Mittens 2005: The Return

[Gord10]

Nice videos I didn't know the robots could make hand insult    (Or whatever it is called in English ._. )

[Helm]

Look at chrille surrounded by silly dancing people!

[Disco]

the Americans, both really nice people even though I can't decide who dancest cooler.

Are you kidding? If you seriously don't know, I'm not telling 

Hint: the answer rhymes with "Bisco"

I suppose I've gotten a few quips in without adding anything of real substance, so here goes:

Aside from some travel issues to and from, the Greek adventure was most satisfying. From approaching CJ at Heathrow to saying goodbye to Petteri at Athens airport, plenty of special memories were collected and are being preserved. At first I thought it would be awkward meeting people from the forums, at least for the first few hours. This was not the case as I never had the feeling that I was meeting strangers.

The campsite was fine and the AGS Lounge provided excellent accomodation for 18 Mitteners to chat and play the 1000 blank cards. It was nice and even a little relaxing having a sort of agreed upon structure throughout the week. Everyday would begin with campy lunch, then a trip to the beach, AGS Lounge, going into the village for an hour and a half dinner, supply-securing at the market, looking for firewood for the inevitable beachy fire and upbeat shenanigans.

Apart for m0ds' list, I have my personal range of mentionables:

Highlights
Pre-Mittens meetup with Iqu
Pre-Mittens peeing on the sidewalk in front of Kensington Palace State Apartments
Sleeping on the beach, waking in time to see the sunrise
People(person)-drunk-on-ouzo watching
Ambitious wasps
Mild blasphemy at the Agora

Lowlights
2.5 days at Heathrow
Marmite
"28 euro, 28 euro, 28 euro..."
2.5 days at Athens airport

Quotes
(Pre-Mittens) "*mouths inaudibly*", "Can you sign my friend's shirt? He's American" and "This is London!" - Iqu
"__ ___ ______ __ __________" - Grundislav (too embarrassing)
"You all play like a bunch of drunk babies" - Andail

'Twas a spectacular week overall, though bookended by the true essence on horror (Only fly Swiss as a last resort). Looking back now it was quite fun- the British Airways strike led me to meeting a cool female from Yukon Territories, discovering the awesomeness that is Nate James, and meeting up with the brits a day sooner. Swiss cancelling my ticket home, however antipatico, spawned another interesting situation- My only choice to get home was to be on standby for a few days since all flights were full. I found one seat on a BA flight that would get me to London in time for my flight home, but it was about â,¬80 more than I had. Not to be put off, I utilised Athens airport's free internet, logged onto #ags and had SSH call 3,000 miles to my aunt who had to call my mom to tell her to put the required money in my account. I felt like I was organising a globally coordinated extraction from Greece! Hehe, sucks at first but if I had to do it over again I would.

To make a short story long, Mittens was neato.

EDIT- Here is my group photo-

Back: Dominika, 2ma2, Scotch, AGA, custard, jetxl, Dark Stalkey, Disco, Andail, Goldmund
Front: CJ, Farlander, m0ds, Petteri, Helm, Grundislav
Front Front: Chrille
Foreground: Lorena

[Chrille]

Oh how nice, my death-jump made everyone smile (or laugh, rather). Except scotch ofcourse!

[Nacho]

Damn... Petter is so sexy in his photosopped tuxedo...

[2ma2]

Disco; well, you have that intruiging pole dancing which is hotter than the path we trodded to the sekkrit beach, but you have seen Grundislavs avatar have you not. And boy oh boy, it is as impressive IRl aswell..

But robot dance beats you alls0r..

[m0ds]

I tried to make a Mittens music video using the video clips and Haddas' mental welcome to mittens song, but all the decent AVI files wouldn't load into Premiere

[Haddas]

 :o

Retry!11

Also, I made a newer version, http://www.tdrdesign.net/uploads/welcometomittensnewerest.zip

[Helm]

2ma2 do you have 1kbwc? If not, do you know who does?

[Grundislav]

the Americans, both really nice people even though I can't decide who dancest cooler.

Are you kidding? If you seriously don't know, I'm not telling

Hint: the answer rhymes with "Bisco"

Oh, so it must be "Francisco" thenÃ, 

BTW, what was my quote deemed too embarrassing to post?Ã,  I don't recall having said anything terribly embarrassing...then again, I also don't recall doing my former avatar dance at Mittens...damn alcohol!

[Chrille]

I don't recall it either. If I missed it I will never forgive myself.

[jetxl]

the Americans, both really nice people even though I can't decide who dancest cooler.

Are you kidding? If you seriously don't know, I'm not telling

Hint: the answer rhymes with "Bisco"

Oh, so it must be "Francisco" thenÃ, 

BTW, what was my quote deemed too embarrassing to post?Ã,  I don't recall having said anything terribly embarrassing...then again, I also don't recall doing my former avatar dance at Mittens...damn alcohol!

You were showing off in front of Lorena again.

[Nacho]

Ahhhh! That might be! 

[2ma2]

Nope Helm, my wc is a whoopin 5 kilobyte.. makes those bowel movements faster than ever!

[Grundislav]

I'd like to submit another quote that popped into my head the other day:

"Now there's something you don't see every day." -- DarkStalkey, upon seeing the Parthenon

[Disco]

BTW, what was my quote deemed too embarrassing to post?  I don't recall having said anything terribly embarrassing...then again, I also don't recall doing my former avatar dance at Mittens...damn alcohol!

Okay, you win Grundislav, I will reveal.

The Amazing Mystery Quote is-TADA!:

'My mom caught me masturbating"- Grundislav

:o

You should be more carfeful! My sister almost caught me once, but I had a plan B. The trick is to have some sort of contingency plan in place.

[Nacho]

When did Grund tell that? I missed it, shit!  Which was the context, Good Lord!?!

And Francisco... Use door lockers!

[Grundislav]

We were telling embarrassing stories at the pizza place (the night Farlander got drunk on ouzo) in order to get scotch to tell us something.

And I've learned my lesson since then!

[2ma2]

How do you make up a contingency plan for that scenario anyhow.

Also, the easiest way to avoid such situations is to never masturbate ofcourse, you filthy boys. And I do say "boys" because we all know girls never masturbate. Yup.

[Helm]

I'm a girl and I masturbate.



btw I found 1kbwc but I ain't scanning any time soon.