# We need entertainment before the long Michigan winter drives us insane...A2 Dopefest! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 5, 2003, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-entertainment-before-the-long-michigan-winter-drives-us-insane-a2-dopefest/159324 "2003-03-05T20:00:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-entertainment-before-the-long-michigan-winter-drives-us-insane-a2-dopefest/159324/21 "2003-03-06T18:23:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Phatlewt \* > \*\*If Blue Nile is involved, this guy might just crash it 🙂 \*\* Excellent! Cecil knows how much we like to corrupt newbies\*! \*A great deal. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-entertainment-before-the-long-michigan-winter-drives-us-insane-a2-dopefest/159324/22 "2003-03-06T18:44:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Phatlewt \* > \*\*If Blue Nile is involved, this guy might just crash it 🙂 \*\* Excellent! Cecil knows how much we like to corrupt newbies\*! \*A great deal. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-entertainment-before-the-long-michigan-winter-drives-us-insane-a2-dopefest/159324/23 "2003-03-06T18:45:52Z")
DAMN YOU, HAMSTERS! BTW, everyone, be there at 7. Sound good? ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-entertainment-before-the-long-michigan-winter-drives-us-insane-a2-dopefest/159324/24 "2003-03-06T21:47:37Z")
What? There is a Toledo Dopefest? How’d I miss that? That’s doable for some of us MI Dopers. Phatlewt, it’d be wonderful to add a member to the Michigan Mafia. And Mr. Blue, when will you know whether “might” becomes “Definitely will?” Because (1) we need to reserve the right size table and (2) I wanna know whether to look forward to your arrival or start wallowing in disappointment. ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-entertainment-before-the-long-michigan-winter-drives-us-insane-a2-dopefest/159324/25 "2003-03-06T22:54:05Z")
OK, count me in. Oh, and Kathryn? I could stop on the way if you need a lift. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-entertainment-before-the-long-michigan-winter-drives-us-insane-a2-dopefest/159324/26 "2003-03-06T23:18:42Z")
> [@](#): > > What? There is a Toledo Dopefest? How’d I miss that? That’s doable for some of us MI Dopers. Beats the mutha-lovin’ poopy outta me. Here’s the ([http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=157934](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=157934)). It’s just a little lunch thing at Tony Packo’s. ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-entertainment-before-the-long-michigan-winter-drives-us-insane-a2-dopefest/159324/27 "2003-03-07T00:27:01Z")
Rick and I will be there, although I am looking forward to the food more than he is. Only for a dopefest will he brave ethnic food. 🙂 Does anyone happen to know if they have anything other than Ethiopian food on the menu? [sub]Hey, he’s British. He can’t help it.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Phatlewt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@Phatlewt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phatlewt)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-entertainment-before-the-long-michigan-winter-drives-us-insane-a2-dopefest/159324/28 "2003-03-07T01:37:20Z")
No, just ethiopian food. If he panics, though, there is a perfectly good brewpub just across the street. He can fish-n-chip to his heart’s content. 🙂 Although **phatlewt** is a SDMB n00b, he _is_ known to several of you IRL. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-entertainment-before-the-long-michigan-winter-drives-us-insane-a2-dopefest/159324/29 "2003-03-07T01:43:07Z")
**Phatlewt** is not so lame as to speak of himself in the third person. I wrote the above. Whoopsie! If anyone doesn’t mind a brief sidetrip to a Columbus, OH horse warehouse sale, I’ll probably go to the Toledo minifest on the way home. I’d welcome the company. ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-entertainment-before-the-long-michigan-winter-drives-us-insane-a2-dopefest/159324/30 "2003-03-07T01:50:11Z")
I’M SO JEALOUS, YOU GUYS!!! I live WAY up in northern lower Michigan. Can’t we just all meet at my house? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-entertainment-before-the-long-michigan-winter-drives-us-insane-a2-dopefest/159324/31 "2003-03-07T02:15:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Alias \* > \*\*I’M SO JEALOUS, YOU GUYS!!! I live WAY up in northern lower Michigan. Can’t we just all meet at my house? 🙂 \*\* We could carpool. What time on Friday? That’s tomorrow, right? ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-entertainment-before-the-long-michigan-winter-drives-us-insane-a2-dopefest/159324/32 "2003-03-07T03:07:09Z")
oooh, is Phatlewt that hot guy I had breakfast with three weeks ago? ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-entertainment-before-the-long-michigan-winter-drives-us-insane-a2-dopefest/159324/33 "2003-03-07T03:25:00Z")
mmmmmmaybe. ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-entertainment-before-the-long-michigan-winter-drives-us-insane-a2-dopefest/159324/34 "2003-03-07T06:04:54Z")
If I had a car… oh man. ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-entertainment-before-the-long-michigan-winter-drives-us-insane-a2-dopefest/159324/35 "2003-03-07T13:08:40Z")
Say, anybody have directions to this place? (And no, “head south and hang a left when you hit Egypt” is not the kind of directions I have in mind.) ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-entertainment-before-the-long-michigan-winter-drives-us-insane-a2-dopefest/159324/36 "2003-03-07T15:30:13Z")
**Mrblue** , I can’t remember… where are you coming from (what highway)? From 23/14 Westbound, get off at the 2nd Ann Arbor exit (Main Street). Turn right off the exit to follow Main Street south. Continue on Main street – you will enter the downtown area. Turn left on Washington Street. Park in the parking structure. Walk 1 block East (uphill) further up Washington till you see the restaurant on the left-hand side of the street. ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-entertainment-before-the-long-michigan-winter-drives-us-insane-a2-dopefest/159324/37 "2003-03-07T16:03:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mrblue92 \* > \*\*Say, anybody have directions to this place? > > (And no, “head south and hang a left when you hit Egypt” is not the kind of directions I have in mind.) \*\* ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-entertainment-before-the-long-michigan-winter-drives-us-insane-a2-dopefest/159324/38 "2003-03-07T16:06:53Z")
Ug! [Yellowpages.com](http://Yellowpages.com) will give you a map. ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-entertainment-before-the-long-michigan-winter-drives-us-insane-a2-dopefest/159324/39 "2003-03-07T16:07:59Z")
**mrblue** Lemme ask my parents how annoyed they’d be if I ditched out tonight. Alphie kidnapped me last night so they might be touchy. I’ll call you. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-entertainment-before-the-long-michigan-winter-drives-us-insane-a2-dopefest/159324/40 "2003-03-07T16:17:28Z")
Shyguy, it’s right downtown. Not hard to get to from campus or via public transportation. And I suspect someone would give you a ride home afterwards. Kyla is carless, too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-entertainment-before-the-long-michigan-winter-drives-us-insane-a2-dopefest/159324.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-entertainment-before-the-long-michigan-winter-drives-us-insane-a2-dopefest/159324.md?page=3)