A pick-up line? I always thought the best pick-up line was a line, but then again, maybe sheās a mormon and doesnāt do Cā¦affeine.
To keep it MST3K related, if you have to add some English to your stroke, canāt go wrong with ābring your sweet behind over this way and let me work on that zipper.ā
Trust me, I an expert.
And anyone wanting to add to their posteriors, have at it!
drops platter of pumpkin skull waffles on the bar
Gonna be working on Halloween sugar cookies later.
kicks projector again to turn it back on
Yeah, Iāll have some of that.
Am meeting my mother for a quick coffee just about now, so I can use a break from what I predict are going to be āI could use some more grandchildren!ā āYouāre not getting any younger!ā āCharena sounds like your last wife!ā āWhatās wrong with Sophie?ā
Yeah.
No, itās all good, but itās just one of those relationships where you can predict what the other is going to say. No different than the bartender intuiting that I want some coins for the table, or yadda.
Youāll have to make do with washers for shimming up the table or playing poker, for now. Thereās a coin shortage, yāknow, and we need all the coins we can get just to keep making change for the paying customers.
Oh, no. I didnāt know I wanted sugar cookies.
Well, crap. I do now. Any hope for sanding sugar or little bat sprinkles?
So ā¦ how are things around here? I wasnāt paying attention and wandered into An Super-Secret Pseudo-Private Regular Loungeā¢ several days back.
Horribly run, that place. Anarchy. Never thought I was going to get out of their combination curling rink/bouncy castle. (Now that I think about it, that part was pretty cool.)
Here. Cookies. I was gonna do faces and all that, but I am NOT making any more &!;*%^>ing royal icing. My hands are killing meā¦sliced the pad of my right thumb on aluminum foil before I startedā¦I donāt think thereās any of THAT kind of decoration on there. 
Enjoyā¦kareoke will kick off later. I call dibs on Werewolves of London.
Oh, no!
Now those cookies have a tasteā¦for blood!
Stephen King presentsā¦Sugarspookies
Yāknow, I saw some guys on YouTube who had a super-strong Kevlar trampoline with industrial springs constructed. They were able to literally bounce a car on the thing after dropping it from a 45m tall tower. I would thus not rule out a bouncy house capable of handling curling stones. Though they might have to resort to a Teflon rink since I suspect mere water ice would shatter.
Um, okay, maybe the original Psycho was not the ideal midnight show for a party.
eyes my Bloody Mary
Oookay, imma gonna put on something a bit cheerierā¦
(This really was cute. And the more you know about the Haunted Mansion ride - and itās my favorite - the funnier it is!)
Letās first give them all jobs as bartenders.
Sunday morning, cup of coffee. Iām watching āSan Francisco Internationalā (on YouTube, so itās a rip from a VHS, which is kind of fantastic).
Barely got through the opening segment without spitting out coffee. Crow: āYou refuse to even learn about Wink Martindale!ā
Here. More waffles. I was gonna make omelets, but several of the eggs hatched overnight and it seemed prudent to toss the rest.
Mimosas and Bloody Marys also available.
Oh, and a reminder, signups for tonightās Masquerade Contest are up; please remember, no flammable costumes and nothing that leaves a trail behind it. Thank you.
kicks projector
Iām happy to announce that due to the unexpected hatching mentioned above, weāll be serving bbq chicken tonight. At least, Iām pretty sure itās chickenā¦
Couple more hours to sign up for the Masquerade. And for those asking, the group Thriller Dance and Time Warp Showdown will go on immediately following. Should be about 9pm, Lounge Time.
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That Masquerade. I canāt even with you guys. That was either the most terrifying thing Iāve ever seen or the greatest. 
Congrats to the winnersā¦weāll be sending you the cleaning bill shortly.
Next up is the Thriller Dance Offā¦this here is the Guinness World Record Attempt for Largest Thriller Dance from Dragon*Con 2009. Iām in this darn thing. Fifth row, DEAD center. Practice practice practice!
We kick off in half an hour! Drinks all around!!
Okay. Iāve never seen a Thriller Dance turn into a Conga Limbo Hokey Pokey, but I commend the ingenuity!
Now Iāve had way too much spiked apple cider and way too many Reeseās cups, so Iām going to load the whole Universal Monsters oeuvre into the projector and let it run the rest of the night. Riff away if you so choose.
The exorcists and cleaning crews are due at 10am, so if thereās anything anyone needs to hide, consume, or declare to customs, please check in with me at the bar before then.
Thanks a bunch!
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Iāve heard (unofficially) that the Board of Directors is investigating the possibility of franchising The Super-Secret Pseudo-Private Regular Loungeā¢, but nothingās come of that, yet. But that āAnā in the title of the place you visited is a dead giveaway that you were at an unlicensed ripoff. Iād appreciate it if youād give me the address of that place so that legal proceedings can be initiated.
If the Loungeā¢ does ever get into franchising, you can be assured that the name will be grammatically correct, i.e., the franchise locations will be āA Super-Secret Pseudo-Private Regular Loungeā¢ā. But this location will always be the original, one-and-only, The Super-Secret Pseudo-Private Regular Loungeā¢.
peers over the bar at @RRRob
Oh good. Someone else is here and conscious. Excellent.
The fumigators just left, and Iād recommend you ignore the sounds coming from Sub-Basement Alpha Gamma 3 (NOT Alpha Gamma 4!!) for the next few hours. Iām going to head home and get some sleep before working on pulling down Halloween decor. If I leave it up too long, itāll start decaying. But fair warning, if I come back in here and there is ANY CHRISTMAS DECOR up already, I will find the perpetrators and personally feed them to Nessie.
staggers to door
Aw heck, the sunās out. Mrrr.
