# Bamadope II? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 29, 2001, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bamadope-ii/70534 "2001-06-29T00:38:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2001, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bamadope-ii/70534/61 "2001-07-08T00:45:53Z")
We’re staying at Marriott Fairfield Inn. Our room is like $67 a night, but we got a room with a pull-out sofa bed for the kidlings. They love the sofa beds… ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2001, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bamadope-ii/70534/62 "2001-07-08T18:11:29Z")
Juliana, I think that IS in a good area of town. Lsura, are you going to join us? Ogre, where are you? _sniffle_ ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2001, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bamadope-ii/70534/63 "2001-07-08T18:21:57Z")
At the moment my attendance is still up in the air. I’ve made a reservation, but I’ll know for sure once that week actually gets here. Hoping to make it though. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2001, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bamadope-ii/70534/64 "2001-07-09T03:44:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Nocturne \* > \*\*Juliana, I think that IS in a good area of town. > \*\* Thank you, Empress! 😃 Seriously, we worry about that, especially with two small children. Thank you very much for your insight! We’ve been around Tuscaloosa before, on the way to Birmingham or Atlanta, but have never stayed there. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2001, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bamadope-ii/70534/65 "2001-07-10T02:48:43Z")
See what you get when you go on vacation? I totally missed this. I’ll be happy to help, of course, and as far as I know, I’m free on Aug. 11, so let’s have us a partay! FTR, I gots no problems with kiddies, either. I like em lightly fried with a little lemon juice. Kidding. Tykes are welcome. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Simetra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Simetra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simetra)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2001, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bamadope-ii/70534/66 "2001-07-10T12:52:08Z")
Schway! **Ogre** ’s here. Now it’s on. 🙂 Really glad to hear you can make it man. Otherwise, how would we figure out the tip? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2001, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bamadope-ii/70534/67 "2001-07-10T18:04:40Z")
So we’ll start in the afternoon and spend the night? That wasn’t what I expected, but I guess it could be fun. I’ve never been to Tuscaloosa. All right, I’m in. And I’m up for carpooling too, if **missdav** - uh, if any of you live on the way from Atlanta to Tuscaloosa. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2001, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bamadope-ii/70534/68 "2001-07-10T23:04:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fiver \* > \*\*So we’ll start in the afternoon and spend the night? That wasn’t what I expected, but I guess it could be fun. I’ve never been to Tuscaloosa. All right, I’m in. > \*\* We’re just staying the weekend because we want to enjoy this and have fun. We don’t want to have to worry about driving back to Jackson in the middle of the night. You’d understand if you’ve ever ridden with my husband when he’s tired… (insert hair-raising smilie here) ---
**Author:** ![Osip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4491bb/32.png) [@Osip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osip)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2001, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bamadope-ii/70534/69 "2001-07-10T23:57:31Z")
Well, as you all know I work call 1 week out of 4 for the locksmith company I am working for. Well somehow the schedule has gotten fu… err screwed up and I work one week then off one week then on again. Guess which weekend one of those is? So unless I can convince the bastards who design the schedule to gimme a dinking break I will not be able to make it. WIll let you know as time gets closer. Osip ---
**Author:** ![Sylkyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2001, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bamadope-ii/70534/70 "2001-07-11T01:39:13Z")
Yay! **Ogre** finally found the thread! I, too, was wondering who was going to help with the divvying of the tip there for a while, **Simetra**! August 11 is marked on my calendar, so unless something earthshattering happens on that date, I shall be there, fer sher. **Osip** , I really hope you can make it to this one, since you had to miss the last one, too. Maybe if you ask someone to switch around with you this far in advance, or if they can juggle the schedule just this _once_ you’ll be able to make it. I’ll certainly keep my fingers crossed. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Osip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4491bb/32.png) [@Osip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osip)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bamadope-ii/70534/71 "2001-07-12T12:45:50Z")
Well, silky I am not going to ask. I am going to go in screaming bloody f…ing murder. I looked at the schedule, we have 4 people who run call after hours. Call runs 1 week at a time. Guess who gets to run call once every 3 weeks? Yeppers, the one thing I dispise about my job, Being on call. SO, that schedule will be changed or somehow that phone will just not get answered late in the evening. grrr… I have to run to work now… maybeI should rant about this in the pit tonight. ANyhow Hoping I can make it. Osip ---
**Author:** ![dqa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dqa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dqa)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2001, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bamadope-ii/70534/72 "2001-07-17T16:04:07Z")
I was bored the other day, and I tallied up the cities, as best I could guess, of the Alabamians on the board. Huntsville - 5 Bham - 4 Auburn - 2 Fayette - 2 Mont - 2 Alabaster - 1 Cullman - 1 Hoover - 1 Leeds - 1 Phenix City - 1 Talladega - 1 It burns my hide that Huntsville is beating out Birmingham, but then we were tied until Nightingale defected to Hoover. Maybe a Huntsvillager will follow suit. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2001, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bamadope-ii/70534/73 "2001-07-20T04:11:55Z")
Looks like BamaDope II is gonna be a washout for me, folks. I hate it. I have to attend wedding in Prattville that afternoon, and there’s little to zero chance that I can make it up to Tuscaloosa to meet you guys in time. I’d ditch it altogether, except I don’t trust these two to get safely hitched without my standing over them with a bat. :(:(:(:(:(☹ ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2001, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bamadope-ii/70534/74 "2001-07-20T05:07:51Z")
Ogre ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2001, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bamadope-ii/70534/75 "2001-07-20T05:22:09Z")
I know. Goddammit, it’s my own fault. I knew they were getting married that weekend, but I forgot. Sounds like this BamaDope is gonna be a rockin’ party, and I really, really, **really** hate to miss it. Maybe when BamaDope III rolls around. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Simetra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Simetra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simetra)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2001, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bamadope-ii/70534/76 "2001-07-20T12:24:14Z")
Awww… **Ogre**. ☹ Just won’t be the same without ya man. ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2001, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bamadope-ii/70534/77 "2001-07-27T22:54:20Z")
Okay, so who IS still coming? ---
**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:** [July 27, 2001, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bamadope-ii/70534/78 "2001-07-27T23:01:43Z")
far as I know, we’re still on ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2001, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bamadope-ii/70534/79 "2001-07-28T02:31:21Z")
Hubby and I will be there. We’ve got room to transport 6 people from the Atlanta/West Georgia/East-Central AL area, if you don’t mind making it an early night. -BK ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2001, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bamadope-ii/70534/80 "2001-07-28T06:41:37Z")
To seal my frickin’ fate, I have to be at a professional conference Sunday, so I couldn’t be at BamaDope II even if I could sneak out of the wedding. Just thought you guys should know. Maybe I should be there in effigy. :mad: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bamadope-ii/70534.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bamadope-ii/70534.md?page=5)