Notes and Quotes from the BA Recovery Party
ral...@xocolatl.com
Just a few notes and quotes from the Recovery Party that Michael
Turner threw to celebrate his Recovery and his new job as a Programmer
(though I think he also said "Engineer" once or twice).
The Notes
I think there were 15 or so comrades at Fibbar McGee's in Mountain
View to celebrate MIke's recovery. I remember, in no particular order:
Blade, Jeff, Jeannette, John Clark, Maureen, Mike Hisself, and of
course, your humble author. For those whose names I couldn't remember,
I apologize; all I can say is that I would know your face if I saw it
again and that lots of pear cider causes label amnesia.
And oh, did the pear cider flow....along with Guiness and other fine
brews and many other libations. We consumed:
7 pitchers of pear cider (the house bought us 2 pitchers!)
3-4 pitchers of Guiness, and as many pints
2 Newcastle pints
4 Sierra draft pints
1 Harp Ale
12 Purple Hooters (someone described this drink as 'Raspberry Nyquil')
6 Grape Apes (Purple Hooter's sweeter cousin)
1 shot vodka
5 shots tequila
and enough pub food to feed an army.
We started Recovery at 7pm, and continued at Fibbar's until midnight,
when the four of us still there fled the noise of the very loud band
and stumbled off to find more food. At 2am, your humble author (who
also drove the multitude to find more food) pleaded exhaustion, and
returned everyone to close proximity of Fibbar's, thus ending a very
successful evening of Recovery. Many thanks to Mike for hosting a
wonderful Recovery, and to Fibbar's (especially Curt and Triona, the
bartenders) for putting up with us!
The Quotes
The Quotes are here because someone said something and someone else
said, " that would make a good sig." and I actually was able to find a
pen and write it down. And then there was another, and another. And so
it continued, though the night of Recovery, across the backs of a bank
balance slip, a business card, a Fibbar coaster and the bar receipt.
Except for one, the quotes are unattributed; the contributors insisted
that the quotes be posted, but equally insisted that they wished to be
anonymous. A warning or two: continue no further if you are easily
offended and do remember the context (and the condition of the
quoters) in which these quotes were proffered... (my comments are in
[ ] )
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Saying that Abby is a little pissy is like saying that a luser is a
little annoying...
(When we were counting attendees)
13, 14; they went home to make 15....
Uisng a 22 to kill a pager is like LARTing a luser with a toothpick!
*EIGHT* Purple Hooters????? --Curt, the bartender
I can't believe they advertise that he is a luser tutor!
We have to get it up a bit before we can compete...
"Can you spell 'alcohol poisoning'?"
"Not anymore!"
I may be recovered, but I am NOT old yet!
((sh(-na)+)(la -de -da)+)+
I am feeling comfortably dumb.
I'm going to say something I've wanted to say for 9 years: FSCK the
customer!
We don't need no action items,
We don't need no flow control!
Lusers, leave your BOFHs alone!
All in all, it's just another ticket in the queue.
Do you know the number for 911?
We are time zone snobs. 7PST8 is the only way to go!
Don't play with that with my soda on top of it!
Dammit, can't you just lay there and enjoy it?
"Enjoy yourself"
"I will!" --someone on the way to the restroom
You are the KY that the marketing dweebs use to fsck the industry!
"Cider rocks!"
"Better than this band..."
"*Hemorroids* rock better than this band!"
Do these guys come with volume control?
[The band was way too loud and way too bad.]
She's losing a superblock one bit at a time.
Nobody showed up from satanic.net... the losers!
[Don't kill me, I'm only the reporter!]
It's semantics; it doesn't fscking matter!
Cluephone: X666
One BOFH talking to another BOFH:
BOFH1: "All we need now is a tattoo parlor; I'd get a tattoo that says
BOFH."
BOFH2 traces BOFH across his chest.
BOFH1: "No, lower."
BOFH2 traces BOFH across his midsection.
BOFH1: "No, lower."
BOFH2 traces BOFH across his hips.
BOFH1: "Close, but not quite."
BOFH3: "Down NOT across!!!!"
Respectfully submitted,
--Ruth Anne
--
--
You think because you understand _one_ you must understand two. Because
one and one make _two_. But you must also understand _and_.
--Sufi Sage
Jeff Gostin
ral...@xocolatl.com wrote:
: I think there were 15 or so comrades at Fibbar McGee's in Mountain View to
: celebrate MIke's recovery. I remember, in no particular order:
Thank you one and all for a -terrific- (and much needed) night out. I think
Mike -finally- recovered from the recovery party, so that's a good thing. To
those I met, it was great to meetcha, and to those I knew already, it was
good to see ya again! :)
: | ! _ [Down, not Across]
It's a Jacket/Tshirt In The Making. Who agrees? :)
: ((sh(-na)+)(la -de -da)+)+
It scares me that someone can regexp a song on the fly.
: Respectfully submitted,
And respectfully appreciated. Thanks. :)
--Jeff
John Clear
In article <358f2787...@news.sri.com>, <ral...@xocolatl.com> wrote:
>Just a few notes and quotes from the Recovery Party that Michael
>Turner threw to celebrate his Recovery and his new job as a Programmer
>(though I think he also said "Engineer" once or twice).
He just thinks he has recovered. I'd bet he'll be admining the boxes
before too long.
>
>The Notes
>
>I think there were 15 or so comrades at Fibbar McGee's in Mountain
>View to celebrate MIke's recovery. I remember, in no particular order:
>Blade, Jeff, Jeannette, John Clark, Maureen, Mike Hisself, and of
^^^^^ ITYM Clear, but close enough
>And oh, did the pear cider flow....along with Guiness and other fine
>brews and many other libations. We consumed:
>7 pitchers of pear cider (the house bought us 2 pitchers!)
Only 7? We were at 5 pitchers when Maureen and I left to go get pizza,
and that was around 8:30.
>| ! _ [Down, not Across]
It took me about 20mins to explain this one to Maureen[1] over
pizza at FJL[2], as well as trying to explain C|N>M [3].
>"Cider rocks!"
>"Better than this band..."
>"*Hemorroids* rock better than this band!"
There seemed to be too many hemorroids references...
"Saying HotJava is better then IE is like saying hemorroids are better
then AIDS."
John
[1] My non-techie SO type who was feeling pretty happy after 4 pints of cider.
[2] Frankie, Johnny and Luigi Too!
[3] Cider | Nose > Mike[4]
[4] Jeff was standing behind Mike as he almost spewed after one of the
quotes in the list.
--
John Clear - j...@panix.com http://www.panix.com/~jac
Michael Turner
In article <6mnq2r$tf$1...@nntp1.ba.best.com>,
Jeff Gostin <jgo...@shell2.ba.best.com> wrote:
>ral...@xocolatl.com wrote:
>: I think there were 15 or so comrades at Fibbar McGee's in Mountain View to
>: celebrate MIke's recovery. I remember, in no particular order:
>
>Mike -finally- recovered from the recovery party, so that's a good thing. To
>those I met, it was great to meetcha, and to those I knew already, it was
>good to see ya again! :)
Remeber... next one first friday in Oct.
>: | ! _ [Down, not Across]
>
>It's a Jacket/Tshirt In The Making. Who agrees? :)
Hmm...
Front:
#fsCK /usr
Back:
| ! _
>: ((sh(-na)+)(la -de -da)+)+
>
>It scares me that someone can regexp a song on the fly.
And drunk (its the crous to Brown Eye Girl).
--Michael Turner
Web Programer
mturner@csd^H^H^Hnetapp.com[1]
[1] old habits die hard.
Jeff Gostin
Michael Turner <m_tu...@dukat.cs.wisc.edu> wrote:
: Remeber... next one first friday in Oct.
That's right! :) It's the "Because It's Time For October" Recovery Party.
Tentative date is Friday Oct 2, 1998. :)
: Hmm...
: Front:
: #fsCK /usr
: Back:
: | ! _
Sounds like a better Tshirt than a jacket. Unless we can find those
'teardown' jackets. :)
: And drunk (its the crous to Brown Eye Girl).
Ayup. Done painfully out of key, though. The lamers... didn't even know any
'Floyd.
--J
ral...@xocolatl.com
j...@panix.com (John Clear) wrote:
>In article <358f2787...@news.sri.com>, <ral...@xocolatl.com> wrote:
>>Just a few notes and quotes from the Recovery Party that Michael
>>Turner threw to celebrate his Recovery and his new job as a Programmer
>>I think there were 15 or so comrades at Fibbar McGee's in Mountain
>>View to celebrate MIke's recovery. I remember, in no particular order:
>>Blade, Jeff, Jeannette, John Clark, Maureen, Mike Hisself, and of
> ^^^^^ ITYM Clear, but close enough
I'm sorry John! I know a John Clark in another life, and my brain
keeps getting the names confused (although I'd NEVER confuse the
people!).
>
>>And oh, did the pear cider flow....along with Guiness and other fine
>>brews and many other libations. We consumed:
>>7 pitchers of pear cider (the house bought us 2 pitchers!)
>
>Only 7? We were at 5 pitchers when Maureen and I left to go get pizza,
>and that was around 8:30.
I think we started into the hard stuff in a serious why after you
left, and that's why we consumed only 2 more pitchers of cider....
--Ruth Anne
Simon Slavin
In article <86ogvjm...@hastur.rlyeh.net>,
Stig Sandbeck Mathisen <s...@rlyeh.net> wrote:
# Path: news.demon.co.uk!demon!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!
# newsfeed.uk.ibm.net!ibm.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!het.net!
# news.belnet.be!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!
# news-fra1.dfn.de!news-fra.maz.net!newsfeed.ecrc.net!
# newsfeed.nacamar.de!nntp.news.xara.net!xara.net!
# news-feed.inet.tele.dk!bofh.vszbr.cz!uninett.no!online.no!
# hastur.rlyeh.net!not-for-mail
Stig, do your articles get free air-miles or something ?
ObASR: My ISP suddenly started duplicating news articles, so it sucks.
ObApology: Some of the staff read this group, so it doesn't suck much.
ObTooLate: <clicky-click>
ObInSpace: Arghhhhhh ! Guys ? Erm ... guys ? Can anyone hear me ?
Simon.
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Berry Kercheval
Stig Sandbeck Mathisen <s...@rlyeh.net> writes:
> ObASR: I was thinking, the othere day, about a secondary backup for
> the newsfeed, and wondering how much hardware I need to send a full
> feed to printer. :-)
Well, if a full feed is a gig a day, and we assume 60 lines of 60
chars per page, then one of Xerox' new 180 page/minute network
printers ... is not quite fast enough, running flat out. (I get 192
pages/minute all day, every day)
Don't print the binary groups and it will work fine for the next, oh,
6 months. Still, that's a lotta dead trees'n'toner. Your Xerox
salesdroid will love you. Literally.
-berry
Scott Laird
In article <on2axf...@jhereg.kerch.com>,
>
>Well, if a full feed is a gig a day, and we assume 60 lines of 60
Ha, ha, very funny. We run over 1 GB per *hour* at times, and average
~14 GB/day right now.
You need a faster printer, or maybe a printer array (RARFEP?).
Scott
Berry Kercheval
la...@sigkill.org (Scott Laird) writes:
> In article <on2axf...@jhereg.kerch.com>,
> >
> >Well, if a full feed is a gig a day, and we assume 60 lines of 60
>
> Ha, ha, very funny. We run over 1 GB per *hour* at times, and average
> ~14 GB/day right now.
Heh. Shows how long it's been since *I* had anything to do with
adminning news, thank ghod.
But still, even the FASTEST printer I know can't keep up. RAEP anyone?
(redundant arrays of expensive printers)
--berry
Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
chi...@ix.netcom.com (Jeff Vinocur) writes:
> On 28 Jun 1998 12:07:21 +0200, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
> <s...@rlyeh.net> wrote:
>
> :You know, the best way to get from A to B is to have Lunch at C, where
> :C is situated nowhere in the vincinity of either A or B.
>
> Is that Douglas Adams or does it just sound like it?
I don't know. It may be something I've picked up from one of his
books.
--
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Trust the Computer, the Computer is your Friend
Arthur Hagen
In article <3598de20....@nntp.ix.netcom.com>, chi...@ix.netcom.com writes:
> On 28 Jun 1998 12:07:21 +0200, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
> <s...@rlyeh.net> wrote:
>
> :You know, the best way to get from A to B is to have Lunch at C, where
> :C is situated nowhere in the vincinity of either A or B.
>
> Is that Douglas Adams or does it just sound like it?
If C is located at the end of the universe, I'm sure it's Adams.
--
*Art
Gid Holyoake
In article <873eco3...@dream.nextel.no>, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
generously decided to share with us:
> chi...@ix.netcom.com (Jeff Vinocur) writes:
>
> > On 28 Jun 1998 12:07:21 +0200, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
> > <s...@rlyeh.net> wrote:
> >
> > :You know, the best way to get from A to B is to have Lunch at C, where
> > :C is situated nowhere in the vincinity of either A or B.
> >
> > Is that Douglas Adams or does it just sound like it?
>
> books.
Umm.. it's similar to the description of where Mr. Prosser[1] would like
to be in relationship to the bypass being built through Arthur Dent's
house.....
Gid
[1] He with the Mongol hordes shouting at him inside his head..
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Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
a...@flying.broomstick.com (Arthur Hagen) writes:
> If C is located at the end of the universe, I'm sure it's Adams.
I'd like to have lunch there. :-)
(And watch a universe of lusers perish)
Randall Joiner
Stig Sandbeck Mathisen <s...@rlyeh.net> wrote:
>a...@flying.broomstick.com (Arthur Hagen) writes:
>
>> If C is located at the end of the universe, I'm sure it's Adams.
>
>I'd like to have lunch there. :-)
>
>(And watch a universe of lusers perish)
I just wanna meet the meat.
Tanuki the Raccoon-dog
In article <35991d92...@news.america.net>, Randall Joiner
<rljo...@mindspring.com> writes
It's indoubtedly of a higher level of intellect than the lusers; I bet
it would be good at driving Hotblack Desiato's ship, if only we didn't
have to eat it...
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Randall Joiner
Tanuki the Raccoon-dog <Tan...@canis-major.daemon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <35991d92...@news.america.net>, Randall Joiner
><rljo...@mindspring.com> writes
>>Stig Sandbeck Mathisen <s...@rlyeh.net> wrote:
>>
>>>a...@flying.broomstick.com (Arthur Hagen) writes:
>>>
>>>> If C is located at the end of the universe, I'm sure it's Adams.
>>>
>>>I'd like to have lunch there. :-)
>>>
>>>(And watch a universe of lusers perish)
>>
>>I just wanna meet the meat.
>
>It's indoubtedly of a higher level of intellect than the lusers; I bet
>it would be good at driving Hotblack Desiato's ship, if only we didn't
>have to eat it...
I _really_ want to try to make luser giraffes. Anyone want to help?
I went insane one day. Really. Installed 95 and NT WS (Dual boot no
less) and it worked, first time, found all the hardware, shook my
hand, said hello to the network in a friendly manner, played nice with
all the other boxen...
I must have been insane.
Randall Joiner
I know where all the ball-point pens go, and I have a digital watch.
Petro
In article <359949e7...@news.america.net>,
Randall Joiner <rljo...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>I went insane one day. Really. Installed 95 and NT WS (Dual boot no
>less) and it worked, first time, found all the hardware, shook my
>hand, said hello to the network in a friendly manner, played nice with
>all the other boxen...
>I must have been insane.
That was God telling you to buy a lottery ticket.
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