# August Londope -- plan now, and avoid the rush **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 30, 2003, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-londope-plan-now-and-avoid-the-rush/172136 "2003-04-30T13:10:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-londope-plan-now-and-avoid-the-rush/172136/201 "2003-05-14T10:43:27Z")
Bwahaha! Sounds like a plan. It could get rather, interesting. Especially seeing as it’ll be about 4am over there 😃 ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-londope-plan-now-and-avoid-the-rush/172136/202 "2003-05-14T11:02:17Z")
but it would be narrowband access ☹ if we could just find some WiFi access… _its crazy but it might just work…_ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-londope-plan-now-and-avoid-the-rush/172136/203 "2003-05-14T11:06:30Z")
At which point, everything explodes! KABOOM!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-londope-plan-now-and-avoid-the-rush/172136/204 "2003-05-14T11:21:35Z")
— UPDATED EVENT DETAILS — **LonDope 2003: Son of Brum** 12pm: _Shopping As An Art Form_ by The Doper Ladies 2pm: _How to Win At Rounders_ by The Doper Lads 3pm: Break for Beer 6pm: _Drunken War-Chalking: How to find a Wifi Network with a Pringles Tube and Laptop_ By Garius 6:30pm: _How to Help Someone Arrested for Hacking_ by the Doper Lawyers DISCLAIMER: Comments intended in jest. I’m not really suggesting the 6pm activity since it is DEFINITELY illegal (hence the 6:30pm consequences) and would be doubly stupid for me to do since it would cost me my cushy government job - Garius ---
**Author:** ![Anahita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9a28c/32.png) [@Anahita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anahita)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-londope-plan-now-and-avoid-the-rush/172136/205 "2003-05-14T11:36:25Z")
Shopping will take MUCH MUCH longer. ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-londope-plan-now-and-avoid-the-rush/172136/206 "2003-05-14T11:37:25Z")
really? wow. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-londope-plan-now-and-avoid-the-rush/172136/207 "2003-05-14T13:40:01Z")
**garius** , what you don’t realise is that shopping truly _is_ an art form. Just as it takes more than two hours to create a true masterpiece, it takes more than two hours to find just the right item(s) to buy. I spent two _days_ looking for an outfit for a wedding a couple of weeks ago. 🙂 Oh, and you really ought to change the second item to either: _2pm: How to Win At Rounders_ by The Doper **Girls** or [I2pm: How to Lose At Rounders\* by The Doper Lads 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-londope-plan-now-and-avoid-the-rush/172136/208 "2003-05-14T14:16:06Z")
Call me an unreconstructed post-modern feminist if you will, but I’m not into this whole girls vrs boys thing. Mixed teams is what it’s about. And not just because I want to be on **Steve’s** team for the quiz. ---
**Author:** ![Anahita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9a28c/32.png) [@Anahita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anahita)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-londope-plan-now-and-avoid-the-rush/172136/209 "2003-05-14T14:22:40Z")
**unreconstructed post-modern feminist** , I agree. I’m happy as long as I’m on **upmf** ’s team. ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-londope-plan-now-and-avoid-the-rush/172136/210 "2003-05-14T14:23:12Z")
but surely its just: 1 GOTO shop 2 PICKUP clothingItem 3 IF clothingItem NEQ goodValue GOTO 1 4 TRY ON clothingItem 5 IF clothingItem NEQ fit GOTO 2 6 BUY clothingItem 7 GOTO Pub I mean come on… its not like you are shopping for power tools or anything! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Anahita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9a28c/32.png) [@Anahita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anahita)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-londope-plan-now-and-avoid-the-rush/172136/211 "2003-05-14T14:26:09Z")
**garius** , when it comes to shoes and make-up, it takes me forever. I actually prefer to shop alone, so I don’t feel rushed. If you’ve got some place you’d rather be, then off with you! I like to browse. I think men (and many women) don’t have the browsing gene. They know what they want. They get it. They leave. I like the wandering around part. But by all means, you are all free to stay in the pub pursuing your life-long ambition of visiting every pub in London. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-londope-plan-now-and-avoid-the-rush/172136/212 "2003-05-14T18:33:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sir Doris \* > \*\*That is very mean, come to think of it. > > We could always wake you in early hours with a drunken phone call, asking you for the answer to a fiendishly difficult quiz question. Just to make you feel included, you understand. \*\* Funnily enough, I was just thinking about asking **ianzin** if he wanted to _contribute_ some fiendishly difficult quiz questions. Or, failing that, I’ll include some questions about things on his website. Start studying now, folks… ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-londope-plan-now-and-avoid-the-rush/172136/213 "2003-05-14T20:57:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sir Doris \* > **For half and hour we do whatever he tells us.** If I dredge the ancient pre-Cambrian memory banks, then perhaps that’s not the _very_ first time a woman has offered to do whatever I tell her for half an hour, but in any case I’m as sure as my grey hairs that it will be the very last. My thanks to the wondrous, fragrant and delightfully boozy **Sir Doris** for this pleasant and truly mind-boggling notion. **jr8** I can provide fiendish quiz questions if you like, but I’m sure there are lots of good sources. As for referring to my website, the most interesting thing on it at the moment is a photo taken last Saturday evening which features our very own beautiful **Tir Tinuviel**. It’s in the News & Chat section. I’m not sure if I’m allowed to post the URL because _technically_ my site is classed as commercial. But I think interested parties will find it if they want to. Or some enterprising soul could always lift it and re-post it somewhere else for all to see. Speaking of photos of **Tir** , she went to an Ann Summers party last night and I’ve seen the photos. Oh. My. God. ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-londope-plan-now-and-avoid-the-rush/172136/214 "2003-05-15T09:29:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ianzin \* > \*\*Speaking of photos of **Tir** , she went to an Ann Summers party last night and I’ve seen the photos. Oh. My. God. \*\* Ack! the image…it burns 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-londope-plan-now-and-avoid-the-rush/172136/215 "2003-05-15T10:05:12Z")
Those photos are rather amusing. Try looking at them whilst completely wasted. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tir\_Tinuviel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tir\_Tinuviel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tir_Tinuviel)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-londope-plan-now-and-avoid-the-rush/172136/216 "2003-05-15T12:26:31Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by ianzin \* > \*\* As for referring to my website, the most interesting thing on it at the moment is a photo taken last Saturday evening which features our very own beautiful **Tir Tinuviel**. It’s in the News & Chat section._\* FireKat? heeeeeeee!!! 🆒 > [@](#): > > \*\*Speaking of photos of **Tir** , she went to an Ann Summers party last night and I’ve seen the photos. Oh. My. God. \*\* heh heh… that’s just the half of it, you didn’t see the ones I wasn’t allowed to put online for legal reasons… :eek: Oh, and **Garius** that story was simply beautiful, only two points though, one: I don’t start off small, it’d be arms not fingers that were being broken… and two: how’d you know about the Ox thing, I thought I had kept that pretty quiet? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-londope-plan-now-and-avoid-the-rush/172136/217 "2003-05-15T12:50:08Z")
Ian, very nice publicity shots! Just one question, re: picture 2. When did you starting modelling for Marks and Spencers? 😛 😉 ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-londope-plan-now-and-avoid-the-rush/172136/218 "2003-05-15T12:55:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tir Tinuviel \* > **it’d be arms not fingers that were being broken…** pfff mindless brute force. where’s the style??? ---
**Author:** ![Tir\_Tinuviel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tir\_Tinuviel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tir_Tinuviel)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-londope-plan-now-and-avoid-the-rush/172136/219 "2003-05-15T12:58:16Z")
The ‘Style’ is in what I do with the severed limbs afterwards… plus my technique for breaking and ripping is kinda funky… wikkik! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-londope-plan-now-and-avoid-the-rush/172136/220 "2003-05-15T13:02:35Z")
**Tir** , you have no class… **CRACK** …argh [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-londope-plan-now-and-avoid-the-rush/172136.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-londope-plan-now-and-avoid-the-rush/172136.md?page=12)