# Ohio Housewarming! 8/21/04! OH/KY/IN/WV/PA/MD/VA/DC Et al... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 28, 2004, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-housewarming-8-21-04-oh-ky-in-wv-pa-md-va-dc-et-al/247502 "2004-05-28T13:22:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-housewarming-8-21-04-oh-ky-in-wv-pa-md-va-dc-et-al/247502/1 "2004-05-28T13:22:09Z")
Yep, we’re doing it again! Please come to our official house warming in Marietta, OH on Saturday, August 21, 2004. Food, drink and fun will be provided all around! Also debuting at this little get together will be Gwendolyn Rose Chance, all things going well. So what’s the thought? Will people come out to meet the Chances now that they’ve moved States? _ **ARE YOU WITH ME HERE, PEOPLE?** _ Lemme hear you! ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-housewarming-8-21-04-oh-ky-in-wv-pa-md-va-dc-et-al/247502/2 "2004-05-28T15:53:07Z")
Possibly. It looks like I’m going to be in Columbus either that week, or the week before. If I’m in Columbus, then yeah, it’s no problem. Maybe I’ll even bring friends. On the other hand, if I just made the drive back the week before, it’s a little less certain. Virginia to anywhere in Ohio is a long-ass drive. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-housewarming-8-21-04-oh-ky-in-wv-pa-md-va-dc-et-al/247502/3 "2004-05-28T16:06:58Z")
If I’m not in Canada, we may make it. ---
**Author:** ![Anita\_Vacation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Anita\_Vacation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anita_Vacation)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-housewarming-8-21-04-oh-ky-in-wv-pa-md-va-dc-et-al/247502/4 "2004-05-28T16:36:05Z")
:eek: What??? After you abandoned us and left me to do the heavy lifting here as default MAD hostess??? :mad: Of course I’ll try to make it, and I’ll even drive the MAD Bozo Bus so that others can come, too. Can we set up tents in the ballroom? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-housewarming-8-21-04-oh-ky-in-wv-pa-md-va-dc-et-al/247502/5 "2004-05-28T18:01:12Z")
It’s not quite THAT big. But sleeping bags would be OK. And I think I can negotiate a block discount at the local comfort inn. What’s everyone want for food? ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Cymbeline](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_cymbeline/32/9244_2.png) [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-housewarming-8-21-04-oh-ky-in-wv-pa-md-va-dc-et-al/247502/6 "2004-05-28T18:14:50Z")
I’m in if I can catch a ride on **Anita’s** MAD Bozo Bus! ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-housewarming-8-21-04-oh-ky-in-wv-pa-md-va-dc-et-al/247502/7 "2004-05-28T18:28:14Z")
Leave Virginia to go to Ohio? On purpose? You MUST be joking. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-housewarming-8-21-04-oh-ky-in-wv-pa-md-va-dc-et-al/247502/8 "2004-05-28T19:36:09Z")
Hey, what can I say, man? The offered me a two minute commute and wheelbarrows full of money. What would YOU do? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-housewarming-8-21-04-oh-ky-in-wv-pa-md-va-dc-et-al/247502/9 "2004-05-28T19:44:07Z")
> [@Jonathan Chance](#): > > The offered me a two minute commute and wheelbarrows full of money. > > What would YOU do? Make sure they were specific about the dimensions of the wheelbarrows! 😃 Let me see if I can talk my wife into letting me abandon her for that weekend. (I think the chances that she’ll attend are slim and none. She likes you guys, but isn’t keen on large parties or long car trips.) ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-housewarming-8-21-04-oh-ky-in-wv-pa-md-va-dc-et-al/247502/10 "2004-05-28T21:50:21Z")
Even though that weekend is the one my lifelong best friends from England and California are going to be at the National Coin Show in PIttsburgh, and will no doubt stay with me in Akron, I plan on being there. With my beard. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-housewarming-8-21-04-oh-ky-in-wv-pa-md-va-dc-et-al/247502/11 "2004-05-29T12:51:21Z")
WITH the beard? Now I _know_ we’re special! What about the rest of the Ohio crowd? I want to meet you all! ---
**Author:** ![Elysian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c77e96/32.png) [@Elysian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elysian)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-housewarming-8-21-04-oh-ky-in-wv-pa-md-va-dc-et-al/247502/12 "2004-05-29T14:55:15Z")
I’ll go! I’ll go! My first Ohio Dopefest! Yay! Email me about it – I’ll be there! ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-housewarming-8-21-04-oh-ky-in-wv-pa-md-va-dc-et-al/247502/13 "2004-05-31T00:41:10Z")
Oh, don’t worry. You’ll get your invite to the big hoodoo, no worries there. But be careful, children. I played in front of an audience for the first time in years yesterday. And I liked it. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-housewarming-8-21-04-oh-ky-in-wv-pa-md-va-dc-et-al/247502/14 "2004-05-31T00:57:35Z")
So, then, just before I move to Maryland, within reach of your legendary Halloween party, you leave. Going to your place in Va would have been quite the trek - going to Ohio is nigh on to impossible. I’m certain you planned this deliberately. And here I thought you wuz my friend… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-housewarming-8-21-04-oh-ky-in-wv-pa-md-va-dc-et-al/247502/15 "2004-05-31T01:06:20Z")
You thought he was your friend? How you sink I feel? **fizzy** and I have our first week of class the Monday following that! We’re going to be exhausted, one way or another, though I’m not entirely sure I’ll be able to get her to sign on for “going to Ohio the day before our first class at a new school”. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-housewarming-8-21-04-oh-ky-in-wv-pa-md-va-dc-et-al/247502/16 "2004-05-31T01:09:15Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > So, then, just before I move to Maryland, within reach of your legendary Halloween party, you leave. Going to your place in Va would have been quite the trek - going to Ohio is nigh on to impossible. > > I’m certain you planned this deliberately. And here I thought you wuz my friend… > > 😛 380 miles deter you?? For an OH dopefest, people fly in from Chicago. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-housewarming-8-21-04-oh-ky-in-wv-pa-md-va-dc-et-al/247502/17 "2004-05-31T01:12:01Z")
And at my Halloween parties (which I can’t have here in Ohio) people have come from as far as Texas, California and Sweden! Hitch a ride in one of the vans! ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-housewarming-8-21-04-oh-ky-in-wv-pa-md-va-dc-et-al/247502/18 "2004-05-31T02:39:05Z")
If I’m not having surgery that week, I think that might be fun! I’ll see if **Lillith Fair** wants to tag along…she’s got the cool car. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-housewarming-8-21-04-oh-ky-in-wv-pa-md-va-dc-et-al/247502/19 "2004-05-31T03:45:08Z")
> [@Jonathan Chance](#): > > And at my Halloween parties (which I can’t have here in Ohio)… Say what now? ---
**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-housewarming-8-21-04-oh-ky-in-wv-pa-md-va-dc-et-al/247502/20 "2004-05-31T04:03:50Z")
I **may** be in Portsmouth, OH/Ashland, KY at about that time. Since it’s, compared to Carson City, NV, in the neighborhood I’d like to stop by. Never having been to a Dopefest it would be nice to sample the waters. Keep us posted, and vice-versa. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-housewarming-8-21-04-oh-ky-in-wv-pa-md-va-dc-et-al/247502.md?page=2)