# Pittsburgh Dope Fest? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 23, 2000, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pittsburgh-dope-fest/34312 "2000-09-23T23:04:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2000, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pittsburgh-dope-fest/34312/21 "2000-09-24T17:49:09Z")
vanilla, that is lovely. Would you show up to a PittDopeFest? What needs to be considered in setting a date for you? For anyone, for that matter? I’m free weekends. (And pretty free weekdays, I love college) ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2000, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pittsburgh-dope-fest/34312/22 "2000-09-24T17:52:19Z")
I am from Cleveland area. Me and my son could catch the greyhound there for cheap. We are free all weekends, and certainly for Thanksgiving (hint). ---
**Author:** ![Jester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jester/32/8223_2.png) [@Jester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jester)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2000, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pittsburgh-dope-fest/34312/23 "2000-09-24T17:56:09Z")
Alrighty, well, for the time being, I’ll consider myself onboard. As far as dates, well, Thanksgiving could work, but I’m also fairly free weekends and such. March 8 could be nice, it’s only 5 days from my birthday! Firefly, you rock! Thanks for the advice. ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2000, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pittsburgh-dope-fest/34312/24 "2000-09-24T17:56:34Z")
No can do for Thanksgiving, see above about Spring break, as well as Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2000, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pittsburgh-dope-fest/34312/25 "2000-09-24T19:20:41Z")
Medea-what are you doing next weekend? Just asking, because I’m going to be at the Carnegie Library on Saturday, doing research… ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2000, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pittsburgh-dope-fest/34312/26 "2000-09-25T01:09:08Z")
I’m doing my usual…nothing…mixed with homework. Might go over to a friend’s house and discuss philosophy and wrestle around. I have this game of Sims that gets a lot of attention. Feel free to e-mail me and get my phone number, I’d love to meet you. On the OP… Anyone else willing to show? ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2000, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pittsburgh-dope-fest/34312/27 "2000-09-25T07:55:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Medea’s Child \* > \*\*DRY, are you really that awful in person? \ \*\* Absolutely. ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2000, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pittsburgh-dope-fest/34312/28 "2000-09-25T13:25:58Z")
Since this is going to become the most hijaked thread ever…Dry, I’m sorry I can’t write you back this morning, I have to get to class. Its not that I don’t adore you, its that writing you takes a while.And time will decrease my typos. Sigh. I really, really want to have a fest in Pittsburgh… ---
**Author:** ![Jester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jester/32/8223_2.png) [@Jester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jester)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2000, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pittsburgh-dope-fest/34312/29 "2000-09-25T13:42:24Z")
Like I said, count me in, I’m up for anything. Think the three of us could have our own little Fest? ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2000, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pittsburgh-dope-fest/34312/30 "2000-09-25T16:02:20Z")
Lets. What you people doing this weekend? ---
**Author:** ![Jester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jester/32/8223_2.png) [@Jester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jester)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2000, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pittsburgh-dope-fest/34312/31 "2000-09-25T17:25:08Z")
Hmmmm…I got nothing much going down. I’m staying with a friend, who also happens to be a newbie/lurker on the board, though I think he’s stopped posting. Somewhere in Oakland, perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2000, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pittsburgh-dope-fest/34312/32 "2000-09-25T18:07:15Z")
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! _sounds of painful shrieking_ I hab a picnic this saturday. And there is no way in hell I can make it sunday. And the next free weekend I have is the 14th, which I don’t think will work for anyone. ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2000, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pittsburgh-dope-fest/34312/33 "2000-09-25T18:42:51Z")
I leave for Spring break Mar 1, I get back the 11. Patrick, we can get people together a lot. Jester, Quin and I live within a few miles of each other, Philbuck probably does too. Other dates for a real Fest? ---
**Author:** ![jb\_farley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jb\_farley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jb_farley)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pittsburgh-dope-fest/34312/34 "2000-09-26T08:02:52Z")
i’m all up for this shit! philly’s not (too) far from pittsburgh… ---
**Author:** ![Jester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jester/32/8223_2.png) [@Jester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jester)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pittsburgh-dope-fest/34312/35 "2000-09-26T14:57:38Z")
Coolness. Shall we pick a place? It all depends on what people are in the mood for. Greasy, delicious fries? The O’s the place to be. Coffee? Too many cafes to count. C’mon people, input! Oh, and iampunha, take solace, we’ll get around to organizing a real one at some point. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pittsburgh-dope-fest/34312/36 "2000-09-26T16:30:14Z")
I can see the O from my dorm. Well, for a good view you would have to stand across the street and wave. I’ll show up at the O, but I refuse to ingest anything they serve. I think it would kill me. Weekend before spring break? End of Feb? Would that work for a real Fest? ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pittsburgh-dope-fest/34312/37 "2000-09-26T18:41:18Z")
Last weekend in Feb is Feb 23-5. As of right now that works for me, and any academic team obligations can politely screw themselves:) Now, can we work out some area in between Pittsburgh and DC? And possibly get some DE or NJ or NY dopers in here? ---
**Author:** ![Baglady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@Baglady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baglady)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pittsburgh-dope-fest/34312/38 "2000-09-26T19:57:30Z")
Whenever you guys get set with a date, i’d be happy to make PittDope buttons for you. If your budget is tight, just make sure to college money from people as you pass the buttons out – whether people need to kick in or not is dependent on the organizer, really. For me it only covers the expenses of getting them made, anyway. If you’re interested, do let me know. I’ll need a couple weeks’ notice so I can print, press, package and mail them to you. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Amaranth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@Amaranth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amaranth)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pittsburgh-dope-fest/34312/39 "2000-09-26T23:11:27Z")
Crap. I was _just_ referred to this board by a friend, and I had every intention of lurking around for a good few weeks before posting until I saw this thread. But I had to say, I’m a CMU student, I live in Pittsburgh, add me to the list of interested people. And I suppose now I’ve de-lurked myself, I’m going to have to actually start posting much sooner than I was planning to. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pittsburgh-dope-fest/34312/40 "2000-09-26T23:28:28Z")
I am so sorry Amaranth. \ You will actually have to become a memeber of this odd little society before you could be wallpaper. On the bright side it ups your daily post average! Nice to meet you BTW. Baglady, sounds good, we can think on that. Thank you very much! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pittsburgh-dope-fest/34312.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pittsburgh-dope-fest/34312.md?page=3)