# TronnaDope, anyone? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 8, 2007, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tronnadope-anyone/410989 "2007-07-08T20:22:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tronnadope-anyone/410989/61 "2007-08-21T00:36:32Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] Ah yes. the southwest. Flat and corny. šŸ™‚ We look forward to seeing you too! **Cerowyn** was suggesting that we [del]hang aropund suspiciously[/del] sit on the patio outside so we can recognise each other. Iā€™ll have something SDMBish, like a sign that says ā€œCecilā€. [/QUOTE] Well, if it doesnā€™t warm up, sitting on the patio wonā€™t be pleasant. And, if it does warm up, the patio will probably be pretty crowded at that time of the evening. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tronnadope-anyone/410989/62 "2007-08-21T01:16:10Z")
[QUOTE=Cerowyn] Well, if it doesnā€™t warm up, sitting on the patio wonā€™t be pleasant. And, if it does warm up, the patio will probably be pretty crowded at that time of the evening. [/QUOTE] Well, weā€™d brought t-shirts, tank tops and convertible cargo pants, but no jackets. Once we arrived at Union Station, Rob picked up a jacket. Just now, I got a jacket at the Mountain Equipment Co-op on King St. Weā€™ll be toasty no matter where we eat! We have a map and see that the pub and the HHOF are walking distance from our hostel here, which is quite charming so far. Who all is going? How many do we have? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tronnadope-anyone/410989/63 "2007-08-21T01:38:35Z")
[QUOTE=Tripler] Yes, **Nawth Tripler** nee **Chucka** [sub]Iā€™ll get a slap for that later, I figure. . .[/sub] were on the corner of King and Peter, and we had to figure out which way was North. I pull off my trusty Fossil watch, and began aligning it to the sun. This did two things: 1. It began giving me a reference point to North/South and 2. it sent up the **NERD** signal, and a friendly Torontan came up and saved me innumerable minutes and just pointed towards North. I like this town already. [/QUOTE] Finding North is easy. Itā€™sā€¦ _that_ way. šŸ™‚ Sending up the NERD signal, on the other hand, is a work of art. {Itā€™s ā€œTorontonianā€, by the way.) Actually, for purposes of street navigation and such, north is defined as the direction away from the Lake Ontario. In each township, the early British colonists drew a line roughly parallel to the lakeshore, roughly east-west, and _declared_ it to be the east-west reference: the ā€œbaselineā€. North, by definition, is the direction you are looking when you are at ninety degrees to the baseline and facing away from the lake. All streets are named and numbered with reference to this grid. This holds true even at the western end of the lake, in Mississauga and points west, where the baseline follows the lakeshore at a forty-five-dgree angle and is more accurately described as a northeast-southwest line. The baseline is still logical east-west. This leads to some wedge-shaped situations between Toronto and Mississauga, but that doesnā€™t affect the navigation. Much. At the end of the lake, though, where Hamilton is located on the _south_ shore, and curves around to meet Burlington on the northā€¦ that gets confusing. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tronnadope-anyone/410989/64 "2007-08-21T01:40:03Z")
As for who is going to be there? Iā€™m not sure. Myself and **Cerowyn** , for sure. **Kythereia** , too, I think. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2007, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tronnadope-anyone/410989/65 "2007-08-21T14:04:00Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] As for who is going to be there? Iā€™m not sure. Myself and **Cerowyn** , for sure. **Kythereia** , too, I think. [/QUOTE] Well, I can vouch for at least two more: Tripler and **Nawth Chucka**. šŸ˜ƒ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tronnadope-anyone/410989.md?page=3)