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[damerell]

So here we have a special cheapskate's "where did I meet you" poll. Since I can't remember this stuff I have to discover it, so; we met:

* In a sleazy bar (the Water Rats)
* In a sleazy bar (other)
* In a sleazy club
* At a convention
* In someone's house
* In a Cambridge college
* In Toronto
* Other...

And at the time I was;
* jolly
* pissed
* completely wankered
* inexplicably sober

Comments

[chite.livejournal.com]

We met in someone's house. Yours, in fact. In Cambridge.

You were... inexplicably sober I think. At least when we first met. Later on, less so.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

Oh, it only counts at the time. I'm sure nearly everyone who's ever met me has seen me drunk at some point.

[vyvyan.livejournal.com]

I think we met in a Cambridge college; Trinity, Whewell's Court to be precise. I think it was a ground floor room facing Trinity Street, perhaps in 1995? There were many others there, including your then-girlfriend (Samantha? She was wearing white, I recall). I don't remember whether you were drunk at the time; I think I was, however.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

That would be Samantha, yes - she was my only girlfriend before LNR.

[wednesday]

Toronto, and explicably sober.

I mean, duh.

Now go make a real poll.

[mquin.livejournal.com]

At a convention, and pissed / sleep deprived enough to consider dropping coins into pints of water to be a good idea.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

I assure you I'm willing to play that game at cons even while sober.

[chorus.livejournal.com]

You know, I don't recall? But W might, as she was there.

I think it's highly likely y'all were in for a con, and it was almost certainly in/about Chicago, and you were... probably explicably but definitely sober at the time, though if it was in fact at a con you probably got pissed later.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

I am fairly certain you met us at the airport for the first Windycon we went to.

[lnr]

* Other: The Turf, for an AFPmeet post RPG varsity match.

* pissed

I blame the old rosie. And if you feel like sending me 16 quid feel free, but otherwise consider it a gift.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Is New Hall bar sleazy? I suppose if you turned the lights down, and I did once crash there with JMAK1, so perhaps it counts.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

I don't admit of the existence of non-sleazy bars, so I suppose it does...

[bellinghwoman.livejournal.com]

We met in (eek! 1994!!) in a signing queue for whichever Pratchett book was out that November. You were very tired, having been awake for nearly two days, but you were remarkably coherent.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

And therefore inexplicably sober, since I didn't drink at that age.

I see I missed you and Alan at Diva's post-wedding pissup. Oh well.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Discworld Con 1996, although my clearer memory of you is from an AFPmeet in 1997. I have photographic evidence of 1996 though. :-)

[damerell.livejournal.com]

Obviously I know you, but I don't know who you are. :-)

Cryptic

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Heh. I don't do real names on LJ, but my initial is J, I used to be in the Studio Theatre Club, and you once 'picked me up' (literally) in the Wheatsheaf. Think that was when you had blue hair. I have a lovely picture of you on the bouncy castle at DWCon96, and I do remember speaking to you then, which is more than I can say for most people I've met since. Google might tell you my name (or lnr could). :-)

Re: Cryptic

[damerell.livejournal.com]

OH, I know exactly who you are. Hello.

Re: Cryptic

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Thass'll right then. :-)

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

Online, years and years ago. And then again in Oxford, at the Turf, for Sunday lunch, I think.

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

Where: In passing, at a Cambridge college. You were on your way to dinner at Caius with Andy Penrose and his girlfriend. Subsequently, almost certainly in a bar.

You were: Well, you were going to voluntarily eat Caius hall dinner, so you must have been drunk :)

[simont]

The first time I recall actually speaking to you was when I saw you in Trinity plodge and bought mead off you. However, I already knew what you looked like, and can't remember how I knew that.

If that counts as meeting you, then you might conceivably have been sober, but you were selling me booze so your piss-artist cred is unthreatened :-)

Scary

[fides.livejournal.com]

I think it was probably in your parents house.

Since it was at your parents and I am not entirely positive you were of a legal age to drink... I think it is another vote for explicably sober.

[naath.livejournal.com]

Selwyn, just before the Viezla... you were probably sober before you started drinking the mead...

[gnimmel.livejournal.com]

I would guess in't pub (the Ancient Druids, that is), since my 'where did I meet people on my friends' list runs thusly:

I haven't
In the Ancient Druids
September 1995 at Caius
Sheila and her Dog

[sneerpout.livejournal.com]

Water Rats Sleazy Bar!

Oh, and you were pissed.

[g]

[damerell.livejournal.com]

I remember _you_ - it's only, ah, most of a year ago. Goodness me.