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By: Da Sissop
Date: 2/21/98 1:55:43 PM
# Replies: 88
Attention Houstonians!
Your presence is requested at the Ale House Sunday evening. Alas, it's a somber event... although there's no *rule* that we can't enjoy ourselves. But they're hosting a benefit, with a buffet, and music provided by the Hamilton Pipe Band.
The beneficiary? Well, it's actually the Hamilton Pipe Band. Yes, this poor young band of pipers has a simple wish. They wish to travel to the land of haggis and Mel Gibson. They want nothing more than to get to the promised land, to get in touch with their roots, to get to a place where people won't snicker if they feel like wearing skirts.
So if you're feeling generous, bring money to donate to their noble cause. If you're *not*, well, then just show up and have a beer.
I'm planning on showing up around 7-ish.
If'n ya want more info, call the Ale House at (713) 521-2333.
Response #1
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 2/22/98 1:03:31 AM
::heavy sigh::
Response #2
By: sooz
Date: 2/22/98 4:25:27 PM
:echo of heavy sigh:
Response #3
By: rorschach
Date: 2/22/98 5:10:21 PM
haveta third that motion...have kid/no sitter besides,not sure how the bartender would take it if both of us asked for Dr. pepper's.....he MIGHT get offended....
Response #4
By: Ralf
Date: 2/22/98 5:40:24 PM
Okay, so do they have an Atlanta chapter?
Response #5
By: Mycroft
Date: 2/23/98 11:15:03 AM
Just how many old nunsters have transmigrated?
Sorry I couldn't make it. I was being subjected to the evil that is Grin's mind.
Response #6
By: Cleotis
Date: 2/23/98 4:33:43 PM
The Cleotis T. Burke family migrated to La Ciudad De Musica, Nashville, TN! It's easy to call this place home, I tell ya. I thought I'd be homesick for Houston since that's the only place I'd ever lived, but my how I was wrong. The only reason I end up in Houston these days is to see the mom and pops, and to scour the lower Westheimer record shops for vintage 80's local music.
Response #7
By: Ralf
Date: 2/23/98 6:21:47 PM
Ralf & Mary moved to Atlanta in 1994 so we could sell our souls to an evil software developer. The money's good, but all our Slack[tm] has been stolen from us.
Response #8
By: Da Sissop
Date: 2/23/98 8:17:27 PM
Well, ya missed some badass piping.
Response #9
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 2/23/98 10:50:08 PM
I didn't even KNOW.
I still live in Houston, and despite what SOME people might say, I *LOVE* it.
I was, uh, helping a friend.
Sorry.
Of course, you didn't let us know until SATURDAY.
Response #10
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 2/24/98 5:43:28 AM
This nun lives far far away. But you knew that.
Response #11
By: rorschach
Date: 2/24/98 12:10:59 PM
rorschach and minnie mouse still live (and that IS a relative term....)in the houston area, in fact not too far from where it all began in the inwood forest area......
Response #12
By: Roxanne
Date: 2/24/98 12:41:42 PM
SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY!
Well, Thursday night, actually, but I wanted to sound like the tractor-pull, monster truck-a-pulooza guy...
RoxyBabe will be in the Houston area for three days only starting Friday, March 13 and playing through Sunday, March 15.
My dance ain't full yet if y'all wanna meet somewheres...
...or.maybe not...
But I do know where some of you live...
*grin*
Response #13
By: Jay
Date: 2/24/98 1:05:39 PM
I spent Friday night drinking whiskey and beer and wasn't going within a mile of a bagpipe
Response #14
By: rorschach
Date: 2/24/98 8:45:30 PM
i dunno, just the thought of someone blowing into the skin of a goat and making it sound like a soul in everlasting torment just don't do much for me ya know?
Response #15
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 2/24/98 10:35:59 PM
You don't like bagpipes, ror*????
That's it! The wedding's off!
Response #16
By: Da Sissop
Date: 2/25/98 7:05:42 AM
Roxy: I vote for an AleHouse snerd, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Response #17
By: rorschach
Date: 2/25/98 12:56:09 PM
Fang, I'm beginning to think you have part ownership in the place....
Response #18
By: Ralf
Date: 2/25/98 6:40:15 PM
The part he owns he's already flushed down the urinal.
Response #19
By: sooz
Date: 2/25/98 8:37:12 PM
This Nun discovered that Austin had the three things Houston lacks: Air, grass and trees. So we moved here in 1990, and fit in fine with the music/hippie/yuppie scene.
Response #20
By: rorschach
Date: 2/26/98 11:16:45 AM
now Thats what I call throwing your money down the crapper!
Response #21
By: Mycroft
Date: 2/26/98 8:19:15 PM
If I'm not in jail before the 11th, I'll drop by the alehaus at some point. probably drag a couple other folks with me.
Response #22
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 2/27/98 7:29:45 AM
It has often been said that the best stories in the world follow these six words:
Why would you be in jail?
Response #23
By: Ralf
Date: 2/27/98 11:13:11 AM
Second runner up, most interesting story wrap-up:
"...and THAT's howcome I got this tattoo on my forehead."
Response #24
By: Tess Trueheart
Date: 2/28/98 9:29:13 AM
I missed a snerd...sigh..
RoxyBabe..ya know where I live..we know where the Ale House is..
We must make plans..we must do the dance of joy!
Response #25
By: rorschach
Date: 2/28/98 7:25:32 PM
since when can you do that in a public place and not get thrown in jail?
Response #26
By: Zane T. Dark
Date: 3/1/98 7:23:20 AM
The 'Dance of Joy' comes in many forms...some for public 'consumption', some...not. I'm kind of fond of the one that involves pink hankies and party favors myslef...but I'm just an old fashioned guy that way.
Response #27
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 3/2/98 12:55:14 PM
So did we ever actually say there was gonna be a snerd or what?
Response #28
By: Da Sissop
Date: 3/2/98 7:26:31 PM
I think we kinda implied it. Now I think we gotta wait for Roxanne to come back and let us know what works for her.
Response #29
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 3/3/98 5:44:12 AM
You should have a cuseeme snerd at chez fang. I hear he's got a static IP, even.... You'd get to see my new hat.
Response #30
By: Roxanne
Date: 3/3/98 4:02:18 PM
I am back...anything works for me. Saturday night? Friday night?
My dance card ain't full yet...actually, no one has written in it.
Friday night? Saturday night? Saturday afternoon?
Sunday at 6:27 am?
Gimme answers!
Response #31
By: sooz
Date: 3/3/98 5:54:44 PM
I want an Ale Cam to be happenin'.
Response #32
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 3/3/98 8:44:02 PM
scare up a cell modem and a laptop.
:-)
Response #33
By: Da Sissop
Date: 3/4/98 8:32:51 PM
Okay, well *I* propose we make it Saturday the 14th, preferably starting early enough to catch the sunset on the patio... weather permitting...
6-ish?
Response #34
By: Roxanne
Date: 3/5/98 3:28:15 PM
Works for me, Bein-e-bay-bee.
I looks forward to seeing all who arrive!
Is the weather hot there?? It was snowing here two days ago...
Response #35
By: rorschach
Date: 3/5/98 7:59:21 PM
HOT? nah... the egg on the sidewalk isn't even sizzling yet... today i think it got to 75 or so and mostly sunny.
Response #36
By: Ralf
Date: 3/5/98 8:43:06 PM
Dammit, I'm STILL in Atlanta.
Response #37
By: sooz
Date: 3/5/98 11:22:48 PM
14th? I'll be in Ft. Worth. We play there the 13th. Hmph.
Response #38
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 3/6/98 2:01:23 AM
and the CUSeeMe???
??
Response #39
By: Da Sissop
Date: 3/6/98 7:39:47 AM
The Ale House won't let me use their phone.
Response #40
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 3/6/98 8:59:25 PM
aww, shucks.
Response #41
By: rorschach
Date: 3/7/98 6:15:47 AM
and after all the time/money you've spent there too....they oughtta be givin you a KEY to the place!
Response #42
By: Tess Trueheart
Date: 3/7/98 8:02:57 AM
Roxy! It's a date! Call me when you get to Houston.. we'll go shopping! We'll have lunch.. hey baby..I'll show you my new roses..
Response #43
By: Kathy
Date: 3/7/98 5:28:40 PM
You should speak in code about these plans... Zipperhead may show up.
Response #44
By: Ralf
Date: 3/7/98 8:08:22 PM
I will not buy this record, it is scratched.
My hovercraft is full of eels!
Response #45
By: sooz
Date: 3/7/98 8:59:11 PM
Ralf is the walrus.
Response #46
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 3/8/98 6:49:17 AM
May I mumble dog face to the banana patch?
Response #47
By: Tess Trueheart
Date: 3/8/98 7:33:37 AM
The crops have circles in them!
Response #48
By: Da Sissop
Date: 3/8/98 9:58:51 AM
I think crop circles are created by aliens peeing from their spaceships above, essentially writing their names in the snow, which would go a long way toward explaining why wheat beers taste so nasty.
Response #49
By: Zipperhead
Date: 3/11/98 7:49:00 PM
Will I get frre drinks if I show?
Response #50
By: sooz
Date: 3/11/98 8:57:33 PM
They were giving away free beer yesterday. You just missed it.
Response #51
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 3/11/98 9:05:37 PM
Hey! I like wheat beers!
Response #52
By: Roxanne
Date: 3/12/98 9:12:37 AM
Tess-i-licous! I will call when I breeze into town! And I will be at the Ale House Saturday night.
S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y night!
Looking forward to it!
Oh, and Homer *I* got your obscure reference! I am just glad you didn't attempt to speak French!
*grins to all*
Response #53
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 3/13/98 12:57:24 AM
::rire::
Response #54
By: Da Sissop
Date: 3/13/98 7:31:07 AM
Hokay, to sum up....
Ale House, saturday evening. 6-ish til whenever-ish. I'll bring the amazing nunnery webcam. :)
Response #55
By: Mycroft
Date: 3/14/98 2:11:03 AM
I'll try and be there. I'll probably be the one in the long wool trenchcoat (black, of course) dragging the untrustworthy 6'5 redheaded biker-lookinng guys around saying "I know they're here SOMEWHERE, Jay..."
Response #56
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 3/14/98 3:04:38 AM
JAY HAS MY ATARI!!! GET MY ATARI 1040STF FROM HIM!!!!!!
(heh)
Response #57
By: Zane T. Dark
Date: 3/15/98 9:47:42 AM
Say Homer...did they ever port M.U.L.E. to the Amiga? I LOVE that game!
Response #58
By: Da Sissop
Date: 3/15/98 10:20:02 AM
Well it was entirely too dark for my little piece-of-shit bottom-of-the-line piddly-ass Amazing Nunnery Webcam to capture anything resembling images, try tho' we did.
Also, I didn't even remember to bring the damn thing inside until it was almost time to go home and pass out. Otherwise I probably would have had quite a few more pictures of solid black for you to enjoy.
I was able to salvage *four* images where I could sorta make out shapes after jackin' with the brightness and contrast.
The first image is Mycroft in the foreground with a litle bit of fire, and Gowan in the background completely engulfed in darkness. The second image is Mycroft promoting smoking. The third image is Art Bell showing us a message he *just received on his pager* from the aliens (I should point out I'm *terrible* at remembering names the first time I meet people... humblest apologies...). The fourth image is the most amazing one. Apparently the camera picked up an apparition of Jesus at some point during the evening.
Roxy probably got some *good* pictures with her *real* camera, so maybe if we all whimper loudly enough she could scan 'em and send 'em this way?
T'was darn nice seeing everyone in the flesh again!
Response #59
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 3/15/98 1:25:07 PM
MULE was never ported to the Amiga.
In the early 90s, there was a group working on MULE386 but to my knowledge it never went anywhere.
If you really wanna play though, you can download a C64 emulator and the roms are available. You can play that way. I have.
Response #60
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 3/15/98 3:27:16 PM
Hmm. Mycroft, fire, Art Bell, and Jesus.
Oh how I miss that patio...
You kids will have to come up here and we can go to some place that's stupid enough to have a patio in Seattle.
Response #61
By: rorschach
Date: 3/15/98 7:35:14 PM
sorry i missed it, I was zonked on the couch popping vicoden ES's to kill a throbbing root canal.... I was so zoned I could barely remember my name....
Response #62
By: Tess Trueheart
Date: 3/16/98 5:07:25 AM
Much fun was had by all...
And don't worry guys...Roxy didn't spend the night.
Response #63
By: Roxanne
Date: 3/16/98 11:00:22 AM
No, I didn't stay the whole night. I showered and left at about 3 am.
I will get my film developed and if anything slightly resembling the evening's activities should appear, I will send pics to someone to scan and post for all to see!
I did have a great time (what I remember of it) and it was wonderful seeing y'all! *kisses and hugs*
HOMER! I will be in Victoria, BC in May! Think we can meet up??
Response #64
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 3/16/98 11:06:08 PM
See, Tess? Roxy just jumped in the way so no one else COULD respond to your post.
Response #65
By: Da Sissop
Date: 3/17/98 7:09:05 AM
I've forgotten what I was going to say now.
Response #66
By: Zipperhead
Date: 3/17/98 10:53:22 AM
Thats all right Da, no one wanted to hear it anyway.
Response #67
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 3/17/98 7:50:16 PM
There's this northern california guru guy called Da Free John. He's wacky.
Roxy! Indeedy! I'm planning to go to v,bc this weekend... I'll scope it out for you. Hehe.
Response #68
By: Loki
Date: 3/18/98 12:11:27 PM
On those pictures... #3 is an old friend of mine, a member of the Chris continium(we are chris, resistance is futile, you will be assimilated), and #4 is not Jesus, just Mycroft. Don't let the Lee press-on stigmata fool you, nor his penchant for hanging out with JayHova 4X4. He is, however, the primary source of all evil in the universe, if not THE source. He's the reason that Jaka and I are inflicting ourselves upon you.
Response #69
By: rorschach
Date: 3/18/98 12:45:05 PM
infliction, affliction... addiction.. it all the same to me...
Response #70
By: Da Sissop
Date: 3/18/98 8:07:40 PM
You say affection, I say affliction, let's call the whole thing off...
Response #71
By: Mycroft
Date: 3/20/98 4:32:32 AM
Gee, you're right Loki. That _is_ me.
I didn't recognize that one. God. I look so overweight when I change into jesus... More fo the body to go around, I guess..
is that how he was able to save so many through ritual cannibalism?
Response #72
By: Da Sissop
Date: 3/20/98 7:13:25 AM
"Crunch All Ya Want, We'll Make More." (tm)
Response #73
By: grin
Date: 3/22/98 4:21:21 PM
See mycroft, i'm not the only one who thinks your jesus... thank god. i thought there was something very wrong with me. hmm, ofcourse, this just means there could be something wrong with every one else too. darn.
Response #74
By: rorschach
Date: 3/23/98 6:33:37 PM
well, maybe everyone HERE......
Response #75
By: Ralf
Date: 3/24/98 8:32:09 PM
"We split because of religious differences. I thought I was God and she didn't."
Response #76
By: Da Sissop
Date: 3/26/98 4:56:13 PM
For lack of a better place, I guess I'll put this here. Jay makes the ads for the Ale House nowadays, and this picture is one of my all-time favorites. I think the Soy Bomb guy near Dylan is a particularly nice touch.
Response #77
By: sooz
Date: 3/28/98 2:29:17 PM
That's a riot! I think it's great that he got all those folks, even Alf, to pose so politely. And all 8 Beatles.
Response #78
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 5/30/98 1:58:25 AM
OK, when is the next SNERD planned and is there a possibility of planning a road SNERD? We could rent a bus and tour the countryside, spreading music, love and large amounts of mayonaise all through the land. (The consumption of beer at this point goes without saying)
Response #79
By: Tess Trueheart
Date: 5/30/98 6:46:16 AM
Dead snerd in the middle of the road...
and the mayonaise is for my hair..
Response #80
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 5/30/98 11:58:59 PM
Why don't we SNERD it in the road?
BTW, in memorium of all the SNERDS of years past, I went drinking at the Crown & Anchor tonight (probably the closest thing Austin has to the Alehouse). I guess I was just feeling nostalgic. Had a great time. We talked to the 2 bartenders onduty tonight, and had a marvelous time poking fun at this one guy that was talking Drunkenese, (no one could understand a word he was saying)and this one other guy that was pissing off Dave (the bartender) by not tipping him. Ahh. "Those were the days!!" (Ala Edith Bunker)
Response #81
By: Ralf
Date: 5/31/98 11:12:03 AM
If you liked the Ale House, check out the Dog & Duck. They've got the rear deck, the slow service, an excellent selection of taps, and friendly waitpersons.
Oh, and PINBALL games. Something the Ale House hasn't had in a decade.
Response #82
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 5/31/98 5:32:39 PM
Yeah, been to the Dog & Duck, but it's so damn over run with yuppies, and PBS scum these days, you can barely breathe! At least that teh way it was a couple of years ago when we went. I've been wanting to go back and check it out again, I think you might have talked me into Ralf.
Crown & Anchor has pinball too, just kinda of small. Sholz Garden is pretty decent too.
Response #83
By: Mycroft
Date: 6/1/98 2:31:11 PM
I think thursdays are OK. There's a group of old austin netgeeks that meets there from the chat board Silverchat (www.silverchat.com (it's an autsinite chatsystem, even though silver himself now lives in the montrose... go fig, eh?))
they're usually neat folks.
Response #84
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 6/4/98 9:37:22 PM
Thursday's where Mycroft?
Response #85
By: Mycroft
Date: 6/4/98 9:44:46 PM
Dog & Duck.
Response #86
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 6/6/98 1:15:14 PM
Cool. Didn't know people like that gathered there on Thursday, will have to check it out. Thanks for the info.
Do they have like a sign up or anything? Or is it pretty much a Zen thing?
Response #87
By: Mycroft
Date: 6/7/98 11:38:29 AM
I think it's a goto silverchat and find out thing. www.silverchat.com telnet://silverchat.com
Response #88
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 6/7/98 1:16:17 PM
So, when're we Snerding again, anyway?
