# Atlanta Dopers: Shall we try again? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 3, 2002, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlanta-dopers-shall-we-try-again/107149 "2002-05-03T20:45:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![sidle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@sidle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sidle)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlanta-dopers-shall-we-try-again/107149/21 "2002-05-07T20:58:34Z")
Psshhhhtt. :rolleyes: _What EVER_, Auntie Em. How do you KNOW you can’t make it? No one’s even pinned down a date yet? Yeah- I think we know a blowoff when we read one! If that’s how you’re gonna be, then I guess we’re not coming to your “Dustbowl Dope” or wherever it is that you live… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlanta-dopers-shall-we-try-again/107149/22 "2002-05-07T21:04:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sidle \* > \*\*Psshhhhtt. > :rolleyes: > _What EVER_, Auntie Em. > How do you KNOW you can’t make it? No one’s even pinned down a date yet? > Yeah- I think we know a blowoff when we read one! > If that’s how you’re gonna be, then I guess we’re not coming to your “Dustbowl Dope” or wherever it is that you live… > 😃 \*\* That’s OZDope (EmeralDope?) to you… 😃 It’s too bad that: a) Y’all can’t do it the weekend of the 17th (which is the weekend of my Spelman class reunion), and that b) I’m not going to the reunion anyway, because I’m going instead to see my niece and nephew in Detroit for their first birthday! Failing that, it’s too bad I’m not wealthy enough to take more than one trip this year! Otherwise, I’d be there with bells on! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlanta-dopers-shall-we-try-again/107149/23 "2002-05-07T21:20:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by auntie em \* > \*\*Otherwise, I’d be there with bells on! 😃 \*\* Well at least send the bells along, and I’ll wear 'em in your honor. ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlanta-dopers-shall-we-try-again/107149/24 "2002-05-07T21:54:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by spoke- \* > \*\* > > Well at least send the bells along, and I’ll wear 'em in your honor. \*\* Lovely! Cow or Jingle? ---
**Author:** ![pbrtallboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f475e1/32.png) [@pbrtallboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbrtallboy)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlanta-dopers-shall-we-try-again/107149/25 "2002-05-07T22:25:22Z")
I live on the Highland side of Ponce, a block away from the Clermont – I’m definitely down for ending up there (so I can stumble home), but I don’t think it’s the kinda place we want to meet up at. **sKerri** and **sidle** and other out of towners might be sucked into atlanta’s sinister and seedy underworld. 😉 (For the record, I’d love to see sKerri forced into participating in the Clermont’s beer can recycling program) 😃 I’d offer up my pad, but it’s on the smallish side…maybe I could host a few people? Anyone besides me live inside the perimeter? ---
**Author:** ![pbrtallboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f475e1/32.png) [@pbrtallboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbrtallboy)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlanta-dopers-shall-we-try-again/107149/26 "2002-05-07T22:34:42Z")
I live on the Virginia Ave side of Ponce, a block away from the Clermont – I’m definitely down for ending up there (so I can stumble home), but I don’t think it’s the kinda place we want to meet up at. **sKerri** and **sidle** and other out of towners might be sucked into atlanta’s sinister and seedy underworld. 😉 (For the record, I’d love to see sKerri forced into participating in the Clermont’s beer can recycling program) 😃 So, my votes for anything in the Highlands or Midtown or maybe even Little Five Points. I’d offer up my pad, but it’s on the smallish side…maybe I could host a few people? Anyone besides me live inside the perimeter? ---
**Author:** ![SuperNova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SuperNova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNova)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlanta-dopers-shall-we-try-again/107149/27 "2002-05-07T23:26:00Z")
Well, I’m going down to Atlanta next year. Going to college at Emory. But that won’t be till August, probably a bit too late. But I’ll come if you have one 'round then. ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlanta-dopers-shall-we-try-again/107149/28 "2002-05-08T02:09:24Z")
Bamadope is August 9-11, just so’s you know. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2002, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlanta-dopers-shall-we-try-again/107149/29 "2002-05-09T14:13:02Z")
How’s about if all of us true Atlanta Dopers (as opposed to those Dopers who don’t live here but would come here for a Dopefest) get together at a bar sometime soon to plan and discuss? Who’s up for that? ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2002, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlanta-dopers-shall-we-try-again/107149/30 "2002-05-09T15:09:59Z")
Yeah, sure. I nominate The Local as the gathering point, which should be (perhaps literally) right up **pbrtallboy** ’s alley. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2002, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlanta-dopers-shall-we-try-again/107149/31 "2002-05-09T15:35:08Z")
I dunno if my ultra-lame OTP ass is considered a “True Atlanta Doper” – I’m down for whatever. Name the Time and the place and I’m there (assuming it isn’t a Tue or Wed). **spoke** , long time no see/read! how you been? ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2002, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlanta-dopers-shall-we-try-again/107149/32 "2002-05-09T17:22:12Z")
How about a Thursday night for the pre-Dopefest Dopefest? Come to think of it, we could even combine the Dopefest planning session with a round of Team Trivia. I think the Park Bench (formerly Jagger’s, over by Emory) has trivia on Thursdays. (Plus, I’m pretty sure an OTP type like **mouthbreather** could never find his way over to the Park Bench, which will help keep down the obnoxious Yankee quotient.) 😉 (Howdy **mouthbreather** , ol’ buddy.) Or, come to think of it, we could do the same thing at Taco Mac (in Virginia-Highland) on Monday, May 13. Would that work for everybody? ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2002, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlanta-dopers-shall-we-try-again/107149/33 "2002-05-09T17:36:56Z")
Or here’s another pre-Dope/mini-Dope idea: We could take a cooler and some lounge chairs over to the [Starlight Drive-in](http://www.starlightdrivein.com/events.html) on Sunday, May 19, and watch a coupla cheesy monster movies. (Y’all stop me when you hear an idea you like.) ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2002, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlanta-dopers-shall-we-try-again/107149/34 "2002-05-09T18:53:28Z")
I like both those ideas, but we wouldn’t get much planning done at the drive-in, what with the movies to watch and all. Let’s do Monday at Taco Mac, since otherwise it would only have been you and I for the trivia. And since we’ll be planning, I’ll bring the graph paper and t-square. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2002, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlanta-dopers-shall-we-try-again/107149/35 "2002-05-09T18:57:55Z")
I like the trivia idea, and I’m open on monday. (ready for the “Oh, you can make it? let’s reschedule!” joke) ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2002, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlanta-dopers-shall-we-try-again/107149/36 "2002-05-09T19:09:49Z")
We won’t reschedule, **mouthbreather**. We’ll just secretly change the venue. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2002, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlanta-dopers-shall-we-try-again/107149/37 "2002-05-10T18:17:54Z")
What? No more takers on the trivia night at Taco Mac idea? Monday at 8:00. Who else can join us? ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2002, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlanta-dopers-shall-we-try-again/107149/38 "2002-05-10T18:44:54Z")
You guys are making me cry over here! Taco Mac, Jagger’s (it’s gone?), The Starlight Drive-In… _Sniff_ Dem was da days… ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2002, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlanta-dopers-shall-we-try-again/107149/39 "2002-05-10T19:13:34Z")
**auntie em** , Jagger’s became Park Bench over three years ago. I hate the new name; it’s stupid in its genericness. So Taco Mac on Monday will be **spoke-** , **mouthbreather** and I? Anyone else? ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2002, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlanta-dopers-shall-we-try-again/107149/40 "2002-05-10T22:13:40Z")
I have a legimate excuse this time - I have to be in Greenville, GA Monday through Thursday and don’t know what time I’ll make it back into town. Also, I’m supposed to be in Sandy Springs at 7PM and I don’t even know if I’ll make that. But I’ll watch for the big 'fest. If I haven’t moved to Knoxville yet, I may actually show. But that means it has to be before August 3rd. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlanta-dopers-shall-we-try-again/107149.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlanta-dopers-shall-we-try-again/107149.md?page=3)