I'm stopping to eat some steak and eggs, might be a few minutes late. :)
Patrick Office Hours
a.k.a. drinking with Patrick
When: Saturday, August 17th starting at 3:00 PM
What: Pints with Pat
Where: PIG N' WHISTLE PUBLIC HOUSE 58 W 48th Street, New York, NY. 10036
UPDATE: THERE ARE TWO PIG 'N' WHISTLES. THEY ARE EVEN NEAR EACH OTHER, CONFUSINGLY. WE WILL BE AT 58 W 48th Street, New York, NY. 10036
Description: Ann is taking Lily to visit her sister, and I'm taking the opportunity to catch up with as many people as possible. I'll be posting up at Pig and Whistle in the late afternoon and evening. They serve a good pint of Smithwicks and have tolerable food.
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FAQ
Q:How long will you be there?
A: Probably a long time.
There have been complaints that this answer isn't specific enough. The updated answer is:
Probably a really long time.
Q:I'd like to hang out but can't make it! Can we meet up some other time?
A: Nope, this is it! Skip your sister's wedding, she'll probably get married again anyway.
Q:I'd like to hang out but ...
A: Before you go any further, I'd like to encourage you to spice up your excuses. Here are some acceptable reasons not to come:
- I'd like to come, but my oldest puffin is sick, and the other puffins are picking on him
- I'd like to come, but my limbs are gangrenous. And not in a fun way.
- I'd like to come, but I've scheduled that time to finally remove that U2 album from my iPhone.
- I once had wanted to come, but, on reading a possible future on a pig knuckle cast into an open flame, I have determined that avoiding the event will avert a great evil.
- I'd like to come, but when I am an old woman I shall wear purple with a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me. And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves, and satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter. I shall go out in my slippers in the rain, pick flowers in other people's gardens, and learn to spit. But right now I've got a long Netflix queue.
- I'd like to come, but I've followed a will-o'-the-wisp into an impassible mire near the border between Queens Village and Mineola.
Any other decent excuses will be added to this list, but I'm setting a high bar
Q:Your h1 headings are smaller than your body text.
A: Sorry, that's not a question.
Q:What are you up to these days?
A: I'm a Staff Developer Relations Engineer at a venture-backed startup. Hope that clears things up.
Q:What's the deal with the two Pig 'n' Whistles?
A:
There are two similar-looking bars with the same name in more or less the same neighborhood.
Apparently the Pig 'n' Whistle is an archetypical name for a pub , and pigs and whistles at one time meant odds and ends.
Q:What's Smithwicks???
A: It's the other 350-year-old Irish beer. It's a red ale.
Q:How do you pronounce it?
A: Smithicks. Put a little burr in the thorn.
Excuses!
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Mathrock Survivalist: dude you'll never believe this. i got into this fight with a bear with covid, and just as he was going down in my chokehold, he shoved a worm deep down into my ear in my brain, and that worm kept whispering to my brain, “you still have covid bitch” and it's day 13 and i had a fever yesterday and keep testing positive, and now i'm here with a plunger and the worm is almost out. i think i left the bear i killed in central park though if you wouldn't mind looking into it. now i'm stuck in this man cave with a thermometer up my giraldo and this walking death machine isn't gonna make it tomorrow Excuse rating: 11/10
John Silver: oh, man. i'd like to come, but i've been inspired over the last few weeks to take up competitive race-walking, and my training program for the 2028 olympics in la begins next saturday . Excuse rating: 10/10
Bentley: unfortunately i will be unable to attend as i have recently discover that my left foot is bigger than my right foot and i will be undergoing the ancient practice of chinese foot binding and will not emerge until my left foot size matches my right. i do wish you a happy and joyful paturday and look forward to seeing you once my feetfinder.com profile is verified. Excuse rating: 10/10
Literate Cheesemonger: patrick! i'd love to come, but i'm in berlin cat sitting, finishing my novel, and high on mdma until early september Excuse rating: 9/10, docked 1 point for excuse being true
Big P: ha! that's my birthday my friend! i'll be spending it gazing into my loving wife's eyes over a denver omelette. 6.5 / 10
Dr. Chicken Psychologist: I have to savor the summer tomatoes 5 / 10
senhora Acclivity: I am in Portugal Excuse rating: 3.25/10
RSVPs!
Man "Beansman" Goodman: I planned a big weekend setting up PBX but plans CaNcElEd, I'll be there
Long March: I'll be hunting down a rhapsode in Central Park earlier that day, but I'll be sure to stop by the Pig'n'Whistle afterwards
Itananer: Can we do this someplace less lame? No? OK I'll be there
F.I.T.Z.: F$#k yes. Also, did you know there are two Pig 'n' Whistles, ya dope?
Little Michael: I'm in. I won't be wearing motley this time tho.
Mathrock Survivalist: i may be stuck doing famous girl husband shit, like dinner with someone (last time it was literally someone who just looked like robert downey jr. that they used for stunts, but then the other time it was the actual guy from dashboard confessional). Actually fuck it I'll come.
Soul of New Orleans: Jolly good, I'll be there.
Young Planstacker: I checked my planstack, and I can interleave some time, party ON
Archivist Riot!: I'll be there promply at 3, going to take the MUNICIPAL BUSS5!!1!
The Merry Companions: Fuck yeah i'll bring my cigars
Team I Bought Gloomhaven and All I Got Was This Stupid Gloomhaven: ok
Abstractions Binder: My obsession with George Bool means I'm quite attuned to yes or no questions. In this case, I evaluate to True.
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