GT Staff Getting Together Today

by gallagher on Aug 15, 2009 12:21 PM CDT

In a little under five hours from now the (opulent as always) GTHQ will be deluged by a large percentage of the staff members of the Game Time organ-I-zation. We try to do a little summer get-together to say thanks to everyone who works on this site and on our paper. A little free food, a lot of free beer and voila! we can usually get everyone to commit to coming back and helping out again next season. It's a trick right out of Jeffio's playbook, who always used to say that you never ask the staff if they want to do it again next year right after the season ends. Wait a few months until they forget how hard it is and then you ask them.

But there is a downside to all of these hockey degenerates in one place, swilling booze and beers in the sun and then knocking down about 14 tacos on top of it: something wacky is going to go down. Personally, I already placed the bet that King of All Vendors John will be the first to arrive and that Brad Lee will be last to leave, but what will take place in between?

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What's going to happen at the GT get-together?

Someone's going to show up with a sugar glider, then demand 'bonus points' for doing so.

14 votes

Answer Man will skip the event, but will somehow make sure that a bag of pork rinds arrives.

14 votes

Chris Gift loses another $20 when he fails to produce his 'girlfriend' again.

22 votes

Son of GT gets a refresher course on all the words he hears at Blues games and isn't allowed to say.

38 votes

Animated discussion about whether we're hockey nerds or hockey fanatics.

12 votes

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There should be a button for "all of the above"

But I voted for : “Son of GT gets a refresher course on all the words he hears at Blues games and isn’t allowed to say.”

by JGB on Aug 15, 2009 12:58 PM CDT reply actions

and....

a Button for :

Sunday morning, who will remember why Juan’s car is in the back yard, and “Son of GT” is throwing water on GT.

by DanGNR on Aug 15, 2009 1:19 PM CDT reply actions

There's no need to fear, the Prospect Department is here...

I’m leaving work now (Olive and 170) to head on down.

Hey, we should Live Blog the GTGT. That’d be ~~comedy~~ journalism gold…

"If we do not prepare for ourselves the role of the hammer, there will be nothing left but that of the anvil."

-- Otto von Bismarck, 1851

http://futurenotes.blogspot.com

by Tomorrows Blues on Aug 15, 2009 4:54 PM CDT reply actions

Wish I could be there...

… stupid living in Atlanta. :(

I will be having a can of Busch Light in you guys’ honor, because for some reason I have that beer in my fridge.

Reporter: There`s a "stamp out the Beatles movement" underway in Detroit. What are you going to do about it?

Paul McCartney: We`re going to start a campaign to stamp out Detroit.

by hildymac on Aug 15, 2009 6:50 PM CDT reply actions

So that was interesting.

First of all, stopping at Schnucks on the way home for milk was fun. The cashier knew I was drunk. I knew I was drunk. Yet it went unsaid. Awwwwwkward. Thank God for pregnant wives who have the privlege of driving me home.

So that was interesting. Yelling in the backyard at midnight has to be awesome in Brentwood. It was funny. In an unintentional way.

Chris Gift has a pretty girlfriend. Her goatee is nicely trimmed.

I’m kind of regretting not drinking one of the tall boy cans. But the 10 Bud Selects I had probably made up for it.

Someone beat up on Son of GT in video game hockey. Some of us were not as good as me at Rock Band. That’s ok. They made interesting small talk.

www.stlouisgametime.com

by Brad Lee on Aug 16, 2009 1:05 AM CDT reply actions

Some of us were not as good as me at Rock Band.

Just to be accurate, some of us pretty much suck at Rock Band… what can I say; Im not a video game guy.

My problem was that I was trying to play those pads like a real set of drums…

"If we do not prepare for ourselves the role of the hammer, there will be nothing left but that of the anvil."

-- Otto von Bismarck, 1851

http://futurenotes.blogspot.com

by Tomorrows Blues on Aug 16, 2009 8:26 AM CDT up reply actions

So how many Sugar Gliders were there?

Was anyone able to get them to “glide” from shoulder to shoulder?

North Co! North Co! North Co!

by Answer Man on Aug 16, 2009 9:41 AM CDT reply actions

I wish I could go, but I kinda broke my fucking leg.

Never forget Philo T. Farnsworth

"I want to fucking break it. I want to crush you from the inside."~ Static X
"Turned into a monster I'm a motherfucker!!!" ~ Static X
"Stay away from me because I'm dancing to quit a different drum beat," - Eminem

by Carnie on Aug 16, 2009 2:24 PM CDT reply actions

Was a great time..

Too bad I had to leave early, but hey, I had a date with the wife. I figured it was the least I could do since hockey season is nearly upon us again.
I got only two hours in at the GTHQs, but it was fun and I enjoyed seeing a couple of old friends and met some new GT folks. Thanks for a great time and a great paper (and site) Juan and co.

DanGNR
PS, when I left a bit before 7 (right after Jeffio showed up and scared all the little boys and girls away), there were no Sugar Gliders and the GH800 (or whatever the fuck it was) wasn’t consumed.

by DanGNR on Aug 16, 2009 10:51 PM CDT reply actions