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[cblj_backup]

BOOM RADIO SHOW TICKETS.

That only took me 35 minutes of constantly refreshing the "tickets pending in queue" page.

Mum is coming to Chicago for Mother's Day, and she wanted to see Wait Wait Don't Tell Me the previous Thursday. Apparently everyone in Chicago is also taking their mothers to see Wait Wait Don't Tell Me that week, because I've NEVER seen tickets go that fast, even for what is almost always a sell-out show. Holy shit. I was there right at 10 when they went on sale, but I had a brief blip and lost the tickets, so I spent half an hour in queue purgatory, refreshing the page constantly on two separate browsers. I got ONE TICKET and I was like WELP WORST CASE IS SHE GOES ON HER OWN while I stand in the take-your-chances-on-a-cancellation line, but then I managed to snaffle a second ticket from someone who presumably waited too long to enter their payment information.

I feel very HA SUCKER GOT YOUR TICKET about it, but I never claimed to be a good person.

Well, maybe I did, but if I did, it was a lie.

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[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Radio radio, radio radio, radio radio, RADIO! *clap clap clap*

Hey could be worse, you could have been trying to get into Cabin Pressure ... (http://www.comedy.co.uk/news/story/000001372/cabin_pressure_tickets_to_final_episode_record/)

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I can only imagine the clusterfuck that is attempting to gain access to Cabin Pressure recordings :D

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

That might be almost literally what it is ... definitely a flustercluck.

But, no more! The end.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

A CUMBERFLACK!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I feel we are narrowing in on the perfect noun, just like the Higgs boson ...

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I'm totally using Cumberflack to replace kerfuffle from now on.

THE GOD DESCRIPTOR!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

There is so much truth in this thread it may collapse in on itself.

[musikologie.livejournal.com]

I wonder if they're going fast because people want to see Carl before he retires. I haven't seen a date for his last show but I know it's supposed to be some time this spring.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Could be that -- I think it may partly be too that it's one of the few Chicago shows in May, the ones around it are all road shows.

[memprime.livejournal.com]

Isn't that one of Carl Kassel's last shows?

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

It very well could be! IDK when he's retiring.