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Barbelith West Coast Assemble!

 
 
Phex: Dorset Doom
22:43 / 25.03.06
We're excluded from the hippest in-jokes, to us the Late Shift starts at midday- we're the Barbeliods on the West Coast- we're mad as hell and we won't take it any more!

Hello, my name is Phex and I am on the left coast, Portland Oregon to be specific. For four years I have served this board with honor and dick jokes (mainly dick jokes) from what I assumed to be a permanent home in Norwich, but after my exile to Portland Oregon I have found that my position on the Earth has seriously curtailed my ability to bring you the wit and wisdom you crave.
A lesser man may cite your JEALOUSY as cause for my exclusion- after all, Portland has provided the world with most, if not all, of the awesomeness that distracts us from the impending robot apocalypse that will soon engulf us all, such as:

1) Sleater Kinney.

Before I issue my extensive enemies list, I want to give my fellow West Coasters a chance to make themselves heard- and, if necessary, to throw their tanned, supple bodies onto the machinery of oppression. Stand up and be counted my brothers and sisters!
 
 
Jack Denfeld
23:08 / 25.03.06
I don't know that you have a gang. NY Barb is strong, Scottish Barb growing stronger everyday, London Barb flyin' high as ever, and FLA Barb is small but packs a punch.
 
 
HCE
23:15 / 25.03.06
LA, LA, BIG CITY OF DREAMS.
 
 
Bubblegum Death
23:40 / 25.03.06
I am the Alabama One Man Army Corps of Barbelith.
 
 
Phex: Dorset Doom
00:00 / 26.03.06
Seriously? No other West Coast Barbeloids? I'll make t-shirts
 
 
Sean the frumious Bandersnatch
01:54 / 26.03.06
I'm with you, Phex. I've got the dual citizenship thing going on with the UK and America, so I don't feel all that excluded from the mostly-British 'Lith. But since I live in Oregon also, I deserve a T-shirt.

There's another barbelither from the Portland area, but I don't remember who...Perfect Tommy, maybe? We should form our own clique, even though I love my current status as a desperate hanger-on to the NYC Qalyn and Denfeld group.
 
 
grant
03:21 / 26.03.06
I don't know if id entity counts as FLA or West Coast any more. Sigh.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
03:33 / 26.03.06
NYBarbelith is mostly retired, Jack. It's just me alone in the van outside of Starbucks, and sometimes Vlad wanders in for some exquisite English.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
03:34 / 26.03.06
Hunt! You're not a desperate hanger on! You're a pal.
 
 
*
05:27 / 26.03.06
Definitely West Coast these days, sorry grant. I'm in Berkeley, and I enjoyed my first Bayelith meetup earlier this month, so add my name to the gang roster.
 
 
Phex: Dorset Doom
06:57 / 26.03.06
HA! HA! That's three members (possibly Fred Encore, we're not sure). With only one more member we can go from Gang to Collective, to which your resistance is futile. Soon Barbelith will have to obey West Coast time, and those of you wishing to establish a Late Shift will wake at three in the morning. We have behind us the Pacific- and therefore mightiest- Ocean.
Bow before your true masters.
(also, Hunt gets a medal)
((also, alchohol has drunkened me))
 
 
*
07:00 / 26.03.06
you're supposed to drink the alcohol, not the other way 'round.
 
 
stuzzy
07:17 / 26.03.06
seattle here. just moved from the east coast
 
 
Slim
13:44 / 26.03.06
Traitor!
 
 
Axolotl
17:00 / 26.03.06
Would the West Coast of the US fancy making a tactical alliance with the Scottish West Coast mob? With outside aid we can finally crush those snooty East coast 'lithers who lord it over us with their fancy Edinburgh ways. In exchange we can act as a fifth column for you within the GMT based board.
 
 
Benny the Ball
17:51 / 26.03.06
I consider myself an honourary West Coaster, what with the impending Mrs The Ball living and being there right now, and us getting married there in just over seven weeks. But I'm a Londoner - so I'll play both sides, play them like a harp from hell...
 
 
Loud Detective
18:00 / 26.03.06
West Coast, ho! I'm in Shelton, Washington, a small town about an hour and a half from Seattle. Although, I almost never post, so maybe I'm only a reserve member.

Tell me, Phex, do we get costumes?
 
 
iamus
21:05 / 26.03.06
Would the West Coast of the US fancy making a tactical alliance with the Scottish West Coast mob? With outside aid we can finally crush those snooty East coast 'lithers who lord it over us with their fancy Edinburgh ways.

But I thought we'd just entered into a pax, to consolidate our powers into a combined Scottish front? Surely to be so divisive at this point is folly?

I'm with you whichever way you want to play it, but think carefully before making a move.
 
 
Phex: Dorset Doom
21:42 / 26.03.06
We don't just get costumes brah... We get the best costumes ever. I googled 'Awesome costume' on my blackberry while drinking an iced mocha and eating a cream cheese and avacado sushi roll- this is the first (and therefore most awesome) result:

Robot dog with a gun = hella awesome. Hella awesome to the max
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
21:56 / 26.03.06
Nice rockery.
 
 
pointless & uncalled for
00:15 / 27.03.06
That's not a rockery, it's a shrubbery with some stone matter as a top layer. Basically it's about the drainage, similar as if one would have used gravel or wood chips.

A rockery is an article of landscaping, using rocks, whereby the construction of the feature is as much a focal point as the floral contents.
 
 
lekvar
01:25 / 27.03.06
Nice costume. I'm in if I get a costume that cool. California, East Bay (Easter than (Id)Entity). That's all of the Great State of Jackson reporting in so far. I think we've got this coast secured!
 
 
Phex: Dorset Doom
03:42 / 27.03.06
Excellent... Now we march east, not stopping until the rivers run red with the blood of our enemies. We shall taste man-flesh and- wait, forget I said that last part.
Also, my robtgundogbot suit gets to be gold.
 
 
*
04:08 / 27.03.06
Can I have a robotfaceknifedogbot? 'Cause I'm from NoCal, and we don't really do guns much around here.
 
 
Loud Detective
04:12 / 27.03.06
Oh man, with costumes that cool, I'm definitely in. Onward to glory!
 
 
diz
08:04 / 27.03.06
I'm a West Coast Barbeloid, but I never come out and play with the other kids.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
12:31 / 27.03.06
I stand corrected.

Nice stone cladding.
 
 
*
17:06 / 27.03.06
I'm really, really sorry, Mordant.

But it's fake.
 
 
pointless & uncalled for
17:08 / 27.03.06
Fake stone cladding, masquerading as a rockery, oh what a tangled web we weave.
 
  
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