# Welcome Mississippienne to Baltimore Dopefest **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 16, 2005, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-mississippienne-to-baltimore-dopefest/299651 "2005-04-16T18:12:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-mississippienne-to-baltimore-dopefest/299651/21 "2005-04-18T16:20:18Z")
Why, what is this, a minor critique of my post? Prepare yourself for a flame war! ::Actually stops and thinks for a second. Then, acts abashed.:: Sorry, it’s easy to assume that people do not read posts, when there is no sign of having done so, however, judging from your posts in other threads, I should have know better. I’ll be good now., I should have know better. Sorry for overreacting, in reminding people of my post, I’ll be good now. ::Slinks off, with an ashamed look on his face.:: ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-mississippienne-to-baltimore-dopefest/299651/22 "2005-04-18T22:59:49Z")
**av8rmike** , **gobear** , **UrbanChic** , **moi** , etc…we’d sure all love to see you. Any idea if you’re coming? Adam ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-mississippienne-to-baltimore-dopefest/299651/23 "2005-04-18T23:13:41Z")
av8rmike emailed to let me know he’s coming. I haven’t heard back from moi (and tdc) or gobear, and I don’t have the others’ email addresses. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-mississippienne-to-baltimore-dopefest/299651/24 "2005-04-19T04:19:00Z")
I’ve been thinking about it and thinking about it, and I think I’m in! My very first Dopefest! 🆒 I have to be up (and in VA) early Sunday morning, so a Saturday afternoon thing works well for me. I’ll be honest: I’m a little intimidated by the idea of going to someone’s home – and meeting so many Dopers – when I haven’t been at the SDMB for very long. But I’m a social type, and I think I’ll be sticking around here for a while, so I may as well jump in! I’ll be the new chick nursing a Sam Adams: just wave and give me encouraging smiles every now and then, and I’ll be fine. 😉 (Can’t I make everyone wear nice big nametags? Pretty please??) **Ginger** , I’ll e-mail you shortly about directions; I’ll be coming from elsewhere in MD. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-mississippienne-to-baltimore-dopefest/299651/25 "2005-04-19T06:31:18Z")
I received your email. When it’s closer to the day, I will ask everyone who wants directions to email me, and I’ll send them out. ---
**Author:** ![Anita\_Vacation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Anita\_Vacation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anita_Vacation)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-mississippienne-to-baltimore-dopefest/299651/26 "2005-04-19T10:56:34Z")
I’m in! I’ll volunteer to drive the Va bozos in my bus. I live in Springfield now and can pick up folks who don’t have wheels at the Springfield Metro station. ---
**Author:** ![AnnaLucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e95f7d/32.png) [@AnnaLucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnnaLucretia)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-mississippienne-to-baltimore-dopefest/299651/27 "2005-04-19T12:41:06Z")
GAH! I am doomed to never come to another DopeFest, it seems… I have a good excuse though - I will be in a hot tub in New Orleans, drinking hurricanes and deciding what kind of “shirt” to have airbrushed on. 😃 AR ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-mississippienne-to-baltimore-dopefest/299651/28 "2005-04-19T13:43:32Z")
> [@Agent Foxtrot](#): > > **av8rmike** , **gobear** , **UrbanChic** , **moi** , etc…we’d sure all love to see you. Any idea if you’re coming? > > Adam Thanks, but I’m just not sure yet. Saturdays are usually very busy for me. The kids have so many activities on the weekends. Plus I work super hard during the week so I don’t have to work on weekends. I try to spend as much time as I can with my boys on Saturdays and Sundays since Mom’s essentially MIA during the week. I’ve never been to a 'Fest, though. I’ll give the invite some serious consideration. By when do you need to know if I’m coming or not? ---
**Author:** ![av8rmike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@av8rmike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/av8rmike)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-mississippienne-to-baltimore-dopefest/299651/29 "2005-04-19T15:07:15Z")
> [@GingerOfTheNorth](#): > > av8rmike emailed to let me know he’s coming. :eek: Well, I must have been on crack when I did that… I should have known that that’s the day of the _Hänsel & Gretel_ performances in Howard County. And unfortunately, it’s not like I can go to the party early and then leave; there are two shows that day, at 2:30 and 7:30. :smack: Sorry, all. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-mississippienne-to-baltimore-dopefest/299651/30 "2005-04-19T15:37:02Z")
I’m in. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-mississippienne-to-baltimore-dopefest/299651/31 "2005-04-20T03:03:46Z")
> [@av8rmike](#): > > :eek: Well, I must have been on crack when I did that… I should have known that that’s the day of the _Hänsel & Gretel_ performances in Howard County. And unfortunately, it’s not like I can go to the party early and then leave; there are two shows that day, at 2:30 and 7:30. :smack: Sorry, all. Crackhead. Sorry you won’t be there. You’re my favourite doper I’m not married to. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-mississippienne-to-baltimore-dopefest/299651/32 "2005-04-20T12:41:38Z")
I’ll attend. I probably won’t arrive before three, though. Let me know what you want me to bring. I make a killer applesauce cake topped off with homemade caramel icing. It’s wonderful. I can bring that and whatever else you’d like me to bring. ---
**Author:** ![Anita\_Vacation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Anita\_Vacation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anita_Vacation)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-mississippienne-to-baltimore-dopefest/299651/33 "2005-04-20T14:50:02Z")
> [@UrbanChic](#): > > I make a killer applesauce cake topped off with homemade caramel icing. It’s wonderful. Now _that_ sounds like crack. Please bring it even though av8rmike won’t be there. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-mississippienne-to-baltimore-dopefest/299651/34 "2005-04-20T15:14:06Z")
Request granted. The recipe I use is for a single-layer cake. It’s moist and a bit dense, so it should suffice. The caramel is a brown-sugar caramel. It’s _goood_. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-mississippienne-to-baltimore-dopefest/299651/35 "2005-04-20T16:52:22Z")
Damn, I’d been thinking “do I really want to drive to Baltimore for this,” but the cake is calling to me. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-mississippienne-to-baltimore-dopefest/299651/36 "2005-04-20T17:13:54Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > “do I really want to drive to Baltimore…” Drive to Baltimore! Drive to Baltimore! You’re one of several Dopers I’ve always thought that I’d like to meet someday. 🙂 (Hmm, hopefully that didn’t sound at all stalker-ish…) ---
**Author:** ![moi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@moi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moi)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-mississippienne-to-baltimore-dopefest/299651/37 "2005-04-20T19:24:42Z")
I’m a possible “yay.” (Thanks for the shout-out, **Agent Foxtrot**.) I’ll keep in touch via e-mail with **Ginger** re: my status, as I don’t know what my work schedule is for May yet. Also, I’ll need to figure out what I’m doing about getting to Dundalk since **tdc** works Saturdays; if anyone’s heading to Ginger’s from Charles Village or has advice about catchin’ a bus to that area, send an e-mail my way. Look forward to seeing y’all! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-mississippienne-to-baltimore-dopefest/299651/38 "2005-04-20T19:56:00Z")
You know, you, I mean moi, it would help if we knew what neighborhood you lived in. Personally, I am planning to see if I can get clear schedual that weekend, and see if a friend can give me a lift, but I know busses **do** go down there, ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-mississippienne-to-baltimore-dopefest/299651/39 "2005-04-20T20:05:09Z")
Damnit, I thought I could be there, but it looks like I’ll be tooling around the southwest that weekend. Iris and I haven’t been out there before and we’ve already got our travel tickets. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2005, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-mississippienne-to-baltimore-dopefest/299651/40 "2005-04-20T20:05:57Z")
> [@UrbanChic](#): > > By when do you need to know if I’m coming or not? Yeah - when’s the point of now return? Is a week before cutting it too close? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-mississippienne-to-baltimore-dopefest/299651.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-mississippienne-to-baltimore-dopefest/299651.md?page=3)