The Bar

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 9:20 am

*strolls in*

dang......missed Tisha.
"Hi" anyway.
yeah, lots of denizens missing.........and, I bet more for you, and Fishy.
wow, Mozy.....not heard or seen in so long........dang it. dang all that.

*sets out attractant on table in dark, corner booth*

Lassen Forge · Post by **Lassen Forge** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 1:43 pm

(Detects scent of Makers, filtered around fine (Dominican?) stogie... Lifts trapdoor, and slowly, cautiously meanders toward corner table.)

Ah hah.. what have we here?? I detect Yggie Ambush!...

(Sits down, sniffs whisky, takes a cautious sip, then sets down. Strikes wooden match on side of old stone fireplace, starts to light the fine smoke, and STOPS.)

Strange... it seems like a familiar aura eminating from the bartop...

(... when all of the sudden, she detects faint breeze of a scent in the air, strangely etherial and ghostly... a cross between Gardenias, Playa dust, Frankencense, and... no... it'can't be... Makers??

That's... someone... family... who??? Noooo...

Notices the careful way the oil lamp wicks are trimmed to give off incredible light... a single candle burning in the center of the bar...

TISH!!!! Oh my GAWD it is soo good to sense you were kere, comrade!!! You have been indelibly and sorely, sadly missed!!!!! Ya know, we were looking at property up your way not too long ago... How the HELL are you!!! --muah muah muah!-- It's been WAY too long!

(In an burst of giddy joy at the return of the Bar's Matriarch, leaps over the top of the bar, and stares at the backbar. Brushing off signs, she spies one, on faded yellow paper, that says "DO NOT OPEN UNTIL TISH RETURNS!" Grabs boltcutters from the bunker, and shatters the rusty, corroded lock, revelaing case upon case of Makers... starts setting them up on the bar...)

Time to get... busy!!! Ittttssssss SHOWTIME!!!

Bin Noddin · Post by **Bin Noddin** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 4:05 pm

Sniff . . . sniff . . . sniff - Tisha the disha! Ahh, I'll have a Maker's shot. So nice.

tisha2 · Post by **tisha2** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 4:15 pm

oooh! me too! day's almost over.....

Bin Noddin · Post by **Bin Noddin** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 4:39 pm

Actually it's Jack Daniel's here in the other world. I raise my glass to you (and you, and you, and you, and you too) - Cheers!

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 4:56 pm

*pops head in from secret cabinet entrance*

hi Bin!!
Did I miss Tisha again? dang.
and BBS..........
boy, this sure brings up my first days here.............the characters, and snark..........

anyone for a cognac?

Lassen Forge · Post by **Lassen Forge** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 5:04 pm

But of course... the ideal beverage for a train journey!

Unless is Trans-Siberia Express... then must to be VODKA!!!

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 5:08 pm

*pours Hennessey xo for BBS*

ah yes.........well, seems cognac would be ok, maybe?

So, I just had this epiphany, and am not sure where to post it, to get feedback:

I think, if you take into account, the earths rotation, orbital speed, speed of the solar system, speed of our arm of the galaxy, etc, etc, etc (ad infinitum), we are traveling at the speed of light. And this explains why, time is instantaneous, not linear.

Box Burner · Post by **Box Burner** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 5:49 pm

Perhaps a little rum for old freinds.

Lassen Forge · Post by **Lassen Forge** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 9:48 pm

THIS is why the original Bar will have an element of Je Ne S'e'quoIt that any of the later ones would never have. Can you see theological discussions over some of the finest alcohol on this planet happening in one of the other bars here?

First, thank you, bb(II) or te gift of amazingly impressive sipping rum... we may have to do a "Havana Nite" at the Kantina to celebrate the correct-thinking people in certain of carib islands...

Sub-first, I think you may be right, Yg, but with a caevat... or two...

#1 - What if you ent the speed of light and accelerated? That means the SOL is not the absolute limit, no more than zero Kelvin i "Absolute zero"... when you talk absolutes, be not surprised when that rule is broken. After all, it was once said humand and animals could not survive travelling in a horseless carriage because it was more than the speed God intended them to go in...

Now for 2 - what if our galaxy is presently spiraling into a black hole - the reason everything seems to be traveling away is we're sinking deeper into this gravity well,

graidawg · Post by **graidawg** » Sat Mar 10, 2012 12:19 am

ah Hi BBS i quite fancy a drop of that over a good discussion, you do know that at the center or every galaxy is a black hole dont you? so we are in a sense falling into a black hole as we speak as is every other planet and galaxy and of course you will have heard about the LHC and its expiremnets to find the higgs bosun, recently they found pariticles arriving at their destination (Geneva I beleive) before they should of, the american hadron collider - called the Tevatron (which is a way cooler name than the LHC) also found evidence of the higgs bosun, and I beleive that particles may have cheated, either by FTL travel or warping, which is effictively FTL but scientists like to maek new rules when they are wrong.

rather nice here isnt it, I like these old bars where they have no juke or tv just good ales and spirits.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Sat Mar 10, 2012 7:20 am

*sidles up to bar*

*pours coffee, baileys, and Jameson*

Yeah, BBS, I totally agree that SOL is not necessarily the "upper limit", but just the limit of our skills and comprehension.

I could see it, though, as a "threshold". and, if moving at that speed, time may well stop, or change. and therefrom would come the "all time exists in the same moment"
one might envision, passing the SOL and creating a "shock wave" muck like the speed of sound transition creates, and in that, allowing things to "jump time" as they pass through or past, folds from the shockwave created"

yeah, I remember reading that train travel over 35 mph (IIRC) with the windows open, would create a vacuum in the cars and suffocate passengers.

GD:
y'know, though, there is much historical precedent in there, for a Juke, and ABB. I remember some videos playing, back when I first wandered in here, introduced myself and got soundly ingnored, and then, pounded by a certain few denizens, who have since become friends, or at least were friends for a time.

I'd not say better, or worse........different, for sure.

And, the whole blow up, over the "bar2" and it's inception, and reasoning was just sad, IMHO.
I was very new here, and didn't understand a lot of the personalities and "undercurrent" that existed.

Lassen Forge · Post by **Lassen Forge** » Sat Mar 10, 2012 8:06 am

(Eyes pop open to the realization bb fell asleep on the watercouch in the corner, snuggled unnder a corner of the original NEB... scent of coffee and a trace of cologne in the air...)

Ahh, HEY!!! Good Morning Ygmir. Great coffee this morning... (Sees Donut case mysteriously filled with deep fied goodness) HEY, you brought Donuts?

(Pours jamesons into cup of coffee..., wanders over to table next to the raoring fireplace...)

Yeah, I remember when the Playa Marshal came about and put a limit on activity... I think it was a server issue, the page took up to 2-3 minutes to refresh. Part of the good old days that weren't so good. But I also remember the star bar came from those discussions in this place... what a life!

(Sips coffee, eyes container of donuts on the corner of the bar... grabs a (yeech!) fritter, which tastes remarkably good!)

Yeah, it was funny... Talk of doing the ePlaya bar on playa led to the star bar, which came apart for reasons known but not worried about, the members there moved on and became the Boobie Bar, which begat the ePlaya Bar 3... (Was it,,, darn, now I'll have to look over the old bar books, see the whats and whens)... which is where all the kids hang out now! Leaving paradise for us wisened, seasoned ePlayans.

(Throws flat of Bacon on griddle in firebox, thinking how that sounds convoluted, but who cares, eh? As long as the original is still here!)

Now that the server glitch is finally fixed (thanks to the landlords!) the bar runs beter than ever. But yeah, ya look at the camps and projects started here... (glances at the wall of pictures)... The new bar may be glitzy and cool, but this place is the original, and it's where all these new camps (Hell, Terminal City, RIP) sprung from... it's good to be home!

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Sat Mar 10, 2012 8:17 am

well, the eplaya "Da Bar3" came about, as an attempt and suggestion by one of our favorite eplayans, to dilute the angst and anger over "bar2", which, as you said, had formed merely and simply as an answer to server/hardware problems related to loading all the pages of "The Bar".
Feelings got hurt, egos seemed bruised, loyalties were called into question, and explosions followed.
And really all over the simple act of making it easier to drink, chat, and cavort. The inception of Bar2 was innocently that, and a good idea by the author.
I was dismayed at the personal level just posting in "another bar" insults and emotion drooped to.
I was pretty dang new, and caught in the middle, with friends on both sides.
It was at that time, those "of the body" appeared, singing the "Oscar Meyer Wiener" song, trying to have some fun......DA Mule, showed up, and much fun ensued.
I wish all could and would have played along.

Box Burner · Post by **Box Burner** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 10:00 am

[Peeks out from NEB]

Hmmm... no-one around.

[Drinks a couple shots of rum and snuggles back in]

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 10:04 am

*shoots BB with squirt gun*

hey, BB!! I'm here!!

just sittin back here in the corner booth.......watching for a certain "lurker" whom I suspect still peeks in here from time to time. Hoping that person will stop and say "hi" sometime...........

I wonder if Tisha will stop in.......

*pours Kraken in coffee*
want some BB?

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 11:05 am

Isn't it nice that the NEB is so never-ending that it can be in both bars at once?

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 11:16 am

theCryptofishist wrote:Isn't it nice that the NEB is so never-ending that it can be in both bars at once?

ergo it's name?
who invented it, anyway?
do you remember?
I remember you brought it over to Bar3, Fishy. It was nice that you shared.
Or, is this all some sort of "wormhole" phenomenon? don't get me started thinking of physics and stuff again........

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 11:39 am

It was a group effort. At one point I read back through the bar thread and found the posts that spelled out its growth, and posted the links on the "index" thread.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 12:08 pm

that "index thread" was a great idea...........I'll have to find it again (Ironic?).
I remember,now, you finding that and posting it there.
I wish that index was a sticky, it'd be a great research tool, and fun history.

Lassen Forge · Post by **Lassen Forge** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 8:49 pm

Wasn't it... damn... BoxBurner that did the Index? I don't remember.

Too bad I'm pushing my camp with my sigline - I'd put something like "SUPPORT THE ORIGINAL ePlaya BAR" on it.

Ya know... we *could* do an ePlaya bar on playa... Wouldn't be hard... maybe a booze locker anchored to the playa, couple tables and bar stools and shade... People who put booze in the booze locker have a key (or the combo) for it, you want, you bop in, pour yerself and your other casual eplaya buds a drink...

Um, waitaminnit... haven't I said this somewhere before? Damn it sounds... vaugely familiar...

(And if someone comes up with a star tent now, I think I'll either cheer loudly or scream loudly...)

Got Gummy Worms?? heyh heyh heyh...

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 8:57 pm

*strolls in*

I'm dang sure Fishy made the index thread.......well, at least the one I saw and used.

I still have my "pub crawl" stuff, from 07.
The first eplayans I met, at the bar, were Mozy and Risky.
What a start!!

graidawg · Post by **graidawg** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 12:34 am

surely the eplayan bar on the playa could be a kind of mobile bar, more sort of a bar that exists whenever 2 (or more) eplayans are gathered in one place, sort of a fixed point in time and space? just a thought.....

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 7:47 am

graidawg wrote:surely the eplayan bar on the playa could be a kind of mobile bar, more sort of a bar that exists whenever 2 (or more) eplayans are gathered in one place, sort of a fixed point in time and space? just a thought.....

yer gettin kind of close to a religious tenet, there, GD.............

Box Burner · Post by **Box Burner** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 8:51 am

Bay Bridge Sue wrote:Wasn't it... damn... BoxBurner that did the Index? I don't remember.

Too bad I'm pushing my camp with my sigline - I'd put something like "SUPPORT THE ORIGINAL ePlaya BAR" on it.

Ya know... we *could* do an ePlaya bar on playa... Wouldn't be hard... maybe a booze locker anchored to the playa, couple tables and bar stools and shade... People who put booze in the booze locker have a key (or the combo) for it, you want, you bop in, pour yerself and your other casual eplaya buds a drink...

Um, waitaminnit... haven't I said this somewhere before? Damn it sounds... vaugely familiar...

(And if someone comes up with a star tent now, I think I'll either cheer loudly or scream loudly...)

Got Gummy Worms?? heyh heyh heyh...

Fishy did the index thread.

I still have one of the tweezers to pick up the gummy worms with. It survived because it was in the glove box of the car.

Lassen Forge · Post by **Lassen Forge** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 9:45 am

Mine - the second one - is sitting on my desk. The original one, from the star bar, got broken, which was a heartbreaker when it happened. God, those were the days!

On one hand I kinda wish I had jumped ship from Apok and went in on the star bar back in ought-six... then again I wouldn't be in Apok now, had I done that. And now that the successor to that is gone as well (tho don''t tell them they were the successor to the ePlaya bar, they'll deny it!) who knows what will happen.

IMO the time is ripe to bring back the ePlaya bar... IF... someone can pull it all together.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 9:52 am

yeah, an eplaya bar.......it was a great idea, and could be, again.

BDC's meetngreet is sort of a "one day" thing like that....so dang fun.
but it'd take a camp, to pull off an every day bar, and such.

I knew (know) one person who could do it......but he won't come play any more......

I can help with materials and logistics but, I work so much, there is not much time for running a bar, for me.

Mojojita · Post by **Mojojita** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 7:26 pm

What a wonderful place this is. *kicks the banjo box* Sorry I missed Tisha and Bin and Boxy and Sue's 5000......love to you all.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 7:54 pm

Hi Mojo!!

haven't heard the ABB in quite a while.........thanks.

*pours rounds of scotch*

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