# Toronto area Dopers? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 13, 2000, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-area-dopers/13867 "2000-02-13T19:37:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Squee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@Squee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squee)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-area-dopers/13867/1 "2000-02-14T06:29:00Z")
I was planning a trip to the Toronto area in about a week, but my plans changed. I still would like to make a trip in a month or so. I know there are quite a few Canadian Dopers, but how many in the Toronto area? Stand and be counted! Do any of you have regular get togethers? * * * The most rewarding part was when I got my money! -Dr. Nick Riviera ---
**Author:** ![Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6de8d8/32.png) [@Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilgore_Trout_1)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2000, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-area-dopers/13867/2 "2000-02-13T19:37:00Z")
aye, there is me. * * * _what is essential is invisible to the eye -the fox_ ---
**Author:** ![xekul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/838e76/32.png) [@xekul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xekul)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2000, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-area-dopers/13867/3 "2000-02-13T20:05:00Z")
Hamilton, here. * * * ``Beware of elaborate telescopic meat; it will find its way back to the forest.’’ – William S. Burroughs, Tom Waits ---
**Author:** ![Globe-trotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@Globe-trotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Globe-trotter)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2000, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-area-dopers/13867/4 "2000-02-13T20:47:00Z")
I’m here! I’ve yet to see a meeting, though. * * * “I thought: opera, how hard can it be? Songs. Pretty girls dancing. Nice scenery. Lots of people handing over cash. Got to be better than the cut-throat world of yoghurt, I thought.” - Seldom Bucket ---
**Author:** ![Prose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Prose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prose)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2000, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-area-dopers/13867/5 "2000-02-13T20:51:00Z")
Yep, take my vote too. In London, but permanant address is Mississauga GTA… * * * I am a fire whose flames lick and spit at the boundless sky forever desiring wonderous consummation -me ---
**Author:** ![Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6de8d8/32.png) [@Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilgore_Trout_1)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2000, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-area-dopers/13867/6 "2000-02-13T20:51:00Z")
where in toronto are you, MoosieGirl? * * * _what is essential is invisible to the eye -the fox_ ---
**Author:** ![Globe-trotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@Globe-trotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Globe-trotter)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2000, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-area-dopers/13867/7 "2000-02-13T20:54:00Z")
I live downtown, Kilgore Trout. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2000, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-area-dopers/13867/8 "2000-02-13T21:37:00Z")
London, guilty… ---
**Author:** ![Prose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Prose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prose)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2000, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-area-dopers/13867/9 "2000-02-13T21:56:00Z")
elbows3, Are you a student at a HS, UWO, or Fanshaw, or working in London? * * * I am a fire whose flames lick and spit at the boundless sky forever desiring wonderous consummation -me ---
**Author:** ![drollman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f04885/32.png) [@drollman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drollman)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-area-dopers/13867/10 "2000-02-14T03:42:00Z")
Sorry I’m late but there was trouble at the lab with the monkeys and the biting and the screaming and the pulling of hair and such. I’m here! Oakville resident by night, Toronto employee day! * * * My fate keeps getting in the way of my destiny. ---
**Author:** ![WallyM7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-area-dopers/13867/11 "2000-02-14T03:51:00Z")
Oakville? Rich guy, huh? Etobicoke here. Well, it used to be. We got taken over by Toronto a couple of years ago. It was a bloodless coup. ---
**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-area-dopers/13867/12 "2000-02-14T05:42:00Z")
Doesnt anybody ever come to Alberta? * * * We are, each of us angels with only one wing,and we can only fly by embracing one another ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-area-dopers/13867/13 "2000-02-14T06:24:00Z")
I wouldn’t totally rule out a Toronto meeting, but with two plus hour drive it would have to coincide with my days off. And of course in March, weather would certainly be a factor. ---
**Author:** ![drollman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f04885/32.png) [@drollman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drollman)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-area-dopers/13867/14 "2000-02-14T16:07:00Z")
Gee, Wally…I’m not a rich Oakville guy. In fact, I was born and raised in Etobicoke. Just a stones throw from the Long Branch GO Train station…swilling beer at the Eastwood…riding the Lakeshore Streetcar…getting a burger and fries at “Arnold’s.” (Yes, dopers, same name at the Happy Days hang-out, only 10 times cooler and nowhere near as clean!) ---
**Author:** ![WallyM7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-area-dopers/13867/15 "2000-02-14T16:12:00Z")
Wow! I used to live on 42nd. St. Right across from Marie Curtis Park. And Ive hoisted a few at the Eastwood, back when Bob Laurent owned the joint. ---
**Author:** ![Squee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@Squee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squee)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-area-dopers/13867/16 "2000-02-14T21:05:00Z")
Sounds like there are enough of you guys, so why don’t you guys set up a meet? I would do it myself, but I’m in California and I don’t know exactly when I’ll be back next. ☹ * * * The most rewarding part was when I got my money! -Dr. Nick Riviera ---
**Author:** ![Studi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Studi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Studi)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-area-dopers/13867/17 "2000-02-14T22:57:00Z")
Yeah, Toronto here. Studi * * * When I grow up, I want to be the Minister of Silly Walks. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-area-dopers/13867/18 "2000-02-14T23:07:00Z")
CanadianSue - i know what you mean, no one ever comes to Manitoba either. It’s not that bad here. * * * Does the noise in my head bother you? ---
**Author:** ![drollman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f04885/32.png) [@drollman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drollman)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-area-dopers/13867/19 "2000-02-15T15:55:00Z")
Okay, Wally. This is getting creepy. I was raised on Hilo Road. And (True Fact!) Marie Curtis (yes, the one the park is named after) is my aunt. Who wasn’t a friend of Bob and Paul. (Many’s the time I got loaded in Paul’s Pub, downstairs at the 'wood. Like i said. This is getting creepy… * * * My fate keeps getting in the way of my destiny. ---
**Author:** ![mega\_the\_roo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mega\_the\_roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mega_the_roo)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-area-dopers/13867/20 "2000-02-15T16:28:00Z")
**Poysyn and CanadianSue** , i’m just as lonely sandwiched in the middle. ☹ * * * “If anybody wants a sheep, that is proof that he exists.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toronto-area-dopers/13867.md?page=2)