# Montréal Sugardope **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 7, 2003, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/montreal-sugardope/147149 "2003-01-07T15:38:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Elenfair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cc9497/32.png) [@Elenfair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elenfair)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/montreal-sugardope/147149/21 "2003-01-08T04:56:52Z")
I’ll be there. Mnementh should get his ass up to Montreal too. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/montreal-sugardope/147149/22 "2003-01-08T05:39:52Z")
If **Mnementh** goes I’ll MAKE my boss give me three days off and to heck with my parents’ “Everyone on the Intryweb wants to kill you,” I’ll stay with anyone who’d put me up for the night (Heck, I was almost allowed to stay with **LaurAnge** last time). I owe Mnem a matchbook. Not that the rest of y’all aren’t scintillating reasons for visiting, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/montreal-sugardope/147149/23 "2003-01-08T06:43:46Z")
Having **Mnem** there could also help if the snow is really deep. Someone’s gotta be able to see over the drifts… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mnementh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@Mnementh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mnementh)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/montreal-sugardope/147149/24 "2003-01-08T06:44:05Z")
I just DID have my ass in Montreal! I’d love to attend, and shall see what I can arrange. My dopefest attendances have to be carefully picked and chosen. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/montreal-sugardope/147149/25 "2003-01-08T07:14:43Z")
Glad to know you’ll be there **Ellie**. BTW, how’s **Zap, the Wonder-Pup** doing ? OK, that does it. **Mnem** , you’ll have to come, if your presence ensures that of **racinchikki** (she-who-managed-to miss-the-last-two-Mtl-dopefests). And **Cerowyn** , we didn’t have that much snow since the last couple of years. ---
**Author:** ![CuriousCanuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/montreal-sugardope/147149/26 "2003-01-08T14:19:38Z")
I wonder if I can skate there from the canal to the St Lawrence… oh who am I kidding… I’ll take the train 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Elenfair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cc9497/32.png) [@Elenfair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elenfair)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/montreal-sugardope/147149/27 "2003-01-08T14:42:56Z")
Zap-the-wonder-pup is wonderful. Still a bratola though. She’s HUGE now! (well, still tiny as far as width goes, I need to put some weight on her!) Lookin’ forward to sugardope! ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/montreal-sugardope/147149/28 "2003-01-08T16:08:37Z")
I’m there! And **racin** is, of course, more than welcome to stay at my place. Am I right that we’re also thinking ahead to a nice big one again this summer? ---
**Author:** ![Harli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c0e974/32.png) [@Harli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harli)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/montreal-sugardope/147149/29 "2003-01-08T18:56:47Z")
I would _love_ to join all you crazy people, and go through the unofficial newbie initiation of attending a DopeFest…however, something tells me that the forces that be (time and money) will not allow for a vacation. **mnemosyne** just might have to get together and have a mini HammerDope 😉 ---
**Author:** ![CuriousCanuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/montreal-sugardope/147149/30 "2003-01-08T19:31:33Z")
Just curious… I’m 26… how about the rest of you fine folks? ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/montreal-sugardope/147149/31 "2003-01-08T21:06:00Z")
I am twenty years old as of this past Sunday. I was going to be a smartass and say “old enough to know better but still too young to care…” ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/montreal-sugardope/147149/32 "2003-01-08T21:11:16Z")
hehe **Harli** , maybe we could, maybe… 🙂 There are a few people here from the Kitchener/Waterloo area, as well as all the Torontonians (Torontonites?)…I am NOT someone capable of planning a Dopefest (I am quite disorganized in the time dimension). I missed TorDope this summer due to a prior commitment, but I would like to attend one one of these days… ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/montreal-sugardope/147149/33 "2003-01-08T22:52:44Z")
My schedual is like the tides, ie: they turn. But I’d much rather the weekend after St. Patty’s than that weekend, as I have a lot of local drinking on the 17th to do. I’m all for Sugarin’, but I would advise the American Dopers to NOT tell customs officials that they are bringing maple sugar into Canada or vice versa. I’m pretty sure it’s considered produce, and those greedy inspection officials may TAKE your syrup. Hey, side note: when I was little, the local mape sugarer would boil hotdogs in the sap vat and then give them to you to eat. When I was little, it was delicious. As I grew, I became increasingly horrified with the fact that he was selling hot doggie maple syrup. Is this an isolated incident, or is this a Sugaring Staple? ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/montreal-sugardope/147149/34 "2003-01-09T00:46:42Z")
Well, **SwimmingRiddles** it might still have been maple water at that point (it has to boil for several hours at 217F). I had never heard of this, so your experience might have been a first. Also everything points to a spring equinox (22-23) Sugardope. ---
**Author:** ![whatmove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecc23a/32.png) [@whatmove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whatmove)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/montreal-sugardope/147149/35 "2003-01-09T01:08:24Z")
- **Canuck** - I’m 23 this Friday (not, mind you, _next_ Friday 😉 ) -Hot doggie syrup? Ugh. -Anyone have an extra corner I could sleep in up there? -Thanks for the customs reminder **Swiddles** -btw, happy birthday **racinchikki**! We were thinking of you sunday on our way back from NYC -wm ---
**Author:** ![whatmove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecc23a/32.png) [@whatmove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whatmove)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/montreal-sugardope/147149/36 "2003-01-09T01:11:12Z")
oh yeah, i almost forgot: **scott** , _our_ syrup is better 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/montreal-sugardope/147149/37 "2003-01-09T05:23:26Z")
**Swiddles** , the Hebrew National dude on Church St. is cooking his hot dogs in maple syrup, or at least he was the last time I got one there, two months ago. ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/montreal-sugardope/147149/38 "2003-01-09T23:49:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by whatmove \* > \*\*-Anyone have an extra corner I could sleep in up there? > \*\* Nestled in the heart of Montreal, the **Pad of Evil®** can accommodate three guests in the lap of luxury. It’s truly a vacation - leave your cares behind and enjoy our complimentary maid and butler service. Continental breakfast included with your stay. Yes, the **Pad of Evil®** : your _only_ destination this spring! Beware of the bunny. Do not forget to tip the staff. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/montreal-sugardope/147149/39 "2003-01-10T02:43:56Z")
My mother (she gets to call the shots because I haven’t moved out yet) won’t let me go to Montreal unless I bring someone else with me. If we do this the weekend of the 15th, I can bring Vince, and he’ll just need a place to crash - if it’s the weekend after that, he can’t go, and I don’t know who I could bring in his place. ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/montreal-sugardope/147149/40 "2003-01-10T02:56:27Z")
I’m definitely interested. I’ve been hoping to get to a Montreal Dopefest one of these days. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/montreal-sugardope/147149.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/montreal-sugardope/147149.md?page=3)