Poll: Which Forumite Would You Most Like to Have a Drink With?

All of them, again

Board-0

I could not pick an individual. I would say there are some offline hotspots I would like to get to based on my interaction with board members.

Canada, New York, Texas and Northern CA spring to mind. Lots of likable people on here, from all over, though. Australia too.

Drab.......

I'd love to head north of the border myself. The TWC is calling!!

But your answer, spo, is a cop-out. Wimp.

PH

At the same meeting.......

Drab and Board-O

On the 4th of July.

Heywood Jablome

I would have to say GOD II or SATAN, but if we are talking about mere mortals, Seaq would also be at the top of my list.

My fear is that he wouldn’t be nearly as funny in person as he is online. But there was that time he made an appearance at an off-line as Serge.

Does it still count as one forumite if I say grun?

I'm for an offline in Vegas with the entire board...WS can sponsor and pay for the ballroom...

How about Board-O and Bella Donna, just to watch the sparks fly?

Wine Wizard. I would open my last bottle of 1959 La Tache, if I could savor a few moments with the great palate he is.

I thought about this for a while and came up with around 30 names pretty quickly. Rather than skip anybody, my answer is simply a lot.

James, please don't mention the 1959 La Tache. I auctioned off my third and final bottle of it right before James Laube's article about it. By the way, how do you pronounce Laube?

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Originally posted by spo:
Canada, New York, Texas and Northern CA spring to mind. Lots of likable people on here, from all over, though. Australia too.

How insulting - even bloody Australia gets a look in, albeit an afterthought slightly after "all over". The bunch of us hiding in that Fourth World sub-region called 'Europe' are not even worthy of that.

I call upon all of the European Alliance to make themseleves known and only vote for other Europeans.

Stevie Cage, Ronnie Roots, Lady Roots, marc, Gastronauta, Phylloxera, tsunami, Markus Randall, NewDutchDrinker (Roel van Gestel), Kicker... even Jan Luthman... come out and be heard.

Sorry BirDungy but you are Canadian and you know it.

Some guy used to post in Japanese. I would like to rap with him and figure out how to type hiragana and katakana. Wakarimasen! mo ici do shiite kudasai.

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Originally posted by jnastynebr:
Some guy used to post in Japanese. I would like to rap with him and figure out how to type hiragana and katakana. Wakarimasen! mo ici do shiite kudasai.

That was Wine Kamikaze. He's still around.

My first pick would be DavidN again, in his amazing cellar.

Restricting it to forumites I haven't met yet would be much harder.
I'd like to meet [almost] all of you.

Suckling or DRAB

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Originally posted by Ban Daily:
Heywood Jablome

I second that

Why do you have to end sentences with prepositions?
Is this something up with which I shall forever have to put?

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Originally posted by irwin:
Why do you have to end sentences with prepositions?
Is this something up with which I shall forever have to put?

Too funny.

KillerB, a European offline would be awesome.Someday, we'll hopefully make it happen.

I say this: Let's get the Europeans on one side, and the Yanks on the other, and have a wine tasting competition!
Instead of the Ryder cup, we can call it the.................Reidel cup.

Nice, Irwin.

I, hereby, nominate you to set this up. Where shall we meet? Here or abroad? I hear that Mick Jagger has a terrific chateau in the south of France, and I am a fan.

Some of us Europeans have already had the odd off-line, even a couple of left-side of the Atlantic types have turned up.

I see my call to the Europeans has fallen on deaf ears - ho hum.

Board-O and Drazi.....

...but I don't want to sit between them, only at ringside.

My first choice would be an off-line in Australia with the Aussie guys. There sounds like soo much good stuff that doesn't make it up here that I would love to taste and I have yet to meet an Aussie that didn't show you a good time!

Dale

As wiml said, all the previous 40+ I have met, and as Board-O said I thought of 20 more names with ease.

Now ALL that said, I have two bottles in my cellar with names on them for a future off-line.

Board-O & latour67 both have a selected bottle waiting.

w+a

Reflecting on this a little more I have offlined with 166 forum members that I can recall in the past 3-1/2 years (close to 250 including significant others) and I must say not only would I be honored to share wine and break bread with any of them once again and would also be equally honored to share wine and break bread with any other I haven't met as of yet. Now, having said all of that, I'd be truly excited to have the opportunity to offline with the members outside of the U.S. and Canada, especially the European, Australian and Asian members. I'm betting that would be a special treat.

Dudes -

This thread was intended to have posters make a difficult choice and to take a stand on a forumite they would like to hoist a glass with. It was not meant as a vehicle for mushy, mamby panby, love filled gobbledygook about former and future offlines, international relations and Board-O/Bella Donna/GreenDrazi cage matches!

Frikkin' Texans.....

PH

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Originally posted by PurpleHaze:


Frikkin' Texans.....

PH

Envy is such an ugly thing!

w+a

PH

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Originally posted by PurpleHaze:
Dudes -

This thread was intended to have posters make a difficult choice and to take a stand on a forumite they would like to hoist a glass with. It was not meant as a vehicle for mushy, mamby panby, love filled gobbledygook about former and future offlines, international relations and Board-O/Bella Donna/GreenDrazi cage matches!

Frikkin' Texans.....

PH

Ah Geeezzz, don't take all the fun out of it PH...and I like you introduction of the "cage match"!

Okay, we have to pick a forumite. I pick Seaquam, although for different reasons than PH. He is funny, clever, a voice of reason, sexy, knowledgable about wine, and comes up with monstrously bad puns.

Purple Haze- 'cause anyone with a love for retrievers and wanting to come to Canada gets my vote!

I also owe Een a fine dinner soon for all of the great places she has sent me this year.

Hmmmmm... one forumite...I think it would have to be cuffthis...something about a man who follows his passion...

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Originally posted by just a skosh:
Okay, we have to pick a forumite. I pick Seaquam, although for different reasons than PH. He is funny, clever, a voice of reason, sexy, knowledgable about wine, and comes up with monstrously bad puns.

I never found him sexy...

PH

Skosh, Seaquam is everything you said but sexy. Now, his wife? She must stay with him because of that razor sharp wit.

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Originally posted by PurpleHaze:
Dudes -

This thread was intended to have posters make a difficult choice and to take a stand on a forumite they would like to hoist a glass with. It was not meant as a vehicle for mushy, mamby panby, love filled gobbledygook about former and future offlines, international relations and Board-O/Bella Donna/GreenDrazi cage matches!

Frikkin' Texans.....

PH

Alright pissy boy...I'll pick KillerB. But you know that leaves out tsunami, Markus Randall, TORB, Jeremy, etc... Fortunately whether I go across the pond to the right or left I'll likely be fortunate enough to meet all of them.

Wife schmife. I can take her. I've been lifting.