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Old Aug 26, 2003 | 10:22 AM
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Exclamation philadelphia meet - sept. 20/21?

let's have an autumn meet near philadelphia. tommy's scouting out a location this weekend.

vote for your preferences and hope you can make it.

if not a lot of people can make it, maybe we can go to a restaurant for food.

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location: TBD
date: sept. 20 or 21
time: 11am-ish
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Old Sep 2, 2003 | 05:08 PM
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I cannot tell a lie - I totally spaced on looking at locations.

I'll search around and report my findings shortly. Well, Young, it looks like it might just us there, so you better have done some mods recently, so that we have something to talk about.
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Old Sep 2, 2003 | 06:59 PM
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I volunteer my driveway, since it is reasonably close to Philly.

I just had it re-surfaced and it looks quite nice.

And the bathrooms are free.
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Old Sep 2, 2003 | 09:54 PM
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lol... sorry, no mods. some curb rash under the front air dam.. that's about it.

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there are 5 votes so there is some interest. at least more than the first one we had. i think there were 4 of us.
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Old Sep 3, 2003 | 09:40 PM
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I missed out on the last 2 (Bear Mountain) and Thomas' River (pun intended) but I'll try harder this time. Did any of you go to the beach party at nukblazi's folks'? I'm sure he's game for this one, and maybe we can raffle off a ride in feropont's (Sergei) WRX doing donuts in the parking lot outside Young's office
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Old Sep 4, 2003 | 01:00 PM
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OK, officially, there's really nothing around Doylestown that would work, and it's not really a good place anyway.

Could we try to get a list of others (ie, people other than me, Young, Columbus, and Rick's driveway) who would be interested? If there is only a handful of people, then just doing a meet & greet, then restaurant, would make more sense than a full-blown bbq, esp. since I always end up at least $50 in the hole on these damn things.

TIA.
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Old Sep 4, 2003 | 01:19 PM
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May as well be Frank's Chicken House.

Just found out I have to go back to the cesspool for a couple weeks, but should be back by the 20th. So I'll keep tabs on the plan from afar.
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Old Sep 4, 2003 | 10:17 PM
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Philly area, or slightly north, and I'm in. Saturday is better than a Sunday for me...............in case anyone cares



and yes RBrenton88, I will really, really will do my best to ignore any family obligations and actually show up
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Old Sep 5, 2003 | 08:57 AM
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Originally posted by Taucher

and yes RBrenton88, I will really, really will do my best to ignore any family obligations and actually show up
Ah yes...the pull of the darkside is strong, it is.
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Old Sep 5, 2003 | 09:05 AM
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Originally posted by RBrenton88
Ah yes...the pull of the darkside is strong, it is.
Resist it, you must.
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Old Sep 5, 2003 | 09:22 AM
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um, geek alert...

my suggestions are:
manayunk (again...) - no festival or anything this time
king of prussia mall
willow grove mall - we can go to Fast By Ferraci and take a look at some bikes

i'm open to other suggestions... i saw a hot dog show on PBS, and i think there's a place called Rutt's Hut(?) that serves deep fried hotdogs... rippa's... i think in clifton. thought of tommy.
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Old Sep 5, 2003 | 12:49 PM
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um, geek alert...

my suggestions are:
manayunk (again...) - no festival or anything this time
king of prussia mall
willow grove mall - we can go to Fast By Ferraci and take a look at some bikes

i'm open to other suggestions... i saw a hot dog show on PBS, and i think there's a place called Rutt's Hut(?) that serves deep fried hotdogs... rippa's... i think in clifton. thought of tommy.
MarkL mentioned Rutt's Hutt to me before. Think I'm going to have to check it out tomorrow, since the weather will be beautiful. I hear they're fat free!

My vote would be:
Willow Grove Mall on Saturday. But I'm not against other options, I'll drive anywhere.

Oh, and thanks for the geek comment, Dungeon Master Young.
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Old Sep 5, 2003 | 01:02 PM
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Originally posted by tommy
Dungeon Master Young.
doh! :o

willow grove mall... are we getting some sort of consensus here?
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Old Sep 5, 2003 | 06:30 PM
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Originally posted by young
doh! :o

willow grove mall... are we getting some sort of consensus here?
No. Why would you want to hang out at a mall?
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Old Sep 6, 2003 | 07:11 AM
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Better than some dork's driveway!

As usual, if anyone other than Young or myself has any ideas, feel free. How come we always have a bunch of people, but the same idiot organizers (ie, me, young, nuk)? Now's the time to speak up, ladies.
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Old Sep 6, 2003 | 11:15 AM
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King of Prussia would be better for me, been there, know where it is, etc. Willow grove would probably be O.K. as well. Might I also suggest: there is a large, fairly new MB dealership West Chester MB right on Route 202 about 20-30 minutes north of 95/202 exchange, not sure what else is nearby, any thoughts ?

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Old Sep 7, 2003 | 08:19 PM
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i figured willow grove would be better mainly for nj people who would be driving further in and w/ the kop traffic mess, it may be confusing for some people.

also, we wouldn't be hanging out IN the mall. we'd meet at a corner of the lot and then grab a bite to eat.
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Old Sep 8, 2003 | 12:37 PM
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I am in. I live in York, PA and the drive is no problem. As long as there are some directions to the point of meeting.....
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Old Sep 8, 2003 | 02:54 PM
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O.K. Willow Grove will be fine, I now cast my vote for Saturday.......My older son has a football game on Sunday (which falls under family obligation).
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Old Sep 8, 2003 | 05:07 PM
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ok, cool.

SATURDAY, SEP. 20th - 11:00am - Willow Grove Mall

i will generate a map/directions and lot location to meet at this weekend.

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lol... this is a strong recommendation on my part to help settle the date/time/location. sorry if it sounded like i'm "unilaterally" setting it. <-- i just like this smilie

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Old Sep 8, 2003 | 10:23 PM
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O.K. I'll confirm that...SATURDAY, SEP. 20th - 11:00am - Willow Grove Mall... send me any necessary info... I'll be there







um ,do you think it would be O.K. if umm ..my wife and maybe some of the kids and, um, cause I can only go if my wife can shop for as long as I'm with you guys...and Um...so this won't be really long or anything uh, will it?















Just kidding...... I can do whatever I want

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Old Sep 8, 2003 | 10:45 PM
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lol... this is a strong recommendation on my part to help settle the date/time/location. sorry if it sounded like i'm "unilaterally" setting it. <-- i just like this smilie
Young, you know that I'm just kidding, right?

Hey, Taucher, no problem - you can stay as long as your wife lets you.

You're not married to Young's wife's sister by any chance, are you? I'm feeling a pattern.
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Old Sep 9, 2003 | 09:28 AM
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yeah, i knew you were joking around. but, when i re-read my post, it sounded a little too despotic.
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Old Sep 14, 2003 | 09:50 PM
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here's the official mall page which actually has a good map w/ directions.

http://www.willowgroveparkmall.com/Direct.cfm

let's try to meet around the bloomingdale end. i'll try to park away from the entrance so we should have plenty of spaces.

let me know if you have any questions.
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Old Sep 15, 2003 | 10:46 AM
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Hurricane looks like it might be coming our way Friday sometime. So that might put a damper on things if it does. Please stay tuned to this channel for further developments.
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