The Great Lakes DU Meetup-the aftermath (pictures)

[EstimatedProphet]

We had a great time, and it was good to put people's faces to their screen names. So, without any further ado:


Your moderator and soon-to-be-new-DUer the Prophetess


Johnnie (L) and MikeLewis (R)


Stanchetalarooni (L) just happened to hear about the meetup a few hours before. Droopy (R) came up from Dayton.


Liberalhistorian (L) and TheBorealAvenger (R)


BewaretheBeastMan and MrsBeastman


Tigereye (R) shows us a newspaper article, and brought her sister Monica


The group, with Asmaticeog looking like Lewis Black


More of the group. NEOhioBuckeye (2nd left) came too.


After we moved down the street to the Brew Kettle for some serious professional-grade drinking. They have Arrogant Bastard Ale on tap! Yowza!



It was such a romantic night...


Finally, isn't it nice to see Left-leaning stickers on cars? The Estimated Vehicle of the Prophet

A fun time was had by all! Can't wait for the next one!

[Left Is Write]

1. That looks like a lot of fun.

[Zhade]

2. Wow, Asmaticeog DOES look like Lewis Black!

NT!

[flamingyouth]

3. No kidding!

:rofl:

[EstimatedProphet]

4. Doesn't he though?

As he said, he just needs a tie to loosen up angrily.

[Zhade]

9. "If it weren't for my horse, if it weren't for my horse..."

LB be the MAN.

[Magrittes Pipe]

14. No, he really doesn't.

Of course, I've never seen him as sober as he looks in that pic.



And I've never kissed Lewis Black.

[Longgrain]

5. Great pics! It looks like johnnie and I could be twins...

And I finally got to see a pic of liberalhistorian... (hi Libby :hi: )

Still nothing compared to my wild weekend in Boston, but y'all know about that already...:beer:

[dolo amber]

6. What a bunch o'hunkasaurasuses

and hunkasaurauresses..ess.ess.ess...

:yourock:

[EstimatedProphet]

40. LOL I fit the "saurus" part I know!

[Blue-Jay]

7. Any of you guys coming to the Columbus meetup next week?

I might be in the vicinity....

Anyhow, it looks like a good time was had by all. I wish I could've been there.

[asthmaticeog]

27. I might be at the Columbus meetup.

I'm going to be in Indianapolis on Friday. If I come back to Cleveland on Saturday, I'm going stop in on the gathering on my way home. If I score Jon Stewart tix for Saturday night (in Indy), no.

I wish you could have been there too, it was a stone hoot.

[FuzzySlippers]

8. All you guys are gorgeous!

Thanks for the pics.:hi:

[TheProphetess]

10. I had a great time, too!

After meeting some DUers in person, I finally decided to actually become a DUer myself. It was a very good time!

[Blue-Jay]

12. Welcome!

Sorry that you had to miss ATA.

[Beware the Beast Man]

13. Welcome to DU, Prophetess!

:toast:

[TheProphetess]

15. Thanks!

I'm glad to be aboard (finally)!

[EstimatedProphet]

17. You all should see her

She's so excited to be posting!

[TheProphetess]

26. EP keeps making fun of me

I can't help it that it's exciting to be a part of DU now. :woohoo:

[maddezmom]

19. welcome aboard

:hug:

[ralps]

21. Welcome to DU TheProphetess

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[TheProphetess]

24. Thanks and nice lizard!

:hi:

[tigereye]

23. welcome aboard, Prophetess!

nice to meet you and thanks to you guys for a really great time! :hi:

[TheProphetess]

25. Hi Tigereye!

Had a great time talking with you yesterday. Say hi to your sister for us, too!

[tigereye]

37. yeah, she had a great time

and her picture looked good, too! Wish we had had time for some Arrogant Bastard Ale.

[ralps]

11. Great photos EstimatedProphet. Here is a link to Cyndee_Lou_Who's

Milwaukee meetup photos. It also has links to one of RetroLounge's photo threads, and my photo thread.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3159054
Here is RetroLounge's 2nd photo thread
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3159227
:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[deadparrot]

16. Looks like you all had a great time!

Glad to see it. :)

[maddezmom]

18. great pics

lots of kissing going on. :evilgrin: BTW, great looking car. :thumbup:

[johnnie]

20. Welcome Prophetess

It's good to have you on the boards, and it was great meeting you yesterday.

[TheProphetess]

22. Same here

I enjoyed meeting all of you yesterday. Thanks for the location suggestion! It worked out quite well.

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

28. Nice pics!

:hi:

[asthmaticeog]

29. Thanks for putting that together, E.P.!

I had a great time meeting everyone in person, we should do something more regularly.

And it looks like I might be needing to invest in a comb... :silly:

[liberalhistorian]

30. I had a great time with everyone, but ARRGGGHHH!!!

I sure do wish those pics of me hadn't been posted, though! I've rarely taken good pictures.

[Longgrain]

31. Ah, you look good.

There are a few pics of me from Boston I'm curious about... :evilgrin:

[liberalhistorian]

32. Thanks, LG!

And hi!! :hi: At least the second pic of me is a little better than the first. I think I was the only one who wasn't drinking, either! Although they still weren't drunk enough for us to see any same-sex kisses, though. Guess we just have more common sense! :evilgrin:

[Longgrain]

33. You don't want to know what happed to us here in Boston.

We have far less common sense here in the NE!

BTW, You look almost exactly as I pictured you, except I envisioned you with dark hair and glasses.

I guess I was mistaken.

[Droopy]

34. Thanks for posting, EP

Man was it a long ride back to Dayton today. I would have been alright if I could have slept past 10am. I had to stop half way down and knock off for a couple of hours. Thanks for a good time everybody.

[johnnie]

35. Hey Droopy

I'm glad to see you made it back safe. It was great that you came out, and it was nice to meet you.

[Droopy]

36. It was nice to meet you, too, johnnie

I was going to start a thread telling everybody what a cool as fuck muthafucka you are, but everybody there was cool as fuck so I guess I'll just tell that to everybody in this thread. You all rock! :headbang:

[TheProphetess]

38. Ditto

Great people, great time, and (so I hear) great beer. I'll stick to raspberry margaritas, though (yes, anything fru-fru for me but no beer).

[Droopy]

39. The way I felt this morning

I should have stuck to diet coke or at least thrown back a glass of water here and there between beers. Those Dos X's were going back awfully easy, though.

[liberalhistorian]

41. LOL, yeah you guys

were pretty free and easy with the booze. I thought about getting a margarita at the restaurant, but knew that I'd have to drive so I figured it'd be best if I didn't.

[EstimatedProphet]

42. That's the reason we stayed over

I was planning on hitting the juice all along, so a hotel right across the street came in handy.

[biscodawg]

43. arrongant bastard from stone brewery? nt

[goodboy]

44. the next one being May 7 2005!

http://democrat.meetup.com/832/