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 
There are?
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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.)
From Ireland but spent a few months in Burlington a few years back working/training in IBM. Great place, great people.
Loved it.
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?)
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.
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???
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 
Hey, Special_Kay. Are you a Placebo fan?
Maybe.
Acually I have no idea.
Why?
Oh, they have a song called ‘Special K’, I thought you might have gotten your user name from.
I’m a big fan.
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.
We were at the beach yesterday!
Howzabout Wednesday night?
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.
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.
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.
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?
Arr, I say. Arr.
Honestly, I can’t say. I’d love to meet you all, but the circumstances are such that I just can’t commit myself 
…So Vermonters have a reputation for being pirates?
Not bad for a state with no ocean frontage.