# Ultimate Dopefest setting **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 10, 2008, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-dopefest-setting/467298 "2008-10-10T06:49:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-dopefest-setting/467298/1 "2008-10-10T06:49:26Z")
I’m not sure where [this](http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-10/ff_walker?currentPage=all) is, but I do know that there are several Dopers who would love to get set loose in there, myself included. I wonder what the odds are of getting Mr. Walker to let us have a Dopefest there? ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-dopefest-setting/467298/2 "2008-10-10T11:10:31Z")
Very cool - but what kind of Dopefest would it be with everyone off in their own little worlds?? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-dopefest-setting/467298/3 "2008-10-11T10:55:00Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Very cool - but what kind of Dopefest would it be with everyone off in their own little worlds?? 😉 Well, a decorous one, at least until someone decided to see what the sputnik looked like on the inside, or tried to pull up the Straight Dope on the 1960 IBM processor. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-dopefest-setting/467298/4 "2008-10-11T18:55:09Z")
Ooooh, extremely cool place. Perhaps the owner is a Doper…? ---
**Author:** ![JustAnotherGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@JustAnotherGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustAnotherGeek)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-dopefest-setting/467298/5 "2008-10-11T19:18:36Z")
That would be SO FRICKIN AWESOME for the next N.E. Dopefest! Please?!?!? Mr. Walker, sir? Could we? ::big puppy-dog eyes:: Like this --\> :eek: (only cuter) ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-dopefest-setting/467298/6 "2008-10-11T19:20:22Z")
Be still my beating heart! ::drools:: ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-dopefest-setting/467298/7 "2008-10-12T10:08:29Z")
> [@JustAnotherGeek](#): > > That would be SO FRICKIN AWESOME for the next N.E. Dopefest! > > Please?!?!? Mr. Walker, sir? Could we? > > ::big puppy-dog eyes:: > > Like this –\> :eek: (only cuter) I know, right!? If I didn’t currently live in California, I would seriously consider writing this guy a letter attempting to persuade him to let us come. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-dopefest-setting/467298/8 "2008-10-12T13:52:58Z")
I . . . . want. The guy has Sputnik hanging from his ceiling. . . _Sputnik!_ Good God y’all. I want. Tripler I want. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-dopefest-setting/467298/9 "2008-10-12T14:18:49Z")
Wow. Just, wow. ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-dopefest-setting/467298/10 "2008-10-13T00:03:14Z")
HOLY MACKEREL! I wanna be that guy’s best friend. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-dopefest-setting/467298/11 "2008-10-13T00:18:33Z")
I dunno. I’d prefer Vegas. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-dopefest-setting/467298/12 "2008-10-13T00:32:56Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > I dunno. I’d prefer Vegas. Vegas is in there.