# Central PA Dopefest? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 2, 2004, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-pa-dopefest/237935 "2004-04-02T18:45:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2004, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-pa-dopefest/237935/121 "2004-05-01T03:46:41Z")
**Norinew** , I volunteered potato salad, but my ego got me involved in the Chili Challenge. If you want to bring potato salad, I can switch over to German potato salad, as well as the winning chili šŸ˜‰ . Actually, Iā€™d rather do the German, since, as no one else I know likes it (fools), it only means more private stock for me. Will **Airman** be in attendance, or is he on duty? Iā€™m looking forward to meeting him. I owe him a beer. Speaking of which, anyone on beverages? I realize the park may be ā€œdryā€, so if it seems weā€™re covered on food, instead of German potato salad, I can pick up a few cases of soda (assortedā€“cola, diet, caffeine free, lemon-lime, root beer, orange, whatever). Juice boxes for the kiddies? Coolers I might need help withā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2004, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-pa-dopefest/237935/122 "2004-05-01T04:53:30Z")
Allrightey! Iā€™ve read this thread from the beginning, and listed what folks are bringing, so yell at me now for corrections, and weā€™ll use this as a benchmark. **AntaresJB** - chocolate chip cookies **Casey1505** - potato salad **danceswithcats** - chili with a šŸ˜‰ to other chili folk **Doktor Fluff** - chili-part deux :eek: **FairyChatMom** - cucumber-onion salad **Frank #2** - utensils **GingerOfTheNorth** - pie **jayjay** - pasta salad & homemade brownies **Medeaā€™s Child** - veggie dip & veggies **norinew** - whole wheat mac & chee **Scuba\_Ben** - gazpacho soup & soda **Shirt Ninja 13** - ice cream **Siege** - sausage rolls **twickster** - carrot cake which may not be PG-13 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2004, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-pa-dopefest/237935/123 "2004-05-01T04:57:25Z")
[QUOTE=Casey1505Actually, Iā€™d rather do the German, since, as no one else I know likes it (fools), it only means more private stock for me.[/QUOTE] Wrong-O, Mary Lou! I adore German potato salad! Oh, and if we need a big cooler, I can bring one. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2004, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-pa-dopefest/237935/124 "2004-05-01T04:59:43Z")
Is anyone else as annoyed as I am about how the quote things eff up if youā€™re not super careful when you snip? ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2004, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-pa-dopefest/237935/125 "2004-05-01T05:07:02Z")
Iā€™m with you **twickster** about the yumminess of German potato salad. ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2004, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-pa-dopefest/237935/126 "2004-05-01T06:51:55Z")
Well, I am supposed to be off in June, for the entire month. But, no assurances have been forthcoming from the powers that be that I am actually going to be off at all. Go figure these folks. I will hereby assume that I am either going to be off, or that I am going to be sick that day. So, I have a Toyota Corolla heading to Gettysburg, with three empty seats, leaving Springfield VA, that day, at a reasonable hour of departure. (Mapquest says an hour and thirty eight minutes to downtown Gettysburg, I figure two, cause I drive slow.) Detours to pick up other dopers are certainly a reasonable change in agenda. I will bring a cooler of ice, a bunch of soft drinks, and some kim-chi. (Unless I burn myself out on kim-chi between now and then, in which case I will bring something else.) So, at some time or other, I will be coming back to Springfield, and I imagine that will be later the same day. Or, thatā€™s my plan, anyway. So what time are we starting this shindig, and bout how late will it run, do you spose? Tris ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2004, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-pa-dopefest/237935/127 "2004-05-01T12:02:46Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Casey1505_ > Norinew, I volunteered potato salad, but my ego got me involved in the Chili Challenge. If you want to bring potato salad, I can switch over to German potato salad, as well as the winning chili . Well, actually, I was just suggesting potato salad to **fizzy** , since she expressed confusion about what to bring. I donā€™t even eat white potatoes, so Iā€™m all out as far as the potato salad goes. In addition to the mac and cheese, maybe Iā€™ll make some whole-wheat pasta salad, too. Or, perhaps my ā€œgrown-ups only fruit saladā€, which involves melon, strawberries and such, all steeped in vodka for some number of days. I can set some aside for the kiddies and non-alcohol drinkers, too. ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2004, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-pa-dopefest/237935/128 "2004-05-01T15:44:55Z")
I donā€™t know what I should bring, so I am open to suggestions. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2004, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-pa-dopefest/237935/129 "2004-05-01T16:09:18Z")
> [@norinew](#): > > I can set some aside for the kiddies and non-alcohol drinkers, too. Thatā€™ll be me, as I doubt **fizzy** will want to drive back from PA. Now, I had thoughts about getting a gallon of Generic Chocolate Ice Cream and a half-gallon of something more edible, and putting them both in a Cheap Generic Cooler with Some Ice. I would **assume** that those will travel well enough to last at least as long as a snowball in hell, and possibly longer, but assuming folks donā€™t want ice cream with their chili salad and pasta flambe, maybe that is not so much the option. **Tris** , any possibility of **Poly** and wife hying (ow, I think I misspelled bthat twice) their bodies (and some other stuff, as I doubt either wishes to be nude in public) up near you and carting them to meet admirers? Perhaps this fest falls under fees collected by the Polycarp Appreciation Societyā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2004, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-pa-dopefest/237935/130 "2004-05-01T18:41:42Z")
> [@iampunha](#): > > Thatā€™ll be me, as I doubt **fizzy** will want to drive back from PA. > > Now, I had thoughts about getting a gallon of Generic Chocolate Ice Cream and a half-gallon of something more edible, and putting them both in a Cheap Generic Cooler with Some Ice. I would **assume** that those will travel well enough to last at least as long as a snowball in hell, and possibly longer, but assuming folks donā€™t want ice cream with their chili salad and pasta flambe, maybe that is not so much the option. > > **Tris** , any possibility of **Poly** and wife hying (ow, I think I misspelled bthat twice) their bodies (and some other stuff, as I doubt either wishes to be nude in public) up near you and carting them to meet admirers? Perhaps this fest falls under fees collected by the Polycarp Appreciation Societyā€¦ Donā€™t forget that Gettysburg isnā€™t entirely stuck in the 1860s and has supermarkets. If you want to bring something that youā€™re not sure will travel, you can always buy it there. Robin ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2004, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-pa-dopefest/237935/131 "2004-05-01T23:35:57Z")
> [@MsRobyn](#): > > Donā€™t forget that Gettysburg isnā€™t entirely stuck in the 1860s and has supermarkets. If you want to bring something that youā€™re not sure will travel, you can always buy it there. Hereā€™s why that wouldnā€™t work. **iampunha** ā€™s proposed schedule for June 19, 2004: Day Before: Get icecream and other things you might need (anyone need a wet noodle?) Day of, Noon: wake up. Shortly After Noon: do other things \*\*fizzy[/b makes you do so you donā€™t smell quite so heinous as you otherwise might. After That: Drive to Gettysburg (picking up **gobear** and **goboyfriend** is contingent upon one of them letting one of us know they wanna be picked up from whatever place isnā€™t horribly far away from us ā€¦ Tibet, for example, would be a bad pick-up location). Some Time After That: Go back home. Iā€™m planning, see, on driving there, then sogging for a while without driving at all, then grudgingly driving back because **fizzy** wonā€™t want to. Any other driving I do, short of ā€œBlast, **dwalin** cut off his left leg? Ah, well, to the emergency room, if I MUST.ā€ ā€¦ not so much. Plus Iā€™d have to ::SHUDDER:: ask directions to the grocery store, and That Isnā€™t Done. BTW, **asterion** , just soā€™s you know, this isnā€™t the sort of thing where we have group sex outside:)[sub]Damn indecency laws.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2004, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-pa-dopefest/237935/132 "2004-05-01T23:50:47Z")
> [@iampunha](#): > > Hereā€™s why that wouldnā€™t work. > > **iampunha** ā€™s proposed schedule for June 19, 2004: > > Day Before: Get icecream and other things you might need (anyone need a wet noodle?) > Day of, Noon: wake up. > Shortly After Noon: do other things \*\*fizzy[/b makes you do so you donā€™t smell quite so heinous as you otherwise might. > After That: Drive to Gettysburg (picking up **gobear** and **goboyfriend** is contingent upon one of them letting one of us know they wanna be picked up from whatever place isnā€™t horribly far away from us ā€¦ Tibet, for example, would be a bad pick-up location). > Some Time After That: Go back home. > > Iā€™m planning, see, on driving there, then sogging for a while without driving at all, then grudgingly driving back because **fizzy** wonā€™t want to. Any other driving I do, short of ā€œBlast, **dwalin** cut off his left leg? Ah, well, to the emergency room, if I MUST.ā€ ā€¦ not so much. Plus Iā€™d have to ::SHUDDER:: ask directions to the grocery store, and That Isnā€™t Done. > BTW, **asterion** , just soā€™s you know, this isnā€™t the sort of thing where we have group sex outside:)[sub]Damn indecency laws.[/sub] Iā€™m just thinkinā€™ that ice cream isnā€™t the best item to bring from southwestern Virginia, with or without a cooler full of ice. Iā€™m just sayinā€™, is all. Robin ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-pa-dopefest/237935/133 "2004-05-02T00:04:53Z")
> [@MsRobyn](#): > > Iā€™m just thinkinā€™ that ice cream isnā€™t the best item to bring from southwestern Virginia, with or without a cooler full of ice. Not coming from SWVA. Making a nightā€™s pit stop in NEVA - er, NOVA. Subtract ā€¦ er, a few hours off the trek time:) ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-pa-dopefest/237935/134 "2004-05-02T00:54:56Z")
> [@iampunha](#): > > Not coming from SWVA. Making a nightā€™s pit stop in NEVA - er, NOVA. Subtract ā€¦ er, a few hours off the trek time:) Details, details. Robin ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-pa-dopefest/237935/135 "2004-05-02T01:00:10Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by iampunha_ > BTW, asterion, just soā€™s you know, this isnā€™t the sort of thing where we have group sex outside So, youā€™ve gotten kicked out of this park before, have ya? šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-pa-dopefest/237935/136 "2004-05-02T02:32:44Z")
> [@Casey1505](#): > > Will **Airman** be in attendance, or is he on duty? Iā€™m looking forward to meeting him. I owe him a beer. As far as I know, heā€™ll be home. Not sure about his drill weekend schedule, but Iā€™m thinking itā€™s the weekend before. Robin ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-pa-dopefest/237935/137 "2004-05-02T02:58:42Z")
Driving Mr. and Mrs. Carp from anywhere, to anywhere falls into the ā€œIt would be a pleasureā€ category. Money is not a factor, assuming that Poly ainā€™t going to be driving south from where he lives now before I pick them up. I donā€™t seem to have a current email for Polycarp, so, Poly, why donā€™t you write me, and we can work this out. I am off (well, hopefully) that month, and do plan to come to Carolina to visit Lib, some time or other, maybe this can all string together, and you can get a ride all the way. Or, whatever is best for you. That more or less brings my Toyota to full, though, unless one other small person wants to squeeze in. Do they sell Kim-chi in Gettysburg? Tris ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-pa-dopefest/237935/138 "2004-05-02T03:30:28Z")
Okay, put me in for a 5# batch of chili (no beans), decent sized batch of German potato salad, and one beer-on-the-sly for **Airman**. Iā€™ll leave the mayo based potato salad to someone else. Iā€™ll also have a bottle of Tabasco in the holster, just in caseā€¦ I notice **danceswithcats** ā€™ list left me off the chili roll call. Fearing me sight unseen, eh? šŸ˜‰šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![fizzestothetop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e79b87/32.png) [@fizzestothetop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizzestothetop)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-pa-dopefest/237935/139 "2004-05-02T20:13:44Z")
> [@norinew](#): > > Well, actually, I was just suggesting potato salad to **fizzy** , since she expressed confusion about what to bring. I donā€™t even eat white potatoes, so Iā€™m all out as far as the potato salad goes. In addition to the mac and cheese, maybe Iā€™ll make some whole-wheat pasta salad, too. Or, perhaps my ā€œgrown-ups only fruit saladā€, which involves melon, strawberries and such, all steeped in vodka for some number of days. I can set some aside for the kiddies and non-alcohol drinkers, too. See the problem with potato salad isā€¦well I donā€™t know how to make it. Thatā€™s the biggest problem. If I make something itā€™ll need to be something that travels well (from SoVa) since Iā€™ll have to use my kitchen to make it (especially if it involves an oven). Iā€™m thinking about just finding a new recipe for something desserty and bringing that. For some strange reason Patrick really, really wants to bring a cooler. I think thatā€™s the whole reason he wants to bring ice cream. The big weirdo. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-pa-dopefest/237935/140 "2004-05-03T01:03:54Z")
Updated _Who is Bringing What List_ and Dopercount **AntaresJB** - chocolate chip cookies **Casey1505** - German potato salad, 5# bean-free chili, beer-on-the-sly, Tabasco **danceswithcats** ā€“ 5# chili with a šŸ˜‰ to other chili folk (warning-contains beans!) **Doktor Fluff** - chili-part deux :eek: **FairyChatMom** - cucumber-onion salad **Frank #2** - utensils **GingerOfTheNorth** ā€“ pie **iampunha** ā€“ ice cream ice cooler surprise? **jayjay** - pasta salad & homemade brownies **Medeaā€™s Child** - veggie dip & veggies **norinew** - whole wheat mac & chee **Scuba\_Ben** - gazpacho soup & soda **Shirt Ninja 13** - ice cream **Siege** - sausage rolls **Triskadecamus** ā€“ cooler & ice, soda, and kimchi **twickster** - carrot cake which may not be PG-13 Thought about quantities, so another search indicates ~ **41** confirmed folk, including kidlets of Dopers known to me! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-pa-dopefest/237935.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/central-pa-dopefest/237935.md?page=8)