[MLUG - DISCUSSION] First call (was BeerlessGeeks)

[Mikhail Kovalenko <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mike Miller wrote:
> Regarding alcohol:  You know that MLUG should not have alcohol at official
> MLUG meetings.  That's a bad idea for several reasons, some of them legal.
> But, no matter how anyone feels about alcohol, a lot of people like it, so
> why doesn't one of those people just write to the MLUG members list and
> say "I'll be at XXXX for a beer on YYYYY night at ZZZZ o'clock."  Pick a
> happy hour somewhere, or whatever, and go for it.  It's not an official
> MLUG meeting and people who don't want to drink or be around drinkers can
> stay away from it.  Who knows, you might meet people you like and write
> programs together.  If another member wanted to organize a similarly
> informal meeting at a place that did not serve alcohol, s/he is free to do
> so.
> 

Wow, Mike, you read my mind! :)  I've been having this idea myself for a while 
now. Between my job and my family, if I get any free time outside of the two, 
I'd rather spend it having a drink in a relaxing athmosphere talking to 
intelligent people. Problem is, there isn't much free time, and picking a good 
place is not easy. But here it is, anyway:

I'll be at Willie's for a beer on Wednesday night, June 25, at 6 o'clock. If 
no one shows up, I'll make an honest effort not to cry no matter how 
"influenced" I will be. All my previous beer offers to some of the fine folks 
from MLUG still stand (and you know who you are :).

Regarding alcohol: It seems to be one of those subjects that everyone in 
Missouri knows everything about and can make interesting assumptions about 
practically on the fly. Yet many people I have met here don't really know much 
about drinking. Some ideas expressed in this thread are simply puzzling. Let 
me provide an analogy. If I don't engage in frog-swallowing or 
body-handing-by-meat-hooks, am I qualified to criticize such activities? Or 
does anyone wants to hear my opinion about them? I don't think so. Do I know 
what they do to the body and soul? How would I if I don't practice them??? 
Would I go to a frog-swallowing, Linux-loading party? Probably not, but I 
surely wouldn't disparage the organizers for denying me a MLUG meeting.

This is a call for an unofficial activity not sponsored in any way by MLUG or 
by MU or any other organization. I don't get many other chances to meet my 
fellow MLUGers face to face.

Cheers,
-- 
Mikhail
a bearer of some fine Russian traditions :)

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