Hatrack River Forum: Shinda?

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Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :

This isn't something I'm familiar with, though I get the sense I should be, somehow. Is a Shinda a good thing or a bad thing?

what's a good thing to bring to a Shinda, assuming it's a good thing?

fallow

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

A Shinda is a GREAT thing!

Just bring youself! [Big Grin]

Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :

rivka,

it's a little disconcerting to be invited (theoretically) to an event you aren't familiar with, attended by people you aren't familiar with, no?

fallow

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

*grins in an overly-familiar manner*

I spose so. I know I was very nervous before my first Shinda. But it's great fun!

Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :

oh come on!?!

what's a shinda?

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

I was just waiting for you to ask. [Evil]

A Shinda is simply a SoCallian Jatraquero get-together. [Smile]

Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :

that certainly makes it familiar. what's a callian, nevermind southern, a jatraquero?!?! not to mention a shinda?

[Angst]

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Silly fallow. [Big Grin]

SoCallian = of or pertaining to Southern CA

Jatraquero = Hatracker

Clear as mud?

Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :

*outta windshield-wiper wash*

What's a shinda? it's like a shin-dig? only feminine?

fallow

Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :

Uncanny.

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Something like that, fallow. [Smile]

Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :

P-seeeee!?!?!

Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :

rivka,

Put yourself in my shoes.

fallow

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Um, why? I have plenty of my own!

Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :

fallow,

Do a search for "Shinda" using the message board search tool.

Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :

oh come on! how difficult can it be to answer an even simple factual question?!

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

I did!

Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :

you did?! You told me what a Shinda was? Beyond an adjective?

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Shinda = when Hatrackers who live in Southern CA get together; generally involves food and fun

Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :

Primal,

I find internet searches to be a little cold and often not that informative, educational, challenging or growth-worthy ('cept in composing a good "join")

fallow

Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :

rivka,

that sounds like a BBQ!

fallow

Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :

fallow,

I find that people who fear technology are generally simple minded and apt to wife-beating.

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

fallow, exactly. [Smile]

[ March 19, 2004, 04:06 AM: Message edited by: rivka ]

Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :

Exactly =

"shinda is a BBQ"

or

"fallow is a wife-beater cuz he doesn't rely on google to think for him"?

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

*snort* Pick your favorite.

Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :

a good cookout.

though, *beats dead horse *, I haven't a clue as to the origins of the Shinda description, and I'd like to know what that word means. please?

fallow

Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :

I don't know, but one part Pineapple juice to four parts Orange juice is good stuff.

Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :

Primal

I don't understand what you are contributing to this discussion?

fallow

Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :

fallow, she told you like three times! [Razz]

@ this thread

Posted by skrika03 (Member # 5930) on :

I still get tripped up on jatraquero. J will always be a y and not a dz in my head. Shinda does sound like an event with bongos and mushrooms or something.

Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :

quote:
J will always be a y and not a dz in my head.

Um, in the word "jatraquero" the "j" is neither a "y" nor a "dz." It's an "h."

Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :

quote:
What's a shinda? it's like a shin-dig? only feminine?

No, it's like a shin-dig, only misspelled.

Really.

Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :

Read this thread.

Posted by skrika03 (Member # 5930) on :

Oh, right, an h. I get incoherent when I start posting too early in the day.

Posted by Shinda (Member # 6343) on :

You called?

Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :

oh, I got it right with one of my unsearched guesses.

*glows with pride*

*pats self on back*

"snarf"

[Razz]

Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :

Shinda!

Welcome. There's a new poster thread over on the other side (the one marketed under OSC's moniker). That's the appropriate place to appear, in polite society.

or, if you want to uh...

*snorggle gorggle snorrgle CLINTON! gorggle*

drink out of the toilet...

That's just fine and dandy around here.

fallow

Posted by knightswhosayni! (Member # 4096) on :

I'm fairly sure the Shinda name is a veteran.

Ni!

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Becky, why? Is it the email address that gives it away? [Wink]

Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :

EMAIL?!

drats! should have thought of that!

I take posts at face value. [Smile]

*peers into profile links*

*washes hands*

dan raven, you filthy vixen, you.

[No No]

fallow

Posted by Zevlag (Member # 1405) on :

LOL

fallow, you most certainly still show signs of the newb.

Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :

there is something wrong with ignorance/innocense?

[Smile]

Posted by LadyDove (Member # 3000) on :

fallow-
A year ago this month, we So Cal folk were graced by a visit from Ralphie. She suggested a get together and called it a "shindig".
I decided to make the menu a selection of local favorites: taquitos, enchiladas, etc. and for dessert, a tres leches cake.

I went to a favorite bakery and ordered the cake and asked the girl to write "Hatrack Shindig". Her English was rough, so I wrote the words very carefully, then had her repeat them. Alas, fate stepped in and when I picked-up the cake, it read "Hatrack Shinda". I was running late and I found a certain humor and charm in the error. Also, I figured that if every other of my conversation starters bombed, I could always tell the story of the cake.

Of course, the company was so good and the conversation so easy that we almost forgot to eat the cake. When I opened it up, Ralphie and Moose laughed and said that it was a great name for our gathering. Mike and all the rest of the gathered, agreed.

When Pop called the gathering at his house a Shinda, it was official for all Jatraquero get-togethers in SoCal arranged through Hatrack.

Noteworthy of a Shinda:
Food
Drinking of both soft and hard beverages
Laughter
Casual clothes
Children invited

Everything else is play it by ear.

(editted to give fallow his identity [Smile]

)

[ March 21, 2004, 03:07 AM: Message edited by: LadyDove ]

Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :

handsome pigeon [Kiss]

fallow (

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[ March 21, 2004, 03:10 AM: Message edited by: fallow ]