# Cambridge MiniDope **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 10, 2003, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cambridge-minidope/147730 "2003-01-10T13:53:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cambridge-minidope/147730/21 "2003-01-14T17:22:43Z")
Hi guys - you beat me to it. Count me in BTW is anyone here not a mathmo? ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cambridge-minidope/147730/22 "2003-01-14T17:26:40Z")
Social sciences. Would you like fries with that? ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cambridge-minidope/147730/23 "2003-01-14T17:31:13Z")
I remember seeing someone else from cambridge too… hold on… > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by e-logic \* > \*\*Thomas Hobson certainly was (still is!) a well-known figure here in Cambridge. His name lives on not only through “Hobson’s choice” but also though “[Hobson’s Conduit](http://www.follies.btinternet.co.uk/hobsons.html)”, a slightly bizarre and ultimately ill-fated attempt to build a water-course from a local spring to the city centre. > > He’s probably better known here for the conduit than for the ‘choice’, to be honest - mainly because his efforts to build this “New River” have left two huge gutters along [Trumpington Street](http://www.cambridge2000.com/transport/images/PB024033.jpg) into which unsuspecting cyclists and those attempting to park their cars still routinely vanish. 🙂 \*\* Does anyone know **e-logic**? ---
**Author:** ![odd-socks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c67d28/32.png) [@odd-socks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/odd-socks)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cambridge-minidope/147730/24 "2003-01-14T19:31:10Z")
> [@](#): > > BTW is anyone here not a mathmo? yep, **Shade,** me. Literature & linguistics here. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cambridge-minidope/147730/25 "2003-01-14T19:39:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Crusoe \* > \*\*Social sciences. Would you like fries with that? \*\* 🙂 Sorry, I just saw Kabbes’s and kitarak’s discusion in another thread, and it was surreal seeing my lecturers being discussed on the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![kitarak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kitarak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitarak)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cambridge-minidope/147730/26 "2003-01-14T23:32:50Z")
Wow, it’s starting to take off. Anyone want to volunteer to help me organise this? Dates, what to do, etc… I’m admittedly rather a novice at organising big things. and have never been to an actual Dopefest. I suspect I may be rather out of my league here… (Mentally tallies the number of people thinking “Oh, _now_ he tells us. Never mind then.” ;)) Angua: Don’t worry. I promise not to look. 😉 C K Dexter Haven: I’m afraid August isn’t doable. I was thinking of something towards the end of this term (within 8 weeks from now), and August is out of term time anyway (part of the point of this being that we have a fair number of students at Cambridge lurking around here somewhere). Plus there’s the added disadvantage for me that I’d be in the wrong country at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cambridge-minidope/147730/27 "2003-01-15T13:09:04Z")
I’ve semi-organised a couple of Londopes. You don’t need to do much - just suggest a suitable meeting point/pub, give them a call and see if they don’t mind a bunch of us decending o them and perhaps suggest something to do during the day. A museum for the cultured among us maybe? 🙂 Know of any decently priced B & Bs? Aside to **Kabbes** - fancy coming over for dinner one weekend soon? ---
**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cambridge-minidope/147730/28 "2003-01-15T13:31:18Z")
**Fran** , that would be fantastic. Check your inbox! pan ---
**Author:** ![kitarak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kitarak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitarak)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cambridge-minidope/147730/29 "2003-01-15T21:51:04Z")
I don’t need to do much? Excellent. The perfect kind of organisation! So, what kind of dates are convenient for people? I was thinking some time between one and two months from now, preferably a saturday or sunday, but this is very flexible. Incidentally, considering the apparently high number of mathematicians involved I think the culture level shall be low. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cambridge-minidope/147730/30 "2003-01-15T23:06:28Z")
Right, count me in - its only a short train ride from Brum. Places to go, which aren’t pubs, er, I recall that there are a few nice cafes about, just can’t remember anywhere at the moment. We tended to hang out at the Pickerel or the Castle (up the hill), both of which are pub, but very nice ones! I think there’s a couple of coffee houses on Pembroke Street. BTW **Shades** , I was a NatSci/Physicist. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cambridge-minidope/147730/31 "2003-01-15T23:08:25Z")
Oh, and for the culturally inclined - Kettle’s Yard is very nice, or even just wandering around some of the older colleges… And, **kitarak** , on behalf of my SO, I resent your last statement 🙂 He’s a mathmo, and a fairly cultured one at that. ---
**Author:** ![kitarak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kitarak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitarak)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cambridge-minidope/147730/32 "2003-01-15T23:24:25Z")
It was entirely tongue in cheek I assure you, seeing as I’m a mathematician and consider myself to be at least moderately cultured. 🙂 My Cafe of choice is Clown’s (which sounds silly, but really isn’t). If we go there during the day time it won’t be too busy, and it has a nice atmosphere to it (not to mention a lovely selection of food and drink). It’s a little bit of a walk from the town center, but not nearly as much as (for example) the Castle. I think the coffee houses on Pembroke street are prohibitively small, but it’s been a while since I’ve been there so I may be misremembering. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cambridge-minidope/147730/33 "2003-01-15T23:47:08Z")
**kitarak** , my post was intended in similar jest. Most of my friends are in fact mathmos, so I only joke 🙂 Clown’s is my cafe of choice also, but considering it’ll be the middle or end of term it’ll be packed. I’ll admit that the Castle isn’t the closest place by a long shot. I’m at a loss. Anyone else got any bright ideas? Aren’t there a couple of nice places near the Grafton Centre? ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cambridge-minidope/147730/34 "2003-01-16T10:56:27Z")
One or two months from now… we could say last weekend in March maybe? Or around then? Do you have exams or anything? I’d like to have a look round the university. And **Alex B** and I are both philosophy grads - we’ll fill the culture quota 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cambridge-minidope/147730/35 "2003-01-16T11:04:19Z")
**Fran** , really not promising anything but I’ve a feeling that as a graduate I may be entitled to take a couple of guests to top table in formal hall in my college at least twice a term. I’ve never looked into this, but I believe it is the case. If (BIG if) this is the case, would you and **Alex** be interested in a dinner-under-unusual-circumstances? On the other hand, maybe it’s a dumb idea given that there’ll probably be a dope-dinner instead and we won’t know anyone on that top table. But sometimes I have these random thoughts and feel the need to throw them out there just in case. pan ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cambridge-minidope/147730/36 "2003-01-16T11:21:04Z")
I was thinking that lower table formal hall would be a fun kind of dopefest. The tricky thing is thinking what pubs are going to have any space in at all. Almost everywhere will be filled to bursting with students. Dunno if I’ll be able to attend. I worry that I spent far too much money on internet get-togethers last year. (Caius 93-96, NatSci (HPS)) ---
**Author:** ![odd-socks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c67d28/32.png) [@odd-socks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/odd-socks)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cambridge-minidope/147730/37 "2003-01-16T11:50:53Z")
I suppose one could always book the “party” section at McDonalds? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cambridge-minidope/147730/38 "2003-01-16T12:05:24Z")
Actually, can we not just have a Gardi’s? I still wake up at night dreaming of chips-inna-pitta. Mmmm… chips-inna-pitta. I’m bummed you’re planning not to be there **Tansu**. You seriously rock. pan ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cambridge-minidope/147730/39 "2003-01-16T12:23:07Z")
See, these so-called senior institutions _claim_ to be all cultured ‘n’ stuff, but when you see their real culinary inclinations … _The Plain People of the Straight Dope_: And what gastronomic extravaganzas did you indulge in at Edinburgh, Steve? Doner kebabs, Pot Noodles, haggis and the occasional deep-fried Mars Bar, wasn’t it? Yes indeedy. Made me the man I am today. ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cambridge-minidope/147730/40 "2003-01-16T14:09:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tansu \* > **I was thinking that lower table formal hall would be a fun kind of dopefest.** The trick with formals is to do an all change between courses, so you get to talk to everyone. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cambridge-minidope/147730.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cambridge-minidope/147730.md?page=3)