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2005-01-20

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Posted by Seafarious@yahoo.com 2005-01-20 2:34:36 PM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 PS: OldSpook, JackAssFesitval, Mrs. Davis...pls send me an email. Thanx.

Posted by Seafarious 2005-01-20 2:40:37 PM|| 2005-01-20 2:40:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Live it up, Rantburgers! I'll be knocking one back in your honor in N'Awlins (taking my sweetie on our second honeymoon.....)

Posted by Desert Blondie 2005-01-20 2:48:08 PM|| 2005-01-20 2:48:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Wife and I are attending a formal post holiday soiree. Champagne is at the ready for worldwide toast. I fully intend on hijacking this and turning it into my personal Rantapalooza west.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2005-01-20 3:10:23 PM|| 2005-01-20 3:10:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Worldwide Toast at 2pm Eastern? That's 5 hours behind GMT... 9am in the UK. Excellent! Am at a Tsunami relief fundraising bash on Friday evening. It's possible I might still be imbibing then...

Posted by Bulldog 2005-01-20 3:45:02 PM|| 2005-01-20 3:45:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 BD...I thought you are 5 hours ahead of us? Try lifting your pint at 7 pm instead...

Posted by Seafarious 2005-01-20 4:13:26 PM|| 2005-01-20 4:13:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Interestingly, Fado is the same place that NRO is having a get together tomorrow afternoon. Check out the Corner for info.

Posted by Tibor 2005-01-20 4:19:50 PM|| 2005-01-20 4:19:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 or both. :)

Posted by eLarson 2005-01-20 4:19:53 PM|| [http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2005-01-20 4:19:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Oops, Sea. Yep! Have to get my head around this rotation thing.

Posted by Bulldog 2005-01-20 4:36:29 PM|| 2005-01-20 4:36:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Blondie, if y'all pass through Lafayette on the way, I'll buy y'all coffee.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-01-20 5:25:24 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2005-01-20 5:25:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Seafarious---I will teleconference in at 130 PM EST, thats 0930 Alaska time. Keep your cell on. Got some tinnies of Guinness on standby at 1000 AM (early drinking time for me, heh).

-Auckland Paul

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-01-20 6:00:19 PM|| 2005-01-20 6:00:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Phil - We're flying in from Phoenix, so I'll just be passing overhead. And no rental car, either. Any recommendations?

Posted by Desert Blondie 2005-01-20 6:07:13 PM|| 2005-01-20 6:07:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 CC's Coffee is sort-of Louisiana's home grown competitor to Starbuck's. As for restaurants, I'm not familiar with New Orleans any more these days.

(I ate in a nice hamburger place near Touro about ten years back, but I can't remember the name, and it might not be there... you can find decent places to eat just walking around, but just walking around carries a recommendation of a kevlar jacket with spectra-shield stab guards...)

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-01-20 6:30:35 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2005-01-20 6:30:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Teleconference? Let me know how I can do that, I have an iChat camera ...

Posted by Steve White 2005-01-20 6:52:45 PM|| 2005-01-20 6:52:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 New Orleans?

Don's Seafood Hut in Metairie.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2005-01-20 8:26:52 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-01-20 8:26:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Sea - As you suggested, I'll call you before 1:30 to get another number since Paul is calling yours.

Wouldn't it be cool if lots of others could call in too?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2005-01-20 9:16:30 PM|| 2005-01-20 9:16:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 special celebrity guest appearance guaranteed ... Aris ?

I'll raise a glass to you all at the stipulated time ;-)

good health .

Posted by Ebbith Craviter4765 2005-01-20 9:24:43 PM|| 2005-01-20 9:24:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 >>>>Ebbith Craviter4765 <<<<<

Posted by MacNails 2005-01-20 9:25:19 PM|| 2005-01-20 9:25:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 2 PM EST?Won't that US-centric time for the toast engender more anti-US sentiment worldwide?Ahh...screw 'em...drink up!

Posted by Me 2005-01-20 9:57:28 PM|| 2005-01-20 9:57:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 paypalling a round - enjoy! I'm jealous

Posted by Frank G 2005-01-20 10:04:22 PM|| 2005-01-20 10:04:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 OK---Everyone---1900Z is the official Greenwich toast time GTT. Get out your time zone maps and synchronize watches. The National Institute for Standards and Time (NIST) website is HERE for those who want to be totally in synch with the Rantapalooza participants in the ~~front lines~~ bar.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-01-20 10:14:09 PM|| 2005-01-20 10:14:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 ok - $40 should buy Somebody a drink!

Posted by Frank G 2005-01-20 10:18:04 PM|| 2005-01-20 10:18:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 I, unfortunately will have to be sober and dressed up at my eldest godson's first communion at 5PST . Damn...will have flask for afterwards LOL

Posted by Frank G 2005-01-20 10:20:48 PM|| 2005-01-20 10:20:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 Don't worry, Frank. We will cover for you, and we won't let you down.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-01-20 10:24:58 PM|| 2005-01-20 10:24:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 Phil & Robert -- Thanks for the recommendations! I'll have to look them up!

Posted by Desert Blondie 2005-01-20 11:43:53 PM|| 2005-01-20 11:43:53 PM|| Front Page Top

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