Well, if I were actually trying to scare him, I would have put it somewhere else. 
What Porcupine is neglecting to mention is that when she first placed her “toy” on the side of Omni’s neck, he smiled and sighed for about two seconds, then opened his eyes and saw what was actually vibrating on his neck. Then he jumped and looked pretty horrified. I still wish I had brought a camera. That two second look of contentment on his face still burns in my mind.
Jophiel also has neglected to mention that up until the sixth frame, he had a higher score than me (I think I had a 15 at that time). With Joey and Milo giving me some gentle hints, I was able to pull off a couple of spares at the end, raising my score to a 53. I only played one game though. I was too embarrassed to bowl after that.
I think what really provoked the reaction was my comment “Used less than 24 hours ago.” ::need smiley for evil grin::
Omni, care to chime in with your recollection?
Real fast, would everyone in the Plainfield, Naperville, Lise area please e-mail me so we can get together for lunch some time. That includes you Mike, Drop, porcupine and Omni. I know that I’m forgetting someone but since I can’t remember who I’m posting it here instead of sending e-mails personally.
Valerie I’m not sure where exactly you live but you know you’re welcome to join us, Would you mind organizing this for us? (Kidding, kidding I’m kidding :D)
I’ll drop you guys a line sometime and we can hit a bar in Naperville or some thing.
Wow, I go to one dope fest and post a talkie an unprecedented twice in one thread!
Joey - great job with the recap. I really can’t add too much more, except that I had a fabulous time (again). I don’t think there’s such a thing as a bad experience at a DopeFest. Even with the Great Courtyard Suite Fuck-Up, we managed to turn Meeting Room B into a rockin’ party site.
I had the best roommate! Magdalene is fantastic - I can’t say enough good things about this chick. VileOrb crashed with us too - he’s a cool guy with a great voice.
Joph proved what a horrible bowler he is, but he made up for it with great family stories. He also sat and smoked with me when we still were doing the “hallway only” smoking. Valerie fixed that problem by dragging the ashtray into the room. Screw the rules.
It was also so cool to finally meet SaxFace. She’s as fun and interesting in person as she is online. Come to think of it, everyone that I have met through these gatherings is fun and interesting. I would list all of your names, but you know who you are and you’re all great.
So yeah, I was basically in a fog all day Sunday. I wasn’t capable of making complete thoughts, which led me to drive around the suburbs aimlessly for an hour, trying to figure out what to do. When I couldn’t reach my friends, I decided to just drive home. Five hours later, I got back and was so tired that I was hyper. Luckily I had the day off today so I slept. A lot.
One more thing: I have a big goose-egg bruise on my arm. NO IDEA how that happened.
First things first: JoeyHemlock and Milo: Please. I’ve figured you two out. You’re both trying to inflate my (already oversized) ego so that I’ll get all full of myself and demand that I get to plan the next ChiDope, all in the sad hope that I get more compliments like that. Granted, it worked, but I don’t want you to think that I don’t know why.
Everyone else has already told most of the details of this Fest, but I’m gonna go ahead and share my take on everything.
For me, the Dopefest started Friday night, when GLWasteful and I had dinner and then met up with Falcon to hang out at the hotel. I have to give both of them props for not punching me in the head and demanding I shut up, as I rambled on and on about very little.
I spent most of Saturday afternoon on the phone with the various ChiDopers, trying to find out what the hell the hotel’s problem was. Little did I know that was only a hint of what was to come. I didn’t get out the door until about 5:30, but because traffic was so fanTABULOUS, I didn’t get to the hotel until 7.
So I got to the hotel, the hotel fucked up, everyone was waiting, yada yada. Old news. Same with dinner for that matter- other than the fact that Random was there for dinner ONLY, and Lee left immediately afterwards. I assume it was Omni’s personal hygiene that scared them off. Also, my understanding is that since Flypside hadn’t shown up they had no reason to stay. I think we ALL felt the same way, really. It just hurts on SUCH a deep level when Flyp casts you aside like that. Hold on, I need to go wipe the tears from my eyes…
Yeah, so anyway, then Unclebeer went with me to stock up on liquor for the after-party (because he rocks like a hurricane and then some), and then we went bowling. Well, I bowled with most of the group while Unclebeer and GL sat and drank and felt all superior to the rest of us. I hope they don’t think we didn’t notice. I also hope they check the brakes on their cars before they leave work today.
What can I say? Everyone was cool as hell. Silent Bob is a Chatty-Fucking-Cathy, Vile Orb is not vile nor an orb, porcupine has no quills, etc. I guess I’m saying that they’re all a bunch of lying bastards. 
Really, though, everyone was great, and I’m not listing individuals and what I like about them because I’m too self-absorbed to be bothered with that. Plus I was so hopped up on hooch that night that I really think I said enough.
Whoo hoo, I’m back in NY - finally.
I feel like I was hit with a 2x4.
Yes, after going out Thursday night, Friday night and DopeFest Saturday, I met my friends at a bar (The Store) for the New England Patriots game and then went to Gold Star ($1.75 Old Style’s!) until 1 am on Sunday. Monday I flew back to NY and yup, met a friend for drinks until 1. Can someone PLEASE give me a blood transfusion?
Let me take this moment to tell all of you Chicago, Michigan, DC, Minnesota, Ohio, Misc. Dopers how wunderbar you are. Such caring, generous, warm and beautiful people can’t be found just anywhere.
Omni, hm. I thought you were my 8 ball bitch.
magdalene - You know how much I love you. sob
Milo - thanks for the marriage proposal (even though you took it back once my bowling score fell, you heartbreaker).
Valerie - thank you so much for being such a awesome hostess. It’s true that there is no one like you!
I’ll get to the rest of you later - I really need to put my head down on my desk for a minute.
Sheesh. What a buncha fuckin’ drunks. Who’s this UncleBeer guy you’re all goin’ on about? I wasn’t there. Or was I? Hmmmm …
Sheesh. What a buncha fuckin’ drunks. Who’s this UncleBeer guy you’re all goin’ on about? I wasn’t there. Or was I? Hmmmm … I guess maybe I was. At least someone put a shitload of miles on my car this weekend.
GL and I were not sitting back feeling superior. We were trying to decide which of us is the biggest misanthrope. Resolved: Humanity, with the exception of a few individual specimens, sucks. And then back at the hotel even Gaudere got into the act. I think with a bit of training she could easily become a first rate cynic on the human condition. And damn, can that girl drink. (Sorry 'bout the skunky Czech beers, but at least I had some Guinness for ya.)
Valerie, thanks again for taking care of all the planning and organization. You’re superb! Even if you’ve puked at the last two of these things. Maybe the Guinness Swilling Elf could give you a drinking lesson. Hell, almost anybody could give you a lesson, even dropzone.
So, when’s the next one? I’m free this weekend.
Saxy, you know I totally wore your ass out.
Flyp is a flaming pile of fuck for ditching us. I will make him pay.
Milo looks exactly like Flyp + 10 years.
We are a bunch of lushes.
I think Gaudy is afraid of me.
Advice: Don’t bet against the guy who brings his own shoes, wrist brace, and ball 8 hrs from home to go drunk bowling. He’s probably got a plan to swindle you.
Question: What the fuck happened?
Ok, I wake up the next afternoon, sore, drunk, covered in mud and brambles, covered in blue marker, with a severe leg cramp. How is this supposed to be fun again? Damn drunks.
I still say we should have called Flyp around 1:30am or so. 
Oh, and I’m dropping off my film tonight. Depending on how late I can make myself stay up, I may have pictures up tonight. More likely tomorrow.
Afraid of you, Omni? Hah. Apparently in your drunken haze you do not recall how adept I am at bouncing men off the nearest walls. But I was feeling tolerant that night.
I feel compelled to note that I was not the first person to scribble the phrase “I like penis” on a drunken man, although I didn’t see who wrote it first and I certainly did my part to decorate inertia and Omni with it.
I got home at 6:30 am and everyone and their brother proceeded to call me and wake me up. And I had to keep answering the phone because I thought it was Valerie telling me where “breakfast” was going to be. Since I didn’t say it before: that family resturant in the bowling alley smells like sweaty bowling shoes. Not a good thing shortly after you wake up.
It was cool to meet up again with the dopers I knew before and to meet new ones. Magdalene may become my new favorite person if she keeps flattering me, even if she likes ::shudder:: vodka. Valerie rules, as always, even if she can’t hold her liquour. I’m going to have to call in that drink VileOrb owes me someday. UncleBeer and GL, we can all be bitter together, but I think I need a little more training.
Gaudere, did I drink vodka? I only like vodka when mixed with cranberry juice…huh…I have no recollection of that - I was trying to keep it to a beer night so I didn’t have to fight anyone for precious porcelain goddess altar space. I think I forgot to thank you for the ride home, so thanks! (I gotta be careful now, a mod knows where I live).
I also have to mention (before I forget):
Boli - super cool and fun. Thanks for a kick ass conversation and for drinking my vodka tonics. We have to hang out again.
Silent Bob - Thanks for making me into a dissatisfied customer. I appreciate your kind offers.
Uncle Beer - FINALLY. Will you polish off your saxophone already?
Vile Orb/Jess - awesome bowling, Jess. Vile, I hope you’re feeling better
Jeff42 - is there a Jeff41? Anyway, he’s a great dinner conversationalist. Thanks for letting me keep my eye on the World Series game!
Falcon and Joey - We WERE the coolest dinner table, by a mile. Didn’t you notice that we at the little kids table drank four pitchers of beer in the time it took the huge ass King Arthur table to drink four pitchers of beer? Now that’s quality.
Inertia - aren’t you wondering if you’re still on my shit list?
Now for a question.
I recall taking very, um, interesting photos that night. Once I get them developed I don’t know what to do with them. There’s a scanner here at work, but I don’t want to use it to scan THOSE photos. Can I physically send someone the pictures (Falcon?) to put up for the whole world to see?
Gaudere, you can bounce me off the walls anytime:D:
Unclebeer, Gaudy… are you two BEER DRINKERS claiming I can’t hold my liquor??? That is CRAZINESS. I was drinking Jack Daniels at the bowling alley and straight Jameson’s at the hotel… And since I threw up so soon at the hotel, I think it was just that the Jameson’s decided the Jack had to go. And you’ll notice I drank a LOT more that night after the vomiting. So there.
I give and I give and I give, and what do you people do? Cast aspersions on my abilities. I only have so many talents, people!
Yeah, but they’re two of the biggest talents I’ve come across in quite some time…
Um, Sax, are you confusing me with someone else? I may not remember everything that happened, but I know FOR SURE that I didn’t drink vodka tonics. I hate vodka, and I really hate tonic water. There seems to be a vodka conspiracy going on here - first Magdalene, now me.
Also, I am dying to know what those pictures you took are of. Can you give out a hint??
Don’t worry Val, I’ll slap Omni for that.
Obviously Val can hold her liquor. No one knows this, but Val and I had a secret stash of absinthe and we’d been chugging it all night from the flasks hidden in our sleeves. If you think Val can’t hold her liquor, I suggest you try to down a bottle. You’re all lucky Val wasn’t hospitalized!
SaxFace -
Yes, you may send your pictures to me. I’m getting mine back tonight, so the process of putting them up will ALSO begin tonight.