# Party V: The Free-For-All. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 13, 2007, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-v-the-free-for-all/426198 "2007-11-13T01:22:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-v-the-free-for-all/426198/121 "2007-11-15T18:23:48Z")
[QUOTE=dotchan] Hey all. As much as I’d like to say “A wizard is never late…”, the joke doesn’t work as welll when I haven’t shown up until now. [/QUOTE] Funny you should mentions wizards being late, I was just talking about how worried the Hobbits were when Gandalf failed to meet them at the Prancing Pony in Bree. ---
**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-v-the-free-for-all/426198/122 "2007-11-15T18:29:41Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Funny you should mentions wizards being late, I was just talking about how worried the Hobbits were when Gandalf failed to meet them at the Prancing Pony in Bree. [/QUOTE] You know, in my travels to the Far Orient, I met an illusionist who had great skill in his craft. Somehow or other, however, he got his tricks a little mixed up: he’d saw a lady in half lengthwise, or pull a fox out of his hat instead of a rabbit. It was all quite amusing until he tried the ‘severed thumb’ trick with his own head. The results, as you might guess, were unkind to viewers with weak constitutions. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-v-the-free-for-all/426198/123 "2007-11-15T18:34:58Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Funny you should mentions wizards being late… [/QUOTE] …only after bald elf fled lab… ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-v-the-free-for-all/426198/124 "2007-11-15T18:36:29Z")
I’m sorry I haven’t been posting as much, guys. I’m just a little stressed these days. There’s this…little sexual quirk I have, and a lot of people have been telling me I’m sort of sick for having it. ::sigh:: ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-v-the-free-for-all/426198/125 "2007-11-15T18:44:22Z")
Oh c’mon, folks, this is a party. **grabs karaoke mic** “If I had a hi-fi, Ya ha deedle deedle deedle deedle bum…”[/singing] ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-v-the-free-for-all/426198/126 "2007-11-15T20:33:54Z")
**wanders over from the food table** Hey now, who ate the last of the double chocolate brownies? And who do I get the recipe from? Those were really good! Ah well, guess it’s my turn back at the mic. [singing] Jenny, I’ve got your number, I need to make you mine. Jenny, don’t change your number, 8 6 7 5 3 0 9…(8 6 7 5 3 0 9)[/singing] Ahh, the 80’s. Fun decade that. ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-v-the-free-for-all/426198/127 "2007-11-15T21:33:57Z")
[QUOTE=Zoggie] I’m sorry I haven’t been posting as much, guys. I’m just a little stressed these days. There’s this…little sexual quirk I have, and a lot of people have been telling me I’m sort of sick for having it. ::sigh:: [/QUOTE] Hey, calm down, have a beer. We’re all friends here, let’s talk about something else to take your mind off it. Seen any good movies lately? ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-v-the-free-for-all/426198/128 "2007-11-16T00:29:35Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Would it confuse you if I said Christmas Eve? [/QUOTE] I really need a drink. Or maybe two. I hate road construction. ---
**Author:** ![MHaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@MHaye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MHaye)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-v-the-free-for-all/426198/129 "2007-11-16T00:33:16Z")
[QUOTE=Kat] I really need a drink. Or maybe two. I hate road construction. [/QUOTE] Heya **Kat**. 🙂 I thought I saw some cans of Guinnesss up the back. Fancy one of those? _Stands up and goes for the beer._ Road construction? ---
**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-v-the-free-for-all/426198/130 "2007-11-16T00:53:26Z")
[QUOTE=ArizonaTeach] Ok, let me just whip up some cocktails here…who wants what? [/QUOTE] Ahh… a cocktail. Just what the doctor ordered! I’ll take a Brandy Alexander. Ahh… brandy alexanders… I remember drinking a snootful of B.A.'s in the backseat of a Buick Skylark parked on the shores of the Mississippi River with a certain young lady. Her name, by sheer coincidence, was also Brandy Alexander, if memory serves me correctly. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-v-the-free-for-all/426198/131 "2007-11-16T01:08:31Z")
[QUOTE=Diomedes] Ahh… a cocktail. Just what the doctor ordered! I’ll take a Brandy Alexander. Ahh… brandy alexanders… I remember drinking a snootful of B.A.'s in the backseat of a Buick Skylark parked on the shores of the Mississippi River with a certain young lady. Her name, by sheer coincidence, was also Brandy Alexander, if memory serves me correctly. [/QUOTE] Brandy? Cognac is much better. ---
**Author:** ![ArizonaTeach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-v-the-free-for-all/426198/132 "2007-11-16T01:58:02Z")
You sure have some great stories to tell there, Diomedes. What other exotic ocales have you visited? ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-v-the-free-for-all/426198/133 "2007-11-16T02:06:05Z")
[QUOTE=MHaye] Heya **Kat**. 🙂 I thought I saw some cans of Guinnesss up the back. Fancy one of those? _Stands up and goes for the beer._ Road construction? [/QUOTE] **MHaye**! What have you been up to? Wait, hold that thought. I’m going to attack the buffet table and be right back. I haven’t had anything except a mini Kit-Kat bar since lunch. ---
**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-v-the-free-for-all/426198/134 "2007-11-16T02:57:42Z")
[QUOTE=ArizonaTeach] You sure have some great stories to tell there, Diomedes. What other exotic ocales have you visited? [/QUOTE] I spent last weekend in Tacoma, Washington. There was an adventurer’s conference in Seattle, and I couldn’t afford the hotel rates downtown. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-v-the-free-for-all/426198/135 "2007-11-16T03:32:15Z")
LOL you guys are making me laugh so hard. You’re all so f’n QUIRKY and I keep going over what y’all are sayin but I just can’t put my finger on what it is that makes you so special. I like to feel dumb 🙂 hehehehe **MHaye** , what do you have in that bag you brought? **Diomedes** , have you ever written about any of your adventures? lol I seriously have no idea what I’m doing here 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dotchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@dotchan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dotchan)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-v-the-free-for-all/426198/136 "2007-11-16T03:36:32Z")
[QUOTE=Zoggie] I’M confused? I’m confused? I’ve played this game hundreds of times already!! Look, I’m sorry to get annoyed, but I know what I’m doing, okay? [/QUOTE] Says you. You aren’t convincing the rest of us at all. Information - share, now. If you’re really who you say you are, then you’d have nothing to hide, would you? WOULD YOU? ---
**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-v-the-free-for-all/426198/137 "2007-11-16T04:29:34Z")
[QUOTE=ZipperJJ] **Diomedes** , have you ever written about any of your adventures? [/QUOTE] Actually, I have a copy of my most recent monograph, which describe the last safari I went on. If you have a pen handy, I can autograph it for you. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-v-the-free-for-all/426198/138 "2007-11-16T05:09:36Z")
[QUOTE=Kat] I really need a drink. Or maybe two. I hate road construction. [/QUOTE] Sounds good to me, can we get a couple of rum and cokes over here? (If Kat takes hers without rum, you can make mine a double 😉 ) Construction is a pain, but you’re here now so relax and enjoy. We have all kinds of stuff, lots of great food, plenty to drink and a karaoke machine is set up with a great selection of songs. Twickster has a really good voice, maybe if we’re really nice we can coax her into doing another number for us. ---
**Author:** ![MHaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@MHaye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MHaye)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-v-the-free-for-all/426198/139 "2007-11-16T11:35:59Z")
[QUOTE=ZipperJJ] **MHaye** , what do you have in that bag you brought? [/QUOTE] Not a lot, to be honest. Let’s see… My iPod - essential for long trips on public transport. Or any trips, really. A map of the area, so I knew which route to take from the station. Today’s paper, although goodnness knows why I kept it. A puzzle book and a novel to while away the time on the trains. Sorry, nothing worth talking about really. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2007, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-v-the-free-for-all/426198/140 "2007-11-16T12:03:37Z")
[QUOTE=Antinor01] Twickster has a really good voice, maybe if we’re really nice we can coax her into doing another number for us. [/QUOTE] **blush** I never expected to be deified for my karaoke skills! Sure, I’d love to sing – any requests? In the meantime, how about a party trick? Someone – pick a number between one and a bajillion… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-v-the-free-for-all/426198.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/party-v-the-free-for-all/426198.md?page=8)