Balto the Meet: May 28 to June 5, 2013

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Baltimore meet will be cool.

May 17-19 should have lacrosse (May 18- men's quarterfinals at UMD for people able to make the trip), and all dates might have O's baseball for sports minded folks.

No room in my basement, but I'll help scout locations and such.

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Marc trains run from DC-Baltimore. For ~7.00 you can go one-way from DC to Penn Station.

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"God do I hate Baltimore."

Don't we all.

Oh! We can also go to the aquarium, which is like world-renowned.

The Baltimore Museum of Industry is, imho, vastly underrated and a lots of fun for getting into the origins of modern technology.

Also, I can show you where all the cotton candy fluff landed, and probably still is, from my daughter's b-day ~7 years ago

A solid day could be had hitting the Aquarium, lunch in Fells Point or Fed Hill, the BMI, maybe even AVAM (American Visionary Arts Museum) and then an indie film up at the Charles Theatre.

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I never got into The Wire. I probably should watch it, but eh- too many things/not enough time.

I can't remember if the older show Homicide was set in Baltimore, or just filmed here. The retired police station they used for the show is down Fells Point. I don't think you can go in, but there's a plaque or something about the show outside of it.

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Also, I feel the need to design a mafia game themed after The Wire now...very few town roles. =P

I've never seen it before, but I've heard it has like nothing to do with Hopkins, which I thought it was all about.

Why would someone make a TV show about Hopkins? o.O

They have, for 40+ straight springs.

It's called the NCAA Men's LAX tournament.

<high five>

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LAX is lacrosse, bro.

Fastest game on two feet and fastest growing youth sport in America.

ADD: And the Hopkins men's team has like 43 or 44 straight tourney appearances and a load of championships.

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Nooooo, MoS.

Jai Lai uses scoops. LAX uses sticks that have warnings that you could kill someone with them stickered on them.

Matt- the women's games are free! Granted, women's is a different game from men's (like baseball is to softball), but just as good once you learn the differences. You have no excuse!

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@MoS

Youth, not collegiate. Not many rec league's with 6 year olds playing Ultimate.

BADA BING!

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Has a date been set? Can it be added to the 0 post (another reason I miss always show post 0 getoffmuhlawn).

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Yes. Something something transition to phpbb 3.0 and it being a substantial job to recode. Not likely.

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Philly is like 2 hours, I think.

It's about an hour from Dundalk to places like Havre de Grace up I95, and there is still half a county to Deleware/PA.

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We have a risk board already

Also we are getting Dominion and Seven Wonders, prob Shadow Hunters

Sweet.

Any evening that I can attend (exact dates pending on my daughters exact lacrosse schedule at that point in time), I've got a handful of games:

The Blood Bowl card game (Blood Bowl Team Manager, iirc)
A bunch of Fluxx and Munckin sets
Last Night on Earth
Avalon Hill's Fuedal (a sort of 4-handed chess variant)
Pandemic (hopefully the expansion by then)

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Yes!

I've never had a chance to play it- I asked for it a couple years ago and it sits, unused and wanting love...poor Diplomacy

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tbh i had no idea what The Block was until i just wiki'd it

Definitely just did this as well. "Oh Myyy!"

Young'uns!

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We can teach everyone what real hacking is when we try to get home from The Block.

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It is way too much of a pain in the ass to change my location to "Maestro's mom" and figure out which invisible characters will let me skip ~7 lines to have " Not all of us are liars" next to it.

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I watched Intervention las night. Baltimore is one rough city...

~15 years ago I was at a multi-day training in Richmond with several coworkers. Day one, the instructor is telling us where to go near the hotel to get food and stuff and he strongly advises everyone to not make a right or whatever off the main drag unless "we were packing our knives".

The 4 of us from Baltimore laughed and when he heard where we were from he said, "Except those guys- they'll be fine".

</hardasfuck>

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If you don't sound like this:

Ainchu gawn kim doon in watch the oreos gim? I' da rain comes we kin sit unner ma orning in sip sim wooder!

You ain't from round these parts.

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Better bring a plug for that stud detector because it's not gonna stop beeping.

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I should make an alt called Charm City Circulator and ask someone to push Trollie in front of me.

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Alt jokes are so awesome in my head.

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Wait...we were supposed to use fake names?

I'm Gorc Kat...


Or so google thinks

I did use Bojangles as the first name at a site that did my ESPN magazine subscription (4 years $16...too good to be true, but it was legit) so that's a ray of sunshine when the mags come.

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Hey Oswald Blanchard Maxwell...yeah, you!

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These are just our mattresses we included, we have lots of mattress connections in the black market

That is so skeezy!

As a property manager, the first thing I think of when I hear of a mattress swap is...bed bugs.

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Well, in Baltimore, it can be hard to tell if the scratching is a heroin/meth thing or bed bugs (especially as BB bites don't itch until hours later, ~10 am or so).

So...are your friends junkies?

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Not everyone is an all day every day /in, are they?

I'm local, so I'm expecting to be around for a couple evenings of hang out.

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An Eastern Shore hillbilly that "accidentally" spotlighted a deer with his head lamps and ran it over with his truck.

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That's just an anticipation erection.

You'll be fine.

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In drunk mafia. Each player is called into another room. If they are town, they drink, if they are scum, they dont. Town's job is to find the sober people.

Well, shit...now I have to see if there isn't a night I can stay over...maybe I can convince my wife that there is an insane property emergency at one of our Baltimore sites and I have to stay over.

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I like Baltimore Zoo better than DC. Although I did watch an orangutan piss on the people walking under him at the DC zoo...that was funny.

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I think we should watch the Goonies while we're all together...anyone got it on DVD?

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I will be there at least once. I think my daughter has a LAX tourney on one or both weekends around the event and probably practice during the week.

ADD: Looks like a tourney the weekend after, but the ones before and during are likely to have a tourney added if her rec team does well, so I might be able to convince the wife that drinking with internet people should be permitted Friday or Saturday

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Put me down for a pack of LifeSavers, I guess.

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Having been on something of a Saint's Row the Third kick for a week or so, I now have Rimjobs music stuck in my head.

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Put your floppy disk in my USB port

that wouldn't even work


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It's a sub-category of geek porn called Taping.

(Wow...missed a bunch of posts and had to edit kuribo in.)

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I know, that's the whole point

Also, how would somebody else's power button turn ME on

> Missing the forest for the trees

We need to have a talk in Baltimore...sometimes it works that way.

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Do you have one with tilt steering and a sunroof?

</zing>

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Then you aren't worthy.

All ninjas must find the secret Cult of UberNinja training base in the

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amned wilderness on their own.

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He looks like my stepdad. Frickin scary.

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That would blow my fucking mind.

I could see him stumbling on the site the way the occasional visitor does looking for real world mafia info (he's a huge mafia 'fan').

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Except I'm older than him.

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If it ain't sustainably caught tuna fish in a can, I don't eat nothing out of the water.

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Btw I'm making plans to be in baltimore thanksgiving night

To go to the game or be around to watch it?

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I'm trying to figure out if my parents are going to renew their tickets this year. Since my mom's stroke, my dad doesn't enjoy the games as much because she can't go (too much stimulus and she gets overwhelmed).

Last year they sold a bunch of them off at face value so they only had to cover the games they wanted, so if there are any other games open, I'll share the word.

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I'll lift a whiskey sour to you all from home. I'd be there one of these nights if not for my woman being sick (4 of 6 weeks in hospital on 4 admissions...was a crazy ride). She's home and on the mend, but I won't be having a free night between that and my daughter's lax schedule getting hectic.

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I was gonna offer, but I just learned this morning that I am going to some kind of wine tasting party with my wife that afternoon.