Secret Cabal Brings Dr. Adequate to TAM6

[Patricio Elicer]

Erased (duplicate).

 

[UnrepentantSinner]

My financial situation changed adversely back in October, so this might be the last Amaz!ng function I can help with.

I'm in.

 

[LostAngeles]

I'd just like to say a hearty, "**** you," to all of you for making the fact that I can't make it even more disappointing.

Now, if Dr. A can get to future TAMs that I'll be at, maybe I'll forgive the lot of you, but for now, you're ********.



Dr. A, I'll try to send my hug for you via someone that isn't Penn-sized(coughElSpectrecough)

 

[Damien Evans]

I'd just like to say a hearty, "**** you," to all of you for making the fact that I can't make it even more disappointing.

Now, if Dr. A can get to future TAMs that I'll be at, maybe I'll forgive the lot of you, but for now, you're ********.



Dr. A, I'll try to send my hug for you via someone that isn't Penn-sized(coughElSpectrecough)

If it's any comfort, most of us Aussies can't make it either.

*hint*Melbourne has a great Casino and exhibition centre for next year*hint*

What's that? I didn't say anything...

 

[UnrepentantSinner]

I just hope you won't all be disappointed when you find that I don't actually bestride the earth like a colossus, that the ground doesn't quake beneath my feet, and that my words are not accompanied by dramatic meterological phenomena. I have occcasionally been described as "cute", and you may have to settle for that.

*cough*

 

[Dr Adequate]

I've got an offer to be my room-mate, which is obviously good since it will defray the expenses of the Secret Cabal.

The trouble is, this particular offer comes attached with the proviso that I can't smoke in the room. If this is the only offer I get, then of course I will take it, but I'd prefer someone who is smoke-tolerant.

Now, to make it clear, I am a smoker and also a chronic insomniac. You really don't want to room with me. If that is understood ... any takers?

Otherwise, as I say, I already have an offer, it'll just make me slightly more testy and irritable than is my natural state.

The question has been raised as to whether the rooms at the Flamingo Hotel have balconies. This would obviate the problem, so does anyone know?

 

[Mercutio]

Dr. A. will be at TAM? That tears it! I refuse to go now, on pure principle*!!









*that principle being the Salieri effect.

 

[UnrepentantSinner]

While I'm not an insomniac, I do have strange sleep habits and I'm a three pack a day man. At 3 TAMs and on the Alaska cruise I was in a non-smoking room and found it pretty easy to deal with. Vegas isn't as smoker friendly as it used to be, but it's not that big a deal to toss on sufficient clothes so as not to be arrested, run down to the casino, calm the craving and return to your room. The facade of the Flamingo looks like it doesn't have balconies.

 

[Dr Adequate]

I've got an offer to be my room-mate, which is obviously good since it will defray the expenses of the Secret Cabal.

The trouble is, this particular offer comes attached with the proviso that I can't smoke in the room. If this is the only offer I get, then of course I will take it, but I'd prefer someone who is smoke-tolerant.

Now, to make it clear, I am a smoker and also a chronic insomniac. You really don't want to room with me. If that is understood ... any takers?

Otherwise, as I say, I already have an offer, it'll just make me slightly more testy and irritable than is my natural state.

The question has been raised as to whether the rooms at the Flamingo Hotel have balconies. This would obviate the problem, so does anyone know?

Normal Dude has decided that he can put up with me, smoke and all. Problem solved.

 

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

I have occcasionally been described as "cute", and you may have to settle for that.

Is there something I don't know?

I've got an offer to be my room-mate, which is obviously good since it will defray the expenses of the Secret Cabal.

Being your own roommate really doesn't help, sir.

Otherwise, as I say, I already have an offer, it'll just make me slightly more testy and irritable than is my natural state.

That should be downright amusing.

Normal Dude has decided that he can put up with me, smoke and all. Problem solved.

You and a normal dude. Excellent combination!


~~ Paul

(What can I say? Those posts were just sitting there.)

 

[Wowbagger]

Just for the record, I was the one who originally offered my room. I have nothing against smokers. But, being a non-smoker myself, I don't want to breathe in the second hand stuff, ya see.

But, I very much look forward to meeting Dr. A at TAM6!

 

[joobz]

Wow, with so many great people going, I'm starting to think I should make it out.

Would it be bad to leave my wife(whose going to be 7 months pregnant) home with our 1.5 year old son and 2 dogs?

 

[RecoveringYuppy]

Bring the dogs.

 

[Dr Adequate]

The New Cinderella

If you dressed me in a ballgown,
then my strapless top would fall down
and reveal me semi-nude and epicene.
Such a costume wouldn't flatter;
glassy slippers tend to shatter.
You might call it magic: me, I'd call it mean.

Turning rodents into coachmen
and their horses would approach an
act of cruelty practised on the rats and mice;
and I'd feel a fool or bumpkin
being chauffeured in a pumpkin,
'cos the thing would be a squash, which isn't nice.

Modern thinkers quite disparage
the arranging of a marriage
after just a single meeting and a dance.
I should find it quite alarming
to be wedded to Prince Charming
given such a flimsy basis for romance.

If some fairy had the nerve to
try and set a midnight curfew,
I'd do all that's in my power to resist:
for I've always been quite wary
of the offers of a fairy,
or I would be if I thought that they exist.

Fairy gold, with little warning,
tends to vanish in the morning:
the recipient just ends up feeling conned.
Pixies seem to find this funny,
but by waving actual money
you can do much more than if you wave a wand.

Unensorcelled dollars buy me
mighty silver birds to fly me
to the land of Vegas, where one finds the Sphinx;
King Tut's tomb, renowned in fable,
Klingons, dragons, Arthur's table,
also hookers, licensed gaming and free drinks.

Working wonders is much easier
with a Mastercard or Visa,
and so Cinderella thanks you one and all;
for my wishes have been granted.
You're all charming. I'm enchanted.
I shall see you there. And we shall have a ball.

 

[MattusMaximus]

Damn, I found this thread too late.

Welcome aboard Dr. A - I hope your oratory is as eloquent as your prose, because I would very much like to meet you. Bravo!

 

[hcmom]

Damn you, Dr. A, I only chipped in because you promised to wear glass slippers!!

 

[Dr Adequate]

Damn, I found this thread too late.

In the first place, the day has not yet come when it's too late to say nice things about me. They will have to bury me first, and then drive a stake through my heart so's I don't rise from the dead to ask you how you liked my poem.

In the second place, it is not too late: see here. The generosity that has been pured out on me has overflowed to others.

I feel kind of pleased about that, too.

 

[MattusMaximus]

In the second place, it is not too late: see here. The generosity that has been pured out on me has overflowed to others.

I feel kind of pleased about that, too.

I have recently contacted Paul the Greek about assisting in this worthwhile endeavor. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[Dr Adequate]

There's no other page on the whole of teh internets featuring both the words "unensorcelled" and "epicene". I looked it up.

Now, someone nominate me for TLA or I shall become testy and irritable.

 

[Wolfman]

Done.