Wow, what a fantastic weekend! Quick comment on each new person I met:
markg: top, top bloke. Was excellent to put the Compoesque face to the voice. Ange put it best when she described him as the yin to Zardoz's yang.
DavPaz and Mrs: stonkingly brilliant people. DP is nothing like the spammer spaz he is online.
Mrs P and Ange seemed to get on like a house on fire, too.
Fanny Stupid: Stupid Fanny Stupid ends up not being stupid at all! A lovely lady and seems perfect for the good doctor.
Throughsilver: an absolute legend and my new mancrush. Excellent taste in music, very witty and the best abs on the forum - NO DOUBT!
Malabar Front and Mrs: proof of the saying 'opposites attract'. One quite cool and reserved, the other very bubbly and not backwards in coming forwards. I'll leave it up to you to decide which is which.
Also, Miss M made me caekz and they are very tasty! I might let Ange have half of one if she's lucky.
Plissken and Mrs: didn't get to chat to these two as much as other people, but they were definitely very personable and friendly in the short time I did spend talking to them. Also had an excellently tiny t-shirt which Mr Dave only just managed to squeeze into. We all signed the larger one, so I expect he'll soon be framing that and putting it up in the living room.
Kovacs: a top gent. Was part of the sleepy trio with me and Kissyfur. Probably the most unlike his online persona there.
Kalmar: One of the few people I hadn't seen any pics of before, so was a complete surprise! Lovely, lovely man. It was nice to have the modz (accidentally) all sat together at one point.
BikNorton: absolutely nothing like I expected him to be. I'm starting to sound like a broken record, but he was also a brilliant chap and bought a round of drinks for about seventy people on Friday night.
Trousers: didn't get to speak with him as much as I would have liked, but seemed most excellent. Thought he was someone's Dad who'd tagged along before the introductions.
superdupergill and Mrs: fantastically lovely people. SDG and I have planned to run away together. There are one or two minor issues we need to iron out in order to make it work, but the course of true love never does run smooth, does it?
Sinister Agent and 'friend' Amy: was already half-cut when they turned up, so don't remember much of what we talked about. Seemed nice, though. Had some brilliantly funny texts from SA when he was on the way.
Kissyfur: another lovely man and nothing like the oversensitive ball of stress he seems to be on here.
Joined Kovacs and me in the snooze brigade!
Pupil: awesome flesh tunnels and another one with great taste in music. Didn't get to speak much, but seemed a great guy.
Mr Russ: the tallest man in the world! I'm sure we played pool at one point, but it all got a bit hazy by then. Another top man.
Nickachu: the scruffiest man on the planet. Get a haircut! A fellow southern brother, though, so I'll let him off.
I think that's everyone. If I've missed you out then
you obviously didn't make a lasting impressionI'm a forgetful fuckwit and I'm sorry.
It was also awesome to see everyone else who I'd already met before. You are all brilliant people and I count myself lucky to be allowed to socialise with you. Oh, and sorry about the 'OOONLY WHAN PWND' "joke" that I flogged to death all weekend.
Jas: I don't remember the burger incident (although I remember eating it, weirdly). I don't think swearing (even ironically) in front of children is big or clever, so I apologise unreservedly.
Cheers to markg and Z for the doughnuts too. OM!
This has been posted from my phone so has taken me ages! Oh, and PIX OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN K THX!