dude, that was one hell of a night.
Here's how I remember it.
It was our first try at throwing a big shot dinner. Robert and I had somehow arrainged to pic up the tab but I really don't remember us being the organizers of the event. Anyway, its you, the botto brothers, the 4 of us, Tony morgan, and a few others at Picasso and we're going to meet with some hot shot Casino dude who wanted to buy traffic from us.
At the time, the table represented a probably what, 30% reach of the entire internet?
Anyway, he come in late, greats the maitre de by name and tells the waiter to tell the chef (whos name he alos knows) that he's here and that he wants the chef to just make us whatever he wants. he then turns to the waiter and tells him to pick whatever wines he'd like to pair with the dishes the chef serves.
Robert and I look at each other and with our eyes, say to each other,"this is going to cost us a fortune"
The guy proceeds to explain how we can send him traffic and he'll count it by asking the arriving surfer to use a drop down box to explain where he came from.
After about 10 minutes of polite silence by us, I think it was Sweet T who finally interupted him and said something like,"no offense, but you've got over half of the adult net sitting at this table and we have a better way of counting traffic"
it broke the ice and we went on to have a great dinner. Never did business with the casino dude but dinner was fun.
Oh, and remember when they served Bob Botto quail for the main course and he balked? He says to the waiter, "um, I can't eat this. It looks too much like pigeon. I can't eat this"
verey funny night. very great night.
Lars, we need to do dinner again. Its been too long.