Chupacabra

[gospel] Can I get a witness???? Can I get a bump????

Pour a little bump on tha curb for my homies.

Okay. Command decision. DATE: TUESDAY, JAN. 21st. TIME: 8 PM PLACE: THE BRICKSKELLER, 1523 22ND ST. NW, 2 BLOCKS WEST OF DUPONT CIRCLE METRO. THE BAR'S PHONE NUMBER: 202-293-1885 MY EMAIL: jonkoltz@hotmail.com If you need my phone number or if there are any other questions, shoot me an email. Otherwise, hope to see you all next Tuesday. For those who can't make it, I'll try to schedule another one next month-ish. [ January 14, 2003, 10:36 AM: Message edited by: Chupacabra ]

Dear Sneezy: I never finished our game because I lost my internet connection, and I am currently on a crappy little laptop, so this forum is about as close as I get to playing CM. I no longer do the Peng Theng because it got boring to me. As an insult, "Sod off" loses its zest fairly quickly, at least for those of us with taste, discrimination, and an IQ above 2. Obviously it makes some of you harelipped mongrels happy, so you go for it, Trooper! That's great! I remain yours in disdain, C

Gonna bump this up, and also, if the 21st is really better for everyone, I'll make it. It won't kill me to shuffle my schedule around some.

20th is fine for me. As for identifying each other - having met fellow geeks in about ten cities in four countries on two continents, all I can say is, you just know. Mostly, you just look for the other guy looking kinda awkwardly around for someone.

Okay, hi, I'm an idiot. Having just suggested the 21st, I now realize I can't make it. How would either the day before or the day after work for everyone? Kindly forgive my lapse, mommy dropped me on my head and things.

Sweet. Actually, your offer to coordinate might be a very good idea, as I only have internet access at Job Number One at the moment - meaning I'm completely incommunicado every night and all day Thursday-Sunday. Depending on how soon Comcast gets off its collective butt and hooks up my house, that should change, but... In the meantime, should we collectively say the Brickskeller, two weeks from today, around 8ish? Gives everyone plenty of time to get over from work and Marlow can drop in half an hour later.

Nice to see a few responses. I haven't been in town long enough to find a favorite bar (except for the sleazy biker bar five minutes from my house with $1 whiskey shots night, a bit lacking in ambiance though). I have had a couple of people recommend the Brickskeller, though. Large selection of beers, doesn't look to be hugely expensive, two blocks from the Dupont Circle metro. But if anyone knows of a better place, I will happily defer to your greater wisdom. Of course, there remains to set a date. I'm relatively open schedule-wise. I tend to get off work around 6ish, and Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays are better nights for me to go out than Tuesdays and Thursdays, but what do the rest of you reckon?

Having just moved down to the DC area (Arlington), having just noticed Rune's Chicago thread, and having the phenomenal mental ability of being able to add one and one together, it strikes me that a DC meeting would be Not A Bad Idea. Any of you wonks, lobbyists, lawyers, spooks, feds, puzzle palace paper pushers or other miscontents fancy grabbing a beer? My one caveat is that I don't have a car, so I'm limited to those places that are Metro-accessable. Other than that, I'm willing to go just about anywhere.

So this is kinda like Ladonia, then.

Oh, I'm not saying it was out of character for Forrest - he was a bastard. But he was not a hick.

Sorry Michael, I know I shouldn't speak for others, but sometimes I can't resist - Tracer - you completely missed Michael's point. The point wasn't that the Klan isn't completely bat**** loony. The point was that the Klan membership, especially in its heydays after the Civil War and in the early part of the 20th Century, wasn't all a bunch of po white trash who sat around in their trailer homes ruminating about how the neeee-gro done up and stole their jobs at the beef jerky factory. The Klan encompassed members from every segment of society. Hell, Nathan Bedford Forrest was the first Grand Wizard of the Klan.

Speak for yourself.

David Aitken did that. Searching the 2000/01 archives would probably dig it up. And yes, I am way too lazy to do it myself.

Heh, I thought I remembered Schoerner: http://www.battlefront.com/cgi-bin/bbs/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=9;t=003654;p=2 Snip: Snip: I hereby dub thee Commander Fruitcake.

Given Schoerner's email address, why am I not surprised at the Teutonic Mythology routine...

AFAIK, while the swastika is an ancient symbol, the Nazis were the first group to rotate the symbol 45 degrees... It may be mere semantics (not to mention pretentious on my part, but hey ), but I've taken to referring to the Nazi version as the Hakenkreuz to distinguish between that and the earlier symbols.

This has all been gone over before... 1) The most common German tank in 1941 was the Mark II. Try that against a T-34. 2) There's a reason the Soviets uparmored the T-34 after their experiences in 1941.

What about Wild Bill's Lust patch? That didn't make it in???

Are you a) being shot at tired c) scared d) malnourished e) firing at targets that are moving quickly from cover to cover? Maybe sharpshooters are busted, I have no idea (although they've worked fine for me so far), but the "well I can do X now so the game is broke" argument just doesn't work.

In other words, you're full of it. There aren't "a few program files," there's the 6.7 mb .exe. That's it.

Takes time to Uber-up the game like that.

The closest liquor store across the Oresund Bridge?

Are you kidding me??? Bug???? This is absolutely fantastic!!! Just think, all along I thought I sucked, but it was really you cheating bastards putting the voodoo on me! I feel so relieved.