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Thread: Comet-meet
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Tubbs
Miss Congeniality
# 440
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I'm coming ... the 8th October is near my birthday. A Comet would be a really good present
Tubbs
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Wet Kipper
Circus Runaway
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quote: Originally posted by comet:
And hey, who came to North America recently but neglected to swing by? Hmm?
yeah, sorry about that
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Piglet
Islander
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quote: Originally posted by comet: ... And hey, who came to North America recently but neglected to swing by? Hmm?
I'm in North America nearly all the time, but even further from you than I am from the Brits.
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Sparrow
Shipmate
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Count me in!
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comet
Snowball in Hell
# 10353
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quote: Originally posted by Welease Woderwick: India was promised a State Visit last year but...
Yeah. Dude. Apparently one has to be a saint with three heads, walrus tusks, and magic powers to get a visa to your fair country. Either that or they have something against Alaskans.
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comet
Snowball in Hell
# 10353
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Final travel days are not yet settled (airplane reservations require you have money. What's with THAT?!?) but the goal is to possibly be in town for both weekends, and spending the week visiting some friends as well as exploring and getting lost and probably getting mugged and looking like a total dorky tourist. I promise to let you all know final details, but for now we can think towards some sort of axe murderer gathering both the weekends of the 8th and the 15?
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jacobsen
seeker
# 14998
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The plot thickens. Don't have an axe. Will a mallet do?
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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quote: Originally posted by comet: quote: Originally posted by Welease Woderwick: India was promised a State Visit last year but...
Yeah. Dude. Apparently one has to be a saint with three heads, walrus tusks, and magic powers to get a visa to your fair country. Either that or they have something against Alaskans.
That's odd. I just show up with a completed application form and a new picture, pay in my money, give them my passport and about 10 days later, I'm good to go. (Of course, they might make it difficult for you, because Amerkans make it difficult for Indian tourists. On the other hand maybe they just don't like you.)
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comet
Snowball in Hell
# 10353
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It was a complicated issue because I was to be chaperoning a bunch of teens to a conference. Tourist visas: denied. Educational visas: only to attend an education institution. Business visas: not allowed for under 18s. The adults from the US attending the conference got in fine with business visas.
Also we were supposed to bring one legal guardian per kid. Which we did eventually set up, at all of us parents' personal expense. But it wasn't meant to be.
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LRP
Shipmate
# 5013
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Will keep an eye on this but 8th Oct is best for Balaam and me as our son is getting married on the . 15th Oct.
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
# 4543
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quote: Originally posted by comet: ... for now we can think towards some sort of axe murderer gathering both the weekends of the 8th and the 15?
I have always neglected to bring my axe to a shipmeet. So I'm only halfway to being an axe murderer.
As LRP said, the 8th if you'll let an axe non-murderer in.
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
# 4543
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quote: Originally posted by Uncle Pete: quote: Originally posted by comet: quote: Originally posted by Welease Woderwick: India was promised a State Visit last year but...
Yeah. Dude. Apparently one has to be a saint with three heads, walrus tusks, and magic powers to get a visa to your fair country. Either that or they have something against Alaskans.
That's odd. I just show up with a completed application form and a new picture, pay in my money, give them my passport and about 10 days later, I'm good to go.
They're counting having wheels as a magical power?
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comet
Snowball in Hell
# 10353
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Won't be until at least mid-June when I can finalize my travel, sorry.
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Quizmaster
Quick quipper
# 1435
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Comet in London? Have MI5 been warned?
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Piglet
Islander
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As she's From Abroad, wouldn't it be MI6?
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Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
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For a Comet, shouldn't it be the Royal Observatory?
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jacobsen
seeker
# 14998
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Meet at Greenwich!
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Tree Bee
Ship's tiller girl
# 4033
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Bump! Any dates yet Comet? We may make a weekend of it.
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Smudgie
Ship's Barnacle
# 2716
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Nothing specific until Comet is able to book her flights. We have talked about a shipmeet on the Sunday of the first weekend and the Saturday of the second, but it depends on when she is able to get plane tickets at a reasonable cost.
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Smudgie
Ship's Barnacle
# 2716
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ALAS ! The sad news is that Comet has, due to unforeseen circumstances, had to cancel her trip to the UK> We're hoping to re-schedule for Spring. That's not to say that we couldn't get together for a shipmeet in her absence and raise a glass in her honour, of course.
-------------------- Miss you, Erin.
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M.
Ship's Spare Part
# 3291
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Ah! Sorry to hear that.
M.
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Sarasa
Shipmate
# 12271
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That is a shame - but a ship meet anyway sounds like a good idea.
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Spike
Mostly Harmless
# 36
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Tree Bee
Ship's tiller girl
# 4033
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What a shame. Thanks for letting us know. Will go ahead and book a Comet free London break.
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Celtic Knotweed
Shipmate
# 13008
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It does at least make the fact that that weekend appears to be when we next need to go and visit Sandemaniac's parents more copable with.
Here's hoping that spring re-scheduling works (and with a date I'm not already double-booked on!)
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