Ask plnnr, SGoA. Apparently he’s in charge of delaying stuff.
As much as I’d like to support this effort, I’m not sure I can participate. DH is having surgery on 3/13, and he’ll still be recovering into April. And then we start getting into Easter, which comes on April 20 this year – and then it’s my younger daughter’s birthday and my birthday, and, well, I’m just not sure I’m up to it.
However, if anybody is planning a bake sale to help finance the invasion, I can contribute some marshmallow treats or something. Maybe help to staff the bake sale for a couple of hours. Like that. Whaddya say?
So . . . What’s the consensus?
Are we starting early or what?
Tripler
Nothing like a Baghdad Dopefest to make things ‘kickass’. 
As long as y’all are done by the third week in May. My cousin’s getting married, and I’d really like to come stay in a beachside hotel in Santa Cruz. If y’all are still at war, Mom won’t let us go. Dammit, I want to loll on a beach!
i’m so embarrassed.
Um.
I can’t come. I’ve got a thing…I’m really sorry. I’m getting my fallopian tubes checked…and then there’s this catering thing…
Look, I’m sorry. I’m totally booked. I PROMISE. PROMISE I will do the whole next war AND I’ll make lemon bars and artichoke dip for it. K?
Again, I’m sorry.
That’s it. jarbabyj’s out. I’m not coming anymore.
Look, it’s not like I don’t like you guys; it’d just be a little uncomfortable without her to fill in the those embarassing gaps in conversation. I mean, those times when we’re actively bombing would be okay, but in the lulls we’d simply have nothing in common to talk about. I hate those awkward silences.
(“Sooo, umm, how’s about this war? Pretty nifty, huh? And the weather! Boy, is it hot out here!”)
Sorry. Maybe if I can get some friends to come. We’d probably break off into our own little clique and do our own war, but it’d be for the best anyway.
OK I can only come if we do it after April 1st. I just put a deposit down on a house and won’t be in it until then. And I also have a job interview between now and then, so after I get settled, I’ll be in the mix.
We should definitely do a bake sale. I make scrumptious banana nut bread and great blueberry-cheesecake squares… guaranteed to raise more $$s and ££s for the war effort. We might also need some kosher items to raise for Israel 'cuz you know Saddam will launch a few SCUDs their way too. And don’t forget… beer is 5 bucks a head at the bake sale
What the. . .
jarbabyj isn’t coming now? Dammit. I was so looking forward to those lemon bars too. But as long as I can load up with a couple of boxes of ammo and a few of **ford_prefect42
**'s banana bread slices, I guess I can survive.
Nothin’ says “home” in a foxhole more than fresh banana bread.
Tripler
“Fix bayonets! And pass the blueberry bread cupcakes!!”
ummm I have company coming next week, so that won’t work for me either… and then my SIL and her kids will be here early april… I want to be sure to be back by then… can we make it late april? will that be ok? otherwise you will have to do it without me. but the banana bread sounds yummy… I’ll pack some chocolate too 
looks like it might start soon… who made that decision without talking to the rest of us? don’t they know that next week is out???
:mad:
That’s okay evilmthldy, . . .
I hear Baghdad is simply lovely in the spring.
Tripler
Co-pilot of the first combat sortie over Bagdad [sub]Arizona[/sub].
Seems to me that plnnr thinks too much like Chirac.
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[sup]Just let me know when, folks, and I’ll bring a bag of chips.[/sup][/ul]
I got a pot of coffee in case we have to stay up late.
Guys, guys, guys! I’m sorry, but you’re all lagging behind! I’ve been in country for months, warring it old-skool with the kurds and SAS! Cool guerilla action, baby!
Anyway, I have to say, I’m disappointed that the war is about to go all commercial, in a few weeks you won’t be able to move here for tour parties. Frankly, I’m seriously considering moving venue. You know, to find a country where the war’s kept it credability, not sold out and is still underground…
I gotta bow out too. I got a job (more like the job was thrusted on me and I didn’t object…) and now I’m working 40+ hours a week. So unless we’re going to do this thing late at night or early in the morning…
OH! I KNOW! PICK ME!
We bring all the enemy soldiers in to eat at my restaurant and I’ll just tell the cooks to make their “special sauce” extra … special. Or something. We’ll get them some special dishes, I dunno.
How many people do we need to seat? 4? 6? I think I can fit 8, but only if it’s early in the morning or after about 6 pm. Because those church people come in and it’s like the whole service got detoured to the restaurant. Pure hell.
what! did I hear someone say they have nothing to wear?well I just got in a a cargo load of desert jammies or cammies but these have ruffles? and those fabulous black berets too, one size fits all!
I thought I read somewhere that pentagon said they were giving up war for lent? We’d better be bombing by Easter!
cagiva650, how’d you end up with all those desert jammies? they ran out of them and some guys have to go in green stuff! cool! now we can blend in when the sand starts flying.
my SIL backed out of the trip… so now I’m free the week before easter…
did anyone ever work out the shower issues… I’m not going if I can’t shower… and then there’s that food issue… mre’s… are you kidding? blech! who’s catering this thing, I don’t want to eat mre’s… be sure to bring something better than a cruddy tent… that blows over and then we don’t get dinner. I dont think so.
this is just starting to be too many details to take care of. I don’t think I can do it. what about baby sitters? can I bring the little demons? I"m sure they could do some real damage