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05 October 2007

Photos from tonight's meetup. We had gaspode! We had mathowie! We had cake!

post by: essexjan at: 19:11 | 26 comments

Weird. After work, I had a craving so I went to a British market and bought Scotch Eggs, Port & Stilton Meatpies and Irn-Bru. You must have been sending me messages.

posted by jonmc 05 October | 19:18

I would just like to point out that i left with mathowie.

that is all.

posted by gaspode 05 October | 19:22

Beer! Cake! Nice!

posted by gomichild 05 October | 19:36

Sorry I missed it; looks like you had fun. London is far away and very dear.

Never could've made it, anyway; big gig tonight.

posted by chuckdarwin 05 October | 19:49

My Goodness you are looking slim and trim essexjan! Go kettleballs! I hope I have that term right, that would be embarassing if I didn't. And look at Wilder! And Gaspode! Yaaay!

posted by rainbaby 05 October | 20:29

Kettlebells! Dang it.

posted by rainbaby 05 October | 21:23

This is one of the best pics of ej that I've seen.

This pic of gaspode cracks me the hell up.

Also, *ahem* hawt *ahem*

posted by BoringPostcards 05 October | 21:47

I know, bp, I've noticed him from meetup shots before! Dag.

posted by rainbaby 05 October | 22:01

Everyone looks so sweet and nice. I want to kiss all of you.

posted by LoriFLA 05 October | 22:32

I've had gaspode before. You know, in the meetup sense.

posted by mudpuppie 05 October | 23:12

I've had gaspode AND mathowie AND essexjan (though not at all at once).

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 06 October | 00:03

Looks like fun was had by all!

posted by Doohickie 06 October | 00:39

There is some smoldering there in the UK.

posted by ethylene 06 October | 00:46

What does 'Dag' mean to you, rainbaby? Because to those of us from the antipodes, or to a vet, a dag is something, well, not very nice.

posted by essexjan 06 October | 04:30

'dag' = 'dang' = 'damn' ?

posted by chuckdarwin 06 October | 05:43

I left with Mathowie's M. I think many of you are jealous ;)

posted by triv 06 October | 07:25

Dag. I had no idea. I use it as the six defenition in urban dictionary

means dang or whoa (can be positive or negative)

must be said very casually; can be used to express sympathy, surprise, awe, and many others.

must drag out the "aaa"; not too long, but so it isn't too short; like a crowd at a magic show going "Oooo...Ahhh..." ;

"Look at those titties ... dag."
(House across the street explodes)- "Dag."
"Grandpa just died? Dag."
Man 1: "I have to write a 1000 page paper on the life of Tony Danza."
Man 2: "Dag."

It's a retro-ninties usage tick I have sometimes.

The important thing is, it means I think that boy is cute.

posted by rainbaby 06 October | 07:37

Fun! Interesting wallpaper, too. *blink, blink*

posted by chewatadistance 06 October | 07:56

So, in order of blasphemous-ness and obscenity and whatnot, where does 'dag' rank, compared to 'dang' and 'darn' and 'damn' and, I dunno, 'golly gosh gee whiz'?

posted by box 06 October | 08:52

It's very clean. Your grandmother could even say it; not that she would. It's like 'shoot'.

posted by chuckdarwin 06 October | 09:04

'Dag' is a noun, box and chuckd. You don't call someone a 'dag' if you want to be (or stay) their friend.

posted by essexjan 06 October | 09:42

In most of the speech communities that I find myself in (all of the non-web ones are US-ian), 'dag' is an interjection, as per rainbaby's usage.

Incidentally, chuckd (I love that--you're the incredible, the rhyme animal), the only way my grandmother would ever say 'dag' is if it was preceded by 'fucking.' Well, or maybe if she was talking about something that falls off the back of a sheep.

posted by box 06 October | 09:47

'Dag' is a noun, box and chuckd.

In the UK, it is definitely a noun, in the US, it's used as a mild expletive

posted by chuckdarwin 06 October | 09:50

Mine are here and sueinnyc's are here

Yep, armoured-ant has the whole male model thing going for him alright and he is Sooooo nice!

But then we've got some great guys and girls in the metauniverse. It was lovely that so many people travelled from so far away, Edd came from Portsmouth, srboisvert & his wife Kim from Birmingham. WoW.

we had such fun!

posted by Wilder 06 October | 11:57

dag is short for daggone, which is the same as doggone,or dagblasted, etc, which is probably a cleaned up version of some sort of swearing.

We say daggone a lot, here in the South.

posted by bunnyfire 06 October | 12:41

We say daggone a lot, here in the South.

Where? In the mountains next to the moonshine house?

Lived in the south all my life, maybe heard daggone once or twice except on andy griffith. Even thinking about someone I know saying the word brings laughter.

posted by justgary 07 October | 11:01

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