# DC Lunch Bunch **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 25, 2000, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-lunch-bunch/38283 "2000-10-25T17:47:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-lunch-bunch/38283/101 "2000-12-21T18:00:53Z")
Let’s do it. Newbies, this is the last one of the year, as far as I can tell. Why doncha show up and make it a extry-speshful one for all of us? Huh? Whaddaya say? 🙂 Oh, **Montfort** … I notice we’re almost neck and neck as far as posts are concerned… ---
**Author:** ![dcnewsman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dcnewsman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dcnewsman)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2000, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-lunch-bunch/38283/102 "2000-12-21T20:15:16Z")
Sounds good to me. See y’all there. ---
**Author:** ![dcnewsman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dcnewsman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dcnewsman)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-lunch-bunch/38283/103 "2001-01-03T18:45:22Z")
Don’t forget, the DC Lunch Bunch is set to resume this Friday at noon. We’ll meet at the White House exit of the McPherson Square Metro station. All DC area Dopers are welcome to attend. We do this every other Friday at noon. ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-lunch-bunch/38283/104 "2001-01-04T02:24:00Z")
Sounds good for Friday. I might even be working at McPhereson Sq. that day, which will spare me the hike I usually take from Dupont Circle. Just a note: two Fridays from now (the 19th) I won’t be able to attend, as **Anniz** and I will be in sunny Ft. Lauderdale, FL. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-lunch-bunch/38283/105 "2001-01-04T17:59:17Z")
And you two have yerselves a good ol’ time roasting in Florida while us’ns freeze our tucheses off up here. See you tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![dcnewsman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dcnewsman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dcnewsman)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-lunch-bunch/38283/106 "2001-01-17T20:06:05Z")
…and others. Just want to remind everyone we are scheduled for lunch this Friday at noon. We will meet at the White House exit of the McPherson Square Metro. Montfort emails his regrets (right) as he and Anniz will be sunning themselves in Florida. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-lunch-bunch/38283/107 "2001-01-17T20:46:42Z")
I will try to join you, but I’ll be working Friday, and coming by Metro from Suitland. (Now that we finally have Metro service. :)) Since I can’t leave here _too_ early, and I don’t know how long it’ll take, any chance of choosing an eatery ahead of time so I can join you in progress if the trains take awhile? If it takes me until nearly 12:30 to get there, I’d hate to shoot everyone else’s lunch hour. ---
**Author:** ![dcnewsman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dcnewsman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dcnewsman)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2001, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-lunch-bunch/38283/108 "2001-01-18T21:16:20Z")
How about Au Bun Pain at 14th and I (Eye) Streets? I’m not sure who is coming but there do have vegetarian food if anyone wants. For that, you can use the other enterance to metro instead of the White House exit and the restaurant is across the street. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-lunch-bunch/38283/109 "2001-01-19T14:14:32Z")
I’ve got a bunch of stuff that really needs to be done today, so I don’t think I can make it. I’ll be there 2/3 - my AWS days revert to first-Fridays starting that week. ---
**Author:** ![dcnewsman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dcnewsman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dcnewsman)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2001, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-lunch-bunch/38283/110 "2001-01-19T15:08:13Z")
In that case, let’s just meet at the usual Metro stop…McPherson Square at the White House enterance at noon. Metro traffic was bad this morning so leave yourselves a few extra minutes if arriving by Metrorail. ---
**Author:** ![dcnewsman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dcnewsman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dcnewsman)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2001, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-lunch-bunch/38283/111 "2001-02-01T03:59:21Z")
Attention DC-Area Dopers (and especially Olentzero), we are scheduled to meet for our bi-weekly DC Lunch Bunch this Friday, Feb. 2. We will meet at noon at the White House exit of the McPherson Square metro stop. All are welcome. Who will be there? Montfort and Anniz? PLDennison? RTFirefly? Olentzero? Goboy, Sofa King, anyone else in the area? Sqrl and I will be there. Let us know who to wait for before we head off to our restaurant du jour. ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2001, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-lunch-bunch/38283/112 "2001-02-01T04:10:49Z")
I should be there, work permitting (and it most likely will), but **Anniz** won’t make it, alas. I guess you all will have to come to our party the next day to meet her. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2001, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-lunch-bunch/38283/113 "2001-02-01T14:05:03Z")
See you tomorrow at noon! ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2001, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-lunch-bunch/38283/114 "2001-02-01T17:57:00Z")
I can try, but don’t wait for me. Many of my clients are west coasters who like to conduct all of their business on Fridays, so lunchtime often winds up being the busiest part of the day–that’s right when they’re rolling into their offices. That’s why I’m never able to get out to meet you guys. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-lunch-bunch/38283/115 "2001-02-02T14:28:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RTFirefly \* > See you tomorrow at noon! Yesterday morning at 9am, when I still felt like a human being. How long ago that seems. :rolleyes: I have a really massive cold this morning, and suffice it to say that even _I_ don’t want to be in the same room with me. I’m going to stay home, stay warm, and hope that I’m feeling well enough by tomorrow night to at least put in a token appearance at Montfort’s gathering, so I can meet the beautiful **Anniz**. Being sick on your day off really bites. Sorry I won’t see you guys today. ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-lunch-bunch/38283/116 "2001-02-02T15:00:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RTFirefly \* > **I’m going to stay home, stay warm, and hope that I’m feeling well enough by tomorrow night to at least put in a token appearance at Montfort’s gathering, so I can meet the beautiful Anniz.** Feel better, **Mr. Firefly**! See you tomorrow at seven! ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-lunch-bunch/38283/117 "2001-02-02T16:44:44Z")
**Sofa King** , you should tell them thar Left Coasters to take an extended coffee break as soon as they get in so you can have a decent lunch break. Damn Westerners. Who the hell they think they are, operating on their own time zone like that?! See whoever’s there in 10 minutes! ---
**Author:** ![dcnewsman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dcnewsman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dcnewsman)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2001, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-lunch-bunch/38283/118 "2001-02-15T03:29:50Z")
Yes, it has been 2 weeks already so we will meet at noon on Friday, Feb. 16 at the White House exit of the McPherson Square Metro station. Who will be there? Olentzero, please note this on your calendar. Montfort? Sqrlcub? RTFirefly? PLdennison? goboy? Any other DC dopers? I know you are out there. PS: Snenc…You are just 2 blocks down the street from where I work and another 2 from where we meet. Why not walk up and join us? Email me and I’ll send you my work number if you want. ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2001, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-lunch-bunch/38283/119 "2001-02-15T04:31:14Z")
I might not have any money, though. If that’s the case, could someone spot me $5-6 so a skinny guy who misses his girlfriend on V-day can eat? ---
**Author:** ![dcnewsman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dcnewsman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dcnewsman)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2001, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-lunch-bunch/38283/120 "2001-02-16T03:04:01Z")
I’m sure we can scrape it together…or give you a paper cup and stand you outside the Metro for a few minutes. Better bring a guitar just in case. 🙂 Also, I believe Snenc – the poor intern trying to flee his porno landlord’s abode – will be joining us. Sqrl will be there too (if he’s not still sick). Anyone else? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-lunch-bunch/38283.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-lunch-bunch/38283.md?page=7)