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Title: Alaskan QC Forumites
Post by: Runs_With_Scissors on 30 Dec 2008, 14:19
We are having a meetup in mid or late January in Anchorage (I didn't have everyone's usernames written down, or I would have PM'd everyone).

We are building an igloo, it is going to be awesome.

And if anyone from the mainland or Canada is going to be over in the land of snow and darkness soon the date is negotiable so we can change it around those visits (though who in their right mind would visit Alaska in the winter).

PM either me or memann for details, though most of it is up in the air.

Title: Re: Alaskan QC Forumites
Post by: memann on 30 Dec 2008, 14:23
Please don't PM me... I might just get totally freaked out
Title: Re: Alaskan QC Forumites
Post by: jhocking on 30 Dec 2008, 16:09
People live in Alaska?
Title: Re: Alaskan QC Forumites
Post by: Scarychips on 30 Dec 2008, 16:44
If you call Sarah Palin and her family people, sure.
Title: Re: Alaskan QC Forumites
Post by: yelley on 30 Dec 2008, 17:14
patrick lives in alaska sometimes... he is almost people.
Title: Re: Alaskan QC Forumites
Post by: Emaline on 30 Dec 2008, 17:16
Its so cold in Alaska.
Title: Re: Alaskan QC Forumites
Post by: Ballard on 30 Dec 2008, 18:50
Patrick is cool people but is actually from the Bay Area. He's only in Alaska when he occasionally flees Albania out of boredom or misses his girlfriend.
Title: Re: Alaskan QC Forumites
Post by: Vendetagainst on 30 Dec 2008, 19:03
Patrick is dating Sarah Palin?
Hot.

So is this only going to be a meetup for Alaskans or are Eastern Canadians invited also?
*Edit*
sorry, skipped over that part of the OP
Title: Re: Alaskan QC Forumites
Post by: Runs_With_Scissors on 30 Dec 2008, 19:55
If you call Sarah Palin and her family people, sure.

I swear to god if one more person uses Sarah Palin as the general representation of Alaskan people I will massacre everyone.

And we were going to wait to have a summer meetup so Patrick could come, but then there would be no igloo building.
Title: Re: Alaskan QC Forumites
Post by: Spluff on 30 Dec 2008, 20:02
Man, that is just what Sarah Palin would threaten.

(sorry)
Title: Re: Alaskan QC Forumites
Post by: Ozymandias on 30 Dec 2008, 20:04
Technically, Sarah Palin is a representative of the Alaskan people, as the state's governor. Her position makes it possible to assume that the Alaskan people, in general, support her actions.

Also, all Illinoisians are corrupt assholes.
Title: Re: Alaskan QC Forumites
Post by: jhocking on 30 Dec 2008, 20:22
Well except for the black ones. Black Illinoisans are messiahs!
Title: Re: Alaskan QC Forumites
Post by: Emaline on 30 Dec 2008, 20:27
I am not corrupt. :(
Title: Re: Alaskan QC Forumites
Post by: Vendetagainst on 30 Dec 2008, 20:36
Well actually Durbin would be the Palin analogue, and Durbin is actually a pretty cool guy.
Title: Re: Alaskan QC Forumites
Post by: Ozymandias on 30 Dec 2008, 20:54
I am not corrupt. :(

Given:

All Illinoisians are corrupt unless they are black.
Emaline is Illinoisian.
Emaline is not corrupt.

Therefore:

Emaline is black.
QED
Title: Re: Alaskan QC Forumites
Post by: Ballard on 30 Dec 2008, 21:20
Guys this thread has taken a turn for the worse. Don't take it any further; we're getting back to Patrick dating Sarah Palin.
Title: Re: Alaskan QC Forumites
Post by: memann on 30 Dec 2008, 21:24
Hey guys, Texas is Alaska's bitch.
Title: Re: Alaskan QC Forumites
Post by: Drill King on 30 Dec 2008, 21:46
Man how is there an Alaska  meet up but not like.. nearby me meetup what the hell.
Title: Re: Alaskan QC Forumites
Post by: tania on 30 Dec 2008, 21:47
that's what you get for being canadian and not living in ontario.
Title: Re: Alaskan QC Forumites
Post by: Che_Lab on 02 Jan 2009, 01:31
technically i live in alaska.  maybe this is enough reason for me to post in this thread, or maybe im just wasting space like everyone else here.  Wait really though, people LIVE in alaska??!
Title: Re: Alaskan QC Forumites
Post by: Masterbainter on 02 Jan 2009, 02:20
I once hooked up with a half eskimo from Alaska, can I join the club?
Title: Re: Alaskan QC Forumites
Post by: Jace on 02 Jan 2009, 03:54
I know where Alaska is. Can I join the club?

(The Patrick hooking up with Sarah Palin club)
Title: Re: Alaskan QC Forumites
Post by: Inlander on 02 Jan 2009, 06:30
I am eagerly awaiting AleutianCon 2010.
Title: Re: Alaskan QC Forumites
Post by: RedLion on 03 Jan 2009, 13:50
Its so cold in Alaska.

In the summer it's actually like 80 degrees every. With 24 hours of sunlight! It is sweet.
Title: Re: Alaskan QC Forumites
Post by: mbb on 03 Jan 2009, 14:58
I was in Alaska back in August and it was much, much colder than 80 degrees. (probably because it was spent primarily standing on a glacier)
Title: Re: Alaskan QC Forumites
Post by: RedLion on 03 Jan 2009, 15:47
Hmm. I went two years ago in July and spent most of it in Anchorage, Denali national park, Glacier Gap Lake, and in Valdez, including the bay and surrounding glaciers. It was over 70 degrees every day. Whatever.
Title: Re: Alaskan QC Forumites
Post by: Che_Lab on 03 Jan 2009, 16:49
Only 3 people who actually are from Alaska have posted in this thread.  Just a little depressing.
Title: Re: Alaskan QC Forumites
Post by: Inlander on 03 Jan 2009, 17:10
On the other hand, that means that Alaska has the highest per capita response rate to this thread of any state!
Title: Re: Alaskan QC Forumites
Post by: Che_Lab on 03 Jan 2009, 20:31
On every forum I've ever visited, theres always an Alaska thread.  Why do Alaskians feel the need to have their own thread?  I never see a California thread, or a New York thread.  Maybe its because they think they're special.
Title: Re: Alaskan QC Forumites
Post by: Ballard on 03 Jan 2009, 21:03
There's a thread for every meet-up. There hasn't been a New York meet-up in a while. Californians are always talking about their state- just look around.
Title: Re: Alaskan QC Forumites
Post by: yelley on 03 Jan 2009, 22:50
there aren't really that many people from california on the forums it seems, and we all live pretty far from each other.
Title: Re: Alaskan QC Forumites
Post by: jhocking on 04 Jan 2009, 09:14
we all live pretty far from each other.

That is because California is too big. It still confuses me somewhat that LA and San Francisco are in the same state.
Title: Re: Alaskan QC Forumites
Post by: Alex C on 04 Jan 2009, 09:39
Same deal with Texas; I remember when I was 9 and my family drove there from MN to visit some family in San Antonio. It was like a 20 hour trip one way, and I think something ridiculous like 7 or 8 hours was actually within Texas itself.
Title: Re: Alaskan QC Forumites
Post by: Che_Lab on 05 Jan 2009, 20:00
Can't we all just get along and agree Texas and Alaska are equally horrible?
Title: Re: Alaskan QC Forumites
Post by: Barmymoo on 06 Jan 2009, 11:21
I'm aware that I'm British and therefore doomed to be terrible at geography, but I am confused.

I just looked on a state map to see where these places are, and incidentally located Michicgan and Illinois.

Why are they called Midwest? Is New York in the west? Is California in the east? Why is this? I am confused.
Title: Re: Alaskan QC Forumites
Post by: redglasscurls on 06 Jan 2009, 11:47
Because the first European settlements were mostly on the coast where New York is, so the rest of the country is west of there. Michigan and Illinois are midway to "the west" of cowboy and goldrush and conestoga wagons time, so they're in the Midwest.