# Okay, so we're the ones that didn't go to the big Vegas shin-dig **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 4, 2000, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-so-were-the-ones-that-didnt-go-to-the-big-vegas-shin-dig/31978 "2000-09-04T15:52:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tisme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f0a364/32.png) [@Tisme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tisme)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-so-were-the-ones-that-didnt-go-to-the-big-vegas-shin-dig/31978/21 "2000-09-05T02:28:41Z")
Does living on the other side of the world count? Also I had to work and didn’t have several thousand dollars to spare for airfares. When is there going to be a Dopefest in Aust? ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-so-were-the-ones-that-didnt-go-to-the-big-vegas-shin-dig/31978/22 "2000-09-05T04:32:42Z")
Apparently, ChrisCTP and I suffer from the same illness. ---
**Author:** ![silent\_rob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@silent\_rob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silent_rob)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-so-were-the-ones-that-didnt-go-to-the-big-vegas-shin-dig/31978/23 "2000-09-05T06:30:00Z")
Well, I’m up in the Great White North, Canada, eh? So the drive’s a problem. Also, I’m starting my next semester of university in a couple of days. Bad timing. ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-so-were-the-ones-that-didnt-go-to-the-big-vegas-shin-dig/31978/24 "2000-09-05T06:31:50Z")
silent\_rob, We had a fellow Canuck of yours there – no excuse! teaser: [http://www.cwcm.net/vegas/index.html](http://www.cwcm.net/vegas/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![silent\_rob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@silent\_rob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silent_rob)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-so-were-the-ones-that-didnt-go-to-the-big-vegas-shin-dig/31978/25 "2000-09-05T06:39:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by techchick68 \* > **silent\_rob, We had a fellow Canuck of yours there – no excuse!** A teaser?!? Cruel, techchick, cruel. I wanted to go, I really did. Okay, I admit it. The main reason was the university thing. Also, I have to save up some for university. It wouldn’t have gelled well with the folks if I had blown my student loan on the craps table. 😃 I know, still no excuse. I feel so ashamed. ---
**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-so-were-the-ones-that-didnt-go-to-the-big-vegas-shin-dig/31978/26 "2000-09-05T07:23:51Z")
Let’s see… We live in Canada, the kids have started school, Lola starts school tomorrow, I have a job, and we still don’t have any money. Excuses enough? Maybe next year, I would love to meet some more Dopers… ---
**Author:** ![DVous\_Means](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@DVous\_Means](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DVous_Means)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-so-were-the-ones-that-didnt-go-to-the-big-vegas-shin-dig/31978/27 "2000-09-05T13:26:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tisme \* > \*\*When is there going to be a Dopefest in Aust? \*\* From what I have seen so far, the combined total of Dopers from Oz could almost fit in a phone booth - there ain’t that many of us. Even more disturbing: of those that I do know about, I am personally acquainted with almost half of them. Perhaps we could hold a Port Lincoln Dopefest? ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-so-were-the-ones-that-didnt-go-to-the-big-vegas-shin-dig/31978/28 "2000-09-06T06:25:20Z")
I went to Wisconsin instead. Saw my grandmother, several cousins, a half-dozen kittens (might get one); my sister was pursued by an amorous pooch and attended an all-you-can-eat-for-free cornfest. ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-so-were-the-ones-that-didnt-go-to-the-big-vegas-shin-dig/31978/29 "2000-09-06T07:28:49Z")
I was interested and on the mailing list for said trip, but none of the people I knew fairly well (my “support group”–mostly the people in my sig) ended up going. I’m a bit uneasy if I don’t know at least a few people going in. That, and the fourteen trades in my seven fantasy baseball leagues I negotiated and completed this weekend. I now am hopelessly behind in my e-mail correspondence with some people here, and I have to pay my long distance phone bill by taking out a mortgage on my car. I think it would have been cheaper to gamble in Vegas… Anyway, I do hope that those of you who went had a nice time! ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-so-were-the-ones-that-didnt-go-to-the-big-vegas-shin-dig/31978/30 "2000-09-07T04:11:47Z")
I wasn’t there because I’m shy. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2000, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-so-were-the-ones-that-didnt-go-to-the-big-vegas-shin-dig/31978/31 "2000-09-13T03:16:35Z")
Scotticher, show up - you won’t be shy for long. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2000, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-so-were-the-ones-that-didnt-go-to-the-big-vegas-shin-dig/31978/32 "2000-09-13T09:31:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scotticher \* > \*\*I wasn’t there because I’m shy. \*\* If you–or Tatertot, Grace, Michi, TroubleAgain OR Medea’s Child had gone (ANY ONE of you), I’d have been there, too. So you see, it’s really on you. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-so-were-the-ones-that-didnt-go-to-the-big-vegas-shin-dig/31978.md?page=1)