# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Jennyrosity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2004, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/121 "2004-10-27T10:28:24Z")
I have yet to see Paul’s axe, except in pictures. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2004, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/122 "2004-10-27T10:34:31Z")
It is a monster scary axe, which also has a rather phallic end… ---
**Author:** ![DaphneBlack](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daphneblack/32/5389_2.png) [@DaphneBlack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaphneBlack)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2004, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/123 "2004-10-27T12:28:56Z")
I have been told I am to come to this gathering. Should I bring body armor or something? _very wary_ Daphne ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2004, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/124 "2004-10-27T12:36:55Z")
I wouldn’t worry too much about it. It’s probably the UDIs the next day that’ll be worse, depending on how much you like to drink etc ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2004, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/125 "2004-10-27T12:47:39Z")
The Calendar i’m working on next week, I added a new LOED last week and will be doing one tonight, and i’ll write my epic when i damn well feel like it. So there 😛 > [@](#): > > ‘blah blah City of Heroes blah Prinny Lou blah Pint blah Becks blah Mice blah me and Tim blah 2 x 4 blah Hoxton blah boss etc’ You missed out “Can anyone lend me a tenner? Blah Blah Blah…” ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2004, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/126 "2004-10-27T12:49:50Z")
> [@garius](#): > > The Calendar i’m working on next week, I added a new LOED last week and will be doing one tonight, and i’ll write my epic when i damn well feel like it. BTW What do you want for the calendar? Cause if you don’t say, you’re getting pretty pictures of galaxies. ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2004, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/127 "2004-10-27T12:56:10Z")
To be honest i’m waiting for my work to decide which format they’re having they’re calendar in. Once i know then i’ll give people image sizes and whatnot. And for anyone who cares [League Of Extraordinary Detectives](http://www.dragondark.co.uk/comics/loed/loed.php?id=3). Ignore the cruddy navigation - i just needed to get it working. Will probably give it an overhaul tonight too. ---
**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:** [October 27, 2004, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/128 "2004-10-27T21:53:28Z")
> [@Iceland\_Blue](#): > > May Iceland be entrusted with providing the quizzes? I’m very good at producing them and I love coming up with them 😃 I have no particular objections if someone else wants to come up with a quiz, but here are some helpful hints: 1. It’ll be too noisy for a proper music round. Sad but true. 2. This lot have an astounding range of knowledge about all sorts of things. Stumping them with fair questions is surprisingly difficult. 3. Above all, questions must be entertaining. So what if nobody got any of the smutty questions about birds correct? Everyone loves a booby joke. 4. Keep it short. That fellow who normally does it always gets carried away. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/129 "2004-10-28T01:21:26Z")
> [@garius](#): > > The Calendar i’m working on next week, I added a new LOED last week and will be doing one tonight, and i’ll write my epic when i damn well feel like it. If I’m extra-super-duper nice to you, can I have a calendar? What did you decide to put in it, after all? I’ll swap for rugelach… ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/130 "2004-10-28T08:46:25Z")
> [@Eva Luna](#): > > If I’m extra-super-duper nice to you, can I have a calendar? I’ll swap for rugelach… Pah! Not so long ago in this very thread you were advocating that I should be ‘poked in the ribs’ - an unwarranted and unworthy act of violence, contrary to the established Doper standards of peaceful and non-violent behaviour (_extract from Dopefest rule book: you can be stupid, you can be drunk, but you can’t be violent_). And now you’re trying to be considered ‘nice’, nay, ‘super-duper’ nice. The hypocrisy! The breathtaking double standards! The sheer… (I could go on and on, as you all know, but I won’t.) Suggest: (a) retraction of ‘poke in ribs’ threat (b) rugelach to be supplied for Nov 27th for all to enjoy © then you get your calendar, even if I personally have to pay for it to get from the mighty \*\*Garius \*\* to your good self. The era of peaceful non-violence is restored, and everyone gets what they want. **Iceland Blue** - there are two parts to running a Dopefest quiz. First, preparing questions for a quiz that can be played by two teams of alcoholised Dopers. Second, attempting to keep some semblance of order and ensure people play by the rules. The first is a challenge. The second is like trying to tie knots in sawdust. Best of luck. You may also like to know that the two teams are traditionally dubbed ‘Team 1’ and ‘Team A’, because nobody wanted to be on a team that had any sort of ‘secondary’ designation. Oh, and history suggests that it is very advisable, as quiz master, to be extremely well-versed regarding the entire My Little Pony collection: names, colours etc. We all wish you well. And there _are_ some rewards for organising the quiz: you get a free pint out of it (I’ll buy you one anyway), a round of applause, and all the Dopergals will pose with you for a series of ego-flattering photos suggesting that, as Quiz Master, you enjoyed certain feudal ‘rights’ which you enjoyed to the full. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/131 "2004-10-28T08:53:26Z")
> [@ianzin](#): > > And there _are_ some rewards for organising the quiz: you get a free pint out of it (I’ll buy you one anyway), a round of applause, and all the Dopergals will pose with you for a series of ego-flattering photos suggesting that, as Quiz Master, you enjoyed certain feudal ‘rights’ which you enjoyed to the full. Hmmm… This Dopergal doesn’t do things like that anymore. No sirree. And there will be no removal of any of my outer garments whilst we’re in the pub. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/132 "2004-10-28T08:54:43Z")
By outer garments I mean tops/trousers etc. Not coats/scarves obviously, cause that’d just be silly. And we don’t do silly at Dopefests. ---
**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:** [October 28, 2004, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/133 "2004-10-28T10:29:22Z")
> [@ianzin](#): > > **Iceland Blue** - there are two parts to running a Dopefest quiz. First, preparing questions for a quiz that can be played by two teams of alcoholised Dopers. Second, attempting to keep some semblance of order and ensure people play by the rules. The first is a challenge. The second is like trying to tie knots in sawdust. Best of luck. Hey. I’ve coped with giving pub questions to people whilst a fight is in progress, someone’s trying to leap over the bar, someone else’s mobile is going off and a team member is trying to climb out the window. 😃 I’m prepared for anything… > [@ianzin](#): > > You may also like to know that the two teams are traditionally dubbed ‘Team 1’ and ‘Team A’, because nobody wanted to be on a team that had any sort of ‘secondary’ designation. Oh, and history suggests that it is very advisable, as quiz master, to be extremely well-versed regarding the entire My Little Pony collection: names, colours etc. We all wish you well. Ha. I am also expert on Care Bears names and colours. That ups the ante. > [@ianzin](#): > > And there _are_ some rewards for organising the quiz: you get a free pint out of it (I’ll buy you one anyway), a round of applause, and all the Dopergals will pose with you for a series of ego-flattering photos suggesting that, as Quiz Master, you enjoyed certain feudal ‘rights’ which you enjoyed to the full. Iceland doesn’t drink pints. Which has led on his winning the 16 pint prize at one pub to donate to the whole pub,including bar staff. They loved me winning. ALL the Dopergals? And hey…the photos only _ **suggest** _ that I enjoyed those rights. I demand that I enjoy them ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/134 "2004-10-28T10:31:46Z")
> [@Iceland\_Blue](#): > > Hey. I’ve coped with giving pub questions to people whilst a fight is in progress, someone’s trying to leap over the bar, someone else’s mobile is going off and a team member is trying to climb out the window. 😃 > I’m prepared for anything… _sniggers_ You’ve never been to a Dopefest, trust me, its unlike anything you’ve ever seen before. > [@](#): > > And hey…the photos only _ **suggest** _ that I enjoyed those rights. I demand that I enjoy them Ha! There’s these people known as “Dopergals’ boyfriends”… All of whom will probably be at said Dopefest… ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/135 "2004-10-28T10:59:26Z")
feudal? surely you mean Freudal… ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/136 "2004-10-28T11:04:00Z")
And after the party, it’s the hotel lobby… ---
**Author:** ![curly\_chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@curly\_chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curly_chick)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/137 "2004-10-28T11:11:31Z")
**Iceland Blue** , if you want to know the high standard of quiz questions previously set by the illustrious **Gyrate** , you could search on here; I seem to think that the one and only quiz of his I was ever at had a post-fest thread all of its very own. August of last year, that was. Read it and marvel. ---
**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:** [October 28, 2004, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/138 "2004-10-28T11:55:58Z")
> [@Angua](#): > > _sniggers_ > > You’ve never been to a Dopefest, trust me, its unlike anything you’ve ever seen before. Hrmph…I have run through Bournemouth in only a pair of swimming trunks, been chased by transvestites brandishing mattresses, taken part in an eat-gateau-without-using your hands competition,dressed as a large blue singing songbook,slid naked on a teatray down the garden path,done a conga with a nun,a flamenco dancer and Satan and have danced with no trousers on through the fountain outside Centenary Square 🙂 This had better be special… ---
**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:** [October 28, 2004, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/139 "2004-10-28T12:10:30Z")
Link to Gyrate’s quiz thread please? I can’t find it ☹ even searching ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127/140 "2004-10-28T12:13:59Z")
i had a quick look but i can’t seem to find it either. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-autumn-winter-dopefest/265127.md?page=8)