Friday's SF disco (1998/02/14)

Friday's SF disco

Posted by Mary-Jane R. on 1998/02/14 16:20

As a cleaner at the union, I can tell what kind of time was had on a
function night by the type of rubbish that I have to clean up. All I
can say is, you must have been really quiet and sober since there was
hardly any. Or maybe you decided to break the time-honoured Royal
Holloway tradition of not using the bins. Either way, it took me about
10 minutes less than usual to clean up, so thanks. ;-)
Mary-Jane

Friday's SF disco

Posted by James H. on 1998/02/14 17:06

Well, I thought it was pretty empty of both people and SF content to be
honest.

Ah well

Cwej

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From: Roebuck M
Reply To: chat@
Sent: 14 February 1998 16:20
To: 'chat@'
Subject: Friday's SF disco

As a cleaner at the union, I can tell what kind of time was had on a
function night by the type of rubbish that I have to clean up. All I
can say is, you must have been really quiet and sober since there was
hardly any. Or maybe you decided to break the time-honoured Royal
Holloway tradition of not using the bins. Either way, it took me
about
10 minutes less than usual to clean up, so thanks. ;-)
Mary-Jane

Friday's SF disco

Posted by Simon Richardson on 1998/02/15 11:45

cwej wrote:
| Mary-Jane wrote:

As a cleaner at the union, I can tell what kind of time was had on a
function night by the type of rubbish that I have to clean up. All I
can say is, you must have been really quiet and sober since there was
hardly any. Or maybe you decided to break the time-honoured Royal
Holloway tradition of not using the bins. Either way, it took me
about
10 minutes less than usual to clean up, so thanks. ;-)
Mary-Jane

Well, I thought it was pretty empty of both people and SF content to be
honest.

The SF content was quite limited - mainly to the two dozen or so people who
turned up "in costume". A prize would have helped. So would a
vaguely-SF-related playlist.

There seemed a reasonable crowd - after all, the place wasn't heaving with
bodies but the dancefloor was full. I can't tell you how that compares to
normal Union functions.

Simon

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Posted by Andy W. on 1998/02/15 15:36

The SF content was quite limited - mainly to the two dozen or so
people who
turned up "in costume". A prize would have helped. So would a
vaguely-SF-related playlist.

Ok then, who thought it was more of an eighties night than a SF night?
(Me for one)

There seemed a reasonable crowd - after all, the place wasn't heaving
with
bodies but the dancefloor was full. I can't tell you how that
compares to
normal Union functions.

Sorry people, that was roughly a half to two-thirds attendance. The
difference being you could walk up to the bar and be served within five
minutes, and you actually had room in the main hall to move without
injuring at least three other people.

Friday's SF disco

Posted by Asan Tu on 1998/02/15 22:08

On Sun, 15 Feb 1998, Wren A wrote:

The SF content was quite limited - mainly to the two dozen or so
people who
turned up "in costume". A prize would have helped. So would a
vaguely-SF-related playlist.

Ok then, who thought it was more of an eighties night than a SF night?
(Me for one)

There seemed a reasonable crowd - after all, the place wasn't heaving
with
bodies but the dancefloor was full. I can't tell you how that
compares to
normal Union functions.

Sorry people, that was roughly a half to two-thirds attendance. The
difference being you could walk up to the bar and be served within five
minutes, and you actually had room in the main hall to move without
injuring at least three other people.

Compared to what I thought it was going to be (private ifis party of 5
people), the heaving amount of people who piled in at 11pm made it quite
worthwhile. Ok, so the music was only at times slightly sci-fi related,
but I couldn't really see myself dancing to the voyager theme. :)

Roll on page's bar, sat 21st :)

cheers
asan

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Friday's SF disco

Posted by James H. on 1998/02/15 22:12

There were probably other themes that you could have danced to though
that they didn't play.

Cwej

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From: Asach Tu[SMTP:asach@]
Reply To: chat@
Sent: 15 February 1998 22:08
To: 'chat@'
Subject: RE: Friday's SF disco

On Sun, 15 Feb 1998, Wren A wrote:

The SF content was quite limited - mainly to the two dozen or so
people who
turned up "in costume". A prize would have helped. So would a
vaguely-SF-related playlist.

Ok then, who thought it was more of an eighties night than a SF

night?

(Me for one)

There seemed a reasonable crowd - after all, the place wasn't

heaving

with
bodies but the dancefloor was full. I can't tell you how that
compares to
normal Union functions.

Sorry people, that was roughly a half to two-thirds attendance. The
difference being you could walk up to the bar and be served within

five

minutes, and you actually had room in the main hall to move without
injuring at least three other people.

Compared to what I thought it was going to be (private ifis party of 5
people), the heaving amount of people who piled in at 11pm made it
quite
worthwhile. Ok, so the music was only at times slightly sci-fi
related,
but I couldn't really see myself dancing to the voyager theme. :)

Roll on page's bar, sat 21st :)

cheers
asan

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Friday's SF disco

Posted by Simon Richardson on 1998/02/16 09:24

In article <7163823F2EDACF1188610000C0F06ACFD1C321@>, Wren A <A.Wren@> wrote:

The SF content was quite limited - mainly to the two dozen or so people
who turned up "in costume". A prize would have helped. So would a
vaguely-SF-related playlist.

Ok then, who thought it was more of an eighties night than a SF night?
(Me for one)

Some of us listened to music in the '80's, and so didn't really notice.
But nevermind.

There seemed a reasonable crowd - after all, the place wasn't heaving
with bodies but the dancefloor was full. I can't tell you how that
compares to normal Union functions.

Sorry people, that was roughly a half to two-thirds attendance. The
difference being you could walk up to the bar and be served within five
minutes, and you actually had room in the main hall to move without
injuring at least three other people.

The original poster (Cwej?) seemed to be suggesting that he thought this was
a bad thing. Perhaps I am misreading the tones of this thread.

Why are *you* sorry?

Simon

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Posted by Paul Ilsley on 1998/02/16 09:46

Various people wrote...

Ok then, who thought it was more of an eighties night than a SF night?
(Me for one)

Some of us listened to music in the '80's, and so didn't really notice.
But nevermind.

They kept playing various SF related songs throughout the evening,
I thought it was a good mix of music, with lots of Prodigy from about
2:30am for those who stayed till the end.

Sorry people, that was roughly a half to two-thirds attendance. The
difference being you could walk up to the bar and be served within five
minutes, and you actually had room in the main hall to move without
injuring at least three other people.

The original poster (Cwej?) seemed to be suggesting that he thought this
was
a bad thing. Perhaps I am misreading the tones of this thread.

Why are *you* sorry?

I thought it was a great night, there were enough people to give the
union
some atmosphere, but not too many that it was overcrowded on the dance
floor and at the bar.

It was shame more people didn't dress up, but it was good turn out from
IFIS,
well done to everyone who made an effort (especially Jenny's B5 command

staff uniform -top job).

Paul. (Death from above!)

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Posted by Chris Turner on 1998/02/16 10:16

Previously, simon@ wrote....

In article <7163823F2EDACF1188610000C0F06ACFD1C321@>, Wren A <A.Wren@> wrote:

The SF content was quite limited - mainly to the two dozen or so people
who turned up "in costume". A prize would have helped. So would a
vaguely-SF-related playlist.

Ok then, who thought it was more of an eighties night than a SF night?
(Me for one)

Some of us listened to music in the '80's, and so didn't really notice.
But nevermind.

I thought it started off in the 70's and then ended up with loads of
modern dance-stuff. It was a bit hard to tell cos I was deaf/wasted most of
the night.

There seemed a reasonable crowd - after all, the place wasn't heaving
with bodies but the dancefloor was full. I can't tell you how that
compares to normal Union functions.

Sorry people, that was roughly a half to two-thirds attendance. The
difference being you could walk up to the bar and be served within five
minutes, and you actually had room in the main hall to move without
injuring at least three other people.

The original poster (Cwej?) seemed to be suggesting that he thought this was
a bad thing. Perhaps I am misreading the tones of this thread.

Well I'm certainly glad it wasn't any more crowded - I was having a hard
enough time staggering back with those naff plastic tumblers without having
to squeeze past people too *8).

Anyway despite the lack of Sci-Fi related music to dance to I had an awesome
time so that is all that really matters isn't it?

Chris

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Posted by James H. on 1998/02/16 16:49

Okay, Cwej wasn't the very original poster, I just commented on the lack
of sf and people. For information, the SF Disco never actually appeared
on the ents sheets delivered to Founders where I live. We had a
"Special" edition of the ents sheet advertising a function in Crosslands
that night. I've never actually seen how the disco was advertised on the
normal ents sheet.

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From: simon@[SMTP:simon@]
Reply To: chat@
Sent: 16 February 1998 09:24
To: chat@
Subject: Re: RE: Friday's SF disco

In article <7163823F2EDACF1188610000C0F06ACFD1C321@>,
Wren A <A.Wren@> wrote:

The SF content was quite limited - mainly to the two dozen or so

people

who turned up "in costume". A prize would have helped. So would

a

vaguely-SF-related playlist.

Ok then, who thought it was more of an eighties night than a SF

night?

(Me for one)

Some of us listened to music in the '80's, and so didn't really
notice.
But nevermind.

There seemed a reasonable crowd - after all, the place wasn't

heaving

with bodies but the dancefloor was full. I can't tell you how

that

compares to normal Union functions.

Sorry people, that was roughly a half to two-thirds attendance. The
difference being you could walk up to the bar and be served within

five

minutes, and you actually had room in the main hall to move without
injuring at least three other people.

The original poster (Cwej?) seemed to be suggesting that he thought
this was
a bad thing. Perhaps I am misreading the tones of this thread.

Why are *you* sorry?

Simon

---
"This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind" -Ecclesiastes
4:16

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are not the opinions of One Chip Solutions. So now you know, don't
you..?"