# D is for Dopefest--or the Detroit Breakdown
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-is-for-dopefest-or-the-detroit-breakdown/631787
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 17, 2012, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-is-for-dopefest-or-the-detroit-breakdown/631787 "2012-08-17T15:30:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2012, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-is-for-dopefest-or-the-detroit-breakdown/631787/1 "2012-08-17T15:30:47Z")
A year ago I moved to downtown Detroit. Now I’m ready for a fest. Who is with me?
My place is smaller than the one I had last time I hosted a dopefest, but the scenery is probably more interesting (M is for Milan; and Meh).
Let’s figure out a date and get to festing.
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### Author:  [@Tracyfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracyfish)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2012, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-is-for-dopefest-or-the-detroit-breakdown/631787/2 "2012-08-18T19:50:36Z")
**Least Original User Name Ever** is out of the state until November, but I’d be up for it.
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### Author:  [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2012, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-is-for-dopefest-or-the-detroit-breakdown/631787/3 "2012-08-18T21:40:15Z")
I’ll be in San Francisco for the first half of Sept. Dates are still being batted around like a bunch of 12 year olds hitting a piñata.
But I’m so there.
Do we have the technology to bring LOUNE up as a hologram. Like the Emperor in StarWars, except far nerdier.
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### Author:  [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2012, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-is-for-dopefest-or-the-detroit-breakdown/631787/4 "2012-08-18T21:41:56Z")
Hey G, where in Detroit are you?
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### Author:  [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2012, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-is-for-dopefest-or-the-detroit-breakdown/631787/5 "2012-08-19T16:27:08Z")
Bump it!
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### Author:  [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2012, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-is-for-dopefest-or-the-detroit-breakdown/631787/6 "2012-08-19T16:42:54Z")
Late December? _flutters eyelashes_ I’lllllllll be home for Chriiiiiistmas…
Seriously, if I don’t get my annual Dose of Detroit Dopefest I’ll shrivel up and die. Have your Fall Fling without me if you must, but don’t forget about me in December.
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### Author:  [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-is-for-dopefest-or-the-detroit-breakdown/631787/7 "2012-08-19T18:02:22Z")
I’m in
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### Author:  [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2012, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-is-for-dopefest-or-the-detroit-breakdown/631787/8 "2012-08-19T19:18:17Z")
I’m interested. I work alternating weekends, but if it falls right for me I’m in.
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### Author:  [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2012, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-is-for-dopefest-or-the-detroit-breakdown/631787/9 "2012-08-20T01:11:39Z")
Hmm, Detroit is right up my alley. Sounds intriguing…
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### Author:  [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2012, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-is-for-dopefest-or-the-detroit-breakdown/631787/10 "2012-08-20T02:16:36Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#):
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> Hmm, Detroit is right up my alley. Sounds intriguing…
If you like loud, obnoxious laughter where nothing’s sacred (except my tiny penis! No one is to make fun of my tiny penis!) good food, good beer, and seek to destroy each other through the dark arts of board games, then you should be intrigued.
Not only that, but we spend an hour talking shit about the mods and admins. I’ve seen a grown man break down into cathartic tears. Colors start to look brighter. Kittens and bunnies spontaneously appear out of thin air.
But we can’t do that this time, **G’ll** be there. So we’re going to enact the Pit in real life, tape it, and post it on YouTube.
No worries, **Olives,** **a Very Straight Dope Christmas** is always a sure ting.
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### Author:  [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2012, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-is-for-dopefest-or-the-detroit-breakdown/631787/11 "2012-08-20T11:20:55Z")
> [@cmyk](#):
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> If you like loud, obnoxious laughter where nothing’s sacred (except my tiny penis! No one is to make fun of my tiny penis!) good food, good beer, and seek to destroy each other through the dark arts of board games, then you should be intrigued.
Don’t forget the bacon salt.
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### Author:  [@iftheresaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iftheresaway)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2012, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-is-for-dopefest-or-the-detroit-breakdown/631787/12 "2012-08-20T11:46:57Z")
> [@cmyk](#):
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> If you like loud, obnoxious laughter where nothing’s sacred (except my tiny penis! No one is to make fun of my tiny penis!) good food, good beer, and seek to destroy each other through the dark arts of board games, then you should be intrigued.
>
> Not only that, but we spend an hour talking shit about the mods and admins. I’ve seen a grown man break down into cathartic tears. Colors start to look brighter. Kittens and bunnies spontaneously appear out of thin air.
>
> But we can’t do that this time, **G’ll** be there. So we’re going to enact the Pit in real life, tape it, and post it on YouTube.
>
> No worries, **Olives,** **a Very Straight Dope Christmas** is always a sure ting.
This is the first time in my life I’ve ever thought, “Man, I wish I lived in Detroit!”
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### Author:  [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2012, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-is-for-dopefest-or-the-detroit-breakdown/631787/13 "2012-08-20T15:02:29Z")
> [@cmyk](#):
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> Hey G, where in Detroit are you?
All the way downtown. Woodward and Grand River.
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### Author:  [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2012, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-is-for-dopefest-or-the-detroit-breakdown/631787/14 "2012-08-20T15:04:31Z")
So are we talking the second half of September?
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### Author:  [@minionkat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minionkat)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2012, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-is-for-dopefest-or-the-detroit-breakdown/631787/15 "2012-08-20T19:23:33Z")
Mmm. I live within driving distance and have never been to a dopefest. I could be into that.
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### Author:  [@Tracyfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracyfish)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2012, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-is-for-dopefest-or-the-detroit-breakdown/631787/16 "2012-08-20T19:29:53Z")
Second half of September would be fine for me. I work on September 15th but am free any other weekend.
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### Author:  [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2012, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-is-for-dopefest-or-the-detroit-breakdown/631787/17 "2012-08-20T22:10:49Z")
> [@Gfactor](#):
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> All the way downtown. Woodward and Grand River.
er, why?
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### Author:  [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2012, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-is-for-dopefest-or-the-detroit-breakdown/631787/18 "2012-08-21T00:24:55Z")
I actually might be moving that way for a few months, so put me down for a definite maybe!
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### Author:  [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2012, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-is-for-dopefest-or-the-detroit-breakdown/631787/19 "2012-08-21T03:09:13Z")
> [@jz78817](#):
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> er, why?
Work.
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### Author:  [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2012, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-is-for-dopefest-or-the-detroit-breakdown/631787/20 "2012-08-21T08:04:35Z")
> [@jz78817](#):
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> er, why?
Free bullets!
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