Real Time Encounters of Virtual People

Maybe we should have an MN night sometime.

It's not a bad idea.

Kate P wrote:

Maybe we should have an MN night sometime.

We're having an alien one soon aren't we? We could all pick alien names and change ourselves to those it'll be great.

No MN party for me other than that above - I couldn't stand real nights out with literary characters like yourselves - it'd only remind me of all the novels ruined for me by the films made of them (the LOTR was about the only satisfactory one, though I have real issues with most of the elves and elvishness except Legless. The Paths of the Dead was shite too )

Plus, online parties allow you to avoid hangovers, dancing, the risk of STDs, experiencing a nightful of the reek of BO/linx, a crowded bar (in a Dublin4ish location), crowded and inaccessible toilets, loud music that wrecks conversation, a late night, fish and chips at Burdock's on the way home or a kebab on Dame Street...

Auditor #9 wrote:

Kate P wrote:

Maybe we should have an MN night sometime.

We're having an alien one soon aren't we? We could all pick alien names and change ourselves to those it'll be great.

No MN party for me other than that above - I couldn't stand real nights out with literary characters like yourselves - it'd only remind me of all the novels ruined for me by the films made of them (the LOTR was about the only satisfactory one, though I have real issues with most of the elves and elvishness except Legless. The Paths of the Dead was shite too )

Plus, online parties allow you to avoid hangovers, dancing, the risk of STDs, experiencing a nightful of the reek of BO/linx, a crowded bar (in a Dublin4ish location), crowded and inaccessible toilets, loud music that wrecks conversation, a late night, fish and chips at Burdock's on the way home or a kebab on Dame Street...

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The Paths of the Dead was shite too

So true. So true. The description in the book was a million times better than the green ghosties in the film.

Overall, the best of the three films was the first - I was sufficiently enthused that I went home after watching it and reread the trilogy that night. The other two films mostly annoyed me.

ibis wrote:

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The Paths of the Dead was shite too

So true. So true. The description in the book was a million times better than the green ghosties in the film.

Overall, the best of the three films was the first - I was sufficiently enthused that I went home after watching it and reread the trilogy that night. The other two films mostly annoyed me.

It was too Sinbad the Sailory. I imagined it very differently in my imagination - real, maimed criminals lumped together in a dark and unholy crowd behind the noble Dunedain who were an awful loss from the whole thing.

I saw the first one seven times in the cinema, the second one three times and the last one once and I read the trilogy twice after it and the Silmarillion along with it but skipped the Hobbit. Divulgence of facts like this is one reason why people have anonymity on the internet.

P.S.
The Usher at the cinema (with whom I had my pitcher taken eventually) told me that I shouldn't be ashamed because two chicks had seen it fourteen times. If I'd met them maybe I'd be a happily married bigot now in Donegal ...

How about splitting this into a "real time encounters" thread from WBS's post? any objections?

cactus flower wrote:

How about splitting this into a "real time encounters" thread from WBS's post? any objections?

Are you happy to do that cactus?

I am!

bump

I have to say I am not sure about this. If I do meet you guys nobody is to tell my boss, wife or girlfriend ok?

Or mine.

Zhou_Enlai wrote:

I have to say I am not sure about this. If I do meet you guys nobody is to tell my boss, wife or girlfriend ok?

I'd need a week off to think of an excuse. Otherwise I would have to have the 'weird debate' .

I don't know.

As dougal said, never meet your heroes, you'll only be disappointed.

It would have to be alcohol free though, I'm taking a break from the booze.

I've been thinking about what we could call these encounters and I thought that we could call them Shymalans. Think about it, they would be MNights, just like M Night Shymalan-the director!

MN Nights - that's a good name your man has. He has a new film out this week too. I must go see it in the Limerick Omniplex at half eight second row from the ..

Riadach you're right about meeting the heroes - it'd be like the end of the novel for me to see and hear people in reality, the very end.

Auditor #9 wrote:

MN Nights - that's a good name your man has. He has a new film out this week too. I must go see it in the Limerick Omniplex at half eight second row from the ..

Riadach you're right about meeting the heroes - it'd be like the end of the novel for me to see and hear people in reality, the very end.

It would be weird, wouldn't it? Some people would look nothing like you'd imagine and others would be different in real life than on the web. It'd be odd, but worth it in a way.

Auditor #9 wrote:

MN Nights - that's a good name your man has. He has a new film out this week too. I must go see it in the Limerick Omniplex at half eight second row from the ..

Riadach you're right about meeting the heroes - it'd be like the end of the novel for me to see and hear people in reality, the very end.

The fact that I am several different people would boost the numbers anyway.

cactus flower wrote:

Auditor #9 wrote:

MN Nights - that's a good name your man has. He has a new film out this week too. I must go see it in the Limerick Omniplex at half eight second row from the ..

Riadach you're right about meeting the heroes - it'd be like the end of the novel for me to see and hear people in reality, the very end.

The fact that I am several different people would boost the numbers anyway.

You definitely get to use the royal plural then Cactus -the Queen of MN if anyone is at any rate!

I think it might spoil the atmosphere - and it would definitely change the dynamics of the site. Communication between those who knew each other would change as would communication between those who have met and those who have not. That sometimes apparent on p.ie

But I'd be interested to hear how you all get on if you do meet up. Would it be a bun fight or a love-in? An alternative might be to have 'guess what x looks like' threads from time to time. Is that really you Riadach, btw?

Do I have to do my 'I'm not Eddie Lenihan' disclaimer again?

Aragon wrote:

You definitely get to use the royal plural then Cactus -the Queen of MN if anyone is at any rate!

Ah now, I think riadach has a claim to that throne as well!

Pléascfaidh mé, pléascfaidh mé!

riadach wrote:

Pléascfaidh mé, pléascfaidh mé!

Go díreach, riadach!