# Midwest Chick Dope Begins **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 10, 2001, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midwest-chick-dope-begins/92584 "2001-11-10T04:52:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midwest-chick-dope-begins/92584/41 "2001-11-12T18:32:57Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by mrblue92 \* > \*\* If you’re 150, you’re a very light 150. [sub]Wonders if a woman has ever said she weighed more to make a guy feel more manly…[/sub]_\* Ha. Remember I’m 5’9" and very curvy–I just posted about this in another thread, that people almost always underestimate my weight, not that I mind, of course–so I’m bigger than you might think. But you are a big fella. Oh, and **manny** can’t access the boards at work these days, so we probably won’t hear from him until tonight, so don’t anybody worry. ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midwest-chick-dope-begins/92584/42 "2001-11-12T20:03:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Geobabe \* > **Ha. Remember I’m 5’9" and very curvy…** Yes, I do seem to recall that. The funny thing is, I’m only about 180 myself. (I guess I don’t qualify as “very curvy”.) ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midwest-chick-dope-begins/92584/43 "2001-11-12T21:15:20Z")
I couldn’t help myself when it came to the \*_Geo_-fondling. She’s like a magnet. Her breasts are amazing. It’s unreal. :eek: She helped me get in touch with my Inner Shameless Hussy (which I also think would make a great band name, along with Adhesive Breast and Hand-Strangled Mink). My ISH and are getting along quite well. I like her. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midwest-chick-dope-begins/92584/44 "2001-11-12T21:29:27Z")
At least tell me someone fondled \*\*Persephone \*\*for me. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midwest-chick-dope-begins/92584/45 "2001-11-12T21:59:05Z")
As a prudish, non-cleavage-showing asexual Doper, I must also point out that it wasn’t all about tits and groping. 🙂 No one saw Cranky cleavage, and I daresay no Doper ever will. Especially since ricepad stopped posting. I do my best to introduce an element of straight-laced boringness into every Dopefest, lest it get too fun and too sinful. Someone’s got to talk about great literature, world politics, and the price of Tampax! I carry the banner for those Dopers. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midwest-chick-dope-begins/92584/46 "2001-11-12T21:59:41Z")
Yeah, **Geo** grabbed my butt a few times. And **manny** spanked me. [sub] got spanked by a mod. How freakin’ cool is that??[/sub] **Cranky,** on the other hand, still owes me. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midwest-chick-dope-begins/92584/47 "2001-11-12T22:04:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Persephone \* > \*\* > > **Cranky,** on the other hand, still owes me. 😃 \*\* I’m waiting for the perfect opportunity. Plus I promised Arden Ranger video of it, so it will have to be when I have my minicam along. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midwest-chick-dope-begins/92584/48 "2001-11-12T22:36:50Z")
And I now that I’ve been to the first ChickDope, I’m a charter member and qualified to sport my honorary cleavage. It’s true. ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midwest-chick-dope-begins/92584/49 "2001-11-12T22:59:25Z")
Oh, and **UncleBeer** held my hand. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midwest-chick-dope-begins/92584/50 "2001-11-12T23:36:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UncleBeer \* > \*\*And I now that I’ve been to the first ChickDope, I’m a charter member and qualified to sport my honorary cleavage. > > It’s true. \*\* I want pictures. Oh yes. ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midwest-chick-dope-begins/92584/51 "2001-11-12T23:44:15Z")
My recollections (at least those which I am free to share). On Thursday night I went out to celebrate my promotion. At about midnight, I decided that the best approach would be to stay up all night and go straight to LaGuardia for my 6:00 AM flight. Bad idea, since I fell asleep as soon as I got home to pack and woke up at 5:00. But the taxi gods were good to me, and I actually got to the airport in time for my flight, which unbeknownst to me had been rescheduled to depart at 6:40. Oh, by the way, airport security really has been beefed up. My belt buckle pinged, so they made me drop trou. My boots have a metal ring on them, so they x-rayed my boots. Yes, really. People with genital piercings are hereby warned. Getting to the gate, I found to my dismay that Spirit Airlines had dressed up my plane like a children’s circus tent, with stars and ribbons and sparkles and stuff. This is _not_ the kind of confidence-inducing behavior that I’d prefer from my airline. Arriving in Detroit, I wandered over to the Northwest terminal and met up with **Geobabe** , my chauffeur for the weekend. In addition to being attractive and intelligent, **Geo** loves to drive. This makes her perfect wife material for New Yorkers, cuz’ we prefer being driven (no jokes!). Having been lied to by **UncleBeer** about his lunchtime availability, we set out for Ann Arbor to meet **Cranky** for lunch. **Cranky** was the first of about a dozen people to tell me that I neither look nor act like she expected. So clearly I have to cut my hair and start acting meaner. At any rate, she showed us to a marvelous little restaurant where we had some sandwiches. After a nap, it was off to Chez **Cranky**. Distracted by her attention-slut of a cat, I almost didn’t notice when **UncleBeer** made his entrance. Since he and I had been looking to hook up for quite some time, I forgave him his sin and was just happy finally to meet the guy. I’ll freely admit that I was among those people who thought that Ethiopian food was 3 ounces of American wheat and an eyedropper of water, so I was pleasantly surprised to enjoy the meal we had at the Blue Nile. By that time, our group had grown to **Geo** , **Jane** , **Hello Again** , **BunnyGirl** , **Persephone** , \*\*UncleBeer \*\* and **Cranky**. I got cleavage shots of **Geo** , **Persephone** and **Bunny** (such as it was!). Some of the other tables were staring at us, but the waiter was cool and we paid full price and overtipped, so screw ‘em. It was worse at the coffee/desert place. This was a pretty typical new-age/artsy kind of place, with stickers telling us that “WE can PREVENT CAMPUS RAPE” and flyers for every holistic/mystical scam ever invented, all eaten up by oh-so-urbane students and post-students. It goes without saying that we landed on the place like a ton of bricks. I thought I was a pretty good sport about the fact that a place with 60 varieties of tea couldn’t serve me a regular plain-old iced tea (me: You know, like Lipton, it’s cold, throw in some lemon and sugar? Counter dude: We’ve got Mystical Chai Blend… ), but counter dude gave me the evil eye, so maybe I scowled at him or something. Again, nothing that overtipping couldn’t overcome, so the staff left us alone as other tables alternately stared at us or moved away. Or both. Here, I added **Hello Again** to the list of folks providing cleavage shots. Have I mentioned how much I love my new digital camera? By midnight, I was half-gone from lack of sleep, so it was back to the Sheraton to catch a few winks. **Geo** and I were going to pick up **Persephone** the next day and proceed to Birch Run for shopping. What time? Birch Run at 10:00? That means out of the hotel by, like, 8:00? Crap. But it worked out. Our number was reduced as **UncleBeer** had gone home, but at the outlet, we were joined by **Wring** , **Shadowfox** , **mrblue92** and **Misery’s Company**. And we were off. The actual shopping was a blur. But at day’s end, I had four new shirts, a pair of sunglasses, 6 pounds of chocolate (I’m no dummy!), maybe some other stuff I forgot about and had had the opportunity to buy some small gifts for some of the ladies, too. All I can say is that if I were able to stimulate a woman as well as I stimulated Michigan’s economy, I would be a very popular fellow. I felt a little bad, like I was cheating on New York’s economy, but Michigan was really cute and the attraction was overwhelming. I’ll make it up to New York by buying it a nice dinner or something. We checked into the hotel. I can’t account for the next few hours, since I took a nap. But apparently some of the ladies headed back for _another round_ of shopping. But prior to dinner, I did get a nice shot of **Bunny** ’s bunny slippers (awww…). Dinner was fun, but my main takeaway was that there is a big downside to being surrounded by women all the time. You see, I ate a big German meal and **couldn’t fart for about 8 hours!** By the time I was alone and able to toot in peace, I felt like a damn dirigible. I regret that Exxon/Mobile couldn’t hook me up; at $4/MCF, I’d have been a rich man. Although I had had a terrific time the whole way, the party afterwards was the big payoff. **Geo** said my lens fogged up, which is what I told her, but I’ve got hot tub shots. I’ve got cleavage shots. I’ve got… well, let’s just say that I never used to believe those stories until one day… I’ll have to spend some time editing my smartcard before I can post the pictures. The unedited version is available by subscription – email me for prices. I also learned stuff that would blanch Dr. Ruth. **Cecil** bless **mrBlue92**. I admire him for sticking to his guns, but I think he passed up an opportunity that would have had the Pope rethinking his vows. I hope whoever he did it for appreciates it. Endnotes: **Misery’s Company** not only gets to join the clique, she gets to run it. She just jumped right in and was a terrific sport. **Cartooniverse** , I’d be privileged to buy you brunch. Drop me a line when you’re going to be in town. Maybe Dim Sum? **Arden** , not only was **Persephone** groped, but I got pictures of the doperbabe what did it! And finally, if someone can tell me what to do with this smart card since I don’t have an internet site and Yahoo only gives you 30 MB (I’ve got about 60 MB in about 90 pictures), I’d certainly appreciate it. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midwest-chick-dope-begins/92584/52 "2001-11-12T23:50:50Z")
> [@](#): > > Oh, and UncleBeer held my hand. And I should make the comment that Geobabe gives good _hand_. > [@](#): > > … I found to my dismay that Spirit Airlines had dressed up my plane like a children’s circus tent, with stars and ribbons and sparkles and stuff. This is not the kind of confidence-inducing behavior that I’d prefer from my airline. . What was your comment about that, Manny? Seeing their planes on the news on fire is something the executives should have considered before specifying the paint job? Was that it? ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midwest-chick-dope-begins/92584/53 "2001-11-12T23:57:00Z")
**manny** , check out Opal’s site–I sent you a link to her thread about it, if you haven’t checked your email yet. Ooh, and can I join you and **'toons** for lunch? He’s one of my favorite luncheon companions. I’d make the trip to NYC special for it, even. ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2001, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midwest-chick-dope-begins/92584/54 "2001-11-13T00:00:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UncleBeer \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > Oh, and UncleBeer held my hand. > > And I should make the comment that Geobabe gives good _hand_\*\*. Yes, I do. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Misery\_s\_Company](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@Misery\_s\_Company](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misery_s_Company)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2001, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midwest-chick-dope-begins/92584/55 "2001-11-13T00:29:24Z")
Wow. I guess it’s time for me to say something… I had some trepidation about getting in my car and driving four hours to spend the night with a bunch of people I didn’t know. But, I went anyway. And I am glad that I did. What an amazing group of people. Many thanks for making me feel so welcome, for tattooing by back (it came out REALLY well!), for feeding me chocolates and hard cider. I must add that I think that Manny has earned many many good Karma points, for not flinching during the in depth conversation about the functions and problems with ovaries. And MrBlue was an amazingly good sport about watching so many girls look at clothes. If only he had been as good of a sport about painting his toenails… 🙂 And I guess I will need advance notice the next time we do this, so that I can go buy more matching underwear… ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2001, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midwest-chick-dope-begins/92584/56 "2001-11-13T00:36:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by manhattan \* > \*\ ***Arden** , not only was **Persephone** groped, but I got pictures of the doperbabe what did it! > \*\* \ I think I hate my now former SO for his bad timing which resulted in me missing out on this. ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2001, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midwest-chick-dope-begins/92584/57 "2001-11-13T00:36:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Misery’s Company \* > \*\*And I guess I will need advance notice the next time we do this, so that I can go buy more matching underwear… \*\* They were awful cute undies. I bet your boyfriend would be willing to help with the cause. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2001, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midwest-chick-dope-begins/92584/58 "2001-11-13T01:06:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UncleBeer \* > \*\* What was your comment about that, Manny? Seeing their planes on the news on fire is something the executives should have considered before specifying the paint job? Was that it? \*\* Yep. Pretty poor timing, no? But I’m right! Imagine if that plane that crashed in Queens had been painted like a circus clown. It’s like insult to injury for those affected. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2001, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midwest-chick-dope-begins/92584/59 "2001-11-13T05:05:22Z")
> [@](#): > > All I can say is that if I were able to stimulate a woman as well as I stimulated Michigan’s economy, I would be a very popular fellow. Oh, you’re popular. Real, _real_ popular. Just trust me on this one. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2001, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midwest-chick-dope-begins/92584/60 "2001-11-13T12:51:53Z")
> [@](#): > > Imagine if that plane that crashed in Queens had been painted like a circus clown. And the seats aren’t only flotation devices, they’re whoopee cushions. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midwest-chick-dope-begins/92584.md?page=2)