# A Dopefest like no other, brother-The Spiffling, 2001 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 28, 2000, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-like-no-other-brother-the-spiffling-2001/47548 "2000-12-28T19:49:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Flypsyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@Flypsyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flypsyde)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2000, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-like-no-other-brother-the-spiffling-2001/47548/1 "2000-12-28T19:49:25Z")
You’ve waited and pined… You’re marked the days off your calendars… Well, your wait is over folks. Like the Second Coming, Flyp has arrived to ease your burden of suffering and give your life meaning again. That’s right, it’s the confirmed date for the Second Spiffling (or the Springfield, IL Dopefest, for the uninitiated). We will converge upon this fair city on the weekend of April 6th, 2001. If you would, please respond if you even THINK you might come, so I can get a rough idea of how many of you will be attending. And we all have to buy Uncle Beer and VB booze, since we’re missing their birthdays this year. I’ll bump this thread every so often, as plans become solid or when I just want to see my name in the Topic Starter column, and also to let people add or remove their names from the list. And this year’s meeting will not, repeat _not_ be at the Spot… ---
**Author:** ![Valerieblaise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@Valerieblaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valerieblaise)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2000, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-like-no-other-brother-the-spiffling-2001/47548/2 "2000-12-28T19:52:09Z")
You know I’ll be there. ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2000, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-like-no-other-brother-the-spiffling-2001/47548/3 "2000-12-28T19:56:41Z")
I’m in! ---
**Author:** ![boli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e99b99/32.png) [@boli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boli)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2000, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-like-no-other-brother-the-spiffling-2001/47548/4 "2000-12-28T21:34:56Z")
Only death or dismemberment would prevent me from coming! Flyp, do you think they’ll let us back at the Renaissance? We may have to use assumed names if we decide to stay there. ---
**Author:** ![Shadowfox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Shadowfox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadowfox)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2000, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-like-no-other-brother-the-spiffling-2001/47548/5 "2000-12-28T21:40:15Z")
Put me down as a maybe, depending on how my finances look. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2000, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-like-no-other-brother-the-spiffling-2001/47548/6 "2000-12-28T21:47:05Z")
Nuttin’ like plannin’ early. I’ll put it on the schedule and we’ll hafta see what happens. But, I can damn sure guarantee that I will **not** be drivin’ thru Farmer City and Cornland this time. ---
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2000, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-like-no-other-brother-the-spiffling-2001/47548/7 "2000-12-28T22:35:26Z")
Count me in. Carpool, anyone? ---
**Author:** ![DynoSaur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DynoSaur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DynoSaur)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-like-no-other-brother-the-spiffling-2001/47548/8 "2000-12-29T01:22:57Z")
Er, yeah, sure, I’ll be there. If crosstown traffic isn’t too bad. ---
**Author:** ![tygre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@tygre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tygre)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-like-no-other-brother-the-spiffling-2001/47548/9 "2000-12-29T02:04:17Z")
I’m in! Will drag hubby along for the ride. You know, there’s a pub called Cecil’s by Memorial Medical Center. I’ve never been there, so I have no idea if it’s a dive or not, but the name alone might be worth it 😉 –tygre ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-like-no-other-brother-the-spiffling-2001/47548/10 "2000-12-29T02:14:09Z")
I’m in. And thank you, **Flypsyde** , for generating a thread about Spiffle II that is actually getting some attention, as mine fizzled and died. And since you’re the MC anyway… I suggest Hooter’s. Because it’s there. And because it’s about 100 yards from the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza, and because it’s right there by the highway (as opposed to downtown), and for a host of other reasons. But not breasts. 😃 **tygre** : Mrs. Rastahomie and I won a free dinner at Cecil’s, and it _sucked_. Wasn’t worth what we paid for it! ---
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-like-no-other-brother-the-spiffling-2001/47548/11 "2000-12-29T02:21:06Z")
If the attendees from the last ChiDope do Spiffle II, I think there will be plenty of cleavage even w/out going to Hooters. ---
**Author:** ![Shadowfox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Shadowfox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadowfox)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-like-no-other-brother-the-spiffling-2001/47548/12 "2000-12-29T05:10:10Z")
I think Rastahomie just really wants to go to Hooters and figures a Dopefest is just an excuse for his wife. “But honey, sweetheart, darling, loveofmylife, I really didn’t want to go, but they **made** me go there…” Porcupine…IIRC, the only person at the last Chidope fest with any exposed cleavage was Val, but I’m sure I could dig up a low cut tight sweater if I tried really hard (reminder to myself: lose 50 pounds before April) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-like-no-other-brother-the-spiffling-2001/47548/13 "2000-12-29T14:19:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shadowfox \* > **I think Rastahomie just really wants to go to Hooters and figures a Dopefest is just an excuse for his wife. "But honey, sweetheart, darling, loveofmylife, I really didn’t want to go, but they made me go there…"** Actually, I just want to find out what all the fuss is about. To read some of the editorials in the local paper, you’d think they were opening up a whorehouse or something. I really could care less about the breasts; I’m going to Mardi Gras in February and I’ll see all the breasts I’ll ever want to see, and then some. If not Hooter’s, I still think it should be in one of the restaurants in that little dining district by the Crowne Plaza. There’s **Red Lobster, Cheddars** (yum), **Bombay Bicycle Club** (yuck), **Outback Steak House** and a few others. And there’s a Comfort Inn right there, too. For those who don’t have the $$ to blow on the Crowne Plaza. …Unless **Flypsyde** wants to host Spiffle II at the Klubhouse in New Berlin :D! ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-like-no-other-brother-the-spiffling-2001/47548/14 "2000-12-29T14:54:49Z")
Oh hell, I guess I’m supposed to show up too, aren’t I? Ok, count me in though I’ll probably catch hell from work for it. ---
**Author:** ![Flypsyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@Flypsyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flypsyde)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-like-no-other-brother-the-spiffling-2001/47548/15 "2000-12-29T15:19:14Z")
Well, rasta, I’ve made it out to the new Hooters. I am fairly certain that if we were to hold the meeting there, we would easily take up half the space; it’s SMALL. I’m thinking that we’re going to have to find some place with a banquet room. We had, what, 22 people last year, and I’m under the impression that the list is going to grow this year. The restaurants near the Crowne Plaza aren’t a bad idea, but I don’t know what the rates are there. I think I’ll try to get a better idea about that before I nail the location down. Course, if we don’t get more people responding to this thing, we can just have it somewhere small, like the Magic Kitchen… ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-like-no-other-brother-the-spiffling-2001/47548/16 "2000-12-29T23:52:21Z")
_bump_ ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-like-no-other-brother-the-spiffling-2001/47548/17 "2000-12-30T00:07:40Z")
It appears my car is going to get spiffled, so I might as well tag along, I suppose. I think we’ll have to squeeze in a trip to Hooter’s somehow, if not as the venue for the Spiffling 2001. Maybe a early Friday gathering, or lunch on Saturday. Anyways, my only suggestion is that since these things tend to get festive and rambunctious we should steer the selected location to a bar instead of a restaruant. The staff and customers probably don’t want to be burdened with a bunch of uncouth souls like us. At least at a bar we won’t stand out so badly. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-like-no-other-brother-the-spiffling-2001/47548/18 "2000-12-30T04:05:20Z")
I might be able to come…no, I can’t, April 6 is my sister’s birthday. Damn, damn, damn. ---
**Author:** ![Shadowfox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Shadowfox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadowfox)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2001, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-like-no-other-brother-the-spiffling-2001/47548/19 "2001-01-02T00:15:24Z")
What this thread needs is a _bump_ ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2001, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-like-no-other-brother-the-spiffling-2001/47548/20 "2001-01-02T02:02:36Z")
April 6??? Might well be in Nepal by then, but, for you Flypz, I’m gonna pencil it in on my right thigh. Ya better hope I don’t win the lottery… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dopefest-like-no-other-brother-the-spiffling-2001/47548.md?page=2)