# Sarasota Here I Come **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 28, 2006, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarasota-here-i-come/350281 "2006-03-28T19:19:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarasota-here-i-come/350281/21 "2006-03-29T14:06:40Z")
> [@Wile E](#): > > May 31st is my birfday. > > Sarasota is a bit far and I would have to drive over a long bridge. Tampa is less far but also involves a long bridge. I won’t attempt any long bridges unless I have a new car by then. So I can’t make any promises. Where are you? Clearwater? St Pete? Something else entirely? ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarasota-here-i-come/350281/22 "2006-03-29T14:43:51Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Aw, man, now you’re making me wish I was still in FL! _\_ > > So, **swampy** , when will your grand poobahs be sending you to the Nation’s Capitol? I’m way overdue for a swamp-hug! Seems to me that _somebody_ was talking about coming to Orlando to visit a certain Perfect Child[sup]TM[/sup]. I’m just sayin… P.S. I’ll drive if you keep me company and navigate. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarasota-here-i-come/350281/23 "2006-03-29T14:47:07Z")
**FCM** I have no idea. This trip and the one I took to Seattle last May are aberrations on the part of the Grand Poobahs. Usually they like sending me to the midwest. I apparently look like somebody who needs to be in the midwest, specifically southern Indiana, southern Illinois and Iowa. I have never even had an assignment on the east coast, except for one in Jacksonville (when we met), Miami once and one of those Palm places in south Flahrda. ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarasota-here-i-come/350281/24 "2006-04-01T04:39:28Z")
Oh hey whoa. There’s my name. I’m not organizing this one, but I’ll definitely show up. And I’ll be in the country on May 31st, so **bear** or **Shibb** can come pick me up. So, who’s doing the planning? -foxy ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarasota-here-i-come/350281/25 "2006-04-01T04:58:43Z")
Pick you up? As if. I dont care what we do on Friday or Saturday. But if you’ll be around for Sunday morning, I call Shepards! ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarasota-here-i-come/350281/26 "2006-04-01T06:19:19Z")
You’ll come and pick me up just to have another conjugal visit with my comfortable bed. 😉 -foxy ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2006, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarasota-here-i-come/350281/27 "2006-04-05T16:31:40Z")
**BUMP** I just got off the phone making travel arrangements with TPTB. I’ll be staying at a Holiday Inn in Sarasota. It’s on Lake Osprey Drive. I have no idea what that means but I will assume there’s more than one HI in Sarasota. As I said earlier, I’m open to either Sarasota or Tampa and a Saturday get together would be good too. Heck, I’m there, might as well make a weekend out of it. If we decide on Tampa, I’ll just need to grab a hotel room there. Maybe some kind Tampa doper can recommend a place close to a place where we could meet for a Dopefest. So, we gonna do this? Sarasota or Tampa? What we gonna do? This is a golden opportunity to entertain me. I know y’all want to. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2006, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarasota-here-i-come/350281/28 "2006-04-05T17:07:19Z")
Depends on what you want to do… I assume it should involve either food and/or frosty beverages? ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2006, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarasota-here-i-come/350281/29 "2006-04-05T17:43:00Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > **BUMP** > So, we gonna do this? Sarasota or Tampa? What we gonna do? This is a golden opportunity to entertain me. I know y’all want to. 😃 For purely selfish reasons, I vote for Sarasota. (It’s only half as far for me that way.) **LadyFoxFyre** , You would be very red if you knew that way in which I misread your last post. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2006, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarasota-here-i-come/350281/30 "2006-04-05T17:52:58Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > Depends on what you want to do… I assume it should involve either food and/or frosty beverages? And them’s just the appetizers! 😃 Meeting for an afternoon and/or evening revelry in a local establishment that provides both would be good for me. I’m up for most anything. **Hypno-Toad** I’m worth a drive to Tampa but as I said either place is good for me. Egotistical? Moi? ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2006, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarasota-here-i-come/350281/31 "2006-04-05T20:35:26Z")
I nominate **LadyFoxFyre** ’s place for you to stay near Tampa. Her bed is awesome! But she hogs the covers. I don’t give a shit if they _are_ hers! This should turn out well. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarasota-here-i-come/350281/32 "2006-04-05T20:42:40Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > **LadyFoxFyre** , You would be very red if you knew that way in which I misread your last post. I’m not sure you misread it. But she’s got a bad migraine right now and not able to defend herself, so this is a good time for you to pick on her. If we meet in Sarasota then I’d prefer Friday, since I’m part of the way there already. I live in the absolute worst part of Tampa for getting to Sarasota. Or we could meet in Sarasota on Friday and then again in Tampa for Saturday. Where are you coming from, Mr. **Toad**? ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarasota-here-i-come/350281/33 "2006-04-06T11:52:50Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > If we meet in Sarasota then I’d prefer Friday, since I’m part of the way there already. I live in the absolute worst part of Tampa for getting to Sarasota. Or we could meet in Sarasota on Friday and then again in Tampa for Saturday. Where are you coming from, Mr. **Toad**? I’m coming from Fort Myers. As a 9-5 kind of guy, I prefer weekends. Let’s see if I can force the rest of the attendees to my will. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarasota-here-i-come/350281/34 "2006-04-06T12:38:43Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > I’m coming from Fort Myers. As a 9-5 kind of guy, I prefer weekends. Let’s see if I can force the rest of the attendees to my will. As long as we don’t stare directly into your eyes I’m sure we’ll be fine. Must. Not. Look. ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarasota-here-i-come/350281/35 "2006-04-06T17:02:09Z")
> [@Bear\_Nenno](#): > > I nominate **LadyFoxFyre** ’s place for you to stay near Tampa. Her bed is awesome! But she hogs the covers. I don’t give a shit if they _are_ hers! > > This should turn out well. Yeah, this should turn out well indeed. We are **not** nominating my place for a dopefest, no matter how comfortable the bed is. And **Hypno-Toad** , I absolutely mean “conjugal visit with my bed”. He doesn’t come here to see me. He comes here to take naps. -foxy ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarasota-here-i-come/350281/36 "2006-04-06T22:57:31Z")
As wondrous as I am, I do need to know where to be when. I can’t be in both Sarasota and Tampa. There’s just so much of da **swampbear** to spread around after all. 😃 Really, I am amenable. I want to do this at a time and place for maximum doper meetage. Don’t make me appoint a fearless leader! **Aguecheek** already warned y’all about that. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarasota-here-i-come/350281/37 "2006-04-07T06:16:57Z")
Are you gonna go to clown school? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarasota-here-i-come/350281/38 "2006-04-07T12:37:24Z")
> [@ouryL](#): > > Are you gonna go to clown school? 😃 I thought that was in Tallahassee? ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarasota-here-i-come/350281/39 "2006-04-07T12:40:02Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > I thought that was in Tallahassee? That where the clowns go _after_ they Graduate. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarasota-here-i-come/350281/40 "2006-04-07T16:24:42Z")
> [@ouryL](#): > > Are you gonna go to clown school? 😃 I sometimes contemplate a career change. I wonder if being an evil clown pays well… So, Sarasota, Tampa or both? I’m up for dopin’ all weekend. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarasota-here-i-come/350281.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarasota-here-i-come/350281.md?page=3)