# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/21 "2010-09-27T16:00:21Z")
Well, since the OP specifies that I have the time to do it, I guess I would. Somebody has to make sure there are beans in the chili, and \*\*Silenus \*\*can’t be trusted to tend to that detail… ---
**Author:** ![Walkabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walkabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walkabout)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/22 "2010-09-27T16:18:06Z")
I’d only come to Nebraska if someone paid for my trip, even though I could afford it. I might attend if it was fairly close, within a couple hours drive. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/23 "2010-09-27T16:23:54Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Well, since the OP specifies that I have the time to do it, I guess I would. Somebody has to make sure there are beans in the chili, and \*\*Silenus \*\*can’t be trusted to tend to that detail… I would go and bring the beans. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/24 "2010-09-27T18:38:00Z")
Heck yeah. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/25 "2010-09-27T20:22:09Z")
Abso-freakin’-lutely. I’ve never been to Nebraska before (we drove all around it, but managed to miss it completely). ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/26 "2010-09-27T22:26:49Z")
I would show up (at my own expense) just to find out what it feels like when 3/4 of you all punch me in the face. I’d ask for your help in supplying enough top shelf tequila for everyone, though. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/27 "2010-09-28T01:37:36Z")
> [@Balthisar](#): > > I would show up (at my own expense) just to find out what it feels like when 3/4 of you all punch me in the face. I’d ask for your help in supplying enough top shelf tequila for everyone, though. I take it you’ve pissed off a lot of people here? ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/28 "2010-09-28T02:03:47Z")
Without hesitation. Sounds like fun. Surely we’ve got actual lottery winners on this diverse board. Why hasn’t this happened yet? C’mon – chop chop! ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/29 "2010-09-28T02:24:19Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Abso-freakin’-lutely. I’ve never been to Nebraska before (we drove all around it, but managed to miss it completely). I’ve been to Nebraska. One day, I spent two weeks there. 😃 Seriously, I’d probably attend. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/30 "2010-09-28T02:30:47Z")
Hey, if you’re paying, I’m there. But I want it in…oh, how about Paris? Ooh, or a remote Pacific island? ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/31 "2010-09-28T03:53:44Z")
I’d go to Nebraska for a WWDF (Worldwide Dopefest). I would hope that there would be stages set up for Dopers to demonstrate / perform in the area of their expertise. I’m thinking a music stage for all of the musicians, a cooking demo (Johnny L.A and others), maybe some DIY demos from our resident handyfolk and car guys. This could be a lot of fun and illustrate the fight against ignorance. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/32 "2010-09-28T04:00:36Z")
Fighting ignorance is well and good, but a far more worthy and epic undertaking for this group would be a multi-day Toga Party. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/33 "2010-09-28T04:05:04Z")
I’d come if it was in Phoenix. Probably also if it was in Flagstaff. If it was in Tucson, I _might_ hold my nose and come. Anywhere else, sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/34 "2010-09-28T04:12:23Z")
I’ve had the same thoughts. I figured if I ever win the 200 million dollar lottery, I’d hold it in Chicago. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/35 "2010-09-28T05:07:26Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > > [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > > > Abso-freakin’-lutely. I’ve never been to Nebraska before (we drove all around it, but managed to miss it completely). > > I’ve been to Nebraska. One day, I spent two weeks there. 😃 > > Seriously, I’d probably attend. Sure - we’ll pick you up on the way down. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/36 "2010-09-28T05:43:18Z")
I’m imagining a huge, empty, grain field, filled with tens of thousands of people who’ve never met, all milling around as a vast sea of undifferentiated humanity, waiting in endless, loosely moderated lines for food that inevitably is not about what it promises to be, each one fruitlessly trying to figure out something to do that could justify coming all this way, desperately butting into conversation after conversation that is either so annoyingly obscure as to be pointless, or simply monopolized by two people hopelessly locked into ever more self-referential polemics… Kind of like Burning Man with all the fun surgically removed. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/37 "2010-09-28T08:43:10Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Fighting ignorance is well and good, but a far more worthy and epic undertaking for this group would be a multi-day Toga Party. ::checks list:: Shall we mark you down to bring a keg? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/38 "2010-09-28T08:43:24Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > I’m imagining a huge, empty, grain field, filled with tens of thousands of people who’ve never met, all milling around as a vast sea of undifferentiated humanity, waiting in endless, loosely moderated lines for food that inevitably is not about what it promises to be, each one fruitlessly trying to figure out something to do that could justify coming all this way, desperately butting into conversation after conversation that is either so annoyingly obscure as to be pointless, or simply monopolized by two people hopelessly locked into ever more self-referential polemics… > > Kind of like Burning Man with all the fun surgically removed. No, no, no. It would all be indoors with tables to sit, tables full of food and drink, plenty of space to walk and mingle. Oh, and everybody would be wearing name tags with their doper names on them. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/39 "2010-09-28T12:38:59Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > > [@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.) May I suggest Madeira? Lovely place any time of year, I hear. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-attend-a-world-wide-dope-fest/555193/40 "2010-09-28T14:13:50Z")
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