# DC Doper Halloween Party!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 17, 2000, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-doper-halloween-party/37286 "2000-10-17T17:51:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-doper-halloween-party/37286/21 "2000-10-19T00:46:07Z")
> [@](#): > > …see if we can’t get some fourhand going. I _swear_ I read that as “foursome going!” 'Tis a stretch of a drive, but is there somewhere to crash? Holiday Inn, Motel Six, Dempsey Dumpster? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-doper-halloween-party/37286/22 "2000-10-19T02:21:48Z")
…check your email! I’ve checked out the local dumpsters, and they’re really quite roomy and dry! :: D&R :: ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-doper-halloween-party/37286/23 "2000-10-19T02:33:45Z")
I should be able to make it. ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-doper-halloween-party/37286/24 "2000-10-19T05:58:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RTFirefly \* > \*\*I’ve checked out the local dumpsters, and they’re really quite roomy and _dry_! > \*\* I resemble that remark. ---
**Author:** ![dcnewsman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dcnewsman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dcnewsman)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-doper-halloween-party/37286/25 "2000-10-19T19:00:40Z")
I’m up for it…but I thought Sqrl and I got to dress up like Phil and Peta? We did it at the Raleigh Dopefest. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-doper-halloween-party/37286/26 "2000-10-19T21:11:19Z")
I am a male. I am a husband. I am a _newlywed_ husband. Guess what’s coming up the weekend of the 28th? Sorry, **RTF** , plans have been made for me that weekend. Fortunately I remembered them before I asked if we were doing anything that Saturday, thus saving my scalp and other sensitive parts. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Bluemonchichi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Bluemonchichi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluemonchichi)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-doper-halloween-party/37286/27 "2000-10-19T21:34:24Z")
Damn! My mom will be in town from Denver that weekend, so I am out. Hopefully I’ll be able to come to the next DC area get together. :::mubble, why do they always have these things on the few weekends I have plans? mummble, mummble::: ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-doper-halloween-party/37286/28 "2000-10-20T00:33:50Z")
I will check with Skulldigger, but there is some possibility we could drive up. (Maybe we’ll dress as Sqrl and Peta, and confuse everybody! :D) ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-doper-halloween-party/37286/29 "2000-10-20T10:36:37Z")
Poly, that would be great if you guys could come! I’m sure we’ve got another dumpster or two in the vicinity…😉 Wendell and DC, looking forward to seeing you guys. Olentzero, sorry you can’t make it, but give my best to Mrs. Olentzero. We’ll get together soon. Bluemonchichi - what, you can’t talk your mom into coming with you to a party with a bunch of people you’ve never met? Geez, I just don’t get it. 😉 Hope to see you at the next DC-area get-together. Lessee: Sqrl and DC will be dressed as Phil and Peta, Phil and Peta will be dressed as each other, Poly and Skulldigger will be dressed as Sqrl and Peta, Montfort will be the devil in disguise…who should I be? I got it - I’ll be Bluesman! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-doper-halloween-party/37286/30 "2000-10-20T11:17:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RTFirefly \* > \*\* > I got it - I’ll be Bluesman! 😃 \*\* I’ll overnight you a uniform, RT. You may need a good tailor to go with it, though. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2000, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-doper-halloween-party/37286/31 "2000-10-21T19:00:19Z")
Just sent directions to those of you who said they might make it. (Those of you in the DC area, anyway - I should have directions by tomorrow for those of you considering coming up from points south.) Anyone else who needs directions, let me know! ---
**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2000, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-doper-halloween-party/37286/32 "2000-10-21T19:06:28Z")
Oh, RT, I would love to go, but I have to work :(. I am kicking myself for agreeing to do overtime that day!! I am so pissed. I could call out but I really need the money, if you know what I mean. Then that night I am going to Velvet Nation for Damnation, the Halloween Bash (we’re going to be Titania and Oberon, Queen and King of the Fairies). But listen, next party, I am soooo there. Hopefully around Christmas time. I am _thisclose_ to getting my liscence (1 driver’s ed class, then six hours driving time) so by then it will be much more convenient for me anyway (I don’t want to have to harrass anyone for a ride home, ya know). As soon as I get my liscence, and have off work, I will do my best to organize a get together. I promise. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2000, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-doper-halloween-party/37286/33 "2000-10-21T20:52:27Z")
I regret to report that I’m putting in some serious overtime working both Sat & Sun this weekend and next (maybe the one after that, too). In exchange for that, they’re giving me fridays off. I might even be working on Christmas day, too. What the hell’s wrong with me?? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2000, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-doper-halloween-party/37286/34 "2000-10-22T17:08:17Z")
Too bad on both counts… **Sara** , I’ve wanted to meet you since some threads last spring, and **opus** , I’m sorry I won’t get to see you again. We’ll just have to do better advance planning before the next one of these. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2000, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-doper-halloween-party/37286/35 "2000-10-24T18:26:35Z")
Bastards - I’m having my party the same day. HARUMPH! Well, there went the last, best hope of meeting me before I depart for shores western. C’est la vie, mes amis… 😉 Esprix ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2000, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-doper-halloween-party/37286/36 "2000-10-24T18:33:51Z")
No meeting Esprix? Well, hmpf. _pout_ Guess I’ll just have to come out THERE next summer. (What can I say? Esprix is pretty high on the “Dopers I need to meet” list!) ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2000, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-doper-halloween-party/37286/37 "2000-10-25T21:09:05Z")
Esprix - sorry you can’t make it, guy. I enjoy your posts. But I do get out to the Left Coast periodically - where are you moving to? Looks like we’re gonna get a reasonable-sized DC-area contingent, plus a carload driving up from Raleigh. Looking forward to seeing y’all - and anyone who just now found out about this and wants to come, email me for directions! ---
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2000, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-doper-halloween-party/37286/38 "2000-10-26T11:36:34Z")
Well, darn it… My folks are visiting from California so I’m out. And, I have this great Raquel Welchish cave-woman costume too! Maybe next year! ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2000, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-doper-halloween-party/37286/39 "2000-10-26T14:21:34Z")
**RT** , I’m moving to San Diego, looks like December 31. Esprix ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2000, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-doper-halloween-party/37286/40 "2000-10-26T17:27:28Z")
Well, Barb, Sarah, and I are definitely coming. However, Barb and I are coming as ourselves: Skulldigger the anthropologist in proper field attire and St. Polycarp Bishop of Smyrna. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-doper-halloween-party/37286.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dc-doper-halloween-party/37286.md?page=3)