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Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
 
There are four rooms reserved for KamaCon. AJ, because so many of you promised to come, bought ten.

This is par for the course for Hatrack; as I recall, the original EnderCon was a financial disaster for much the same reason.

So this is a thread for those of you who have decided NOT to reserve a hotel room yet to justify your continued existence. Otherwise, I will shun you.
 

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Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
 
*hugs Tom*

AJ
 

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Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 
*basks in his immunity from a shunning*
 

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Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
 
Does that mean you've already reserved a room Dagonee?
AJ
 

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Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 
It means I didn't reserve one, since I can't come to KamaCon.

Dagonee
 

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Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
 
Rivka already reserved our room! I swear!

Roll call - who's done it?

Vana and Lime, have y'all yet?

Guys (Frisco et al)?

Mack, what about your room?

ElJay? Bob? Bob, you got a room all to yourself away from the crazy teenagers. I hope its reserved.

Saxy? Sndrake? Kwsni? narnia? I think Pop has reserved so far...

[ June 28, 2004, 10:33 AM: Message edited by: katharina ]
 

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Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
 
I have a reservation and the confirmation number for it.
 

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Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
 
I will have a room by tomorrow. Honest.
 

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Posted by Erik Slaine (Member # 5583) on :
 
You have time to do this?

*envy*
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 

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Rivka already reserved our room! I swear!

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I did! I did! I have a confirmation number and everything! *nods vigorously*

Erik, not really, but that's not stopping me.
 

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Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
 
Hey Tom, I realize you have an impending baby, however you are yourself according to the nearest reckoning IN the pathetic loser list yourself.

Pot meet Kettle?

AJ

(as described later, it isn't Tom, the culprit is a particular Moose)

[ June 28, 2004, 01:00 PM: Message edited by: BannaOj ]
 

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Posted by Erik Slaine (Member # 5583) on :
 
Well have fun, guys.

*kicks stones, sulks away....*
 

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Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
 
Elaine!! You HAVE to come!
 

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Posted by Erik Slaine (Member # 5583) on :
 
There is no possible way short of ruining my life to go.

Responsiblity sucks.
 

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Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
 
"Hey Tom, I realize you have an impending baby, however you are yourself according to the nearest reckoning IN the pathetic loser list yourself."

Nope. I registered at the beginning of last month. Registration #64331854, 8/13 - 8/15.
 

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Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
 
Ok than someone on Celia's list isn't.

GRRRR

AJ
 

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Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
 
*confused* AJ, is it you?
 

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Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
 
I am rooming with celia.

Celia made the reservations.

I just called Wendy and left a message. It is possible she miscounted. I have everyone's "real" names except rivka's to crosscheck with Wendy's offical list.

Rivka if you would be willing to e-mail celia (celia60@hotmail.com) with your "real" name, I'd appreciate it. She has access to my work e-mail which I am extremely reluctant to give out publicly on hatrack.

AJ
 

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Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
 
ElJay is supposed to be reserving our room!
 

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Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
 
Has anyone talked to the beloved CT recently?
 

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Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
 
From Celia in the other thread. I'm updating this one, but you have to holler at her to updated teh other list.

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People to be left alone because they've reserved rooms

saxon75
celia60/BannaOJ/blacwolve
rivka/Kama/katharina
Papa Moose
TomDavidson
sndrake
ElJay times 2 for BtL/Frisco/Eddie/CalvinMaker/T_Smith/Fugu and ElJay/Ryuko/dkw/mackillian
Dorry (JohnnyNotSoBravo?)
CT

People to throw disapproving sighs at until they CALL and RESERVE as they've said they will
Vana/Lime
kwsni!/psychotriad
Bob Scopatz



People to throw rotten fruit at for being all wishy-washy on if they are even coming
JonnyNotSoBravo
Hobbes
Primal Curve
Noemon
RRR

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[ June 29, 2004, 01:11 PM: Message edited by: BannaOj ]
 

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Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
 
Since both Vana and Lime and kwisni and psychotriad are looking for roomies, and if all of the dissaproving *sigh* people come we actually have 11 rooms then mayhap they could room together?

AJ
 

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Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
 
And the culprit is:

*drumroll please*

PAPA MOOSE

Wendy doesn't even know you exist and she searched by your last name for the rest of the hotel records, your wife didn't come up either.

Can you please straighten this out? (Call Wendy and give her your confirmation number so she can include you on the list.)

AJ
(or call and make a reservation thus preventing AJ from having apoplexy?)

[ June 28, 2004, 12:45 PM: Message edited by: BannaOj ]
 

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Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
 
*hasaroomhasaroomhasaroomhasaroom*


 

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Posted by xnera (Member # 187) on :
 
Please don't throw rotten fruit at me, as I have plenty of rotten things in my life already at the moment.

Originally I had planned to save a bit of money and drive home every night. However, since it now looks like I will be carless, I may want to stay at the hotel, because I don't want to take public transportation that late. I'm still undecided, and need a few more days to think about this (gah, I have too many things going on right now).

If I do stay at the hotel, I will need a roomate or two. Any offers?

Also, can someone remind me of how much the hotel is so I can figure out if I can even afford to stay there? I may be forced to go home every night anyway, if the costs are too high.
 

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Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
 
xnera your extenuating circumstances are far more legitimate and extenuating than most of the schliemels making excuses.

(costs are on the first page of the other thread)

AJ

[ June 28, 2004, 12:59 PM: Message edited by: BannaOj ]
 

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Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
 

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If I do stay at the hotel, I will need a roomate or two. Any offers?

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or call and make a reservation thus preventing AJ from having apoplexy?

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Someone going apoplectic is not a pretty sight! Especially when you know you are the cause... (long story)

Will make reservations today.

Tom et al - go throw rotten fruit at somebody else.
 

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Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
 
She'll be free this Wednesday. So even allowing for a day or two of drunken reveling and another day or two of rest, she'll be all right.
 

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Posted by peter the bookie (Member # 3270) on :
 
Apparently, the flow of personal information between celia and rivka is in only one direction. However, since this seems to have worked itself out, I suppose it doesn't matter.

*throws fruit at Pops*

*throws fruit near xnera*
 

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Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
 
Well I didn't realize Rivka actually appears to be her real first name. So it worked out. Wendy can give me the names, just not the room numbers or other info, since I'm the co-ordinator.

AJ
 

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Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
 
Although I am going insane with a migraine, in between periods of vomiting as I work -- having last night seriously considered assaulting someone (and I mean literally, not metaphorically) in order to be taken out of this place and thus unable to answer pages -- I will reserve a room for me and a room for xnera tonight (both under my name). Karen deserves a little TLC, and I believe she's like me in that the best TLC is a door to lock and a private space.

(Can I get off the gggrrrrr list, after I actually do it, of course? AJ<- )

(I love you, Christy. )
 

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Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
 
((((CT))))
 

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Posted by Erik Slaine (Member # 5583) on :
 
ditto.
 

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Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
 
*hugs CT* Get well!

AJ
 

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Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
 
Hey, Sara, you want to split the cost on that? While you're all flush with doctorly wealth, it's not right that you're paying single-handedly for two rooms.
 

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Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
 
Ok, y'all can get up off my back now. Sheesh.
 

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Posted by kwsni (Member # 1831) on :
 
AJ, we're NOT actually looking for roomies, cuas emy roomate is going to come with me, so that'll make four in our room. By the time she decided to come I'd already offered Cyberdan and Hobbes a place to crash.

Ni!
 

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Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
 
P.S. Someone else puts my name on a list where it doesn't belong, and that makes me a culprit? No, I think the person who made the list is the culprit. An eeeevil culprit.

<Takes thrown fruit and makes a smoothie.>
 

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Posted by Boon (Member # 4646) on :
 
I'm glad I'm not on the wishy-washy list, although if I were, there would at least be a chance I could come. But I can't. I'm sad.

Anybody wanna come visit beautiful Liberty, Oklahoma? I have plenty of floor.
 

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Posted by Jaiden (Member # 2099) on :
 
$90 for 3 nights (unless roommates are found) plus food... Are there any other "for sure costs"?

*trying to figure out if Ted/Pod and I can make it*

(However, I doubt it. Ted's brother wants us to drive with him to Los Angeles and money is rather on the tight side... So don't even bother putting us on the wishy washy list!!! This is a chcking out to see if it's even remotely possible!)
 

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Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
 
When are you gonna be (maybe) in Los Angeles?
 

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Posted by Anthro (Member # 6087) on :
 
Where and when is KamaCon?
 

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Posted by Jaiden (Member # 2099) on :
 
First week of August

(and possibly the last, depending if he convinces us to drive him back too *laughs*)

Ooops! that was answering Papa Moose's qustion.... Sorry if I caused any confusion

[ June 28, 2004, 02:57 PM: Message edited by: Jaiden ]
 

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Posted by JonnyNotSoBravo (Member # 5715) on :
 
Well not the first week of August, actually 8/13 - 8/15 which is the second week of August any way you look at it. And it's in Chicago.
 

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Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
 
Ok papa moose
someone with the name Dorry Dorrie(please identify yourself)
and sndrake are now on the good list.
(though sndrake and wendy are still playing phone tag)

AJ
 

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Posted by JonnyNotSoBravo (Member # 5715) on :
 
Read your email AJ!
 

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Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
 
sndrake is done playing phone tag! One wheelchair-accessible room booked for two nights! Please take me off the poop list.


 

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Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
 
JNSB I'm unable to acess my yahoo e-mail during working hours. Celia can reach me because she has my supersecret work e-mail <grin> So if you would send it to her she can forward it on to me.

AJ
 

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Posted by JonnyNotSoBravo (Member # 5715) on :
 
But...but...but SHE told me to email YOU! Just put me down as the Dorry Dorrie person and read your email later then. No WAY am I revealing my supersecret identity to someone that evil!

[ June 28, 2004, 03:53 PM: Message edited by: JonnyNotSoBravo ]
 

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Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
 
You realize, JNSB, that you're going to have to give us a real name once we meet you, right? For legal purposes, and all that.
 

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Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
 
I'm not sure what Tom's going to do to you.
 

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Posted by peter the bookie (Member # 3270) on :
 
I fully intend to respond only to celia. Which I only know I will respond to because Tom called me celia when I met him.
 

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Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
 
I hate to admit this, but I have no memory whatsoever of meeting you....*blush* Which gathering was it?

[ June 28, 2004, 04:12 PM: Message edited by: TomDavidson ]
 

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Posted by peter the bookie (Member # 3270) on :
 
do you recall meeting Bill? maybe I have zero personal magnetism since Happy Camper doesn't seem to recall me either.
 

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Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
 
I don't recall ever meeting celia, either.
 

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Posted by peter the bookie (Member # 3270) on :
 
^
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*thwaps*

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[ June 28, 2004, 04:18 PM: Message edited by: peter the bookie ]
 

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Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
 
Ah, yes. I remember a Bill. I actually didn't think you ever posted here.
 

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Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
 
Tom thinks celia is Bill!


 

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Posted by JonnyNotSoBravo (Member # 5715) on :
 
Was he living up on Capitol Hill? And looking kind of cartoony?
 

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Posted by Suneun (Member # 3247) on :
 
I'm so tempted to fly out there and join in.
 

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Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
 
Nah. Bill and Celia actually look slightly different, and one is marginally more evil than the other; it's possible to tell them apart without squinting. My mistake was not realizing that PtB was in fact Bill, as I assumed that Bill was mostly terrified of Hatrack and intended to stay as far away from it as possible.
 

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Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
 

 

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Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
 
Ok, Eljay is reserving the room for us, right? If so, then cool. As it looks we have Frisco, Noah and me for sure. Eljay, I'll pay you with cash when I get there, cause I'm definately coming.
 

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Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
 
Suneun, come!! It's going to be so great!

Tom, I think peter is still celia.
 

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Posted by Lime (Member # 1707) on :
 
I will reserve a room tonight, I promise!

kwisni, psychotriad: need roomies/carpool buddies? Email me!

[ June 28, 2004, 04:44 PM: Message edited by: Lime ]
 

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Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
 
Ah. That would explain almost everything, except why a perfectly good Hatrack regular needs another useless nickname.

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And now I understand why Kama has been laughing. *grin* But, yes, I remember celia. She spent a lot of time standing next to Bill.

[ June 28, 2004, 04:45 PM: Message edited by: TomDavidson ]
 

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Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
 
so, did you think a guy was playing Kingdom of Loathing as weasel sootmouth? pfff.

and Bill is still terrified of hatrack. he's not even coming to this shindig. waaaaay to many new people.
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
Sorry, all. Rivka has been far away from online access all day. *twitch*

And yes, my first name really is Rivka. Strange but true.

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Apparently, the flow of personal information between celia and rivka is in only one direction.

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Is that a problem?
 

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Posted by kwsni (Member # 1831) on :
 
Lime, Nope, I think we're set.

Ni!
 

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Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
 
I think I'm actually quite familiar with a Polish form of your name, Rywka, from books and such.

Or maybe it just sounds right.

[ June 29, 2004, 02:58 AM: Message edited by: Kama ]
 

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Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :
 
is there any sand in Poland?
 

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Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
 
Not as much as there is on the Sahara.
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
Could be, Kama. Is it related to Rebecca? Because Rivka is just the Hebrew form of Rebecca.
 

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Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
 
*slaps forehead*

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Władysław Broniewski, Ballads and Romances"

"Listen, girl! She's not listening...
It's daylight, it's a town..."
There is no town, not a living creature,
a naked, red-headed Ryfka runs in the ruins,
thirteen-year-old.

Well-fed Germans in a fat tank passed by.
(Run, Ryfka, run!)
"Mama's under the ruins, papa in Majdanek..."
She laughed, turned around, disappeared.

A good old chap from Lubartow passed by:
"Here, Ryfka, a white roll, so that you're healthy..."
She took it, had a bite, her teeth glistened:
"I'll bring it to Mama and to Papa."

A peasant passed by, threw a penny,
a peasant woman passed by, gave her something,
many, many people passed by,
all were stunned that she was naked and red-headed.

And a sorrowful Jesus passed by,
the SS were leading him to die,
they put them both by a hedge,
then took their guns in their hands.

"Listen, Jesus, listen, Ryfka, sie Juden,
for this thorn crown, for that red hair,
for your nakedness, for your guilt,
you both should be dead."

And it sounded Alleluia
in the Galilee,
and they both were turning
into angels,
and then a round of gunfire exploded...

"Listen, girl!...
She's not listening..."

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And yes, my first name really is Rivka. Strange but true.

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Don't feel bad, rivka. When Shlomo registered here and at Pweb, people couldn't believe Shlomo was his real name either. Moose thought he took the name from Enchantment.

Then again, my own sister couldn't believe we were going to call him Shlomo. "You're not really going to call him Shlomo, are you?"

The answer, of course, is, yes we are. And we do.
 

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Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
 
Sure, bring my ignorance into it....
 

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Posted by peter the bookie (Member # 3270) on :
 
Yes.
 

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Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
 
Aw, Moose, you know we love you.
 

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Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 
I knew Rivka was a real name (I'm 1/4 Polish and had heard variations).

I assumed it was rivka's real name, but didn't worry about it all that much. That's why I just use the screen names. It's too hard keeping track of you people.

Dagonee
 

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
 
I guess I'll probably be sleeping on Becky and Ken's floor if I make it (which I'll hopefully know in one to two weeks), and thus wont be getting a seperate room, sorry.

Hobbes
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 

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Don't you have reddish hair?

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If one stretches the definition of "reddish" a bit, then yeah.

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And a penchant for streaking?

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And yes, my first name really is Rivka. Strange but true.

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Don't feel bad, rivka. When Shlomo registered here and at Pweb, people couldn't believe Shlomo was his real name either.

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I don't feel bad. I'm incredibly amused when this happens. The dichotomy between my daily RL, where my first name is so common that many people know me by both first and middle names together, and the online world, where people think it's made up, strikes me as very funny.
 

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Posted by Happy Camper (Member # 5076) on :
 

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do you recall meeting Bill? maybe I have zero personal magnetism since Happy Camper doesn't seem to recall me either.

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*sputters* What the bloody...? Of course I remember you. It's just random nicks, I don't keep an organizer so I know exactly who all these flarging aliases belong to.

*wanders away muttering* Doesn't remember indeed...
 

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Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
 
Y'know, Ela, it'll come back to bite me. Pretty soon people won't believe my real name is Papa Moose, and they'll think I just chose it because of a character in some book....
 

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Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
 
Haha, Moose.

We can tell them we knew you when...

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I don't feel bad. I'm incredibly amused when this happens. The dichotomy between my daily RL, where my first name is so common that many people know me by both first and middle names together, and the online world, where people think it's made up, strikes me as very funny.

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Yeah, Rivka, Shlomo thinks it's funny, too.

What's even funnier is, a bunch of orthodox Jewish dayschool kids who were visiting Florida made fun of his name, back when he was in elementary school. Meanwhile all the non-Jewish kids at the muncipal sports program thought he had a really cool name.

I really didn't get that...

[ June 29, 2004, 04:09 PM: Message edited by: Ela ]
 

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Posted by Erik Slaine (Member # 5583) on :
 

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Pretty soon people won't believe my real name is Papa Moose, and they'll think I just chose it because of a character in some book....

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I saw that coming, it'll be a way to tell if someone is a newbie or not.

By the way, you must have an unlisted number. I searched the entire "Moose" section of the phone book, but found no Papas.
 

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