# Dope The Halls VI (Mid-Atlantic Dopers!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 15, 2006, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-the-halls-vi-mid-atlantic-dopers/380569 "2006-11-15T20:25:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2006, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-the-halls-vi-mid-atlantic-dopers/380569/161 "2006-12-08T22:35:28Z")
Hey, I wasn’t the one who brought up Shwetty balls. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2006, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-the-halls-vi-mid-atlantic-dopers/380569/162 "2006-12-08T22:52:43Z")
Oh, now she’s just trying to impress us by using technical terms like ‘enrobed.’ 😉 I am going to go make my salsa dip now. I just have to mix stuff together. I have to do it now, since I will be busy most of the day tomorrow, playing with fire and rescuing 175-pound dummies all morning. I have my written final in the afternoon, then a quick ride home from Aberdeen and a shower and then I shall be there, physically and mentally exhausted and in need of alcohol. Look for me around 4:00 or 5:00-ish. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2006, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-the-halls-vi-mid-atlantic-dopers/380569/163 "2006-12-08T23:58:15Z")
I am NOT a dummy in need or rescue! You big bumface! (good luck!) ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-the-halls-vi-mid-atlantic-dopers/380569/164 "2006-12-09T00:16:33Z")
No fire hat for you! ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-the-halls-vi-mid-atlantic-dopers/380569/165 "2006-12-09T00:49:31Z")
Don’t you just suck! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-the-halls-vi-mid-atlantic-dopers/380569/166 "2006-12-09T01:25:50Z")
Okay, dip is made and I am going to go study for awhile. You know, we should take a picture of a bunch of us in the cheesy plastic fire helmets before passing them out to the kids. That’d be a great way to commemorate Dope-The-Halls '06. I’d put one on my MySpace page. (Yes, I have a MySpace. I’m, like, so 18 and full of angst) ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-the-halls-vi-mid-atlantic-dopers/380569/167 "2006-12-09T01:37:48Z")
Goes along with your headgear! :running the hell away: ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-the-halls-vi-mid-atlantic-dopers/380569/168 "2006-12-09T02:39:27Z")
[QUOTE=GingerOfTheNorth] Goes along with your headgear! :running the hell away: [/QUOTE] Don’t you be dissin’ fire peeps! ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-the-halls-vi-mid-atlantic-dopers/380569/169 "2006-12-09T11:32:35Z")
[QUOTE=danceswithcats] Don’t you be dissin’ fire peeps! [/QUOTE] Can’t make me stop! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-the-halls-vi-mid-atlantic-dopers/380569/170 "2006-12-09T15:57:51Z")
This is your last call for directions. My email is gingerofthenorth at [hotmail.com](http://hotmail.com). ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-the-halls-vi-mid-atlantic-dopers/380569/171 "2006-12-09T16:04:17Z")
We’re out of here in about ten minutes. I guess we’d better try to be on time, since until I get there, everyone has to eat out of the palms of their hands. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-the-halls-vi-mid-atlantic-dopers/380569/172 "2006-12-09T16:44:17Z")
The veggie tray is being assembled as I type (obviously not by me)! We should be leaving here around 1PM, so barring a frick-up of massive proportions (_not_ something that should be disregarded given our history with directions), we should be there between 2:30 and 3:00. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-the-halls-vi-mid-atlantic-dopers/380569/173 "2006-12-09T16:51:26Z")
If you get lost, phone me. I’ll post the number in my LJ, and I think it’s also in the directions email. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-the-halls-vi-mid-atlantic-dopers/380569/174 "2006-12-10T03:26:25Z")
Well, I managed to break my own glasses peacefully at a Dopefest. I took them off to give my nose and eyes a brief break, and twisted them a bit, as I am wont to do because of the flexible titanium frame, and the bridge just snapped. I’ve bent them a lot more than this before, but that little extra torque just broke the bridge. I have a glasses repair kit, but as it doesn’t include an extra bridge, it’s really not much help. I tried taping them up, but tape can’t get much of a purchase on what is essentially a thin metal wire, so that really didn’t work. With luck, I’ll have them repaired by an optometrist sometime soon, and in the meantime I guess I don’t have much choice but to go without; fortunately, I can more or less see fine without them, my eyes just get tired a little more easily. ---
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-the-halls-vi-mid-atlantic-dopers/380569/175 "2006-12-10T03:50:28Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Carrot] Well, I managed to break my own glasses peacefully at a Dopefest. I took them off to give my nose and eyes a brief break, and twisted them a bit, as I am wont to do because of the flexible titanium frame, and the bridge just snapped. I’ve bent them a lot more than this before, but that little extra torque just broke the bridge. I have a glasses repair kit, but as it doesn’t include an extra bridge, it’s really not much help. I tried taping them up, but tape can’t get much of a purchase on what is essentially a thin metal wire, so that really didn’t work. With luck, I’ll have them repaired by an optometrist sometime soon, and in the meantime I guess I don’t have much choice but to go without; fortunately, I can more or less see fine without them, my eyes just get tired a little more easily. [/QUOTE] That’s his story and he is sticking to it! 🙂 It was great seeing all y’all Dopers and Canadians there tonight. **Jayjay** and I had such a good time and managed not to break anything. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-the-halls-vi-mid-atlantic-dopers/380569/176 "2006-12-10T13:00:27Z")
I had a great time. Wonderful food, sparkling conversation (“In your pants!”) and entertainment by way of a kid in a cooler. Hope everyone made it home safe! ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-the-halls-vi-mid-atlantic-dopers/380569/177 "2006-12-10T15:16:51Z")
The kids and I had a great time. **mudgirl** slept all the way home! We got home about 9:30, then the hubby and I had a local party to attend, which is why I didn’t post last night. It was great seeing and talking to everyone! ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-the-halls-vi-mid-atlantic-dopers/380569/178 "2006-12-10T20:50:09Z")
So far, all of my jewellery seems to be here. Jayjay, if I notice anything gone, I’m comin’ after YOU. 😛 Helen’s Eidolon got on the road around 11 this morning and my house is mostly back to normal after the up-before-6-am-oh-sure-let’s-play-Trivial-Pursuit-until-2:00-am. Great to see you all. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-the-halls-vi-mid-atlantic-dopers/380569/179 "2006-12-10T21:08:57Z")
Thanks **Ginger** and **WeirdDave** for hosting yet another wonderful December party. ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-the-halls-vi-mid-atlantic-dopers/380569/180 "2006-12-10T21:53:50Z")
Home safe and sound. Thanks again to Ginger, and I’m really glad I got to meet a whole new contingent of dopers. … in my pants. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-the-halls-vi-mid-atlantic-dopers/380569.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-the-halls-vi-mid-atlantic-dopers/380569.md?page=10)