# Would you attend a world wide dope-fest? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 27, 2010, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193 "2010-09-27T06:44:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/1 "2010-09-27T06:44:33Z")
On occasion I have this, for lack of a better word, fantasy. I won the lottery and am a multi-millionaire (USD). I then decide to hold a dope-fest for every member. I rent a large space in the middle of the continental US, so say, somewhere in Nebraska. It’s big enough for all of the dopers, their significant others, and their kids. For those who can’t afford to come, whether they live in the US, or anywhere else in the world, I’ll pay for gas for their car, or bus or train or plane tickets. Yeah, people who could afford would take advantage and say they couldn’t. That’s OK, I’d pay anyway. The event would be for two days, most likely on Saturday and Sunday. I wouldn’t pay for overnight hotel or motel stays though. But I would make sure the event is fully catered. So, if this impossible fantasy was real, would you accept my invitation? Assume that you have the time to attend one or both days. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/2 "2010-09-27T08:04:33Z")
Nebraska?! Seriously, dude - Nebraska?! Of all the places a super millionaire could choose to bring us all together…Hawaii, Las Vegas, NYC, San Diego, Tahiti, Thailand, Rome, Bahamas…and you pick Nebraska? And our luck, you would decide January… ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/3 "2010-09-27T08:13:04Z")
[Find Things To Do in Nebraska](http://www.visitnebraska.gov/component/myplanner/intro) > [@](#): > > Feb 19-Apr 11 > Grand Island, Hall County > Wings Over the Platte Art Exhibit and Sale > Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer, 3133 W. Hwy > 34 One of central Nebraska’s largest and most > eclectic art shows features life on the Platte River > and its tributaries. Daily, 9am-5pm, $4-$6 kari Stofer > (308) 385-5316 [www.stuhrmuseum.org](http://www.stuhrmuseum.org) I am so there! ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/4 "2010-09-27T08:26:41Z")
You’re paying? Bet your ass I would. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/5 "2010-09-27T08:47:40Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > Nebraska?! > Seriously, dude - Nebraska?! > > Of all the places a super millionaire could choose to bring us all together…Hawaii, Las Vegas, NYC, San Diego, Tahiti, Thailand, Rome, Bahamas…and you pick Nebraska? > > And our luck, you would decide January… 😃 I know, I know. But I would be spending so much money on the event I would want to make it as close as possible for everybody in the continental US, so smack dab in the center seems the most logical choice. > [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > You’re paying? Bet your ass I would. Everything except hotel fair if you stay overnight, and I wouldn’t pay for anybody who went out to other places like restaurants or movie theaters and so on. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/6 "2010-09-27T08:51:46Z")
Oh. Then I wouldn’t. No money for a hotel. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/7 "2010-09-27T08:55:34Z")
Sure, why not? At worst it would be a mostly paid vacation, with food and drink … at best I would meet lots of people that I communicate with in one way or another mostly every day and have been for lurker and poster almost 10 years. ---
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/8 "2010-09-27T08:58:33Z")
How much of a kickback are you getting from the state of Nebraska? ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/9 "2010-09-27T08:59:22Z")
> [@Nobody](#): > > 😃 I know, I know. But I would be spending so much money on the event I would want to make it as close as possible for everybody in the continental US, so smack dab in the center seems the most logical choice. But, assuming for a minute you are serious, it costs MORE to fly to some place like Nebraska than any major tourist location. For instance, I would bet most people can find a cheaper flight to visit me here in Las Vegas than they could to find a flight to Lincoln, Nebraska. (Unless you live nearby.) If you insist on the middle American aspect, then at least choose Chicago. That would be an excellent choice…granted, weather sucks big time except for Fall and Spring, but at least it would be easy to find transportation, and plenty of attractions and things to do when we got there. But again…Nebraska?! ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/10 "2010-09-27T09:03:48Z")
> [@Nobody](#): > > 😃 I know, I know. But I would be spending so much money on the event I would want to make it as close as possible for everybody in the continental US, so smack dab in the center seems the most logical choice. That’s not very world-wide. Since there are many Eurodopers too, I suggest you hold it in the middle of the Atlantic. (I hear that this Atlantis place has cheap rooms due to water damage.) ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/11 "2010-09-27T09:26:15Z")
> [@Desert\_Nomad](#): > > How much of a kickback are you getting from the state of Nebraska? None, but it might put me on the good side of [The Boss](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/43/Nebraska1982.JPG) 🆒 OK, OK, it could be held somewhere else. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/12 "2010-09-27T10:51:42Z")
I would, Nebraska or no. ---
**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/13 "2010-09-27T11:11:53Z")
Free trip to the US from Australia? Um, hell yes I would. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/14 "2010-09-27T11:30:57Z")
[Films set in Nebraska!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_set_in_Nebraska) > [@](#): > > A > About Schmidt > > B > Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach > Boys Don’t Cry (film) > Boys Town (film) > > C > Children of the Corn (1984 film) > Children of the Corn (2009 film) > Children of the Corn 666: Isaac’s Return > Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice > Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering > Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror > Children of the Corn: Revelation > Citizen Ruth > > E > Election (1999 film) > > G > The Good Life (2007 film) > > I > The Indian Runner > > M > My Antonia (film) > > N > Night of the Twisters > > O > O Pioneers! (film) > Oblivion, Nebraska (film) > > P > Peacock (2010 film) > > R > The Rain People > > S > Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice > The Stand (TV miniseries) > > T > Terms of Endearment > Tully (film) > > Z > Zombie Strippers ---
**Author:** ![constanze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@constanze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/constanze)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/15 "2010-09-27T13:34:05Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > > [@Nobody](#): > > > > 😃 I know, I know. But I would be spending so much money on the event I would want to make it as close as possible for everybody in the continental US, so smack dab in the center seems the most logical choice. > > But, assuming for a minute you are serious, it costs MORE to fly to some place like Nebraska than any major tourist location. For instance, I would bet most people can find a cheaper flight to visit me here in Las Vegas than they could to find a flight to Lincoln, Nebraska. (Unless you live nearby.) Agree. Geographic middle != easiest to reach by transport. > [@](#): > > If you insist on the middle American aspect, then at least choose Chicago. That would be an excellent choice…granted, weather sucks big time except for Fall and Spring, but at least it would be easy to find transportation, and plenty of attractions and things to do when we got there. Plus, with Chicago, the Chicago Dopers and Staffers could give us special tours (Chicago Street Journal, Unca Cecil’s column on what to see and do in Chicago). How much would you have to pay Zotti, Slug and Cecil to come (the Perfect Master could attend with a mask or a pair of glasses to conserve his secret identity. Or under a false name.) However, as long as those invasive procedures are in place to enter the US - looking at wishlists on amazon to find out who’s a terrorist because they read a book critical of the US, or carrying Arabic flashcards and other charming peaks of the security theater) I’m not going to set foot in the US. How about that nice neighbour to the north, Canada? ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/16 "2010-09-27T13:54:11Z")
I would come along to prove I am far more handsome than **A.C. Melon**. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/17 "2010-09-27T14:10:21Z")
Might I suggest Alliance, Nebraska? We could have a sunrise coffee klatch at [Carhenge](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carhenge). There’s also a Woolrich factory store in town for those looking for clothing bargains. ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/18 "2010-09-27T14:26:28Z")
Nope. Nobody knows me and I’m a bit shy. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/19 "2010-09-27T14:27:40Z")
I think Colbert and Stewart have scooped you. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/20 "2010-09-27T15:44:33Z")
Nope. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193.md?page=2)