So if, say, in Summer of 2011, there's an RI conference,

[nathan28]

It's going to be full of Muslims who hate that Abraham Lincoln and Jesus founded America on the Rule of Law and Order.

[Col. Quisp]

Drumming, voodoo and roast pig. oh, wait, that's the Babalon Rising festival...

[MacCruiskeen]

Drumming, voodoo and roast pig. oh, wait, that's the Babalon Rising festival...

Yup. I imagine it'll be more like this:



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[LilyPatToo]

Just found this thread. Wow No clue how I'd afford it, but damn I'd love to be there Maybe combine it with a trip to visit my family in Pittsburgh...? I'll think on it.

LilyPat

[AhabsOtherLeg]

Come dressed as your favourite poster.

Right, I'll be AhabsOtherLeg.

In the name of God, man, your standards must be slipping! What have I ever posted to deserve THAT?!

It gets worse. In perhaps the saddest and least believable coincidental crossover ever, I would undoubtedly choose to come as Mac.



We're not looking our best there, I know, but it's been a long, hard stretch.

On the plane, I mean.

A long hard stretch on the plane.

.

[MacCruiskeen]

In the name of God, man, your standards must be slipping!

Standards? What standards? Anyway, look who's talking! But if you do insist on coming as me, then you're gonna have to put on 300 pounds, acquire a policeman's uniform, and perform numerous weird experiments with infinity:

'Is it about a bicycle?' he asked.

'Not that' said the Sergeant. 'This is a private visitor who says he did not arrive in the townland upon a bicycle. He has no personal name at all. His dadda is in far Amurikey.'

'Which of the two Amurikeys?' asked MacCruiskeen.

'The Unified Stations,' said the Sergeant.

'Likely he is rich by now if he is in that quarter,' said MacCruiskeen, 'because there's dollars there, dollars and bucks and nuggets in the ground and any amount of rackets and golf games and musical instruments. It is a free country too by all accounts.'

'Free for all,' said the Sergeant.

[...]

'It is a lucky thing for your pop that is situated in Amurikey,' he remarked, 'if it is a thing that he is having trouble with the old teeth. It is very few sicknesses that are not from the teeth.' 'Yes,' I said. I was determined to say as little as possible and let these unusual policemen first show their hand. Then I would know how to deal with them.

'Because a man can have more disease and germination in his gob than you'll find in a rat's coat, and Amurikey is a country where the population do have grand teeth like shaving lather or like bits of delph when you break a plate.'

'Quite true,' I said.

'Or like eggs under a black crow.'

'Like eggs,' I said.

'Did you ever happen to visit the cinematograph in your travels?'

'Never' I answered humbly, 'but I believe it is a dark quarter and little can be seen at all except the photographs on the wall'.

'Well it is there you see the fine teeth they do have in Amurikey,' said the Sergeant.

Toronto's not far from Amurikey. We could take a day trip to Buffalo and see the teeth.

[AhabsOtherLeg]

f you do insist on coming as me, then you're gonna have to put on 300 pounds

eASY!

acquire a policeman's uniform

EASY!

and perform numerous weird experiments with infinity

Ach. Shite. Maths has always been my weakness.

The John MacLean "joke" didn't really work out either. Sorry. Nothing funny about it. He was a normal-looking guy when they took him in, and there's nothing the least bit amusing about how he came back out. I apologise for that.

But you ARE the Fighting Dominae! When I listen to that song I think of thee. I suppose that kind of disqualifies me from dressing up and appearing as you - perhaps thankfully - but tell me who, if not you?

I might just go as myself.

[AhabsOtherLeg]

Toronto's not far from Amurikey. We could take a day trip to Buffalo and see the teeth.

Teeth? Grown naturally in a person's jaw, and never knocked out by a casual brick at an Oramge Walk, or gradually worn away by endless decades and generations and centuries of fearsome habits?! It sounds too fantastical to be true.

I'm thinking now I might stay home. This world is strange to me.

[MacCruiskeen]

Toronto's not far from Amurikey. We could take a day trip to Buffalo and see the teeth.

Teeth? Grown naturally in a person's jaw...?

Them's the lads. And then there's those dollars and bucks and nuggets in the ground.

Toronto's amenities are so symbolic they could have been designed for RI:



"Your intuition's in poor condition? Even your rigour is not too vigorous? Just get pissed on The Maid of the Mist."

[Nordic]

I would come dressed as Hugh, who for some reason I picture looks pretty much like this:

[Simulist]

Toronto's not far from Amurikey. We could take a day trip to Buffalo and see the teeth.

Teeth? Grown naturally in a person's jaw...?

Them's the lads. And then there's those dollars and bucks and nuggets in the ground.

Carpe dentum!

[barracuda]

I would come dressed as Hugh, who for some reason I picture looks pretty much like this:

I'm not sure why, but I've always visualised him sort of looking like Alfred Molina in Spiderman 2.

[Nordic]

Okay, I get that. Younger, angrier.

[norton ash]

My impulse is to try to be invisible. In Toronto this is not hard. Black clothes, longish black hair, shades, head down, talking into a cell phone/texting.

I kid. Just last night my best mate mentioned that the recent Atom Egoyan film "Chloe" was so-so, but he thought Toronto has never been filmed better, so it might be a good preview of the city if it's at your local googleplex (which I doubt) or rep cinema. Trailer here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goXCUQtiaWQ

The American southwest sounds appealing too, btw.

[Jeff]

I kid. Just last night my best mate mentioned that the recent Atom Egoyan film "Chloe" was so-so, but he thought Toronto has never been filmed better

Recognizing Cafe Diplomatico is "one of the most thrilling moments in the film for Torontonians." AND IT'S TRUE!!!