Subj : Happy Saint Patrick's Day
To   : TheCivvie
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Fri Mar 28 2025 13:53:17

  Re: Happy Saint Patrick's Day
  By: TheCivvie to Kurt Weiske on Fri Mar 28 2025 04:53 pm

 KW>> I still have a couple of Guinnesses left.
 > I have to admit that I hate the stuff :) Prefer Ale

Back in the late 90s and early 2000s, the east bay (510) BBS community morphed into pigdog - first a physical zine and later pigdog.org. They would arrange gettogethers known as TNIPNAB (Thursday night is Pigdog night at the Boondocks, a waterfront bar in San Francisco).

After several raucous gettogethers, they were disinvited from future events at the Boondocks, and moved to Zeitgeist, a bike messenger/biker bar in one of the few sunny enclaves in The City. The Abbreviation changed, the group got older. We all gained weight, got married, lost weight, and moved away. Someone would invoke the TNIPNAZ charter when people were in town, and it became incumbent to appear.

The charter stated:

1. The invitation must NOT be in the form of a question.
2. Any invite must have an ASCII pig and/or dog in the message body.
3. An offer to win a pig or dog is important. Must be present to win.
4. Guinness must be served. On tap.

We had a gettogether during Covid on ZOOM and another one when Mr. Bad(tm) was in town recently.

I wouldn't be surprised if one of them has a backup of one of their BBSes somewhere. I'd love to see some of the messages - we all thought we were Hunter S. Thompson back then and had a Gonzo streak a mile wide.
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