# SoCal Dopefest - Spring 2008 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 14, 2008, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socal-dopefest-spring-2008/437629 "2008-02-14T18:59:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socal-dopefest-spring-2008/437629/221 "2008-04-26T18:12:36Z")
I swear if I ever become and evil overlord, I am going to hire **Arnold Winkelried** as my head minion in charge of planning, keeping shit straight, and making sure all my subjects know what I want them to know. Private messages, e mails, for all I know he has spray painted the message on the outside of my house. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socal-dopefest-spring-2008/437629/222 "2008-04-26T18:44:10Z")
[QUOTE=Rick] Private messages, e mails, for all I know he has spray painted the message on the outside of my house. [/QUOTE] No, the last was me. Sorry, I was in a mood to do a little tagging and I had this extra can of spray paint in my trunk. I hope your neighbors aren’t too offended at my verse, and I’m sure it’ll mostly come off with a little bit of hard scrubbing. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socal-dopefest-spring-2008/437629/223 "2008-04-26T19:07:35Z")
[QUOTE=Rick] Private messages, e mails, for all I know he has spray painted the message on the outside of my house. [/QUOTE] The singing telegrams will be arriving shortly. I hope you all like clowns. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socal-dopefest-spring-2008/437629/224 "2008-04-27T03:42:45Z")
Less than a day to go! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socal-dopefest-spring-2008/437629/225 "2008-04-27T03:54:32Z")
[QUOTE=Antinor01] Less than a day to go! [/QUOTE] Really? I had forgotten. Why isn’t somebody sending out reminders by email or PM? ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socal-dopefest-spring-2008/437629/226 "2008-04-27T04:04:13Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Really? I had forgotten. Why isn’t somebody sending out reminders by email or PM? [/QUOTE] Check the outside of your house for spay paint. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socal-dopefest-spring-2008/437629/227 "2008-04-27T08:00:03Z")
[QUOTE=Rick] Check the outside of your house for spay paint. [/QUOTE] Actually, I tattooed the reminder into **silenus** ’s house with a .30 caliber machine gun. I ran out of paint, plus I had some mil surplus ammo that was past the “use by” date, so… Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socal-dopefest-spring-2008/437629/228 "2008-04-27T08:03:04Z")
I’m happy you still had paint when you stopped by my house. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socal-dopefest-spring-2008/437629/229 "2008-04-27T08:25:26Z")
[QUOTE=Rick] I’m happy you still had paint when you stopped by my house. 😃 [/QUOTE] Next time I’ll have my legions of flying monkeys skywrite “SURRENDER **RICK** ” over your house. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socal-dopefest-spring-2008/437629/230 "2008-04-27T17:14:24Z")
(I’m leaving in fifteen minutes. If I don’t make it, nobody hitch a ride from Rick again =^.^=) (I’m wearing a red, black, and tan Hawaiian shirt and an orange kitty hat) ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socal-dopefest-spring-2008/437629/231 "2008-04-27T18:23:25Z")
Sorry guys but I’m gonna poop out on you today. I’m under the weather and don’t feel like a long hot drive. Next time! ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socal-dopefest-spring-2008/437629/232 "2008-04-27T18:32:24Z")
Something came up and I won’t be able to make it. I’m sorry guys, I was really looking forward to this, too. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socal-dopefest-spring-2008/437629/233 "2008-04-28T00:17:44Z")
Well crap, I missed it too. M parents were my child care, and they got home later than expected. :smack: By the time I jammed over to the Yard House with my kids in tow, it was 4:20 pm and I had missed you guys by 10 minutes. I asked for you and the girl at the front desk hesitated and then said “Oh, the Hawaiian shirts?” 😃 So you must have made an impression… I will try harder next time, I swear. Hope there’s some good, embarrassing pictures… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socal-dopefest-spring-2008/437629/234 "2008-04-28T01:44:37Z")
Ok, so you turn left on 17th, not 14th like I said. And the left turn was on Ogle, not Ogden. You got there, right? Stop persecuting me! After 6 beers I’m lucky I remembered how to get to Hi-Times at all. Congrats to our prize winners: **xash** - bourboned cherries **Arnold Winklereid** - mead Girlfriend of **Iamthewalrus:3=** - mead **BraheSilver** - Crown Royal **Stranger On A Train** - Linkwood single malt Sorry, other end of the table. I think **Asimovian** ’s cap jinxed you. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socal-dopefest-spring-2008/437629/235 "2008-04-28T01:58:21Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Sorry, other end of the table. I think **Asimovian** ’s cap jinxed you. 😃 [/QUOTE] Yeah, and his baseball team won, too, despite allegations that I was somehow hexing them by making perfectly innocent comments about their progress. **silenus** , I looked up the Scotch and found a bunch of glowing reviews, so now I’m almost ashamed to open it up and drink it by myself. We may need to have a mini-fest of whiskey connoisseurs to share the burden. Anyway, as the big winner, next time around I’ll provide the top shelf prize; perhaps a bottle of Red Breast or Knoppogue. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socal-dopefest-spring-2008/437629/236 "2008-04-28T02:14:24Z")
Scotch tasting! I’m in! ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socal-dopefest-spring-2008/437629/237 "2008-04-28T02:14:27Z")
17th Street? Ogle? Where the hell did you send them, **silenus**? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socal-dopefest-spring-2008/437629/238 "2008-04-28T03:04:13Z")
My cap brought good luck to all the winners AND to my team, so I’ll thank you not to criticize. Oh, and if the parents of **Silver Tyger Girl** are reading this, we’re sorry, but it turns out **Rick** was crazy. (I kid, I kid!) So…who’s up for a mini-bowling 'fest in Pasadena? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socal-dopefest-spring-2008/437629/239 "2008-04-28T03:33:45Z")
[QUOTE=EJsGirl] 17th Street? Ogle? Where the hell did you send them, **silenus**? 😉 [/QUOTE] Hi-Times, of course. **Rick** was the smart one and just followed me. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socal-dopefest-spring-2008/437629/240 "2008-04-28T04:30:36Z")
[QUOTE=Asimovian] So…who’s up for a mini-bowling 'fest in Pasadena? 😃 [/QUOTE] I’d love to go, since I couldn’t make it today. My mom’s blood pressure was acting up, so no child care, and therefore no Dopefest for me. ☹ Let us know when and where, OK? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socal-dopefest-spring-2008/437629.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socal-dopefest-spring-2008/437629.md?page=13)