# Vancouver Farewell Dopefest **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 23, 2004, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vancouver-farewell-dopefest/230614 "2004-02-23T05:21:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vancouver-farewell-dopefest/230614/1 "2004-02-23T05:21:05Z")
I’m heading to Texas at the end of March to (at last) move in with **Zyada** ( 😃 ), so I think I need one last meeting with all the Dopers in the area. I was thinking of making a day of it on Saturday March 20, maybe lunch at Lonsdale Quay, cruise around there for the afternoon, and dinner wherever. Anybody interested? Any suggestions? ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vancouver-farewell-dopefest/230614/2 "2004-02-23T05:28:09Z")
Hey, this is a bonus day for me… I can actually access this board. 😃 Sounds like an idea to me… I’ll have to see whether Awana breaks during that time. Probably get back to you within a week. 🙂 Cheers! F\_X ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vancouver-farewell-dopefest/230614/3 "2004-02-23T05:29:42Z")
I hope you have a merry send-off. And then we have to welcome you to Texas. ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vancouver-farewell-dopefest/230614/4 "2004-02-23T05:31:39Z")
Yes, it’ll be get-togethers and parties galore here and in Texas. 😃 (leaving aside what **Zyada** will certainly do for him 😉 ) ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vancouver-farewell-dopefest/230614/5 "2004-02-23T06:31:09Z")
Well and truly “roped in,” eh? Well, yay to that! I’m sure you’ll miss the perpetual rain, though, won’t you? I’d love to see ya before you go. I promise I won’t go all-over maudlin, even. Well, I’ll _try_ not to, anyway. God knows it doesn’t take much. ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vancouver-farewell-dopefest/230614/6 "2004-02-23T07:04:26Z")
Since **Larry** showed up, I recall him saying in another thread that if he gets drunk enough, he’ll sing the complete works of Cab Calloway. I promised then, and promise again, that if he’s going to sing, his drinks are on me. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vancouver-farewell-dopefest/230614/7 "2004-02-23T09:10:47Z")
Ha! In the interest of encouraging other people to show up, I promise _not_ to sing. (Besides, if I cadged drinks off you all night and then sang Cab Calloway, I’d never shake the nickname of “Muddy the Moocher.”) ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2004, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vancouver-farewell-dopefest/230614/8 "2004-02-24T04:51:07Z")
OK, no singing then. Is there anybody else out there? ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Macphisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Ms\_Macphisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Macphisto)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2004, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vancouver-farewell-dopefest/230614/9 "2004-02-24T06:09:41Z")
I should be free that weekend, and it would be nice to meet some of you freaks. 😉 As for suggestions, I’ll get back to you some time when my brain is functioning, which should happen at least once between now and then. ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2004, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vancouver-farewell-dopefest/230614/10 "2004-02-24T14:58:43Z")
Welcome aboard, **Ms Macphisto**! Watch out for meeting Dopers - it can be really disruptive, having to move and all. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Macphisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Ms\_Macphisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Macphisto)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2004, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vancouver-farewell-dopefest/230614/11 "2004-02-24T21:44:24Z")
Actually, I’m already moving the week before the Dopefest, but just from Vancouver to White Rock. And at the rate this thread is going, I should be safe at this meeting at least. Of course, having said that, some random Doper from thousands of kilometres away is probably suddenly going to realise “Hey, I’ll be in Vancouver that day!” Anyway, since I forgot to in my first post, congrats on the move, **rjk**! ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2004, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vancouver-farewell-dopefest/230614/12 "2004-02-25T15:01:52Z")
Thanks for the congrats, **Ms Macphisto**. I look forward to meeting you. But where are the others? Off the top of my head, we’ve got **zoogirl** , **Barbarian** , and **Sinshine** , and more. **Scotticher** is in Bellingham, too. Anybody else who might be pulled in by a vanity search? ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vancouver-farewell-dopefest/230614/13 "2004-02-26T05:06:57Z")
Here’s a bump so **Aslan** can find this easily. Thanks again, **Ms Macphisto**! ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vancouver-farewell-dopefest/230614/14 "2004-02-26T05:13:50Z")
I can come, but being underage, not for the drinking. If that’s ok. ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vancouver-farewell-dopefest/230614/15 "2004-02-26T05:46:02Z")
Not to worry, I’m sure we can find a place where you’re legal. (We can smuggle in a mickey for **Larry** if we need music. 😉 ) ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vancouver-farewell-dopefest/230614/16 "2004-02-29T03:53:43Z")
Checked the Awana calendar a few hours ago. March 20 is indeed Spring Break time. So I shall come, if you’ll have me. Actually, not sure you can stop me… but that’s another story entirely. 😉 My computer monitor decided to die on me, so I’ll be assiduously checking this thread from libraries and whatnot from now on. If there are any urgent last-minute plans (as happens with my brother quite frequently), let me know by some other means than electronic. Otherwise, I’ll assume that the last thing I saw is the status quo. And since **Larry** never really saw me go hyper that time in the summer, I just might have some of that going… not sure yet. 😉 F\_X ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vancouver-farewell-dopefest/230614/17 "2004-02-29T04:06:40Z")
:trembles in anticipation: ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vancouver-farewell-dopefest/230614/18 "2004-02-29T04:19:12Z")
HAHAHAHA… considering that my own sister thinks that seeing me on alcohol is a bad thing, **Larry** might just have to rethink that in a couple weeks’ time. 😉 (never mind what happens when you mix alcohol and caffeine together and give it to me… apparently, I get TOO hyper on that combination!) ---
**Author:** ![Fuji\_Kitakyusho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@Fuji\_Kitakyusho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuji_Kitakyusho)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vancouver-farewell-dopefest/230614/19 "2004-02-29T04:26:32Z")
Unfortunately, I’m out of town that weekend, but have fun, and good luck with the move. ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vancouver-farewell-dopefest/230614/20 "2004-03-07T07:07:13Z")
Interested? (aka weekly bump till this thing gets off the ground, if it ever does…) To those who don’t know me: I think I’ll be totally out of control. 😉 (only **Larry** knows what I mean by that) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vancouver-farewell-dopefest/230614.md?page=2)