I’ve been to several. Doubt I’ll ever make it to any others. I know, it’s tragic. 
I’ve been to a couple (we try to meet Dopers wherever we go in our travels - Seattle Dopers, I was very disappointed in you last spring {insert stern schoolmarm smiley}), and we’ve always had a very good time and liked all the people we met.
We’re coming to Ohio next spring - keep it open on your calendars, you Ohio Dopers. 
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More DopeFests, please.
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The first rule of the Toronto DopeFests is that you do not talk about the Toronto DopeFests! :mad:
(The second rule has something to do with either cheese or beavers. I can’t remember.)
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It’s the spouses that tend to suffer at 'fests. Everyone is usually very nice to them, and tries to include them in things. Winston Smith was great at entertaining a couple of SOs at the last Boston 'fest. But let’s face it, when someone says “I burning your dog!”, all but a couple people will laugh. It’s a little awkward.
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Too true - I think most people try to keep the discussions from focusing completely on talking about other Dopers or things happening on the boards, but it does happen.
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Too true - I think most people try to keep the discussions from focusing completely on talking about other Dopers or things happening on the boards, but it does happen.
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Actually, Sarahfeena, Gardentraveler and WhyNot came within millimeters of getting BusWife to sign up because of this. We’d all be discussing something doper-ish, and she got all inquisitive. I think we talked of damn little else but board stuff and she hung right in there.
If one is ever even remotely close to Dallas, I’ll be there with bells on bells.
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The first rule of the Toronto DopeFests is that you do not talk about the Toronto DopeFests! :mad:
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No wonder we don’t have enough Toronto DopeFests… no-one knows about them!
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I thought this was a joke meaning that 6th and Mission is the center of hell which it might be. (actually thats the Tenderloin)
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[hijack] Oh, respectfully disagree. The SOMA at night is like a Romero film. Plus, I’ve been mugged there. I was just happy he didn’t eat my brain. The Tenderloin, while perhaps grosser is, seems to have regular humans walking around the street, while the SOMA at night is populated solely by the undead. [/hijack]
I would love to go to a Dopefest not thrown by me. I suck.
I am going to make a concerted effort to make Gettysdope next year… this year, I didn’t have a lot of success talking the wife into driving for 3 hours to hang out with a bunch of folks she didn’t know. Hehehehe
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Actually, Sarahfeena, Gardentraveler and WhyNot came within millimeters of getting BusWife to sign up because of this. We’d all be discussing something doper-ish, and she got all inquisitive. I think we talked of damn little else but board stuff and she hung right in there.
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She did indeed, but then, she’s very cool. Easy for her to fit in. 
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[hijack] Oh, respectfully disagree. The SOMA at night is like a Romero film. Plus, I’ve been mugged there. I was just happy he didn’t eat my brain. The Tenderloin, while perhaps grosser is, seems to have regular humans walking around the street, while the SOMA at night is populated solely by the undead. [/hijack]
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ugh I live on Harrison in SOMA its fucking miserable. Biggest mistake ever, moving this month.
Anyways, I’d be willing to organize another bay area Dope Fest for those of us that missed the last one if there is interest
There is!
When I went to my first Dopefest, I was worried that I wouldn’t live up to my board persona. I was worried that I wouldn’t be interesting enough. I was worried that some stranger would slip me rufies.
None of my fears were realized. I’ve been to more fests than I can remember now. Just this past weekend at Gettysdope, I managed to amuse the children and to amaze GingerOfTheNorth with my magic butt.
I would love to go to one but there just aren’t any around. There was an Atlanta-Fest last year that I’d intended to attend but I had a death in the family on the same day (the coin came up tails so I went to that instead), and Gettysdope and others are a bit out of the way, plus the last time a member of my family went to Gettysburg he was bayonetted in the stomach and later died of dysentery, and even though that’s been three years it’s still a painful memory.
I’m hoping there’ll be another Atlanta Fest or Chattanooga (great location for three states), but, til then, I’ll just dress up the dogs in what I think Dopers would dress like and assign them dialogue.
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…the last time a member of my family went to Gettysburg he was bayonetted in the stomach and later died of dysentery, and even though that’s been three years it’s still a painful memory.
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Wait, three years? Not a hundred and forty-four years?
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Wait, three years? Not a hundred and forty-four years?
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I believe that was the joke.
I’ve got family in the Chattanooga area (Dalton and thereabouts) … wonder what they’d think if I invited myself down for a few days, then disappeared to go meet a group of cyberstrangers…
I’ve been to a couple of formal Melbourne DopeFests and quite a few informal ones as well. In the process, I’ve been able to put faces to the names of some of the more esteemed Victorian Dopers like Hawthorne, Junior Spaceman and **Cazzle ** and a few who have since dropped out from the boards like Leechbabe, RedBoss, and Thylacine.
I’ve downed a couple of beers with TheLoadedDog but he’s from Sydney so it doesn’t count. 
So, would I go to a DopeFest? Absolutely. They’re interesting events, and tend to temper your magnificent illusions that Dopers are all brilliant and witty and wonderfully amazing people…well, they ARE, but they’re also incredibly normal people too who wear too much makeup and really daggy clothes.
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I’ve been to a couple of formal Melbourne DopeFests and quite a few informal ones as well. In the process, I’ve been able to put faces to the names of some of the more esteemed Victorian Dopers like Hawthorne, Junior Spaceman and **Cazzle ** and a few who have since dropped out from the boards like Leechbabe, RedBoss, and Thylacine.
I’ve downed a couple of beers with TheLoadedDog but he’s from Sydney so it doesn’t count. 
So, would I go to a DopeFest? Absolutely. They’re interesting events, and tend to temper your magnificent illusions that Dopers are all brilliant and witty and wonderfully amazing people…well, they ARE, but they’re also incredibly normal people too who wear too much makeup and really daggy clothes. 
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I’ve always been under the impression there’s only half a dozen Aussie members here on the boards (me, yourself, The Loaded Dog, Blinkingblinking, Princhester, and Cazzle), which shows how much attention I pay to these sorts of things.
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I’d go if someone organized one in NoVA.
Maybe.
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There are at least two or three in the Baltimore-Washington area each year.
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Tripler was talking about doing a camping Dopefest but if it ever happened I missed it.
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It did, we camped July 2006 in East Glacier/St. Mary’s. I was home visiting my parents, who live about an hour away across the Canadian border.
I guess I would attend one if I didn’t have to tell people what my Doper name is. Is it hypocritical for me not to want to discuss politics even tangentially IRL?
Maybe me and Tamerlane can go off in a corner and I will pick his brain about Middle Eastern history. 'Cause there is a Doper I would like to meet.
Regards,
Shodan