Do you see any goats around? No, because I sacrificed them.

Willow ,'Showtime'


Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Typo Boy - Oct 25, 2006 3:53:34 pm PDT #5648 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

OK so I don't know SF. Can't you do low-end but yummy food. Pizza+Soup or Salad? Soup+Salad? Chinese? (not junk food - decent quality of above.) I mean even in in SF you ought to be able get first rate pizza (white pizza, goat cheese ect. ) for eight bucks per person - not including the space. Don't offer too many choices. Umm there is a thread on making light that tells how to set Pizza ratios. Your quanties would be a little bigger, cause they are talking snacks and you are talking means. But one large pie should serve four peaple easily. SF is famous as gourmet city. Surely you have a Pizza place in town that is not horribly expensive, but is as far above pizza hut, as a good steakhouse is above arbys.

Comment 60 in this thread gives TNH's rules for ordering Pizza:

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The whole thread is interesting, full of tips on throwing a Science Fiction Convetion Party.

There is a very important assumption here that may not be true in your case - the object of the food is to amuse people, not provide a meal. Obviously if this is to be a meal, the quanties have to be meal quanties, and the rules about small flimsy plates to keep people from eating too much don 't apply.

Still I bet a lot of these tips help if (like me) you don't have a lot of big party throwing experience.


Cashmere - Oct 25, 2006 4:14:54 pm PDT #5649 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

I think the gifting of jammies depends on the friendship. I'd say in Allyson's case, I'd do the same. I would LOVE to see a "bloodstain" pattern on jammies, 'cause that would be cool.

ita, DH saw your krav headshots and said to me today, "She knows I don't beat you or anything, right??! Right?" Then I told him about the pinky.


Jesse - Oct 25, 2006 4:29:19 pm PDT #5650 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

"Time To Murder and Create" (Wire In The Blood).

I don't remember really, but I'm sure it's been done on an L&CSI:SVU or whatever.

This might be even weirder, but I think Lee's "inside pants" thing might be the way to think about giving jammies that takes it out of bed. If you see what I mean. My aunts have given me flannel inside pants that really aren't sleepwear. But really, homemade anything is better most of the time.


Jesse - Oct 25, 2006 4:52:23 pm PDT #5651 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Was bon bon still wondering about link colors? Here on the b.org on IE, links I haven't clicked are blue, ones I have are purple. That's me, not the site, right? FYI.


§ ita § - Oct 25, 2006 4:53:30 pm PDT #5652 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The site can control that too, Jesse. Want me to change it? I can mess with your mind...


Fred Pete - Oct 25, 2006 4:54:20 pm PDT #5653 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.

Allyson, I'd think of jammies as an odd, but not necessarily loaded, gift. But it depends on the nature of the friendship. Also, if he's expressed an interest in/want of jammies, they're definitely ok.

Underscoring the lack of sexy part you mentioned, though. I wouldn't even recommend a friend give sexy wear to an SO/spouse as a gift, much less give such to anyone except Hubs.


Lee - Oct 25, 2006 5:03:09 pm PDT #5654 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

YAY for inside pants!


Jesse - Oct 25, 2006 5:04:33 pm PDT #5655 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

The site can control that too, Jesse. Want me to change it? I can mess with your mind...

The post is coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE!!

YAY for inside pants!

Indeed.


Glamcookie - Oct 25, 2006 5:07:15 pm PDT #5656 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

Kat just walked by! I saw pink hair and a gray skirt and thought it looked like her. Then she walked by and it was totally her. I'm at UCLA for a Web site workshop. That was weird, dude!


Cass - Oct 25, 2006 5:12:18 pm PDT #5657 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Want me to change it? I can mess with your mind...
Stompies Gone Wild Mad!
YAY for inside pants!
YAY!