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- From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Bob
- Date: 2 Jan 1993 17:27:20 GMT
- Organization: NASA Langley Research Center and Reptile Farm
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- An East Cost Bob party is taking place on Feb 3 at the home of Scott
- Dorsey (kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov). It is co-sponsored by him and by
- Gypsy and her Womdidgious Hooters (gypsy@alembic.acs.com). You, by virtue
- of your reading this newsgroup, are invited. The party is held at the
- Institute of Boat Anchors in Williamsburg, VA.
-
- Note: This is a cultured and urbane party. The management reserves the right
- to remove people who are not being cultured and urbane. The definition of
- cultured and urbane is left up to the management to interpret as they see
- fit. Note well that having violent sex in public places is viewed as cultured
- and urbane, while stealing art objects is not.
-
- Bring:
-
- 1. Food
- 2. Guitars (for those people who play guitars)
- 3. Instruments that are not guitars (for those people who play instruments
- that are not guitars). Do provide warning ahead of time for large
- instruments (ie. Steinways).
- 4. Toys
- 5. Games
- 6. A Brain. This is important.
- 7. Items to barbecue. President Bongo and expert technicians from the Barbecue
- Liberation Front will be in attendence, so be sure to bring whomever, errr..
- whatever you wish barbecued.
-
- Do not bring:
-
- 1. Smoking materials (There is enough flammable material in the house to
- take out a small South American country. If you have ever seen nitrate
- film go up, you'll know why smoking is restricted to the backyard).
- 2. Illegal substances (We'll be getting a cameo appearance from Officer
- Christie of the Williamsburg Sheriff's department some time in the
- evening, I would suspect).
- 3. Nuclear bombs (We've already got plenty)
- 4. Silly String
- 5. Some asshole we've never heard of who will get drunk, break things,
- make the women nervous, and want to discuss his personal problems
- with total strangers.
- 6. Copulating livestock
-
- The management will not be responsible for any damage to any articles you bring
- or any injury inflicted upon your body. You, however, are responsible for
- anything the management wants you to be. We won't really be able to provide
- much crash space, but in February you can get a double-occupancy hotel room
- around here for $20, and they won't care much if you put fifty people in it.
-
-
- How to get there:
-
- LAND
- ----
-
- Williamsburg is located on Rt. 64 in Virginia, between Richmond and Norfolk.
- You can get to it from Rt. 95 or 85 in Richmond if you are coming from the
- Boston or Miami corridors. Get onto 295 from 85 or 95, as 295 winds around
- Richmond. Then take the 64 (to Norfolk/Williamsburg, not to Charlottesville)
- exit from 295.
-
- From Rt. 64, take exit 234. This is marked "Rt. 646-- Lightfoot" and as you
- get off the exit ramp, you'll want to take a left onto rt. 646. You'll go
- about a mile through farmland. Be sure to say hello to the cows. Eventually
- you'll come to a light where the road ends. Turn left at this light onto
- Rt. 60, otherwise called Richmond Road. Go past some outlet malls, and
- through four stoplights. It'll be about a four-mile drive until you get to
- the fifth light, with a Wendy's on the left hand side and the Virginia Ham
- Store on the right (but it's difficult to see the ham store). Take a left
- here, and go into the Skipwith Farms subdivision. You'll know it by the
- huge white sign that you pass. Now, make the first left onto Thomas Nelson
- Lane. The seventh house on the left will be 217 Thomas Nelson, with two
- evergreens on either side of the driveway and a dipole antenna slung between
- two trees about fifty feet above the house. I may put a green light in
- front of the house for easy location.
-
- It's possible to take the train, too. Amtrak does stop at Williamsburg on
- the way to Norfolk. I don't know bugger-all about the schedules, though.
-
- SEA
- ---
- Your best bet is to travel the inland waterway down to the Chesapeake Bay.
- Take the James River inlet and dock at Jamestown Marina. Call us and we'll
- send out the wheelchair for you. We will not accept patched calls from
- lost mariners without adequate charts.
-
- AIR
- ---
-
- Flying commercial, the nearest airport is the Williamsburg-Newport News
- airport, sometimes called the Hampton-Newport News airport (by USAir) and
- the Patrick Henry airport (by everyone else). You can get a shuttle from the
- airport to the Williamsburg hotels. Call us from a hotel and we'll send
- out the wheelchair for you.
-
- For small aircraft, the Williamsburg Airport is available, though there is
- no tower or ability to handle IFR traffic. Just check Unicom to see if there
- is any traffic in the area and go ahead and land. If the airport is locked,
- just leave the plane on the grassy strip and leave a note on the front door
- for Bob, telling him what plane you left and where. He'll charge you for
- storage upon departure.
-