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Proof of Life : Seattle Meet-Up

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From eyewitness Casey L:

BJ’s Seattle Chapter had a lovely meetup at Korean Bamboo, and here are a couple photos to prove it.

The usual suspects were there (from left to right):

H. E. Wolf
Yutsano
Bumper
Lurker
Mike J
CaseyL (moi)

Plus of course the Official BJ Sign, giving our gathering the benediction of St. Tunch!

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  8. 8.

    Baud

    If TV shows have taught me anything, it’s that bad guys will be able to enhance this photo and steal your credit card information.

  9. 9.

    jharp

    You are all better looking and more youthful than I’d have thought.

    Seems that as I age everyone looks young and is good looking. Anyone else notice that?

  14. 14.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    A thought for Green-not-Green… wasn’t it about a year ago she left us?

  18. 18.

    Brooklyn Dodger

    According to the timestamp on the photo, you guys are hailing us from the past – or do I need better glasses – or wait, maybe we have the past 5 years as a do-over! Yes, please I’ll take it!

    ed. Nope, just needed to zoom in more.

  24. 24.

    satby

    @zhena gogolia: I just cried my way through that whole thread again. The same day as Tunch leaving us. What a horrible day.

    Edit: and yet, it confirmed what a great community of jackals this is, which shows in all the meet-ups like the pictures above.

  25. 25.

    stinger

    Whole lotta slavering going on!

    It makes me extra happy to see meetup pix now that I’ve actually been to one myself!

  26. 26.

    opiejeanne

    @satby: I lost an online friend the same week we lost Green-Not-green and it just feels like someone is missing who should be here.
    Her mother maintains her Facebook page and when we find terrible puns and jokes some of us still post them to her.
    She taught at a Lutheran school and belonged to that far right Lutheran sect, but she was a liberal Democrat. She was just 40, far too young.

  31. 31.

    Mnemosyne

    Since the thread is going this way anyway, my BFF’s elderly mom died earlier today. She was a very devout lifelong Catholic, so I can’t help thinking that she would have found passing on Easter Sunday to be quite appropriate.

  33. 33.

    J R in WV

    @satby:

    Thanks for the link. I didn’t feel that I knew Gen. Stuck before his untimely death, but I was interested enough to read the obit, the BJ comments, see Charlie his dog, etc. We probably had a lot in common, environmental work, liberal unionism politics, etc. We would have disagreed about Israel, which under Bibi and his fellow fascists is doing terribly there alone in the mid-east.

    Maybe Major^4 and or Alain could whip up a search tool that helps people find threads with select commenters in them, with a date range too maybe. That would be a good thing. Or just a date range thread access tool, even. I know Google does lots of that, but my Google Fu isn’t what it used to be. SQL was a long long time ago!

  34. 34.

    CaseyL

    @Spanky: The lantern is from an Autumn Equinox Celebration and Parade at Greenlake last year. People dress up in illuminated costumes, dress their dogs in illuminated costumes, bring or buy lanterns, and we all walk around the lake in the dark, the only lights being what we carry and/or wear. A good few hundred turn out!

    Ever since then, I’ve used the lantern at BJ meetups so people know which table we’re at :)

  35. 35.

    J R in WV

    @satby:

    And now I found the hummingbird pictures, what an education !!! Thanks, Stuck!
    Wherever you are!

    And thank you too Satby, for that first link.

  37. 37.

    HinTN

    @satby: Thank you for reprising that thread. Quoting the General on Republican thought

    concentric circles of blissful ignorance.

    A master, indeed.

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