INQ party animaux exposed

It was well nigh impossible for the PR bunnies and the hax to keep away from each other - but our snapperazzi, and official OOFG snapper Promethea caught some of the evening's wildness.

Here's Richard Brown from Via, intrigued at the armpit founder OOFG member Dino-Boy is displaying. Richard was armed with a fantastic PDA from HTC - every geek who saw it was well impressed.

Bill Boyle reminisces on a trip to Las Vegas with Mad Mike Mageek when we both somehow got far too closely involved with the mob…

Ex-Rogister staffer Lucy Sherriff and Graham Palmer, Intel spinner extraordinaire wonder why no-one from AMD is at the party.

A strangely innocent looking Chris Green from Computing, Doctor Peter Morris and Robert Jaques from VNU Net, and ex-Rogister chip boffin Tony Smith chew over the industry fat.

These two likely lads - Allan and Andy sell ads for the INQUIRER in the UK and Europe. Go boys, go!

Aristocrat, bon viveur and gourmant Lord Bostoon shares a quip with the INQUIRER's company secretary. Peers!

Microsoft giant-killer Arron (left) wonders why Tony Smith is expressing his displeasure in such an eloquent fashion.

Senior spinner Mark Casey expresses shock at the suggestion that he might take British hacks to CeBIT again… ever… Last time he did that he lost two, kept the one he didn't want (Mageek) and fired the PR account five kilometres south of Braunchsweig.

My god - it's Smitty again - this time engaging in some geekish banter with Out of Focus Group member Gothic Tigger.

A heavily disguised Doctor Spinola reckons that Al Capone's guns don't hargue…

Here's a good one. In the foreground, Lucy Sherriff and Andrew Thomas, on their left Ashley Benjamin pretending he's not there, and on the right Mat Raeck tries to hide while Paul Hales from the INQ smiles on benevolently.

Here's a smiling Dave Green from that horrid sarcastic magazine NTK.NET - who would have thought that such a charming and cheerful boy could deliver such blasts of sarcasm every single week of the year?

A bevy of beauteous PR bunnies pose for the candid camera… Strange that no-one from Firefly tipped up, we thought…

Yes - a good time was had by all… There's more gruesomeness to be found if you head over to the Out of Focus Group site - some of these need to be seen to be believed… µ