From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: 24/7,  was: Good news and bad news on Metro
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 15:25:50 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 12:54 PM
Subject: [WSFA] 24/7, was: Good news and bad news on Metro

> >sgs at aginc.net 06/27/03 07:43PM
> >>Michael Walsh wrote:
> >>>kfl at KeithLynch.net 06/26/03 07:55PM
> >>>I have good news and bad news on Metro.  The good news is that closing
> >>>times on Friday and Saturday nights will be extended by an additional
> >>>hour.  This means Metro riders never need leave WSFA meetings early
> >>>again.  I can catch the last train from Greenbelt even if Third Friday
> >>>runs until 1:50 am, which I doubt it ever does.
> >>
> >>
> >> Back when the geezers were younger meetings lasted sometimes past that
=
> =
> >> hour . . .
> >
> >And quite often would reconvene at the local IHOP, to continue until =
> God
> >only knows when.  Unfortunately, the food at IHOP went from mediocre =
> to
> >poor to inedible.  Are there any other 24hr places around?
>
> Let's see . . .there is a 24 hour McDonaqlds just off of Herald Square in
=
> NYC, and there are a couple of 24 hour McDonalds in Sydney, Australia.
>
> Or do you mean something more locally?
>
> There are a few IHOPs near both meeting locations (visit
http://ihop.know-w=
> here.com/ihop/ for searching)  There seems to be no information about =
> their hours tho.
>
> As for Denny's this http://clients.mapquest.com/dennys/mqlocator reveals
a =
> fair number also near both locations.  They note "served 24 hours a day
at =
> most locations".  (The assembled multitudes may find this amusing: =
> http://www.p7a77.net/dennys/index.shtml - "To visit every Denny's =
> restaurant in the world (or at least as many as possible), getting lots
of =
> free stuff along the way."
>
> Which brings to mind a few years ago Denny's decided to allow restaurants
=
> to close on Christmas day (or some other big holiday).  The problem was =
> that since most of them had been open 24/7 all year round for ages . . .
=
> well, where are the keys to the doors?  Or this could just be a
delightful =
> Urban Legend.
>
> Anyway, I have no recollection of why the late night dinner trips
expired, =
> but I suspect it just "sort of happened".  Sometime after Lee Smoire left
=
> us for the Land Down Under the midnight singing of "God Save The Queen" =
> and the post meeting poker games sort of expired.

All this talk of IHOPs and Denny's -- that's bottom-denominator food.   Far
better to deal with Marios (open till 5:00 AM) or some ethnic restaurant, a
number of which exist in the area and stay open late.

But it should also be remembered that in the IHOP days no one was laying
out baked goods, deviled eggs, or the other foodstuffs now to be found at
WSFA meetings.

--Ted White