People all over the world, join hands, start a love Thing

posted February 9, 2012 4:00 PM | |

Mon February 13 at 7:30 PM, Tommy Doyle's Harvard Square

You had me at free booze
posted by Diablevert at 4:51 PM on February 9

IRL: You had me at free booze
posted by Horace Rumpole at 4:53 PM on February 9 [3 favorites]

I'm in!
posted by backseatpilot at 5:11 AM on February 10

We should spend the time before this to come up with a movie-related 14/taters thing. The only thing I'm coming up with now is "14 Taters Up!" which doesn't quite fit either the naming convention of Taters or the Up Series. (Speaking of which, 56 Up! is due out this year!)
posted by not_on_display at 9:48 AM on February 10

Maybe this will help. Who knew it had White Nationalist significance?
posted by backseatpilot at 10:08 AM on February 10

Or this.
posted by backseatpilot at 10:10 AM on February 10

Taters Fortnightly?
posted by Horace Rumpole at 11:10 AM on February 10

Wikipedia to the rescue?

"Taterdecimal notation"

"14 taters in a stone"

"The taters of the cross"

"Year of the Tatership of Pompeius and Appuleius"


....these aren't very good. Fourteen is tough, man.
posted by Diablevert at 1:53 PM on February 10

"In fourteen hundred and tater two, Columbus sailed the Pepsi Blue"
posted by not_on_display at 3:42 PM on February 10 [1 favorite]

Tuber XIV, the Spud King.
posted by Horace Rumpole at 4:21 PM on February 10

Aren't we past 14 now anyway? Or are we not counting last time since only exceptionally awesome people showed up?

BTW, did any one else get two Memails for this?
posted by maryr at 7:24 PM on February 10

I got two but they were pretty small so I ate them both.
posted by overeducated_alligator at 7:51 PM on February 10 [2 favorites]

You had me at 'day before Valentine's.' Mondays are tough but I haven't been to a meetup in a while, so..... maybe?
posted by cocoagirl at 8:51 AM on February 11

I got two memails, too. I will not start a MeTa about it, though.
posted by not_on_display at 1:02 PM on February 11

Hey guys, um, I'm kind of new around here, and, um..(scuffs toe in the dirt)...I was wondering if I could come to your meetup. I'm fair to middling at trivia, but am also from Idaho, so it's possible I'd serve as some sort of tatery good luck charm.

Got two memails as well, took it as a sign.
posted by amy lecteur at 6:59 AM on February 12

Yes, of course, all Mefites welcome, especially those with previous tater experience.

pb says the two Memails were caused by the server move and won't happen again.
posted by Horace Rumpole at 8:19 AM on February 12

Actually, now that I think of it how about Previous Tater Experience for the name? We're going to have to give up on the numbering at some point.
posted by Horace Rumpole at 8:20 AM on February 12

I'm fair to middling at trivia, but am also from Idaho

Last time I drank geekily our team blew a question whose answer was "Idaho". Sigh.
posted by benito.strauss at 8:32 AM on February 12

Giving up on the numbering allows greater possibility of puns.

And dear amy reader, no experience necessary.
posted by maryr at 10:31 AM on February 12

Previous Tater Experience

Experience the Tater Project?
posted by backseatpilot at 12:58 PM on February 12

Yay! Mefites are the best, man. I'll look for a table of, well, people who look like Mefites - that or else I'll just sidle up to folks and ask if they know where I can get a cat declawed until one of them slaps me right in my face.

Fun fact: "Experience the Tater Project" is the slogan for our local amusement park back home.*


*This is not true at all.
posted by amy lecteur at 2:11 PM on February 12

I'll look for a table of, well, people who look like Mefites

I will be wearing a Metafilter blue sweater, it being too cold for my t-shirt. If we're upstairs, (fingers crossed) I usually try to snag a table at the front by the stage.
posted by Horace Rumpole at 2:59 PM on February 12

...For a moment, I thought you had a Metafilter sweater. And I was jealous. Because Metafilter ski sweaters would be *sweet*.
posted by maryr at 7:09 PM on February 12

I'm wearing a Metafilter-blue sweater today as well. I'll look for you all near the stage upstairs.

It also occurs to me that it would be wicked easy to draw up a knitting pattern for a Metafilter ski sweater.
posted by amy lecteur at 6:45 AM on February 13

Sorry, folks, I can't make it tonight.

Roll On, Roll On, You Mighty Taters!
posted by benito.strauss at 2:29 PM on February 13

Taters sweep, with the too-modestly named Taters JV edging Experience Taters Project. Great work everybody!
posted by Horace Rumpole at 7:29 PM on February 13

THREE WEEKS FROM TODAY! MARIETTA CIVIC CENTER! TWO TATERS ENTER, ONLY ONE TATER LEAVES! WHATCHA GONNA DO WHEN TATERMANIA RUNS WILD ALL OVER YOU BROTHAH!

Good show everyone!
posted by not_on_display at 7:48 PM on February 13 [3 favorites]

So at what point do you think the trivia jockey is going to break down and ask what the heck all the taters stuff is about? Or has he already?
posted by DiscourseMarker at 7:49 AM on February 14

Recap: The pupils become the masters.

I can't recall him asking. I can't imagine explaining.
posted by Horace Rumpole at 8:29 AM on February 14 [1 favorite]

Also, there needs to be a movie with an ophthalmological supervillain who says "Ah, now we see that the pupil has become the iris!"
posted by Horace Rumpole at 9:18 AM on February 14

Eye see what you did there.
posted by maryr at 11:43 AM on February 14

Only the student has to be turned into a flower, just so the puns are balanced. Even if the puns are a bit cornea.
posted by not_on_display at 12:28 PM on February 14

That said, eye think puns are ophthal.
posted by not_on_display at 12:29 PM on February 14 [1 favorite]

Moreso when they're retina thread such as this.
posted by not_on_display at 12:32 PM on February 14

Tsk. So many unrequired, optical puns. 40 lashes for that one.
posted by maryr at 12:36 PM on February 14

you don't mascara me.
posted by not_on_display at 9:19 PM on February 14