How far would you travel for a chance to meet other DU'ers?

[MaryBear]

Poll question: How far would you travel for a chance to meet other DU'ers?

Ideal location, and season of the year?

[BurtWorm]

1. It depends which DUers you're talking about.

I myself will not name names, one way or the other.

[MaryBear]

3. Me, BurtWorm, Me!

[BurtWorm]

5. For you? 3,000 miles!

Just to find out what kind of person has such a great name!

[MaryBear]

7. Yay, BurtWorm.

Come to the SF Gathering, August 23.

[BurtWorm]

11. Um, well, I, er....

I didn't know it was a trick question!

[MaryBear]

19. Okay for you, BurtWorm!

Just for that, you are uninvited.

[BurtWorm]

21. If I'm in the neighborhood, can I drop by?

O8)

[MaryBear]

23. Well, okay.

Contact proud patriot for directions.

[MaryBear]

2. Sorry about dupe threads.

I kept getting message that poll was not successful. I asked mods to delete one.

[buddhamama]

4. it would depend on the DUer

[MaryBear]

6. Maybe the subject line should have read,

"How far would you go to meet DU'er of whom you approve?" Picky, picky group, here! LOL.

[SOteric]

8. Hey.

You only need to have your asbestos undershorts imploded in a thermonuclear barage of verbiage in GD a couple of times before you sort out that there are some DU'ers you wouldn't cross the street for a chance to meet.

For you, I'd go quite a ways.

[MaryBear]

10. lol

Thanks. I agree, SOteric! I'm assuming the yukkies wouldn't attend. :hi:

[ForrestGump]

9. I'd drive a million miles/ for one of your smiles....

Well, that might be a bit of overkill. But not much.

It might be interesting to say hello to some real, live DUers at some point. As everyone else opined, it'd depend on who they were! I'd have to come dressed in a flight suit, I think, suitably padded.

Will there automatically be yaks present, at any given meeting of two or more DUers?

:D

[MaryBear]

12. Come on out

to the August 23 SF Gathering.

Ummm... leave handcuffs and yaks at home this time.

[ForrestGump]

13. But can I still bring Salma?

She's so clingy....

[MaryBear]

14. Salma is as Salma does, Forrest.

Who the heck is Salma, anyway? If Salma is a Sheltie and does what Shelties do, then the answer is YES.

[ForrestGump]

25. Salma a sheltie?! Don't listen Salma! Heel, Salma, heel!

I like it when she rolls over and lets me scratch her tummy..... :D

Salma:



Arriba!

[SOteric]

20. In your

white hot, sweaty dreams, Forrest.

[ForrestGump]

26. How did you know?

C'mon, tell me now. Tell me what a bad boy I've been.....

[SOteric]

27. You've been wearing it on your sleeve.

No. I don't think it's hair gel.

[ForrestGump]

28. Ewwwwww.....like, grotty to the max, I'm sure......

And you can just leave my dispensing pump out of this, thank you very much.

[MaryBear]

31. All right, you two!

Clean it up! Oh, dear. I didn't mean that the way I think you think I meant it. Stop hijackiing this thread.

[ForrestGump]

32. *pout*

SHE started it.....

*pout*

[thermodynamic]

15. If a romantic relationship were possible, I'd go the limit

93,000,000 miles or more.

Might find a few sites to photograph as well! :evilgrin:

[Superfly]

16. They're going to have to travel to meet me!

I ain't moving a muscle.

You want to do some fishing and beer drinking, then my place is the one to visit.

B

[MaryBear]

17. Root beer?

[MaryBear]

18. How come

people look without voting?

[nuxvomica]

22. I tried to vote but it said I already voted.

I thought and thought and came up with 200 miles. Because I just don't believe most of you folks are real.
I will not post this as a bug as I have short term memory problems to begin with and can't with any certainty say that I did not actually vote. Indeed, my selection may have been other than I have described here.
That said, I must vote now.

edit: typo

[davsand]

24. Well, I've 800 miles round trip to visit DUers.

I just made the trip in June to FunDay. Excellent time, and well worth the fun and games of the detoured train ride home.* I seriously had an excellent time. I got to see 5thGenDem and Martin Schraeder again plus I got to meet more DUers!

I only WISH I was able to get to San Fran right now! I do love your town...

Laura

*The train ride home was majorly extended by a large fire that took out the bridges on the main routes out of Chicago. Everything my hosts planned for me went off wonderfully well--it was my own legs of the journey that were painful!

L.

[BritishHuman]

29. I voted 3000, but...

...The actual distance is around 4700 miles as the crow flies. 3000 wouldn't even get me to the East Coast...

[ForrestGump]

33. Rober t is indeed your mother's brother....

You'd be okay.

Here's the as-the-crow-flies distance between London and New York:

3470 miles (5585 km)

Looks like you'd be dumped about 500 miles short, doesn't it.

Ah-ha!

Not everything is as it may at first appear.

Let's assume that the universe is a cube - no reason for doing this, except that I've always kind of wanted to say that - and let's further assume that when 'miles' are mentioned above it was in reference to nautical miles.

That gives us 3016 nautical miles between London and New York. And, given that both Gatwick and Heathrow are somewhat this side of London, and JFK airport is somewhat that side of New York City, you can shave of at least those 16 pesky miles and safely land in the Land of the Free (Steak-Knife-set-with-fillup).

As for the other 1700 or so miles, crossing that is fun in itself.

[SOteric]

34. But Forrest, the British dude

Doesn't live in London.

[ForrestGump]

35. That may be so, though it'd surprise more than a few Freepers

to learn that there's more to the UK than London, BUT - and here the full dimensions of my genius are revealed - he'd catch his JFK-bound jet from the London area. Ha!

I rest my case.

Did you catch the bit about the nautical miles? :-)

Sometimes I scare even myself....

[SOteric]

38. No, Forrest

There's a substantial airport in Birmingham. And there's no reason to suspect he'd be bound for JFK, a polar route could easily put him on the west coast in just 9 hours.

Tsk, tsk.

[ForrestGump]

41. Um

aHA! But if he leaves via the Brummy airport he'd splashdown somewhere very cold and unpleasant, if nine hours of flying is somewhere around 4500 miles (un-nautical miles), and that's the whole thing we were trying to avoid - introducing the Long Swim element to his quest. He's only got 3000 miles, so we've got to put them in the right place.

I figure just getting him from one of the London-area airports to JFK is the main hurdle, and that it'd be relatively simple to get him from Birmingham or environs to London and then from JFK to his final destination. Man, I'd make a great travel agent....

[GOPisEvil]

30. I've traveled to meet DUers twice!

OK, so one trip was planned for another event; but I did meet lots of DUer on the trip...

Austin to Chicago and Austin to Philadelphia. Two trips, tons of DUers, lots of fun!

:hi:

[SiouxJ]

37. I still want to come to Austin

to meet you too David! Not to mention hear some great music :-) . It's on my list of things to do :-)

:hi:

[GOPisEvil]

39. I love playing tour guide!

Austin's a blast! :-)

Of course, I've still got to see the Grand Canyon eventually. If only to dispel the rumors that it's just a big hole in the ground. ;-)

[SiouxJ]

40. Well sorry to disappoint

but that's really all it is ;-) . Still nice to look at though. There is so much more. I think Sedona is prettier than GC myself. I like playing tour guide too. We'll just have to do it one of these days. That'll be fun!

[GOPisEvil]

43. I know I saw the area around Sedona...

...but I don't remember a lot of it. :-( I was 12 and pretty stupid. I remember Gallup, NM. But mostly I remember all the pickup trucks there. :D

I'm thinking of a driving trip out west...if I make the trip I'll stop by. :hi:

[RFKHumphreyObama]

44. It's a pity SiouxJ

It's unfortunate that I'm not coming closer to you during my present US trip -unfortunately Arizona is just not a place that I have time to include in my schedule, although I would like to come one day. The closest I'm coming to you is San Diego

[SiouxJ]

45. Ah! My home town!

San Diego is where I'm from. Well, maybe some other time. Enjoy my beautiful city!!

:hi:

[SiouxJ]

36. Just this past weekend

I drove over 200 miles to meet a fellow DUer. It was only fair as he flew about 2000 miles to meet me :-). I'm also considering flying over 2000 miles to meet yet another DUer who was kind enough to invite me to Florida. :hi: Jen!

[MaryBear]

42. No one mentioned

location or season.