I'm on a few ew-too based talkers, sort of gated communities on the net, and we have spod meets every so often. That is; a destination is picked, everybody makes arrangements, and meets for a day or two and hangs out.

They're called spod meets because ew-too ressies are called spods.

I think we should have a lowpass spod meet.

I also am convinced that it should be in Cleveland.

This is because gabe and I already live there, and I'm a lazy biatch.

Whaddaya think?

I'd be to scared one of you would walk up to me and knee me in the groin.

I'll bet all the newbies like Thomasisneat and flickguy would show up there too and the whole time they'll be like "So am I ok now can I hang with you guys."

When I lived in NYC, I went to plenty of #newyork and #nyc get togethers (not multiple day events). When I lived in Cleveland, I went to plenty of #fuck#cleveland get togethers (also not multiple day events). In the past 3 years of my involvement with rec.arts.bodyart, I've been to 3 rabcons (always multiple day events), 2 big january chicago munches (multiple day events), and several cleveland munches (my best friend and I hosted them - a misture of both multiple and single day events). In the past 3 (4?) years of my involvement with spinnwebe.com and #spinnwebe, I've been to 2 Pan Galactic Get ToGethers (multiple day events). I kind of regret that I never made it to a Binkapalooza when I was active on #truthdare several years ago, but I have also been to a smattering of other single and multiple day events for online schtuff.

I guess what I'm saying is that if this got carefully planned and enough people were interested in going, I'd be pretty likely to make it. I'd love to visit my best friend in Cleveland, and I'd love to drop in on my ex-landlady and intimidate her into giving me back the rest of my deposit. :)

I'd also be pretty keen on meeting stripcreator folks and being acerbic in person. :D

It would rock mightily if you could get it to coincide with the sci-fi movie marathon at Case Western Reserve University. I was thinking about trying to get there for that anyway, but I didn't think I could justify the travel expenditure to my boyfriend for it. I had so much fun when I went a couple of years ago. We could all bring sleeping bags and camp out in the lobby and spend some of the time hanging out at our sleeping bags doing the chatting thang, and some of the time in the auditorium, shouting Tom-Servo-esque responses at oldschool sci-fi movies.

The dates on the site are tentative, but if this idea takes shape, you can always contact the CRWU film society and tell them what you've got planned and see if they can give you immediate notice when a date's been locked in, and reserve whatever number of tickets we think we'll need.

Sirs?

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I'd be to scared one of you would walk up to me and knee me in the groin.

I'll bet all the newbies like Thomasisneat and flickguy would show up there too and the whole time they'll be like "So am I ok now can I hang with you guys."

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Let's meet in Gabe's ass. Gabe already has experience hosting conventions there.

Cool.

I work on an island every day until October, when I have weekdays off.

I'll be interested to see if we can actually do this or want to.

*pout*

Wrong continent.

Damn that Pacific Ocean...

Not particularly. I'm a broke-ass man trying to get back in school next semester. Besides, what little humor value I have would be demolished in person. :/

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Not particularly. I'm a broke-ass man trying to get back in school next semester. Besides, what little humor value I have would be demolished in person. :/

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I work on an island every day until October, when I have weekdays off.

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I work on an island every day until October, when I have weekdays off.

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Damn Americans, you should have the meet in England, then u guys can check out the "quaintness" of it, piss in our rivers, then commercialise everything around us while still retaining a stereotypical view of people who live in england as 1930's "Gentlefolk". Also I wouldn't have to travel....... And you could also barbecue some midgets.

-Matchy-

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Damn Americans, you should have the meet in England, then u guys can check out the "quaintness" of it, piss in our rivers, then commercialise everything around us while still retaining a stereotypical view of people who live in england as 1930's "Gentlefolk". Also I wouldn't have to travel.......

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Damn Americans, you should have the meet in England, then u guys can check out the "quaintness" of it, piss in our rivers, then commercialise everything around us while still retaining a stereotypical view of people who live in england as 1930's "Gentlefolk".

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That's so when you have leftover barbecued midgets they fit just right.

Seriously, though. A meet would be cool. I'll probably end up running into bunner at least once when he gets back from the Redneck Riviera.

Aren't there a whole mess of you in the Maryland area? Wirthling, boorite, kaufman, evil_d... I'd say we should have it there if I wasn't so fucking lazy like bunner.

How about if I steal a bus and cruise around the country picking you guys up. When we hit the west coast we can stow away in the wheel well of an Australia bound jet and go to DexX's! Then we can all beat the shit out of the moron next door that stole his stuff.

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Seriously, though. A meet would be cool. I'll probably end up running into bunner at least once when he gets back from the Redneck Riviera.

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He's at Spacecamp.

I would probably come if it were in Maryland, although, like Drexle, I'm even less funny in person than online, and I'd probably brood silently for 95% of the time (after all, we can't have people coming back afterwards and talking about what a nice guy that evil_d is). Cleveland, however, is another story. It's a long drive or an expensive plane ticket.

You know, if you think we make inside jokes now, just wait until after a group of us meet in person.

We really have to be careful about this. If Tobor catches us all assembled in one place...

Yknow, I'd like to go to this, but I can't travel anyplace that's farther than walking distance. And you people couldn't come here... there hasn't been a single tourist who's managed to get through Oakland in the last six years.

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I would probably come if it were in Maryland, although, like Drexle, I'm even less funny in person than online, and I'd probably brood silently for 95% of the time (after all, we can't have people coming back afterwards and talking about what a nice guy that evil_d is). Cleveland, however, is another story. It's a long drive or an expensive plane ticket.

You know, if you think we make inside jokes now, just wait until after a group of us meet in person.

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Yknow, I'd like to go to this, but I can't travel anyplace that's farther than walking distance. And you people couldn't come here... there hasn't been a single tourist who's managed to get through Oakland in the last six years.

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Yknow, I'd like to go to this, but I can't travel anyplace that's farther than walking distance. And you people couldn't come here... there hasn't been a single tourist who's managed to get through Oakland in the last six years.

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Why not? Do the locals eat them?

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Oakland: Home of Hundreds of Thousands of People Too Fucked Up For Frisco or L.A.! (tm)

Actually, a meet would be pretty cool, as long as beer is involved. But hell, make beer involved and I'll do just about anything.

Except donkey sodomy.

Or wirthling.

But almost anything else.

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Actually, a meet would be pretty cool, as long as beer is involved. But hell, make beer involved and I'll do just about anything.

Except donkey sodomy.

Or wirthling.

But almost anything else.

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I can do about 12 cases of Miller, two cases of Guinness, three quarts of Jack Daniel's, soda, deli, and assorted white spirits and aperitif's. After that, you're on your own.

Personally, I think we should do a least squares fit kind of method, averaging distance from everyone's location and finding the optimal spot that gives least overall traveling distance of all people combined. Ok, let me do that.

Well, DexX threw it off a little, being in quadrant 4 and on the opposite side of the world. So the location turns out to be thirty miles underground of Phoenix, Arizona, right in the middle of a thick outcropping of granite. (I've heard it's beautiful this time of year.) Or we can just do it in Phoenix, Arizona if you like. Not that I care one way or the other being in, well, Phoenix Arizona as I am.

Maybe we could do it on the moon. That'd be a giant pain in the ass for all of us to get to, thereby being the most fair. Plus it sets the stage for all sorts of wacky hijinx.

By the way, posting about the CWRU sci-fi marathon got me thinking about how much I want to go.

So I'm arranging my life to be there for that. If any Clevelanders want to join me, cool beans.

If not, that's cool, too.

http://films.cwru.edu/marathon.html

Maybe you'll see these fellows...

I was at that one. I don't remember them. They blended in with all the other smelly people.

I swear, there's nothing smellier than hour 36 of a movie marathon attended solely by geeks and hippies.

But it was still fun.

Isn't that what patchouli oil is for?

I'm down the with marathon, Lady J. Lemme know if you need a ride when you get into town.

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I'm down the with marathon, Lady J. Lemme know if you need a ride when you get into town.

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Now I have to think of what I want to get pierced, since it would be a shame to be so close to Body Work Productions and not take advantage of that fact.

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I suggest you pierce Gabe's nutsack with a railroad spike so that he can't breed.

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I was racking my brain trying to remember if the rapid transit goes anywhere near the heights.

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Just don't call me names or rob me at gunpoint, and we'll get along fine. :- )

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Can I rob you at knifepoint?

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I suggest you pierce Gabe's nutsack with a railroad spike so that he can't breed.

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That was uncalled for.

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I rob people at swordpoint. Much more menacing, wouldn't you say?

Also, how about some non-alcoholic beverages for the under 21 strippers in here? Yeah, I know, it doesn't really matter, and a meeting of the regs would probably be full of underage drinking, but frankly, I just don't like alcohol.
Unless it's mead. Or Schnapps!

We'll serve you Kool-Aid. As for underage drinking, I'm an upstanding, law abiding citizen, and if you tried to swill booze with me present I'd bonk you on the head.

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how about some non-alcoholic beverages

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Pessi? Yo, we got Pessi Cola, shiznit!

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I'm only gonna go if theres Royal Crown cola involved. Only RC for me boys crabby only drinks the best!

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I'm only gonna go if theres Royal Crown cola involved. Only RC for me boys crabby only drinks the best!

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