Subj : Happy Saint Patrick's Day
To   : Kurt Weiske
From : TheCivvie
Date : Sat Mar 29 2025 10:29:48


Hello Kurt!

28 Mar 25 13:53, you wrote to me:

 KW>>> I still have a couple of Guinnesses left.
 >> I have to admit that I hate the stuff :) Prefer Ale

 KW> Back in the late 90s and early 2000s, the east bay (510) BBS community
 KW> morphed into pigdog - first a physical zine and later pigdog.org. They
 KW> would arrange gettogethers known as TNIPNAB (Thursday night is Pigdog
 KW> night at the Boondocks, a waterfront bar in San Francisco).

 KW> After several raucous gettogethers, they were disinvited from future
 KW> events at the Boondocks, and moved to Zeitgeist, a bike
 KW> messenger/biker bar in one of the few sunny enclaves in The City. The
 KW> Abbreviation changed, the group got older. We all gained weight, got
 KW> married, lost weight, and moved away. Someone would invoke the TNIPNAZ
 KW> charter when people were in town, and it became incumbent to appear.

 KW> The charter stated:

 KW> 1. The invitation must NOT be in the form of a question.
 KW> 2. Any invite must have an ASCII pig and/or dog in the message body.
 KW> 3. An offer to win a pig or dog is important. Must be present to win.
 KW> 4. Guinness must be served. On tap.

 KW> We had a gettogether during Covid on ZOOM and another one when Mr.
 KW> Bad(tm) was in town recently.

 KW> I wouldn't be surprised if one of them has a backup of one of their
 KW> BBSes somewhere. I'd love to see some of the messages - we all thought
 KW> we were Hunter S. Thompson back then and had a Gonzo streak a mile
 KW> wide.

Now that I can get behind. A mate and I are always into some mischief even though we are both pushing on the years. We go out to Bulgaria and have a week of madness :)

TheCivvie


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