I already said - tan lines.
What would make you interested in joining a cafe-based chess club?
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Free coffee for the Chess guys would swing it for me, or at least good coffee. I wonder if there's a Chess / Hash cafe in Amsterdam. 
Ummm...Is it your move or mine?
allewyn wrote:
... They concluded the chess crowd was a negative influence on the business and closed the shop to games of any kind. Too bad. I made plenty of $$ on backgammon :)
If we had been better (could be better) at acting properly in public we might still be playing at that coffee shop. But some people you just can't tell anything.
Sounds like the punch line of a favorite joke of mine where they had to shoo all the chess players kibitzing in a hotel lobby. The reason, Management claimed, was: "...the chess nuts boasting in an open foyer."
Jun 28, 2010
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Writch wrote:
Sounds like the punch line of a favorite joke of mine where they had to shoo all the chess players kibitzing in a hotel lobby. The reason, Management claimed, was: "...the chess nuts boasting in an open foyer."
That's funny. I've read that joke at least 5 times in these forums in the past month. But when I tell it to somebody, they fake- laugh...now that I think about it, I always get a fake-laugh when I tell a joke
I laughed, but I've been playing the Bongcloud if you know what I mean.
Sure, but waffles are better dued.
I would love to play chess in a pub. With a few pints and a bit of banter I think it would be great craic.
I saw a video once of a group of guys playing blitz chess this way. There were 8 or 10 of them playing and drinking and slagging each other.
Looked like great fun, especially as they got more and more drunk!
Jun 28, 2010
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Okay, theoreticalboy, the best way for this cafe to work is to have chess, drugs, drinking, nudity and security. If I want to take off my shirt, there should be no gawking to the point of being scary. We should all be able to take our clothes off with a smile.
Oh, and some nice vegetarian snacks
"If I want to take off my shirt, there should be no gawking to the point of being scary."
Fat chance! chess players, remember?
Jun 28, 2010
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PrawnEatsPrawn wrote:
"If I want to take off my shirt, there should be no gawking to the point of being scary."
Fat chance! chess players, remember?
Maybe the "right drugs" will make it safe, Prawn
Oh, and vegetarian snacks!
No, Prawn is right; there's a certain part of the chess player's psyche that cannot be altered.
trysts wrote:
PrawnEatsPrawn wrote:
"If I want to take off my shirt, there should be no gawking to the point of being scary."
Fat chance! chess players, remember?
Maybe the "right drugs" will make it safe, Prawn
The sort that makes one go blind or merely the sort that diminishes a man's "enthusiasm"?
Jun 28, 2010
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artfizz wrote:
We are talking internet-cafe with individual booths screened off?
No, artfizz, like the old days when Morphy played, plus a modern touch of tolerance for drugs and nudity(and vege snacks, I can't stress that enough)! But from what I'm reading from Prawn and TB, security will be an issue...
artfizz wrote:
We are talking internet-cafe with individual booths screened off?
Nope, an open cafe with much space, good coffee, and brownies that don't cost as much as a good Mexican meal...
Going there now, actually, to assess feasibility. Don't talk about me too much while I'm gone. Stay with the drugs.
Jun 28, 2010
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artfizz wrote: We are talking internet-cafe with individual booths screened off?
theoreticalboy wrote: Nope, an open cafe with much space, good coffee, and brownies that don't cost as much as a good Mexican meal...
Going there now, actually, to assess feasibility. Don't talk about me too much while I'm gone. Stay with the drugs.
Just to be quite clear, Brownies are usually aged between seven and ten. They belong to a group called a pack and they work together in smaller groups called sixes. Brownies earn Adventure badges for taking part in activities, which they can sew onto their uniform or keep in their promise box. Some examples of Brownie badges are:
- Holiday badge
- Circus performer badge
- Crime prevention badge
- First Aid badge
- Friend to animals badge
- Stargazer badge
artfizz wrote:
artfizz wrote: We are talking internet-cafe with individual booths screened off?
theoreticalboy wrote: Nope, an open cafe with much space, good coffee, and brownies that don't cost as much as a good Mexican meal...
Going there now, actually, to assess feasibility. Don't talk about me too much while I'm gone. Stay with the drugs.
Just to be quite clear, Brownies are usually aged between seven and ten. They belong to a group called a pack and they work together in smaller groups called sixes. Brownies earn Adventure badges for taking part in activities, which they can sew onto their uniform or keep in their promise box. Some examples of Brownie badges are:
Holiday badge Circus performer badge Crime prevention badge First Aid badge Friend to animals badge Stargazer badgeMaybe the Brownies who have the cookery badge could bake some moist, chocolate cake, cut into little rectangles.
Jun 28, 2010
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artfizz wrote:
artfizz wrote: We are talking internet-cafe with individual booths screened off?
theoreticalboy wrote: Nope, an open cafe with much space, good coffee, and brownies that don't cost as much as a good Mexican meal...
Going there now, actually, to assess feasibility. Don't talk about me too much while I'm gone. Stay with the drugs.
Just to be quite clear, Brownies are usually aged between seven and ten. They belong to a group called a pack and they work together in smaller groups called sixes. Brownies earn Adventure badges for taking part in activities, which they can sew onto their uniform or keep in their promise box. Some examples of Brownie badges are:
Holiday badge Circus performer badge Crime prevention badge First Aid badge Friend to animals badge Stargazer badgeWow, artfizz...um...that's pretty dirty
why not naked men playing chess