# Vermont **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 27, 2001, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vermont/74020 "2001-07-27T22:52:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2001, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vermont/74020/41 "2001-08-10T03:19:33Z")
Hey, coffeehouse sounds good too… there are a few very good ones in Burlington; the hike was just a suggestion, guess I’ll have to tackle that one on my own 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Yersinia\_Pestis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ccd318/32.png) [@Yersinia\_Pestis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yersinia_Pestis)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2001, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vermont/74020/42 "2001-08-11T13:44:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eonwe \* > \*\* > Hey, coffeehouse sounds good too… there are a few very good ones in Burlington; \*\* There **are**? [/snarky] I like Radio Bean and Muddy Waters is nice when it’s not too crowded and you can get a table. Smarmy intellectuality? Check! Peanut butter? Animal ate it! (Sor-ry.) ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2001, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vermont/74020/43 "2001-08-11T14:26:34Z")
From Ireland but spent a few months in Burlington a few years back working/training in IBM. Great place, great people. Loved it. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2001, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vermont/74020/44 "2001-08-11T14:26:40Z")
DUDE! I’m from Vermont (born and raised in Bristol my entire life.) I wish I saw this thread earlier but I was on vacation, and alas, away from the boards for a week. September might not be so good, as I will be back to school in NY. I won’t have a car, but I might be able to have a friend drive me back, as long as you people don’t mind one non-doper at the fest (I’ll try to get him to register before the dopefest, how’s that?) ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2001, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vermont/74020/45 "2001-08-16T18:37:35Z")
Bouv- you might not want to tell the newbie about the _initiation_ ceremony, as it involves thirteen eight-pound bowling balls (or eight thirteen-pound bowling balls), seven quarts of curry sauce, a leopard sculpture made of belly-button lint, one metric ton of beef jerkey, and a goat. However, in Vermont, maple syrup can be substituted for the leopard sculpture if desired. ---
**Author:** ![Special\_Kay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Special\_Kay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Special_Kay)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vermont/74020/46 "2001-08-17T18:41:02Z")
Wonko! “thirteen eight-pound bowling balls (or eight thirteen-pound bowling balls), seven quarts of curry sauce, a leopard sculpture made of belly-button lint, one metric ton of beef jerkey, and a goat.” My initiation was a pitcher of Bass Ale if I recall. Although judging by my number of posts, I haven’t been a very good member, so maybe some curry sauce would have helped. And though you never asked, Wonko, I would like to go up next month, assuming the big Apple doesn’t need me. ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vermont/74020/47 "2001-08-17T21:31:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Special\_Kay \* > \*\*Wonko! > > “thirteen eight-pound bowling balls (or eight thirteen-pound bowling balls), seven quarts of curry sauce, a leopard sculpture made of belly-button lint, one metric ton of beef jerkey, and a goat.” > > My initiation was a pitcher of Bass Ale if I recall. Although judging by my number of posts, I haven’t been a very good member, so maybe some curry sauce would have helped. > > And though you never asked, Wonko, I would like to go up next month, assuming the big Apple doesn’t need me. \*\* Is “the big Apple” a euphemism for something??? ---
**Author:** ![Special\_Kay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Special\_Kay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Special_Kay)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2001, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vermont/74020/48 "2001-08-19T15:35:00Z")
Nope. That’s my company come Monday. What were you thinking? Geez! Gotta get you to the beach again, if it makes your mind go off like that. Dirty Boy 🙂 Call me 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Gravity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gravity/32/14322_2.png) [@Gravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gravity)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2001, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vermont/74020/49 "2001-08-19T16:58:02Z")
Hey, **Special\_Kay**. Are you a Placebo fan? ---
**Author:** ![Special\_Kay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Special\_Kay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Special_Kay)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2001, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vermont/74020/50 "2001-08-19T18:11:02Z")
Maybe. Acually I have no idea. Why? ---
**Author:** ![Gravity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gravity/32/14322_2.png) [@Gravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gravity)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2001, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vermont/74020/51 "2001-08-19T19:00:21Z")
Oh, they have a song called ‘Special K’, I thought you might have gotten your user name from. I’m a big fan. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Special\_Kay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Special\_Kay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Special_Kay)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2001, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vermont/74020/52 "2001-08-19T19:20:07Z")
Oh, I see. WARNING: LIFE STORY COMING Nope acually I was in Brooklyn with some dopers and Biggirl named me. That was before I ever posted. Then when I found out how wonderful you all are, I had to sign up. Then when I realized that it takes time I slacked. I’m a Eurythmics, Tears for Fears kinda girl. ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2001, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vermont/74020/53 "2001-08-20T03:04:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Special\_Kay \* > \*\*Nope. That’s my company come Monday. What were you thinking? Geez! Gotta get you to the beach again, if it makes your mind go off like that. > > Dirty Boy 🙂 > > Call me 😉 \*\* We were at the beach yesterday! Howzabout Wednesday night? ---
**Author:** ![Special\_Kay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Special\_Kay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Special_Kay)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2001, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vermont/74020/54 "2001-08-20T04:00:50Z")
Wednesday? Why, I do declare! Yes, sir, I believe I may be able to accomodate by leaving early that day. Romantic stroll or vicious skeeball competition? Either works for me. ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2001, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vermont/74020/55 "2001-08-20T14:00:33Z")
How about a vicious stroll, and a romantic skee ball competition? Regarding other things- Is anyone still up for a vermont dopefest? I would really like to go. ---
**Author:** ![Special\_Kay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Special\_Kay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Special_Kay)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vermont/74020/56 "2001-08-21T04:46:20Z")
Every stroll with you is a little vicious. And few things are as romantic as skeeball. I beat Brian every time 🙂 Ian killed me though, not surprisingly. ---
**Author:** ![Yersinia\_Pestis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ccd318/32.png) [@Yersinia\_Pestis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yersinia_Pestis)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2001, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vermont/74020/57 "2001-08-22T04:08:57Z")
Yar, I be intrigued by the idea of meetin’ ye Vermontly lubbers. I’m trying to sound like a pirate. Really. Yarr. Me hearties. I believe the consensus thus far has called a convocation of Dopers on Saturday, September 29th. The expedition up Mount Mansfield has been cancelled because of certain parties’ reluctance to gasp excessively before new acquaintances. Bar-hopping has not met with excessive enthusiasm. As yet, no objections have been raised to assembly in one of Burlington’s superior coffee-vending establishmentariums, said assembly to be characterized by the dispositions, predilections, and conversations both smarmy and intellectual of the aforementioned Vermontly lubbers. So, you scurvy knaves, which of the bilge-stinking lot of you’ll hoist sail for Burlington? ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2001, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vermont/74020/58 "2001-08-22T04:18:08Z")
Arr, I say. Arr. ---
**Author:** ![Weird\_AL\_Einstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c67d28/32.png) [@Weird\_AL\_Einstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weird_AL_Einstein)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2001, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vermont/74020/59 "2001-08-22T17:24:57Z")
Honestly, I can’t say. I’d love to meet you all, but the circumstances are such that I just can’t commit myself ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Gravity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gravity/32/14322_2.png) [@Gravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gravity)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2001, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vermont/74020/60 "2001-08-22T17:51:10Z")
…So Vermonters have a reputation for being pirates? Not bad for a state with no ocean frontage. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vermont/74020.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vermont/74020.md?page=4)