From: hays@TECHNET.NM.ORG
Subject: Re: BOINK! BOINK! BALLOONBOINK IN ALBUQUERQUE!
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 01:48:18 GMT
Organization: New Mexico Technet   Albuquerque, NM
Reply-To: hays@TECHNET.NM.ORG

In article <2r4mv4p@lynx.unm.edu>, blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
>
>OK- Its 'Official' now. There will be a BOINK in Albuquerque, NM
>the first weekend of October, 1992. (thats October 2-4). The Albuquerque
>International Balloon Fiesta (The largest hot-air balloon fiesta in the
>world, and one of the most photographed events in the world) will be
>starting that weekend, and the Boink activities will be centered around
>the fiesta.
>
>We have a basic itinerary together, so you can plan accordingly:

The basic itenerary is, as you can see, pretty basic.  

>Friday the 2nd: Meet-n-greet. An informal get-together for those who
>arrive early- dinner and bowling or mini-golf or something like that.
>Home early, because you'll have to be up >early< on Saturday.

And I dunno about this 'home early' stuff, Ron.  I've been known to have
the balloon fiesta be the LAST thing I did from the night before.  It's THAT
early, folks, we're talking first light here, people, not just 'Dawn'.

(No, not you, dear, the one in the morning.
   Guess I shouldn't have capitalized...)

It wouldn't hardly feel like the baloon fiesta if I wasn't all bleary eyed,
with my hair sticking out all over.  I mean, hell, we're not gonna hold ya
hostage till midnight or anything, but I figure the 'whatever' can last as
long as it will last, though one really DOESN'T want to miss the morning's
mass ascencions...

>Saturday evening:  Later that evening, the BalloonBoink Boink-
>a Net-party at Larry "Purple" Hays house. Can't promise we'll have banana
>swallowing, but we'll try to come up with something special :)

Of COURSE it'll be special!  Here are some possibilities I thought of:

If you play any musical instrument whatsoever and can bring it along, 
please do, and we'll have the world's worst and only net.band, with
me on geetar.  The instrumentless will be expected to sing along, out
of tune.

I'm trying to wrangle a net.connection (dialup) at the house for the
weekend, so check your mail, tell your friends how much fun you're
having, thumb your nose at the fools who didn't make it.

And of course, if all this fails and nobody's having any fun, there's
always Naked Twister.

>If you are interested in coming, or interested in more information,
>send me mail:
>
>blowfish@carina.unm.edu

Now then, I'd like to take this moment to strongly encourage you-all to
email Ron immediately.  This will be oodles of fun, and breathtaking, and
interesting and all that.  ATTEND!  I can guarantee it'll be different,
because we've never done this before, and have NO IDEA WHATSOEVER what
we're doing.

Come to New Mexico.  Brag to your friends that you've been in one of
the few states in America that still occasionally has cases of the
Black Plague (boubonic, for you pedants).  We've got generally great
sunsets (sunrises, too, I guess, but that's a guess...)  Special
appearance by Ruprect, the monkeyboy.  Eat real, honest salsa on a
blue corn tortilla chip.  Be in the world's worst and only net.band
(to date).  And the balloon fiesta will be awesomely, breathtakingly,
possibly life-changingly beautiful.

Guaran-damn-teed.

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Larry 'Purple' Hays                                   hays@technet.nm.org

  "C'mon, people, don't make me clean the bathroom for NOTHING, here..."