Well, your wait is over folks. Like the Second Coming, Flyp has arrived to ease your burden of suffering and give your life meaning again. That’s right, it’s the confirmed date for the Second Spiffling (or the Springfield, IL Dopefest, for the uninitiated).
We will converge upon this fair city on the weekend of April 6th, 2001.
If you would, please respond if you even THINK you might come, so I can get a rough idea of how many of you will be attending. And we all have to buy Uncle Beer and VB booze, since we’re missing their birthdays this year.
I’ll bump this thread every so often, as plans become solid or when I just want to see my name in the Topic Starter column, and also to let people add or remove their names from the list.
And this year’s meeting will not, repeat not be at the Spot…
Nuttin’ like plannin’ early. I’ll put it on the schedule and we’ll hafta see what happens. But, I can damn sure guarantee that I will not be drivin’ thru Farmer City and Cornland this time.
You know, there’s a pub called Cecil’s by Memorial Medical Center. I’ve never been there, so I have no idea if it’s a dive or not, but the name alone might be worth it
–tygre
And thank you, Flypsyde, for generating a thread about Spiffle II that is actually getting some attention, as mine fizzled and died. And since you’re the MC anyway…
I suggest Hooter’s. Because it’s there. And because it’s about 100 yards from the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza, and because it’s right there by the highway (as opposed to downtown), and for a host of other reasons. But not breasts.
tygre: Mrs. Rastahomie and I won a free dinner at Cecil’s, and it sucked. Wasn’t worth what we paid for it!
I think Rastahomie just really wants to go to Hooters and figures a Dopefest is just an excuse for his wife. “But honey, sweetheart, darling, loveofmylife, I really didn’t want to go, but they made me go there…”
Porcupine…IIRC, the only person at the last Chidope fest with any exposed cleavage was Val, but I’m sure I could dig up a low cut tight sweater if I tried really hard (reminder to myself: lose 50 pounds before April)
Actually, I just want to find out what all the fuss is about. To read some of the editorials in the local paper, you’d think they were opening up a whorehouse or something. I really could care less about the breasts; I’m going to Mardi Gras in February and I’ll see all the breasts I’ll ever want to see, and then some.
If not Hooter’s, I still think it should be in one of the restaurants in that little dining district by the Crowne Plaza. There’s Red Lobster, Cheddars (yum), Bombay Bicycle Club (yuck), Outback Steak House and a few others. And there’s a Comfort Inn right there, too. For those who don’t have the $$ to blow on the Crowne Plaza.
…Unless Flypsyde wants to host Spiffle II at the Klubhouse in New Berlin :D!
Well, rasta, I’ve made it out to the new Hooters. I am fairly certain that if we were to hold the meeting there, we would easily take up half the space; it’s SMALL. I’m thinking that we’re going to have to find some place with a banquet room. We had, what, 22 people last year, and I’m under the impression that the list is going to grow this year. The restaurants near the Crowne Plaza aren’t a bad idea, but I don’t know what the rates are there. I think I’ll try to get a better idea about that before I nail the location down.
Course, if we don’t get more people responding to this thing, we can just have it somewhere small, like the Magic Kitchen…
It appears my car is going to get spiffled, so I might as well tag along, I suppose. I think we’ll have to squeeze in a trip to Hooter’s somehow, if not as the venue for the Spiffling 2001. Maybe a early Friday gathering, or lunch on Saturday.
Anyways, my only suggestion is that since these things tend to get festive and rambunctious we should steer the selected location to a bar instead of a restaruant. The staff and customers probably don’t want to be burdened with a bunch of uncouth souls like us. At least at a bar we won’t stand out so badly.
