# Boston Mini-Dope Anyone? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 17, 2003, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-mini-dope-anyone/162015 "2003-03-17T15:56:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-mini-dope-anyone/162015/101 "2003-04-29T23:57:21Z")
Thank you all for thinking of me, but I won’t be able to attend this time. My wife is going on a much needed mini vacation to Martha’s Vineyard this weekend with some women friends and I need to get my butt home Friday night so she can pack and sell the concept to the Little Lagomorph, age 3 (“Mommy won’t be around this weekend, Honey, but Daddy knows how to make peanut butter and Fluff too!”) It would be nice to meet some of you people but maybe next time. I look forward to hearing about your fun, and maybe seeing some pictures. If I get a free Friday night coming up I will let you all know here in MPISMS but it might be short notice. ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-mini-dope-anyone/162015/102 "2003-04-30T01:34:11Z")
Have a fun weekend. Our munchkin is 2 and she doesn’t like it when I go to the grocery store nevermind go away for a weekend! ---
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-mini-dope-anyone/162015/103 "2003-04-30T23:16:04Z")
Anyone else? I know there are a bunch more Boston Dopers out there that haven’t spoken up, yet. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-mini-dope-anyone/162015/104 "2003-05-01T00:48:46Z")
I just found this thread today, as earlier I said to myself, “hmmm, didn’t I see mention of a Boston dopefest?” I can’t make it this time. Try not to cry, everyone. I’m still new here, so maybe I’d better use the time before the next one to make myself known, anyhow. ---
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-mini-dope-anyone/162015/105 "2003-05-01T03:16:35Z")
**Figures**. I will be gone this Friday. There are so many NE dopers and yet I’ve been to two gatherings. Two. Tried to start one that _failed_. _sobs uncontrollably_ 😛 Is it this Friday still? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-mini-dope-anyone/162015/106 "2003-05-01T11:20:14Z")
Yes, still this Friday. Sorry, Erislover and Lorene. Maybe we should start scheduling one for, say, October, to give folks a chance to arrange their schedules. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-mini-dope-anyone/162015/107 "2003-05-01T12:20:33Z")
So dave is it really just you me and parallax at this point? October would be a bad month for me… I’ll be recuperating from surgery and unable to go anywhere for a bit. September I’ll probably be confined to bedrest/house arrest. Maybe we can go for something at the beginning of august when I might still be able to leave the house for a limited time. ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-mini-dope-anyone/162015/108 "2003-05-01T12:32:33Z")
Tomorrow. Cheesecake Factory. 1900 hours. I will be there. That’s enough plans for me. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-mini-dope-anyone/162015/109 "2003-05-01T12:36:37Z")
Woo Woo and now we are 4! ---
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-mini-dope-anyone/162015/110 "2003-05-01T13:06:35Z")
Pammi’s still coming, so it’s 5. ---
**Author:** ![Kn\_ckers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-mini-dope-anyone/162015/111 "2003-05-01T13:19:25Z")
Aargh. Can’t come this week. Hope you all have lots of fun, though! ---
**Author:** ![Pammipoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/87869e/32.png) [@Pammipoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pammipoo)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-mini-dope-anyone/162015/112 "2003-05-01T15:56:13Z")
Alright, 7 pm I can deal with…anyone have a specific place in mind to meet, or are we going to just wander around looking for confused doper-like people? The wandering worked really good at the last one, but it wasn’t quite as big as the Galleria… One last question…how do I get there via the T? ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-mini-dope-anyone/162015/113 "2003-05-01T16:21:55Z")
I hope you all have fun. I wish I could go too, but I’ve got finals and a paper . . . . . . also, I’m mad. Ma-a-a-a-d, I tell you!!! _I_ am Bald Jesus!! And the clowns watch me wherever I go!! \*\*MWAH-HAH-HAH-HAH-HAH-HAH!! \*\* No, I’m kidding. It’s just because of finals. Have some cheesecake for me and enjoy yourselves!! ---
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-mini-dope-anyone/162015/114 "2003-05-01T17:04:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Pammipoo \* > \*\*Alright, 7 pm I can deal with…anyone have a specific place in mind to meet, or are we going to just wander around looking for confused doper-like people? The wandering worked really good at the last one, but it wasn’t quite as big as the Galleria… > > One last question…how do I get there via the T? \*\* How about at the entrance to CheeseCake Factory, since that seems to be the first choice of restaurants? The Galleria is about two blocks south of the Lechmere T station, on the Green Line. On [this](http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?Pyt=Tmap&ed=RlJf9ep_0TrF8HCkPiipOYWxkBxQ64nSlMGYxkUQKDy0aBrtY1ho3QkWoihYXHr5NQtKva8DYHE.j5hj3iIzV2su6SGUw4jvf6na&csz=Cambridge,+MA&country=us&cs=4&name=&desc=&poititle=&poi=&uz=02139&ds=n&BFKey=&BFCat=&BFClient=&mag=9&off=w) map, the station is approximately where the letter “g” is, in Cambridge St, at the top of the map. The purple blob is the Galleria. You could also go to Kendall Square, on the Red Line, which is Main St, at the bottom of the map, if that’s easier for you. But, it’s a longer walk, and it may be raining. ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-mini-dope-anyone/162015/115 "2003-05-01T17:18:01Z")
There’s also a free shuttle that goes from Kendall to the Galleria and back. But if you don’t know what to look for, it might be hard to find. There are a lot of buses that stop in Kendall Square. ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-mini-dope-anyone/162015/116 "2003-05-02T14:46:19Z")
Ok… our sitter bailed so I am offering here for anyone to speak now … It is a small gathering and she’s actually quite well behaved but I really wanted to come and meet everyone… so we will be the threesome (instead of twosome) in front of the cheesecake factory at 7 unless someone vehemently objects to midgets and does so in this thread before we have to leave our house this evening. ---
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-mini-dope-anyone/162015/117 "2003-05-02T15:10:30Z")
I’ll see the three of you at 7. 🙂 Actually, it’ll probably make you easier to spot. I’ll be the big, dumb, confused looking guy. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2003, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-mini-dope-anyone/162015/118 "2003-05-02T20:27:07Z")
Okay, I’m in; see you all at 7:00. (6’ 1", brown hair, goatee. There’s a picture around here somewhere…) ---
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-mini-dope-anyone/162015/119 "2003-05-03T04:00:46Z")
Well, I’d say a good time was had by all. And, no one brought a camera! WooHoo! I win! **Tanookie** turned out to be a cutie, as expected. And the munchkin is just gorgeous! And, more of a flirt than her mom. **Parallax** is just as nice in person as he seems on the board. **Robot Arm** was a surprise, to me. Far more amusing than I’d anticipated. And, folks, I don’t know if he’s available, but **Achernar** is much better looking in person, than he is in the photos he linked to. And, a really nice guy. Definitely one of Boston’s most eligible Dopers, assuming he’s a bachelor. With a truly formidable thirst (for Diet Coke)! Sorry, dude. I couldn’t resist. **Pammipoo** , unfortunately, continued to have the Week From Hell, at work, and couldn’t make it. It turned out to be an early night, as everyone, except the munchkin, seemed to wind down after dessert. But, I’m looking forward to the next one, already. 🙂 Early August, did someone say? ---
**Author:** ![Honeydew\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e19b73/32.png) [@Honeydew\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honeydew_1)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-mini-dope-anyone/162015/120 "2003-05-03T10:22:41Z")
Did ya have that drink for me **Dave**??? Sounds like a good time, better than my Friday thats for f\*\*king sure… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-mini-dope-anyone/162015.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-mini-dope-anyone/162015.md?page=7)