# St Louis area DopeFest anyone? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 2, 2001, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-louis-area-dopefest-anyone/48125 "2001-01-02T19:18:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Palandine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/958977/32.png) [@Palandine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palandine)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-louis-area-dopefest-anyone/48125/21 "2001-01-03T15:50:49Z")
Can do. It’s totally easy to get to, even from Illinois. However, I’m a little bit tied up at the moment; will send the directions as soon as possible. ---
**Author:** ![MissBHaven](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missbhaven/32/7170_2.png) [@MissBHaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissBHaven)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-louis-area-dopefest-anyone/48125/22 "2001-01-03T20:15:11Z")
🙂 bump 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![schief2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@schief2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schief2)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-louis-area-dopefest-anyone/48125/23 "2001-01-04T03:14:41Z")
Put me down as about 80% likely for the 13th, and I could use some directions coming in on I-70, if **Crunchy** or one of his St. Louis compatriots could provide them. [sub]and oh yeah… **BUMP** [/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-louis-area-dopefest-anyone/48125/24 "2001-01-04T14:54:26Z")
I-70 will take you straight into the city (and you’ll pass about 300 yards from where I work doing it!). As for getting to Fox and Hounds, we’re waiting to hear from **Palandine** for that. Yep, we’re all waiting on you, **Pal**. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-louis-area-dopefest-anyone/48125/25 "2001-01-04T15:36:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miss B. Haven \* > \*\ ***kunilou** , Bummer! Do you want us to all come to your house instead?! 🙂 > > \*\* I appreciate the sentiment but it won’t be necessary. Given the number of pain pills Mrs. Kunilou will have available that weekend, it’s quite possible she could have her own Dope Fest. [groan] ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-louis-area-dopefest-anyone/48125/26 "2001-01-04T15:41:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kunilou \* > **Given the number of pain pills Mrs. Kunilou will have available that weekend, it’s quite possible she could have her own Dope Fest.** In light of this information, can we _ **please** _ come over to your place? Alcohol has a pleasant numbing effect, but it’s nothing like alcohol and pills combined! ---
**Author:** ![Palandine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/958977/32.png) [@Palandine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palandine)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-louis-area-dopefest-anyone/48125/27 "2001-01-04T15:50:24Z")
Okay, there’s a map here: [http://st-louis.funtastiktravel.com/St/Louis/hotels/st\_louis\_3f.html](http://st-louis.funtastiktravel.com/St/Louis/hotels/st_louis_3f.html) Coming from the middle of the state on eastbound I-70 (for schief2), you would get on southbound I-270 for about 6 or 8 miles, and then would get on eastbound highway 40 (I-64). From there (and this is the way the west county people would come too) take 40 east to exit at McCausland (just inside the city limits). Turn left at the bottom of the ramp. Take McCausland under Highway 40 and past Del Taco. Make a left at Clayton Road (2nd set of lights at the interchange, not the set of traffic lights by the Hi-Pointe theater). The Cheshire Inn is pretty much right past the Amoco there with the big horking sign. It’s on the left and has a lot of British stuff outside, maybe even the double-decker bus. For those who are looking at the map and might be confused by the street name Skinker, McCausland becomes Skinker after crossing Clayton Road. It’s the same thing. For folks coming from Illinois, take I-55 to the Poplar Street Bridge (the MAJOR bridge over the Missisippi [it’s the one just south of the arch]; it carries I-64, I-70, and I-55). Get into a left lane just so you don’t have to deal with the merging and exiting folks and you will be on Highway 40/I-64. You will go past the downtown area, a big Anheuser-Busch billboard, Barnes-Jewish hospital and the Science Center (which goes over the highway with a walkway). You’re close when you get there. About a mile later (past Hampton Ave.), there’ll be an exit for Clayton/Skinker. Take it. Go straight at the light. The Cheshire Inn is pretty much right past the Amoco there with the big horking sign. It’s on the left and has a lot of British stuff outside, maybe even the double-decker bus. For those who are looking at the map and might be confused by the street name Skinker, McCausland becomes Skinker after crossing Clayton Road. It’s the same thing. Any questions, just ask. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-louis-area-dopefest-anyone/48125/28 "2001-01-04T16:31:04Z")
> [@](#): > > **The Cheshire Inn is pretty much right past the Amoco there with the big horking sign.** You said this and I instantly knew _exactly_ where you were talking about. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2001, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-louis-area-dopefest-anyone/48125/29 "2001-01-07T22:32:39Z")
I see, I have a couple days off and everyone just lets this thread sink. Shame on you. So we have the date and place, what time? 7:00 sound ok? ---
**Author:** ![DynoSaur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DynoSaur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DynoSaur)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-louis-area-dopefest-anyone/48125/30 "2001-01-08T05:18:09Z")
Ugh. I’ll try to get there, but I don’t know that I can take dopefests two weekends in a row 😉 (yeah, I’m a wuss, so what?) ---
**Author:** ![Quadzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/a4c791/32.png) [@Quadzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quadzilla)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-louis-area-dopefest-anyone/48125/31 "2001-01-08T05:47:24Z")
Awwwww man… I’m a minor poster, so don’t know if I’d be much fun at a Dopefest, but I’d love to come… in fact, I have to be back on campus in Columbia this weekend, but can’t leave because I’m doing res-life training. Damn. And I just got approval to have my car with me this semester, too… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![schief2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@schief2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schief2)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-louis-area-dopefest-anyone/48125/32 "2001-01-08T07:53:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Crunchy Frog \* > \*\*So we have the date and place, what time? 7:00 sound ok? \*\* I work until 6, so I probably won’t be able to get there till around 8 or 8:30 - but don’t feel like you have to hold the show up for me, if 7:00 works for everyone else. Far be it from me to stop the rest of you from boozing it up in my absence… **Quadzilla:** cool to see another Columbia poster checking in! Too bad it sounds like you can’t make it, though. ☹ I always wondered if there was anyone else from around here on the board… ---
**Author:** ![Quadzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/a4c791/32.png) [@Quadzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quadzilla)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-louis-area-dopefest-anyone/48125/33 "2001-01-08T07:58:12Z")
Yeah, but I’m all about the all-MO Dopefest… MO’ Dope… heh-heh… 😃 thanks, schief 🙂 I sent you an e-mail earlier tonight, so, to risk a tad of redundancy - good to see another Columbian here, too! ---
**Author:** ![Palandine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/958977/32.png) [@Palandine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palandine)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-louis-area-dopefest-anyone/48125/34 "2001-01-08T17:09:08Z")
7:00 is fine with me. Looking forward to meeting you guys. ---
**Author:** ![MissBHaven](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missbhaven/32/7170_2.png) [@MissBHaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissBHaven)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-louis-area-dopefest-anyone/48125/35 "2001-01-09T17:40:16Z")
```auto Bump... I may be late but I'll be there! ``` ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-louis-area-dopefest-anyone/48125/36 "2001-01-10T00:19:54Z")
A quick bump and another question: How the hell are we all going to know each other? My pic’s on the People Pages, but seeing as I’ll be wearing my glasses (have to when driving at night) and have grown a goatee since those pics, I may not be recognizable when compared to that picture, and I don’t have any idea what any of you look like. So Dopers, how will we know who we are? Is there a handshake I haven’t been told about? ---
**Author:** ![Nymysys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f6c823/32.png) [@Nymysys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nymysys)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-louis-area-dopefest-anyone/48125/37 "2001-01-10T00:33:25Z")
I’ll be there if someone wants to come get me from Chi. ::looks over at Dyno:: ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-louis-area-dopefest-anyone/48125/38 "2001-01-10T00:49:08Z")
Come on **Dyno** , you and **Nymysys** alone in a car for a few hours, sounds like fun to me. Suck it up son and go to 2 DopeFests! Besides, then I can meet 2 of my virtual wives. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DynoSaur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DynoSaur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DynoSaur)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-louis-area-dopefest-anyone/48125/39 "2001-01-10T11:35:41Z")
I’ll think about it… _ponders driving to Chicago and back twice in two days_ Yeah. Like I said, I’ll think about it. Anyone else from Chicago want to try and convince me to give them a ride to St. Louis, too? Oh, and **Nym** , there’s no smoking in my car. Can you handle that for the 5+ hours between Chicago and St. Louis, should I decide to do this? ---
**Author:** ![MissBHaven](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missbhaven/32/7170_2.png) [@MissBHaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissBHaven)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-louis-area-dopefest-anyone/48125/40 "2001-01-10T16:10:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Crunchy Frog \* > \*\*So Dopers, how will we know who we are? Is there a handshake I haven’t been told about? \*\* I just thought I’d walk around the bar whispering in people’s ears…_Hey big boy, I’m Miss B Haven…_ until someone recognizes me and buys me a drink or two. 😉 Or… Crunchy, you could wear that red bow you keep promising me. I bet all of your “wives” would show up for that one!!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-louis-area-dopefest-anyone/48125.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/st-louis-area-dopefest-anyone/48125.md?page=3)