# New England Dopers ... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 30, 2004, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers/237211 "2004-03-30T00:59:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers/237211/81 "2004-05-21T23:06:54Z")
Why I am just so proud of you all and so thankful you’ve given up such amazing opportunities like video gaming and lawn mowing! _sniff_ PS - what video game? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Salem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Salem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salem)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers/237211/82 "2004-05-21T23:10:33Z")
Oops, missed the replies on preview. I can do either potato or pasta salad, so I’ll leave that up to **Jack** to pick which one he wants to bring. Which probably means I’m mowing my own lawn. Damn. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers/237211/83 "2004-05-21T23:20:33Z")
I’m all about easy. I concede the tater salad and will instead bring a bucket of pasta salad. … Video Game of choice lately: _EA Sports MVP Baseball_, or failing that _Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002_. ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2004, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers/237211/84 "2004-05-22T00:25:00Z")
> [@Salem](#): > > I’ll see what inspires me when I go to the store later. I wonder if I shop at the same store as **Salem** (whose name always confuses me as she does not live in Salem!). When I go to the store for my salad greens, I’ll look for a woman pushing a cart full of potatoes, and I’ll walk around the produce section muttering SDMB catchphrases. It would be much easier, of course, if she wore the ex’s antlers. As **tanookie** knows, I went to the farm stand last night to buy salad stuff – only to discover that the only thing that they have locally grown is fiddleheads. (Duh, seasons? What are they? :smack: ) Although I love fiddleheads, I don’t think they make a good salad. ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2004, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers/237211/85 "2004-05-22T00:32:57Z")
Screwed me up too Lily - I thought she lived in Salem as well - alas. Aaah fiddleheads. They’re only in season for a week or two anyway. People always flunked those little suckers when it came time for the produce test 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2004, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers/237211/86 "2004-05-22T00:45:30Z")
Woohoo! **Jack** ’s coming! Someone I know. 🙂 I’m very psyched for tomorrow. I’m so looking forward to getting away from home for a day. ---
**Author:** ![Salem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Salem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salem)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2004, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers/237211/87 "2004-05-22T03:11:25Z")
I know the name is confusing once you know I live in MA, but not in Salem, MA. It’s also one of those gender neutral names. I guess I just subconsciously like to wreak havoc in people’s minds. I mean cause so many people actually pay attention to what I have to say and all. Huh? Was someone talking? So the Ghiardelli Chocolate Chocolate Chip Brownies are baked. And the potatoes are boiling. It was near disaster. I can’t find my very best potato peeler. I looked high and low and even in the middle and it’s nowhere to be found. After trying two incredibly inferior potato peelers (and realizing I have way too many of the things and no idea where they all came from), I was able to locate a halfway decent one and get through the job. But it is not my very best potato peeler, the one with the textured, built-up rubber handle that fits so perfectly into the palm of my hand and the fine blade mechanism that glides through the potato peels like a well-oiled body on a hot…well, anyway you get the idea. I need my very best potato peeler. And it’s supposed to rain tomorrow and be in the low 60’s in haverhell, according to [weatherchannel.com](http://weatherchannel.com). Unfortunately, they are pretty accurate. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2004, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers/237211/88 "2004-05-22T12:43:43Z")
:: wakes up to thunder of little cat feet in pre-breakfast frenzy; oozes out of bed; shuffles to drapes covering slider to deck; pulls them open :: AIEEEEEE!!! WETNESS IS UPON THE LAND, AND RAIN DOTH AFFLICT US!!! IN THE LAND OF HAVERHELL THE PEOPLE GNASH THEIR TEETH AND REND THEIR GARMENTS!!! Oh, well. At least we’ll be gnashing our teeth on some fine potato salad and pasta salad and brownies and… Should I bring the cribbage board? ---
**Author:** ![Salem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Salem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salem)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2004, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers/237211/89 "2004-05-22T13:29:05Z")
Damn that weather channel and their accuracy. It’s pouring here, as well. Well, I’m still planning to be there around 1pm, maybe a bit earlier since lawn mowing is now out. With the humidity, my hair should arrive about a half hour before me. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2004, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers/237211/90 "2004-05-22T15:05:03Z")
I’m on my way out the door now. I’m imagining that if I find it well I should be there shortly after 1. ---
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2004, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers/237211/91 "2004-05-22T15:57:39Z")
I’m leaving in about ten, and should be there shortly before 1. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2004, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers/237211/92 "2004-05-22T23:41:40Z")
Wooooo-hooooooo!!! That was fun! Good people, good conversation, good eats – what more could a Doper want? Bummer that I had to leave a little after 3:00 for another obligation, but I’ll be back for the next Dopefest for sure. THANK YOU TANOOKIE AND ALL FOR A GREAT TIME!!! 😃🆒🙂 ---
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2004, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers/237211/93 "2004-05-22T23:45:42Z")
Definitely good food and good folks. Thanks for having us! ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2004, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers/237211/94 "2004-05-22T23:52:43Z")
You’re all very welcome 🙂 The only thing I would have really changed is the weather! ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2004, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers/237211/95 "2004-05-23T00:06:35Z")
Thanks for the great day. You have faces! The real question is: did anyone find a white flannel receiving blanket with bees? Hmm…that might make a good sig for me – “I lost my blanket at the DopeFest!”\* - Okay, technically it’s **ValleyGirl** ’s blanket, but that doesn’t have quite the same ring to it. ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2004, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers/237211/96 "2004-05-23T00:24:40Z")
We have your blanket! If you email me your address I can pop it in the mail 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2004, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers/237211/97 "2004-05-23T01:27:44Z")
I had a great time (except for getting lost on the way there); I enjoyed meeting you all and thanks for the righteous grub! We gotta do it again sometime. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2004, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers/237211/98 "2004-05-23T03:52:09Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > So, does your 16-year-old know that, just a short drive away from **tanookie’s** home (like ten minutes or so), there’s a gigantic tack shop – State Line Tack in Plaistow – that’s just chockful of English and Western horse stuff? And really expensive plastic horses. $50 for a plastic horse? What the hell? My best friend dragged me in there right before Christmas. Not liking horses, I was less than impressed 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Salem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Salem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salem)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2004, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers/237211/99 "2004-05-23T05:04:10Z")
It was really nice to meet everyone. It was a fun afternoon and I do hope we can do it again in the not too distant future. Thanks for hosting, **tanookie** and **parallax**. And **ETF** , my daughter was really thrilled with the horse stuff, especially the bridle. Thanks so much, that was really nice of you. Jake hasn’t tried to saddle up the dog…yet. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2004, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers/237211/100 "2004-05-23T05:44:27Z")
Well, I _just_ got home, but that’s because I took a small detour to visit **andygirl** on my way home, and got sucked into watching a movie and other general festivities. Anyway, I had a great time meeting folks. **Salem** , your daughter was great entertainment! So, huzzah for **tanookie** and **parallax**. I’m hoping this will be the start of a more active New England doper community. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers/237211.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-england-dopers/237211.md?page=6)