# London dope? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 10, 2000, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-dope/21966 "2000-06-10T18:56:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-dope/21966/1 "2000-06-10T18:56:07Z")
Would anyone be interested in a London dope meet over the next few weeks? I’d be happy to arrange a venue if anyone responds to this… ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-dope/21966/2 "2000-06-10T21:37:05Z")
I would be, been dying to get back to London. As long as it’s on a Friday or Saturday night. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-dope/21966/3 "2000-06-10T21:38:17Z")
Well, the next few weeks, there’s this little footy tournament going on in my country of residence. Otherwise, I am usually in London every two or three weeks, since my girlfriend lives there. I’d be more than happy to attend a LondonDope fest someday! ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-dope/21966/4 "2000-06-10T21:39:00Z")
Sounds good to me. I’ll see who else responds! ---
**Author:** ![PeterB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e8c25b/32.png) [@PeterB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PeterB)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-dope/21966/5 "2000-06-10T21:41:10Z")
I’m new here. But would it involve drunkenness and debauchery? This is London, UK, right? ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-dope/21966/6 "2000-06-10T21:45:20Z")
Drunkenness and debauchery to order, no doubt! ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-dope/21966/7 "2000-06-10T21:57:55Z")
At DublinDope we voted Coldfire the doper we all most want to meet (well we didn’t exactly take a vote but I think that was pretty much the general idea) so let’s have it after the tourney ends. But not the weekend immediately following it, 'cause there’s a friendly here in Dublin involving a certain Glasgow team and I’m not going anywhere 🙂 July 14 or 15 maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-dope/21966/8 "2000-06-10T22:02:21Z")
Fine with me, especially if this job working with the England team in Brussels comes true! I can’t make June at all, or the weekend of July 15, but should be okay any other time. ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-dope/21966/9 "2000-06-10T22:04:22Z")
What job, did I miss something? How bout July 21 or 22? ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-dope/21966/10 "2000-06-10T22:06:52Z")
Thread down below…a mate rang me this evening and said his mate, who’s a sports agent for several of the England players, desperately needs help over in Brussels. Flights, expenses, meals paid, plus tickets to all England’s games. I’d love it if it was true, but it’s now 11:07pm and I haven’t had a ring-back yet, so who knows? Fingers crossed… ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-dope/21966/11 "2000-06-10T22:09:20Z")
I plan my London weekends without too much notice, so saying “Yes” now is impossible. But it is certainly a possibility! Ruadh, after how many pints of Guinness did you guys decide I was the poster you most wanted to meet?? ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-dope/21966/12 "2000-06-10T22:14:04Z")
Good luck Matt! (for your job, not for your country … nothing personal :)) Coldy, I think it was actually during the first round we discussed this. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-dope/21966/13 "2000-06-10T22:15:37Z")
I hope the sentiment remains the same after we beat your Limey arses in the Euro 2000 Finals 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-dope/21966/14 "2000-06-10T22:18:02Z")
None of us are Limeys !!! ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-dope/21966/15 "2000-06-10T22:23:20Z")
I’m sorry, Coldy, I couldn’t hear you over the noise of Bergkamp blubbing as Rijkaard tried to get him on a plane… And in the spirit of friendly competition…[take a look here](http://www.euro2000.org/en/replay/1996/engned/0,1068,,00.html). PS I’m not one of those Fat Les-liking, jingoistic, “hey-wouldn’t-it-be-a-good-idea-to-start-a-riot” England scum. But football is football, after all! ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-dope/21966/16 "2000-06-10T22:31:56Z")
> [@](#): > > I hope the sentiment remains the same after we beat your Limey arses in the Euro 2000 Finals 😃 Two Yank’s and two Paddy’s and it was at the beginning of the night . I’d been in a pub before so maybe I _was_ under the anfluence of ilcohol 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-dope/21966/17 "2000-06-10T22:54:25Z")
To keep things simple, ANYONE who is a natural speaker of the English language is an arch enemy of me for the next four weeks 😉 My question is: does this cover Americans, or doesn’t it? Mattk, check out the Dutch team line-up at the bottom of that link… something is seriously wrong with that database! ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-dope/21966/18 "2000-06-10T22:57:18Z")
Coldy - I did wonder why the Swiss team were there. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2000, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-dope/21966/19 "2000-06-11T01:45:49Z")
**Sigh**. After living here for nine months, this is my last night/morning in England, and _now_ you bring up a London meeting? BTW, does anyone know if there’s an Ohio dope squad? I’ll be spending a month there in August… ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2000, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-dope/21966/20 "2000-06-11T01:56:14Z")
and I reside in a sleepy little university city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, named London. I am so depressed. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-dope/21966.md?page=2)