[F] afp/atmd/MINImeet Utrecht 2.0 / NL 11.0(?)

[ro...@earthling.netz]

On Saturday, May 23rd, the city of Utrecht, NL, found itself besieged by
afpeople for the second time. Having just recovered from the first
assault, almost two years earlier, it was still to weak to repel the
onslaught, and so it came to pass that a pre-meet and a meet could be
held.

Participants were:

Pre-Meet and meet:

Sierra
Jos
Tony
Eelco
Leo
Cybercat
Jeroen Metselaar
Jeroen Burgher
Pieter
Peter
Miranda
Rocky Frisco
Henk
and, of course, yours truly, The Roach

When the meet proper started, the following showed up to complement the
full quota:

Patrick ("Turtle")
TimT
Roger
Anne
Don Alfonso

It should be noted, many of the above would not divulge their last
names, so I don't give any here eitrher, with the exception of the
Jeroens, as there exre three in the NL, of which two showed up.
Also, when thinking about these names, remember that Anne is used both
as a female and a male first name in the NL, this usage prevails in the
northern parts. And if you're wondering: yes, I wouldn't have known had
the Anne at the meet not been male...

Due to the size of the meet, I can only mention some of the topics
covered, not all of them. Topics marked with # are detailed further
below.

Topics mentioned were:

Donuts
TV programs
How fast people eat ice
Pictures
[A] Threads
Delegation
How many are we?
The Utrecht church tower #
Getting lost on the staircase #
Bookstores #
King Arthur's Arms #
Soccer England v/s Saudi Arabia #
Psions
Movies
Shrimp Fries
Edible lego
Kroepoek, chips...
Languages
The NLMeet Mailing List
The Lspace CABAL
Song versions
Trains
Drink#

during the meet proper:

IRC
Several participants on IRC (mostly female)
Net Behaviour
Rock Music
Reports & quotefiles
Background music
Double entendres
Leo's age
Posting or not
Theatre #
Artistic pseudonyms
Virtual beer
Trusting Eelco
RC Mini #
Posters (the ones you hang up on a wall)
Books by Pratchett
Books by Rocky Frisco
Books by other authors
Kayaking
Photo cameras
Computers and OSes
Vegemite, Marmite
Mini magazine (the car...)
The DWCon
Unseen University Challenge
Theatre #
Race Tracks
Geeky still-life
Environmental activity
Juggling #
Peter Trayne

Utrecht is an old bishop's seat, and it has the higherst church spire in
all of the NL. This spire (which stands completely apart from the church
proper, as the original main body got completely trashed during a storm
lasting not more than 30 minutes) contains two so-called 'chapels' and
the bells. The lower chapel (at 12.5 m) was the private chapel for the
Bishop, the upper one (at 25 m) originally was used as a pub, reached
from the outside using ladders. At 49 m the big set of bells is found,
and at 70 m the carillon, the smaller set of bells rung every day to
denote the passing of the hours is located.

The staircase can be confusing - despite there being no labyrinthine
branches, people managed to miss the carillon and continue upwards to
the top level, a viewing platform at about 100m.

On our way from the spire to the pub, we passed a bookstore that was
known to have The Unadulterated Cat and The Last Continent in store, and
the swarm of locu, erm, the attendees could not resist.

We wanted to make a stop at the King Arthur's Arms after that, as the
table in the pub had been reserved for 1900 hours onwards, but the KAA
was so full, we decided to see whether we had more luck there. We had
and we didn't - all TVs in the pub were tuned to the WC warmup match
between England and Saudi Arabia, and vociferous and voluminous comments
were heard all through the match...

Drink was consumed in various forms. Iced water, Guinness, Kilkenny,
coffee, cola, cider, bitter lemon (the latter in normal and in pint
glasses) were the most noted.

Rocky brought along a radio controlled Mini that was sent around the
table for almost the whole evening - only during dinner did the little
thing get a well-deserved rest.C Mini #

When talking about the next meet dates (Brussels 2.0 is looming on the
horizon), people remembered that yours truly is on stage again on june
12th, 18th and 19th. If there are people who want to watch me, and get
together for a small meet, you'll have to organize that yourselves, as I
will be too busy with preparations for the show.

TimT had proposed to Kimberly, and thus gotten challenged to a duel by
Jos. Later, he rethought his options, and decided to propose to Jos
instead, in order to get Kimberley to challenge him. Kimberley, however,
challenged him to a juggling duel.

And now, finally, the log-awaited and dreaded...

QUOTES OF THE EVENING:

"I am just a labrat ... girls always want to experiment with me."
(Jeroen M.)

Peter's Smoking. Kimberley shoots am ugly look. Peter: "Don't kill me."
Kimberley: "We don't have to..."

Tony: "We (meaning UKers) fry anything" - Jos: "You're not touching me!"

Pieter: "Preatchett is like a two-step compiler." Leo: "Why?" Peter:
"You can't get all the refernces right in the first pass"

"I just understood you wanted to call me Jesus" (Leo)

"How much can we subvert the pub?" (Tony)

"The second most pathetic sight in the world - a Mini on its' back"
(TimT)

"Carmageddon for beginners" (Pieter)

"Gloria in excelsis Leo" (Leo)

"Look, mum, is that a cowboy?" (a kid at the spire upon seeing Rocky)

--
Michael "The Roach" Janszen (AFP NLMeet reporter)
The Official Michelena Riosa Testosterone Brigade
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[Kimberley Verburg]

On Mon, 25 May 1998 21:33:06 +0200, ro...@earthling.netz wrote:

>Participants were:
>
>Pre-Meet and meet:
>
>Sierra

I can see that someone really wants to avoid having to decide whether my
name has one E or two. :-)

>Miranda

I think you mean Myranya.

>Topics mentioned were:

>Delegation

A key word in any meet organiser's dictionary. Particularly important
when you're in an unfamiliar city and according to the directions you
were given, a pub has teleported itself into another street. At this
point you grab hold of anyone who will admit to having passed within ten
kilometres of Utrecht and get them to be the guide.

>Posters (the ones you hang up on a wall)

The next person to deliberately start a cascade.....

Seriously, Rocky handed out to us some very nifty posters he had made as
a souvenir of the meet, appropriately including, a wizard, Mini, cat and
Luggage.

>Books by Pratchett

I feel I should explain how something as extraordinary as an [R] topic
managed to find its way into a afpmeet. This being a combined meet,
there were Mini fans present and we were faced with the difficult task
of explaining what it is that Terry actually writes. And then having to
define what afp and atmd are.

[Utrecht's Dom tower]

>The lower chapel (at 12.5 m) was the private chapel for the
>Bishop, the upper one (at 25 m) originally was used as a pub, reached
>from the outside using ladders.

And as the tour guide remarked, the problems start when the merry
revellers absentmindedly walk out of the pub and rediscover gravity.

It was suggested that this afpmeet be christened the highest ever
afpmeet until it was recalled that we start out a lot lower than the
UKers and Merkins generally do...

>all TVs in the pub were tuned to the WC warmup match
>between England and Saudi Arabia, and vociferous and voluminous comments
>were heard all through the match...

'Twas a unique experience to find that we were actually not the noisiest
party in the pub. Attempts were made to make up for it later with the
aid of O'Connell's play list of old hits.

--
Kimberley Verburg
sie...@dataweb.nl

[Eelco Giele]

ro...@earthling.netz wrote:

> Topics mentioned were:

> The Utrecht church tower #
> Getting lost on the staircase #

What would the optimal weight for a person be to make a convincing
*splat*

> Edible lego

And if Michelena knows how much fun she has given us with that?

> Trusting Eelco

Hey, what's happening? <taps foot> Will somebody come forward and
explain this, or do I have to give the entire meet detention?
And could you please inform me of the results of this little
conversation so I know what to do next time? :)

> Posters (the ones you hang up on a wall)

Hmmm, hanging posters on a wall, now _that_ might be an idea to speed
explanations up *evil grin*

> The staircase can be confusing - despite there being no labyrinthine
> branches, people managed to miss the carillon and continue upwards to
> the top level, a viewing platform at about 100m.

Best part is, we had walked all around the tower in search of the
next stair case, before someone actually looked at the thing we were
circling and discovered that that was the roof :)

> .... - all TVs in the pub were tuned to the WC warmup match

> between England and Saudi Arabia, and vociferous and voluminous comments
> were heard all through the match...

And our random yelling (1,2,3..now) annoyed at least some watchers :)

> Rocky brought along a radio controlled Mini that was sent around the
> table for almost the whole evening - only during dinner did the little
> thing get a well-deserved rest.C Mini #

And although it has bumped into glasses the entire evening, even
bringing some on the edge of the table, no drink was actually
spilled, nor any glass broken.

Greetings, Eelco

--
>What is this `holiday'' of which you speak?
I think that's the time when you can sit in the garden with your
laptop instead of in the office with the large screen.
Jenny Holmberg on afp