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Title: UK Northern Amiga Party/Meet
Post by: on February 08, 2005, 12:04:22 AM
Anyone here fancy organizing a Big Bash type do for us Northerners?

Demonstrations of OS4 Classic and A1, MorphOS/Pegasos and AROS native would be nice, along with new PPC software.

Would anyone actually show up to such an event if there was one?
Title: Re: UK Northern Amiga Party/Meet
Post by: the_leander on February 08, 2005, 12:06:39 AM
Will there be socks, or do we have to bring our own?
Title: Re: UK Northern Amiga Party/Meet
Post by: Karlos on February 08, 2005, 12:08:39 AM
:-o

One post. It took just one post this time. Thats a record!

@mdma

Where abouts exactly?
Title: Re: UK Northern Amiga Party/Meet
Post by: on February 08, 2005, 12:09:15 AM
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the_leander wrote:
Will there be socks, or do we have to bring our own?


"This is mah fekkin gathering, and I didnae wait three fekkin years fe ye to ruin it by coming in mah socks!"
Title: Re: UK Northern Amiga Party/Meet
Post by: on February 08, 2005, 12:11:14 AM
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Karlos wrote:
:-o

One post. It took just one post this time. Thats a record!

@mdma

Where abouts exactly?


Make that 4 posts now for the X-D record! :-)

Well, I biased coz i'm in Lancs, but I'm willing to travel anywhere in the NW if someone else does the organizing. :-D
Title: Re: UK Northern Amiga Party/Meet
Post by: Karlos on February 08, 2005, 12:14:48 AM
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mdma wrote:
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the_leander wrote:
Will there be socks, or do we have to bring our own?


"This is mah fekkin gathering, and I didnae wait three fekkin years fe ye to ruin it by coming in mah socks!"


Izzat right, eh? Away wi' ye! Was good enough for ye' all day yesterday! Ah did'ne spend three feckin hoors bleedin' ma sel' dry so ye could throw it back in mah face, ye hoor!

Anyhoo, back on topic, I reckon it would be a good plan :-)
Title: Re: UK Northern Amiga Party/Meet
Post by: on February 08, 2005, 12:16:36 AM
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Karlos wrote:
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mdma wrote:
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the_leander wrote:
Will there be socks, or do we have to bring our own?


"This is mah fekkin gathering, and I didnae wait three fekkin years fe ye to ruin it by coming in mah socks!"


Izzat right, eh? Away wi' ye! Was good enough for ye' all day yesterday!


:lol:

I wondered why I struggled to get my shoes off last night! :-D
Title: Re: UK Northern Amiga Party/Meet
Post by: Karlos on February 08, 2005, 12:19:12 AM
Ah damn, you replied before I cracked my edit off (oo er)!
Title: Re: UK Northern Amiga Party/Meet
Post by: Karlos on February 08, 2005, 12:20:56 AM
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mdma wrote:

I wondered why I struggled to get my shoes off last night! :-D


How did you even get them on in the first place?
Title: Re: UK Northern Amiga Party/Meet
Post by: on February 08, 2005, 12:34:50 AM
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Karlos wrote:
Ah damn, you replied before I cracked my edit off (oo er)!


fnarr fnarr! ;-)

Back on topic, thats you, me, and leander?

Three's a crowd as they say, so we need a few more to make it an orgy^H^H^H^H a party. :-D
Title: Re: UK Northern Amiga Party/Meet
Post by: blobrana on February 08, 2005, 12:37:02 AM
Hum,
count me in.....

(call youself northeners??!...)
Title: Re: UK Northern Amiga Party/Meet
Post by: Karlos on February 08, 2005, 12:39:24 AM
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mdma wrote:

Back on topic, thats you, me, and leander?

Three's a crowd as they say, so we need a few more to make it an orgy^H^H^H^H a party. :-D


I suspect GadgetMaster would be up for it too - he's suggested it once or twice himelf.
Title: Re: UK Northern Amiga Party/Meet
Post by: the_leander on February 08, 2005, 12:47:30 AM
Gentlemen, I think we have our orgy  :lol:

@Blob

Nope, I'm a Janner through and through. A genuine Southerner :-D
Title: Re: UK Northern Amiga Party/Meet
Post by: Karlos on February 08, 2005, 12:54:59 AM
Lock up your socks and sheep!

@blob

I'm from Teeside originally. Manchester alreay is the deep south by my reckoning :-D
Title: Re: UK Northern Amiga Party/Meet
Post by: on February 08, 2005, 01:34:34 AM
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Karlos wrote:
Lock up your socks and sheep!

@blob

I'm from Teeside originally. Manchester alreay is the deep south by my reckoning :-D


You all sound the same to me, Bloody Geordies! ;-)

/me runs for cover
Title: Re: UK Northern Amiga Party/Meet
Post by: Karlos on February 08, 2005, 01:42:27 AM
From a fast show sketch...



We'll have none of your sort here. We're Geordies, divvent'cha knaaa?
Title: Re: UK Northern Amiga Party/Meet
Post by: cecilia on February 08, 2005, 03:53:39 AM
I guess you'll be calling it, "The Big Sock", or "Sock it to Me", or "Sock-In"?
 :-P
Title: Re: UK Northern Amiga Party/Meet
Post by: X-ray on February 08, 2005, 08:15:53 AM
I think that bash should be in London, which is after all home of the Sock.
Title: Re: UK Northern Amiga Party/Meet
Post by: smithy on February 08, 2005, 09:16:10 AM
I'm up for it, I'm from Newcastle and a true Geordie (Teesiders are SMOKIES not Geordies and have a totally different accent btw ;-)).  But will it be really be in the north, or are we talking Leeds or Manchester?


Title: Re: UK Northern Amiga Party/Meet
Post by: Karlos on February 08, 2005, 11:03:47 AM
That's smoggies, not smokies, isn't it? As it goes, my original accent was a bit more northumbrian sounding (before years of being here diluted it) and it never sounded particularly hartlepudlian (which has it's own uniquely bad accent).

Still, to your "typical southern ponce", they'd all sound alike I expect ;-)
Title: Re: UK Northern Amiga Party/Meet
Post by: on February 08, 2005, 02:06:37 PM
So far we've got victims... err i mean party goers.

Anyone got an A1 to demonstrate? I can bring my laptop for AROS, and depending on how far it is from where I live I could bring my Pegasos.  I don't drive you see.

The list so far is:-

Me
Leander
Karlos
Blobrana
Smithy

Xray (?)
Title: Re: UK Northern Amiga Party/Meet
Post by: PMC on February 08, 2005, 04:59:41 PM
Is there room for a shandy-drinking southerner?

I might as well enjoy some choice MTB trails while I'm there...
Title: Re: UK Northern Amiga Party/Meet
Post by: Wilse on February 08, 2005, 05:48:38 PM
OK. Make it a bit further North and I'll bring my A1 and Peg1.
As far as 'demonstrating' them, I'll leave that to someone who knows
how to work them properly. ;-)

Glasgow, Edinburgh or Geordieland and I'm in. Manchester's a
possibility too.

And real Northern party would be Inverness or Aberdeen, ye daft
Southerners.
Title: Re: UK Northern Amiga Party/Meet
Post by: GadgetMaster on February 08, 2005, 07:48:52 PM
Seems like a great idea. I don't have much time to do any organising so that will have to be someone elses job.

Manchester, the home of the curry mile, could be the perfect venue (barring the rainy weather) ;-)

I have an A1XE (Unfixed) that I could bring along. Somebody else would need to demonstrate it's capabilities as I'm not able to.

I am sure there are many others in the North West lurking around. We just need a really good incentive to draw them out . :juggler:

Title: Re: UK Northern Amiga Party/Meet
Post by: odin on February 09, 2005, 02:04:59 PM
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GadgetMaster wrote:
We just need a really good incentive to draw them out . :juggler:

That's easy, free beer :-P.
Title: Re: UK Northern Amiga Party/Meet
Post by: on February 09, 2005, 10:02:07 PM
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odin wrote:
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GadgetMaster wrote:
We just need a really good incentive to draw them out . :juggler:

That's easy, free beer :-P.


I can bring a few bottles of window cleaning fluid.  Add a splash of coke and it'll be a bit like Vodka! ;-)
Title: Re: UK Northern Amiga Party/Meet
Post by: on February 09, 2005, 10:03:35 PM
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PMC wrote:
Is there room for a shandy-drinking southerner?

I might as well enjoy some choice MTB trails while I'm there...


The more the merrier. :-D

I'm sure the Pennines can provide you with plenty of biking terrain too.
Title: Re: UK Northern Amiga Party/Meet
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on February 10, 2005, 12:20:43 AM
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mdma wrote:
I can bring a few bottles of window cleaning fluid.  Add a splash of coke and it'll be a bit like Vodka! ;-)
Aha! THAT's where I always get my headache from!
Title: Re: UK Northern Amiga Party/Meet
Post by: on February 10, 2005, 12:55:33 AM
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Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
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mdma wrote:
I can bring a few bottles of window cleaning fluid.  Add a splash of coke and it'll be a bit like Vodka! ;-)
Aha! THAT's where I always get my headache from!


I'm sure the vodka I was drinking last night was cleaning fluid. I feel like crap still 24hrs later.  My own fault though, i'm not supposed to be drinking at all at the moment. :-(
Title: Re: UK Northern Amiga Party/Meet
Post by: Ryu on March 20, 2005, 04:37:22 PM
www.intuitionbase.com/SCAG/

Under 2 weeks to go!
Title: Re: UK Northern Amiga Party/Meet
Post by: mikeymike on March 20, 2005, 06:16:57 PM
Depending on when/where it'll be, I might be interested too.
Title: Re: UK Northern Amiga Party/Meet
Post by: on March 20, 2005, 10:20:16 PM
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mikeymike wrote:
Depending on when/where it'll be, I might be interested too.


Wish I could, but alas I can't make it on this date.  Shame, as I really would like to be there.

Does anyone know when the next Big Bash is?
Title: Re: UK Northern Amiga Party/Meet
Post by: T_Bone on March 20, 2005, 10:40:46 PM
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GadgetMaster wrote:

I am sure there are many others in the North West lurking around. We just need a really good incentive to draw them out . :juggler:



Well, if someone offers me a ride...  :lol:
Title: Re: UK Northern Amiga Party/Meet
Post by: the_leander on March 22, 2005, 09:39:38 AM
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mikeymike wrote:
Depending on when/where it'll be, I might be interested too.


Skittyhorpe, April second, see Ryu's post for details.

Yes I'm going, Karlos is a maybe, though with the promise of a free beer I may yet succeed in prising him out of manx... Gadget, same goes for you (/me wonders how many bri... uses of liriquid persuasion he can afford).

Come along chaps, you lot wanted this lot, well nows your chance, in a little under two weeks there'll be a goodly amount of computers comming, plenty of people, and the best bit - its in a pub! What more could you ask for in a venue?

Booze, computers, mates... and possibly blobrana if she spots this thread again!