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No jokes people, just facts (cat facts, chicken facts, tater facts). Serve up the straight dope Wednesday night at 7:30pm at Geeks Who Drink trivia at Joe Sent Me.

Do you remember the second night in September? Only Blue Frog and Goat, remember the meetup we share today. ba dee yaaa goating in September ba dee yaa say that you remember... [more inside]

Who's up for all-you-can eat Pizza on a Sunday evening in September? [more inside]

The Great American Beer Festival is Sept. 24-26. The week preceding is usually a great one to drink beer in Denver, with all kinds of special events, guest taps, etc. We can figure out a specific day, time and place as the week draws nearer. Who's in?

I'm doing it again! This time there will be no questions about Canada. $20 bar tab for the winner!

So it looks like the other meetup got canceled, but the wife and I will be in town this weekend! Anyone interested in Saturday dinner/drinks? [more inside]

Well hello there, New York! I will be where you are pretty soon! I would like to meet (up with) some New York People, and I have heard that many of them like beer. We'll see if that's true, at the 4th Ave Pub on Sunday the 6th of September at 3pm.

4th Ave Pub has an excellent beer selection, and free popcorn, and teeny tiny little beer steins. I love them, and I love mefites. The two together in one place...is this a dream...?

The ketchup meetup reminded me that I wanted to throw a chocolate party! How about Halloween? OK! A Chocolate Potluck it is! [more inside]

Hey, NOLA-proximate mefites! Me and my wife are headed your way soon on the drive home to Portland, and we'd love to get together on Thursday Aug. 27th in New Orleans. Let's do Bellocq at 8! [more inside]

I'm new to New Brunswick and would like to have some delicious food with Mefites. [more inside]

Hey! I moved to SF last year, and am back in Toronto this coming week. Anyone want to get beers on Wednesday night? If n>3, let's do it!

DC MeFi goes to "the best Chinese restaurant Washington, DC has had, ever". Going with September 19th since it looked like weekends were a good bet and some folks wanted something later in the month. If enough people are interested and the weather is nice, let's meet at the Arboretum a little earlier and walk up to the restaurant. [more inside]

Continuing with Star Trek Happy Hour at the Black Cat, this week's episode is "The Hunted", featuring prisoners, PTSD, "conditioning", and hopefully some Data humor to balance things out! Come and say hi! [more inside]

Phish is destroying America again and we're all witnesses. Let's compare notes. [more inside]

ChuraChura is returning from her research trip abroad and we're meeting to hear about her tales of daring-do while off studying our monkey cousins. We're meeting at La Patrona on High Street, on September 3rd at 7pm. Please join us and find out what having malaria, and living among small non-human primates, is really like! [more inside]

Hey there, NYC MeFites! My wife and I will be filling in as trivia hosts this Wednesday at dog-friendly Gowanus watering hole Canal Bar and it would be great to meet some of you as we stumble our way through what will no doubt be a gaffe-prone debut.

It is a known cat fact that cats and chickens are sworn mortal enemies. It is also a fact that Wednesday at 7:30 Taters gather from across the shining city on a hill (or thereabouts) to meet at Joe Sent Me for Geeks Who Drink trivia. [more inside]

Any Boston mefites want to hang, on Saturday, August 29?

Hey, me and divined by radio will be in Minneapolis next weekend (Aug 21-23) so let's have a meetup on Saturday!

My GF and I will be heading over to Vinyl Coffee & Wine Bar on Tuesday to give their trivia a try. We've never been before, so our knowledge comes exclusively from the fact that they advertise having trivia and this old SF Gate article. If this sounds like your bag, swing by & join the team! It ostensibly starts at eight, and ends at ten.

Dear locals, please join me for the next meetup at Oakland's New Parkway Theater for a showing of Airplane!, a classic comedy from 1980. Don't like movies? No worries! Buy a drink, get some food, and just hang out with fellow MeFites between 8 pm and 9:30, when the movie starts. [more inside]

I know it's short notice but Ferret Branca will be in DC this weekend so we're having another meetup! If you missed last weekend's meetup OR if you came last weekend and want more time with DC MeFites, we'll be in Shaw on Saturday afternoon. [more inside]

An Old Town-centric meetup! Two events, one parking requirement, but also RIGHT OFF THE GOLD LINE! Hooray! [more inside]

Continuing with Star Trek Happy Hour at the Black Cat, this week's episode is "The Defector", featuring Romulans and intrigue and Shakespearean cameos! Come and say hi! [more inside]

Labor Day weekend is almost upon us again, and that means DragonCon in Atlanta. (Please don't call it Dragon*Con, they had their *-hole removed two years ago at no small expense.) Even though an actual organized MeFi meetup is not likely to survive everyone's various convention plans, we can at least use this thread to talk about those plans. NOTE: like last year, the time and place listed are for the registration line, the event itself lasts Thursday-Monday, and is spread across 5 high-rise hotels and a nearby convention center. [more inside]

So, Necronomicon is coming up again next week, and we managed a small meet up at the Trinity Brewhouse near the Biltmore hotel. I suggest we tryu and repeat the experience. It seems like Sunday, 23 August, around 5:30pm would let everyone attend all of the convention and still make the meet up. Any thoughts?

Have you seen the numerous posts on the blue and the green praising roleplaying games and want to give them a try? Or are you an experienced gamer looking for a group? If so, I am looking for 1-2 players to join my Pathfinder campaign. Our emphasis is on roleplaying over combat though there is certainly some of that too. No experience in Pathfinder or other RPGs necessary. Campaign blurb & logistics beneath the fold [more inside]

THIS EVENT IS ONE WEEK AWAY! ALL SYSTEMS GO. Ok gang, let's try again! This event didn't happen due to weather, so we're doing it Oct. 2-4. [more inside]

I know there are a lot of fans of the Dead Authors podcast but making the 6:30 show time is hard for most people. Since this is the last taping of the series I thought people might want to plan ahead for a chance to go. [more inside]

Cortex and Secretariat will be breezing through RTP the weekend of August 22, and so we're going to meet at Mesa Latin Kitchen on Sunday at 4 PM. [more inside]

The End Of All Things (not the Big One) comes to Seattle and jscalzi will be reading from his latest book at the Central library.

Here we go again! Time for brunch and trivia and meeting other fine Metafilter people. Our team came in fourth last time! [more inside]

Hi! Me and baniak will be in Portland at the end of the month! LET'S EAT DOUGHNUTS OR SOMETHING. EDIT: LET'S EAT DELICIOUS LATIN AMERICAN FOOD. [more inside]

I'm a fan of Galaxy Quest, which is showing at Oakland's New Parkway at 9:30 pm on Thursday, August 13. Would anyone like to join me at 8:30 pm for a drink before the showing? The New Parkway has sofas, booze, food, and a great community vibe. It's within walking distance of the 19th Street Bart station in Oakland and a variety of buses so you don't need a car to get there--and you get a discount if you ride your bike. ("Patrons entering the theater carrying a bike helmet will receive a $1 discount.")

Hello lovely Mefites of Tokyo! I will be visiting your amazing city for the first time and I would love to meet you. I will be staying in a hotel in the Ueno neighborhood, but I will happily go to anywhere you suggest. I'm hoping to see some unique Tokyo nightlife. I was thinking the night of August 13th would be best. I land on the 12th and I fear I may be a bit jet lagged that day.

Or is it catsup? I got some really great homemade ketchup a few years ago and thought it would make a pretty swell meetup opportunity, a la the marmalade meetup or the dilly bean meetup. [more inside]

cortex's lil brother French Fry is coming to visit, and we're going to the US Space and Rocket Center, plus beers afterwards. [more inside]

Let's pick a restaurant and get together for HRW '15! [more inside]

The Taters are coming to kick ass at trivia and chew bubblegum, and we still have plenty of bubblegum, but that's OK because we're perfectly capable of doing two things at once. Geeks Who Drink trivia, Wednesday at Joe Sent Me.