# ChiDope **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 11, 2002, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chidope/97448 "2002-03-11T03:05:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chidope/97448/1 "2002-03-11T03:05:20Z")
OKAY! ChiDope (which is not sponsored or endorsed, blah blah by the SD or the Chicago Reader) will be on the weekend of April 5-6. There will be all sorts of naughty behavior, and perhaps a wedding too! Will you be there? ---
**Author:** ![DynoSaur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DynoSaur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DynoSaur)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chidope/97448/2 "2002-03-11T03:07:39Z")
Yes. No. I don’t know. Blue - no, yellow. Aieeeeee. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chidope/97448/3 "2002-03-11T03:09:47Z")
yup, with bells on. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chidope/97448/4 "2002-03-11T03:11:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DynoSaur \* > \*\*Yes. No. I don’t know. Blue - no, yellow. Aieeeeee. \*\* Sorry, you are required by law to go. It’s unfortunate and all, but what can you do? ---
**Author:** ![quixotic78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3ab097/32.png) [@quixotic78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quixotic78)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chidope/97448/5 "2002-03-11T03:11:23Z")
I’m afraid I’ll be unable to attend… 😃 And now, I must go run and hide from **Jess** , who will also be attending. Assuming she doesn’t kill her ride. ---
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chidope/97448/6 "2002-03-11T03:45:45Z")
Just a note that I’ll be starting a new thread with all the details known to date in the OP. Looks like we lost the the original thread here, though, so no real idea who is actually planning on coming at this point, except for those who checked in on the thread at the temp board. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chidope/97448/7 "2002-03-11T03:45:58Z")
I’m still planning on attending. Especially since I found out that a) Euty’s gonna be there, and b) my kids are on spring break the week before ChiDope. Thank Goddess I have a job to go to during the day… ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chidope/97448/8 "2002-03-11T04:17:24Z")
**rjk** and I will be attending. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chidope/97448/9 "2002-03-11T04:19:27Z")
Miss Creant and I shall certainly be there. ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chidope/97448/10 "2002-03-11T04:24:14Z")
No, I shan’t be attending, about which I could not be more discontented. ---
**Author:** ![Shadowfox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Shadowfox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadowfox)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chidope/97448/11 "2002-03-11T04:48:35Z")
I’m still up in the air as to whether I will be able to attend. See, when I made plans to attend ChiDope, I had forgotten that not only was my rent due that same week, but my daughter’s birthday is also that same week. I’m hoping and praying that my tax refund shows up before then because if it doesn’t, then I won’t have the money to attend. I guess you can still keep me on the list as a maybe. ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chidope/97448/12 "2002-03-11T04:53:05Z")
You bet! ---
**Author:** ![Jane\_D\_oh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/839c29/32.png) [@Jane\_D\_oh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jane_D_oh)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chidope/97448/13 "2002-03-11T14:34:03Z")
I have hotel rooms for the following people at the Doubletree O’hare: Shadowfox Quixotoc78 Wicked Blue ShibbOleth Post Modern Girl Jadis Whatmove Tattva Sophie And one more person who I only have a RL name for and I can’t find her e-mail address to verify. I know some of the people listed here have already said they will not be attending, I will give those rooms to the people who have e-mailed me in the past week in the order that I have received the e-mails. I will also see if I can get two or three more rooms. It looks like that should accomodate everyone. Also, if you need a room and see someone on the list above that you’d like to room with, e-mail them. Most of the e-mails I got indicated people were willing to share.(We’re a very giving bunch, aren’t we?) Finally, If you decide or determine that you cannot attend, and you have reserved a room thru me, please drop me an e-mail so I can cancel reservations or reassign them. It really makes these requests much easier in the future if the hotel knows that we are not leaving them with rooms that at the last minute don’t materialize. ---
**Author:** ![Pucette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@Pucette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pucette)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chidope/97448/14 "2002-03-11T14:42:38Z")
I will be there! I’m already muchly excited… ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chidope/97448/15 "2002-03-11T16:12:15Z")
I plan on attending. I know **Dave** and **Ginger** are flying from somewhere, and **Geobabe** is doing her own thing getting there, and **RTFirefly** wanted to reserve a spot in what was at one point **Hamadryad** ’s minivan going up to Chitown. With Hammy bowing out and RT not making much of an appearance at the temp board…does anyone else in the VA/MD area want to carpool up? And on a related note, **Quix** and **Jess** , I heard talk that y’all wanted to carpool from Columbus. Any truth to that rumor or should I make potential plans to do the whole thing meself? Now I just have to figger out if I wanna spring for half a hotel room or if I want to grovel for floorspace. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chidope/97448/16 "2002-03-11T16:43:09Z")
Here’s the thread on the April ChiDope from the temporaty boards: [http://bb.bbboy.net/straightdope-viewthread?forum=7&thread=72](http://bb.bbboy.net/straightdope-viewthread?forum=7&thread=72) I’d link the old thread here, but it’s all but useless now. Every posted/edited, including the date, is gone. It’d be more confusing than helpful I believe. ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chidope/97448/17 "2002-03-11T16:53:39Z")
As I mentioned on our temporary home, I’ll be coming to ChiDope. Yay! ---
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chidope/97448/18 "2002-03-11T18:32:09Z")
Based on my count so far, we’ve got around 50 people attending. That’s based on people who posted to the temp board thread, the info from **Jane D’oh!** , and my vague recollection of who else would be attending. I just left a message at [Timothy O’Toole’s](http://www.barsonline.com/chicago/timothyotooles/) to confirm our room for Saturday - I’m going to tell them we’ll be there at 8 - those that show up sooner can eat and drink with their boring… errr… normal clientele. I expect a call back later today from them. I’ll probably start the new thread tomorrow, and put a link to it here. We still need to decide our drunken debauchery site for Friday, however. To some degree this depends on how many people are going to be around Saturday - if it’s a smaller group, we have more flexibility on where to go. Also, on Saturday afternoon, there will probably be several things going on in parallel - visits to museums were discussed in the temp board thread. Also, there was the proposed visit to The Pleasure Chest… 😉 Here’s the list of attendees I have so far - some are definites, some are maybes, but I’m not sure who is who at this point: [ul]anya marie beagledave (and mrs beagledave) Billdo chique dropzone DynoSaur erlidh Eutychus Geobabe GingerOfTheNorth Gundy hardygrrl iampunha inertia Jadis Jane D’oh! jarbabyj Jessica2 Kyla Little Bird lno magdalene manhattan MikeG Miss Creant MrCynical MsRobyn Persephone porcupine Post Modern Girl Pucette quixotic78 Random rjk Shadowfox ShibbOleth SilkTies\_&\_IceCubes Silver Fire Sophie Sua Sponte Superdude Tattva thinksnow tiggeril TVeblen UncleBeer UncleBill VileOrb vix WeirdDave Wicked Blue yojimboguy Zyada [/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chidope/97448/19 "2002-03-11T19:06:31Z")
I’m going. Miracles happen and wonders never cease. And all kinds of stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chidope/97448/20 "2002-03-11T19:45:42Z")
Well, barring some miracle of fate, it appears that I will NOT be attending. Finances are in too short a supply right this second. I _MIGHT_ be able to if I can carpool with **iampunha** or someone. But I’m not 100% sure right now. If I do make it, I’ll be looking for a spot of floor or someplace to crash. I’m not taking the hotel room. :mad: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chidope/97448.md?page=2)