# UK Autumn/Winter Dopefest **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 20, 2004, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127 "2004-09-20T13:20:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/181 "2004-11-02T14:00:36Z")
Mwahahahaha!!! The Monster Raving Looney Party cowers and weeps before us! ---
**Author:** ![Iceland\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/182 "2004-11-02T14:22:47Z")
Hmmm…Could you see ‘Strip Musical Chairs’ as being a legitimate quiz round? If not,I need to go reorganize something 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/183 "2004-11-02T15:43:57Z")
Well, I certainly won’t be participating - I’d scare everyone away. Besides, I’m staying fully clothed this DopeFest. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/184 "2004-11-02T16:03:14Z")
> [@Iceland\_Blue](#): > > Could you see ‘Strip Musical Chairs’ as being a legitimate quiz round? I can see ‘Strip Musical Chairs’ getting us all barred from the Silver Cross, certainly… ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/185 "2004-11-02T22:29:05Z")
> [@paulberserker](#): > > Is this going to end up with a 1000 posts like the last one, where only about 30/1000 had any relevance to anything pertaining to meeting up? Very probably. Doesn’t matter to most of us, but those who get to the thread a bit late have to wade through pages of rubbish (no offence, chaps) to find the ‘where and when’ bits. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/186 "2004-11-16T15:30:48Z")
Right, seeing as the Dopefest is in two weekends’ time, on the 27th, I thought an update, complete with times and places written in big highlighted letters, might be a good idea. So: \*\*The time: 27th November from 2pm The place: [COLOR=RED]The Silver Cross Pub, in Whitehall, London. See [here](http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=530095&y=180273&z=0&sv=SW1A%202BX&st=PostCode&lu=N&tl=~&ar=y&bi=~&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf) for a map.\*\* There will be: rugelach, as baked by the wonderful, effervescent **Eva Luna** , a quiz, with the erstwhile **Iceland Blue** taking the role of our very own John Humphrey, and mine pies. For food, we shall pile into a curry house or similar nearby, on the day. This should be good fun. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/187 "2004-11-16T15:32:00Z")
And now I’ve fixed the coding errors, it might be easier to read. 😉 Right, seeing as the Dopefest is in two weekends’ time, on the 27th, I thought an update, complete with times and places written in big highlighted letters, might be a good idea. So: \*\*The time: 27th November from 2pm The place: The Silver Cross Pub, in Whitehall, London. See [here](http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=530095&y=180273&z=0&sv=SW1A%202BX&st=PostCode&lu=N&tl=~&ar=y&bi=~&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf) for a map.\*\* There will be: rugelach, as baked by the wonderful, effervescent **Eva Luna** , a quiz, with the erstwhile **Iceland Blue** taking the role of our very own John Humphrey, and mine pies. For food, we shall pile into a curry house or similar nearby, on the day. This should be good fun. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/188 "2004-11-16T15:41:46Z")
I’m one UK Doper who won’t be there, I think, but I do want to wish you all a VERY good time. (Sounds as though it will be, in any case) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/189 "2004-11-16T19:41:46Z")
I won’t be there - I’ll be at the one in the new year, though. ---
**Author:** ![Iceland\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/190 "2004-11-16T22:06:10Z")
MINE pies? :wally ---
**Author:** ![confessorknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@confessorknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/confessorknight)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/191 "2004-11-17T01:17:01Z")
Actually **Mine** pies are the preferred Dopefest spelling - resulting from the last rambling, barely on-point thread. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/192 "2004-11-17T08:54:08Z")
Yup, **ConfessorKnight’s** correct. They are MINE mies, not MINCE pies, since my original typo last year. People’s hearts tremble for mine pies. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/193 "2004-11-17T10:33:41Z")
I’m sure when I was a young Celyn at school we had to sing a little song about “mine pies have seen the glory…” Well, keep your sodding pies and see if I care! I will make mine very own pies then. 🙂 Translated, that means, anybody within about a hundred miles or so of Glasogw, please to 'phone the Fire Brigade now) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/194 "2004-11-17T10:46:31Z")
Here we go, the [origins](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=214772&page=4&pp=50) (and subsequent insane discussion) of mine pies. **Celyn** – I’ve been known to post baked goods to people… ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/195 "2004-11-17T14:21:25Z")
Did anybody ever go down and say owt to the folk at the Silver Cross? ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/196 "2004-11-17T14:25:24Z")
Well, I certainly haven’t – its quite hard from Brimingham. 😉 I’d assumed that either you or **Garius** were going to do so. I could twist **Bonzer’s** arm to go talk to them, but I think the last time he (and I) were in there, we had to be literally dragged out… ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/197 "2004-11-17T14:32:24Z")
Or, I could just call them… Now there’s a cunning plan… ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/198 "2004-11-17T14:54:23Z")
Right, have just called them. We can’t have the downstairs bit, cause there isn’t going to be _that_ many of us – I estimated 30-ish, but, they have reserved us what they call ‘Area 1’. Basically as you come in through the right hand door of the pub, there are some steps by the disabled lift, and apparantly Area 1 is round there. That’s reserved for us. Yay! We have a plan. Hurrah! ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/199 "2004-11-17T15:14:09Z")
Be more like Area 51. What does that mean? A table set aside? ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/200 "2004-11-17T15:18:06Z")
Nah, I think its probably more along the lines of a semi-enclosed area type thing that they’ll set aside for us. It better bloody not be just one table, otherwise I _will_ go medieval on their arses. But hey, its better than nothing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127.md?page=11)