The 3rd NYC/Post Freddies Soup Do: Friday, May 5, 2006
Apr 28, 2006, 3:43 pm
#33
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Mark,
please add me to the "try to make it" list.
I hope to see you and am glad that you are still organizing FT Dos.
I fondly remember you Mega Do at Citi with over a hundred attendees
Those were the days!
Thanks,
Rich
please add me to the "try to make it" list.
I hope to see you and am glad that you are still organizing FT Dos.
I fondly remember you Mega Do at Citi with over a hundred attendees
Those were the days!
Thanks,
Rich
Apr 30, 2006, 6:23 am
#34
Commander Catcop
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List has been updated.
We do have some room if anyone else is interested. Looks like a good group with paws crossed the "Hoping to Make It" folk can make it.
FYI: Who has Freddie Jr? It might be nice on Flyertalk's birthday for him/it to be at an event (It's not a DO until we get 12 or more people. We are close (Sorry iluvtofly... the pillows can't count as a person
Even my cats can't count as people if I brought them, which is sad becaues they are quazi Flyertalkers 
)
See you later this week!
On antoher note: FYI writetorich... there were 84 people (Flyertalkers and spouses) and one Freddie Junior attenidng my Catman Do Trois at Citi. I don't think Citi could hold 100 but they might.
We do have some room if anyone else is interested. Looks like a good group with paws crossed the "Hoping to Make It" folk can make it.
FYI: Who has Freddie Jr? It might be nice on Flyertalk's birthday for him/it to be at an event (It's not a DO until we get 12 or more people. We are close (Sorry iluvtofly... the pillows can't count as a person
Even my cats can't count as people if I brought them, which is sad becaues they are quazi Flyertalkers ) See you later this week!
On antoher note: FYI writetorich... there were 84 people (Flyertalkers and spouses) and one Freddie Junior attenidng my Catman Do Trois at Citi. I don't think Citi could hold 100 but they might.
May 2, 2006, 8:48 pm
#35
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Just a few days to the Soup Do. 
Eddie is disappointed that I told him he can't come because I would not want La Bonne Soupe to shut down with a cat in the house (I may bring him back some soup to compensate.) He asks why are pillows allowed in and not him.
Onyx purrfurrs Italian (so I may have to bring something from Florentinos Saturday night.)
Dan... I'll make sure the Soup Do gang doesn't party all night and does not miss your push back time of 10:30am (check-in half a hour before.)
I need to call it an early night as well... I start cat sitting in Union City at 5 in the morning so I can make the Brooklyn tour. Will someone volunteer to nudge me away if I take an accidental cat nap (Seeing visions of a very disappointed Dan Hammer.)
there's still room in the Soup Bowl if someone has no plans Friday night. Come join the party.
Eddie is disappointed that I told him he can't come because I would not want La Bonne Soupe to shut down with a cat in the house (I may bring him back some soup to compensate.) He asks why are pillows allowed in and not him.
Onyx purrfurrs Italian (so I may have to bring something from Florentinos Saturday night.)
Dan... I'll make sure the Soup Do gang doesn't party all night and does not miss your push back time of 10:30am (check-in half a hour before.)
I need to call it an early night as well... I start cat sitting in Union City at 5 in the morning so I can make the Brooklyn tour. Will someone volunteer to nudge me away if I take an accidental cat nap (Seeing visions of a very disappointed Dan Hammer.)
there's still room in the Soup Bowl if someone has no plans Friday night. Come join the party.
May 2, 2006, 9:30 pm
#36
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Originally Posted by Catman
(Seeing visions of a very disappointed Dan Hammer.)
You have 5 extra minutes, out of respect.
Of course your punishment will be to sit in 1B.
May 2, 2006, 9:46 pm
#37
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Dear Dan...
How is 1B punishment?>
That's my usual seat on United flights EXCEPT on red eyes and early morning flights when I seat in 2A or 2D (or whatever the second row window seat is so I can sleep against the window.)
I'll just have to leave my Harrods Cat Bag at home becuase i don't think I have a seat in front of me to put it under.
Thanksf or the extra five minutes. I accept and thank you. I'm also going to try to keep my 10 years plus record of never missing a flight (only once I came very close in HKG but that was avoided when I took charge.)
FYI: Eddie is mad he can't go on the Brooklyn reality tour but I told him he's a local cat and out of towners get first preference.
How is 1B punishment?>
That's my usual seat on United flights EXCEPT on red eyes and early morning flights when I seat in 2A or 2D (or whatever the second row window seat is so I can sleep against the window.)
I'll just have to leave my Harrods Cat Bag at home becuase i don't think I have a seat in front of me to put it under.
Thanksf or the extra five minutes. I accept and thank you. I'm also going to try to keep my 10 years plus record of never missing a flight (only once I came very close in HKG but that was avoided when I took charge.)
FYI: Eddie is mad he can't go on the Brooklyn reality tour but I told him he's a local cat and out of towners get first preference.
May 4, 2006, 7:59 pm
#39
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(Sound of tapping spoon on soup bowl)
Ok, it's less than 24 hours to the latest Soup Do!!! If anyone else wnats to join us please post so I can give a final count to the La Bonne Soupe manager.
I am hoping those trying to make it can. I also hope Freddie Jr. can make it (it would be a nice celebration considering Flyertalk's eight birthday falls on this night.)
Looking forward to seeing you all Friday night!!!
Ok, it's less than 24 hours to the latest Soup Do!!! If anyone else wnats to join us please post so I can give a final count to the La Bonne Soupe manager.
I am hoping those trying to make it can. I also hope Freddie Jr. can make it (it would be a nice celebration considering Flyertalk's eight birthday falls on this night.)
Looking forward to seeing you all Friday night!!!
May 4, 2006, 9:36 pm
#40
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Well, since it is now known that I will be in NY for tomorrow evening through Saturday evening, I'll see y'all at La Bonne Soupe.
Looking forward to meeting several people I've not met and many that I know well.
Looking forward to meeting several people I've not met and many that I know well
.
May 5, 2006, 10:27 pm
#42
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It's was another purrfect evening... *
We marked the 8th anniversary of Flyertalk (even with Freddie JR being a NO SHOW ) and even had a pair of Soup Do "crashers:" San Diego 1K and Darren (who can crash anything I host anytime. )
Glad you could make it writetorich and nice to meet Abel and Platbrownguy and see Flyertalkers I've met before again. The manager was a bit concerned that everyone enjoyed themselves. I told him just look at the smiling faces and hear the laughter.
Twenty dollars with tax and tip for a three course dinner in NYC is not a bad bargain.
The only thing I could not do was dance with Idsant... but in a nice abit small private room where we dined I may have had soup flying everywhere.
Thank you manager of La Bonne Soupe for helping make this happen, again.
Hopefully we can get that room for Soup Do four, next year after the Freddies. (and maybe if we do another event or two before then.)
*(well it was an almost purrfect purrfect evening... because I did not have Platium cards ready for repeat soupers AlysiaKathywsdf, lili and Monitor and Franny. )
Paging OLD GOLD!
We marked the 8th anniversary of Flyertalk (even with Freddie JR being a NO SHOW
) and even had a pair of Soup Do "crashers:" San Diego 1K and Darren (who can crash anything I host anytime. )Glad you could make it writetorich and nice to meet Abel and Platbrownguy and see Flyertalkers I've met before again. The manager was a bit concerned that everyone enjoyed themselves. I told him just look at the smiling faces and hear the laughter.
Twenty dollars with tax and tip for a three course dinner in NYC is not a bad bargain.
The only thing I could not do was dance with Idsant... but in a nice abit small private room where we dined I may have had soup flying everywhere.
Thank you manager of La Bonne Soupe for helping make this happen, again.
Hopefully we can get that room for Soup Do four, next year after the Freddies. (and maybe if we do another event or two before then.)
*(well it was an almost purrfect purrfect evening... because I did not have Platium cards ready for repeat soupers AlysiaKathywsdf, lili and Monitor and Franny.
)Paging OLD GOLD!
May 5, 2006, 10:34 pm
#43
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Yes, it was a great soup do (even though I didn't have soup). Wait, yes I did, I tried the French Onion, and it was good. But I digress. It was a pleasure to meet writetorich, CatMan, SanDiego1K, and Iluv2fly, as well as seeing everybody else that I know so well. I am much looking forward to tomorrow.
I'm now sitting in the W Union Square's basement "Wired" center, which is, amazingly, ultra-fast and free. In a hotel of $30 room-service burgers and $8 packs of mints, free high-speed is a jewel. Across the hall from me is the underbar which is teeming with all kinds of pretty folk, the resident ones getting drunker and drunker until they crawl out into the hallway down to the elevator shafts and go upstairs. I think I'll go see how everyone's handling themselves.
I'm now sitting in the W Union Square's basement "Wired" center, which is, amazingly, ultra-fast and free. In a hotel of $30 room-service burgers and $8 packs of mints, free high-speed is a jewel. Across the hall from me is the underbar which is teeming with all kinds of pretty folk, the resident ones getting drunker and drunker until they crawl out into the hallway down to the elevator shafts and go upstairs. I think I'll go see how everyone's handling themselves
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May 6, 2006, 7:24 am
#44
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What a fun evening! Half a block from the restaurant, I look up and see Catman. We both started waving wildly, and ran into each other's arms. It's been a wedding and a baby (neither ours!) since we've seen each other.
Catman had his usual impeccable arrangements - a room just for us, so we could be as chatty as we liked without disturbing anyone else. We figured we had half of last night's bus load present, so we got a great start on the visiting.
And stockmanjr - what a change from the kid with a mouth filled with braces I remember from the San Diego Do in 2001. He's a college senior!
It's an amazingly beautiful weekend in New York - a balmy 73. We're off to tour Brooklyn in a few minutes.
Catman had his usual impeccable arrangements - a room just for us, so we could be as chatty as we liked without disturbing anyone else. We figured we had half of last night's bus load present, so we got a great start on the visiting.
And stockmanjr - what a change from the kid with a mouth filled with braces I remember from the San Diego Do in 2001. He's a college senior!
It's an amazingly beautiful weekend in New York - a balmy 73. We're off to tour Brooklyn in a few minutes.