# NYC Needs Dope! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 17, 2000, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014 "2000-03-17T20:00:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Surgoshan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Surgoshan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surgoshan)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/41 "2000-03-21T05:12:00Z")
What in the sweet name of Holy Me was I talking about earlier? I would LOVE to go. I’d love to drink, too, if any of you would be willing to violate a few laws or know of a ‘lax’ establishment… Though, as I said, transportation would be a problem. I’d probably be able to get a bus ticket down there, and I also need to check schedules, but if it’s a Friday I’ll definitely be able to swing it. * * * I sold my soul to Satan for a dollar. I got it in the mail. ---
**Author:** ![Lux\_Fiat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2000, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/42 "2000-03-22T06:17:00Z")
Smoove. What’s the protocol for this sort of thing? Do I walk in and say to the hostess, “Unca Cecil sent me?” Should I look for the people in the back with their hands locked around each others’ throats yelling, “Created!” “Evolved!” “Created!” “Evolved!”…? * * * “Are you frightened of snakes?” “Only when they dress like werewolves.” -Preacher ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2000, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/43 "2000-03-22T06:29:00Z")
Surgosan: I think the date manhatten suggested was the 15th, which is a Saturday. And we’re having dinner at a non-bar to allow us youngin’s the ability to share in the merriment. ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2000, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/44 "2000-03-22T06:49:00Z")
OK-Here’s the Dope: When: Saturday, April 15- 7:ish PM - ?? Where: Acme Eats manny > [@](#): > > Great Jones St. (which is really 3rd St.) between Bowery and Lafayette (maybe Lafayette and Broadway. I forget right now). I guess it’s technically the East Village, but it’s on the western edge of it. So for the possible attendees are: Biggirl Billdo Blue twylight Democritus Fillet Green Bean Lux Fiat (Mystery Guest) manhattan psycat Saxface Surgoshan Swimmingriddles & a crabby friend Ukelele Ike Looks great. I’ll bump the thread when we get closer. xoxo * * * I will not carve gods. ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2000, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/45 "2000-03-22T06:54:00Z")
If I do end up having to bring said crabby friend, let’s all pretend we know nothing about her and her habitual use of drugs and alchohol, OK, kids? * * * DON PEDRO: Your silence most offends me, and to be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour. BEATRICE: No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born. -Much Ado About Nothing, Act II, Sc: i ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2000, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/46 "2000-03-22T06:56:00Z")
“So. Which one of you is SwimmingRiddles and which one of you is the drunken pothead?” ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/47 "2000-03-21T19:00:00Z")
OK, can someone make sure Ike is bound and gagged before I arrive? ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/48 "2000-03-21T19:05:00Z")
Actually, we traditionally leave it to the newbies to start the kinky stuff. * * * [Change Your Password, Please](http://204.95.48.199/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getannounce&ForumNumber=3&Start=2451545.99&End=2451911&Session=2451598.1854) and don’t use HTML, as it has been disabled, but you can learn about superscripts [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000795.html) ---
**Author:** ![SaxFace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SaxFace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaxFace)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/49 "2000-03-21T19:20:00Z")
Manhattan and Uke: Since the three of us know each other really well, let’s get there early. Then we can get a group of tables and accost all the people who come through the door. The secret reason will be to start pounding beer before all the others get there so they’ll think we got drunk on three or four beers. By the time SwimmingRiddles and her friend get there, Uke won’t be able to utter more than, “Ughhh Jmmllllll Slooet.” ---
**Author:** ![SaxFace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SaxFace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaxFace)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/50 "2000-03-21T19:22:00Z")
Wait: what about Eve, Cap’n Crude, CMKeller? TubaDiva, will you be in town? ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/51 "2000-03-21T19:25:00Z")
Sax, that will only add credence to her “drooling moron” theory. ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/52 "2000-03-21T19:37:00Z")
> [@](#): > > By the time SwimmingRiddles and her friend get there, Uke won’t be able to utter more than, “Ughhh Jmmllllll Slooet.” Isn’t that how Uke _normally_ sounds anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Lux\_Fiat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/53 "2000-03-21T20:30:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Lux Fiat (Mystery Guest) ## Well, my name’s Steve, and I’ve been posting since last September, first under the name Rodimus, then Uncle Thomist, and now the one to the left there. That’s the permanent one, 'cause I like it. Oh, and I’m a Libra, and I like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain. “Are you frightened of snakes?” “Only when they dress like werewolves.” -Preacher ---
**Author:** ![Lux\_Fiat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/54 "2000-03-21T20:32:00Z")
Woo hoo! Check that tilde, baby! ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/55 "2000-03-21T20:37:00Z")
Great, Democrituth. Jutht go ahead and mock my thpeech impedimenth. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/56 "2000-03-21T21:15:00Z")
This has been killing me. I wasn’t gonna ask, I was gonna wait until the Fest to see. But I gotta ask. Uke and Sax, do I know you? I’ve been to Loki a few times (found it too loud for getting together with friends, although the seats in back are ultra comfy) I’m always at The Gate (people there are beginning to get kinda uppity tho). I met the owner of Loki at Harry Bowden’s late one night. I’m not a barfly, I swear, I’ve just been to quite a few. My husband is on the FAC board of directors and in the Prospect Park Alliance, so I know plenty of people there. PS 282? Park Slope Middle School? Downstairs Barnes and Noble’s? I hope you’re not someone I’ve pissed off. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/57 "2000-03-21T21:38:00Z")
I don’t think it’s possible to get Uke pissed off, unless of course you are a gun-totin’, Ronald Reagan-votin’ conservative republican. Then it doesn’t matter what you do; he’s pissed naturally. ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/58 "2000-03-21T22:48:00Z")
So is just anybody welcome? If not, how do you get to learn the secret handshake & be considered a part of the gang? Do I need to go to the graveyard at midnight and dig up three bodies? Run the gauntlet and swear a blood oath? Sacrifice a couple virgins? Drive at night with no headlights off and shoot anybody who signals me that my lights are off? (y’know, that really happened to this girl that works with a guy that knows my cousin’s boyfriend’s sister-in-law) 😉 ## I’m game. ## There are no dangerous weapons, Only dangerous men. Joe Cool ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/59 "2000-03-21T22:51:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Joe\_Cool: > **Drive at night with no headlights off** aaauugh!! I mean with no headlights _ **ON** _. ---
**Author:** ![SaxFace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SaxFace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaxFace)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2000, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/60 "2000-03-22T15:17:00Z")
Biggirl, I don’t think I know you, but I might have seen you! I hang out at Loki very often - in fact, I was there last night from 8:30 - 1:00! I’m usually at the pool table, hanging out with the electricians (Aaron, Brendan and Steve) or Larry from Long Island or Danny from Jamaica or the paralegals, Tommy and Joe. Next time you go there, check the pool table chalkboard for “Mel” - that would be me. Joe\_Cool, of course you are welcome to come! It’s a free country, man. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014.md?page=4)