# MADs: Memorial Day Weekend Picnic, Sun 5/25 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 11, 2003, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-memorial-day-weekend-picnic-sun-5-25/174523 "2003-05-11T18:15:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2003, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-memorial-day-weekend-picnic-sun-5-25/174523/161 "2003-05-25T23:45:37Z")
It’s a geocities thing. Darned if I know why. I have a teemingmillions page, so maybe I’ll put em there. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2003, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-memorial-day-weekend-picnic-sun-5-25/174523/162 "2003-05-25T23:54:26Z")
Ok, [try here](http://dantheman.teemingmillions.com/photo.html). They’re not the best photos. 🙂 Oh, and apologies in advance for spelling his name wrong, if I did! Thanks to **RT** for all of his hard work! The park was an excellent place for this kinda shindig, although the weather wasn’t too cooperative. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-memorial-day-weekend-picnic-sun-5-25/174523/163 "2003-05-26T00:19:08Z")
We’re home, we’re exhausted, and we had a great time. Thanks, all, for coming! Details and photos tomorrow. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2003, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-memorial-day-weekend-picnic-sun-5-25/174523/164 "2003-05-26T01:05:01Z")
Thanks again, RT. It was nice to see everyone again. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2003, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-memorial-day-weekend-picnic-sun-5-25/174523/165 "2003-05-26T01:13:53Z")
You guys got there? **After we left?** Punks. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2003, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-memorial-day-weekend-picnic-sun-5-25/174523/166 "2003-05-26T03:39:15Z")
… like how to play [this game](http://www.waste.org/~oxymoron/cards/ratscrew.html), although I swear Opal kept making up the rules as it went along. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2003, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-memorial-day-weekend-picnic-sun-5-25/174523/167 "2003-05-26T12:04:02Z")
I think the details of the rules are regional. And I never changed the rules while we were playing! From the beginning they were: Slaps on: adds up to 10 or pairs Face card rules: jack - 1 chance queen - 2 chances king - 3 chances ace - 4 chances simple, really. Not to mention painful! Here is another set of rules that contains the adds-up-to-10 thing but also includes the sandwiching rule which I’ve never played before. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A609789](http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A609789) ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2003, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-memorial-day-weekend-picnic-sun-5-25/174523/168 "2003-05-26T12:15:45Z")
Every game should be so violent. Kapow! Smack! SLAP! Yeehaw! ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2003, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-memorial-day-weekend-picnic-sun-5-25/174523/169 "2003-05-26T12:21:34Z")
Yeah well I woud have won more if it hadn’t been for that skank-ass cheating whore. (the insult slinging is one of the best parts of the game in my opinion) ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2003, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-memorial-day-weekend-picnic-sun-5-25/174523/170 "2003-05-26T12:23:44Z")
Definitely. A game that combines trash talking and violence. I love America! ---
**Author:** ![AnnaLucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e95f7d/32.png) [@AnnaLucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnnaLucretia)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2003, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-memorial-day-weekend-picnic-sun-5-25/174523/171 "2003-05-26T14:34:08Z")
Thanks to everyone for a fantastic time! I was really happy to finally meet some of the people I’ve been reading about for so long - y’all rock. Oh and Ginger, I’m still really sorry about the Cauliflower Episode. Now I just have to (rat) screw up my courage to go to MountainDope. AL ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2003, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-memorial-day-weekend-picnic-sun-5-25/174523/172 "2003-05-26T15:02:19Z")
Invite Lou. You’ll look normal by comparison. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2003, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-memorial-day-weekend-picnic-sun-5-25/174523/173 "2003-05-26T15:17:48Z")
We were very disappointed that you had left before we got there, JC. HOWEVER, I did partake of Old Dominion, and I send you many kisses for said deliciousness. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2003, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-memorial-day-weekend-picnic-sun-5-25/174523/174 "2003-05-26T18:11:18Z")
I’ll claim those next month, cutie. Hey, was it just me or is this batch (brewed in March) have a **lot** more kick? My mouth was tinglin’ there! ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2003, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-memorial-day-weekend-picnic-sun-5-25/174523/175 "2003-05-26T18:45:52Z")
That’s just because you were thinking of me. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-memorial-day-weekend-picnic-sun-5-25/174523/176 "2003-05-27T01:48:48Z")
Here’s [my pix](http://www.chesapeake.net/~jackinae/Billy%20Goat%20Trail/SenecaCreek/). Enjoy! The text file tells you who’s in what pictures, but those of us in The Clique[sup]TM[/sup] already know, of course. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-memorial-day-weekend-picnic-sun-5-25/174523/177 "2003-05-27T02:22:08Z")
Excellent pics, **RT**. I mean that. Excellent. Except they’re too true to life, and who the heck invited that scary looking dude with the white t-shirt and the brown jacket? ---
**Author:** ![av8rmike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@av8rmike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/av8rmike)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-memorial-day-weekend-picnic-sun-5-25/174523/178 "2003-05-27T02:44:18Z")
I don’t know what **Opal** ’s complaining about, she won half the games! 😛 And I have no idea _what_ I’m looking at in that one pic that’s causing me to make that face. Maybe it was the scary albino cockroach. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-memorial-day-weekend-picnic-sun-5-25/174523/179 "2003-05-27T03:10:48Z")
The albino cockroach was really really freaky. ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-memorial-day-weekend-picnic-sun-5-25/174523/180 "2003-05-27T11:42:04Z")
I can’t beleive this. I totally missed this thread. Mental note, more vanity searches. . . I ended up working all weekend anyway. Rassin frissin broken down old piece of crap servers. . . [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-memorial-day-weekend-picnic-sun-5-25/174523.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-memorial-day-weekend-picnic-sun-5-25/174523.md?page=10)