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Title: Stealth Meetup
Post by: celticgeek on 18 Feb 2013, 14:36
Yesterday, Redball and I conducted a "stealth meet up."  He borrowed HannerMom's invisible aircraft and dropped in. 

We enjoyed good food and good conversation.  We talked music, books, libraries, science fiction, New York City, movies, plays, seafood, east coast versus west coast seafood, and probably other topics that I can't remember. 

The good food was Tex-Mex, and was delicious. 

Since there is a "pictures or it didn't happen " feeling in this forum,
here we are: celticgeek and Redball (http://www.celticgeek.com/images/celticgeekAndRedball.JPG), having a toast on celticgeek's holodeck. 

A successful experiment. 
Title: Re: Stealth Meetup
Post by: Barmymoo on 18 Feb 2013, 14:38
Mwhahaha I knew about this! Looks like you had fun :)
Title: Re: Stealth Meetup
Post by: Bluesummers on 18 Feb 2013, 15:23
"Pics or it didn't happen" implies that one of you has to hold up a newspaper from that day, should we need to validate your meetup as an alibi when you're brought in for questioning...oops, I've said too much.

Also: East Coast Seafood Represent, yo! :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Stealth Meetup
Post by: Lines on 18 Feb 2013, 15:30
Looks like you guys had fun! Also I love the wine glasses. ;) Perfect for a holodeck.
Title: Re: Stealth Meetup
Post by: Bluesummers on 18 Feb 2013, 16:02
Indeed...better hope whomever is on the right side doesn't end up on an away team...

Because he'll become a victim of the curse of the redshirts, doncha know?! ;D
Title: Re: Stealth Meetup
Post by: celticgeek on 18 Feb 2013, 16:06
I agree about the away team. 

The glasses were a present, and at the same time I also got a bottle of "Red Shirt" aftershave, which has a bullet hole on the bottle.  I am sort of afraid to wear any of it. 

Title: Re: Stealth Meetup
Post by: Bluesummers on 18 Feb 2013, 16:10
I, uh...wow. Yeah, that's the kind of gift you give to a mortal enemy...I think Redball is trying to tell you something.
Title: Re: Stealth Meetup
Post by: Welu on 18 Feb 2013, 16:11
That sounds like a delightful meet-up.  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Stealth Meetup
Post by: celticgeek on 18 Feb 2013, 16:14
Quote from: Bluesummers on 18 Feb 2013, 16:10
I, uh...wow. Yeah, that's the kind of gift you give to a mortal enemy...I think Redball is trying to tell you something.

The gifts were not from Redball, they were from my son-in-law, and yes I am concerned about that  :)  Not really, we really like my son-in-law.

And yes, it was very delightful meetup. 
Title: Re: Stealth Meetup
Post by: Redball on 18 Feb 2013, 18:03
It was a grand meetup, and I talked rather a lot.

I left my iPhone on the toilet paper holder in the restaurant's men's room Sunday, and drove back the 90-100 miles today to retrieve it, having lunch with Mr. and Mrs. Celticgeek in the same restaurant today -- and wondering on the drive, "Le'ssee, did I tell them this one? Did I tell them that one?"

Don't think I was too repetitious.

And it should be pointed out, that Celticgeek and I appear to be the oldest members of the forum. That gave the meeting a special gravitas.

Oh, and the tails on his cats: large, but sort of artistically wispy. If women had tails like cats, some would have them permed like that. And that's not the Butts Disease talking.

Oh, and FWIW, I'm the guy on the right. The one with the redder face.
Title: Re: Stealth Meetup
Post by: celticgeek on 18 Feb 2013, 19:02
Redball was not repetitious, he was fascinating. 

I have check through my photographs, and cannot find a good one of my cats' tails, so I will sneak up on them and get a picture of their tails and post it. 
Title: Re: Stealth Meetup
Post by: Redball on 18 Feb 2013, 20:18
A kind of awful set of "mysteries" your wife may not have read consists of about 30 paperbacks by Lilian Jackson Braun all starting with "The Cat Who..." I liked them anyway because the owner of the two cats was a newspaper reporter. But whenever someone tried to take pictures of one of his magnificent Siamese, it would start licking its butt. So good luck!
Title: Re: Stealth Meetup
Post by: celticgeek on 18 Feb 2013, 20:26
We have read "The Cat Who ..." mysteries (are there only 30?  it seemed more like 300).  I did go stalking my cats, and yes, butt licking was the major activity.  But I shall persevere. 

Sue Grafton (another mystery writer) had a detective named Kinsey Malone.  Our daughter named one of her cats Kinsey, after that detective.  Sue Grafton was in town a few years ago, signing books, and she signed one for our daughter and for Kinsey the cat.
Title: Re: Stealth Meetup
Post by: Bluesummers on 18 Feb 2013, 21:07
Quote from: Redball on 18 Feb 2013, 18:03
And it should be pointed out, that Celticgeek and I appear to be the oldest members of the forum.
I think Hodges might give you a run for your money.

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Oh, and FWIW, I'm the guy on the right. The one with the redder face.
Hence the username?  :emotrex:
Title: Re: Stealth Meetup
Post by: celticgeek on 18 Feb 2013, 21:12
Nope - check our profiles. 
Title: Re: Stealth Meetup
Post by: Bluesummers on 18 Feb 2013, 21:59
Rightly so, I say.

Geez, we really do need to have a meetup somewhere in North America, we can't be letting the Brits have all the fun!  :laugh:
Title: Re: Stealth Meetup
Post by: Redball on 18 Feb 2013, 23:29
Most of the year, I'd  be good for a meet-up anywhere east of the Mississippi and from, say, Virginia and Tennessee north. I might be able to host one in an A-frame in southern Michigan that sleeps a total of 10 (in various degrees both of mattress quality and privacy) with a heatable in-ground pool and smallish hot tub. My wife and I had 112 around the pool for our daughter's wedding 11 years ago.

"Redball": Yeah, I do associate it somewhat with complexion; my last name is Ball and my dad after WWII told me about the Redball Express supplying front line troops in Europe. He may have driven trucks on the route.
Title: Re: Stealth Meetup
Post by: Barmymoo on 19 Feb 2013, 01:57
Bluesummers, until a few years ago all the meetups were in North America! There was at least one in Canada and two in the USA. It's our turn, dammit :P
Title: Re: Stealth Meetup
Post by: Patrick on 19 Feb 2013, 02:44
That picture is so fucking jovial and now I want a beer
Title: Re: Stealth Meetup
Post by: Bluesummers on 19 Feb 2013, 06:14
Quote from: Barmymoo on 19 Feb 2013, 01:57
Bluesummers, until a few years ago all the meetups were in North America! There was at least one in Canada and two in the USA. It's our turn, dammit :P

Awww....alright, I'll wait it out. :P :P ;D
Title: Re: Stealth Meetup
Post by: celticgeek on 19 Feb 2013, 06:36
Next stealth meetup:  we all show up at Bluesummers' place, unannounced.
Title: Re: Stealth Meetup
Post by: lepetitfromage on 19 Feb 2013, 06:51
Great photo! And I agree- I think a second stealth meetup would be splendid  :-D
Title: Re: Stealth Meetup
Post by: de_la_Nae on 19 Feb 2013, 10:33
Quote from: celticgeek on 19 Feb 2013, 06:36
Next stealth meetup:  we all show up at Bluesummers' place, unannounced.

It's on. You bring the giant squid, I'll ferry the rap-rock band. BREAK!
Title: Re: Stealth Meetup
Post by: Valdís on 19 Feb 2013, 11:05
Quote from: de_la_Nae on 19 Feb 2013, 10:33
It's on. You bring the giant squid, I'll ferry the rap-rock band. BREAK!

Knowing this forum, is that a rap-rock band made up of ferrets?
Title: Re: Stealth Meetup
Post by: Carl-E on 19 Feb 2013, 11:12
That's be dook-rock. 
Title: Re: Stealth Meetup
Post by: Pilchard123 on 19 Feb 2013, 14:16
Quote from: celticgeek on 18 Feb 2013, 20:26
We have read "The Cat Who ..." mysteries (are there only 30?  it seemed more like 300).  I did go stalking my cats, and yes, butt licking was the major activity.  But I shall persevere. 

Did you read the last couple where
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Title: Re: Stealth Meetup
Post by: de_la_Nae on 19 Feb 2013, 14:51
Quote from: Carl-E on 19 Feb 2013, 11:12
That's be dook-rock.

Much better.
Title: Re: Stealth Meetup
Post by: K1dmor on 19 Feb 2013, 15:30
Quote from: Carl-E on 19 Feb 2013, 11:12
That's be dook-rock.

 (http://i.imgur.com/A7ofdtU.jpg)

  :psyduck:
Title: Re: Stealth Meetup
Post by: de_la_Nae on 19 Feb 2013, 18:35
Can you smelllllllllllelelelelelelelelellll.....what my secretory glands...are secreting?
Title: Re: Stealth Meetup
Post by: Bluesummers on 19 Feb 2013, 19:21
Quote from: celticgeek on 19 Feb 2013, 06:36
Next stealth meetup:  we all show up at Bluesummers' place, unannounced.

Yay, guests! I haven't had any since those two nosy children who thought my house was made of candy or something, and "accidentally" got stuck in the oven...

I mean, uh...I'll get the tea maker fired up! :emotrex:

I really do like to entertain ;D
Title: Re: Stealth Meetup
Post by: henri bemis on 19 Feb 2013, 19:31
I take it there's no need to bring our own snacks?    :mrgreen:

It looks like you had a lot of fun, and how can I make those glasses my very own?!interrobang. 
Title: Re: Stealth Meetup
Post by: celticgeek on 19 Feb 2013, 19:46
Google is your Star Trek friend. (http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/star-trek-wine-glasses)

No need to bring snacks, I'll be bringing the giant squid.
Title: Re: Stealth Meetup
Post by: henri bemis on 19 Feb 2013, 19:49
I should have known to google <_<.  But, thank you! 
Title: Re: Stealth Meetup
Post by: celticgeek on 19 Feb 2013, 19:52
No problem.  Also. (http://www.etsy.com/listing/57441912/star-trek-wine-glasses-hand-painted)
Title: Re: Stealth Meetup
Post by: idontunderstand on 21 Feb 2013, 05:10
Quote from: Patrick on 19 Feb 2013, 02:44
That picture is so fucking jovial and now I want a beer

100 times agreed.