Hey are we doing this?
posted October 3, 2016 10:59 AM   RSS | iCal | +googleCal

Wed October 5 at 6:00 PM, Original Billy Goat Tavern
430 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, USA (Map & Directions)
It seems that since calendars are hard, we have not put up an event for our monthly meetup at the Billy Goat...
On the first Wednesday of every month, Chicago MetaFilter meets up for food and fellowship and tiny beers at the Original Billy Goat Tavern.

Later in the evening, it's very likely that folks will be doing karaoke, probably at Mother's (also The Original)

JOIN US!

(We're not as scary as the caps above might make us seem.)
posted by MCMikeNamara to Meetup (37 comments total) 1 user marked this as a favorite

Better late than never!
posted by phunniemee at 11:31 AM on October 3, 2016 [1 favorite]


Somebody please ask for the afternoon tea.
I want to see their faces.
posted by phunniemee at 11:31 AM on October 3, 2016 [5 favorites]


Oh MY You Should Meet!
posted by crush-onastick at 7:09 PM on October 3, 2016 [3 favorites]


Also not scary because of course TINCC.
posted by Evilspork at 8:44 PM on October 3, 2016 [1 favorite]


I am not going to make it this time around. :( I have a friend getting into town that evening and so while the rest of you are ordering burgers and tiny beers, I will be on my way to Midway.

Have fun! See you all next month!
posted by jessypie at 7:23 AM on October 4, 2016


You know what's in between Midway and you getting home, right? :)
posted by MCMikeNamara at 9:06 AM on October 4, 2016 [3 favorites]


(psssst...if people want to buy Girl Scout candy I'll have my order form)
posted by phunniemee at 11:30 AM on October 4, 2016 [2 favorites]


We did a bunch of tests of the vacuum former at work this summer, and I saved up a stack of skulls. Favorite this comment if you would like a plastic skull.
posted by hydrophonic at 4:22 PM on October 4, 2016 [4 favorites]


Do you take Paypal?
posted by Evilspork at 4:30 PM on October 4, 2016


Friends, askme needs you!!!
posted by phunniemee at 4:31 PM on October 4, 2016 [1 favorite]


Evilspork, I can process a credit card if you donate a small transaction fee!
posted by phunniemee at 4:32 PM on October 4, 2016


Skulls.

I'll probably trim some of these down to just the skull part.
posted by hydrophonic at 4:33 PM on October 4, 2016 [1 favorite]


Can I pay in favorites
posted by tivalasvegas at 5:43 PM on October 4, 2016 [1 favorite]


I was just going to donate, so then whatever +$5?
posted by Evilspork at 8:04 PM on October 4, 2016


phunniemee, I typically avoid giving karaoke suggestions. The best karaoke song is one that comes from the heart.
posted by eamondaly at 11:01 PM on October 4, 2016 [2 favorites]


Also, there was a request this evening for post-game at Berlin (and the newly reopened Clark's) so choose your footwear appropriately. $4 Fireball!
posted by eamondaly at 11:02 PM on October 4, 2016 [1 favorite]


Evilspork, any amount of money you'd like to give my troop is a good amount of money :)
posted by phunniemee at 5:59 AM on October 5, 2016


Friends, askme needs you!!!

I may have gone a bit overboard.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 10:27 AM on October 5, 2016


Do you take Diner's Club?
posted by Evilspork at 12:11 PM on October 5, 2016


Something's come up and there's a good chance I won't be able to make it tonight. If I'm not there, hoist a tiny one for me and I'll see y'all when I see you.
posted by eamondaly at 1:52 PM on October 5, 2016


If I am able to escape work, which is increasingly likely but barely, my night will have to be a short one (and I don't mean that relative to me and three other bars I was planning on going tonight, I mean like maybe only the Goat); I am falling on my sword and coming in tomorrow on my scheduled day off.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 3:02 PM on October 5, 2016


I'm here come talk to me.
posted by phunniemee at 3:19 PM on October 5, 2016 [1 favorite]


I... was supposed to leave work at 5:30 but got sucked into metafilter, ironically... I'll be there in 30.
posted by tivalasvegas at 3:35 PM on October 5, 2016


Be there around 7:00.
posted by hydrophonic at 3:53 PM on October 5, 2016


On my way. There in 20ish.
posted by BevosAngryGhost at 4:12 PM on October 5, 2016


On my way if folks are still there. (If not, I'll eat my burger and whiskey by myself.) Should be about 15 minutes or so.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 5:15 PM on October 5, 2016


Folks, we think December 2017 is ten years of Goat Ups. MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
posted by crush-onastick at 5:16 PM on October 5, 2016 [4 favorites]


Tea candy, for interested parties.
posted by phunniemee at 6:51 PM on October 5, 2016


And thank you again to everyone who donated and bought GS candy! You're helping contribute to the delinquency of minors a troop of really cool girls (one of whom we're all probably going to be voting for one day), and I really appreciate it.
posted by phunniemee at 6:57 PM on October 5, 2016 [1 favorite]


So you don't have to search, too; I think we're citing this as the beginnings of the Goat-Up. It was a Wednesday. Although I comment in that thread that we've done the Goat before and eamon confirms two prior Goat-Up success stories.

BUT at the bottom of the thread, eamon cuts the bullshit and proposes we just default to the Goat to spare the back n forthing wrfgms and I were discussing offsite.

Which I think means: MARK YOUR CALENDARS DECEMBER 12 2017 FOR MAGIC!
posted by crush-onastick at 7:30 PM on October 5, 2016 [1 favorite]


Was something decided in absentia or...
The goatup would be Dec 6, right?
Calendars are hard.
posted by phunniemee at 7:48 PM on October 5, 2016


Oh, well, I was just going by the date on the old post, which set the Goat as default meet-up spot, unless there was a specific event.. More research is necessary to determine when it became the first Wednesday.
posted by crush-onastick at 8:01 PM on October 5, 2016 [1 favorite]


Seems Eamon proposed meeting on first Wednesdays in the thread for the 11/5/2008 meetup.
posted by Iridic at 9:08 PM on October 5, 2016 [1 favorite]


So this gets complicated and I think we need consensus:

Do we celebrate on the first Wednesday of December 2017?
Do we celebrate on the December 12, 2017 anniversary?
Do we hold our horses until November 5, 2018?

All three?
posted by crush-onastick at 8:57 AM on October 6, 2016


Maybe December 6th, 2017 as well as November 5th, 2018?
posted by Iridic at 11:06 AM on October 6, 2016 [1 favorite]


December 12, 2017 is my birthday, so we can totally have two celebrations that month in 2017, and another in November 2018.

On a related note, December 12, 2016 is also my birthday and a Monday so I'm probably going to have a thing that includes karaoke at the Holiday Club, and this is not related to Metafilter at all except you are all invited.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 12:16 PM on October 6, 2016 [4 favorites]


http://lafinjack.net/images/random/both_above.jpg
posted by Evilspork at 1:09 PM on October 7, 2016



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