So we finally got the pix up for Mountain Dope 2003.
I expect iampunha will be happy to annotate them for us. He knows everyone.
I know Opal has some pix up and AnnaLucretia took some as well. Feel free to post 'em here!
Let’s relive the magic…one last time!
With apologies…
Just a single bump for the daytime crowd.
I just gotta couple questions–
I didn’t get anything but those darn little red Xs WAAAAAAH
Wow!! you guys look like you had a fantastic time. We had a similar party this weekend. I especially liek the watermelon in with the beer in the tub’o’ice’n’suds.
I wish there were some doper names to go with faces… you guys look like you had a blast though. Who’s house were you at? Looks like everyone had fun!!
The most fun I had this weekend was learning to play Bocce and how to make Margarita’s with my new Daquiry Whacker …
yeah what is that guy on the last page doing?? Making a waffle calzone?
[ProudWife]That would be Airman Doors, USAF doing what he does best: Making cheesesteaks so good, they bring tears to your eyes and make you proud to be an American.[/ProudWife]
Robin
And it was at my place, dammit!
We had over 90 people at the house that day. Almost a new record for one of our parties.
Do we bring the goods or what?
By my count the locusts drank:
8 cases of soda
300+ beers
15 bottles of wine
And a great deal of food.
Ok,
Who is the gray haired gent sitting on the porch playing the guitar?
Who is the skinny singing half shirt flat abs wearing woman?
The grayihaired gent is the father of the singer in the opening band, Disco Stu. He’s a photographer for the Smithsonian. Interesting chap in a hippy-ish sort of way.
The woman is Mary Prankster, mid-atlantic punk goddess and pal of myself. She came in to do a gig for my kid sister, the recent graduate. NC on Friday, NoVA on Saturday, NC on Sunday.
We’re all about the love up here.
Airman Doors, makes awesome cheesesteak sandwiches!
That was a great party, thanks again for your hospitality, JC.
Great party, great pics!!! I hope someone will put up real captions, but sitting around the Egyptian Rat Screw Circle (page 7, second row down, all the way to the right) are:
(Clockwise from the gent in blue at the top)
iampunha
panache
roomate of TeleTronOne
Blueskids #1 and #2
Edward the Head
Opal
Thanks again JC!!
Nice house John. Where’s he Midden?
The midden is between all three buildings in the garden.
<<SLIGHT HIJACK>>> I was folLowing your thread on that (the midden), as I have a barn on my property that is being dug up slowly but surly. Actually, I contacted Antiquarian about it and am waiting for a response. He and I have actually met before a long time ago up in Boston… Weird coincidences about the SDMB…
The first Doper Sighting [sup]TM[/sup] (there are a coupla DoperKids[sup]TM[/sup] earlier) is picture 9, of MsRobyn. From there:
Picture 10: Hamadryad in the way back left (the woman with the black-ish shirt? Yeah, her), someone I cannot identify (but I’d bet it’s one of her non-doper guests), and hamafriend and Airman Doors. I have a sneaky suspicion that gobear is just to Airman’s stageleft, but I can’t be completely sure.
Picture 11: Airman Doors in the Adidas shirt, with Bombay Doors on the floor with him and Lucretian2 on the couch. That’s Lucretian3 on a chair with alloran the newly unbanned (not his actual screen name).
Picture 12: same (you think I’m typing all that up again?)
Page 2.
Picture 13: no dopers
Picture 14: MsRobyn is in the red shirt, and I believe that’s alloran the newly unbanned (not his actual screen name) on the stairs.
Picture 15: same as 10 but with MsRobyn.
Picture 16: Opalcat and Edward the Head off to the left, with Keith Berry standing and Theios squatting with the beer, and Attrayant on the stairs.
Picture 17: You’ll notice there are some backs in picture 16 and I was NOT going to spend an hour trying to figure out who they were based on back sizes. Well, here they are. GingeroftheNorth and Anita Vacation are smiling (well, Gingy is. I think Anita found out about that whole chili-root beer thing). Attrayant is sitting in front of them oblivious to the fact that the camera all but captured his nose hairs staging a 3-act play. Captain Amazing is in the blue shirt behind them and Weirddave is in the white shirt. I confess I don’t know who’s in the red shirt.
Picture 18: Opalkid in the dark blue shirt, Lucretian3 on the couch and alloran the newly unbanned (not his actual screen name) and Lucretian2 on the right side. ::mentally hopes they don’t move further together in ensuing photographs.::
Picture 19: no dopers.
Picture 20: Saint Polycarp is (thank [deity]) preventing me from being photographed. fizzestothetop is looking at me wondering what the hell I’m doing, and from memory I’m going to bet that’s gobear’s right arm in the picture as well.
Picture 22: no dopers.
Picture 23: Theios must have dropped her beer, because there’s no other explanation for why she’s looking at the ground so mournfully. Attrayant seems to have dropped something of less significance. Either Keith Berry or gobear (betting on the former) is sitting on the stairs, and Weirddave, I think, has his back to the camera. No earthly idea who the guy to his right is. And just to prove I’m still anal when it counts, that’s Lucretian1, if I’m not mistaken, in the dark shirt on the balcony.
Picture 24: Yup, that was Keith Berry! Next to him is … someone else. No clue who she is. Attrayant is looking oddly at a cigarette for some reason unbeknownst to the rest of us. Weirddave and someone else are looking as Baby Kate walks past. Oh, and that’s Hamadryad behind the guy in the red shirt.
Pictures 25/6: Lucretian3 poses for some glamour shots with a beach ball. Okay … you love it! You love it! Oooh, now you hate it! Aw, hell … just sit on it.
Page 3.
Picture 27: Random and assorted DoperKids[sup]TM[/sup].
Picture 28: Lucretian3 has ball. Some random and assorted DoperKids[sup]TM[/sup] want ball. Action ensues.
Picture 29: Lucretian1 in the Hawai’ian shirt, on the same side as someone in a red shirt (pretty sure it’s not a doper) and that_darn_cat, who is obviously not in a red shirt (being, as it is, blue). fizzestothetop is in the white shirt and I’m in the blue one. ISTR that the other guy on our side wasn’t a doper either.
Picture 30; I was right. Not a doper. All together now … the cow is not a doper, the cow is not a doper…okay, enough. I have no idea what I was doing in that picture.
Picture 31: Airman Doors amd MsRobyn. Along with, of course, random and assorted DoperKids[sup]TM[/sup].
Picture 32: Oh. Dear. God. Okay…Anita Vacation and Theios ‘n’ crew (I think) to your lower left. Skulldigger is in the chair on the far lower right, and Skerri and boyfriend are walking in her general direction. I’m pretty sure that’s Disco Stu in the center of the picture, and I’m equally sure that’s Attrayant in the red shirt to their left. The people on the porch are random and assorted Guests of Jonathan Chance (i.e. I have NFC who they are in that lighting). There, that wasn’t so bad…
Picture 33: Lucretian3 along with random and assorted DoperKids[sup]TM[/sup].
Picture 34: Lucretia and Bluesman are seated, with me behind Lucretia’s hair and Neidhart sitting on the steps behind us. If I were a betting man I’d bet that’s Hamdryad’s hair far right, but I’m not sure.
Picture 35: Our Valiant Host makes his first pictorial appearance! Here he seems to be doing something related to a band. Aren’t you all so much the wiser for me telling you that?
Picture 36: I think that’s Attrayant with his back to the camera (so inconsiderate of him not to know a picture was being taken feet behind him. I say you take him off the guest list, JC;)). Keith Berry appears to be beside the woman in cami pants. No idea about anyone else (I’m slipping, I know).
Picture 37: Theios and at least one of her girlfriends. I think, actually, both. Skulldigger’s a little bit away, no doubt having saved a seat for Polycarp. No identifiable dopers in the rest.
Page 4.
Picture 38: No dopers, but Sister Chance (not a nun) is in the shirt with funky print on it. I think it said something like “inherited millionaire”, but it’s impossible to tell from that picture (and was damn near impossible to read anyway).
Picture 39: Jonathan Chance is the only doper I recognize in this picture.
Picture 40: GingeroftheNorth, Weirddave, hamadryad and Neidhart. Was this before or after the discussion of anal sex involving Opalcat using every euphemism possible for “vagina” but discussing anal sex as if it were sliced bread?
Picture 41: I think that’s Lucretian1 behind the tree, but I know that Lucretia and Bluesman are sitting down on the far left with Lucretian3 in her lap. That’s moi (“moy”, for those who think I grew fabulous breasts and wore a halfway-backless dress to this dig) with Attrayant sitting on the ground and Skulldigger sitting in an actual seat.
Picture 42: Random and assorted DoperKids[sup]TM[/sup].
Picture 43: Disco Stu.
Picture 44: I think that’s GingeroftheNorth sitting in front of Cami Pant Girl sup[/sup], and there’s Skerri amd boyfriend laughing at something, or someone, or summat, I dunno. Maybe they dare mock the mystical, magical balloon animal being held or created (or summat) by Hamadryad. Neidhart sits at attention for some reason.
Picture 45: Keith Berry and assorted non-dopers.
Picture 46: Same.
Picture 47: Baby Kate being read to by someone I am assuming is her grandmother.
Picture 48: Random and assorted DoperKids[sup]TM[/sup] with someone’s mother.
Picture 49: I think that’s that_darn_cat in the background. No other dopers.
Page 5.
Picture 50: Lucretian2 seems to have corrupted my brother alloran the newly unbanned (not his actual screen name) to the point where … how is this even possible? He is not reading a book! fizzestothetop is smiling at the camera (after all this time I finally realized there’s something about 5 feet behind me all the time that’s amusing!) and boyfriend just got done showing me how to flip someone off in an almost-dead dialect of Yugoslavian (during a bombing raid in the late 90s, the majority of those who “spoke” the dialect, which is mostly hand signs, lost their hands. The dialect’s kinda mostly died out since then, but boyfriend went on a Mission from God to give them prostheses).
Picture 51: No dopers.
Picture 52: Lucretian1, Bluesman, Lucretia and Keith Berry all look amused. I bet Airman Doors did something to his nose…
Picture 53: Theios eats. Dog’s interest is piqued. Coincidence? I think not.
Picture 54: Jonathan Chance pledges alliegance to something while a member of Disco Stu looks on.
Picture 55: ::deep breath:: Or maybe not … Wendell Wagner’s showed up, in the khakis and grey-ish shirt, and Neidhart is looking off somewhere. GingeroftheNorth is looking the opposite way (you were hoping for a story about Yugoslavian hand dialects again? Pah.).
Picture 56: Wendell moves on … to lean slightly more forward. LucretianX is standing holding a plate. I call it … “Still Life … with Chili”
Picture 57: Mmmmm … watermelon. Oh, and some alcohol too, I think.
Picture 58: hamadryad can be seen here in her native habitat with hamafriend.
Picture 59: Lucretian3 amd Baby Kate.
Picture 60: Lucretian3 realizes there is a camera. Baby Kate cares not.
Picture 61: boyfriend appears to be doing to Macarena in Yugoslavian.
Page 6.
Picture 62: Ah! A … thing … of some … kind. Baby Kate’s interest is piqued. Lucretian3’s is not.
Picture 63: On the far right, we see Lucretian1 standing, Bluesman and Lucretia sitting, boyfriend apparently doing the slow version of the yugoslavian macarena, and … a buncha other random folks.
Picture 64: Evidently I missed Wendell Wagner’s left leg showing in Picture 63, because here it is here.
Picture 65: That’d be ultrafilter chugging what looks like a Yuengling, and Lucretian2 on some mind-altering substance because … that’s … my brother alloran the newly unbanned (not his actual screen name) with his arm around her. Also pictures is fizzestothetop and me. Not moi, me. Got it? Good:) Baby Kate can also be seen wearing a lovely train of some sort of material. Oh, also random and assorted DoperKids[sup]TM[/sup].
Picture 66: Same as before. Note the stairstep-like appearance of the couchdwellers. Note the strained look on Lucretian2’s face. I bet that drug alloran the newly unbanned (not his actual screen name) gave her is starting to wear off … or make her queasy. Also pictured: random and assorted DoperKids[sup]TM[/sup].
Picture 67: Same as 64, but with New and Improved Jonathan Chance for added sensation!
Picture 68: Edward the Head is walking. There are other people in the picture too. Some of them were in picture 67 (don’t mind me, just regenerating Fresh Thought Maker. I should be back to my “normal” self by picture 70 or so).
Picture 69: Boggle, Boggle, toil and troggle! Fire burn and cauldron … goggle? No, really. Boggle. Captain Amazing joins the ranks of the Teenager … ish. Lucretian2,3 pictures along with alloran the newly unbanned (not his actual screen name) and Skulldigger. I would join them the next round and proceed to trounce all.
Picture 70: Sister Chance (not a nun) and Jonathan Chance discuss the metaphysical relationship of the Holy Spirit and Cthulu with a member of Discu Stu.
Picture 71: GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!!! GGGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!!!
Okay, not. But from the dedication and effort in Edward the Head’s face, you’d think so…Jonathan Chance, Bluesman and Lucretia are also pictured.
Picture 72: “Hmm … I’d have to say up the butt, Bob.” Well, okay, not [sub]hey, stop hitting me![/sub]. But moi (that’s “moy”, not me) does look thoughtful. The other person in this picture has eyes and is using them.
Page 7.
Picture 73: Airman Doors looks at something oddly. Maybe he has a mirror…also, Jonathan and Sister Chance (not a nun) look at each other while Member of Disco Stu thinks she’s being squooshed.
Picture 74: Everyone smile for the camera, now…
Picture 75: Either someone just gave Airman Doors a wild turkey or he’s about to sneeze:D
Picture 76: Theios along with Opalfriend, and in between is a guy who doesn’t mind one bit. To their left (our right) is Friend of Nate17 along with, I believe, Teletron1 and Wendell Wagner.
Picture 77: How do you keep 7 idiots busy for an hour? Have them play Egyptian Ratscrew with a Pinnochle deck! Myself (not “moy”, me), Friend of Nate16, Friend of Nate17, Lucretian 3 and 1, Edward the Head (freshly glowing after his goal, I presume) and Opalcat. Lucretian2 and alloran the newly unbanned (not his actual screen name) are on the couch.
Picture 78: Random and assorted DoperKids[sup]TM[/sup]. Well, okay, it’s Opalkid amd Baby Kate, to be specific.
Picture 79: A mystical object with 3 holes!
Picture 80: Airman Doors: “So you’re saying this shredded beef definitely would make my nose look better?”
fizzestothetop: “Oh, yeah. You could hide all those divots and especially that third nostril!” I tease because I love[sub]her. He’s got a face only a Robyn could love[/sub]
Picture 81: Bastard shielded the camera from my bunny. I oughta punch him one in the nose for that…
Pictures 82 and 83: Baby Kate enjoys a not-quite-bedtime story.
Picture 84: ultrafilter and Jonathan Chance. No idea about anyone else.
Picture 85: alloran the newly unbanned (not his actual screen name), MsRobyn, fizzestothetop, Opalkid, and Lucretian2 look surprisingly happy considering they didn’t make the final cut for Egyptian Ratscrew with the Pinnochle decks. Theios can’t even look on, she’s so disappointed. Meanwhile, myself (not “moy”), Opalcat, Edward the Head, Lucretian1 and Friends of Nate16 and17 enjoy the game. Well, except for our hands.
Picture 86: Airman Doors hard at work molding beef with which to reshape his nose.
Okay, not. He actually spent a considerable amount of time cooking up Philly Cheesesteaks for us all:) He’s a big Eagles fan, he is…
Picture 87: Friend of Nate17 has left for the time being, but the rest of the crew remains. Lucretian2 seems to have gotten too tired to fend off alloran the newly unbanned (not his actual screen name).
Picture 88: With one final heave, she allows herself more than a half-inch of breathing room. Otherwise same crew as before.
Picture 89: I think they wre playing Spades, which I think is similar to Hearts. I think the only doper in this shot is Teletron1.
Okay. That’s 80 pictures captionized (or whatever the verb is. My brain is tired). Hope I didn’t miss anyone:)
Well crap. I misspelled allegiance. I’m actually more annoyed by that than by the fact that my soccer joke made the screen bigger. If’n any mod wants to go correcting that for me I think everyone else will be thankful (brain tired. Can’t thank).
Hmmm, am I FriendofNate16 or FriendofNate17???
(see pic 77)
Addendum:
Pix 16 and 23, not Theios but instead Theios girlfriend Cindy, as I recall.
Pic 32: Woman in grey shirt and cap: Cindy. Woman in black sleeveless shirt and cap: Theios.
Pic 32: People in center=Disco Stu? No. Black Capri Pants and B&W shirt: Woozle, sister of AnnaLucretia who is immediately to the right. To HER right is someone I can’t recognize and to THAT PERSON’S right is the guy who brought the chili who IS a Doper but who’s handle I’ve forgotten.
Pic 35: But you didn’t tell them I was the one far right!
Babe faxing away from Camera? Mary Prankster. Two guys betwixt me and MP? Disco Stu. Far left: Disco Stu Girlfriend. Short haired girl: Sister Chance.
Pic 36: Cami pants? AnnaLucretia.
Pic 44: Cami pant girl again = AnnaLucretia.
Pix 45-46: Man Keith Berry is speaking with is a Doper: Chili Man of the forgotten name.
Pix 49: Nay, my pal Everett.
Pix 52: Smiling with bespectacled forehead? AnnaLucretia. Next to her? Woozle.
Pic 54: You MAROON! That’s Mary Prankster!
Pix 55: The man behind Wendell is av8tr mike or some such, I believe.
Pix 56: Admit it, pun. That’s one smokin’ redhead.
Pic 62: The ‘Thing’ is a Toad they found in the yard. Never can tell what happens, can you?
Pix 70: Mary Prankster you maroon!
Pix 73-74: Do I need to say it…you maroon?
Pic 76: Man in middle: av8rmike, I believe.
Pic 77: FoN16=panache.
Pic 85: FoN16 again=panache.
You’ll always have a friend in me.
Note that I’ve corrected the maroon.