Holy Crap! (or as Strong Bad would say, Holy Crap!) I wasn't expecting such an overwhelming response to my suggestion and I must say that I am pleased. So, without any ado, these are the things that would need to happen for planning

1. Compile a list of all the people that we should invite. This list so-far includes (but is not limited to): Sig, Rock, Jamie, Lisa Henke, Erica, Lauren, Eric Jung, Mark, Josh, Abe, Ursula, Eric Miller, Jesse Dedyne(?), John Henry, Nathan Thomas, Dan, Lisa Manley, Teresa Brandl, Jamie Jung, Mr. Grumpypants, and that’s the extent of my knowledge. Those of you with access to yearbooks should be able to remember more. I'm wondering if we should extend this to all of the Frenzel related activities and really how far outside of our little group should we go?
2. If we decide that we want to specially reserve a place for the reunion, we should try to determine the receptivity (receptiveness?) of all possible participants with a 'pre-invitation,' otherwise just draft invitations with RSVP information (and remember the pot-luck possibility).
3. Find a place and determine a time. I suggest a weekend night so we can all go out afterwards (this may exclude some of the possible '01 stragglers)
4. Create a webspace for RSVPs, discussions, ect. I suggest forming a reunion blog.* Possible name suggestions could arise out of any of the code words that incite nostalgia in former debaters**, including our slang, things from past resolutions (for instance, who doesn't remember the feelings incited when the words 'we could run guns' were uttered?), or something lame like 'Lincoln Debate.' Also, I am learning php and it might be fun for me to try to create a site and form for RSVPs, unfortunately it may not be ready before we need it. But then again, I just discovered my 539 project.
5. From here on, all that remains is to actually have the event. Of course the main core planners should provide essential foods like a one (vegetarian) main course, drinks, and a desert and of course things for eating like plates and forks (and I also suggest something like cups for drinking)
6. Accommodations - it just occurred to me that some people may no longer have a permanent residence in hell anymore so we may need to provide them with appropriate shelter. Also, we should not have the event RIGHT after or before Christmas because of that same problem. We'll figure something out.

*I am thinking that we should have a separate blog for the reunion for a few reasons
1. I mentioned lying in the invitations to certain people and it would not be good for those people to actually see that post.
2. 17 Bottles Of is not restricted to debate people and would contain a lot of superfluous information
3. In keeping with the above, it may be intimidating and/or rude to ask people to join an existing blog (en masse for a reason other than that for which this blog was created) add people to an existing blog rather than create a new one just for this purpose
**That seems so easy on the surface, but really, how many terms were universal among all of the debaters? I mean guar never permeated far beyond the girlz and even i stopped using it at the end of '98. Honestly, I can't think of much


Are there more things that I am forgetting? Of course, but it doesn't look all that hard really. Especially if we keep everything simple.
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