POLL: NonCon 2004: Fun For Everyone

Alas, you'd have to come to the GDC [gdconf.com] or Fanime [fanime.com] for a pub night near me.

Hey, everybody, look!

It's a Poll!.

Phillip earns his keep for another month!

I'd love to come see you guys at one of the conventions, but I'd have a hard time shelling out the cash for something that I'd be mostly un-interested in. You should keep us posted on the pub situation, since I think one of my friends lives near there, and wouldn't be such a bad excuse to head upstate.

In Response to zamphir (#13531):

Yep and I am first to complain! weee go me.

When you vote it marks the thread as read.

Hehehehe

go me.

I don't know if this is considered a problem or not, but I'm logged in at home now and it thinks I need to take the poll again.

I can't go out on Leap Day, because I'll be having a combined birthday party for myself and my roommates' daughter (who will also be celebrating her 6th birthday late February; we're doing a combined party just for the heckuvit).

A six-year-old (+six-birthday-old) b-day party with a kegger... promises to be interesting. But then, 'yall just have fun at 'yer con. :)

Maybe there should be some kind of 'No, because I live ten thousand miles away' option.

Tommy D

In Response to Roadwaffle (#13563):

That's really what I would have voted for. I have difficulty getting out of L.A., let alone out of the state or across the country.

*Sigh*.. some other time, then.

In Response to Grimicus (#13553):

Yah.
that's not supposed to be allowed.
I think I know what caused it, and have it fixed in my development environment. I'll probably move it live later.

thanks for the catch.

In Response to phillip (#13565):

It thinks I need to vote again,too. And I'm logged in from the same computer.

Well, in theory I COULD go, since I just dug my car out of its protective snow drift yesterday, but alas, I have no money for gas.

In Response to Lonely Goatherd (#13600):

Illegal use of outdated Beavis & Butthead reference, half the distance to the goal.

In Response to Duff (#13557):

A six-year-old (+six-birthday-old) b-day party with a kegger... promises to be interesting.

Only if it involves ponies [goats.com] or donkeys [imdb.com].

In Response to phillip (#13565):

If i take up too much of Phillip's time by nagging about bugs, he'll never be able to fix them. Is it just me, or is it impossible to start a new discussion today [goats.com]?

In Response to Teledildonix (#13617):

doesn't work for me either.

In Response to Roadwaffle (#13563):

Or how about, "No, I'd really love to come, but I'm afraid of hordes of overweight, nasal-sounding, unshowered sci-fi fans grilling me on Star Trek and getting into heated debates on whether Next Generation was better." Sorry if I just offended a large portion of the readership/comic writers.

In Response to tor (#13539):

Have you been having lunch beers again?

In Response to tor (#13539):

As I suspected, way too much meefy fruit for you

In Response to nightrunner (#13637):

Sorry

If you want to survive here, almost rule #1 is don't apologize. Admit your mistakes, or blame them on drinking, but never ever let us see you say 'sorry'.

Also, go read the "Dear Newbie" post in the Ring of Fire. Which I can't be arsed to link right now.

And, can you tell us the truth, is the Bahston Undagrawnd a political movement, or just a new highway system?

Whoa, Poughkeepsee bars? You're more likely to get mugged there than get any good beer. I go to school in New Paltz which is about five minutes away with better bars (fairly crappy beer selection though).

In Response to Lonely Goatherd (#13639):

Not a reply to thalgor but a reply to the moderator that nailed him down one (justifiably) and a reply to the forum in case anyone wanted to understand that it was actually a +1 obscure reference, except there are some 3 or 4 people who would know the reference (so it is too obscure to be moderatable, which should please Deerboy's grama).

So, long post explaining the Meefy Men (as I explained them to someone else - who doesn't stray into here very often but should dammit!):

sl: Our ISP died in the arse and so things got a little stressed and
yelling and stuff from management.
sl: So I went a little crazy and told Myles that if he saw any Meefy
Fruit on his lunch break he had to grab it.
Then I told him of the Meefy men, they are like little cherubs with the
wings and such..
dha: so at what point did he run away screaming?
sl: except they like beer and have huge round bellies,
like a buddha, but hairy...
sl: and they fly around with backpacks of beer looking for suitable
drinking containers.
sl: which is why the Meefy Plant is the only plant in the world to have
it's stamens and pistils and such actually attached to the petals of
it's meefy fruit.
sl: because the Meefy Men see the Meefy Flower and think "oho what a
great beer receptacle" and they pour their beer into the meefy flower
and then hover like little hummingbirds with great hairy bellies and dip
their head into the meefy flower and drink the beer.
dha: You've had your lunch beers, haven't you?
sl: Now of course the meefy pollen gets stuck in their belly hair and
so when they go to a friends meefy flower for a drink (they are very
social, the meefy men) they rub meefy pollen from their meefy flower
into their friends meefy flower.
sl: nope not yet, only 10:19 am
sl: and thereby pollinate the meefy plants which then go on to produce
meefy fruit.
sl: Now the big issue is that many years ago the Meefy Women went away
(in the manner of the ent wives)
sl: and so there are no young meefy men. and the old meefy men are
grumpy and don't hang out together so much.
sl: hence less pollination.
sl: hence less Meefy fruit.
sl: And so if you see any Meefy Fruit you should buy it immediately.
dha: I... see...
sl: this story was accompanied with the flying and belly rubbing
required to desribe the Meefy Men and their drinking properly..
sl: anyway so Myles has had nightmares about the meefy men hehehehehe
sl: hurrah

In Response to tor (#13793):

So, inside the Meefy fruit, is there a Meefnut?

In Response to tor (#13793):

This discussion of Meefy Men reminds me of the visionary imagery [stevee.com] of Stevee Postman [stevee.com].

In Response to Teledildonix (#13797):

That guy doesn't have:

a beer backpack
a big furry buddha belly
or little wings.

I suspect you just want to show off your ability to link to things. Things I might add I find offensive, stinky bloody artists with their tranquil images of power and new age hippiedom, man I hate them.

In Response to tor (#13798):

Sorry, tor, you're wrong. There may have been no specific suggestion of a "beer backpack", but MANY of the images in those galleries do, in fact, have furry buddha bellies, cherubic wings, stamens and pistils that could be beer containers, hovering hummingbird-esque poses, pollination and fruit imagery. If you'd looked at more than a couple of the images, you'd see a great many of these items.

I don't really know what constitutes "new age hippiedom". Stevee uses terms like "techno-paganism" to describe his work and his philosophies. Your hate is perhaps misdirected. Please don't squander it on Postman, when there are plenty of truly irksome, stinky, more deserving targets elsewhere. :-)

Also, i have no desire whatsoever to "show off". I only offered a hyperlink because the transcript of your discussion reminded me quite clearly of Stevee's stuff.