2005 Hallowe'en Meet: The Log
Created | Updated Oct 30, 2005
The following events took place in Edinburgh on October 29th 2005.
1311Zagreb catches fords kicking the parking meter outside the pub.
1315The gang convenes in the Standing Order.
1325After trying to stare people out to make them give up their seats, we're still standing. One woman engages fords in a game of stareout.
1330EV gives up and heads for the bar.
1335Ku'Reshtin turns up and steals a chair from an old man.
1348EV finally returns from the bar.
1400Wolf baiting.
1402fords leaves to collect Mina and her mystery guest.
1406DD and FC turn up. Game ruined.
1408Politics breaks out.
1410Swedish cider prompts discussion of Swedish equivalent of The Wurzels.
1417Jamie arrives and immediately heads for the bar.
1426Musical chairs without music.
1435Ku' produces beef jerky while waiting for food to arrive.
1437American politics breaks out.
1442Nutritional value of beef jerky discussed.
1502Inferior surf & turf arrives and is eaten by EV and Ku' against their will.
1530fords returns with Mina and mystery guest.
1550More bitching about the quality of the surf & turf from earlier.
1600Varied discussion about women running around with almost no clothes; file sharing; 10 meg broadband and the non-existance of benefits.
1615fords and EV lose power of coherent speech and dissolve into repeated cries of "Your mother."
1623Mina mentions Swedish porn and Ann Summers catalogue.
1625fords' waffle finally turns up, half an hour late.
1637Advance party heads to Royal Mile by car, picking up a parking ticket in the process.
1642Ku' thinks people are winning from the cigarette machine.
1652Rear guard leaves pub.
1708Group meets up again.
1720Finally decide on pub "The Tron" after much discussion about hills.
1730Zagreb adopts Bruce Forsyth position.
1731fords adopts Edwyn Collins position1.
1732Mina tries to put her hair up and strangely succeeds.
1734Zagreb orders a coffee. Howls of derision, etc.
1736fords and EV have a screaming match. fords wins.
1745DD suggests that fords and EV buy the BP refinery and turn it into a distillery.
1747DD won't kiss EV's babies.
1750Group heads off for spooky tour, except Zagreb who hangs around the pub.
1922Spooky tour over, the gang convenes in some pub underneath Edinburgh.
1935Good old debate about ghosties, ghouls2 and general weird stuff.
1945Weird bloke comes over demanding "Time!" In the absence of the words "Gentlemen please", we drink on.
1954FC's bro dated Cowface.
1955Cowface kills conversation.
1959Mina opens suspicious packet found in Ku's beef jerky.
2000Mina empties packet into not-quite-empty glass. "Poisonous gloop must taste better than Magners."
2005Poultrygeist carries Jamie off, leaving behind chicken scraps for Master B to lick.
2011EV is confused by writing on both sides of paper.
2030The group invades an unsuspecting branch of Dave Hut.
2103Ku' says he has no time for Hootoo anymore.
2103.005Ku' bursts out laughing.
2110Mort arrives and discusses mobile phones with fords which turns into Monty Python conversation.
2140Mort is upset that no-one had a game about what time she would turn up.
2145Offers of dessert are declined as various researchers are worried about a Mr Creosote moment.
2200FC's bro arrives. He is astonishingly drunk.
2206Mort calls us all a bunch of b*stards - again - then tries to give us money.
2209FC's bro miraculously passes the "How many fingers am I holding up?" test.
2215Mort, fords and EV discuss football - especially Hibs beating Hearts.
2218fords decides that if everyone else is having pudding she wants one too. What, no Fundoos left?!
2226Jamie and EV get fed up and go to find a pub, accompanied by Mort and Zagreb.
2240Mort latches on to a nice young man called Jordan3 who lets us sit at his table.
2245The others turn up at the pub.
2250Mort and Jordan do the "Hibee bounce".
2255Mort manages to send Jordan on his way with a wink from his friend.
2256FC's bro (only slightly drunk) has an in-depth conversation with a fellow drunk bloke.
2300Scottish Parliament building derided, even if it did win the RIBA Stirling prize.
2303Something about bread, butter and burning.
2320Ku' and Jamie depart for the last train home.
2323FC and DD leave with younger brother who can't hold his drink.
2330fords escorts Mort to the ladies'.
2331Zagreb says "homo-erotic" for undetermined reasons.
2239EV takes photographic record of drink of unknown origin.
2340fords and Mort return. (Ten minutes?)
2342Mort challenges Mina to a Scottish spelling bee.
0000Log runs out. Researchers disappear into the night.