# MADS -- an outing that's a cut above \[May 5th\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 14, 2007, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-an-outing-thats-a-cut-above-may-5th/395910 "2007-03-14T16:59:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-an-outing-thats-a-cut-above-may-5th/395910/61 "2007-04-22T20:41:55Z")
Shouldn’t be a problem for us. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2007, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-an-outing-thats-a-cut-above-may-5th/395910/62 "2007-04-22T21:14:09Z")
11 is good for us. We’re closer than a lot of you guys anyway. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2007, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-an-outing-thats-a-cut-above-may-5th/395910/63 "2007-04-27T05:03:28Z")
_bumpity-bump_ A week from tomorrow, y’all. We need the official who’s in before a group deal can be considered. So far I read: **twickster** **FairyChatMom** **What Exit?** and spouse **Mama Tiger** and spouse **BiblioCat** and **danceswithcats** I did not shlep back through the first page or count iffies. Speak now or hold your pieces. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2007, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-an-outing-thats-a-cut-above-may-5th/395910/64 "2007-04-27T14:37:04Z")
My mother will be coming with me, since my spousal unit would rather have is gallbladder re-inserted then removed again rather than attend such an outing. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TwoTrouts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9adbd/32.png) [@TwoTrouts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoTrouts)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-an-outing-thats-a-cut-above-may-5th/395910/65 "2007-04-27T16:24:25Z")
I still plan on coming! My wife will not be able to make the trip though. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2007, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-an-outing-thats-a-cut-above-may-5th/395910/66 "2007-04-27T23:17:22Z")
I posted earlier about our coming. I don’t know if it’ll be the whole crew or not at this point, but I will certainly be there. ---
**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:** [April 28, 2007, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-an-outing-thats-a-cut-above-may-5th/395910/67 "2007-04-28T02:08:35Z")
I’ll be there. (I tried posting this earlier, but the hampsters went on strike.) ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2007, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-an-outing-thats-a-cut-above-may-5th/395910/68 "2007-04-28T02:27:21Z")
I just saw this. I love topiary! [/geek]. I know I haven’t been to any MAD gatherings but I _am_ a charter member here and not on call that weekend. Can you pencil me in? ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2007, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-an-outing-thats-a-cut-above-may-5th/395910/69 "2007-04-28T04:10:17Z")
The list so far: **twickster** **FairyChatMom** and Mom **What Exit?** and spouse **Mama Tiger** and spouse **BiblioCat** and **danceswithcats** **TwoTrouts** **GingeroftheNorth** , possibly with family **Scuba\_Ben** **psychobunny** (Oooh, new people! I would have penciled you in, but I always get in trouble for writing on **danceswithcats’** monitor, so I _typed_ you in instead.) Anyone else? That’s 13. If we have 15, we can get a free tour guide. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2007, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-an-outing-thats-a-cut-above-may-5th/395910/70 "2007-04-28T04:35:14Z")
So you’re not only a compulsive screen _toucher_, but a screen writer? ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2007, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-an-outing-thats-a-cut-above-may-5th/395910/71 "2007-04-28T18:46:46Z")
We have the Towsontown Festival on May 5 and 6, in Towson, What Exit?. Maybe your family would like to head over there. It’s your basic street festival with vendors and food and the like. I think it’s 11-7 on Sunday. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2007, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-an-outing-thats-a-cut-above-may-5th/395910/72 "2007-04-28T18:52:57Z")
[QUOTE=BiblioCat] The list so far: **twickster** **FairyChatMom** and Mom **What Exit?** and spouse **Mama Tiger** and spouse **BiblioCat** and **danceswithcats** **TwoTrouts** **GingeroftheNorth** , possibly with family **Scuba\_Ben** **psychobunny** (Oooh, new people! I would have penciled you in, but I always get in trouble for writing on **danceswithcats’** monitor, so I _typed_ you in instead.) Anyone else? That’s 13. If we have 15, we can get a free tour guide. [/QUOTE] It is my entire family. So my wife and I and a 9 & 7 year old. [QUOTE=GingerOfTheNorth] We have the Towsontown Festival on May 5 and 6, in Towson, What Exit?. Maybe your family would like to head over there. It’s your basic street festival with vendors and food and the like. I think it’s 11-7 on Sunday. [/QUOTE] Where is it at, maybe we’ll join you. It looks like it if halfway between Baltimore and the Gardens, that could be cool. We are staying in Hunt Valley. Jim ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2007, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-an-outing-thats-a-cut-above-may-5th/395910/73 "2007-04-28T22:05:00Z")
Hunt Valley is about fifteen or twenty minutes up from Towson town centre, where the festival is held. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2007, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-an-outing-thats-a-cut-above-may-5th/395910/74 "2007-04-30T00:01:17Z")
**dwc** – thanks for the bump. I’m back and planning to come, but will need to head north again by 4, for another engagement. Have we decided on a time to meet? ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2007, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-an-outing-thats-a-cut-above-may-5th/395910/75 "2007-04-30T00:38:59Z")
I believe we’ve decided on 11:00. I hope the bulbs were nice and bulby for you! ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2007, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-an-outing-thats-a-cut-above-may-5th/395910/76 "2007-04-30T01:12:12Z")
[QUOTE=GingerOfTheNorth] So you’re not only a compulsive screen _toucher_, but a screen writer? [/QUOTE] _snort_ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2007, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-an-outing-thats-a-cut-above-may-5th/395910/77 "2007-04-30T02:54:39Z")
I’m still a maybe – I doubt I can, honestly, but I don’t know if I’m working that day yet or not. I should know by Friday. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2007, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-an-outing-thats-a-cut-above-may-5th/395910/78 "2007-04-30T07:41:30Z")
[QUOTE=GingerOfTheNorth] I believe we’ve decided on 11:00. I hope the bulbs were nice and bulby for you! [/QUOTE] The bulbs were bulbalicious, thanks! (My new [self-bestowed] title is “La Reine des Tulipes.”) I’ll be posting a link to Photobucket in the “Hi hon I’m home thread” once I’m done working with my pix – there are 283 of them so it may take a while just to get them all labeled. 😃 ) Looking forward to Ladew – though I hope to keep the picture count for this a bit more reasonable – see y’all (including, hopefully, **whiterabbit** ) at 11 on Saturday. ---
**Author:** ![TwoTrouts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9adbd/32.png) [@TwoTrouts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoTrouts)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2007, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-an-outing-thats-a-cut-above-may-5th/395910/79 "2007-04-30T18:52:27Z")
Hmmm. This is just a stones throw away from the Gunpowder River. I may toss my flyfishing gear in the trunk and hit the river on the way back! See you at 11 on Saturday. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mads-an-outing-thats-a-cut-above-may-5th/395910/80 "2007-05-01T11:21:20Z")
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