February Goat Meetup

posted January 20, 2012 10:36 AM | |

Wed February 1 at 5:00 PM, Billy Goat Tavern

YOU'VE RUINED EVERYTHING
posted by eamondaly at 12:26 PM on January 20

Not because the date is wrong, but because there's an extra parenthesis in your post. Oh, the humanity!
posted by youngergirl44 at 5:50 AM on January 21

Or a missing parenthesis, depending on how you look at it.
posted by SpiffyRob at 8:17 AM on January 21

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posted by shakespeherian at 8:40 AM on January 21

C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER.
posted by phunniemee at 11:46 AM on January 21

(-(-(-(OMBO BREAKER)-)-)-)
posted by SpiffyRob at 7:44 AM on January 22 [1 favorite]

I prefer to see the parenthesis as missing, rather than extra.

I will be SKIIING. So I will miss you all. Truly. But I'll raise a random glass of whiskey, in the hot tub, under the stars, in the hot tub, to all of you.
posted by crush-onastick at 11:52 AM on January 22

You shouldn't raise anything under the hot tub full of stars. If it shifts, you could get hurt.
posted by SpiffyRob at 5:11 AM on January 23

I was in a hot tub full of stars once but Gene Hackman told me to get out.
posted by shakespeherian at 6:23 AM on January 23 [1 favorite]

That's strange. He wouldn't let me leave...
posted by BevosAngryGhost at 7:35 AM on January 23

In fairness to crush, it's a hot tub under the stars in a hot tub. The star-containing hot tub might only have two stars in it. But, even with just two stars, that's got to be a big and heavy hot tub.

Gene Hackman called me Coltrane once.
posted by SpiffyRob at 7:49 AM on January 23

I may be lying in the hot tub, but I'm staring at the stars (in a hot tub.)
posted by SpiffyRob at 7:50 AM on January 23 [1 favorite]

Did you just call me Coltrane?

...No.
posted by shakespeherian at 7:51 AM on January 23

Per aspera ad a spa.
posted by hydrophonic at 10:40 AM on January 23

John Coltrane called me Hackman once.

Wait, he might have said I was a hack, man. Now I am sad.
posted by BevosAngryGhost at 4:09 PM on January 23

I'll also drink to Gene Hackman, under the stars, in the recursive hot tub full of stars, whom I will be under, in the hot tub.
posted by crush-onastick at 6:22 PM on January 23

It turns out I will be SKIING two days after this meetup. Would that I could take a t-bar all the way from The Goat to New Hampshire.
posted by SpiffyRob at 6:49 AM on January 26

I'm confused -- are we planning on skiiiing and hottubbing with stars at this meetup?
posted by garlic at 3:54 PM on January 26

Only if Gene Hackman or John Coltrane shows up.

My money's on Coltrane.
posted by SpiffyRob at 5:11 AM on January 27

You shouldn't raise anything under the hot tub full of stars.

My god...
posted by adamdschneider at 10:00 AM on January 29

Did somebody say something? I thought . . . I heard . . . naw, it was nothing!
posted by crush-onastick at 6:53 AM on January 30 [1 favorite]

OoooooOOOOOOooooooOooOOooooOOOooooo!
posted by adamdschneider at 9:27 AM on January 30 [1 favorite]

"We tracked the posts. They're coming from inside the house!"
posted by Iridic at 10:44 AM on January 30

I wish it was Wednesday tomorrow.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 9:46 PM on January 30

*twinke dinkle finkle sounds* You're in luck! Tomorrow aka Today IS Wednesday!
posted by Evilspork at 10:26 PM on January 30

So who's up for a game of Diplomacy?
posted by adamdschneider at 10:41 AM on January 31

From what I understand of Diplomacy, I think a younger version of me would have played it way too much, been awesome at it but deep down secretly hated it, and that now I think I might be able to enjoy it but not be very good at it. I think the first two paragraphs of cortex's comment here sums up the conflict I'd feel. I have no problem being lied to in a game, but still don't know if I'd be any good at it anymore.

Still though, thinking about it, I'm not sure what makes this any different than poker, which I love. I guess it's just that the lies are shorter term maybe. Or that there's at least some randomness involved.

(Thanks, adam, for bringing this up so I could clutter up THIS thread with my thoughts about a game I've never played rather than the official thread on the Blue. As you can probably tell it was a slow, meeting-rescheduled afternoon for me and I'm killing time on my way out the... wait, it's 4:30 already. Hope to see you all tomorrow.)
posted by MCMikeNamara at 2:31 PM on January 31

As previously discussed I am terribly averse to competitive gaming (aside from, like, Halo or Yoshi's Tetris Attack or something) and thus Diplomacy sounds like my least favorite thing in the world to participate in. I would gladly and happily snark at everyone involved if a game were played in front of me, though.
posted by shakespeherian at 2:46 PM on January 31

My favorite thing about this is that cortex's comment has a "first two paragraphs". Guy must have a cushy job.
posted by adamdschneider at 3:03 PM on January 31 [1 favorite]

Do you know he spends all day at work on Metafilter?
posted by shakespeherian at 3:20 PM on January 31

I think Risk: Legacy sounds more like our thing.
posted by eamondaly at 4:56 PM on January 31

But does it have asynchronous online play, or online play at all?
posted by adamdschneider at 8:19 PM on January 31

Sorry folks, but I've just got a bit too much to do before I head off for the weekend. Have a good night. Sing Wham! in my honor.
posted by SpiffyRob at 7:04 AM on February 1

Spiffy: I hope you have better snow than we do! The groomers are in great shape (what with all the fake snow), but the trees and the stuff the Guy Husband likes to ski is not good, if it's even open.
posted by crush-onastick at 9:44 AM on February 1

Looks like we'll have about three days of snow there prior to my arrival, and it's not gotten terribly warm there in recent days, so I'm hoping I'll be in good shape.

Good shape: Heaxagonal.
posted by SpiffyRob at 9:52 AM on February 1

Bad shape: Hexagonadal.
posted by SpiffyRob at 9:52 AM on February 1

You've got a lotta balls, buddy.
posted by eamondaly at 10:31 AM on February 1

Watching the clock til go time.
posted by garlic at 1:01 PM on February 1

Know what else has a lot of balls? Pool tables. Full of balls, they are.
posted by BevosAngryGhost at 1:10 PM on February 1

I probably won't be there until 7:15 or 7:30.
posted by adamdschneider at 1:54 PM on February 1

I probably won't be there until 7:14 or 7:29.
posted by Iridic at 2:21 PM on February 1

I am waiting here
For everyone else to get
Their ass underground
posted by BevosAngryGhost at 3:21 PM on February 1

There's even no kaz
So only the grease here to
Accompany me
posted by BevosAngryGhost at 3:23 PM on February 1

I've resorted to
Haikus to help keeo me sane
They're easier than rhyming
posted by BevosAngryGhost at 3:24 PM on February 1

Well crap.
posted by BevosAngryGhost at 3:25 PM on February 1

Kaz for you.
posted by adamdschneider at 3:25 PM on February 1 [1 favorite]

Apparently, they're also easier when you can't count syllables.
posted by BevosAngryGhost at 3:26 PM on February 1

Bizarro World Goat. No Kaz, all different people on staff, my water came in a glass.

WHAT IS THIS.
posted by phunniemee at 3:47 PM on February 1

There once was a Ben at the Goat
Who got so bored that he wrote
Poetry not rhyming,
Hakus with off-timing,
Anti-limericks weren't the antidote.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 3:54 PM on February 1 [2 favorites]

POSSIBLE TURF WAR. WE NEED BACKUP!
posted by phunniemee at 4:35 PM on February 1

Where are the people? There are three of us. RSVPers are liars.
posted by BevosAngryGhost at 4:43 PM on February 1

Four!
posted by phunniemee at 4:46 PM on February 1

I'm on the bus.
posted by adamdschneider at 4:56 PM on February 1

Had to go to a meeting at school. Would have rather had a beer.
posted by readery at 7:29 PM on February 1

Adam, you sneaky fucking bastard. If there hadn't been a line of people (which you cut!) I would've jumped on that bus just to guilt you off of it.
posted by eamondaly at 12:20 AM on February 2

Cutters never prosper at cheating.
posted by garlic at 12:31 AM on February 2

Life conspired to fucking suck more than normal all on one day. I guess there's trivia.
posted by Evilspork at 5:00 AM on February 2

Well, I was just going to wait by the door, but the dude who was there ahead of me stepped aside and made a to-do. He then proceeded to speak very loudly to himself about how he was a gangsta and not afraid to die (but also tired) for the entire bus trip. I mean, really loudly.
posted by adamdschneider at 7:32 AM on February 2

I just read that as "made a do-do." Good thing he stepped to the side.
posted by hydrophonic at 2:42 PM on February 2 [1 favorite]

That was way funnier than it should have been, and now half the train is staring at me post-snortlaugh.
posted by phunniemee at 3:36 PM on February 2

"And is she trying not to laugh at the word "duty"?"
posted by Evilspork at 11:13 PM on February 4

Just to prove I wasn't making it up: NASCAR romance novels.
posted by eamondaly at 7:51 AM on February 5

Maybe you are making it up. Anyone can buy a domain, set up some gimmick e-storefront software, and photoshop some covers!
posted by Evilspork at 2:30 PM on February 5

I like how they all say, "story set in the world of NASCAR" like it's a White Wolf setting or something.
posted by adamdschneider at 7:36 AM on February 6