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Location: Vernon CT | I would like to know if other then the annual trip to New Hartford, if any of the N. E. members
get together the way they seem to do in Florida, The N.W. and other areas of the country? I would think that with New England being so small and a drive of 1-1/2 hours max, would cover a good portion of the area, even a 1 day "thing" somewhere would be fairly easy to pull off. |
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| All you gotta do is say "hey - let's have a gathering." All it takes is for one person to throw the idea out (oh, you just did!) and folks will respond. Good luck putting something together, they're really fun. |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Do it Man!! |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | It's possible for me. The only thing is I can't bring any talent. I forgot to pick that up after all these years. Though I could bring my camera. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Don't pay any attention to Phil - he's Jim Croce reincarnated. |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | The only thing I can do is spell his name. Mike you may be thinking about Gil. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Oh poop! You're right. Sorry Phil! And Gil!
That's what happens when there is a lack of coffee in the house. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Besides... maybe Croce was an excellent photographer as well. |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | Do you mean he may have been asian too!! :eek: :p |
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Location: closely held secret | No, but he might have gotten lost frequently... |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Ooo...that one's gonna scar. |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | "OFF ROUTE RECALCULATING,LOST SATELITE RECEPTION" |
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Location: New York, NY | I would be interested (even though NY is technically not part of New England).
Not to worry, Phil. Chances are you'll sound like Jimi Hendrix compared to me. |
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Location: Vernon CT | As much as I would love to "Host" , I can not as I live in a small 1 bedroom apt (Ahhh divorce is wonderful :D ) and would not have the room. I asked out of curiosity and if it happened would love to attend |
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| Hey BT - just a suggestion, but you don't have to host it at your place. An example would be the Southern Style Jam that was held at French Broad River Park in Asheville last year. You can just gather a list of (cheap) hotels near a state park or some such that has pavilions for rent, arrange with the park for the rental, and just gather there & make it a big cookout/jam-fest. You'd be sure to attract a crowd of spectators, too. |
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| Originally posted by g8r:
Hey BT - just a suggestion, but you don't have to host it at your place. An example would be the Southern Style Jam that was held at French Broad River Park in Asheville last year. You can just gather a list of (cheap) hotels near a state park or some such that has pavilions for rent & send it to potential attendees, arrange with the park for the rental, and just gather there & make it a big cookout/jam-fest. You'd be sure to attract a crowd of spectators, too. edited - sorry about the double post |
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Location: Carle Place, NY | Originally posted by CrimsonLake:
Oh poop! You're right. Sorry Phil! And Gil!
That's what happens when there is a lack of coffee in the house. I don't think it was the lack of coffee. Gil amazed all of us at the last lobby jam with note-for-note renditions of Croce and James Taylor songs. It was late on Friday and many of us had a bit too much tequila. Kim Keller graciously provided 3 bottles of Patron (1 each of silver, reposado and anejo). I do recall Cliff advising Gil that if he didn't play at the Ski Sundown lodge at the '08 Tour, Cliff would personally kick Gil's arse.
Back to the original subject though. The last Northeast OFC gathering was at Kim's girlfriend, Amy's house which was on the NJ shore around exit 100 on the NJ Parkway. There was a nice turnout for that. I'd be happy to host something this summer. My house is in New Hyde Park on western Long Island.
The summer is a way off time-wise, but if enough members are interested, I can start planning and advise SWMBO and the neighbors. |
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Location: NJ | I say we invade BlockIsland . . . |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | We haven't heard much from Gil since. I was looking forward to learning some Croce stuff from him at the 08 tour, but he said he wasn't sure if he was coming. Maybe he was worried about the ass-kicking. Stage fright would keep me away, but didn't he play at a gig with you, Mitch? |
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Location: Cicero, NY | A veteran's gig, if I recall. And Gil's parents (who were at the last Tour - VERY nice people) live a few miles from me (he and I have a loose plan to try to get together one of his next trips Upstate) so, if need be, I can have his Mom yell at him to get back in touch... ;) |
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Location: NJ | Was that his parents??
I remember them (they WERE very nice!) but I didn't know they were Gil's parents . . . |
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Location: Cicero, NY | I believe they were. Or are, if that's more accurate. |
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Location: Carle Place, NY | Gil doesn't suffer from stage fright. He did play for the veterans last June.
Cliff, are you serious about Block Island? That's quite a shlep. |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | Gil played some Croce tunes and also sang lead on a few other songs that Mitch and Craig played.
Mitch, Craig and I are Pharmacists and didn't have to dispense meds that day, only music. |
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Location: SoCal | The problem with NE gatherings is that you've got people like Clifford, Mitch, and Phil, and it's not, well, cool......... |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | When you get right down to it, what on the eastern seaboard IS cool?
Only the weather, and not in a good way.... |
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Location: Nashville TN. | I likily could get uS a room with PA system.
Cash Bar though |
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Location: Carle Place, NY | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
The problem with NE gatherings is that you've got people like Clifford, Mitch, and Phil, and it's not, well, cool......... Whad'ya mean we're not cool!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Ykq05046E
It's you left coast wankers that aren't cool, Moody. ;)
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Let's not forget this one:
Ice Cream Man
It doesn't get any cooler than this! |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia |
A - Templeman lends that group whatever coolness it has.
B - I see NO adult beverages at a gathering of adults!?!?!?!
C - I still am constantly amazed at how much JeffW looks like my twin.
(Thought I killed that b*&#%@d 23 years ago!) |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I don't think you get to count Temp as an Easterner, just because he lives near the Atlantic. I also noticed the absence of beer. Something a Northwesterner would never allow. And then there was Dave from Arizona with a Uke. I suppose you can't take the New Yorker out of him, but he defies categorization. I'm not sure anyone could claim him, or want to. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
I don't think you get to count Temp as an Easterner I don't. Didn't he just move to the Northcountry? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I know only a little more about British geography than Easterners know about Idaho geography. I take that back. I haven't met an Easterner yet who knows where Idaho is. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Now that's just a bit unfair, Mark, don'tcha think?
(Mandatory group NE meeting NOW! Does ANYONE know where the HELL Idaho is?!?!?!)
And we're not done with you yet, Mark. We're just going to, uh, be needing just a little more time...
(What the...is that even a STATE...?!?!) |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | While you're at it, Weas, France is a country and Europe isn't and Budapest is the capital of Hungary. Now you might be able to compete with a 5th grader. Maybe not.
I was surprised the first time I was in New York the weather maps actually showed the whole country. Maybe none of the New Yorkers I ever met looked at the maps.
True story of one of my first days in Idaho:
I'm in the drugstore looking at postcards to send back and there's a guy on the other side, so I say "Let's look at the same side so we quit fighting each other." He says he's looking for a picture of a Jackalope to send back East. I showed him one of a furry fish and a giant potato on a truck and he says, "You mean jackalopes aren't real??" I told him they were just made up so people like him could send back to those Easterners who don't know anything. He says, "Oh, I'm from Connecticut." I said I was referring to New Yorkers. Wonder how he found his way here. |
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Location: closely held secret | The same way people found their way to my last house. He was lost.
I hope you didn't tell him jackalopes weren't real...
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I think it dawned on him after I showed him the furry fish and the big potato on a truck. There were probably a few others, too, but I can't remember that far back.
Another story:
I'm having lunch in Seattle with a New York lawyer and he asks me where Idaho is from here. I said, "Well, it can't be West" and he says, "Why not?" |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | I think that's more of a reflection on lawyers than easterners. |
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Location: closely held secret | I had a woman in Norfolk tell me it was a shame that people from Oregon had to drive through Washington or California to get to the coast. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | So do you also get the local state version of; "You're from Canada? I got a buddy in Toronto, Fred Whatupski....know him?" |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Ok, Mark - the consensus is you're mistaken or someone is pulling your leg. This is not, nor has there ever been an "Idaho". Sorry.
Sounds like it'd make a great punchline tho'. |
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Location: south east Michigan | A long, long time ago I was in Idaho.
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Ah, the '70's.....we were all so much cuter then. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Brad, post a "before and after" picture of that one next to the Fishsticks pic.
Is that Baldy or Dollar and those wouldn't be Hansen boots, would they? I wore a pair of Hansens out back when I went skiing most every weekend. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Baldy
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Location: SoCal | You had hair????? |
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Location: Feeding Hills, MA | I've actually BEEN to Idaho! Granted all I saw was the Coeur d'Alene resort (and what a golf course it is), but I have been there! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Originally posted by CrimsonLake:
I think that's more of a reflection on lawyers than easterners. Weaser is trying to disprove that for you. I had a secretary from New York who knew where Idaho was because she lived here for awhile, but couldn't understand why the wilderness was so far from the parking lots and vice versa. Went to school with a girl from Rhode Island and a guy from New Jersey who refused to believe that people lived outside of a city or that there was actually land outside of a city.
The lack of knowledge of geography is not limited to Easterners. Hence the blonde on the 5th grader show who didn't think France was a country or the guy from Chicago I talked to recently who didn't know the difference between Idaho and Montana. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Brad, those were the days. How did you ever get so lost? I couldn't afford the Olins, but I got the Hansens brand new for $50 just when they were losing their popularity. Can't afford to ski Baldy anymore, either. I remember when they got up to about $30 and I haven't been back since.
I have a geography story about a guy from Michigan that I met in Coeur d'Alene, but I've done enough. |
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Location: Nashville TN. | where did yoy get the picture of my bedroom????
Originally posted by The Wabbit Formerly Known As Waskel:
The same way people found their way to my last house. He was lost.
I hope you didn't tell him jackalopes weren't real...
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by PEZ:
where did yoy get the picture of my bedroom???? NRA chatsite. |
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Location: Nashville TN. | So do we have people interested ???? |
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Location: WNC-God's Country | Hey guys, I can get a place in Maggie Valley,about 25 miles west of Asheville, for a get together.All I need is the dates and I can make it happen.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | If you guys start calling North Carolina part of the Northeast, we'll really think you are geographically challenged. |
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