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From: Karen <karen@lspace.org>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett.announce,alt.fan.pratchett,alt.books.pratchett
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] [F] Feb 16th Green Man VI - AFP is 10 years old!
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 16:24:16 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <210102182356afpa@crucible.athame.co.uk>
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Well its that time of year again - mid winter, miserable weather in
London, wet and grey and chilly. Hogswatch is a distant memory, now its
just counting the days until they are longer and warmer.
However... not only is Valentines day *very* fortuitously placed to give
an excuse for a party in the butt end of the year but additionally we
have AFP's 10th birthday at the end of January. (I guess 10 years ago
people were desperate for something to brighten up their winter as
well...).
I did toy with the idea of combining the two and making it a 'We lurve
AFP ' meet but I couldn't *quite* bring myself to use it. Yet...
But... ten years is a pretty long time for a newsgroup and a lot of
people pass through. We all know that this group has been the happy
meeting ground forming acquaintances both virtual and real for a chat
or a laugh or an argument, as well as many closer friendships,
partnerships and marriages and at least one baby. That really merits
marking with some serious celebrating. I mean really it just wouldn't be
*right* to let it pass without thought... Would it now? :}
This is absolutely serious business of course and any suggestion that
its really all just an excuse for another good party will be met with a
Hard Stare.
I reckon that we may be amid miserable Winter evenings, but we can make
at least one of them *much* longer and warmer and friendlier on
February 16th. Last year we had a Valentine meet at this time with
various furrin guests, novelty items such as esmi's red handcuffs
(ostensibly never used, fnur fnur), delightful candles in the shape of
buttocks (to provide moonlight??) provided by one Vodka Vixen (who
insisted that they were in fact heart shaped...), and assorted foreign
delicacies and many, many visitors.
And there are just a few things we will be doing to make it a bit
special and memorable, not just for those of us who can actually go but
for our fellow afpers who won't be there. And simply because - well...
yeah ok its an excuse for another party and hopefully done in a such a
way that we can share it with as many people as possible.
;-)
Mark your diaries, more details imminently. Anyone coming who may need
crash space can start mailing me now. Anyone who can provide crash
space mail me too! Otherwise indication of attendance helps me a lot, so
as to give the landlady numbers.
As ever everyone is welcome, new bugs and distant travellers especially
so!
ttfn,
- --
Karen/hypatia Karen@lspace.org
** AFP will be 10 years old in 2002 **
Want to come to a world wide party?
http://www.lspace.org/fandom/afp/afparty/
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