Yes indeedy, party season is nearly upon us! After the Londope with you guys, I’ve got a Christmas party with the clients on the 4th, then on the 5th I’ll be leaving for 8 days in New York. And when I get back, I’ve got an even bigger office Christmas party on the 17th! And then after barely a week of work, we’ll be quitting on Christmas Eve and won’t come back until Jan 2nd! 
Ah, I love this time of year!
(And happy Eid, Angua!)
Yeah, Washte and myself can’t make it. Apart from lack of money, Washte’s back is really playing up which means that she isn’t in the best condition to go walking around London.
Any chance of a day trip to Nottingham while you’re visiting the UK, Eva?
WooHoo! Party time! Yeah, Londope, then friends over on the 9th for Eddie Izzard show, then Group Christmas Dinner, then more parties, then holidays! Yay!
Thank you. Happy Eid to you too Bib. Although, I must say, it doesn’t feel too Eid like, what with me not being at home. But hey, its OK.
Hmmm… I have to teach special relativity in an hour. I’ve had less than five hours of sleep today, maybe a nap is in order…
Sorry to hear you can’t make it Kal, I was looking forward to meeting you and Washte
Sorry, I’m bummed you guys can’t make it, but I don’t think it’ll work out this time. (Thanks for the invite, though!) My college roomie and her two very small munchkins (ages 1 and 3) await me in lovely Middle of Nowhere, Kent, and she doesn’t drive. (Plus she really has her hands full; they’re also in the middle of buying and selling a house and moving a couple of weeks after I leave. I’m hoping I can help her with some stuff around the house while her husband is at work.) We have big plans to do lots of Salvadoran cooking, and maybe an ersatz late Thanksgiving dinner. But no worries, I’m sure I’ll be back in the UK! Or if not, drop me a line if you’ll be in Chicago.
Looking forward to Saturday. I’ll be there for the evening session.
OK, so that sounds like a plan and I’m fully intending to join you. However I have one concern as to how the hell I’ll recognise you lot. Will there by an obvious doper throng ? Will the doperness radiate like a spiritual light ? Or will everyone just wear a carnation and carry a brolly ?
Aside from that I’m more of a sit in the pub rather than go for a meal kinda guy. If everyone was to depart for a meal though I’d opt for the Mongolian option.
Thanks all,
SD
This [url=http://www.kat22.com/brumdope/images/09.jpg]photo may help you SpaceDog. This is Angua, Tansu, and myself. They probably won’t get the beer cleavage thing going til later. Also, I’m 6’ 5" so not easy to miss. I’ll probably go for pub grub instead of Mongolian as well.
Once more with proper coding
sitting in the pub, all day long. no shopping. a meal in the pub. no sightseeing because i liiiivvvee heeeere
an i like beeeeeer
thats a song yo
wrote by me
also, concourse at charing X, why dont you just say meet by one of the coffee shops or WHSmiths in the corner? otherwise its just a big rectangle if peeps arnt sure what other peeps look like
a thought and a song! im on fire! really!
hrhhrhhghhrghhghrhhehhhhhghg
(fire noise)
I’m BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!
Did ya miss me?
Paraphrased: We’ll be pished and talking crap.
Oh, you’ll find out…
MWHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!!!
Red ones are fine, it’s the orange ones that are a bastard, they look so nice and orangey, but do they taste like it? do they crap. meh.
Awwwww, pleasey? sniffle sniffle puppy eyes
Oh, he will be tonight!
ROWR!!!
Yep, we will be there, I need to work saturday morning, I finish at 3, so eta between 4 & 5, we’ll go straight to the Silver Cross shall we if everyone else is supposed to be turning up at 6?
Of course we did!!
Speak for yourself. I’ll attempt civilised conversation whilst pissed. It might turn into rude jokes, innuendo, and astrophysics though… 
Aah. Its the Dutch revenge crayons.
Turning up at 6? Bah! Amateurs the lot of ya! Some of us will be in a pub from the early afternoon!
Right, back to teaching physics. This lot are scarily intelligent. They asked to do the mathematical bits of quantum mechanics this morning! :eek:
Some bits on quantum theory for your students, including the Master and commentary:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=143978&highlight=Schroedinger
which is commentary on the classic, and my favorite SD column of all time:
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_122.html
My ex-boyfriend, or the Sexy Soviet Scientist as my grad school classmates used to call him, was so enamored of this column that it was subsequently circulated around the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute for the History of Science and Technology. All in the name of international understanding, of course…
Listen for people saying “1920 style deathrays” and “we should all be wearing red brollys and carrying carnations so we can recognise each other.” I think a secret signal, eg.
is a good idea, but that we’ll never decide on anything in time.
Angua: Blimy. I don’t understand those, and we had an entire course mainly about the time-independent Schrodinger Equation
you’ll spot Angua. She’s small, but perfectly formed.
she’s also exceptionally loud and bubbly. Kind of like a Hobbit on Crack.
Hehe. Tell me about it.
The scariest thing was that some have them had seen the Schrodinger equation before, and weren’t impressed by it.
Thanks Eva, I printed out the epic poem and passed it round the class. They were impressed, and loved it
Wow. You’ve just described me in two sentences. I’m impressed. And not a nasty word in it.
You seem to like these comparisons about people on crack. How do you know what a Hobbit on crack is like? 
Angua: the Babycham of the Straight Dope.
Gyrate, you should be proud. You’ve made my sig.
I had a Babycham the other week. It’s quite refreshing, not not too sweet, and pops pleasantly in your mouth.
Ask them to solve it, that should do the trick, shouldn’t it?
Woohoo! No more work until Dec. 11, even if I did get out of there 3 hours late! The Thanksgiving sweet potatoes are in othe oven, and next the rugelach dough will be assembled to chill in the fridge overnight before being filled and rolled into crescents and baked tomorrow…somehow between now and Friday morning, there are 2 batches of sweet potato casserole to be made, 2 batches of rugelach to be assembled (apricot and raspberry…I think Angua has the chocolate angle covered, and hey, someone has to make something that ostensibly has nutritional value), and a Derby pie to be made (chocolate chips, nuts, and bourbon: how can you go wrong?)…oh, and there are the minor details of 2 Thanksgiving dinners, cleaning the apartment, and packing. And maybe some sleep in there somewhere.
Sorry for the babbling…sleep deprivation will do that to a person. At risk of opening myself to all sorts of one-liners, what am I forgetting?
