I just checked the rules and you are OK.
Right-o!
I’d love to come again but we are in the middle of the chaos that moving brings and I don’t see any way of escaping. Hope you guys have fun!
I’m gonna be late.
I’m sorry I won’t be there but the Beach has been awesome this week.
Drink a few in my memory.
We did. Thanks, BMalion, for hosting!
A fun time was had by all.
Including two sith lords!
So I seem to recall someone saying they’d make a grand entrance at 10:30? Did that ever materialize?
So who showed up?
And, pics please?
BMalion was a badass Emperor Palpatine, Chronos was Darth Vader, kittenblue came as her lovable self, and I was in Boy Scout uniform. We also had some non-Dopers (two hippies, a witch, a zombie and a karate master). Pics should be forthcoming…
Craig and Dean showed up at 11:00 p.m.
For a party which started at 6? The mind boggles.
Well, normally we party on to the wee hours, so I guess they expected normal…
All the more reason to come to Cleveland, for those who didn’t or couldn’t this time: 5 Reasons to Visit Cleveland Now – Fodors Travel Guide
In the mid-1990s, a Thai lady of my acquaintance was preparing to move to Cleveland. Her husband, a doctor, had gotten some sort of residency there somewhere, a hospital I think. They were going to be there for a year or two. She asked me if there were many black people in Cleveland. Cleveland, mind you. She was asking me this because she was deathly afraid of black people. I broke the news to her as gently as I could that yes, there were quite a few black people in Cleveland. She seemed a little distraught at that. This was the early days of the Internet, and doing a little searching I was able to determine that Cleveland, at that time, was something like the rape and/or murder capital of the US, something dire like that. I recall the statistics showing the vast majority of victims of black crimes were blacks themselves, but I don’t think that calmed her nerves very much.
Lost touch with her after she left. But Cleveland looks nice from that article, and I hope she found it more to her liking than she had feared.
Cleveland has all the ills of any big American city, but a lot of great stuff, too. We’ve been here since 1989, with a somewhat brief hiatus when I worked elsewhere, and like it very much.
I could live in Cleveland. Or Cincy for that matter. Just as long as it got me out of Pittsburgh and away from those damn Stillers!!!
Born and raised Clevelander.
Glad to see those who migrated to the city and visitors enjoy it!
I hope you don’t think I was ragging on Cleveland. It was just that it jogged my memory of that lady all those years ago. She really was distraught due to my information, but I’m sure she ended up having a nice time.
No worries - thanks!