Conquest of the Planet of the Bride of the Son of the Return of the Open Bar

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

It looks rapey to me, I wouldn't consider a gun unsporting.
I'd at least take a dog and some CS gas.

I have a very intimidating-looking  (and ridiculously friendly) pit bull, but ever try to take a dog underground?  They don't usually agree.

Rape is the last thing I'd anticipate out there, because rapists tend to hang out in places their odds are good, rather than in isolated abandoned desert railway tunnels.

Murder, on the other hand, seems to be a thing.

The surrounding area isn't full of nutjobs in faux-hobo camps? You might be OK then. I'd still prepare for the worst, though.

No, it's indian country.

That's encouraging. Keeps a lot of the wackos out, I'm guessing. 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

It looks rapey to me, I wouldn't consider a gun unsporting.
I'd at least take a dog and some CS gas.

I have a very intimidating-looking  (and ridiculously friendly) pit bull, but ever try to take a dog underground?  They don't usually agree.

Rape is the last thing I'd anticipate out there, because rapists tend to hang out in places their odds are good, rather than in isolated abandoned desert railway tunnels.

Murder, on the other hand, seems to be a thing.

The surrounding area isn't full of nutjobs in faux-hobo camps? You might be OK then. I'd still prepare for the worst, though.

No, it's indian country.

That's encouraging. Keeps a lot of the wackos out, I'm guessing. 

Welllll that's debatable. Nobody really seems to know what the deal was with the fisherman from Seattle getting killed last year. Two indians were charged with his murder, but, well, of course they were. This is Oregon, and they're indians.

[Cain]

Does this mean the site is on....an ancient Indian burial ground?

*ominous crash of thunder in the background*

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Does this mean the site is on....an ancient Indian burial ground?

*ominous crash of thunder in the background*

There is supposedly a burial site nearby.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

This brings up something that I didn't know was a trope, but IT TOTALLY IS.

It goes like this:

Location was once a popular local gathering spot. It was a hip and happening spot with amenities, and once included a popular dance hall, which burned to the ground.

I swear to god. You find an abandoned [fill in the blank], lake, tunnel, island, whatever, and I am telling you, it once sported a popular dance hall, which burned to the ground.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I dare you to find a historical dance hall which has not burned to the ground.

TO THE GROUND. EVERY FUCKING TIME.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

We have a few here, but I think they only go back to the 1940's. 

[Cain]

Google certainly bought back a few thousand results.  Well, 9 million actually, but factoring in search engine derpitude...a few thousand.

Also, I've just been gaming, since it is snowing outside.  We won.  Yay.  I sniped and stuff and we had one player who was AFK and I took up it the butt from several different directions at once and the whole thing took 30 minutes.  It was fucking awful.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

We have a few here, but I think they only go back to the 1940's. 

Could be Law of Fives, but the other day we pulled up to one of those white historical markers and it mentioned a dance hall, and I said "burned to the ground" and he was all "What? It doesn't say that!" and then a minute later he got to the end and said "Oh." and I said "What?" and he said "burned to the ground" and I said "I KNOW, RIGHT???".

The plaque does mention that the liquor was rescued by patrons before the building was destroyed by the fire.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Google certainly bought back a few thousand results.  Well, 9 million actually, but factoring in search engine derpitude...a few thousand.

Also, I've just been gaming, since it is snowing outside.  We won.  Yay.  I sniped and stuff and we had one player who was AFK and I took up it the butt from several different directions at once and the whole thing took 30 minutes.  It was fucking awful.

9 million dance halls that burned to the ground?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

My favorites are the ones that burn to the ground, and are rebuilt, and then burn to the ground again.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

We have a few here, but I think they only go back to the 1940's. 

Could be Law of Fives, but the other day we pulled up to one of those white historical markers and it mentioned a dance hall, and I said "burned to the ground" and he was all "What? It doesn't say that!" and then a minute later he got to the end and said "Oh." and I said "What?" and he said "burned to the ground" and I said "I KNOW, RIGHT???".

The plaque does mention that the liquor was rescued by patrons before the building was destroyed by the fire.

Maybe it's because people in dance halls are SINNING and DRINKING and RUBBING UP ON EACH OTHER.
You know, like when you're watching "Niagra" for the first time and you know Marilyn Monroe's character is going to die because she's stepping out on her psycho husband. Hays Code for historical markers.

[Cain]

It's because when dance halls were popular, America did not have building code regulations.

Everything was made of wood, and people were storing lots of alcohol there and smoking.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

A co-worker and I are plotting our escape to Arizona. :P

We have your place prepared.

I'm excited!

[Cain]

Essay intro done.

Now I actually have to research and shit.  Fuck.