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Furmeet! Koala, duck, bear(?)
TorFur (Toronto+area furries) had a meetup at UWaterloo. The university is out of session this week, so attendance was poor: just ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tehpyrex, BigMacD, and "Teddy" whose complete furname I didn't quite catch. Việtnamese food was had by all, as were a great many jokes and puns based on shared geeky culture.
Things got off to a bit of a shaky start when I talked about my fellow Russian students "during the Cold War", when the other furs present were either babies or not yet born. But somebody make a joke that included a Start Trek:TOS reference, which I saw in reruns like everyone else, so things got better.
This is my third furmeet in as many months! If this keeps up, I might actually meet some Canadians, despite my work-at-home job. Unfortunately, if I meet too many people, my poor memory for faces will likely lead to confusion. BigMacD's head is shaped similarly todanruk's; he's a duck and so is Danruk's boyfriend. Teddy is a professional puppeteer, like rapidtrabbit, which may be why I keep thinking of him as a rabbit although "bear" is apparently his chosen pheno. Oddly enough, I had no difficulty thinking of Pyrex as a koala, so I probably won't confuse him with anyone.
Nobody bought my claim to be a dog; it just didn't register with them. I think they were more willing to buy "arctic fox" (Teddy asked for the Linnaean binomial). At one point BigMacD gave his quaaack, but I didn't reply. 25 years ago I could do a decent gruuwlf, but it just doesn't come out anymore. I can still do a reasonable facsimile of a mrrao but I think "cat in a dogsuit" is just too silly for an offline pheno, so I don't say anything.
tehpyrex, BigMacD, and "Teddy" whose complete furname I didn't quite catch. Việtnamese food was had by all, as were a great many jokes and puns based on shared geeky culture.Things got off to a bit of a shaky start when I talked about my fellow Russian students "during the Cold War", when the other furs present were either babies or not yet born. But somebody make a joke that included a Start Trek:TOS reference, which I saw in reruns like everyone else, so things got better.
This is my third furmeet in as many months! If this keeps up, I might actually meet some Canadians, despite my work-at-home job. Unfortunately, if I meet too many people, my poor memory for faces will likely lead to confusion. BigMacD's head is shaped similarly to
danruk's; he's a duck and so is Danruk's boyfriend. Teddy is a professional puppeteer, like rapidtrabbit, which may be why I keep thinking of him as a rabbit although "bear" is apparently his chosen pheno. Oddly enough, I had no difficulty thinking of Pyrex as a koala, so I probably won't confuse him with anyone.Nobody bought my claim to be a dog; it just didn't register with them. I think they were more willing to buy "arctic fox" (Teddy asked for the Linnaean binomial). At one point BigMacD gave his quaaack, but I didn't reply. 25 years ago I could do a decent gruuwlf, but it just doesn't come out anymore. I can still do a reasonable facsimile of a mrrao but I think "cat in a dogsuit" is just too silly for an offline pheno, so I don't say anything.
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Just throwing an idea out there. Is all.
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Driving to Hamilton and back costs me about $20 in gasoline. What can be done to make the trip worthwhile? Perhaps fewer putts and movies and more jokes?