Good lord, you ::carefully sidesteps any naming controversies:: San Francisco residents have meetups insanely often. Which is a good thing!

Perhaps we could combine this with pancakes.
posted to MetaTalk by needs more cowbell at 7:44 PM on February 27, 2008

Ambrosia Voyeur: something like this? And what's a MBFE?
posted to MetaTalk by needs more cowbell at 1:53 PM on February 28, 2008

Ambrosia Voyeur: funnily enough, I'm dogsitting for two very classy dogs that weekend. Unfortunately they're both known for their escape-artist antics, so I can't rent one to you. But I'll probably be there.
posted to MetaTalk by needs more cowbell at 5:08 PM on March 19, 2008

I'm visiting the bay area (trying to move here, actually, if I find a sublet) and couldn't make it to the last meetup, so count me in for this one (Place Pigalle)...it's a shame there won't be dogs at this meetup, though.
posted to MetaTalk by needs more cowbell at 3:05 PM on February 15, 2008

yay!
posted to MetaTalk by needs more cowbell at 10:40 AM on February 17, 2008

Nice meeting y'all all of you. And I'll have to keep in mind that wearing a cow print sweater makes me look like a lawyer.
posted to MetaTalk by needs more cowbell at 10:20 AM on February 22, 2008

Also, person holding the MeFi sign in the picture: what's your user name? I only caught your real name.
posted to MetaTalk by needs more cowbell at 10:24 AM on February 22, 2008

I'm a sucker for dogs romping anywhere, and I might still be the area on January 26th. Can I still (possibly) tag along?
posted to MetaTalk by needs more cowbell at 6:21 PM on January 22, 2008

I think this is a case for Blue Smurf Piss.
posted to MetaTalk by needs more cowbell at 4:38 PM on January 6, 2008

THANK YOU.
posted to MetaTalk by needs more cowbell at 7:33 AM on December 25, 2007

Isn't the Arafat thing old news (or old speculation, as far as I can tell), anyway? I heard a lot about this back in 2004 when he was in the hospital in France.

I found myself having odd arguments with conservative family members about it : "Okay, so Arafat did some shitty things and misused money, so hate him for that if you want, but don't hate him for (maybe) having sex with men! That's his personal choice, even if you hate him." I don't like Arafat,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by needs more cowbell at 2:01 PM on July 13, 2007

I think the best answer got deleted. It was something about cats looking for tasty grocers' apostrophes in the bathroom.
posted to MetaTalk by needs more cowbell at 7:34 PM on June 7, 2007

I'm thinking Dan Savage wouldn't be giving advice on carpentry, from what I've read in his column. The sentence My son has two fathers, but Heather Poe’s left labial lip is butcher than both of us put together comes to mind.
posted to MetaTalk by needs more cowbell at 3:54 AM on April 14, 2007

Rock Steady, my mom and her five siblings have been doing something similar for close to 50 years--recreating a childhood picture of everyone sitting on the front steps at each family gathering. They've got the arrangement memorized, though (down to details like my aunt sitting on her big brother's lap, which is kind of awkward now that they're both adults).

It's definitely a neat thing to do.
posted to MetaTalk by needs more cowbell at 9:47 PM on September 19, 2006

I've never heard "anymore" used in that sense during my 15 years in Baltimore. The one person I know who uses it that way is from California.
posted to MetaTalk by needs more cowbell at 8:21 PM on September 4, 2006

owhydididoit: never! Tibor Gergely will always reign supreme.

posted to MetaTalk by needs more cowbell at 10:01 PM on August 23, 2006

It seems that the comment about getting a lawyer and terminating parental rights was deleted, which is a Good Thing, IMHO.
posted to MetaTalk by needs more cowbell at 9:53 AM on August 20, 2006

Sometimes I flag things as fantastic because they are hilarious and then they get removed. I'm not sure this would help, though.
posted to MetaTalk by needs more cowbell at 9:41 PM on August 19, 2006

absalom: try The Printed Word. It's perfect for PowerPoint.
posted to MetaTalk by needs more cowbell at 8:06 PM on August 17, 2006

goodnewsfortheinsane, see here
posted to MetaTalk by needs more cowbell at 11:10 AM on August 4, 2006

this would be like giving ponies to people who beat their neighbors' horses.
posted to MetaTalk by needs more cowbell at 2:20 PM on July 26, 2006

For the most part I think it's better for teens to play on the big playground with all of us.

I'm not sure what JoshuaK's objective was--maybe a place where the people responding are all teenagers, but there's no easy way to enforce that with any certainty. (I'm sure there are a lot of people here that would be dying to jump in and respond to questions on this hypothetical version of AskMe.) I think anyone that understands and is willing to keep to the spirit of... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by needs more cowbell at 7:22 AM on June 30, 2006

what anonymous paid commenter said.
posted to MetaTalk by needs more cowbell at 11:17 AM on May 17, 2006

I don't remember the rest of the comment, but if the quoted portion was the most offensive part, I think people are overreacting. There's nothing inherently negative about "giant invisible wizard in the sky." Any offense people take must be the result of their own prejudicial feelings about wizards having a chip on the shoulder about criticism of religion.
posted to MetaTalk by needs more cowbell at 2:09 PM on May 15, 2006

I, for one, welcome our alien overlords think it's a great idea.
posted to MetaTalk by needs more cowbell at 9:04 AM on May 14, 2006

fire&wings, from IMDB it looks like Mayim Bialik gave birth about three days before that picture was taken. Cut the girl some slack.
posted to MetaTalk by needs more cowbell at 12:55 PM on May 9, 2006

quonsar, are you aware of the numerous biblical references to "circumcise your heart" or were you just bringing in circumcision to get things going over here?
posted to MetaTalk by needs more cowbell at 7:44 AM on April 23, 2006

I've noticed some strange things in askme threads--I read some replies, returned a minute later, and the new responses were above the old ones. Maybe that's related.
posted to MetaTalk by needs more cowbell at 6:53 AM on April 22, 2006

Checking in...I will most probably come. My guess is that schroedinger would come if we could switch to a place that isn't 21 & up (apparently Club Charles is; I think Zodiac isn't).
posted to MetaTalk by needs more cowbell at 1:21 PM on January 27, 2006

I suggest the following:

Dear FutureMe,

Have you gotten the answer to %$#^*&@#% yet? No? Post it to AxMe.

Love and kisses,
Kickstart70

posted to MetaTalk by needs more cowbell at 4:44 PM on January 25, 2006

I'm interested but have a fear of commitment.
posted to MetaTalk by needs more cowbell at 4:12 PM on January 22, 2006

Do you have the "clear private data" tool (in v1.5) set to clear all of your cookies each time you close Firefox? Cause that would do it. I've only had to log in once.
posted to MetaTalk by needs more cowbell at 9:28 PM on January 7, 2006