# MADs: Mark July 3 on your calendars for the Geo-Going-Away-Birthday Party! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 14, 2002, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-mark-july-3-on-your-calendars-for-the-geo-going-away-birthday-party/114076 "2002-06-14T18:46:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-mark-july-3-on-your-calendars-for-the-geo-going-away-birthday-party/114076/61 "2002-07-03T16:51:16Z")
**Neidhart** or **'Punha** : Am I meeting you guys at Vienna or Dunn Loring tonight? ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-mark-july-3-on-your-calendars-for-the-geo-going-away-birthday-party/114076/62 "2002-07-03T16:53:23Z")
Sorry… No can do. Have a good party, folks! ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-mark-july-3-on-your-calendars-for-the-geo-going-away-birthday-party/114076/63 "2002-07-03T17:11:44Z")
**Neidhart** : 6:25 work for you? We’re picking up **gobear** at his metro stop of choice (gobear, check yer email). ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-mark-july-3-on-your-calendars-for-the-geo-going-away-birthday-party/114076/64 "2002-07-03T17:12:05Z")
**Neidhart** : 6:25 work for you? We’re picking up **gobear** at Dunn Loring. [I really hope that first one didn’t go through…] ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-mark-july-3-on-your-calendars-for-the-geo-going-away-birthday-party/114076/65 "2002-07-03T17:15:26Z")
Sassafrassin’ %#W^#%^)(\*#%^)(#&)(#%^ thing… If one of you mod-type peoples is feelin’ particularly bored, y’all can delete the first one of those (the one that does not indicate which metro stop we’re meeting **gobear** at). ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-mark-july-3-on-your-calendars-for-the-geo-going-away-birthday-party/114076/66 "2002-07-03T18:56:38Z")
Or they could just leave the entire sequence there to annoy you. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-mark-july-3-on-your-calendars-for-the-geo-going-away-birthday-party/114076/67 "2002-07-03T21:26:57Z")
6:25 is fine; gives me time to cool off. Just got home and boy, is it nasty out there! ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-mark-july-3-on-your-calendars-for-the-geo-going-away-birthday-party/114076/68 "2002-07-04T04:03:16Z")
Thanks to **Geobabe** and **Geoparents** for opening their home and letting us congratulate **Geobabe** and **Uncle Bill** on their upcoming wedding, their move to Florida, and a certain birthday. We’ll miss you! ---
**Author:** ![Bluesman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@Bluesman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluesman)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-mark-july-3-on-your-calendars-for-the-geo-going-away-birthday-party/114076/69 "2002-07-04T04:03:29Z")
Well, there goes my hammer! Do right by her, **Uncle Bill** , because we sure do like her. And you, too…we like both of you guys! Have a great move. If it’s as fun as the send-off, you’ll be laughing the whole way there. If **Bill** is feeling less seasick, that is. Hope you feel better! **Doors** , keep 'em flying. **Nacho** congrats on the poetry win, and for being a hot sexy honey. **Zap** , I feel bad about your car. Hell, dude, I almost caught on fire today myself! **gobear** , it was an intellectual trip of the best kind to talk to you, but it ended too quickly. **RT** , I saw where your hand was…you just watch it, Mr. Smooth! As for the rest of the crew, we had as great a time as we usually do seeing you all again. ---
**Author:** ![Anita\_Vacation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Anita\_Vacation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anita_Vacation)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-mark-july-3-on-your-calendars-for-the-geo-going-away-birthday-party/114076/70 "2002-07-05T15:52:35Z")
Thank you to everyone for making Geo and Bill’s sendoff so much fun. A special thanks to those folks who had to travel far to get to GeoMom’s house. GeoMom was worried that there would not be enough chairs, but I told her that Dopers are pretty resourceful. I enjoyed watching the Musical Laps game. Who won? **Zap** I’m so sorry about your car. Car troubles have become a tradition for Geo’s gatherings, but cars are supposed to break down **after** the party, not before. **Doors** We know your car made it this time, but hope that our directions out got you where you were headed. Too many of us were trying to help, and you could have ended up in WV instead of PA. \*\* Bluesman\*\* and **Lucretia** It was so good to see you both again. Oh, and Blue, you are forgiven for the Chow joke since most of us had not eaten yet. **RT** I wish I’d had a chance to talk to you more…and I did not see where your hand was. What did I miss? **gobear** ditto on wishing we’d talked more. I hope your BF will give Dopefests another try. **Nacho** I’m sorry that did not get a chance to read your poem at the party. I’ll just have to get a City Paper and save it. **Ender** We were so delighted that you made us a stop on your roadtrip! **Opalcat** Way TMI. Good luck with the “procedure”. ---
**Author:** ![Zappo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b3f665/32.png) [@Zappo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zappo)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-mark-july-3-on-your-calendars-for-the-geo-going-away-birthday-party/114076/71 "2002-07-05T16:59:51Z")
Many thanks to **GeoMom** and **Anita** for their hospitality. I had a wonderful time, flaming Tauruses notwithstanding. **Bluesman and Anita** : Thanks for your condolences. Just got a phone call from the Ford agency and the car is ready to go, unsinged and repaired thanks to the wonderful folks at the Ford Extended Service Plan. Heh. Wait’ll they get the bill for the rental car. It was great to see everybody and I hope that you all can make it to AirmanRobynBabyDope @ Fabulous Castell Zappo in October! ---
**Author:** ![chrisv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@chrisv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisv)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2002, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-mark-july-3-on-your-calendars-for-the-geo-going-away-birthday-party/114076/72 "2002-07-07T15:08:25Z")
Geobabe, thank you for inviting me to your sendoff. It was great getting to meet all of you! I’m going to try to participate on here more now so I can get to know you better. =o) ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2002, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-mark-july-3-on-your-calendars-for-the-geo-going-away-birthday-party/114076/73 "2002-07-07T17:17:33Z")
**Chris**! Glad to see you here! Mwahahaha…another soul for the master… erm, I mean, I think you’ll fit right in around here. Make yourself at home! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2002, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-mark-july-3-on-your-calendars-for-the-geo-going-away-birthday-party/114076/74 "2002-07-10T02:33:34Z")
I had a great time at your send off party Geo. Pictures should be up in a day or two I think. You can check them out in the url in my sig. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-mark-july-3-on-your-calendars-for-the-geo-going-away-birthday-party/114076.md?page=3)