You’d have to be pretty god-awful before we didn’t like you. Based on the posts I’ve seen, that’s just not a realistic possibility.
And Opal has happy fun bouncy–OOH!!! A BADGER!!!
Are you trying to distract people or is this the latest euphamism that us fogeys aren’t aware of yet? 
I got to sit on ultrafilter’s knees too but I fell off. So he sat on mine instead, and I sang him a little song.
ultrafilter and Edward the Head were pretty damned amusing watching Opal re-lace my bodice.
I appologize for ducking out of Truth or Dare without a word-but that’s a little TOO much for me. However, I SHOULD have said something!
:o
I had fun, and would like to thank the Dopers there for helping me come out of my shell. (Perhaps you noticed me sort of cringing into a corner at first! Well, it is kind of strange when people say, “Oh, you’re Guinastasia!”) However, once things got going, I realized, I did know everyone, more or less!
It was certainly a thrill to meet everyone! I’ve met iampunha and AirmanDoors before, and it was great seeing them again, too. And Airman, that was the BEST cheesesteak I’ve ever eaten. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.
To the Chances, thank you for a sincerely kickass party. GREAT house (and LOVELY book selection I noticed!). I hope we weren’t too much of a mess.
Siege and I got back to my place a little before 11 am, even. I hit the shower and then my bed. Three hour nap=saaa-weet!
IT’s a mess…but not as bad as it’s been post-party before. No worries.
Opal Pun and I just got home back down in Sova. I’ll work on resizing my pictures and I’ll try to get them to you tomorrow. I’m just waaaaayyyy to pooped to fool with it right now.
And if anybody got a picture of my ‘examination’ during the game could you just send that to me and not worry about posting it for everybody else? I think enough people got to see that!
Great party JC as always. Thanks for putting up with us for another year!
Can you make it down to Carlisle? We go to stuff like this from time to time, and we’d be happy to take you.
And I’m gonna second what ultrafilter said. You’d have to be a world-class asshole for us not to like you. I mean, we like WeirdDave, fercryin’outloud! [sub]I’m kidding![/sub]
Robin
fizzes: too late. That pic went up within hours.
OK I have an idea… can everyone say who they were, just so anyone who didn’t catch all the names can match faces?
I’ll start… I was the gypsy. My son Dominic was Capt. Jack Sparrow.
I was the fireman
Did you check your smoke detectors when you set the clocks back last night?
Well- did you??
I looks like you guys had a ton of fun, and I so wish I had more dopers in my area and that I could get time off during normal people hours.
Not that I’m acussing any dopers of being normal or anything.
Opal, I would like to say that Dominic looked wonderful! Great job on that, and what a future heartbreaker.
And I am wondering where you got your bodice? From the little part of it you can see in the picture it looks very nice, and I am very jelous.
Waiting for more pictures and more stories here!
Thanks! I made my costume (and Dominic’s and actually Edward_the_Head’s, too.) I used a pattern for most of my costume, however, so I can’t take all the credit.
I was the super-size woman with no costume; boring beige pants and charcoal sweater (but really good Vodka!) There are a couple of Truth or Dare shots where I’m visible.
That was one hell of a party! Thanks, JC, for throwing this shindig. I enjoyed every minute of it that I was there, and so did Jacki, who’s sorry she couldn’t have stayed around for more of it. (BTW, keep her in your thoughts and prayers, OK? In about 20 minutes, I’m taking her to the hospital so she can get a whole bunch of blood pumped into her. Anemia.) I was in more great conversations than I can remember, and it was a pleasure to meet some of my favorite Dopers (like Siege and danceswithcats and norinew) for the first time.
I felt like a bum for walking out in the middle of the Truth or Dare game, but Jacki had been expecting to hear from me some time before, so I figured I’d better be getting back to the B&B we were staying at. What did I miss?
I was the ugly looking one with the big bone. Or later on the one in just my underwear.
I was “Little” Red Riding Hood. Hamadryad was wearing a long reddish peasanty dress. Her husband Tark was in a NY baseball jersey thing. My kid was a red Ninja, one of Hama’s was as well; her little girl Frankie was a pink fairy and her boy Carl was a gross bleeding dead thing. In jeans.
ultrafilter kept to his standby ‘magic marker on the face’ costume. JC was the Cat in the Hat and Lady Chance a witch. Baby Kate was a “Barbie in Swan Lake”, and NOT at all a pretty fairy princess as I was informed.
I was the one in the sari, trying like crazy to avoid open flames.
Great party - I finally managed to put a few more faces to names (iampunha and gobear come to mind, among many others), and my cheesestake virginity was oh-so-sensitively lost to Airman Doors - in the kitchen, no less…be still my heart (stomach?)
Now how did I miss the Truth or Dare? Come on, people, I was only wearing 9 yards of cloth and a t-shirt!!! Sheesh.
Other people I can Identify - AnitaVacation had a lame excuse for a costume, dances_with_cats was the fireman, that_darn_cat had a welding mask on…I think the rest of the ones I could identify are already named above.
So when’s the next one?
I was the chick in the long blue beaded dress with the tiara and the black and silver feather boa that kept dropping feathers everywhere.
I had SO much fun! I FINALLY got to meet Polycarp and gobear!
(Opal, so WHAT if you used a pattern-those costumes were AMAZING!)
I was the Egyptian(ish) priest, with bo stave and ritual dagger. (Or is it a short sword? Coming soon to GQ…)
I see I missed quite a few interesting moments after I left the Truth or Dare game. Sorry I had to bail out so early – when I get tired, I get tired fast. I made it to my folks place in one piece, and just in time too.
I’m thinking up some interesting dares and stories for the next big fest. I’ve already got one idea, heh heh.
(Note to self: Next time, when searching a lady for smuggled goods, check the bodice.)
As with everybody else, THANKS JC FOR HOSTING!