Topic: The Personal Triumph Thread

[Haseri]

Boy Gauph I wish I had your courage.

I'm going to the Edinburgh Fringe! Granted it's front of house and I'm technically doing it voluntarily, but it gets rid of the massive anxiety of having a successful show and the huge expense of somewhere to stay.

[Inkling]

I don't really know what that means, but awesome, Haseri!  It's a music festival?

[Haseri]

It's a comedy/theatre festival, the biggest in the UK, that practically takes over the entire city for a month. I'm going to be taking tickets and generally being helpful for a venue, which is a collection of theatre spaces.

[Gungnir]

Netflix has or had a comedy special with Hannibal Buress called "Hannibal Takes Edinburgh." First time I'd heard of the Fringe festival was via that. It's a really interesting phenomenon.

[sgore]

Today was a 'walk around the Albany-area day,' which I feel is a triumph because I almost never do that and so I am putting it here.

[Krakow Sam]

Did you celebrate with some mouthwatering steamed hams?

[sgore]

I'll have you know our city has many other defining features and only 12% of them are Simpsons references.

[Krakow Sam]

Sgore you can use statistics to prove anything. Forfty percent of people know that.

[sgore]

I cannot argue against that statement.

[Krakow Sam]

So what are the non-Simpsons related features of Albany? Can it be used as a humourous substitute for your own lips?

[eropS]

It's in the song Fifteen Miles on the Eerie Canal

[sgore]

I believe I've mentioned it before, but to my recollection we do still have America's largest Wal-Mart.

[Krakow Sam]

The head Walmart! If you kill that one all the other walmarts turn back into mom and pop stores!

[Inkling]

That must be what happened to K-mart, but instead they just turned into zombie stores.