# NYC IRL - Read it and weep **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 12, 2000, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-irl-read-it-and-weep/22112 "2000-06-12T13:16:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![soulsling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@soulsling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulsling)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2000, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-irl-read-it-and-weep/22112/41 "2000-06-13T15:12:42Z")
well, **Joe\_Cool** was actually doing the stomping, i was more or less strategically falling into the corner pockets around him… but damn that Guiness for the super juice it is. ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2000, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-irl-read-it-and-weep/22112/42 "2000-06-13T15:56:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > When playing pool against Wonko the Sane, DO NOT LET HIM DRINK GUINNESS!!! Soulsling and I were stomping him and Saxface, until Wonko had a sip of the ale. > > It was all downhill from there. > \*\* Yes, but Saxface and I still lost, I think… I seem to remember one or two games that ended with an unfortunate episode involving an eight ball. One was my fault, I think the other was someone on the other team. Guinness… Dangerous… Yummmmmm… erp… ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2000, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-irl-read-it-and-weep/22112/43 "2000-06-13T16:19:32Z")
Billdo and I were very much looking forward to this latest Doperfest, and we were fully expecting to be there. Unfortunately, we ended up spending the evening in the waiting room of the Lehigh Valley Hospital’s emergency room while our friend got a CAT-scan and a bunch of stitches in his head. Sorry we missed you all! ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2000, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-irl-read-it-and-weep/22112/44 "2000-06-13T16:26:36Z")
Green Bean! It’s good to hear from you. We all were wondering what happened to you not only at the fest, but on the board. ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2000, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-irl-read-it-and-weep/22112/45 "2000-06-13T16:28:07Z")
Someone was taking pics with a digital camera- Have they been posted yet? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2000, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-irl-read-it-and-weep/22112/46 "2000-06-13T17:41:21Z")
I work not far from Antartica. In an effort to fight ignorance and my own curiosity, I first tried calling the bar - they are not open yet. So, I walked over there to see what the sign said. Well, I saw the sign behind the grating. One side said: Don’t worry. Be     :) happy The other side was facing away and I could not see what it said. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2000, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-irl-read-it-and-weep/22112/47 "2000-06-13T18:08:48Z")
I don’t even remember the “Don’t Worry Be Happy” side of the sign…the OTHER side had some long prose-poem type thing on it, which was QUITE funny. All the chalkboard signs were rather witty, though I didn’t bother to memorize any of them. Wish I’d known about the free beer for Nicoles before we got there. I tried calling **soulsling** Nicole, as I remember, but the barkeep opined that he looked like more of a Tiffany. ---
**Author:** ![soulsling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@soulsling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulsling)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2000, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-irl-read-it-and-weep/22112/48 "2000-06-13T18:19:24Z")
HEY!!! i do not look like a Tiffany. who was he, i’ll teachem. I know for a fact i look more like a Wendy. **Uke** , i’m hurt. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2000, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-irl-read-it-and-weep/22112/49 "2000-06-13T19:03:01Z")
Nah. You don’t have the giant freckles and braids to pull off a Wendy, much less the square hamburger empire standing behind you. Maybe an Amber, but you sure as hell ain’t no Wendy. I would like to take this time to point out that I was good to my [word.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=21340) ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2000, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-irl-read-it-and-weep/22112/50 "2000-06-13T19:19:32Z")
Damn…I was hoping you were the one who said you were going to dreamily whisper “Ukulele Ike” as you drifted off to sleep. Hey, I just noticed that **manhattan** complained in that thread that the cocktail I “invented” for him was a GIRLY DRINK. The drink I dubbed a “manhattan” was actually a Bronx. Gin, vermouth, OJ. Get it? You had said you already had a drink named after you, so I posted the recipe for a Bronx and called it a Manhattan? Uh, did ANYBODY get it? Okay, I guess it was sort of a _stupid_ joke… ---
**Author:** ![soulsling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@soulsling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulsling)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2000, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-irl-read-it-and-weep/22112/51 "2000-06-13T21:04:35Z")
okay, fine, Amber. by the way. i stopped by after work, and the signs are the same so far, at least the one outside about relentlessly searching for something and all that. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2000, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-irl-read-it-and-weep/22112/52 "2000-06-13T21:53:26Z")
The sign outside says: “Tireless in our persuit of exactly where the Hell we left that stupid thing that I swear to God we were using just, like, 2 days ago for Chrissakes.” Every night this month a different name gets free drinks from 5:00 til 11:00. So, if you change your name to Nichole, you can only get free drinks last Saturday. ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2000, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-irl-read-it-and-weep/22112/53 "2000-06-13T22:00:54Z")
Hey Doc, what’s the name gonna be this weekend? I’m gonna need at least a few days to get all the paper work done. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2000, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-irl-read-it-and-weep/22112/54 "2000-06-13T23:17:17Z")
Everyday they have a different name - not just Saturdays. I wrote down a weeks worth, but I left the list at work. The only name I remember is what they have for Sundays - CLOSED. ---
**Author:** ![Lux\_Fiat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-irl-read-it-and-weep/22112/55 "2000-06-14T08:23:12Z")
I posted what pictures I could. We must keep in mind that the camera with which these pictures were taken is an el-cheapo freebie digital camera that I got for signing up with an ISP. The site upon which I posted the pics is a generic prefab webpage because I hadn’t the time to properly do up an actual page, and I wanted to post the five pictures (out of like 12 taken) that actually came out. In sum, it is an excercise in mediocrity, and thus serves as a nice ironic counterpoint to the Dopefest itself, which was an exercise in ultra-fabulousness. [Anyway, here you go.](http://home.earthlink.net/~luxfiat/index.html) Random rememberings: DAVEW0071 has the exact same Airwalks as I do. I don’t think I mentioned this to him at the time. Ukulele Ike has impeccable taste in beer and food (we had the exact same meal). Uke is also, as Demo noted last time, all class. He switched seats with SwimmingRiddles after she came late so that she wouldn’t have to sit at the end of the table, since this whole gathering was her idea in the first place. SwimmingRiddles mentioned some sort of fish-shooting they do in Vermont, which involves lighting a bonfire, sitting in a tree drunk off your ass, and shooting fish as they swim over to investigate the light from the bonfire, pausing only to spit chaw juice. Swiddles thought this wrong. I thought this a grand way to spend an afternoon. DrMatrix thought someone should alert the ATF about it. In sum, it was great seeing those I had already met, and also great meeting those whom I hadn’t. Swiddles, Dave, Wonko, Soulsling, and Houseman are all fine, fine people. Okay, I feel a B\_Line “I love you guys!” post coming on, so I’m going to just submit before people start thinking this whole knowing cynicism vibe I’ve got going is just a front. ---
**Author:** ![Lux\_Fiat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-irl-read-it-and-weep/22112/56 "2000-06-14T08:26:09Z")
Dammit! [Try this.](http://home.earthlink.net/~luxfiat/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![soulsling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@soulsling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulsling)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-irl-read-it-and-weep/22112/57 "2000-06-14T11:24:24Z")
i suppose i’ve become “enlightened”? ha ha. joke. never mind. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-irl-read-it-and-weep/22112/58 "2000-06-14T12:57:44Z")
Why am I always in the dark? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-irl-read-it-and-weep/22112/59 "2000-06-14T13:24:37Z")
Lux had a twenty dollar bill stuck in his ear and I was trying to remove it. I do not remember Sax wearing the hanger. I guess it was just too much for me to absorb in one night. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2000, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-irl-read-it-and-weep/22112/60 "2000-06-14T17:02:30Z")
> [@](#): > > Green Bean! It’s good to hear from you. We all were wondering what happened to you not only at the fest, but on the board. Where have I been? Short version: I finished my semester and ran screaming from the computer. Long version: 'twould be a hijack of the most egregious sort–so I will save it for another place and time. Loved the pictures. (I knew Sax had hang-ups, but that was ridiculous!) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-irl-read-it-and-weep/22112.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-irl-read-it-and-weep/22112.md?page=4)