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Re: Annual meeting?

Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2011 6:48 am
by dualstow
MediumTex wrote: For some reason, I have this picture of a meeting room in a hotel full of more or less regular looking guys standing around making small talk while wearing leather chaps.

One thing's for sure: the carpet would be clean.  ;D

Re: Annual meeting?

Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2011 11:46 am
by clacy
Unless you decided to talk about PP variable strategies and quasi-PP's, there isn't that much to talk about, that isn't already on this great site.

The HBPP convention is a victim of the strategy's simplicity.

Re: Annual meeting?

Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2011 12:21 pm
by amp
We could get drunk and compare the size of our PPs.  ;D

Re: Annual meeting?

Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2011 3:06 pm
by Indices
I still think a monthly chat could do a lot to help move things along. We could plan a book out of it. We could establish concrete rules for the PP (there's still no consensus on the amount of foreign stocks an investor should hold, best way to hold gold etc.). So there is definitely room for discussion.

Re: Annual meeting?

Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2011 5:08 pm
by HB Reader
amp wrote: We could get drunk and compare the size of our PPs.   ;D
That sounds like a time honored activity at a convention.  Not that I've ever done it, of course.  ;)

Even though I live on the east coast, I would vote for Dallas as a meeting place.  It is in the center of the country, it's an airline hub and MT wouldn't have to travel too far.

Being a white male, I always love going to Texas.  But they tend to be pretty hospitable toward everyone down there these days.  Maybe someone could bring some rain along with them.

Re: Annual meeting?

Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2011 5:24 pm
by MediumTex
HB Reader wrote:
amp wrote: We could get drunk and compare the size of our PPs.   ;D
That sounds like a time honored activity at a convention.  Not that I've ever done it, of course.  ;)

Even though I live on the east coast, I would vote for Dallas as a meeting place.  It is in the center of the country, it's an airline hub and MT wouldn't have to travel too far.

Being a white male, I always love going to Texas.  But they tend to be pretty hospitable toward everyone down there these days.  Maybe someone could bring some rain along with them.
Dallas is a good place.

If some of us would like to connect, though, Skype would probably be a good place to start.

Re: Annual meeting?

Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2011 7:24 pm
by Snowman9000
amp wrote: We could get drunk and compare the size of our PPs.   ;D
Now that's funny!

Re: Annual meeting?

Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2011 9:03 pm
by 6 Iron
Seriously, I think this would be interesting, and a great opportunity to meet some of the unique characters here. I do have a concern, though, about a public meeting of a group that holds physical gold, and wonder if that could potentially place us at some risk of being targetted for theft or worse.

Re: Annual meeting?

Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2011 11:01 pm
by Coffee
I don't want to get stuck in the corner talking to this guy. You know... unless it's Craig:

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Re: Annual meeting?

Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2011 11:33 pm
by craigr
Coffee wrote: I don't want to get stuck in the corner talking to this guy. You know... unless it's Craig:

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That guy gets all the women.

Re: Annual meeting?

Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2011 11:45 pm
by MediumTex
craigr wrote:
Coffee wrote: I don't want to get stuck in the corner talking to this guy. You know... unless it's Craig:

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That guy gets all the women.
That guy is actually married (though many women desire him).

His wife:

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Re: Annual meeting?

Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 4:54 pm
by Coffee
I think I met her once, in a hooker bar in Costa Rica.

TMI?

Re: Annual meeting?

Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 8:55 pm
by Odysseusa
Most of us are once upon a time a soldier, hooker, or a slave.

Re: Annual meeting?

Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 10:33 pm
by Indices
Odysseusa wrote: Most of us are once upon a time a soldier, hooker, or a slave.
I'm almost sure everyone is descended from slaves at some point. Northern Europeans under the Romans, Jews under the Egyptians, blacks under whites, Hispanics under Spanish etc.

Re: Annual meeting?

Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 8:26 am
by Lonestar
amp wrote: We could get drunk and compare the size of our PPs.   ;D
That, while wearing leather chaps, might not be a great idea here in Texas.  Well..............maybe in Austin.

Re: Annual meeting?

Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 9:40 am
by Jan Van
glock19 wrote:
amp wrote: We could get drunk and compare the size of our PPs.   ;D
That, while wearing leather chaps, might not be a great idea here in Texas.  Well..............maybe in Austin.

And don't wear your, slightly faded, Obama "Hope" t-shirt. That also might not be a great idea here in Texas.  Well..............maybe in Austin.

Re: Annual meeting?

Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 10:03 am
by MediumTex
jmourik wrote:
glock19 wrote:
amp wrote: We could get drunk and compare the size of our PPs.   ;D
That, while wearing leather chaps, might not be a great idea here in Texas.  Well..............maybe in Austin.

And don't wear your, slightly faded, Obama "Hope" t-shirt. That also might not be a great idea here in Texas.  Well..............maybe in Austin.
And don't ride your bike down the street without any clothes on.  That also might not be a great idea here in Texas.  Well............maybe in Austin.

(I was driving down the street in Austin late one night and passed a group of bicyclists riding together......naked.  That sort of thing is not all that unusual in Austin.)

Re: Annual meeting?

Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 8:40 pm
by smurff
In New York that happens daily. Art students.

Re: Annual meeting?

Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 11:21 pm
by MediumTex
smurff wrote: In New York that happens daily. Art students.
What gave me the biggest kick out of the nude bicyclists is that they were wearing helmets.

That just struck me as absurd and very funny at the same time.

As I recall, the video for Queen's "Fat Bottom Girls" also featured nude bicycling.