Another Bonfire, this one is for real.

Cazmonster · Post by **Cazmonster** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 3:53 pm

Four Four Time kicks more ass than should be allowed by law.

Salvation122 · Post by **Salvation122** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 5:08 pm

I don't know, I'm sort of partial to 12/8, myself. Wut?

Cash · Post by **Cash** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 7:18 pm

*displays wutchuck*

Trust me.... Four-four time cannot be explained. It can only be demonstrated.

Big Jim · Post by **Big Jim** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 7:28 pm

Now we just need to talk Caz and Thorn into making the trip.

3278 · Post by **3278** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 12:59 am

By the way, AK, if you don't come to the event, we'll be roasting a doll of you in effigy. Which is my way of saying I really hope you can make it. Are you still lacking for a ride? If so, I can try to help arrange something, and if all else fails, I have no real problem driving over to get you. I've been looking forward to meeting you for some years now.

ak404 · Post by **ak404** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 1:42 am

Yeah, same here, 32. I need to put a real name on this restraining order.

If no one else raises a hand, I'll check my schedule again (no college, no job interviews? check!) and PM ya.

So basically, a sleeping bag and/or a pup tent, huh? Don't seem too difficult.

Thorn · Post by **Thorn** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 4:02 am

Big Jim wrote:Now we just need to talk Caz and Thorn into making the trip.

Oh, you dirty, dirty All-American Boy, you.....

I've been reading this and resisting the... never mind. The nothing. Nothing at all to be resisted, as there is nothing resist-worthy... or... um... fuuuuuuuuuuck.

Oooh! I'm saved! I'm saved! Caz is asleep! I can't talk to him about this! Now I can stop contemplating utterly destroying what little sanity I'm trying to build into my life right now. Really. I'll stop contemplating it.... Now! Or.... NOW! Dammit.

3278 · Post by **3278** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 4:24 am

You guys should really make the trip. You could leave in the morning, be there afternoon and evening, and leave the next morning. It'd be a day and a half, plus a nice drive through autumnal Michigan, which in my eyes rivals anything New England can produce.

3278 · Post by **3278** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 4:33 am

ak404 wrote:If no one else raises a hand, I'll check my schedule again (no college, no job interviews? check!) and PM ya.

Cool. We'll figure something out, I'm sure.

ak404 wrote:So basically, a sleeping bag and/or a pup tent, huh? Don't seem too difficult.

Now, for those of you who /aren't/ from Michigan, a reality check: the average high for the beginning of November is around 48, with lows around the low 30s. Yes, it's quite possible that it will be snowing. Well, it hasn't done it for several years, but the sun's getting warmer, so we're coming out of that little ice age that caused us to invent chimneys. Anyhow, it's likely to be pretty damned cold outside. I know I've said it before, but it bears repeating for those of you with delicate constitutions.

Next week, I'm going to help Paul clean up the top floor of their house, and lots of people have offered to bring space heaters of various kinds. There'll be the fire outside, so people should be able to curl up around it if they're hardier sorts. So there shouldn't be a shortage of decently comfortable places, but I don't want people thinking they'll get by just fine with a blanket or a sweater; really, a sleeping bag or a nice comforter's going to be a good idea. Unless, of course, it just ends up being gorgeous outside like it is now. You never know in Michigan.

MissTeja · Post by **MissTeja** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 4:52 am

3278 wrote:Unless, of course, it just ends up being gorgeous outside like it is now. You never know in Michigan.

Like the day in December two years ago, of which I saved the day's particular page from my old planner. One December Wednesday, it was seventy-two degrees outside. I found it odd, so I wrote it down. The next day, in big red letters, is written "SNOW". That would be Michigan for you. Unpredictable, at best.

MooCow · Post by **MooCow** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 11:50 am

the average high for the beginning of November is around 48, with lows around the low 30s. Yes, it's quite possible that it will be snowing.

I certainly hope so. There is nothing cooler then waking up in the morning, stepping out of your tent into a snow bank, and freezing your balls off trying to take a piss. Or is it just me that feels that?

Wildfire · Post by **Wildfire** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 6:28 am

I hate you all for liiving so very far away. Just thought I'd share

Jestyr · Post by **Jestyr** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 6:32 am

YOU hate them all for living so far away? Hah.

FlakJacket · Post by **FlakJacket** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 1:12 am

Ah, sod it. If I can get the tine and flights look half decent, then you'll probably be seeing my ugly mug somewhere along the line.

Jestyr · Post by **Jestyr** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 1:25 am

:cry

Why can't you all come to Australia for a change?!

Thorn · Post by **Thorn** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 6:52 am

Because just flying there and back would eat up most of the vacation time Americans get, honey. Sorry.

If I win the lottery ever, though - Australia's the first place we'll get plane tickets for. Honest. (Well, unless we decide to pop into Italy first, but that'll just be a pit stop on the way to our true destination, really!!

)

Jestyr · Post by **Jestyr** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 7:01 am

Thorn wrote:Because just flying there and back would eat up most of the vacation time Americans get, honey. Sorry.

Pffft. It's only about fourteen hours, and that's flying via Auckland...

Serious Paul · Post by **Serious Paul** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 5:28 pm

Ah but the average American receives 13 days of Vacation. we suck.

DV8 · Post by **DV8** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 6:20 pm

Serious Paul wrote:Ah but the average American receives 13 days of Vacation. we suck.

But in return you get the highest Gross National Product per head. So shut it.

Serious Paul · Post by **Serious Paul** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 8:48 pm

Fair enough. besides I took 56 days last year.

ak404 · Post by **ak404** » Tue Oct 14, 2003 12:57 am

Though that GNP is an average, Deev, and not a reflection of the reality of that distribution. Anyway, American vacations are to be appreciated, yes.

Oh, and does 32 ever check his PMs?

Bishop · Post by **Bishop** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 2:01 am

He checks. He just never respondes.

Szechuan · Post by **Szechuan** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 2:13 am

DV8 wrote:
Serious Paul wrote:Ah but the average American receives 13 days of Vacation. we suck.
But in return you get the highest Gross National Product per head. So shut it.

I thought that was Switzerland or Luxembourg?

Marius · Post by **Marius** » Fri Oct 17, 2003 5:54 am

Just for the record, I can't come to your bloody bonfire because of med student stuff. We're done digging in corpses on Halloween, and I've got responsibilities that Saturday that, predictably, involve shepherding folks into deep intoxication.

Have another damn bonfire later.

ak404 · Post by **ak404** » Fri Oct 17, 2003 5:54 am

Bishop wrote:He checks. He just never respondes.

Ah, crap. Then how am I supposed to know he's got my PMs?

DV8 · Post by **DV8** » Fri Oct 17, 2003 6:01 am

Szechuan wrote:
DV8 wrote:
Serious Paul wrote:Ah but the average American receives 13 days of Vacation. we suck.
But in return you get the highest Gross National Product per head. So shut it.
I thought that was Switzerland or Luxembourg?

.us: $33,900 (1999 est.)
.lu: $34,200 (1999 est.)
.ch: $27,100 (1999 est.)

It seems you were right. It's Luxembourg. You learn something new every day.

Big Jim · Post by **Big Jim** » Fri Oct 17, 2003 6:14 am

Oh, you dirty, dirty All-American Boy, you.....

I've been reading this and resisting the... never mind. The nothing. Nothing at all to be resisted, as there is nothing resist-worthy... or... um... fuuuuuuuuuuck.

Oooh! I'm saved! I'm saved! Caz is asleep! I can't talk to him about this! Now I can stop contemplating utterly destroying what little sanity I'm trying to build into my life right now. Really. I'll stop contemplating it.... Now! Or.... NOW! Dammit.

Yeah, yeah...so, are you guys coming?

ak404 · Post by **ak404** » Fri Oct 17, 2003 7:24 am

DV8 wrote:
Szechuan wrote:
DV8 wrote:
Serious Paul wrote:Ah but the average American receives 13 days of Vacation. we suck.
But in return you get the highest Gross National Product per head. So shut it.
I thought that was Switzerland or Luxembourg?
.us: $33,900 (1999 est.)
.lu: $34,200 (1999 est.)
.ch: $27,100 (1999 est.)

It seems you were right. It's Luxembourg. You learn something new every day.

Wow. I wonder what kind of place Luxembourg is to live, and is it really the smallest country in the world, or is that still the Vatican?

3278 · Post by **3278** » Fri Oct 17, 2003 8:05 am

Alright, last call, everyone! Is there anyone coming from or going through the east side of the state that could pick up AK404 on the way? If not, I'll just swing over and pick him up, but if there's a more efficient way, we'd love to find it.

And I got it, AK; I'm just slow.

ak404 · Post by **ak404** » Fri Oct 17, 2003 8:47 am

Heheh. Just wanted to verify, 32. Give me an email if nobody else wants a Filipino in the car.

Oh yeah, while yer at it, check the art section. Finally put the pic you requested up.

Toon · Post by **Toon** » Fri Oct 17, 2003 3:50 pm

If I hadn't just pretty much totalled my van earlier this week, I could've volunteered to shove another person in the back on my way through Eastern MI. As it is, it looks like it's going to be Lilith, Sludig, Offie and I all making the ride there from Cincinnati in Sludig's Dodge Neon. Weeeee!

NytShade · Post by **NytShade** » Fri Oct 17, 2003 5:47 pm

Looks like I can make it. My nearest show date is on the 3rd so I should have enough downtime to endulge in some frivelous drinking and social time.

sinsual · Post by **sinsual** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 2:53 am

ak404 wrote:Heheh. Just wanted to verify, 32. Give me an email if nobody else wants a Filipino in the car.

Lumpia for bribe?

MissTeja · Post by **MissTeja** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 3:26 am

Ak, I'd swing down to get ya, but I am currently going to be in Central-Northern MI taking the sis out trick-or-treating prior to heading to Paul and Meri's. If anything changes before then, though, keeping me in Saginaw, I'll let ya know ASAP.

Cash · Post by **Cash** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 9:16 pm

Teja:: Take her with you.

Teja's sis:: "Trick or Treat!"
*A bunch of bulldrekkers drop things in the candy bag*
Teja's sis:: "Bottles of beer?!?"

DV8 wrote:
Szechuan wrote:
DV8 wrote:
Serious Paul wrote:Ah but the average American receives 13 days of Vacation. we suck.
But in return you get the highest Gross National Product per head. So shut it.
I thought that was Switzerland or Luxembourg?
.us: $33,900 (1999 est.)
.lu: $34,200 (1999 est.)
.ch: $27,100 (1999 est.)

It seems you were right. It's Luxembourg. You learn something new every day.

Dude, you've told me that before.

MooCow · Post by **MooCow** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 3:18 am

Teja's sis:: "Trick or Treat!"
*A bunch of bulldrekkers drop things in the candy bag*
Teja's sis:: "Bottles of beer?!?"

I've done that, sorta.

At OSU, in the dorms, they used to get inner city kids in and take them through the dorms to trick or treat (why this was a good idea I'll never understand. why can't they just take them to the rich neighborhood?). One year, some friends of mine and I volunteered to help. We got some shot glasses, and traveled around with one group of kids, trick or treating with them. When we knocked on a door, everyone yelled "Trick or Treat".... They held out their bags, and we held out our shot glasses. We got /so/ drunk.

I think it was one of the reasons the Hall Director hated me. That and he was a fucktard.

Thorn · Post by **Thorn** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 4:10 am

ak404 wrote:
Bishop wrote:He checks. He just never respondes.
Ah, crap. Then how am I supposed to know he's got my PMs?

If the message is still in your "Outbox" then he hasn't read it yet. If it's in your "Sent Mail" box, then he's read it. Nice and easy. Like hair dye.

ak404 · Post by **ak404** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 7:45 am

Sorry, Thorn. The magic of hair dye continues to elude me.

MooCow · Post by **MooCow** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 8:24 am

Sorry, Thorn. The magic of hair dye continues to elude me.

Well ya know, we could change that at The BBQ......

Jestyr · Post by **Jestyr** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 9:11 am

Thorn wrote:If the message is still in your "Outbox" then he hasn't read it yet. If it's in your "Sent Mail" box, then he's read it.

Whoa, neat. I didn't know that.

DV8 · Post by **DV8** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 10:12 am

ak404 wrote:Wow. I wonder what kind of place Luxembourg is to live, and is it really the smallest country in the world, or is that still the Vatican?

It's one of the few places in the world - and the only place in Europe - that still has anonymous, numbered bank accounts. It's in the middle of the Ardennes, so it's forested, with very few real cities, considering their half a million population, that's not strange. Oh, and there are a lot of pretty rich people in financing there, as you might expect.

And yes, as far as I'm aware, the Vatican is still the smallest, autonomous country in the world.

Cash wrote:Dude, you've told me that before.

It's the Alzheimer's. Sorry.

Cash · Post by **Cash** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 11:15 pm

*pat*pat* There, there. You're old.

ak404 · Post by **ak404** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 2:52 am

DV8 wrote:
ak404 wrote:Wow. I wonder what kind of place Luxembourg is to live, and is it really the smallest country in the world, or is that still the Vatican?
It's one of the few places in the world - and the only place in Europe - that still has anonymous, numbered bank accounts. It's in the middle of the Ardennes, so it's forested, with very few real cities, considering their half a million population, that's not strange. Oh, and there are a lot of pretty rich people in financing there, as you might expect.

Sounds like a fun place to live. What's the cost of living there?

DV8 · Post by **DV8** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 7:21 am

I wouldn't know.

FlakJacket · Post by **FlakJacket** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 6:43 pm

Okay, just to recheck if I'm able to make it, is there still room in the attic/whatever or is it really just camping out at this stage?

Instant Cash · Post by **Instant Cash** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 6:50 pm

Spend the $35 and get a hotel room

MooCow · Post by **MooCow** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 11:41 pm

Spend the $35 and get a hotel room

Seriously pondering that. How far away is the hotel from Paul's?

3278 · Post by **3278** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 11:59 pm

FlakJacket wrote:Okay, just to recheck if I'm able to make it, is there still room in the attic/whatever or is it really just camping out at this stage?

It looks like there should be plenty of room, unless we have more than, say, 20 people sleeping over, which I don't think we will. Instead of opening up the upstairs, we're opening up the porch area, which is large and pretty comfortable. Additionally, the upstairs is spacious and can sleep a /ton/ of people; it's just a little messy. It doesn't bother /me,/ but, you know. Anyhow, there should be more than enough room for everyone.

The hotel, Moo, is 5 miles away, if that.

Jestyr · Post by **Jestyr** » Wed Oct 22, 2003 12:02 am

I still hate you all.

3278 · Post by **3278** » Wed Oct 22, 2003 1:05 am

FlakJacket wrote:Okay, just to recheck if I'm able to make it, is there still room in the attic/whatever or is it really just camping out at this stage?

And I didn't want to say anything because I don't want to pressure you into coming if it's impractical - you really shouldn't - but it's unimaginable how cool it would be if you could make it, Simon.