# Alabama Dopers Check in! Maybe a dopefest? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 8, 2000, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-dopers-check-in-maybe-a-dopefest/40348 "2000-11-08T19:08:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Osip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4491bb/32.png) [@Osip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osip)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-dopers-check-in-maybe-a-dopefest/40348/21 "2000-11-10T13:09:11Z")
Well I shall be danmed. Dire Wolf. I work for Locktec and helped install the alarm there at Sersi. Hell, the place is walking distance from my house. (I live in 5 points) I agree with Manda finding a cool place to go in huntsville could be a problem. Guess it would depend on what we all wanted to do. There are a few places to listen to live music drink and eat (crossroads and The Corner come to mind) _ywan_ well I need my coffee and gotta run to work. Osip ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-dopers-check-in-maybe-a-dopefest/40348/22 "2000-11-10T20:55:52Z")
**Dire Wolf** , She’s one of those…those…_librarians_. 🙂 S’okay. I’m still trying to figure out exactly what the hell “library science” is. I keep asking her about hypotheses, double-blind studies, and control groups. She just harrumphs and hits me. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-dopers-check-in-maybe-a-dopefest/40348/23 "2000-11-10T22:42:25Z")
Around here in B’ham we could go to any of the southside restaurants that are casual. The little kitten is due in April so I should be fine for a while. There seem to be alot of people from Huntsville here so that would be fine. Osip - unfortunately, I realized that song went perfectly with my name after I had picked it for email and every other thing I would need a screen name for. I hum it whenever I type it in! ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-dopers-check-in-maybe-a-dopefest/40348/24 "2000-11-10T23:16:50Z")
I’m coming in late on this, but count me in! I’m an Alabaster resident, born-and-raised Alabamian. Lemme know when and where, and the good Lord willin’ and the creek don’t rise, I’m there! ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2000, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-dopers-check-in-maybe-a-dopefest/40348/25 "2000-11-11T00:08:01Z")
Hey, I’ll be _in_ Mongomery in about a week! I have a class I am going to down there, and will be there from the 20th to about the 16th of Dec. Keep me posted! Tripler ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2000, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-dopers-check-in-maybe-a-dopefest/40348/26 "2000-11-11T00:31:58Z")
Osip, no wonder that friggin’ alarm keeps going off all day long by itself! [sup]just kidding[/sup] Now that you mention it, I know the Locktec stickers. That’s pretty wild. Crossroads might be a good place, I dunno. The Snake Doctors are there on Thursday nights, I don’t know what the rest of the schedule is like. Ogre, after 6 years of this shit, I still have no idea what in hell library science is all about, or why anyone would decide to get a _masters_ in it. 949 tags? Keyword Indexes? Bibliographic and MARC records? I guess someone has to know this stuff. Heehee. Double-blind studies. I like that. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2000, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-dopers-check-in-maybe-a-dopefest/40348/27 "2000-11-11T00:47:46Z")
Oh, hey, Dire Wolf, my stepmom is a long-time Sirsi employee. Her name is Claudia L. Small world! elly, I just moved from Oxford, Mississippi. Where you from? ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2000, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-dopers-check-in-maybe-a-dopefest/40348/28 "2000-11-11T01:36:18Z")
HOLY CRAP!!! **elelle** , my cube is right next to Claudia’s!!! This is getting waaaaaaaaay to freaky. Claudia is a pisser. She’s one of my favorite people in the company. I learned a long time ago to always make Claudia laugh so I’ll be on her good side ;). I think part of my current job description is to be the monkey in the box next to her and keep her entertained, as she wonders what string of customer-induced profanity will fly out of my mouth next. This sucks! I’m on vacation until the 27th, and Claudia will be out that week. Now I’ll have to wait a month to interrogate her! “There’s a signpost up ahead…you have entered…The Doper Zone” ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2000, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-dopers-check-in-maybe-a-dopefest/40348/29 "2000-11-11T07:09:28Z")
Not to be a complete a’hole here, but what are thoughts about the dopefest? I can’t usually make the Minnesota ones (too damn far), but I’d really like to make this one. Any ideas on where everyone wants to meet? I travel a lot, and I’m not against a 4 hour or so drive to get into the history books . . . Tripler ---
**Author:** ![Osip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4491bb/32.png) [@Osip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osip)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2000, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-dopers-check-in-maybe-a-dopefest/40348/30 "2000-11-12T03:44:13Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by Dire Wolf \* \*\*Crossroads might be a good place, I dunno. The Snake Doctors are there on Thursday nights, I don’t know what the rest of the schedule is like. \*\*Crossroads is a good place I reckon… I think Dave Anderson plays there most Sautdays. I shall find my off days for work and we can work a Huntsville get together and then hopefully have on in B-ham after the holidays. Mandi How did the quest for the stainless steel rings go? Osip ---
**Author:** ![coosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@coosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coosa)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2000, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-dopers-check-in-maybe-a-dopefest/40348/31 "2000-11-12T18:29:35Z")
[QUOTE] Huntsville is a little short on the sort of cool hip places the other dopers have been meeting at.[/QUOTE} ANY place where Dopers meet automatically becomes cool and hip! I have to work the occasional weekend - my next scheduled is Dec. 16-17. I have a sister in H’ville - should I e-mail her for meeting-place suggestions? Maybe she will have an idea. A suggestion - check out any hotels that might have a decent restaurant/bar. Be nice to get a little tipsy, then just stagger off to a room and collapse in the bed instead of needing a ride. ellykat, can you make it to H’ville in your delicate condition? If you don’t need to be travelling, maybe we could schedule the B’ham meeting first, the H’ville after the first of the year. Or maybe you would prefer to do B’ham after the kitten arrives so you can celebrate with a ‘post-partum blowout’? Tripler, we’ll make you an honorary Alabama Doper for the duration of your visit - we won’t tell anyone back in Minnesota, honest! I plan to bring a sock puppet for each of us, so we can deny anything we say about anyone else while drunk 😉 Oh, and Feynn - watch your mouth, honeychile, or I’ll send my big brother/second cousin/stepmom’s fiance/mother-in-law’s ex-husband after you! ---
**Author:** ![coosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@coosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coosa)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2000, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-dopers-check-in-maybe-a-dopefest/40348/32 "2000-11-12T18:33:44Z")
I didn’t REAllY screw up that quote - it was my keyboard, that’s it, yeah, that’s what happened - shift key stuck. :o ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2000, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-dopers-check-in-maybe-a-dopefest/40348/33 "2000-11-12T19:35:44Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by coosa \* \*\* > [@](#): > > Tripler, we’ll make you an honorary Alabama Doper for the duration of your visit - we won’t tell anyone back in Minnesota, honest!\*\* Sweet! My _first_ dopefest, and I get to do it out of state! How far is Huntsville from Montgomery? Tripler Hoping to be the SDMB’s most traveled doper! ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2000, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-dopers-check-in-maybe-a-dopefest/40348/34 "2000-11-12T21:22:49Z")
And yet another Alabama Doper joins the fray… I’m two hours from Birmingham. Three-four from Huntsville. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2000, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-dopers-check-in-maybe-a-dopefest/40348/35 "2000-11-13T06:07:07Z")
Wow, so many fine Alabama Dopers! Wish this had happened when I was a mere skip away in Mississippi. I think the esteemed SaintZero is the only MS poster now. Dire Wolf: Hee! Yep, Claudia is mighty fine. She’s developed her well-honed sense of humor by having to put up with my Dad and his weirdo kids for 20 some years. I really love her, and my Dad is lucky to have her. I shudder to think of the pile of TV dinners, books, beer cans and old Corvair parts he’d be living under if she wasn’t there to hep him! ---
**Author:** ![Simetra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Simetra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simetra)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2000, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-dopers-check-in-maybe-a-dopefest/40348/36 "2000-11-13T13:20:21Z")
I’m throwing in my vote as being all about some Birmingham. I don’t know the city that well, but hey, it’s in the middle. ---
**Author:** ![Osip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4491bb/32.png) [@Osip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osip)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2000, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-dopers-check-in-maybe-a-dopefest/40348/37 "2000-11-13T22:56:34Z")
Well, it seems I am on call for work staring this saturday and ends next saturday so looks like those weekends are out. Birmingham sounds good for me. Osip ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2000, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-dopers-check-in-maybe-a-dopefest/40348/38 "2000-11-13T23:05:55Z")
Yup, it looks like I’m the only Mississippian in search of truth, justice, and less friggin’ stupidity in the world. I’m in Jackson, which isn’t but, like, 3 hours from B’Ham. Right now the car situation is kinda looking grim, but if this is off in the future, I’m sure something could be arraigned. Well… Wait. My wife posts here occasionally, and her Board is planning a get together next year. Hm. So, let’s see details ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2000, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-dopers-check-in-maybe-a-dopefest/40348/39 "2000-11-13T23:13:02Z")
Hi guys. Either Birmingham or Huntsville works for me. I can travel as long as we don’t wait until March. I have a standard Mon - Fri job so Weekends are best for me. Alot of the places I know are restaurant-y but I can look for something with music if you want. Everyone email me to give me a headcount at [ellykat@hotmail.com](mailto:ellykat@hotmail.com). Put how many people are coming with you also so I can get a good idea of what size. I am not going to look at high-dollar places because I am poor and they are snooty. Ellel - I am from Aberdeen originally. It is somewhere in the middle of Columbus, Tupelo, Hamilton and West Point. Very small. I have several friends/acquaintences who go to school in Oxford. My father went to State, so we are sworn enemies. Am I to assume you want a place that serves bourbon? I think that MS people can be honorary Alabamians for this. Removing the “Heart of Dixie” tattoo afterwards will be up to you, though. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2000, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-dopers-check-in-maybe-a-dopefest/40348/40 "2000-11-14T14:52:02Z")
I think we can comfortably include Mississippi in our little Dopefest, but I draw the line at Florida! 🙂 I vote for Birmingham as well. It’s central, and I know the city pretty well. I can offer some suggestions for meeting places. So, let’s hammer out a time. Any suggestions? I’m fairly open on the weekends, with the exception of the weekend of December 16. Anybody want to make it that soon, or are we shooting for the new millennium? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-dopers-check-in-maybe-a-dopefest/40348.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-dopers-check-in-maybe-a-dopefest/40348.md?page=3)