM on December 21, 2004

Can you guys do wetnap shoutouts? That I would like to see.
posted by Kafkaesque at 9:47 AM on December 21, 2004

I think ass shoutouts should become de rigueur for all MeFi meetups

we did that in Dallas last July, only we were completely naked.
Ufez's flashcard is now buried in a Cayman Island banks vault.
thanks for the shoutout, you're so irresistibly attractive, everybody.
posted by matteo at 11:04 AM on December 21, 2004

i was shoutedout (i always love that), but i can't believe they let you into Texas, chico--you got the visa and shots and everything? ; >

if matteo or roma or cactus bring a cam out in venice/milan, we'll have pics soon, too.
posted by amberglow at 11:08 AM on December 21, 2004

Fes spends an alarming amount of time in the vicinity of attractive liberal young women's nether reigons.
posted by jonmc at 7:54 AM PST on December 21

jonmc can you stop being a creep?
posted by orange clock at 11:35 AM on December 21, 2004

WTF? Oh, right, "satire." Got it.
posted by soyjoy at 12:00 PM on December 21, 2004

orange clock, it's a reference to a meetup joke going way back that I'm sure a large portion of the meetup participants got.

now, buzz off.
posted by jonmc at 12:06 PM on December 21, 2004

jon, it's your holiday present from all of us--surprise!--a multiple piling-on ; >
posted by amberglow at 12:44 PM on December 21, 2004

Oh, rapture.
posted by jonmc at 12:47 PM on December 21, 2004

If stav's name is on the bottom of that page, someone owes all of us a round.

I owe you all numerous rounds regardless. You bastards.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 3:17 PM on December 21, 2004

New York sent out an STWC shoutout. Shoutout globally, drink locally.
posted by liam at 4:23 PM on December 21, 2004