[GLLUG] Pizza Protocol

Karl Schuttler rexykik at gmail.com
Sun Aug 27 00:50:23 EDT 2006


I was sort of disappointed when I started reading this thread...

...by the title I thought there was some new way of ordering pizza...

On 8/26/06, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide at gmail.com> wrote:
> yeah I know but it's a good incentive for poor college kids. but I
> agree if you have a job get paid well enough not to need loans to live
> on (or feel guilty) kick in. but I'm sorry as far as I go I have to go
> in to debt every term to live. I know jeff buys them and I know how
> much he pays for them. I don't think anyone keeps coming just for free
> pizza. when you are trying to figure out how your going to pay for
> meals and how your going to keep your home and how your going to pay
> for gas, free pizza sounds good. gimme a job that pays enough for me
> to pay my bills, buy gas and feed me + some recreation money and
> you'll find out that I'm a generous guy.
>
> If Jeff doesn't like me saying that... then I'll eat before I come. I
> also know what you're saying that it's not fair. feel free to start a
> rotation if you want. My official opinion is if it brings us more
> linux people by saying that... why not.
>
>  yes there are no dues but I think the only people who are official
> member are charles and jeff, the rest of us are regulars, we have no
> official standing.
>
> On a side note it's also considered polite to buy something from gone
> wired as they generously allow us to hold meetings free of charge, and
> reserve seeting for us.
>
> On 8/26/06, Charles Tower <c.e.tower at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have seen it mentioned here that one of the incentives to attend our
> > weekly GLLUG meetings is free pizza.  I don't mean to belittle anyone
> > who wrote that, but the pizzas are not free (as in beer).  Jeff Lawton
> > pays for them when he picks them up, and whether it comes out of his own
> > pocket or an Ideal Solutions account doesn't matter to me; it doesn't
> > seem fair that one entity should continuously subsidize our pizza.  You
> > know there are no dues to join GLLUG, and nobody at the meetings charges
> > you by the slice, but kicking in a few bucks for the pizza fund every
> > now and then would be the decent thing to do.  I have seen that happen
> > in the past, and Jeff didn't seem humiliated or offended by it in the least.
> >
> >                                 Chick
> >
> >
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