# Raleigh, NC Zettefest. Be there or be square **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 23, 2002, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raleigh-nc-zettefest-be-there-or-be-square/138316 "2002-11-23T05:21:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raleigh-nc-zettefest-be-there-or-be-square/138316/41 "2002-12-13T13:17:37Z")
So is anyone meeting me for dinner, or am I sitting at the bar by myself? ---
**Author:** ![aenea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@aenea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aenea)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raleigh-nc-zettefest-be-there-or-be-square/138316/42 "2002-12-13T13:47:10Z")
I can almost hear the crickets chirping for all the silence here. I’m still up for dinner. 😃 **Polycarp Cabbage Elelle DoctorJ Dogbutler Knowed Out Ultress YWalker** If you are still out there, how about coming out for dinner? This is the most social time of year it seems, and you know, we really haven’t met much at all this year, so why not get yer butt’s out of the house while the weather is semi-decent and the power is on and come have dinner? ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raleigh-nc-zettefest-be-there-or-be-square/138316/43 "2002-12-13T14:21:13Z")
How about meeting at Greenshields at 6 pm? Sound OK? ---
**Author:** ![Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raleigh-nc-zettefest-be-there-or-be-square/138316/44 "2002-12-13T17:49:19Z")
I’d like to come out, but unfortunately I’m finishing up the semester right now and just have too much to work to do at the moment. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raleigh-nc-zettefest-be-there-or-be-square/138316/45 "2002-12-13T19:10:01Z")
Anyone else? Anyone at all? I’m going to be really disappointed if we can’t pull at least a few folks together :(. I was really looking forward to meeting y’all. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raleigh-nc-zettefest-be-there-or-be-square/138316/46 "2002-12-13T19:33:49Z")
We’re tentatively planning to come, subject to major problems. But, **aenea** , since when do you call a steady drizzle with temperatures in the thirties “semi-decent weather”? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raleigh-nc-zettefest-be-there-or-be-square/138316/47 "2002-12-13T19:39:19Z")
It’s supposed to be 52 and sunny tomorrow 🙂 I sure hope I’m not going to be sitting at the bar all by myself … ---
**Author:** ![aenea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@aenea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aenea)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raleigh-nc-zettefest-be-there-or-be-square/138316/48 "2002-12-13T20:17:12Z")
Since I spent 9 frozen years in the western part of Montana, **Poly** 😃 (insert frozen shivering smiley here) This seems downright balmy in comparison! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raleigh-nc-zettefest-be-there-or-be-square/138316/49 "2002-12-13T21:01:24Z")
Is there a place we can agree to meet - in front of the restaurant, in the bar, or somewhere, seeing as how I don’t know what anyone looks like? There is one picture of me on my website: [http://www.unc.edu/~nbeach/roman04.htm](http://www.unc.edu/~nbeach/roman04.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raleigh-nc-zettefest-be-there-or-be-square/138316/50 "2002-12-13T23:38:58Z")
Heh, forgot about this thread. We’re supposed to work until mid-afternoon tomorrow, so I should be able to make it. I’ll just saddle up to the bar on the left as you go in. I look like John Goodman with a beard. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raleigh-nc-zettefest-be-there-or-be-square/138316/51 "2002-12-14T02:57:53Z")
Can’t be there aenea, now, ☹ but how about a January Zettefest? ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raleigh-nc-zettefest-be-there-or-be-square/138316/52 "2002-12-14T03:15:48Z")
6 o’clock at Greenshields sounds good ---
**Author:** ![YWalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/6f9a4e/32.png) [@YWalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YWalker)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raleigh-nc-zettefest-be-there-or-be-square/138316/53 "2002-12-14T05:29:44Z")
Just checking in to give my regrets — my husband’s company is having a Christmas party that night. Besides, it can’t be Zettefest without Zette! Hope to catch up with you folks at another time. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raleigh-nc-zettefest-be-there-or-be-square/138316/54 "2002-12-14T15:05:55Z")
OK - It looks like we’ll have **dogbutler** (love that name, BTW!), **aenea** , **Knowed Out** , **Polycarp** , **Mrs. Polycarp** and myself there. I’ll also head for the bar, so hopefully we’ll all find each other. I’m really looking forward to meeting y’all 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raleigh-nc-zettefest-be-there-or-be-square/138316/55 "2002-12-15T18:57:57Z")
I was at Greenshields for almost an hour last night (from 5:50 to 6:45) and didn’t see anyone who I even remotely thought might be any of y’all. Did anyone ever go? Or am I just incredibly unperceptive? ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raleigh-nc-zettefest-be-there-or-be-square/138316/56 "2002-12-15T23:21:16Z")
Well,I didn’t make it, I wasn’t feeling too good. Maybe next time? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raleigh-nc-zettefest-be-there-or-be-square/138316.md?page=2)