# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**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 20, 2004, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vancouver-farewell-dopefest/230614/61 "2004-03-20T22:44:58Z")
**zoogirl** , your joy at this news isn’t hidden very well… is it? 😉 Yeah… I can have dinner with a bunch of people tonight… plans are good. 😃 I actually know the majority of people that said they were going… yay! Besides, I get to enjoy it fully… without that nagging feeling that I really should be somewhere else, y’know? Nope, I don’t know the busses from Main Station… I plan on leaving at 4:15 or 4:30, taking the B-Line, then the Broadway bus. It’s a route I’ve taken hundreds of times before, so no worries about my getting lost. 😃 (at least I’ve gotten the clothing question taken care of… 😉 ) F\_X ---
**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:** [March 20, 2004, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vancouver-farewell-dopefest/230614/62 "2004-03-20T23:00:31Z")
**zoogirl** - you can get the 99 B-line from Broadway station. It stops at Cambie, just near the restaurant. See you there! ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vancouver-farewell-dopefest/230614/63 "2004-03-20T23:21:57Z")
Yes, Skytrain to Broadway Station and get the bus from there. I’ll be leaving home about 4:30 and at Edmonds Station well before 5:00. If you see me there, **zoogirl** , feel free to flag me down. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2004, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vancouver-farewell-dopefest/230614/64 "2004-03-21T00:42:40Z")
Argh-- I’ve been psyching myself up to go out all day, and at this late hour I have to admit that I’m just not going to make it. (Not feeling very well.) Hope you guys have a good time! ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2004, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vancouver-farewell-dopefest/230614/65 "2004-03-21T06:28:58Z")
Yes, we did! 😃 I guess since you’re sick you’re forgiven, but next time…! So, dinner was good, the conversation was better and on the whole, I had a great time. I’m expecting a call, so I better not stay on just now. Back later! ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2004, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vancouver-farewell-dopefest/230614/66 "2004-03-21T06:40:48Z")
So **Larry** wimped out merely because he’s deathly ill, but those who attended had a good time. I met **zoogirl** at the Skytrain station and we rode in together. We were way too early, so we stopped for coffee at McDonalds, of all places. As we approached the restaurant, we saw **Ms Macphisto** arrive, although we didn’t know it at the time. Shortly after we sat down and introduced ourselves, **Sinshine** and **Flam** came in. **Flam** had brought me a pair of gifts, a bright red teddy bear with a Canadian flag on his breast and a Canadian coffee mug - very sweet of her! None of us saw **Larry** ’s post before heading out, so we waited for him to be fashionably late, but finally decided we needed our food. (A hint: The hot-and-sour soup tastes OK, but has far too much thickening. Have the chowder.) When the waitress asked which of us was Cecil Adams, **Sinshine** told her he’s ‘just our imaginary friend’. :eek: She claims she was just stringing the waitress a line, but I dunno. (Flame if you must!) We chatted about many things, including the zoo that **zoogirl** works at and the one she has at home that’s so extensive that when she was listing everything that lives with her, she forgot her kids and her husband! **Ms Macphisto** was even more charming than her posts here show. It was a great pleasure to meet her. **Sinshine** also told us a story that we decided means she saved Johnny Depp’s life. I’ll leave her to fill in the details. She also gave **zoogirl** and I a ride to the train, which doesn’t measure up to saving a life, but was still nice. It was altogether an excellent evening. (And I still have books. Dopers by appointment. Mail me!) ---
**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 21, 2004, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vancouver-farewell-dopefest/230614/67 "2004-03-21T07:20:05Z")
All right… since **Larry** ’s sick, he’s forgiven. 😃 Yep, we had a good time at dinner. Very good conversation, even though I was so very much the quiet one… as per the usual. (why wasn’t I hyper? no idea…) ---
**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:** [March 21, 2004, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vancouver-farewell-dopefest/230614/68 "2004-03-21T07:48:58Z")
Thanks for the kind words **rjk**. I enjoyed meeting everyone, though I was sitting a bit too far away from **Flamsterette** to really have a chance to talk to her. My bus ride home was uneventful, and I actually managed to exercize some self-control and not spend any money at Chapters while I was waiting. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2004, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vancouver-farewell-dopefest/230614/69 "2004-03-21T07:54:14Z")
> [@](#): > > None of us saw Larry’s post before heading out, so we waited for him to be fashionably late, but finally decided we needed our food. Argh-- I’m sorry folks. Now I wish I _was_ deathly ill – as it happens I was just headachy and fatigued. I was napping while you were waiting. What a jerk! I’m sorry to have missed meeting Ms. Macphisto and zoogirl, regret not seeing Sinshine again, will have to console myself with knowing that Flammy’s not too far away in Richmond, and will have to swing by to give rjk’s books a lookover, by way of apology. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2004, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vancouver-farewell-dopefest/230614/70 "2004-03-21T08:28:30Z")
> [@rjk](#): > > We chatted about many things, including the zoo that **zoogirl** works at and the one she has at home that’s so extensive that when she was listing everything that lives with her, she forgot her kids and her husband! And a gerbil! Told ya I forgot one! 😃 ---
**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 25, 2004, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vancouver-farewell-dopefest/230614/71 "2004-03-25T03:34:35Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > Argh-- I’m sorry folks. Now I wish I _was_ deathly ill – as it happens I was just headachy and fatigued. I was napping while you were waiting. What a jerk! > > I’m sorry to have missed meeting Ms. Macphisto and zoogirl, regret not seeing Sinshine again, will have to console myself with knowing that Flammy’s not too far away in Richmond, and will have to swing by to give rjk’s books a lookover, by way of apology. 😃 Let me know when you’re in the neighborhood again then! My email address has changed from before, though… Yahoo was giving me WAY too much grief. Hey… now maybe the email client won’t think yours is spam or some mutant killer virus intent on spreading death to the Internet in general. 😉 ---
**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 25, 2004, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vancouver-farewell-dopefest/230614/72 "2004-03-25T03:39:44Z")
Oh, and I’m glad that **Ms Macphisto** refrained from spending any money in Chapters. Maybe we’ll get a chance to talk more some other time… ---
**Author:** ![Sinshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Sinshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinshine)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vancouver-farewell-dopefest/230614/73 "2004-03-25T07:03:23Z")
**rjk** , I was under the impression that my teasing the waitress was to stay our little secret??? Seeing as she asked which one of us was Cecil, after all. I was, however, mildly tempted to point at you. **Larry** , you are forgiven for being sick, but we missed you. Better luck next time? ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vancouver-farewell-dopefest/230614/74 "2004-03-25T07:21:12Z")
Secret? There _are_ no secrets! 😛 (Did we really agree it should be secret?) If anybody else is reading this thread, I’m sure they’d like to hear the Johnny Depp story too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vancouver-farewell-dopefest/230614.md?page=3)