Posted on 07/24/2004 9:49:40 PM PDT by CyberAnt
The San Diego Chapter held a special dinner to honor Jim Robinson.
We arrived early at the restaurant only to discover it might be an hour before we could have dinner. The restaurant herded us (22) into the bar so we wouldn't take up their whole lobby, and we all chatted and got acquainted; some imbibed in their favorite beverage.
While we were in the bar, a classy looking guy and his wife walked into the bar. He looked so familiar to me .. and all of a sudden somebody said his name .. and WOW! it was Joseph Perkins who writes a column for the San Diego Union Tribune. Joseph is a BLACK CONSERVATIVE. I love his columns and try to send him emails of applause whenever I read one I especially agree with. His advice: don't believe the dems when they say the country is 50-50. It's more like 60-40 AND THE CONSERVATIVES ARE AHEAD. I'm hoping this encourter with FReepers will give us some good local press. I plan on sending Joseph some information about us, as well as notify him of any FREEPS we do in the future.
It was great meeting everyone after having talked to them on the internet for eons. And .. it was equally great meeting new people.
The participants in the dinner were as follows:
Jim Robinson (plus Mrs. & son), CyberAnt, Doodlelady, onyx, Hildy, Travis McGee, Hollywood, eleb, sd-joe (and Mrs.), SoCalPol, doug from upland (and Mrs.), Brads Gramma (and Mr.), Texican (and Mrs.), Norman Arbuthnot, Warrant (and Mrs.)
I've probably left somebody out .. and if so you have my permission to FReepmail me and properly chew me out.
We took lots and lots of pictures. We have appointed Hildy to be the official picture poster. We will all be sending her our pictures, and she will be posting them within the next few days.
As a chapter, we have taken on a couple of projects. In August I will be meeting with a local RNC person who will be setting us up to do voter registration. San Diego County is still "Bush Country", and I intend to keep it that way.
The second project we are working on is what I will call a "Truth Sheet". A few days ago there was a thread about how to defend Bush in 5 words or less. I have taken that thread and distributed copies to members of the chapter. We will all be going through the list of 32 items and changing or expanding the answers (10 words or less).
As soon as we have compiled a good working list, I will be posting the thread so everyone can make a copy of the list. This will allow us to have ready answers to the standard mantras from the left .. such as #1 - "Bush is stupid" - my reply is: President Bush has an MBA from Harvard. We may ultimately end up with a different answer, or maybe I will post several answers .. if they are especially good .. and I have a feeling they will be.
My personal thanks go to doodlelady and onyx who were so helpful in contacting the restaurant and making all the arrangements, as well as keeping track of the attendees. You did a great job!!
Okay everybody who attended the dinner .. put in your 2 cents.
Me? Never. I was a perfect lady.
Please FR mail me the name of that private Zoo.
I was trying to tell husband about it. Pet
Kingdom?
EEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW...................
Nope. Not me. There are none of me goin' up tonight. I'm HOPING there ARE none of me goin' up at ALL!!!!
That's ONYX!!! WHOO HOOOOOOO!!!!
I blew your cover?
Where's your green napkin!
Well if that is your reaction, maybe I will post the picture...
LOL JK
ONYX...NAMES! Take the pic in #59 and go around the table w/names, will you please? I SHOULD have done that when I put it up...!!!
You're hiding :)
Heck, where is her picture with or without(perferably) the Burka???
I'll check it out.
ONYX...NAMES! Take the pic in #59 and go around the table w/names, will you please? I SHOULD have done that when I put it up...!!!
OKAY.
Starting on the left and going clockwise around the table:
Mrs sd-joe; sd-joe; SoCalPol; Mrs Texican; Texican; part of Cyber Ant's head; Sheila; Jim wearing cap; Travis McGee; Hollywood; onyx; DougfromUpland standing up; Hildy.
Darn TOOTIN' I'm hiding!
Your request is duly noted.
CyberAnt...thank you SO MUCH for helping plan today!!! This was SO NICE to finally have faces with screen names.
EVERYONE, to the person, was WONDERFUL!!! I'm now DOUBLY looking forward to Sunday at the Library.
Chicken!
Bawwwwwwk Bawwwwwwwwk! LOL!!!
Night everyone!
Cheers to ya'll when ya open that up!
Here;s the unvarnished truth:
For ALL photos.....
BG and I "planned" to wear
paper bags over our heads
with our respective screen name printed
in bold and maybe the eye holes cut out.
Neither of us followed thru,
but at least "I" wore the green
napkin in a couple of pics!
Now BG has NO reason to hide.
I'm certain she'll be in some
pics that Hildy will post tomorrow.
Sure... how am I going to take BG's pic if she's sober???
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