# NE Ohio DopeFest on Sat. April 13 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 3, 2013, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889 "2013-03-03T04:19:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889/181 "2013-04-15T03:35:49Z")
Good pics - thanks to you both. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889/182 "2013-04-15T04:18:58Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > Cleveland Dopers are the best! It was great to be back. Good conversation, good times. I’ll second and third that. Herself and I had a fantastic time thanks to our fantastic host and his exceptional helpers. We didn’t drop any weight this weekend but we sure picked up a load of great memories and times! ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889/183 "2013-04-15T14:21:25Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Ditto. > > For those not already bored to tears by my _Avengers_ tale: [I was an Avengers extra - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=650920) And as promised one of my longer screen shots that made it to the web. Click on [http://www.mytaleoftwocities.com/video/index.php](http://www.mytaleoftwocities.com/video/index.php) and then click The Heart of America The movie was written and produced by the dude who wrote “St Elmo’s Fire” (never saw it). Never suffer yourself through the entire movie - settle for the clip. It isn’t terrible as local interest but it rambles worse than I do. Had I known I was in it (I thought I was helping some film students at the request of the site director) I would have avoided being in it. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889/184 "2013-04-15T16:34:38Z")
So, the property management firm tells me the water is disconnected at my house, the place where two NEO Dopefests were held when I was still living in the area. Today, I go downtown to Cleveland Water to get the water turned back on. Turns out it was never disconnected. “No, no disconnection order, the account is current, everything’s fine. Maybe the previous tenant turned off the valve at the house.” Sigh. So, on my way back to the Rapid to the park-and-ride, I stopped at the Horseshoe. I dropped a ten into one of the Double Diamond machines, and left with $25. The winnings didn’t make up for the cost of my time, but still, I probably made out better than the crowds at the blackjack tables. Really, it’s 10:30 AM, and people playing blackjack in downtown Cleveland? Back to Hippie Valley, to the throngs of silver-haired Earth Mother crones, the Volvo 240 and bike-filed streets, and the pro-North Korea commentary on the local community radio station. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889/185 "2013-04-15T16:42:48Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > …I dropped a ten into one of the Double Diamond machines, and left with $25… > > …and the pro-North Korea commentary on the local community radio station. Congrats on your winnings. Please go down to the radio station and smack them around a little for me. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889/186 "2013-08-02T22:02:21Z")
I am resurrecting this thread to report, with great disappointment, that the signs near the Portage Country Club in Akron that read “No Parking on the Devil Strip” are no longer there. They were when we moved my mother to Rockynol in the early '90s. I drove by there today expressly so I could photograph them for\*\* samclem\*\*. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2013, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889/187 "2013-08-03T01:50:01Z")
> [@freckafree](#): > > I am resurrecting this thread to report, with great disappointment, that the signs near the Portage Country Club in Akron that read “No Parking on the Devil Strip” are no longer there. They were when we moved my mother to Rockynol in the early '90s. I drove by there today expressly so I could photograph them for\*\* samclem\*\*. ☹ This YouTube compilation says it better than I ever could: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgI2ZQVyrBo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgI2ZQVyrBo) ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2013, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889/188 "2013-08-03T02:50:42Z")
Well, for what it’s worth, I still ask my STNA to take the trash to the Devil Strip. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2013, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889/189 "2013-08-04T12:20:30Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > Well, for what it’s worth, I still ask my STNA to take the trash to the Devil Strip. You little devil, you! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2013, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889/190 "2013-08-04T13:54:18Z")
Shhh. I think he’s on the verge of greatness. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2013, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889/191 "2013-08-04T21:28:39Z")
5 seconds ago my neighbor asked me “do you want to put that sapling on your tree lawn?” I replied “No, you can put it on the devil strip.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2013, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889/192 "2013-08-04T21:32:29Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > 5 seconds ago my neighbor asked me “do you want to put that sapling on your tree lawn?” > I replied “No, you can put it on the devil strip.” > 🙂 Heh heh! You Clevelanders are so amusing. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889/193 "2013-08-05T00:16:11Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > Heh heh! You Clevelanders are so amusing. I’m a Dope®! ---
**Author:** ![CapnPitt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/edb3f5/32.png) [@CapnPitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CapnPitt)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889/194 "2013-08-05T13:53:23Z")
And here all I had to do was pick up some litter off of the little grassy section between the curb and the sidewalk. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889/195 "2013-08-06T18:06:21Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > I’m a Dope®! I was in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne yesterday and I had a bottle of Newcastle Brown Ale in your honour. Or is it Boddington’s you prefer? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889/196 "2013-08-06T21:44:30Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > I was in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne yesterday and I had a bottle of Newcastle Brown Ale in your honour. Or is it Boddington’s you prefer? 🙂 You chose wisely. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889/197 "2013-08-06T23:40:08Z")
Whatever you like, as long as you thought of us whilst quaffing! ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889/198 "2013-08-07T02:46:17Z")
> [@kittenblue](#): > > You little devil, you! Sweet-talk all you want, I won’t strip! 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ne-ohio-dopefest-on-sat-april-13/651889.md?page=9)