# Chicago Gathering Photos **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 5, 1999, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-gathering-photos/12137 "1999-12-05T09:15:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 1999, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-gathering-photos/12137/21 "1999-12-06T16:54:00Z")
Frightening. Nice job, Chris! * * * “Some people are worried about the difference between right and wrong. I’m worried about the difference between wrong and fun.” ~P.J. O’Rourke~ ---
**Author:** ![Atrael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Atrael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atrael)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 1999, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-gathering-photos/12137/22 "1999-12-06T16:57:00Z")
Hey, where’s the blackmail shot of Valerie?.. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 1999, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-gathering-photos/12137/23 "1999-12-06T17:24:00Z")
Must keep telling myself…the camera adds ten pounds…the camera adds ten pounds… * * * Uke ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 1999, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-gathering-photos/12137/24 "1999-12-06T17:36:00Z")
. . . Only if you’ve just eaten one, dear heart. ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 1999, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-gathering-photos/12137/25 "1999-12-07T06:15:00Z")
Well, that confirms it. Boli was wearing a sweater and jeans. * * * Yer pal, Satan ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 1999, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-gathering-photos/12137/26 "1999-12-07T06:49:00Z")
Cool! We’ll have to take pictures at the Michigan one! BTW, has a firm date been set for that? I don’t get in to the Board much and lose track of the threads? Anyone, anyone? ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 1999, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-gathering-photos/12137/27 "1999-12-06T19:01:00Z")
Aaaaah! You guys are so disgustingly _ **cute** _! Ike, can I wrap you up and take you home and make you my luv slave? Gaud, Boli, Valerie, and Chris, can I be your bud? Please? I make most excellent fudge and chocolate chip cookies. I give most excellent back rubs. Pleeeeaaaaase? * * * Will work for sig line. ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 1999, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-gathering-photos/12137/28 "1999-12-06T19:03:00Z")
What a bunch of fine-lookin’ human beings! * * * It is much easier to see ourselves as better than or even worse than, rather than accepting that we simply are. - John “The Penguin” Bingham ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 1999, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-gathering-photos/12137/29 "1999-12-06T19:41:00Z")
Careful, guys. They’re fixin’ to borrow money. * * * Uke ---
**Author:** ![ChrisCTP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@ChrisCTP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisCTP)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 1999, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-gathering-photos/12137/30 "1999-12-06T21:35:00Z")
Flypside: Unfortunately, finances are not in favor of another road trip. As much as it broke my heart, I finally broke down and cancelled my hotel reservations today. Ike: Whether the camera adds anything or not, you’ll be happy to know (I hope) that you’re on my list of “Yummy Guys Whom I Hope To Sleep With Someday.” So there. * * * “…all the prettiest girls live in Des Moines…” –Jack Kerouac, _On the Road_ ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 1999, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-gathering-photos/12137/31 "1999-12-06T21:37:00Z")
Damn, Chris! Don’t you know that guys hate it when you play hard-to-get? \You go girl!\ ---
**Author:** ![Random](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@Random](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Random)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 1999, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-gathering-photos/12137/32 "1999-12-07T05:06:00Z")
Sigh. Next time this happens, I won’t get the 'flu. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 1999, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-gathering-photos/12137/33 "1999-12-07T15:55:00Z")
[the next sound you hear is Neobican bouncing Ukulele Ike’s skull on the nearest manhole cover.] boingboingboingboingboingboingboingstayawayfrommywifegoddamnyouboingboingboingboing ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 1999, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-gathering-photos/12137/34 "1999-12-20T14:03:00Z")
HEY–neither of the links work anymore! And I was counting on a good Monday-morning giggle . . . [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-gathering-photos/12137.md?page=1)