10 Reasons to Join Us In Boston for the Annual ATS Meetup

originally posted by: zosimov
Well if there is one thing of which I'm certain, it's that ATS is gonna do it right.

Geez + booze = drunken dancing in front of cops

If it had been a month later I might have considered it and combined it with seeing The Dropkicks on home turf.

Alas, a trip down to Ally Pally in The Smoke on Feb 21st will have to suffice.

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus

originally posted by: zosimov
Well if there is one thing of which I'm certain, it's that ATS is gonna do it right.

Geez + booze = drunken dancing in front of cops

Is that not the entire allure to these trips? I can’t really think of many other reasons to go.

Hi, checking in to see if there's been any updates (anyone else can make it? Are our locals still if so, any preferred bars?) and to offer to do the research regarding our possible activities if any of you has any input.

Are you interested in art, history, paranormal, music, or anything else I'm overlooking? Let me know and I'll try to find a few good contenders for our meetup.

Hope everyone is enjoying the new year!

a reply to: zosimov

I won't know until the date gets closer.

Unless Geez hires someone to kidnap me and ship me in a crate.

a reply to: Liquesence

Cool, I'm glad you're considering the trip! It would be great to meet you for some conspiratorial fun.

originally posted by: zosimov
a reply to: Liquesence

Cool, I'm glad you're considering the trip! It would be great to meet you for some conspiratorial fun.

Unfortunately, I don't believe in conspiracies. Just booze, sex, salsa, my cat, and the bodies in AM's basement.

Hell, I don't even believe in the sun.

originally posted by: Liquesence


Hell, I don't even believe in the sun.

Lol, I'm sure there's a conspiracy about something similar, perhaps even right here on ATS.

Either way, looks like you pay heed to the important things in life!

a reply to: zosimov

a reply to: dashen

Like I said, I don't even believe in the sun.

a reply to: Liquesence

Do you believe in the Earth?

a reply to: dashen

Nah, overrated. At least a round one.

Nobody likes me, I'm too strange for this world. I'm too strange and too scary. I wouldn't want to meet me either.

^This

a reply to: geezlouise



Same here girlfriend

originally posted by: geezlouise
Nobody likes me, I'm too strange for this world. I'm too strange and too scary. I wouldn't want to meet me either.

There’s no way you can be saying that w a straight face after spending 2 days hanging out with me !

originally posted by: geezlouise
Nobody likes me, I'm too strange for this world. I'm too strange and too scary. I wouldn't want to meet me either.

You are wonderfully strange, and I am looking forward to meeting again, and to meeting with this whole strange crew.

Normal is overrated.

a reply to: geezlouise

Case in point... check out the etymology for the word "weird." Being weird is a good thing!!

weird (adj.)
c. 1400, "having power to control fate, from wierd (n.), from Old English wyrd "fate, chance, fortune; destiny; the Fates," literally "that which comes," from Proto-Germanic *wurthiz (source also of Old Saxon wurd, Old High German wurt "fate," Old Norse urðr "fate, one of the three Norns"), from PIE *wert- "to turn, to wind," (source also of German werden, Old English weorðan "to become"), from root *wer- (2) "to turn, bend." For sense development from "turning" to "becoming," compare phrase turn into "become."

The sense "uncanny, supernatural" developed from Middle English use of weird sisters for the three fates or Norns (in Germanic mythology), the goddesses who controlled human destiny. They were portrayed as odd or frightening in appearance, as in "Macbeth" (and especially in 18th and 19th century productions of it), which led to the adjectival meaning "odd-looking, uncanny" (1815); "odd, strange, disturbingly different" (1820). Related: Weirdly; weirdness.

Thanks guys.

a reply to: zosimov

I thank you for that! It explains why the weird sisters were called the weird sisters, right? Love it.

originally posted by: geezlouise

I thank you for that! It explains why the weird sisters were called the weird sisters, right? Love it.

Yes, exactly!! So cool, right? A friend just recently told me about this. I love it too.