# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![SaxFace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SaxFace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaxFace)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2000, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/81 "2000-04-03T13:03:00Z")
Damn. They have a daily happy hour from 4 - 7 pm. Does anyone want to meet earlier to cash in on the deals? ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2000, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/82 "2000-04-03T13:26:00Z")
Hey, good news. My stupid friend is being extra stupid and has backed out of the trip (don’t GET me started…) But that means she won’t be tagging along. My sister might be taking her seat in my car, but I don’t know if she’ll come. I have no qualms ditching her for the night. Now we can talk about my stupid friend all we want! * * * 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:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2000, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/83 "2000-04-03T20:09:00Z")
Official Countdown to the NYC SDMB Pool Party and Pig Roast **One week, Five Days and Counting** Well we’ve got Manhattan and Brooklyn. Now all we need is Queens, Staten Island and Da Bronx and we’ll have the five borough sweep. (Just FYI, each of those screen names appear to be free if you want to create sock puppets to help with this endeavour :)) We can also scratch SwimmingRiddles extra-stupid friend, but as a bonus we may get SisterRiddles (and any sister of hers has gotta be a friend of ours). ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/84 "2000-04-04T16:26:00Z")
Well, it _is_ on Shabbos (with Daylight Savings, it doesn’t end until after 8!), and it’s right before Pesach (Passover), and we’ve got lots of work to do, so I think I’ll have to beg out of this one. But keep me in mind when you’re eating your bacon cheeseburgers! * * * Chaim Mattis Keller [ckeller@kozmo.com](mailto:ckeller@kozmo.com) “Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible. The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks.” – Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective ---
**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:** [April 5, 2000, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/85 "2000-04-05T05:18:00Z")
Damn it, there goes the Esteemed Delegate from Queens. ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/86 "2000-04-05T05:21:00Z")
My dad’s from Queens, how about a Queens once removed? ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/87 "2000-04-05T05:23:00Z")
My mom’s from Astoria. 2 Queens once removed=1 Queens delegate. How’s that? * * * Pork is not a verb. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/88 "2000-04-05T05:25:00Z")
Aw, cmkeller! I guess we will still be there after 8. Can’t you pop in? I’d love to meet you. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2000, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/89 "2000-04-04T18:40:00Z")
Slight dilemma. I will be bringing someone. (I have to have someone to talk to when my thread drops like a stone) but I’m not sure what type of escort I need. My husband is fun, but very low key. He thinks I’m loud and keeps count of how many beers I have. If I want to look responsible and refined I should bring him. My girlfriend is my partner in crime. We go out, drink excessivley and get rowdy. We are the opposite of intellectual stimulation. Who should I bring? ---
**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:** [April 4, 2000, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/90 "2000-04-04T18:42:00Z")
I’ll take “no brainers” for $500, Alex. What is “bring the beer chick?” * * * [NYC IRL III](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/006163.html) is on April 15th. Do you have what it takes? ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/91 "2000-04-04T23:20:00Z")
Official Countdown to the NYC SDMB Dance-a-thon and Debutante Ball **One Week, Four Days and Counting** In today’s news update, C.M. Keller has declined to attend for religious reasons. In response, the Teeming Millions have, so far in vain, to convince him to show up late. In a related development, various attendees are claiming relatives from Queens to make up for his absence (and by the way my mom is from Queens, too, and I was born there, though we moved out to Long Island when I was four after my little sister, Green Bean, came along – it won’t make up for Chaim’s not being there, though). In other news, Biggirl is facing a deep personal dilemma as to whether to bring her somewhat stiff husband ☹ or her drunken and rowdy girlfriend :). Manny has weighed in on this issue, suggesting that she should should “bring the beer chick,” but the rest of the teeming millions are wisely and respectfully declining to get involved in this personal decision of Biggirl’s. [subliminal]_Beer Chick! Beer Chick! Beer Chick! Beer Chick!_ [/subliminal] ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/92 "2000-04-05T12:41:00Z")
Dude, you’ve GOT to work on getting the subliminal messages a little more…submininal. Biggirl, this is truely a quandry. I have friends I love that are lots o’fun, but wouldn’t jive with the SBMB vibe. I’ll hang out with you, if that helps! ---
**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:** [April 5, 2000, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/93 "2000-04-05T15:23:00Z")
So I ran into SaxFace this morning, and she was really excited about the CSNY concert at the Garden Monday night. She was in the fourth row, jumping up and down and screaming “SUITE JUDY BLUE EYES,” and when Neil Young threw his harmonica out into the audience she fought six other people for it and she’s been sleeping with it under her pillow ever since. – Uke, gleefully waiting for the explosion [subliminal]_Beer chick, beer chick, beer chick, beer chick, beer chick_[/subliminal] ---
**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:** [April 5, 2000, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/94 "2000-04-05T15:29:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by manhattan: > \*\*I’ll take “no brainers” for $500, Alex. > > What is “bring the beer chick?” > \*\* Good answer, good answer! Survey says…100!!! * * * ## Joe Cool I don’t make sense but I’ve got my pride I need no meaning, I feel no shame I won’t believe that I’ve got no choice I’m out of control…and I love it ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/95 "2000-04-05T15:31:00Z")
For goodness sake . . .Am I going to have to come all the way in from Philadelphia on Saturday night to bail you people out of jail AGAIN? ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/96 "2000-04-05T15:38:00Z")
Biggirl- Are you bringing a friend ‘cause you are afraid no one will talk to you? Well, I’ve been dyin’ to meet you! I second SwimmingRiddles’ offer! That said, I vote for the beer chick. Bean ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/97 "2000-04-05T15:42:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Billdo: > In a related development, various attendees are claiming relatives from Queens to make up for his absence (and by the way my mom is from Queens, too, and I was born there, though we moved out to Long Island when I was four after my little sister, Green Bean, came along – it won’t make up for Chaim’s not being there, though). Brother Bill–Didja fergit yer Pa? He’s from Queens, too. And we are, too, because we were born there. But that still won’t make up for the absence of C.M.Keller. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![SaxFace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SaxFace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaxFace)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/98 "2000-04-05T15:47:00Z")
Uke, you are an evil, evil man. Be sure your assistant doesn’t open any interoffice envelopes addressed to you marked “confidential”. So, since you have humilated me in front of the online community, please meet me on the 15th around 5pm and buy me some drinks. Then we can get the sax talk out of the way and stake out a good table. I vote for the beer chick. ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/99 "2000-04-05T16:47:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Green Bean: > \*\* Brother Bill–Didja fergit yer Pa? He’s from Queens, too. And we are, too, because we were born there. But that still won’t make up for the absence of C.M.Keller. :(\*\* Um, Bean, our father grew up in Brooklyn, you know that borough south of the Gowanus Canal where the Dodgers played. (Actually, I think he was born in the Bronx, but moved out of there real early to get away from the Yankees fans.) Yes, he later moved to Queens, but he’s a Brooknynite. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014/100 "2000-04-05T16:57:00Z")
I just called him and asked him, noodle-head. He was born in the Bronx, lived in Brooklyn until he was 13, and then his family moved to Queens. He lived there until he was 34 and moved out to the Island. (He spent his college years in Philadelphia.) Therefore, he lived for more years in Queens than Brooklyn. I think he has equal claims to both, and since Brooklyn in well represented here, and we need a Queens-ite, we should claim him as being from Queens. So there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-needs-dope/16014.md?page=6)