# LonDope in April? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 10, 2008, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/londope-in-april/444744 "2008-04-10T08:55:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![CatInASuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3be4f8/32.png) [@CatInASuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatInASuit)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/londope-in-april/444744/41 "2008-04-23T07:56:57Z")
Well, I probably be there from 6pm onwards at least. Look for the Cat in a Suit in a 3/4 length Leather Coat. 🆒 Also looking lost 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/londope-in-april/444744/42 "2008-04-23T08:14:27Z")
Wait, there’s chocolate cake? Not that I was planning to give it a miss anyway, but chocolate cake is just the… er… icing on the cake, if you will. I’ll probably be there 6:30ish. How big is this place? Is is a wander-about-for-hours-before-dying-of-exposure-to-the-elements or a inhale-too-deeply-and-the-building-explodes kind of pub? ETA: Could someone post the address of the pub? I’d like to be able to find it without too much blundering around, and there seems to be more than one Chandos in the general area. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/londope-in-april/444744/43 "2008-04-23T08:32:36Z")
Its [this one](http://fancyapint.com/pubs/pub1054.html). And there should be chocolate cake, provided I’m not too lazy to make it… And I can be there from about 6pm too, was just thinking about those who had slightly further to travel… ---
**Author:** ![CatInASuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3be4f8/32.png) [@CatInASuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatInASuit)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/londope-in-april/444744/44 "2008-04-23T08:32:36Z")
[QUOTE=Dervorin] Could someone post the address of the pub? I’d like to be able to find it without too much blundering around, and there seems to be more than one Chandos in the general area. [/QUOTE] The Chandos, 29 St. Martins Lane, London, WC2N 4ER ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/londope-in-april/444744/45 "2008-04-23T09:18:01Z")
Right, i Should get there about 6pm or slightly before. As usual, in the words of **Crusoe** , i will look like a dodgy used car salesman. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/londope-in-april/444744/46 "2008-04-23T09:27:43Z")
A _bald_ dodgy used car salesman at that… 😉 BTW **Garius** , you going to cross-post this to NADS? ---
**Author:** ![tirial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@tirial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tirial)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/londope-in-april/444744/47 "2008-04-23T12:50:03Z")
I should be around, barring act of London transport/last minute project woes. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/londope-in-april/444744/48 "2008-04-23T21:18:08Z")
So we’re all go for Friday then. 😃 Who wants to be on cake protecting duty? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![mcott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@mcott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcott)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/londope-in-april/444744/49 "2008-04-24T01:54:15Z")
Friday, 1800ish, The Chandos. I’m the guy with glasses with the Canadian accent. ---
**Author:** ![matt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@matt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/londope-in-april/444744/50 "2008-04-24T07:53:19Z")
[QUOTE=Angua] Who wants to be on cake protecting duty? 😉 [/QUOTE] I’d do it, but then who’d protect it from ME? ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/londope-in-april/444744/51 "2008-04-24T08:05:51Z")
[QUOTE=matt] I’d do it, but then who’d protect it from ME? [/QUOTE] Erm… Good question… This could get recursive… Maybe the cake doesn’t need protecting… ---
**Author:** ![CatInASuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3be4f8/32.png) [@CatInASuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatInASuit)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/londope-in-april/444744/52 "2008-04-24T08:26:50Z")
[QUOTE=Angua] So we’re all go for Friday then. 😃 Who wants to be on cake protecting duty? 😉 [/QUOTE] And here was me thinking cakes were for eating. If the cake survives the night, we have done something wrong. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/londope-in-april/444744/53 "2008-04-24T08:31:51Z")
The cake won’t survive. Trust me. I mean, I know that a group of 10 astronomers will finish that cake in less than 15 minutes. The cake will be on borrowed time from when it comes out of the oven… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/londope-in-april/444744/54 "2008-04-24T09:15:26Z")
I’m slightly impressed that you think the cake will survive in the Chandos _on a friday night_. The place will be rammed until gone 8pm at least. I suggest that we aim to be upstairs by the far left of the bar. I’m happy to chuck peeps my mobile number if it helps (just email me). ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/londope-in-april/444744/55 "2008-04-24T09:17:20Z")
[QUOTE=garius] I’m slightly impressed that you think the cake will survive in the Chandos _on a friday night_. The place will be rammed until gone 8pm at least. [/QUOTE] I’ve taken cake into the Chandos on a Friday night before… It survived. If you call being devoured by grad students surviving that is… 😛 Do you mean the sort of enclosed space near the back or the bit with the sofas? ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/londope-in-april/444744/56 "2008-04-24T16:08:22Z")
i was thinking the sort of curvey, semi enclosed bit right at the end, bar-side of the door to the downstairs. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/londope-in-april/444744/57 "2008-04-25T08:41:45Z")
[QUOTE=garius] i was thinking the sort of curvey, semi enclosed bit right at the end, bar-side of the door to the downstairs. [/QUOTE] Ah OK. I get where you mean. See you in a few hours then! ---
**Author:** ![MHaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@MHaye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MHaye)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/londope-in-april/444744/58 "2008-04-25T15:36:27Z")
I have an excuse to run down into London - so I’ll make the effort to amble down from Cambridge Circus and say hi. 'Cos I can. I’ll probably be looking for the sign. Or the cake. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![CatInASuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3be4f8/32.png) [@CatInASuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatInASuit)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/londope-in-april/444744/59 "2008-04-26T16:37:14Z")
Well, it was a pleasure to meet all and sundry and I look forward to doing it again in a few months. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![matt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@matt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/londope-in-april/444744/60 "2008-04-26T18:20:08Z")
Likewise! Although I seem to have a headache today… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/londope-in-april/444744.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/londope-in-april/444744.md?page=4)