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chaoticbear
10-04-2004, 03:31 PM
Self-explanatory title.
Berkut
10-04-2004, 03:39 PM
Without knowing the context, maybe Mid-Atlantic Dopers?
ultrafilter
10-04-2004, 04:22 PM
Without knowing the context, maybe Mid-Atlantic Dopers?

Got it in one. BADs are Bay-Area Dopers, but I haven't seen that abbreviation in a while.
chaoticbear
10-04-2004, 05:06 PM
whoa! Now WTF is Mid-atlantic?
ultrafilter
10-04-2004, 05:10 PM
whoa! Now WTF is Mid-atlantic?

Roughly anything within 300 miles of Washington, DC.
Saltire
10-04-2004, 06:23 PM
Mid-Atlantic refers to the middle of the USA's Atlantic coast. Around the Maryland, Virginia, and District of Columbia area, I suppose.
chaoticbear
10-04-2004, 07:34 PM
Ah. Ok then. I was wondering until today why I had never been invited to join the MADs. SADs unite!
C K Dexter Haven
10-04-2004, 07:40 PM
Mid-Atlantic is actually about halfway between New York and Lisbon, Portugal... so there are very few Dopers from there. And the ones that are, well, that explanation would be all wet.
samclem
10-04-2004, 08:12 PM
Mid-Atlantic is actually about halfway between New York and Lisbon, Portugal... so there are very few Dopers from there. And the ones that are, well, that explanation would be all wet.

Hey! You stole that line from someone years ago writing a piece about Barbara WaWa.....er, uh, Walters.

Someone said of her accent it was Mid-Atlantic.......somewhere between NY and London.
Wile E
10-04-2004, 08:47 PM
So are Florida dopers FADs?

Are there any NADs?
moriah
10-05-2004, 02:58 AM
The mid-Atlantic is about 6,400 feet below the surface (and about that much from the floor). The area is sparsely populated except for a few Dopers who've crossed the mafia and have been dumped in the East River.
roger thornhill
10-05-2004, 03:00 AM
No way I'm prepared to argue with someone from New Jersey about that....
grimpixie
10-05-2004, 08:19 AM
Are there any NADs?Looking for NADS? Try here... (http://pub75.ezboard.com/bnads)

:D Grim
BiblioCat
10-06-2004, 01:46 PM
So are Florida dopers FADs?

No, they would be the Flori-Dopers.
zoid
10-06-2004, 02:18 PM
So are those of us in the Reader's home town CHADs?
Billdo
10-06-2004, 05:29 PM
So are those of us in the Reader's home town CHADs?

No, they're ChiDopers.
chaoticbear
10-06-2004, 10:07 PM
To clarify... when I said SADs, I meant "Southern-Area Dopers." I don't live near ANY ocean.
SnakeSpirit
10-06-2004, 11:07 PM
No, no, no. You got it all wrong.

MADs are "Mothers Against Dads."

(unless you're talking about MPEG Audio Decoders (http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/))

A LITTLE CONTEXT WOULD HELP....

oops, cap-lock slip, too lazy to fix it.

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