This week’s review is coming a little bit early, mostly because I am a responsible person who doesn’t want you all to be deprived of my wonderful posting this weekend. It would be better later, but I’m leaving for the first leg of my odyssey to Buffalo in an hour…
Now, before I get into the Week in Review, I must address an issue. CayCay is a woman. CayCay posts regularly in threads like Girl Talk (we will ignore the fact that safinch and Dr. Evil are fond of this thread too). CayCay has never pretended to be other than she is. And yet people insist on seeing her as a man…
OK, on to the virtual excitement that was this week:
The Victory:
An unusually active week for this oh-so-straightlaced thread. You wouldn’t think that we had months and months to go before the cruise…
- Advice was given to cruise newbies about what to expect. It was also noted that Ships and Dip only vaguely resembled a normal cruise. So go ahead and disregard everything!
- WA state people proved themselves incapable of picking a gathering date, despite a promising start about a week ago (my vote is 8/25, by the way).
- The So. Cal. meeting, which I will greatly miss mentioning after this week, happened. People met. And ate good food. And talked about the Week in Review. Yay So. Cal. people!
- jgettle86 wants to find other people from SW Florida for the cruise. Anyone?
- Nikki will get everyone on the cabin map eventually. And it will be good.
- The first DJ of the week played this week. I totally forgot to listen. I realized that I had forgotten to listen while writing this. Maybe I should review the threads earlier in the week?
- ckguy27 was really, really excited to join us. Then he stopped posting. His travel buddies should bug him about that.
- There are things you need cash for on the boat. And not just the booze (although I personally spent about half of my money on drinks). You don’t need cash for the steward if he’s absent or terrible. Save your cash for expediting your passport application when you forget to apply way in advance…
- The Verandah deck people are really full of themselves, aren’t they? I should start a thread about my deck. Of course, that would mean I’d have to remember which deck I was on. Hmmm… Oh, and nvcatgut was a pirate!
- scotswahay and wife will be touring the US in October. Let me know if you want to meet for a drink in New York City!
- 2kids wants us to think about excursions. Thinking about excursions just makes me remember how long we have until the cruise.
- If you have two spare wristbands for a second concert, you would be wise to stay very, very far away from Suebee. Some people do not approve of selling such wristbands. Others are OK with it. Suebee just attacks.
Seven Seas Lobby
- There are people looking for roommates. Help these people out! No BNL fans left behind!
Caribbean Lounge
- This is the place to find a link listing every BNL concert in existence. I didn’t click on it. I don’t want it rubbed in how many amazing concerts I missed before 2006.
- Dates and locations for the Guster tour out west are available.
- BNL covered a Rheostatics song, and there’s a link.
- There are BNL concerts this weekend!!! And I’m going!!! Sorry to gloat, but I am finding it impossible to help myself. Artpark here I come!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Much advice was given about driving to Detroit. Which you’ve hopefully all taken, since the concert is in a few hours…
- Lauren gave us a thread in which to request artists for S&DIII. It’s 3 pages long now. Somehow I doubt all of our requests will be met.
Grand Buffet
All you can eat. All you can post. Literally.
- WE and I spent the week vying for the top poster position. I think he might be in the lead now, but I haven’t checked in awhile.
- Michelle found a scary commercial for Nikki.
- skates likes to freeze on hot summer days.
- Stories from Iraq are not so much fun to read, even when they’re moving.
- 2kids needed cleaning music. Many obliged.
- WE apparently has given up on culture, despite help from T.B.A. No quotes for 6 days!
- We debated the merits of covers vs. original songs. I’m staying firmly on the side of the originals. Unless it’s a BNL cover. That’s a completely different story.
- WE tried to enlist our support for his possibly disturbing habit of obsessively following the activities of the British royal family. I wonder what it would be like to have paparazzi following you. Would it be cool for awhile? Or would it just suck from the beginning? I haven’t had any experience with this.
- Alaina posted videos of the BNL Behind the Music episode. Alaina is my hero.
- The internet is for porn. Which means that we, as a message board, are being very lax in posting appropriate material. Explicit talk among the Girls notwithstanding, we are much too family friendly. Get on that, people!
- The gas prices went down a little. Milk, however, is still ridiculously expensive.
- If I had all the money in the world, I would go on the Cayamo cruise, which looks like the greatest thing since Ships and Dip. Unfortunately, one cruise is excessive. Two cruises might just lead to bankruptcy. Stupid Elation starving student lifestyle…
- Bacon continued. And the food, some of which was not bacon, at the So. Cal. gathering was lauded.
- ketchup, and all others, should regularly be reminded about my superhot prom date. And ToasterBoy would, in fact, make a good Open Mic emcee.
- Many of us are planning to see Sicko. Some of us like Michael Moore. Some of us don’t. Michael Moore would fall into the first category.
- There are free tickets to Artpark tomorrow! Many of them! So no excuses. Get yourselves to that concert.
- I apparently either need to move my TV or arrange for my roommate to have an “accident.” Many people have an absurd amount of technology in their homes (and might be adding Wiis to that…). Maybe if I had two TVs, that would solve my problem… Hmmmmm…
- There is much love for IKEA. Especially for those meatballs. I could go for a meatball right now. Eating meatballs while watching a shuttle launch would be really neat.
- The stupid people are out there. Fortunately, many of them seem to be killing themselves off.
- Weedmage felt that a good Monday morning topic would be liberals and conservatives. Considering that the thread remained less heated than most, she might have been right. There are ignorant people around the world, although American ones tend to make TV the most. Canada has more political parties that actually do something than does the US. Part of Vermont wants to secede. Would anyone notice?
- The case of Woods vs. Johnson involves Woods’ wood.
- Katenev made a rather progressive cross-stitch. You don’t often see “progressive” and “cross-stitch” in the same sentence, do you?
- Many more of 2kids’ random questions were answered.
- The Sopranos has ended. And most people are annoyed. I’m suddenly very glad I never got into that show.
- 30 second mysteries make my brain hurt. And if people keep bringing up Middle Eastern politics, I need all the brain I can get!
- PA got into the Teaching English as a Foreign Language program at McGill. Yay PA!!!
- Some cities are pretty. Some are not. Two cities are named Vancouver.
- Shell likes “Is That All There Is?” That’s all I’ve got on this anyway.
- Giant fonts were debated. As were tiny ones.
- We talked about the Girl Talk thread. Girls really do need to talk a lot, don’t they?
- There will soon be a new Guitar Hero. It looks like fun. I should play it someday…
- Our senior years were interesting and varied. I’m still glad I’m not there anymore.
- Shell was very nostalgic for Irv Weinstein, who I will probably be hearing about tomorrow.
- Underdog is set to return. Danger Mouse could totally kick Underdog’s butt.
- The Girls talked about tanning, my second date with my second date, the third date rule, and yeast infections. And this is what brought about the return of Dr. Evil!
- A cat named Mr. Lee really gets around.
- The guys talked about sports (shocker) – college and hockey. Most drop-outs fail to achieve the level of success enjoyed by certain rock stars.
- Mr. Wizard died. That really sucks.
- Japanese game shows are kinda freaky. But strangely addictive. And I think I might want to be on one…
- Katiesue04 likes Wii.
- It is possible to use song lyrics to describe your day. But they can’t be used to describe this thread, because I’m too lazy to think of any appropriate ones.
- If you don’t know your ABCs after 97 pages, you might be a hopeless case.
- Crocs are almost starting to look good. But were banned at some schools anyway.
- A shockingly high number of us thought that Steven Page was a good vocalist.
- Did we cross the line? Well, we covered political correctness and overly nice behavior at schools, the Pledge of Allegiance, the Boy Scouts, international opinion of the US, Luxembourg’s good credit rating, American Middle East policy, who it’s best to arm (aka, who won’t shoot us), Middle Eastern politics, moderate vs. extremist Islam, suicide bombing, pan-religious extremism, and colonialism. At least no one can say that we don’t have a range of interests…
- Alaina’s internet game is evil. Pure evil. (Haven’t got past 40 yet…)
- That opera guy in Britain can really sing. And I mean really sing.
- Asia is coming. That title keeps putting pictures of a map of Asia jumping on top of North America into my head. But it’s really one of many place-named bands out there. They will be having an over-priced concert.
- There are lots of good actors and actresses. Ben Affleck probably isn’t one of them.
- MoodyCat caught a mouse in an epic battle between the species. Although it required a long period of time and far too much cleaning, humanity did reign supreme. With the help of an ambulance.
- Michelle sprained her ankle. Fortunately, lots of posting should make her feel much better.
- Nikki’s going to Ohio. Not as good as Buffalo, but I’m sure it’s OK too.
- There might be benefits to lowering taxes. There might not be. This is why I don’t do economics.
- We now know 72 pages worth of information about people above us.
- And have asked 70 pages of questions.
- Retail jobs can suck, mostly due to the customers. If only you could get rid of the customers…
- SCTV was funny. And Shell bowled with the McKenzie brothers!
- The Itunes game is really fun but also kind of creepy.
- Short people are stirring up trouble in California. Fortunately, we won’t be able to see them, so it doesn’t matter.
There is probably more that was posted in the last hour. But I’m going to Buffalo, so screw it. Have a good weekend!!!
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