Toytown Germany Oktoberfest Party 2008

Well, you know I am good for it.

Guys, check your Inboxes! Some of you haven't even read the PM from July 3 requesting payment, I've tracked that and the reminder. If you don't pick them up and pay you're out. Sadly, I don't have phone numbers for everybody and can't contact those folk any other way than here.

Add me to the waiting list please. I guess at the end a lot of people will back out like last year.
There's still hope.

Even better

..why would you want a car with an exploding engine )

I have notified the first few on the waiting list. Read your PMs, please! If I don't hear from you by this evening you will be surplaced by others on the list.

P.S. Things will be different next year - there will definitely be a deposit on signing up, you will be refunded if you draw out. At the moment I am covering about 20 seats, that's €600-odd that I don't really have.

is there?

can you put me and the feller down then?

ta.

Ok, could that be Panama + 3?

Ok, I have paid the complete invoice for all of you. Now, make me stop crying and dry my tears with crisp cash or at least transfer confirmations. Another two guys off the waiting list are profitting from a TTer's fertility (wife has a due date close to the Wiesn) but the rest of you don't hold your collective breath.

S, how come you are having to carry it financially?
I thought you said clearly if people didn't pay by now they were off the list and you seem to have enough people on the waiting list?

I've been contacted, payments are underway. Next year I will be bold, bloody and resolute.
Like Indiana Jones (III) in the blimp

waiting list please, or at least let me know where this place is so I can stop over and say hi

I am working my way down the waiting list. You have 24 hours (weekend doesn't count) to react after I have sent the (tracked) PM, after that it's the next hopeful's turn. So be on your toes.

I used to be apathetic, but I can't be bothered anymore.

Sara, can we get a list of who is now actually going?

You don't like surprise parties?
As soon as the last lingerers have paid up (one of whom is on vacation, the other on Taiwan) I will send out a PM with clear CCs. We have enough tables so that no one need rub elbows with their very own special antagonist. I am glad to say that there a few new names on the list.
If any of you who have paid up have to pull out on short notice please PM and call me (I think I PMed my cell phone once ...), anyone on the waiting list please PM me your cell phone number. It's like being on the transplant list, just not as vital. You never know when the call will reach you.

I recently made up with one of my own special antagonists, so one less person to avoid

Surprise surprise I'm Leeza's plus 1.

Better get the Monday booked off work.

Have just read this thread ... how long is the waiting list at this stage??? would love to take part ...

Sorry, freckle, it ain't gonna happen, there's still about 15 ahead of you on the list and everyone has confirmed and/or paid - ahem! -
Last year there were about 6 short notice drop-outs so it's important that I have a cell phone number for everyone on the waiting list. That goes for the last few sign-ups who got notified by PM as well!

Ok, dumb question but (I haven't been to the oktoberfest in years!) can you get wine with the vouchers or just beer??

What will be the deal with smoking, will we still be able to go outside...yes I know smoking will be allowed but I don't want to offend any of the antis

Also Sara whats with the t-shirts? Are you going ahead with that idea or has it been scrapped?

Cheers

You can buy the wine with your supplement voucher and - I think - with the beer voucher as well (I got water last year, yeah, should work) but you don't get change on a voucher!

Smoking will be allowed inside but we are close to an entrance and have our own little door to the outside world, you can always step out there.

T-Shirts: Did everyone see this?

I always swap my chicken voucher for a mass too, eating is cheating folks.

Thanks for the info on the vouchers, will pass it on...

Ah but if you eat Dave, then you can last longer! I would prefer a haxen though.

Tshirt..

sarabyrd 1 size XL
William 1 size L
leky, 1 L
Will these be European size large or US size large??

I'm pretty sure a Hax'n costs more than a chicken and they will accept the voucher as part payment and the rest in cash.

Ooh good, now I have a craving for a schweinehaxen and you can't get them here

This is what happens when people "forget" to pay...

http://gallery.mac.com/rs500dude#100248

Don't even get me started: Before launching my successful career in corporate law I was a debt collector for 20 years. However, I never used the golf club, Scogs' mum did once but that was before my time.

Everybody who is confirmed, please check your Inbox, I sent out a PM with information on meeting up and where to go, including my cell phone number.

Starting time is 11am, not 12pm.
Thanks, Jay!

To those out there who have not yet paid up: I have lost my patience with your excuses; if I don't see cash by this time tomorrow you will lose your seats, I have enough expenses without supporting your drinking habits!

Hi Sara

If you have any room for me + 1 please can you let me know. I'll send you an ueberweisung confirmation straight away

Thanks
EMma H

Emma, my dear friend, so would 20 others who signed up last spring.
Maybe next year.

Full up again!

Hi Sara,
Can we get a list of those going?

The list is still subject to change, I had a couple of late cancellations for various reasons.

allershausen
annalex
bluedave
boolah
dandl
discountking
englishmanincologne
eurovol
expat mat
g24
georgeb
gideon
jay
jeeves
jerseyboy
johnny english
koshary
leeza
leky
madgolfer
matt t
melia
mj davey
monkstown
nataras
nofxmike
ollya
rilana
sarabyrd
seattle2
showtime
skean-dhu
tincanuk
traveler
william
zea
(some with various +)

So you see some hard-cores, some names you've come across before and various newbies; straights, a gay, couples, singles; Caucasians and swarthy-skinned; slender, juicy; male, female etc. - a good TT mix.

I'm Leeza's +1 and beginning to question the wisdom of only taking a half day holiday on the Monday!

If you need persuading - remember that our reservation only runs until 5pm. Should you stay on after that, wasting sobering-up time, don't come crying to us.

where the fuck was my invite???/

Thanks for the list Sara!

I didn't see my name, but assume I am among the "Various +1's"

How many are we in total? Are we a good mix of North/South or mostly South this year?

Experience tells me I'll either be asleep or wanting to go on at 5. I'll be relying on Leeza to talk some sense into me. Fat chance.

Pas, I just remembered, you said a while ago you were due me a beer. Any recollection?

West, South, North. Not so many from the East, too bad.
Is everyone ok with wearing a nametag bearing name and location? Your fingerprints, iris-scan and nipple type (sorted by size, color and hairyness) will be filed for further reference and only made accessible to the Secret Service if bestiality is involved.

No way in hell I'm wearing a name-tag.

Well, not my own, at least.

BITTE? Ich glaube es nicht!

Just becasue a man takes a little of care of his appearance and saw the exhibition of Kylie's dance costumes before it even arrived in Europe you assume he "bats for New Zealand"?

Did I mention names, MT?

Well if you bat for New Zealand or even cheer for them, I'm not speaking to you, call yourself an Englishman..bah barstewards won the bloody tri nations again too.

Well I am South East, my +1 is North East, England that is.

South and my +1 is a local but I'm sure I can drag him out of his cave for that day.