Fresh from the pleasures of HouDope6, I would like to attempt another Dallas/Fort Worth get-together.
Beatle said he would try to come up if it was on a Saturday. Sealemon said he’d come up for dancing on Sunday.
Saturdays are best for me, except for the 19th.
After the last two parties, I’d like to be somewhere quiet so I can hear all the jokes and gossip. A nice, not very busy restaurant would let us eat, but a bar will be open later. I’m thinking a bar in a hotel would be probably be nearly empty, so we could take the place over for the evening.
Lots of hotels in the Grapevine area - I could check them out if that would be convenient for everyone else. Or I’m open to other suggestions.
Any ideas?
…in a state so nonintuitive it can only be called weird…
I’m in, subject to Mrs. Chef dropping my handcuff keys so I can sneak out past the sentries.
But I won’t host this time…it was too much pressure and I think people are still mad at me for acting pissy to the people who didn’t show. grin Glad to hand the tiara to you, Zyada.
I was going to suggest the Grapevine/Bass Pro Marriot too. They’re supposed to have a really neat sports bar in there.
Besides, it’s right there at the Mills for all your overpriced shopping needs, and relatively convenient for a lot of the old Dopers from the AOL board.
I just haven’t been the same since that house fell on my sister.
All I can say is if we’re changing the venue to Austin, I need LOTS of notice. I would prefer to hold the Dallas get-together somewhere in the general vicinity of DALLAS, but hey…I’m not the host. grin
And why make it easier for those Houston hoodlums anyway? they get together all the time. Let 'em work at it a little bit for once, says I. another grin
And I can try for March 11th, it gives me more time to make arrangements. Is there a hotel in Dallas where you can get a room without any pants on, uh I mean with a credit card ? Lion doesn’t allow me to play with plastic.
Oh and Chef we do work hard at our HouDope meetings. It’s not easy to get that drunk !
I swear Ayesha, if you don’t stop giving me these straight lines…
Just give me more info as the day approaches. I’ll need at least one Dallasite’s pager/phone number, so we can arange the meeting. Keep in mind that I haven’t been to Dallas in over ten years.
Dallasite is indeed the preferred nomenclature. It’s based on people from Paris being called parasites (clearly a misspelling on the part of some long-ago clerk…or maybe not).
Most hotels will let you book a room without a credit card, but usually you must put down a cash deposit (an attitude I find insufferable).
March 11 is fine with me. Zyada, just let me know which hotel you decide on. I really don’t think I could make it to Austin; with Mrs. Chef working in retail, she almost never has Saturday AND Sunday off, and I sincerely doubt she would let me go alone grin not that she doesn’t trust me, she just seems to think that if I have any fun that doesn’t involve her I might start wondering if she’s necessary.
What’s the deal with pushing Austin? This thread was started as a Dallas meeting, not a Texas meeting. Although I’m sure the Dallas folk won’t mind anyone else showing up, it’s only polite not to hijack their thread.
If you want an Austin meeting, post a suggestion for an Austin meeting in a new thread. Let the Dallas folks plan a Dallas meeting.
Not to be pissy or anything, but it just seems rude to come in to Zyada’s Dallas thread and start telling them to move it to Austin to make us happy. So we have a 2 hr drive instead of a 5 hr one. And how much does that add to Dallasites’ drive? 5 hrs?
