GOOOOOAT!

posted October 16, 2011 9:52 PM | |

Wed November 2 at 5:00 PM, Cheezborger Central

430 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, USA (Map & Directions)

I can't come to this. Can we have an alterna-goat, like, maybe this week or next?
posted by phunniemee at 11:57 PM on October 16, 2011

I will come, for the first time ever . . . no pressure, if my future schedule allows it. I'm interviewing for a new job this week and I'm not sure what will be what the 2nd.
posted by IvoShandor at 2:57 AM on October 17, 2011

Thinking about it, I haven't listened to a real CD in probably 3 or 4 years. People still use those?
posted by Windigo at 6:17 AM on October 17, 2011

.......further thinking about it, I don't think I even have a proper CD player anymore (other than my computer).

This is where I then admit I own two turntables. *jazz hands*
posted by Windigo at 6:19 AM on October 17, 2011

TOOOOOGA! is an anagram of GOOOOOAT!
posted by SpiffyRob at 6:36 AM on October 17, 2011 [1 favorite]

Hi! I'm thinking about coming. What is this about CDs? I am to bring something?
posted by kitsy at 8:59 AM on October 17, 2011

Bring yourself, a raving hunger for triple cheezborgers, and a terrible thirst for tiny beers.
posted by Evilspork at 10:50 AM on October 17, 2011

I'll be there.

Also.

Proof of time travel.


Don't ask me about Jacob.
posted by adamdschneider at 11:26 AM on October 17, 2011

And those fuckers left out the d!
posted by adamdschneider at 11:27 AM on October 17, 2011 [2 favorites]

I'm in. I'd be game for a mid-month supplement, phunniemee. Call a new pizza meet?
posted by BevosAngryGhost at 11:55 AM on October 17, 2011

In honor of Spiffy we should probably get some terrible pizza somewhere terrible, like New York.
posted by shakespeherian at 12:04 PM on October 17, 2011 [2 favorites]

I also have two turntables and zero CD players.
posted by booknerd at 12:13 PM on October 17, 2011

Now I feel weird because I have a CD player and an alarm clock that has a CD player so I can wake up to the same song every day and quickly grow to hate the first five seconds of it.
posted by shakespeherian at 12:17 PM on October 17, 2011

I have a CD-player...in my computer. When I opened up said computer this weekend, I discovered that the optical drive has not been hooked up to the motherboard for presumably some time.

I can wake up to the same song every day and quickly grow to hate the first five seconds of it.

It's I Got You, Babe, right?
posted by adamdschneider at 12:29 PM on October 17, 2011

I have no turntables, but I do have a microphone. I feel like I'm only achieving part of my destined potential.
posted by BevosAngryGhost at 12:31 PM on October 17, 2011 [1 favorite]

Hey that reminds me it's a long way out but I'm thinking of it now so we should all pile into someone's doorway on February 2nd and watch Groundhog Day while drinking excessively because: traditions.
posted by shakespeherian at 12:31 PM on October 17, 2011

...but only if the doorway is FAIRLY LARGE, right?
posted by BevosAngryGhost at 12:34 PM on October 17, 2011

Obviously.
posted by shakespeherian at 12:35 PM on October 17, 2011

kitsy - no, you don't have to bring anything. I promised the group last time that I would bring my MeFi Mix, and then I forgot.

For those of you who only have CD players in the computers, well, that's what ripping is for. :D
posted by tzikeh at 4:11 PM on October 17, 2011

Proof of time travel.

MOAR LIEK PROOF YOU A ZOMBIE
posted by SpiffyRob at 4:36 PM on October 17, 2011

I still have the boombox I got for my 10th birthday. Every time I move, it comes along. I also still have my super-cool blue diskman, complete with sexy belt clip. I also still have my massive folder of cds that I'm pretty sure hasn't acquired any new additions since I was in high school. Also the portable mp3 thingy I listen to music on now I've had for five years and cost ten bucks.

I have about tenbazillion blank cds in a storage bin under my bed, and I'd love to make mixes for everyone, but the cd drive on my computer has been broken for two years now and I can't. :(

(NOT A LUDDITE; JUST POOR.)
posted by phunniemee at 4:56 PM on October 17, 2011

Proposed trivia meetup for next week
posted by youngergirl44 at 6:14 PM on October 17, 2011

Also, hydrophonic's skull on display at the Blue Frog.
posted by youngergirl44 at 6:19 PM on October 17, 2011

My skull on WCIU, The U (1:10, amongst much cooler stuff).
posted by hydrophonic at 6:57 PM on October 17, 2011

Is that at the old Blue Frog or the new Blue Frog that is no longer the Blue Frog?
posted by hydrophonic at 6:58 PM on October 17, 2011

My skull on WCIU, The U (1:10, amongst much cooler stuff).

You know that rubber goop stuff the orthodontist had you bite into to cast your retainer? Remember the way that rubber goop stuff smelled? Dinosaur labs smell like that. It's weird.
posted by phunniemee at 7:14 PM on October 17, 2011

Man, my retainer was just horrible bands of metal wrapped around my teeth, connected by wire (I never got the courage to power my jaw with a potato). You kids had it good with your new-fangled goops!
posted by Evilspork at 9:12 PM on October 17, 2011

Well, my retainer gave me wicked TMJ. And years prior, before the braces, I had an "appliance" in the roof of my mouth to widen my palate; it left massive grooves in my tongue. Remind me next time you see me...I'll show you the one that still hasn't fully healed up, more than 15 years later. Big ol' trench, running down my tongue. Awesome.

(Oh, and the only tooth in my head that was ever crooked? Still crooked.)
posted by phunniemee at 11:58 PM on October 17, 2011

Was that "The Expander?" And you had to put a key in it and turn it?
posted by SpiffyRob at 4:18 AM on October 18, 2011

No...my friend had one of those, though. I had a quad helix.
posted by phunniemee at 5:19 AM on October 18, 2011

I AM FINALLY GONNA MAKE A GOAT. For the first time in forEVER. HOORAY.

It is also the day after my birthday. HUZZAH.
posted by bibliogrrl at 5:32 AM on October 18, 2011

The skull is on the wall at the old Blue Frog. I had to go last Friday to pick up a karaoke laptop and it just so happened that the skull was right by where we were standing.
posted by youngergirl44 at 7:48 AM on October 18, 2011

I'll be there, but late.
posted by eamondaly at 9:28 AM on October 18, 2011

Every time I see the word CDs I think of this thread. I am also 13 years old.
posted by evisceratordeath at 10:06 AM on October 18, 2011

I'll be there, so long as I'm not sent to a suburb that night. I hate the suburbs.
posted by betty botter at 11:02 AM on October 18, 2011

eamon - how late is late?
posted by tzikeh at 11:30 AM on October 18, 2011

I know your beard from the Billy Goat
I feel you touch me singing at The Bong
And the moment that your karaoke ends
I want to join you for another song

And I come to you in a drunken haze
Stay on pitch, harmonize, and the crowd's amazed
And it's me you need to show:

How late is your late? (How late is your late, how late is your late)
I really need to learn
Cause we're livin' in a world of beers
Tiny as fuck
No fries, cheeps, Cheezborger, yo
No Pepsi, there's only Coke
posted by SpiffyRob at 8:47 AM on October 19, 2011

I forgot about the Bee Gees-off.
posted by shakespeherian at 9:08 AM on October 19, 2011

Same late as last time: 9-ish. In plenty of time for karaoke, if folks so choose.
posted by eamondaly at 9:23 AM on October 19, 2011

Shakes I know you very well
I see you posting everyday
I never really looked before
You're on the green, the blue the gray

Suddenly you're in this thread
Part of Goatup planning and
You got me posting day and night
Just trying to keep up with you

Here at the Goat I've found my paradise
My only chance for Cheezborgers
And if have no beers I know I would die

Oh say you'll really come to this one
I'll be your greeter
We can dress up common food
Like a terrorist leader-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

More than a MeFite
More than a MeFite to me
posted by SpiffyRob at 1:54 PM on October 19, 2011

Somehow my brain attached the MST3K theme song tune to that and it almost worked.
posted by shakespeherian at 2:20 PM on October 19, 2011

Here I am
In a thread full of strangers
Going to the Goat
Where you guys could drink dark beers

Well, I'll order a grilled cheese
(Make it taste like burgers please)
Then I'll watch some lawyer sleaze
Promise to make them pay

We're goin' out
To the Billy Goat Tavern
Eatin' them borgers
Drinkin' them straight-to-the-gut beers

Blamin' it all
On the Billy Goat Tavern
Havin' hang overs
Explainin' to employers
posted by shakespeherian at 2:32 PM on October 19, 2011

It's just your cheezborger
The double's the best, yeah
Cheezborger
It burns in your chest
Cheezborger
Or a steak and egg, yeah
Cheezborger
There's dirt in the keg

Tiny beers
You'll never know
How to make a good toast
Moge je pilsje
altijd klein zijn
En je koffer vol met geld. Proost!

With all your cheezborgers
The double's the best, yeah
Cheezborger
It burns in your chest
Cheezborger
Or a steak and egg, yeah
Cheezborger
There's dirt in the keg
posted by SpiffyRob at 10:49 AM on October 20, 2011

Chicago-style pizza detractors?

This is who you make common cause with. This is your bedfellow.

Not so awesome now, huh?
posted by adamdschneider at 1:47 PM on October 20, 2011

zombiestripperjesuscat has already pledged his support.
posted by SpiffyRob at 6:06 AM on October 21, 2011

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posted by evisceratordeath at 6:41 PM on October 26, 2011

Whaaaaaaat! (Also it looks way cooler in blue over in recent activity.)
posted by phunniemee at 6:44 PM on October 26, 2011

So far I see 14 attending (including me). If the maybes change their minds, even like, the morning of Goat, please change it here so I can be sure to bring enough CDs of my MetaMix.
posted by tzikeh at 2:56 PM on October 28, 2011

So you're NOT going to get sick again?
posted by Evilspork at 3:51 PM on October 28, 2011

Evil - my intestines and I have been waging war since my early teen years. The bouts are infrequent, but painfully crippling. I seriously enjoyed the last Goat-Up, and had every intention of joining in trivia night (I love playing trivia), but the ongoing surprise attacks are unpredictable.

The good thing is that they are sporadic enough, and have always been, that it's extremely doubtful that anything will happen on Goat night.
posted by tzikeh at 4:22 PM on October 28, 2011

Happy Halloween/Allantide/Samhain/Festival of Pomona/Candy Day, everyone!
posted by Iridic at 2:51 PM on October 31, 2011

We had no candy and, lo, I am sad.

I see lots of unfamiliar names on the maybe list.
posted by crush-onastick at 6:33 AM on November 1, 2011

Yes, isn't it exciting. Kind of like "What's My Line". Mystery guest, sign in please!
posted by readery at 7:55 AM on November 1, 2011

crush - you can fix the no-candy thing -- today is National Half-Price Candy Day!
posted by tzikeh at 8:43 AM on November 1, 2011

ARGH I was just asked if I wanted to go see We Were Promised Jetpacks at Metro tomorrow night. I really do. But I also really want to go to the Goatup and hopefully end up singing karaoke somewhere.

I don't know what to do and I have less than an hour before my friend leaves to buy tickets.
posted by misskaz at 1:25 PM on November 1, 2011

I FINALLY GET TO MEET TZIKEH!
posted by bibliogrrl at 4:52 PM on November 1, 2011 [1 favorite]

I FINALLY GET TO MEET BIBLIOGRRL!
posted by tzikeh at 7:13 PM on November 1, 2011 [1 favorite]

Happy (day late) birthday, bibliogrrl!

And I still won't be meeting tzikeh. :( (Still not entirely convinced that you are real, btw.)
posted by phunniemee at 6:24 AM on November 2, 2011

Aww, thanks Phunniemee! Hopefully I'll get to see you soon.
posted by bibliogrrl at 6:27 AM on November 2, 2011

Wait phunniemee I thought you were lying or trying to get us to give you $5 or something when you said you couldn't come. COME TO THIS MEETUP, DAMN YE
posted by shakespeherian at 6:40 AM on November 2, 2011

Sorry, bros. I have to get an MRI before my health insurance runs out, and the only time I can do it is tonight. So.

I'll still take the $5, though!
posted by phunniemee at 8:07 AM on November 2, 2011

phunniemee, there is now undeniable proof that I exist. I spent EIGHT FREAKIN' HOURS with Zaximus and Eamon and Youngergirl44 and SpiffyRob and some other folks whose MeFi names I can't remember, eatin' borgers and not drinking beer and talking about pizza and Steve Jobs and gaming and zombie stripper cats. And if you need more proof, I can tell you the most o.O thing that happened at karaoke last month, and Zaximus and Eamon will confirm that I am telling the truth.

I walked around with a purple skull on my head, and Eamon bought me Shirley Temples. SHIRLEY TEMPLES. Who would make that up?
posted by tzikeh at 8:39 AM on November 2, 2011

Also I see 17 attending. Going on the assumption that some people on the maybe list will come, I will make 20 CDs. If there are more people than that, I will bring some next Goat, or to trivia.

Also I forbid Spiffy from writing parody songs in threads for meetups he is not attending. It makes me cry.

(Can I request name-tags with Real-Life names and MeFi names? I suck at names, and it's embarrassing. I'll even bring the stickers. I'm like, "man, I had a great conversation with... that one guy.")
posted by tzikeh at 8:54 AM on November 2, 2011

Oh I totally do that. In the meetup threads I'm all like 'Omigod, BevosAngryGhost is so great and fun to shoot shit with online!' and then at the meetup I'm all like 'Hey this guy Ben is really nice and funny and we talked about gin!' and then I get home and I'm like 'I wonder who he is.'
posted by shakespeherian at 9:01 AM on November 2, 2011 [3 favorites]

Yeah, the nametags may help. But trust me, without them, any forgetfulness of names will put you in the majority.... or at least a very, very sizable minority.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 9:27 AM on November 2, 2011

In the past I've used deduction to figure out who people are - comparing the confirmed attendance list to who I already know and figuring out the rest from there.

On the agenda for this evening: BevosAngryGhost has to explain to me where BigPumaGirl44 came from, because I have no idea.

Also, I'm bringing buckeyes from the Candy Cottage to share, courtesy of essexjan. They are the epitome of extreme peanut butter chocolate awesome, and I think I'm becoming diabetic just thinking about them.
posted by youngergirl44 at 9:54 AM on November 2, 2011

Oh, my original reason for popping in here was to say that I'm super excited about tonight. It may only be noon, but I'm already craving tiny beers.
posted by youngergirl44 at 9:57 AM on November 2, 2011

I'm craving buckeyes!
posted by hydrophonic at 10:22 AM on November 2, 2011

Also, I will bring stiff paper and Sharpies for us to make table tents with our names, for those of us so inclined. It'll be like Model UN!
posted by hydrophonic at 10:48 AM on November 2, 2011

I'll bring rectangular stickers!

And CDs of my MetaMusicMix!

I probably won't get there til 7 tho.

(And I'll have money this time. *g*)
posted by tzikeh at 11:22 AM on November 2, 2011

To be fair, I was planning on attending at the time I posted it.
posted by SpiffyRob at 11:24 AM on November 2, 2011

I'm an enigma wrapped in a mystery, sipping on gin.

And I consistently have the same issue. I think of shakespeherian as shakes in real life. It's confusing when someone asks where Tim is. Thank god SpiffyRob is simple.
posted by BevosAngryGhost at 11:46 AM on November 2, 2011

He sure is!
posted by shakespeherian at 11:48 AM on November 2, 2011

Oh dear. Someone in my office just yelled, "Tony LaRussa!!" THERE IS NO ESCAPING HIM!
posted by youngergirl44 at 11:57 AM on November 2, 2011

Simple like a coloring book!
posted by SpiffyRob at 11:59 AM on November 2, 2011

Oh goodness. Buckeyes, modelUN, exotic mystery maybe guests. I really hope I can make it but I really think I'm not going to pull this off. (Boutros Boutros Kitty, Ban Kitty-Moon and Kitty Annan remind me that I can have a model UN at home, so I shouldn't be too sad, but none of them are going to run to the candy store on my behalf)
posted by crush-onastick at 12:07 PM on November 2, 2011

Boutros Boutros Ghali has a cat named Boutros Boutros Boutros Boutros.
posted by hydrophonic at 12:12 PM on November 2, 2011

I am excited! I will be there, and then will leave probably around 9 to go see a band at Metro. Then, depending when the show ends, I may meet back up with whatever stragglers are still out and about and hopefully karaoke-ing.
posted by misskaz at 12:18 PM on November 2, 2011

This representative of the nation of Metafiltyre moves to adjourn the workday immediately and move to caucus over tiny beers and buckeyes. Or something like that.

Weird -- this was meant to post right after this -- and I had multiple windows open and forgot to hit post, so when I returned to the thread in another tab and didn't see my comment, I thought it has been deleted and was racking my head as to why. The only thing I could come up with was 'flagged for not particularly funny' but if that was a reason... well, we just all know that's not the case.

I've got money in the entertainment budget and free time on the same Wednesday, so it looks like I'll see you in a few hours.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 12:22 PM on November 2, 2011

If that were a flag I would have like sixteen comments instead of however many I do have.
posted by shakespeherian at 12:58 PM on November 2, 2011

Boutros is the Coptic equivalent of Peter. I'm not sure a cat, no matter how many Boutroses his name has, is the rock on which I want to build my church.
posted by crush-onastick at 1:25 PM on November 2, 2011

Half (at least) of being the foundation of a church is believing you deserve to be the foundation of a church. Cats are uniquely suited for this role.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 1:46 PM on November 2, 2011

Well, when you put it that way, I can't argue with you.
posted by crush-onastick at 1:58 PM on November 2, 2011

lol, me neither.
posted by zombiestripperjesuscat at 2:07 PM on November 2, 2011

I AM ALMOST THERE.

I am also really early
posted by bibliogrrl at 2:35 PM on November 2, 2011

YOU ARE JUST MAKING THE WORKDAY PASS MORE SLOWLY
posted by shakespeherian at 2:42 PM on November 2, 2011

Damnit! I love name tags! And chocolate peanut butter things! Have fun, dudes.
posted by phunniemee at 4:18 PM on November 2, 2011

The buckeyes and I are waiting for the Goat Bus. There is a man wandering around the bus stop, making me nervous.

On preview: Holy crap! The bus stop has an LED sign for estimated wait times! That's what the man was looking at!
posted by youngergirl44 at 4:32 PM on November 2, 2011

YO EVERYONE I AM GOING TO BE LATE BUT IT WILL BE WORTH IT

I'm cutting out all the CD inserts now. Then I'll be throwing them in my bag and heading down there.
posted by tzikeh at 4:33 PM on November 2, 2011

I just got a cool new pocket internet phone and joined twitter because all the cool kids are doing it. If you're wondering who just sent you a follow request, that was me. Wheeeeee!
posted by phunniemee at 4:36 PM on November 2, 2011

ON MY WAY

and I have a crafts project for the table!
posted by tzikeh at 5:37 PM on November 2, 2011

The quarter is worth $6.10 if melted down for the silver (and 10% copper) and would be worth $5.90 as a collectible if it were brand new/uncirculated.

THE MORE YOU KNOOOOWWWW
posted by Evilspork at 8:44 PM on November 2, 2011

Evilspork... what?
posted by tzikeh at 9:33 PM on November 2, 2011

Evilsporks, is that for the quarters they make today or quarters before 1956 back when they actually had silver in them?
posted by phunniemee at 2:53 AM on November 3, 2011

Nametags? You did nametags?

I refuse nametags.

I miss just two Goats and things go pear shaped. Obviously I need to stop missing Goats and set things right.
posted by Windigo at 4:43 AM on November 3, 2011

Obviously, Windigo, you do.
posted by crush-onastick at 6:28 AM on November 3, 2011

This is for the 1963 quarter I noticed I had when I was buying my cheezborger, which I think I got from the travel cashier at the VA earlier in the day, or maybe Taco Bell the day before.
posted by Evilspork at 12:21 PM on November 3, 2011

This is for the 1963 quarter I noticed I had when I was buying my cheezborger, which I think I got from the travel cashier at the VA earlier in the day, or maybe Taco Bell the day before.

If you like it then you oughta make a ring from it.
posted by phunniemee at 12:26 PM on November 3, 2011 [1 favorite]