Reunion stuff • p*******x@****.com 15/10/1998 00:00:000 UTC Wondering who's planning on going to the 30th Anniversary? As it stands right now, because of conflicts with Philcon (it still boggles my mind that they got Philcon weekend, when one might reasonably expect Forum alumnae to not be available -- and the whole *point* of a reunion is for the alumnae), I probably won't be there, but wondering about the rest of your people -- 73 de Dave Weingart KA2ESK "L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." mailto:p*******x@****.com -- Saint-Exupery, _Le_Petit_Prince_ http://www.liii.com/~phydeaux • s******j@d********.**o.com 25/10/1998 00:00:000 UTC In article <1*************.*****.********4@n*****.***l.com>, JohnGorno wrote:   >>Wondering who's planning on going to the 30th Anniversary? >I am actually strongly considering it - say, a 60% chance. Granted, most of Go, Gorno, Go! >the attendies may be snotty newbies, and I might just be the only Fah, you know how to handle newbies, do you not? Montauk run! Make them one of us, or kill them! Introduce them to the deep weirdness from the dawn of time, and the deeper weirdness from Wohops! >to rig up something so the dog can be put out in my absence, and I don't relish Why do I picture an automated iron gate, with neighborhood kids screaming as the clock hands ratchet near Zero Hour? "Run, everybody! KENO is being let loose!" Stefan -- +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ SeJ@ay-oh-el-dot-com ~ stefanj@eye-oh-dot-com http://www.io.com/~stefanj/ CHARGES APPLIED FOR UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL EMAIL! • Orelalaith 25/10/1998 00:00:000 UTC > I am actually strongly considering it - say, a 60% chance. Granted, most of > the attendies may be snotty newbies, and I might just be the only > representative of my generation, and the music will likely suck, and I'll have > to rig up something so the dog can be put out in my absence, and I don't relish > a two hour drive each way... but the next celebration might not be for 10 years > and some (more) of us may be dead by then! Obnoxious newbies?! Gee, thanks! ::grumble:: * -------------------------------------------------------------------- * "Eventually we come to a point where High Science becomes indistunguishable from High Magick" -NOT misquoting A.C. Clark, CORRECTLY quoting me! * -------------------------------------------------------------------- * http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~avariel uid : ****@u*.**.******b.edu * -------------------------------------------------------------------- * • George the Gothic Cow 16/10/1998 00:00:000 UTC The date of the reunion was decided nearly a year ago and you cannot expect the people in charge to schedule the event around every damned convention in this country! Hell, then there would be no event. Perhaps there should be an anniversary event every weekend over the next year, one for each state, just to make sure that Forumites around the country can attend (you can have Christmas and Easter off). Some Forumite you are, choosing some lousy convention you probably go to every year and do nothing but loiter around the dealers room looking at young girls in one piece jumpsuit Star Trek uniforms instead of attending the Thirtieth Anniversary of the organization that spawned you. Commuter Dave tells me to tell you to 'Bite Him'. -Noel • Stargazer 18/10/1998 00:00:000 UTC >As it stands right now, because of conflicts with Philcon (it still >boggles my mind that they got Philcon weekend, when one might reasonably OK! OK! We get it already -- we KNOW you don't like it that the reunion conflicts with Philcon. Frankly I could care less about Philcon! It's really not that big a deal. Is it really going to kill someone if they miss one day of one Philcon?? What's more important: the 30th anniversary of the Forum or some two-bit little shit convention in PA? --Doc • Folasayo O Fadahunsi 20/10/1998 00:00:000 UTC Hey all, Does anyone have old forum stories? Please post them(for labrat) Fola On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Stargazer wrote: > >As it stands right now, because of conflicts with Philcon (it still > >boggles my mind that they got Philcon weekend, when one might reasonably > OK! OK! We get it already -- we KNOW you don't like it that the reunion > conflicts with Philcon. Frankly I could care less about Philcon! It's > really not that big a deal. Is it really going to kill someone if they miss > one day of one Philcon?? What's more important: the 30th anniversary of the > Forum or some two-bit little shit convention in PA? > --Doc • c****h@m****.****.***u.edu 23/10/1998 00:00:000 UTC Folasayo O Fadahunsi writes: >Hey all, >Does anyone have old forum stories? >Please post them(for labrat)   >> OK! OK! We get it already -- we KNOW you don't like it that the reunion   >> conflicts with Philcon. Frankly I could care less about Philcon! It's   >> really not that big a deal. Is it really going to kill someone if they miss   >> one day of one Philcon?? What's more important: the 30th anniversary of the   >> Forum or some two-bit little shit convention in PA? Hrm. Stay and watch the movie I've seen a 127 times or Study for my final :> The forum has always been a collection of odd decision makers that have their priorities in interesting places. I'm sure Gorno has some ideas on where people priorities are ... or at least where they can put them. There are so many stories, so little time. From shifty things at Icon. To going to an abandoned asbestos dump and pillaging cars. Odd gatherings at fireplaces, to having our interpersonall skills so honed we would have conversations in the Logbook with the people sitting across from each other passing the book to and fro. Someone should dig up the logbooks and pull a few of the more amusing entries. Post them here. -My 2 Pennies -Kenji • p*******x@****.com 23/10/1998 00:00:000 UTC While muttering something about 'forum reunion stories' c****h@m****.****.***u.edu (Ken A Kurpiel) was heard to remark: > The forum has always been a collection of odd decision makers that >have their priorities in interesting places. I'm sure Gorno has some >ideas on where people priorities are ... or at least where they can put >them. Well, cons used to be a Forum tradition. Forumites used to actually *go* to cons, en masse, in overloaded cars. Typically, all the major regionals (Boskone, Philcon, Lunacon) were done. (In fact, when I first joined the Forum in fall '80, there was nobody there because they were all up in Boston for Noreascon II). We'd get one, maybe two rooms and sleep 12 on the floor. Oh, and Empiricon, too, while there was still such a thing in NYC. No doubt people would go en mass to Disclave as well, and I'm sure there were group trips to Constellation and several other worldcons. So, things to share from that era. Coming home from Hexacon, middle of the winter, absolutely freezing, after having dropped off Margaret in Yonkers, stopping on the side of the highway to wire Meryl's muffler back to the underside of her car. That same Hexacon featured S.P. Somtow (who was using his real name of Somtow Su playing piano for us. Hexacon, BTW, was a small relaxacon in the middle of Pennsylvania Dutch country (hence the name). Or the time at Boskone when several of us were in the Dead Dog party Sunday in the Con Suite (this was when Boskone was still at the Park Plaza in downtown Boston), filking "We Six Fen." That was the same Boskone where 4 of us in Fred Coulter's little red car with the oil light that was perpetually on (Fred, myself, Ellen and John Francavello) got lost in Providence, RI on the way up and stopped traffic when we saw Rusty walking around the streets and had to ask him just where the hotel was, anyway. (And across from the Park Plaza was a great Thai restaurant, the Star of Siam, which was dubbed "Son of Sam" by the assembled fen). The First Lastcon, Albany NY, 1981 (my first con, BTW)...Sunday night firworks at SUNY Albany across the street from the hotel, and those of us who where still there standing on cars in the hotel parking lot and watching. At the (very informal) masquerade, Joe Hall did his Carl Sagan impersonation and was carried off the stage by a green barbarian to resounding cheers. As far as non-con memories. Meetings in the Old Old Forum, before we moved to the New Old Forum (where we had the fire). Crowded, hot and where I made my first log entry midway through Log 12. On the wall was a semi-finished painting of the Baron Harkonnen. The president back then was Kurt Levitan. George Chin was living in the Forum, using the bed behind the bookshelf opposite the door. Or skipping Forum orientation because 4 of us (myself, Ellen, Pope and a guy named Felix) to go see Emire Strikes Back at Loews. -- 73 de Dave Weingart KA2ESK "L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." mailto:p*******x@****.com -- Saint-Exupery, _Le_Petit_Prince_ http://www.liii.com/~phydeaux • s******j@d********.**o.com 24/10/1998 00:00:000 UTC I've forgotten everything that happened in the Forum. When I moved out here they put a chip in my head. Everything is so clear now. The Fault calls me. I must cross it. At the time of the great division, I will be to the West. No one who does not speak proper Ixu may control the Green House. Look, another Randall Garrett book! Would you like a chip? Stefan -- +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ SeJ@ay-oh-el-dot-com ~ stefanj@eye-oh-dot-com http://www.io.com/~stefanj/ CHARGES APPLIED FOR UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL EMAIL! • j********o@***.com 24/10/1998 00:00:000 UTC In article <704t8u$1je$*@c****.****i.com>, p*******x@****.com (The Person Your Mother Warned You About) writes: >Wondering who's planning on going to the 30th Anniversary? I am actually strongly considering it - say, a 60% chance. Granted, most of the attendies may be snotty newbies, and I might just be the only representative of my generation, and the music will likely suck, and I'll have to rig up something so the dog can be put out in my absence, and I don't relish a two hour drive each way... but the next celebration might not be for 10 years and some (more) of us may be dead by then! Gorno