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NTID Offers ‘What the Butler Saw’

October 12, 2007 · No Comments

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NTID Performing Arts is presenting “What the Butler Saw” this weekend.

It will take place tonight (Friday) and tomorrow at 7:30 pm and on Sunday (October 14) at 2 pm in 1510 Lab Theatre, LBJ Building. Admission is free but seating is limited on a first-come, first-serve basis. Call Jim Orr at 475-6251 or arrive early and hope to get tickets.

Here’s a description from the NTID website:

“What the Butler Saw” is visual comedy at its funniest! This modern classic combines outrageous “Bloomers Farce” in the extreme tradition of Benny Hill and Are you Being Served with the great French farces of Feydeau. This is what happens when the bureaucratic logic of a government inspector comes face-to-face with a policeman looking for an exhibititionist in a modern psychiatric hospital where all the doctor really wants to do is seduce his new secretary. Like most everyone in this madcap adventure, you will laugh your pants off!

So if you like being without pants, NTID is the place to be this weekend.

Read more.

Categories: Events · RIT/NTID

Thirty-Six People Waiting to Meetup

October 12, 2007 · No Comments

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Are you familiar with Meetup.com? This is a website where you can find people in your own geographic area who share the same interests with you.

What happens is someone will be the first to express an interest in a topic and then others will come along and find that topic on Meetup.com and they’ll sign up, too. When enough people have signed up, they go ahead and schedule an actual Meetup. Meanwhile, each time a new person signs up, the earlier signer-uppers get an email to let them know.

Rochester has an American Sign Language “Meetup in the Making” that has been going on for more than two years now. Jeffrey Greene was the first person to sign up, on September 10, 2005, and Dionne was the 36th and most recent, on September 21, 2007.

So what’s it going to take to transition this wannabe Meetup into the real thing? Isn’t 36 people enough?

What it will take, apparently, is for one of the 36, or someone who hasn’t signed up yet, to agree to be the group leader. So far, it seems that no one has wanted to take on that role.

To learn more about Meetup.com and see the list of people on the waiting list, click HERE.

Categories: Meetup