# Dopefest in Raleigh, Dangit!!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopefest-in-raleigh-dangit/134867>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 1, 2002, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopefest-in-raleigh-dangit/134867 "2002-11-01T17:33:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopefest-in-raleigh-dangit/134867/81 "2002-12-04T02:53:47Z")

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> \*Originally posted by SmoothOperator \*  
> The biggest problem I see with dopefests is that unless you change chairs every so often, you never get to talk to all the people there. Maybe we should start having a Mad Hatters dopefests. After an hour, every other person has to move down two chairs. 😉

This isn’t practicable every time, but one solution is to have Dopefests at places besides restaurants, such as people’s houses. (We do that a lot up here in the Mid-Atlantic area. Gives people a lot more freedom to circulate and stuff.) One thing I want to do sometime in summer is reserve a pavilion at a local park for a Dopefest.

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**Author:** ![SmoothOperator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@SmoothOperator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmoothOperator)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopefest-in-raleigh-dangit/134867/82 "2002-12-04T03:08:47Z")

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That would be good or just rent a conference room out in a hotel. Keep everyone in there and circulating.

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