A Conversation for Towel Day 2008
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Dr E Vibenstein (You know it is, it really is.) Started conversation May 12, 2008
1300 - No-one is here yet.*
1330 - Zagreb arrives. Finds no-one.
1400 - EV & Ku'Reshtin arrive. Table is bagged with relative ease.
1405 - Random couple sit themselves down at our table.
1409 - Jamie arrives at Haymarket and apparently decides to walk from there.
1415 - Jools & FC arrive.
1433 - Jamie finally arrives at pub and ignores rest of group.
1438 - Chair filching.
1440 - Phil & Metal Chicken arrive.
1519 - SRG agrees: meatballs in a roll are wrong.
1520 - Random couple finally give up and disappear.
1636 - Jools has a Wii. EV is jealous.
1641 - Jamie & Ku' are served women's drinks. Pink cider!
1643 - Zagreb is forbidden to do the helicopter.
1653 - Giblet curry is "pretty offal".
1656 - Frank Sidebottom impressions break out.
1657 - Cider smells like jello.
1657 - DD wonders, are we still there?
1702 - We're still here, although some of us are not all there.
1714 - Jools's car is full of Marvin.
1719 - Ku' wants a pair. If they don't have pairs, he'll have a pink one.
1740 - Jools brings a round to the table by proxy.
1744 - 2legs is an axe murderer! Randomness posted on h2g2.
1745 - The afternoon activity is cancelled.
1750 - Jilted John discussion.
1752 - Eric Clapton turns up.
1756 - Clapton heads off to bar, possibly to order a pint of Strange Brew.
1810 - Jools pretends to be a solitaire card and manages to bemuse everyone.
1811 - Still wild bemusement despite explanation.
1813 - DD turns up.
1818 - Eric Clapton still standing by our table, looking lost.
1825 - DD has a large pink one. Drink! I mean drink.
1828 - Ku' drinks something that's meant to be a mojito, but looks more like a frisky bison.
1907 - SRG flag has been lost tot he bar staff - sorrow.
1908 - End of minute's silence over loss of flag.
1912 - Politics breaks out.
1915 - Daleks arrive.
1917 - CAKE!
1922 - Toast to absent friends.
1926 - A slice of cake is set aside for fords.
1937 - A toast to Humph.
1939 - First ever Marco Pirroni impression at a meet.
1941 - It's spelled "Ua-ua-ua-ua-ua."
1942 - "...only seconded by Will Powers' Kissing With Confidence."
1948 - Zagreb wants a big pink one.
1952 - Zagreb suggests pouring the "wifebeater" into the correct glass. EV does so. An incident ensues. "It'll dry out."
2015 - Drink up!
2025 - We adjourn.
2035 - Cafe Rouge - wine is ordered.
2144 - Wine drunk. No-one has taken any food orders, so we adjourn and head off into the night.
*As far as we know, because obviously nobody writing the log was there at the time.
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Dr E Vibenstein (You know it is, it really is.) Posted May 12, 2008
Oh yeah, photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/evibenstein/TowelDay7
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