# Would anyone be up for a Mid-Michigan Dopefest? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 3, 2004, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-be-up-for-a-mid-michigan-dopefest/267262 "2004-10-03T01:03:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-be-up-for-a-mid-michigan-dopefest/267262/81 "2005-01-11T20:48:55Z")
Sorry all, but it looks like I’m gonna have to bow out of this one. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2005, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-be-up-for-a-mid-michigan-dopefest/267262/82 "2005-01-12T01:25:39Z")
We’ll miss getting to meet you, but I’m sure there’ll be another Fest; hopefully, closer to Dee-troit next time! ---
**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:** [January 14, 2005, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-be-up-for-a-mid-michigan-dopefest/267262/83 "2005-01-14T01:16:48Z")
Fortunately, tsarina remembered my charge to her and gave me a livejournal heads-up. I think I can make it, especially since I’m stuck taking the offspring to a movie party on Sunday in Canton, which will add up to multiple hours of kid-free time for my husband. I’ll just take what’s owed me in advance! ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-be-up-for-a-mid-michigan-dopefest/267262/84 "2005-01-14T01:25:25Z")
**Cranky** , that sounds more than fair! I promise you’ll not have to shush too many of us if we get out of hand. Probably just me, really. ---
**Author:** ![tsarina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@tsarina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tsarina)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-be-up-for-a-mid-michigan-dopefest/267262/85 "2005-01-14T01:45:21Z")
You know, if there are enough of us, I can call in advance and reserve one of the private rooms at the restaurant, where you sit on the floor on cushions and eat of a low Japanese-style table. I think you have to have eight people for that, so I’ll look into that. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2005, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-be-up-for-a-mid-michigan-dopefest/267262/86 "2005-01-14T03:51:31Z")
I’m just going to throw this out there, for the sake of suspense and anticipation… Last time I ate at a great sushi restaurant, I got fabulously, fantastically, spectacularly sick in front of (and nearly on) other Dopers. The food had nothing to do with it, but despite that . . . . . think how exciting a repeat would be! I constantly carry a barf bag in my purse so I never, EVER have to make such a spectacle of myself again. I haven’t thrown up since then (over a year ago) but why take chances? However, the thought of puking on Sparty is damned alluring. Isn’t there a statue of him somewhere? ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-be-up-for-a-mid-michigan-dopefest/267262/87 "2005-01-14T11:50:49Z")
Good news for me will be bad news for you; my lady doctor had a cancellation for tomorrow afternoon and can fit me in, and I need to go before next week or wait another possibly two months. It’s out this way at 3, so unless things go really well I won’t make it to Lansing. I’m sorry, because I’ve been looking forward to this for a while. I swear that next time I’ll be there w/ bells on. Have a good time. ---
**Author:** ![My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/My_Darn_Snake_Legs)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-be-up-for-a-mid-michigan-dopefest/267262/88 "2005-01-14T16:22:42Z")
Aww…that’s way less fun than eating strange food with strange people ☹ Next Time then. ---
**Author:** ![tsarina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@tsarina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tsarina)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-be-up-for-a-mid-michigan-dopefest/267262/89 "2005-01-14T20:57:15Z")
> [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](#): > > I constantly carry a barf bag in my purse so I never, EVER have to make such a spectacle of myself again. I haven’t thrown up since then (over a year ago) but why take chances? However, the thought of puking on Sparty is damned alluring. Isn’t there a statue of him somewhere? There is, but it’s far away from where we’re eating, and I’m not telling you where it is! 😛 ---
**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:** [January 15, 2005, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-be-up-for-a-mid-michigan-dopefest/267262/90 "2005-01-15T13:57:14Z")
> [@tsarina](#): > > There is, but it’s far away from where we’re eating, and I’m not telling you where it is! 😛 I am sure if I look through my old U-M Orientation packet I can find a map to it. Issued to each new student (graduate and undergrad) along with a coupon for a free can of spray paint at Meijer. ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-be-up-for-a-mid-michigan-dopefest/267262/91 "2005-01-15T14:36:18Z")
By the way, don’t count us in, **tsarina**. Dopes that we are, we forgot it was this weekend, and made other plans. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/My_Darn_Snake_Legs)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-be-up-for-a-mid-michigan-dopefest/267262/92 "2005-01-15T14:52:03Z")
So…what’s the number now? ---
**Author:** ![My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/My_Darn_Snake_Legs)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-be-up-for-a-mid-michigan-dopefest/267262/93 "2005-01-15T19:37:34Z")
I’m having car troubles today (of all days…) \ I guess I’ll have to wait for the next one ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Lockseer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a5b964/32.png) [@Lockseer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lockseer)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-be-up-for-a-mid-michigan-dopefest/267262/94 "2005-01-15T23:13:36Z")
> [@tsarina](#): > > I’ve been itchin’ to hang out with my fellow Michidopers lately, and I think it’s time the rest of you drive an hour so I don’t have to. 😃 Lansing would also be good for West Michigan and Northern Michigan Dopers to meet all of us! > > Whaddya say? I have in mind this cheap, darling little sushi restaurant in East Lansing, with a trip to Cold Stone Creamery afterward, some Saturday or Sunday afternoon in the near future - does that sound yummy? I JUST left East Lansing, bound for a job in Los Angeles. Would have been all over that… ---
**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:** [January 16, 2005, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-be-up-for-a-mid-michigan-dopefest/267262/95 "2005-01-16T02:56:01Z")
Well, you schlubs that couldn’t make it missed out on fine food and excellent company. We were a small party, but it was super nice nonetheless. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-be-up-for-a-mid-michigan-dopefest/267262.md?page=4)