A Conversation for The Feline and Fiddle

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Post 261

Menza

Anyone in need of a smiley - ale?


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Post 262

Courtesy38

A Guiness please.

I heard about the party. Really cool. I have tried to galvanize the California element into a party, however, so far there have been no takers smiley - sadface Oh well, the next time there is a party in England I think I might fly in smiley - smiley


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Post 263

Menza

It was good fun

*passes smiley - ale over the bar*

At least in the UK quite a few people can get into London. The US is simply too big. We did get a visit from Towel Master cos he was in the country for the weekend.


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Post 264

Dancing Ermine

How many people turned up?


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Post 265

Courtesy38

Cheers

I agree, the US is just too big. We will need to start local chapters. Just like the Flying Elvis' in Leaving Las Vegas.

*said with an Elvis accent*

We're the flying Elvis' Utah Chapter smiley - smiley


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Post 266

Menza

About 20ish I think, but not all of them were there all day. Peta has the full list and the pictures will be in the next edition of the POST. And Psyduck had a digital video camera so there might be some avi files turning up too.


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Post 267

Dancing Ermine

I might have come along but I was busy on friday night (til 3am), and had meetings to go to on saturday. Leving group projects to the last minute isn't a good idea. Besides a ticket to london would be just out of my budget after the previous week.


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Post 268

Menza

You could catch the next one. I'm planning to be there if I can, it was strange how well we all got on together. I know most of us are in contact here, but face to face is much different.


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Post 269

Dancing Ermine

It would be different if my parents still lived near London, but they moved countries this summerso I can't exactly mix a visit to my parents to one meeting you lot. The long train journeys (well Bath to London) would be testing.

I'll keep it in mind for the next time though.

I was wondering, how did you know who was whom? Were there name tags or did you just have to explain to everyone who you were?


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Post 270

Courtesy38

Face to face is definitely different. For one thing, there is no lag in a conversation (meaning waiting minutes, hours or days for a response)

Did anyone have little placards with smiley - smileysmiley - bigeyessmiley - winkeyesmiley - sadface faces on them smiley - smiley


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Post 271

Menza

You would be surprised how well a group of researchers stick out. Its hard to miss us really. But Towel Master and Shazz helped, they had their names on their T-shirts. And Pastey had an H2G2 badge on his shirt.


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Post 272

Dancing Ermine

The longest I've waited so far before getting a reply has been five weeks, well for those that have been replied to anyway.


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Post 273

Menza

I know what you mean, some of my entries and stuff don't ever get replied to.


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Post 274

Dancing Ermine

I kind of expect it for journal entries and, to a lesser extent, guide entries but it rankles when its a comment I made on someone else's entry.


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Post 275

Bluebottle

I know the feeling. I always _try_ to reply to anyone who has been kind enough to reply to me, but it is often hard when there are too many messages. At the moment I'm experiencing a huge lag of messages to reply to since I was away the weekend at the get together - but I hope to catch up as soon as poss, so anything anyone's written to me _will_ be replied to soon enough!
And in answer to the question, no-one had any smileys on - the only ID were the 2 t-shirts of Towel Master & Shazz, and badges.


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Post 276

Menza

Had to quickly check my user pages, just in case. The only one I regularly check is the F&F. The Halloween stories thing is not really anything to de with me, I just drew the smileys.


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Post 277

Dancing Ermine

Try being away for a week at a time.

Though it was my own fault, trying to catch up on conversations was difficult, a lot of them had completely new people involved and the subject matter had changed. That was confusing.

Thankfully I had got involved with a few comnversations that didn't miss me and a few that shut down anyway, otherwise it would have taken forever to catch up.


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Post 278

Courtesy38

I agree about the replies to messages. It's just common courtesy to reply. Someone has taken the time out of their day to make a comment on something you have said, written, etc, the least you can do is say thanks or something.

Of course this is why I am starting a Courtesy Revolution smiley - smiley I'm just not sure how to go about it. smiley - smiley

Courtesy


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Post 279

Menza

I think you have already started.


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Post 280

Dancing Ermine

I have a tendancy to make a journal entry every time I log on. That way I know what have been the new posts and which fora I can safely ignore. It certainly reduces the number of places I look through every time I come online


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