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Members' Mausoleum => Complete This Phrase / Fill In The Blank(s) => Games => Complete This Phrase / Fill In The Blank(s) - Vicki's Arrival-Burke's Revenge-Matthew Morgan-Introducing Josette => Topic started by: CTP/FITBs on June 28, 2011, 05:04:51 PM
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[It's up to the first poster to come up with a set up, and then each following post will either complete it or fill in the blank(s). And, as always, whoever posts the set up is certainly allowed to post their own completion/fill in as a follow up.]
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Setup:
Sandy: Are you sure you want to leave New York? I wouldn't if I were you. I went across the river to New Jersey once, and...
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... gangsters stole my slip.
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"the salt water taffy was a bit of a letdown."
"was told that the 'Castle Dracula' attraction wasn't going to be build for another 10 years!"
"nearly drowned trying to get there!"
"was almost run over by a tramcar on the boardwalk."
"look at me now!" [ghost_sad]
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"nearly drowned trying to get there!"
(good one...)
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[laughing4] at all.
"look at me now!" [ghost_sad]
[rofl10]
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I got stuck at a convention at some hotel in Newark.
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[pointing-up] [b003]
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To some people, a fate worse than death
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([pointing-up] Undoubtedly!! [ghost_wink])
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The Gateway Hilton To Hell? Definitely!
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([pointing-up] What a shame I never attended any of the New Jersey Fests!! [ghost_grin])
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Well, MB, Beautiful Downtown Newark (and I use the term loosely) in the early 1980's was about as warm and friendly as Hanoi during the Vietnam war. At the first festival back in 1983, there were so few guests staying there that the hotel shut down the affordable coffee shop Friday night and didn't open it again until Monday morning. I got hungry on Saturday and went out in search for food. I hadn't gotten very far when a very nice police officer stopped me and said that I really shouldn't be out there. I figured that he knew what he was talking about and I went back to the hotel and ate out of the candy machine for the rest of the weekend
To be fair, it wasn't all bad. There was a walkway from the Newark train station into the hotel so you never had to set foot in Newark proper. Big plus! Ironically, when they finally put a food court in the train station, that was the final convention in Newark for many years
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([pointing-up] WOW! When the police tell you to go back inside that IS something!! [nerv])
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Yeah, having a DS convention in downtown Newark, NJ was as “inspired” as having one at the hotel across from Route 1 and 9 at Newark Airport (where hotel guests have been robbed at gunpoint in the hotel parking lot).
What were JP and the other DS Festival officials possibly thinking?
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Knowing how he operates, I would say that the hotel offered him a deal that he didn't want to pass up. Hotel chains usually offer a free room for every so many rooms that the convention brings in. It certainly would not have been anything to benefit the fans.
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What were JP and the other DS Festival officials possibly thinking?
(An excellent question! But I suspect Uncle Roger's explanation -Knowing how he operates, I would say that the hotel offered him a deal that he didn't want to pass up.
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It certainly would not have been anything to benefit the fans.
(Perish the thought!! [ghost_wacko])
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I know that he has used to extend his stay in NY well past the convention weekend. It could well be that the cost of that room was a perk of supplying the hotel with so many rooms for the festival. And, if meals are included, that's a very sweet deal. I suspected that Marriott might have changed their corporate rewards program which is why the festivals suddenly moved to the Double Tree. Which was a smaller hotel with less amenities.
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([pointing-up] A plausible theory...)