# Unofficial Mini-LonDope in January **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 8, 2004, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-mini-londope-in-january/223395 "2004-01-08T11:11:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2004, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-mini-londope-in-january/223395/141 "2004-01-12T15:22:17Z")
I thought monks wore habits too, with or without a cowl, and cassocks are what priests and altar-boys wear. ---
**Author:** ![Tir\_Tinuviel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tir\_Tinuviel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tir_Tinuviel)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2004, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-mini-londope-in-january/223395/142 "2004-01-12T15:47:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by paulberserker \* > \*\*I thought a cassock was like what monks and Sean Connery wore as well. or one of those things you sleep in in the garden. > > or is that a habit? whats the diff? \*\* [These](http://www.eganchurchsupply.com/cs/apparel/custom_episcopal_garments.htm) are examples of episcopal cassocks. Worn by Roman Catholic Priests What Connery was wearing is a Cowl. ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2004, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-mini-londope-in-january/223395/143 "2004-01-13T15:28:37Z")
right, as I was trying to say yesterday before the board got smashed to bits, those cassocks rock! get a big fuck off sword to go with, and its a beer crusade! look how big my username is! and look how thin the boards become! will it ever return to the old school shape…? ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2004, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-mini-londope-in-january/223395/144 "2004-01-13T15:32:46Z")
> [@paulberserker](#): > > right, as I was trying to say yesterday before the board got smashed to bits, > those cassocks rock! get a big fuck off sword to go with, and its a beer crusade! Fleurk. :eek: Just so long as we stay in one pub. You don’t want to scare too many people. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2004, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-mini-londope-in-january/223395/145 "2004-01-13T16:53:21Z")
I sometimes wonder where my reputation comes from… I see myself as polite and well behaved in social circles, especially delightful dinners at friends’, the theatre and box socials. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2004, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-mini-londope-in-january/223395/146 "2004-01-13T17:01:40Z")
> [@paulberserker](#): > > I sometimes wonder where my reputation comes from… > > I see myself as polite and well behaved in social circles, especially delightful dinners at friends’, the theatre and box socials. > 😉 Of course you are **paul**. Why would we say anything to the contrary? ---
**Author:** ![Optihut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/edb3f5/32.png) [@Optihut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Optihut)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-mini-londope-in-january/223395/147 "2004-01-14T01:07:07Z")
> [@Angua](#): > > The sugar free stuff tastes like nasty vile cough medicine. Ha! I am glad that I am not the only one who noticed that 🙂 But it’s a shame that there is a mini Londondope, now that I’ve returned from London. It was a good, little vacation (31st of Dec 2003 to 6th of Jan 2004). Now, I don’t have that much pub experience, but from the places we went to, I’d recommend going somewhere in Camden Town. We were at the “World’s End” pub and the “Underworld” club and both were pretty much my taste: 80s music and a lot of dark dressed, interesting people 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tir\_Tinuviel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tir\_Tinuviel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tir_Tinuviel)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-mini-londope-in-january/223395/148 "2004-01-15T12:31:35Z")
Well next time **Optihut** strat a thread with the dates you’re gonna be in London, and we’ll organise somethign around you! Any excuse for a piss up! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-mini-londope-in-january/223395/149 "2004-01-15T14:37:36Z")
> [@Tir Tinuviel](#): > > Any excuse for a piss up! 😃 You mean we need one? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ems](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@ems](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ems)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-mini-londope-in-january/223395/150 "2004-01-15T21:29:35Z")
Wait just a cotton picking minute… Bibliovore (who is hotter) than hell in a kilt!!! Damn career. Damn huge expanse of ocean between here and home Did I miss something - I couldn’t read on after that? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-mini-londope-in-january/223395/151 "2004-01-16T06:56:42Z")
I’ve always wanted to do a LonDope, but the thought of a 10 hour plane ride always put me off. The office just called and it looks like I’m going to be in Reading _the next weekend_. I believe certain gods are conspiring against me. :mad: Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-mini-londope-in-january/223395/152 "2004-01-16T08:20:04Z")
> [@Tapioca Dextrin](#): > > I’ve always wanted to do a LonDope, but the thought of a 10 hour plane ride always put me off. The office just called and it looks like I’m going to be in Reading _the next weekend_. I believe certain gods are conspiring against me. :mad: Oh well. As **Tir** pointed out earlier in the thread, we need only the flimsiest excuse to organise a piss up; when **Coldie** and **Heliose** came over we had a mid-week piss up. I’m sure we can arrange some sort of get together for the next weekend… ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-mini-londope-in-january/223395/153 "2004-01-16T13:41:57Z")
is the next weekend in february? if so count me in. If not then you’d have to count me out (for monetary reasons). ---
**Author:** ![Tir\_Tinuviel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tir\_Tinuviel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tir_Tinuviel)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-mini-londope-in-january/223395/154 "2004-01-16T13:42:47Z")
> [@Tapioca Dextrin](#): > > I’ve always wanted to do a LonDope, but the thought of a 10 hour plane ride always put me off. The office just called and it looks like I’m going to be in Reading _the next weekend_. I believe certain gods are conspiring against me. :mad: Oh well. **Twisty** will be over to see me that weekend, if we can get ourselves out of bed I’m sure we could arrange something. I know a few other dopers are usually around at the drop of a hat too. Reading to central london is about £9 IIRC, and you could bring **Frannie** with you she’s up for it! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-mini-londope-in-january/223395/155 "2004-01-16T13:43:50Z")
> [@garius](#): > > is the next weekend in february? if so count me in. If not then you’d have to count me out (for monetary reasons). Its the 31st January… ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-mini-londope-in-january/223395/156 "2004-01-16T13:58:16Z")
> [@Angua](#): > > Its the 31st January… close enough. I get paid on the last day of every month. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-mini-londope-in-january/223395/157 "2004-01-16T14:00:33Z")
Hmmm… I wonder if I can afford the £21.20 for the open return down to London… ---
**Author:** ![Tir\_Tinuviel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tir\_Tinuviel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tir_Tinuviel)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-mini-londope-in-january/223395/158 "2004-01-16T14:04:11Z")
> [@garius](#): > > close enough. I get paid on the last day of every month. Beer’s on you then! You must LURVE February! **Angua** you’re such a lush! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-mini-londope-in-january/223395/159 "2004-01-16T14:06:04Z")
> [@Tir Tinuviel](#): > > **Angua** you’re such a lush! 😛 Hello pot. This is kettle. You’re black! 😛 Mind you, that said, I don’t know. I’ll have to see how work and other stuff is going. ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-mini-londope-in-january/223395/160 "2004-01-16T14:14:08Z")
> [@Tir Tinuviel](#): > > You must LURVE February! Yeah, but hate January (because in December i get paid on the 21st rather than the end of the month.) January is a _loooooooooooong_ month ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-mini-londope-in-january/223395.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unofficial-mini-londope-in-january/223395.md?page=9)