# Central Florida Dopefest, anyone? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 15, 2002, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-florida-dopefest-anyone/136933 "2002-11-15T21:47:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![SuaSponte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@SuaSponte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuaSponte)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2002, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-florida-dopefest-anyone/136933/41 "2002-11-20T16:29:10Z")
I’ll be at the NYC Dopefest; otherwise I’d be in like Flynn. Hopefully next time. Sua ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2002, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-florida-dopefest-anyone/136933/42 "2002-11-20T17:47:11Z")
Since Jan 4 is the same as the NYC Dopefest…should we reschedule so more people can come? I’m okay with pushing it back to Feb…unless you guys really want to get together Jan 4. Let me know. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2002, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-florida-dopefest-anyone/136933/43 "2002-11-20T17:48:41Z")
Depending upon when in Feb, I’m still interested. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2002, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-florida-dopefest-anyone/136933/44 "2002-11-20T19:49:37Z")
If it can be during [Strawberry Festival](http://www.flstrawberryfestival.com/home.html), I might be able to talk my wife into heading back to FL then. I can’t make any promises, though. ---
**Author:** ![Rucksinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/898d66/32.png) [@Rucksinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rucksinator)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-florida-dopefest-anyone/136933/45 "2003-03-28T18:39:18Z")
Sorry, but I just found this thread. Whatever happened with this? Right now I live about 4 blocks from Tu-Tu Tangos, but I may be moving back to Kentucky in about a month. ---
**Author:** ![bayonet1976](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@bayonet1976](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bayonet1976)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-florida-dopefest-anyone/136933/46 "2003-03-28T18:49:36Z")
Heck I live in Orlando, so I’m in. ---
**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:** [March 28, 2003, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-florida-dopefest-anyone/136933/47 "2003-03-28T19:24:05Z")
Well, obviously we missed Feb. March is gone, and April is pretty much out for me. May, anyone?? ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-florida-dopefest-anyone/136933/48 "2003-03-28T21:35:49Z")
Wait… so the January thing never happened? Florida Dopers are notorious for wimpy Dopefests. Pezpunk once set the record with about five Dopers once, beating the former record set by the Tampa OctDoperfest 2000 of three!! Anyway, if you guys want to push something around say… late June after the 22. I’m in. LOL I’ll be locked away until then… stupid Army… ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-florida-dopefest-anyone/136933/49 "2003-03-28T22:58:16Z")
Pshaw, we had six, count 'em SIX Dopers in SoFla to watch Crouching Tiger, then another FIVE to say bu-bye to TruePisces! We’re about a three hour very fast drive from Orlando. ---
**Author:** ![g8rguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@g8rguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/g8rguy)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-florida-dopefest-anyone/136933/50 "2003-03-28T23:19:24Z")
Meanwhile, back in this neck of Florida, I’d be happy to show up if we try this again. Except that I’ll be leaving the country for 3 months in mid-June, so I suppose **Bear Nemo** and I will have to give each other a miss. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-florida-dopefest-anyone/136933/51 "2003-03-28T23:35:33Z")
So, where ya’ going? Can you bring us back something? ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-florida-dopefest-anyone/136933/52 "2003-03-29T00:02:26Z")
Ok, anything after April is fine (classes end in May). 🙂 Either Orlando or Miami… but I would need a place to stay. ---
**Author:** ![g8rguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@g8rguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/g8rguy)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-florida-dopefest-anyone/136933/53 "2003-03-29T00:22:34Z")
Couple of months working in Belfast, or so the plan goes at the moment. I admit that I cringe muchly at the thought of spending all day doing one-on-one work with my advisor and then coming home to share a 5-room house with him and the evil coworker bitch from hell, but I suppose that as long as he’s paying for this, and as long as he won’t notice if I sort of slide on off over to Rome for a week or something, I can’t complain. As for bringing something back, I’m rather hoping for a neat accent, which I don’t think is quite what you had in mind… We’ll see what sort of neat things I can find and show off to the oohs and ahs of all and sundry. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![TruePisces](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/truepisces/32/13628_2.png) [@TruePisces](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruePisces)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-florida-dopefest-anyone/136933/54 "2003-03-31T00:45:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UncleBill \* > \*\*Pshaw, we had six, count 'em SIX Dopers in SoFla to watch Crouching Tiger, then another FIVE to say bu-bye to TruePisces! We’re about a three hour very fast drive from Orlando. \*\* Actually, there were only four of us for my fairwell (you, me, **katiekilldare** and **Oicu812** ), but there were 9, I think, for the DopeFest at RenFest in Largo back in '01. You know, thinking back on it, I think I know what the trouble is. Y’all just need to get me back to Florida and have a Fest then. If the fest that **Bear\_Nenno** is thinking about is the one I’m thinking about (back when we all went to hear **pezzy** ’s band play a couple years ago), then I’ve been at all the more populated Florida Fests. 😃 [sub]Well, except for the _Crouching Tiger_ one… but a girl can miss one every once in awhile, can’t she? ;)[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![katiekilldare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/838e76/32.png) [@katiekilldare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katiekilldare)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-florida-dopefest-anyone/136933/55 "2003-03-31T00:57:13Z")
I’m still in. I just need a time and place. And probably directions. ---
**Author:** ![Merla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Merla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merla)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-florida-dopefest-anyone/136933/56 "2003-03-31T01:45:56Z")
OK, I’m using this thread like a leech for a moment. Since you people live in FL, tell me all you know about U of Tampa. Post or email! Pleeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase? I need to know whether I should go there or not… Merla ---
**Author:** ![Oicu812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f475e1/32.png) [@Oicu812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oicu812)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-florida-dopefest-anyone/136933/57 "2003-04-07T13:49:04Z")
UT? I have a little info on them, if you need it… My ex got her Masters there. VERY nice school, tres expensive. Just west of Downtown Tampa, in the old Tampa hotel, the one that Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders stayed at just before deploying to Cuba. Here is a pic, check out the solid nickel onion spires: [http://www.collegeprofiles.com/images/tampa.jpg](http://www.collegeprofiles.com/images/tampa.jpg) O ---
**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-florida-dopefest-anyone/136933/58 "2003-04-07T17:44:01Z")
UT is a nice school. I am told it is slightly boring though. I actually live about a half mile from there but I attended University of South Florida. Things have changed a lot since I went to school though and Tampa has a bit more to do. you may like it. If you have questions about the area or whatever feel free to ask. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-florida-dopefest-anyone/136933.md?page=2)