# OK, Upper-Midwest Dopers... This is It **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 18, 2000, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-upper-midwest-dopers-this-is-it/46206 "2000-12-18T19:54:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-upper-midwest-dopers-this-is-it/46206/81 "2001-02-02T04:49:49Z")
Oh, yeah, I forgot… I called Hooter’s today to make a reservation, and guess what! They don’t take reservations! Even for large parties. So, what we’re gonna need to do is make sure as many of us are there as close to 1 pm as possible. I have to be at the Maul for training in the morning, so I can be there early and at least get the table. Robin ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-upper-midwest-dopers-this-is-it/46206/82 "2001-02-02T12:45:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Skarecrow \* > \*\*I’m in door county…(up on the thumb) and also have to work on Sat. and my lunch break is no where near that long. But keep me posted on the next one. \*\* I’m in NoDak. Keep me posted too . . . Tripler ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2001, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-upper-midwest-dopers-this-is-it/46206/83 "2001-02-03T06:41:23Z")
Hooter’s, for those who haven’t read the entire thread, is on the 4th floor of the MOA on the East Side. I will be there, looking utterly adorable in a denim jumper and I’ll have a copy of Virgil’s Aeneid with me. [This is what I look like](http://www.geocities.com/sdpeoplepages/msrobyn.html). The table will be under the name of Cecil Adams, in any case. Robin ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2001, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-upper-midwest-dopers-this-is-it/46206/84 "2001-02-03T17:19:18Z")
Bump shabump shabiddlediddledee bump. Please be there or kindly be square. ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2001, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-upper-midwest-dopers-this-is-it/46206/85 "2001-02-04T01:40:58Z")
So tell me, **LNO** , how far away from being square was I? Was nice meeting you and **racerx** 🙂 Was great seeing you again, **Rysdad** …and, dammit, I owe you a beer! Think I’d be so distracted by pinball that I wouldn’t notice? **Robin** and **Spider Woman** and **imthjckaz** - was nice seeing you guys, too…will try not to be such a stranger. ---
**Author:** ![Ad\_Noctum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b19c9b/32.png) [@Ad\_Noctum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ad_Noctum)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2001, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-upper-midwest-dopers-this-is-it/46206/86 "2001-02-04T05:38:19Z")
hey Rysdad, I caught 2 Eelpouts today, a 27 incher and a 36 incher. Damned big. Damned Scary, and DAMNED ugly… Everyone un-educated in the ways of the North, Eel pout look like… this the most disgusting fish I’ve ever seen… [http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/information\_and\_education/publications/volunteer/articles/burbot\_profile.html](http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/information_and_education/publications/volunteer/articles/burbot_profile.html) ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2001, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-upper-midwest-dopers-this-is-it/46206/87 "2001-02-04T13:39:28Z")
**imthjckaz** and I enjoyed seeing **msrobyn** , **chique** , and **Rysdad** again, and it was very nice to meet **LNO** and **racerx**. **Ad Noctum** was there in spirit, and he called afterwards from a fish house with tales of eelpouts, which, interestingly enough, **Rysdad** had just been telling us about yesterday afternoon. Minnesota men: ya gotta love 'em. (But not eelpouts.) ----:)/ x o x o x ----///\\ ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2001, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-upper-midwest-dopers-this-is-it/46206/88 "2001-02-04T16:41:42Z")
Wow. Those’re some big 'pouts, Ad. Outta get 'em mounted! 🙂 Yep, a good time was had by all at the Maul. Food, beer, air hockey, pinball, intelligent and funny conversation…it don’t get no better’n that. And now I have a dopette indebted to me. Maybe at the next dope fest we can settle it on the pool table. ::evil grin:: I sure was nice to see you all. I hope we can get together sometime in the summer. Rysdad ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2001, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-upper-midwest-dopers-this-is-it/46206/89 "2001-02-04T23:26:35Z")
Had a great time at the fest. It was fun seein’ **chique,msrobyn** , and\*\* Rysdad\*\* again. Rysdad, loved the chipmunk story.🙂 It was also great to meet **LNO** and **racerx**. Meeting at HOOTERS was also nice. LNO we have got to get that PECKERS restraunt idea some more thought.😃 racerx, we won’t tell anyone you picked up that Hooters application, I think you will fit in just fine.😃 I hope we do it again soon, when it’s a little warmer. You can count on **Spider Woman** and I on being there. Next time I’ll try to be not as tired. See, I didn’t even mention that you guys thought there was something goin’ on with chique and Rysdad.😃 ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2001, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-upper-midwest-dopers-this-is-it/46206/90 "2001-02-04T23:28:13Z")
Gah! I have to remember I owe you a beer til _summer_?!? _sigh_ Well, on the other hand it’ll give me plenty of time to practice my pool-sharking skills 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2001, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-upper-midwest-dopers-this-is-it/46206/91 "2001-02-05T03:17:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LNO \* > \*\*Please be there or kindly be square. \*\* Guess I’m square. ☹ I _really_ need to get myself a car. ---
**Author:** ![racerx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5e9695/32.png) [@racerx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racerx)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2001, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-upper-midwest-dopers-this-is-it/46206/92 "2001-02-05T15:00:32Z")
Hey all, that was a hooter-ific time! Thanks for being nice to a newbie. And _ahem_ I thought we were going to keep my new profession a secret. Besides I still have to go to hooters college and learn how to get a tan in January, bang plates together, and how to ask banal questions like “Yeah, they put alot of fries on that didn’t they _slightly cock head to right_ ?” Sorry I had to jet early, but my apartment is now almost completely livable. Can’t wait till the next one. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2001, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-upper-midwest-dopers-this-is-it/46206/93 "2001-02-05T17:45:33Z")
Yabbut **racerx** , you’ll be in the best possible position to eradicate ignorance, not to mention the exception that proves the rule; namely that all Hooter’s waitresses are airheads. (Methinks this is why they won’t take reservations. They can’t remember that far ahead.) 😃 Seriously, tho… I’m gonna miss you guys. _sniff_ Maybe you guys can have the next one in Duluth or something. Robin [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-upper-midwest-dopers-this-is-it/46206.md?page=4)