h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

1150 EV boards bus bound for Edinburgh.
1155 Ku'reshtin arrives at EV's house.
1200 EV receives phone call from Ku'. Both do not panic. EV gets off bus, gets into Ku's car, gets train to Edinburgh instead.
1205 EV receives abusive tweet from Minicheesemouse - "You're having a meet without me!" Negotiations ensue. Minicheesemouse gets on train to Edinburgh.
1230 EV and Ku' arrive at Scott Monument 30 minutes early. Bench nabbed.
1245 Zagreb arrives.
1250 DD arrives with original towel.
1255 Jim discussion.
1256 Temporal anomaly. Whole of Star Trek ceases to exist.
1258 Man comes past showing everyone a Big Issue.
1301 Ford Prefect blamed for death of JFK.
1303 DD "does" David Attenborough.
1304 Everyone else now officially late.
1305 Phil and Metal Chicken arrive.
1315 Rain? Or someone spitting from the top of the monument?
1316 FC and Babel-17 arrive, followed at some distance by Jamie.
1320 Ceremonial photo.
1325 Monument climbing.
1355 Phil & Metal Chicken depart to move car. Others head for pub. FC distracted by Jenners sale.
1410 Ceremonial pound note signing in what used to be Cyberia, to great confusion of assistant in what is now a futon showroom.
1425 Standing Order - table 42 acquired!
1429 Kitty started, DD, Ku' and Jamie at bar. Pints bought.
1432 Ku' says "Jamie has ice but doesn't get head."
1425 Politics, football (American) et al done. Toast to absent fiends.
1437 ARSE SPURS playing on TV.
1441 Jamie now gets good head.
1458 EV & Zagreb head to station to pick up Mouse.
1459 Others head to Pizza Hut to get table and food.
1507 "We don't need no stinking' internet cafe, we can internet on our own!"
1510 Pizza Hut!
1530 Phil, Metal Chicken, EV, Zagreb & Mouse arrive.
1548 Order taken.
1552 FC notices Phil & MC already eating. Grrr!
1556 Past meet reminiscing. Much confusion.
1600 Planets on sticks. They're just like big lollipops.
1603 Other table gets food!
1610 Many viral internet song type things.
1617 Zagreb - "My arse is going to kill me tomorrow."
1621 A pizza twizzler is thought up. Jamie - "Sprial cut pizza." Babel - "Pizza twizzler." Jamie - "Served on a a Lazy Susan!"
1622 "Don't encourage him!" "Trust me, he needs no encouragement."
1625 Zagreb engages in pirate pedantry.
1629 Zagreb uses the worst swear word in the galaxy.
1645 Leave Pizza Hut to take in festival ambience.
1730 Pub at the End of the World (TM).
1731 Ku' adds the World's End to Foursquare.
1734 DD had a one night stand with the Mayor of Belfast.
1737 It's all coming up SRG! Another free table.
1742 A "random" friend of Babel's joins the group.
1746 Inter table phone conversation.
1755 Corner secured. EV has it to himself.
1801 Zagreb - "She blinded me with silage!"
1805 Intertelephony communication fails.
1810 Evil plans!
1831 B17 is at the bar.
1833 You can take our lives but you will never take our bar stools!
1836 Kopparberg Pear Cider isn't a perry, but rather a cider with pears in it.
1839 B17 & Ku' toast to chain mail mankinis (with a chemise).
1840 Ku' - "That's what you've got duck tape for!"
1852 Jamie gives up his seat for someone collapsed in street - he's a hero!
1853 Everyone shuffles around so Jamie has somewhere to sit. Not such a hero anymore.
1907 Aaaaaand relax!
1920 Ku' proves that Phil is rubbish.
1922 It's in the log, it must be true!
1928 Phil's bleeding!!!
1934 Phil could run over a tram.
1936 DD gets sexually stereotyped by quoting and prompting for YMCA lyrics.
1948 Cameras aplenty, smartphones too.
1953 DD instructs Zagreb to "Do the mouth."
2000 Leave pub and meander towards restaurant.
2008 Jamie goes for train as we pass Waverley.
2050 FC is always right!
2055 Orders for Indian are taken. fords arrives in nick of time.
2105 FC - "You should see the colour of the beard."
2107 There shall be no beating of B17 tonight around this table.
2156 fords copyrights Sexy Bogies and Google Porn.
2202 Sexy Bogies. B17 wins.
2203 fords - "I can do a white wine golden shower."
2207 Zagreb leaves. Walks into toilets instead of exit.
2220 Dividing up of the bill.
2222 Dividing up of the After Eight mints.
2240 Dividing up of the researchers. DD accompanies Mouse to the station. Complicated three-driver scheme to retrieve Ku's car from Wallyford station is concocted.

Cool

*Notes that meets finish a lot earlier these days as we all grow older and collect small people to look after*

I useually end up leving the meet about two days after everyone else though...
Although my personal record was taking five days to get home from a London meet... which is just a 48 minute train ride from my house

Pizza, and* curry?! I dont' think that is even legal under the geniva convention!

We were also live logging on my blog http://linlithgow-libdems.blogspot.com/2010/08/sexy-mac-2010.html and the #srg10 hashtag on Twitter

I wonder if I should post the SMS log between myself and B-17 from the World's End, or if that would be unsuitable for the site....

Ooo yes... (and if necessary I am sure we can find somewhere else to put it if its a little too.... err unsuitable for on site here... )

Ok, considering that Babel and myself were at the time sitting opposite each other at a table in the pub, here's the SMS conversation we had.

17:45 - Ku: Hey there. What are you wearing, honey?
17:50 - B17: I thought that was a second date question. By now, you should know all about our fetishes re clothing
17:51 - Ku: So, you're saying you're wearing leather pants and a plate mail corset? SAUCY!
17:58 - B17: Not quite, chainmail is far more sensuous!
17:59 - Ku: takes more dedication, I guess, what with the tendency for chest hair getting tangled up in the chain links if they're not properly groomed.
18:01 - B17: Well, what do you expect without the chemise? I would have thought a man of your calibre would have chemised first!
10:05 - Ku: but surely that defeats the purpose of wearing chain mail to show the extra skin that would be covered up by the plate mail. Silly!
18:08 - B17: Boob tube, silly!
18:08 - Ku: Chain mail bikini!
18:10 - B17: Cheaper than a sack, back and crack!
18:15 - Ku: First time cost is a bit higher I'd suspect, but in the long run I think it'd pay for itself.

At this point, the agreement was struck that the topic had been taken to it's logical end point, since both of us agreed, and the text conversation ended.

Also, this conversation is the reason why B17 and myself made a toast to chain mail mankinis a bit later on.

You don't have to worry about back sack and crack maintenance in a chainmail mankini