… um, ask someone else. 
withaK, I searched and read your 3 posts and you were right - I’d never read any of your posts before.
So, why’d you stop posting? she asks, in an obvious attempt to trick withaK into making his first post since August of 2002… 
Since you asked, the day after that last post I went to CA for three weeks. When I got back I moved out of my apartment so
I wasn’t online for about 6 months.
The real question is, why did I post in the first place? (I don’t know) 
OMG withaK has blessed us with a 4th post!
Now if we can keep him going, he may hit 100 posts by the time I am ready to retire.
I hereby declare my undying love for Baker and Wikkit. Desserts are my favorite, and they both provided me with many goodies to take home. SkipMagic’s cheesecake brownies were also excellent, but I didn’t get to take any of those home. 
Since I’m such a generous person (and I had 6 pieces, and I have an itty-bitty tummy, and my cubicle-neighbor oogled my food so loudly I was afraid if she didn’t quiet down the whole office would come over and start oogling my food) I shared my baklava stash with my c-n and my boss. They both scarfed it down and the oogler declared it the best baklava she’s ever had. I agree, it is tasty.
(I didn’t have to share Wikkit’s PB/PB chip cookies - they were already gone.)
See what all you non-Dopefestin’ scum missed?
Oh, and I have to confess…I’m the one who took all those pictures of Enderw24 with his camera. It was like taking pictures of my cats - every time I turned around, he was doing something else goofy/cute/silly. At the next Dopefest, I plan to get pics of him laying on his back on the floor with all four paws in the air, or maybe sniffing SkipMagic’s butt… 
It is the best baklava I’ve ever had, as well. And lucky for us, Baker posted the recipe!
I want the recipe for the brownies with the mini-M&M’s, and for the cheesecakes brownies. And the peanut butter cookies! Heck, I want them all!!!
Watch out for falling cheesecake brownies, Enderw24!
Why exactly did we even bother with Figlios? I was more than perfectly content with the desert, which was all amazingly good. I feel a little guilty that I didnt bring anything, but Im sure I would have embarassed myself.
Anywho, anybody have any objections to making it a more frequent thing? Some groups are doing a cemetary frequently, some do a monthly dinner. What about a tri-monthly get together or something? I promise to get some sleep the night before, and not to proposition anyone’s wife. Or offer any conception. Unless asked of course.
What if we go to the cemetery on a bi-weekly basis and do some dead guy’s dead wife? Or at least kiss her bony neck a lot so that we can be accused of being a group of neckingcrophiliacs.
Well, as a grammatical nitpick, tri-monthly would mean you’d want to get together three times a month. Hey, fine with me, I have no life. In fact, I have an anti-life. I suck the lifeforce out of others. So I guess I’d be perfect for helping along that cemetary suggestion of Skip’s.
I think what you wanted was quadra-annually. I’d stop being a geek but I don’t think I can.
Hmph, you call that nitpicking? Observe:
Of the three deserts I’ve had the privilege of being stuck in for more than a month, none of them were anything close to something I would be content with. They’re hot, gritty, nasty, hot, sweltering, dismal, blinding, hot, hot, hot swathes of land that only creatures such as camel spiders could appreciate.
First let’s get this spelled right: cemetery (rule of thumb: 3 e’s, not all in a row). A common misspelling so it’s forgiven. But how does one (or many for that matter), “do a cemetery”? I’ve done my fair share of things in a graveyard, but they’re not things I’d generally do with a group of people that are for the most part verbal acquaintances.
One wouldn’t “offer a conception” as a pickup line to someone’s wife as if you had a recently fertilized egg in your pocket that you could proffer. You might offer a reproductional act that would lead to conception, which in turn can lead to a birth, which in turn can lead to banshees like the ones I brought with me to the fest. I brought them as dire warnings to other Dopers as much as any other reason.
[/nitpicking off]
Still, I enjoyed your story about how you lead flocks of lizards through your museum, teaching them about natural history. I may have some of that story garbled as Enderw24 was busily sucking the lifeforce out of me at the time in his endearing, Rogue-like way. That must be why I was so tired when I got home.
How about a bi-annual get-together? Spring and Fall? That way we miss the extreme temperatures of the other two seasons.
Just out of curiosity, whose wife did you proposition??? And, where you turned down?
OK, to answer questions. One, I cant type on my new laptop effeciently and do things like leave out double letters.
Second, three times a month is fine by me.
Third, no wives were propositioned, although I did offer to help Auntie-Em concieve anything she needs.
I’d like to make it a monthly thing, if that’s at all possible. Sure, there won’t be folks who can make it every time, but they should be able to attend once in a while. Rotate the thing; hold it in Topeka one month, Overland Park another, the Northland another.
Next time I’ll bring something. Being a single guy, I’m not too up on the making food thing.
Ohhh. My wife, eh?
Well, that’s okay, then. Please continue.
I also wouldn’t mind attending a get-together more than once a year. I know that sperfur and Wikkit were both talking about throwing something together (separately) during the fall, so I’d like to see how those pan out.
Twice a year or four times a year–either one would work for me. If we do it monthly (which I’m not adversed to trying), it might make the meetings feel somewhat obligational (and stale), because when you’re busy, months fly by pretty darn quick. “Didn’t we just see those internet geeks? We do enough of these and they might get the idea that we actually like them!”
That said, I wouldn’t mind attending special events such as a Halloween gig, the Renaissance Festival, the teepeeing of the Nelson (the KC Star’s article will read: “One Nelson employee led his weed-obsessed friends on a juvenile run through the museum, where they wrapped so much Charmin around the Big Buddha, that he looked as if he were back in diapers.”), etc… And I second the idea that we try to avoid extreme temperature days from any season. We left a little bit early last Sunday because I was getting ill. I admit it: I’m a wimp with heat; give me the freezing cold anytime.
Or, really, I wouldn’t mind it if someone got it stuck up his/her butt to do a random Doper Dinner somewhere. Besides, keeping in touch would be a good thing; and if we had out-of-town Dopers come in, we could give them a KC Doper Welcome Wagon. Or run them over with it. 
I vote for a quarterly get-together. That way we can all show off our wardrobes for every season.
And it will give me an excuse to get Skip to go out to dinner every once in awhile. Now that he can cook, he figures he don’t need no stinkin’ restaurant (and really, with the way he tips, we probably can’t afford to go out very often :p).
Let’s see what sperfur and Wikkit come up with for this fall; I’m already planning my outfit.
Maybe Scranton another time.
What you don’t know where Scranton is? :eek: Ok, I will tell you, its where I live!
Well, that’s certainly not our fault.