# Any MD/DC/VA Dopefests someday? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 16, 2003, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-md-dc-va-dopefests-someday/169205 "2003-04-16T23:52:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sqube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@Sqube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sqube)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-md-dc-va-dopefests-someday/169205/1 "2003-04-16T23:52:23Z")
Hey, I was just curious if there were any fests goin on in that area during the summer… unless the 'Fests are reserved for **The Clique**. Which, of course, may or may not exist. Assuming that t ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-md-dc-va-dopefests-someday/169205/2 "2003-04-17T00:07:03Z")
Look for any thread addressing MADs - Mid Atlantic Dopers. There are likely to be several. And there is no MAD clique. Of course, there is an initiation for first-time attendees, but as long as you’ve had all your shots, you should be OK. Yeah, I know my location says Florida, but I’ll be a MAD full time in about a year. I just visit now. So I know whereof I speak. Really! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-md-dc-va-dopefests-someday/169205/3 "2003-04-17T00:13:19Z")
Sqube. I hope you’ll trust me when I say I can guarantee it. Keep the last weekend in June open. Just do it, get me? More to come. -JC ---
**Author:** ![Sqube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@Sqube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sqube)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-md-dc-va-dopefests-someday/169205/4 "2003-04-17T00:22:32Z")
**Dammit!** I think I’m goin out of town… :sigh:. **FairyChatMom** … you’ve got my interest piqued though. Glad I got all my shots. Or do I get some more once I’m there? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-md-dc-va-dopefests-someday/169205/5 "2003-04-17T02:11:10Z")
Sqube, we have Dopefests once a month in the DC/Balto/NoVa area. We frequently get together ‘just because’. We’re fun and nice, dammit! ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-md-dc-va-dopefests-someday/169205/6 "2003-04-17T04:58:22Z")
Keep checking the MPSIMS forum regularly. We’ve had many Doper get-togethers of all sorts, and we’ll be having more in the future. ---
**Author:** ![hello32499](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cc9497/32.png) [@hello32499](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hello32499)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-md-dc-va-dopefests-someday/169205/7 "2003-04-17T05:32:30Z")
So, who is throwing me a graduation party? Oh, and am I invited? ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-md-dc-va-dopefests-someday/169205/8 "2003-04-17T12:07:49Z")
When do you graduate? ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-md-dc-va-dopefests-someday/169205/9 "2003-04-17T12:22:39Z")
Well, sheesh. I’ve been trying to get some interest in a Dopefest in PA, and so far, it’s fizzled out. Keep your eyes out on a thread sometime in May, though. (I hope.) Robin ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-md-dc-va-dopefests-someday/169205/10 "2003-04-17T12:27:39Z")
Good thing nobody told **Sqube** about the staples. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-md-dc-va-dopefests-someday/169205/11 "2003-04-17T12:33:22Z")
Shh!!! ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-md-dc-va-dopefests-someday/169205/12 "2003-04-17T13:24:16Z")
I think most of us forgot about the staples, what a horrible, horrible thing. I think I might try and get another paintball match going though, just don’t know when. ---
**Author:** ![Skerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-md-dc-va-dopefests-someday/169205/13 "2003-04-17T13:28:57Z")
Hey now. Nobody said nuttin’ about an initiation… As long as there are no needles involved, or pizza with anchovies, I’m in. 😃 Skerri, who has 5 days left in Charleston… ---
**Author:** ![Sqube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@Sqube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sqube)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-md-dc-va-dopefests-someday/169205/14 "2003-04-17T16:12:39Z")
Well, you can keep the staples. But I’m all for shooting people, so count me in for the paintball. Although since my parents still think that all those people on the internet must be crazy perverts or something, I don’t know if they’ll let me drive out somewhere to chill with you guys for a day. I’ll work on em though. Keep hope alive! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-md-dc-va-dopefests-someday/169205/15 "2003-04-17T16:20:25Z")
Crazy? Relative term. Perverts? Debatable Something? Yeah, definitely something… ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-md-dc-va-dopefests-someday/169205/16 "2003-04-17T16:30:59Z")
A couple of us have even married some crazy preverts from the internet. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-md-dc-va-dopefests-someday/169205/17 "2003-04-17T16:33:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GingerOfTheNorth \* > \*\*A couple of us have even married some crazy preverts from the internet. \*\* Speak for yourself. I prefer to think of my Dave as an eccentric sexual adventurer. 😉 Robin ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-md-dc-va-dopefests-someday/169205/18 "2003-04-17T16:40:35Z")
You certainly managed that, Gingy! 😃 I’m trying to get another [MAD Outdoors Club](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=177928) activity on the calendar - post if you’re interested. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-md-dc-va-dopefests-someday/169205/19 "2003-04-17T16:41:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MsRobyn \* > \*\*… eccentric sexual adventurer. \*\* _When_ will this silly PC-speak end?!?!? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![hello32499](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cc9497/32.png) [@hello32499](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hello32499)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-md-dc-va-dopefests-someday/169205/20 "2003-04-17T18:46:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jonathan Chance \* > \*\*When do you graduate? \*\* May 17th from George Mason University. Thank OG! Four years was too much at this place. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-md-dc-va-dopefests-someday/169205.md?page=2)