# Houston, Texas Dopers Recongregate! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 23, 2000, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-texas-dopers-recongregate/16487 "2000-03-23T04:56:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2000, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-texas-dopers-recongregate/16487/61 "2000-04-09T22:06:00Z")
I hope this posts OK. The board is acting a wee bit odd for me right now. HouDope maps: [The Ale House](http://www.seisimage.net/alehouse.gif) [Joe’s Crab Shack](http://www.seisimage.net/joescrab.gif) ---
**Author:** ![purrplebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90ced4/32.png) [@purrplebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purrplebear)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2000, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-texas-dopers-recongregate/16487/62 "2000-04-09T22:53:00Z")
Thanks! I’ll see you all there! I’ll be the one in something purple, no doubt. 😉 That reminds me, how will I know who any of you are? How will I find you? * * * You are more than a human being, you are a human becoming. Og Mandino That’s my name, not a description. I am neither purple nor a bear. Okay, so I’m purple.\ ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2000, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-texas-dopers-recongregate/16487/63 "2000-04-10T02:45:00Z")
Just in case I decide to fly in, would anyone be able to pick me up from the airport (either one) and put me up for the night? I would need to leave before the Sunday get-together. * * * I do not merely dance. I bewitch. I seduce. I enchant and I bewilder. Throw money. (Gee, Wally must have seen me dance!) ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2000, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-texas-dopers-recongregate/16487/64 "2000-04-10T04:21:00Z")
zydeco gal, we’d love to see you. When are you thinking of flying in? Accomodations? Well, I am not a great housekeeper. Uh, we’ll talk. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2000, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-texas-dopers-recongregate/16487/65 "2000-04-11T03:28:00Z")
Beatle, your housekeeping can’t be much worse than mine. 😃 I would be coming in Saturday afternoon (I’m open on that) and leaving Sunday morning. I need to leave Houston no later than 10:30 or 11 Sunday morning. ---
**Author:** ![Cessandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-texas-dopers-recongregate/16487/66 "2000-04-13T02:18:00Z")
Just checking in OK, Saturday, May 6th, PM: The Ale House 2425 W. Alabama (one block east of W. Alabama and Kirby) (713) 521-2333 Sunday, May 7th, time? Joe’s Crab Shack 6218 Richmond (713) 952-5400 Right? * * * [Cessandra](http://envy.nu/cessandra/profile/) I would’ve gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for those meddling kids! ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-texas-dopers-recongregate/16487/67 "2000-04-13T03:51:00Z")
**zyada** , I can do the airport transport, I can’t do the overnight. I would like to see you here, if possible (and, by mid-summer or so, I should be able to do a Dallas area thing). Let me know if that’ll work. Cess, yes. You’ve got it right. If you make the Ale House, don’t let me know how you got in, but you’ll be allright with me! Phouka and purplebear still along, I hope? johnny et al? Check in folks! ---
**Author:** ![purrplebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90ced4/32.png) [@purrplebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purrplebear)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-texas-dopers-recongregate/16487/68 "2000-04-13T05:36:00Z")
beatle, yes, I’m still coming! Don’t know yet where I’m going to stay the night, but I’ll figure out something. Still wondering, how will I know any of you? I have never met you. any of you have any pics I can go look at? If you want mine, I’ll have to get back to you with the link, I have forgotten it for the moment(techchick set it up for me). * * * You are more than a human being, you are a human becoming. Og Mandino That’s my name, not a description. I am neither purple nor a bear. Okay, so I’m purple.\ ---
**Author:** ![Cessandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2000, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-texas-dopers-recongregate/16487/69 "2000-04-14T00:08:00Z")
purplebear, if you click the link in my sig you’ll see pics of me and my fiancé. * * * [Cessandra](http://envy.nu/cessandra/profile/) I would’ve gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for those meddling kids! ---
**Author:** ![purrplebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90ced4/32.png) [@purrplebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purrplebear)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2000, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-texas-dopers-recongregate/16487/70 "2000-04-14T01:09:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Cessandra: > \*\*purplebear, if you click the link in my sig you’ll see pics of me and my fiancé. > > \*\* Thanks! I’ll look for you two, then. 🙂 * * * You are more than a human being, you are a human becoming. Og Mandino That’s my name, not a description. I am neither purple nor a bear. Okay, so I’m purple.\ ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2000, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-texas-dopers-recongregate/16487/71 "2000-04-14T01:37:00Z")
Beatle - that’s ok, I can find a hotel if you don’t mind chauffering me everywhere. Which airport is easier for you? Is there a hotel near where you live, or would it be better if I got a room near the ale house? ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2000, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-texas-dopers-recongregate/16487/72 "2000-04-14T03:52:00Z")
Zyada, Hobby is easiest for me. I live about a mile from the Ale House, so anywhere around there is fine. IIRC, didn’t you stay in the Galleria are last time? That would work out just fine as well. Let me snoop out the local places in the next few days and I’ll try and come up with some suggestions. Anybody else going to check in, _kuda-sai_? Oh, yeah, z, that gives us a pinch of time for a birthday breakfast before we get you to the airport. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2000, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-texas-dopers-recongregate/16487/73 "2000-04-14T04:05:00Z")
Zyada, I was going to offer, but there’s no way I’ll be up by 10:30 Sunday. 😉 Seriously, I might can help, but I live in the boondocks. Well, Clear Lake - 20 miles south of downtown. But it isn’t that far from Hobby Airport (20 mins or so in light traffic). (Hobby is probably the airport you want, unless someone lives in Spring or Humble.) h\_thur, welcome aboard. (Oh goody, someone else to corrupt.) Purplebear, no reason to panic or hunt for pics. We’ll be the crazy bunch with the sign that says SDMB. The anticipation is building. ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2000, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-texas-dopers-recongregate/16487/74 "2000-04-14T04:28:00Z")
Anyone mind if I join the party too? I think I may be able to drive down from Dallas for the gathering. Zyada, maybe you can drive down with me. I don’t mind leaving first thing Sunday morning to get you back in time for your performance. I’ll even drive. Email me and we’ll talk about it. * * * Work is fine for killin’ time, but it’s a shaky way to make a living. ---
**Author:** ![ignatiusjreilly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/2acd7d/32.png) [@ignatiusjreilly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ignatiusjreilly)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2000, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-texas-dopers-recongregate/16487/75 "2000-04-14T14:18:00Z")
Alas, Saturday night the 6th will not work for me as I am playing paintball with a large crowd of folks in Conroe. Perhaps _after_ paintball I could join the lot of you? How late are you staying at the Ale House? Sunday might be OK, depending on time… This is quite ironic as I love the Ale House and I hate Joe’s Crab Shack. (Of course, I do know a waitress there who is quite… mmm… waitress…::slobber: 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2000, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-texas-dopers-recongregate/16487/76 "2000-04-14T15:09:00Z")
And so the gathering grows… I’m still coming, and I’m gathering blackmail photos right now of a certain lurker, so I can coerce her into showing up too… * * * You say “cheesy” like that’s a **BAD** thing. ---
**Author:** ![purrplebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90ced4/32.png) [@purrplebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purrplebear)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2000, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-texas-dopers-recongregate/16487/77 "2000-04-14T15:23:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Irishman: > \*\*Zyada, I was going to offer, but there’s no way I’ll be up by 10:30 Sunday. 😉 > h\_thur, welcome aboard. (Oh goody, someone else to corrupt.) > > Purplebear, no reason to panic or hunt for pics. We’ll be the crazy bunch with the sign that says SDMB. > > The anticipation is building.\*\* Cool! Great, I’ll see you all there!! Thanks, Irishman. * * * You are more than a human being, you are a human becoming. Og Mandino That’s my name, not a description. I am neither purple nor a bear. Okay, so I’m purple.\ ---
**Author:** ![ignatiusjreilly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/2acd7d/32.png) [@ignatiusjreilly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ignatiusjreilly)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2000, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-texas-dopers-recongregate/16487/78 "2000-04-17T23:29:00Z")
After reading about the goings on in NYC last weekend, I am warming up a little more to the idea of getting together and trying to outdo that whole bunch. I might have to be late that night, but I’ll make up for it if! Count me in… ---
**Author:** ![ignatiusjreilly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/2acd7d/32.png) [@ignatiusjreilly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ignatiusjreilly)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2000, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-texas-dopers-recongregate/16487/79 "2000-04-17T23:31:00Z")
::burp:: Guess I’m already startin’ to slur just a little bit. Whoo-hoo! ---
**Author:** ![Road\_Rash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@Road\_Rash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Road_Rash)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2000, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-texas-dopers-recongregate/16487/80 "2000-04-18T00:11:00Z")
You’ve got me curious. I live close by. Actually down Alabama the other side of Sheppard behind the W. Alabama Ice House. Look for a big goofy guy with earrings and a shaved head. If I am not invited, just ignore me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-texas-dopers-recongregate/16487.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/houston-texas-dopers-recongregate/16487.md?page=5)