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Originally posted by Boogerhead:
How many times can she write the same story? JK Rowling is worse, though, but she's not in attendance.

Actually, I rather liked her Pern books, at least the ones I read. Pure escapism. But then again, I was a teenager (although not a girl at the time). Not sure how I'd see them now.

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Originally posted by ladykatza:
Anne McCaffrey is a good co-author and author of young adult fiction (Specifically for girls). Plus, her daughter's a hottie. As an adult, I find her writing to be BLAH. Still, her value is not zero.

I won't stand in the way of someone going after her, but please don't blow me up.

You'll be fine. Just stay away from Anne McCaffrey. Especially if she's standing beneath a huge chandelier or something.

Set me straight on this. "Cons" are where really nerdy people go to party and hook-up.

Edit, who (from my reading) is medium-cool, has no trouble finding a good time, and gets more tail than the toilet seat, is going to a Con?

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Originally posted by Black Jacque:
Set me straight on this. "Cons" are where really nerdy people go to party and hook-up.

Read Deep Secret by Diana Wynne Jones if you want the lowdown on cons, told from a perfectly factual point of view. *nods*

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Originally posted by Black Jacque:
Set me straight on this. "Cons" are where really nerdy people go to party and hook-up.

Edit, who (from my reading) is medium-cool, has no trouble finding a good time, and gets more tail than the toilet seat, is going to a Con?

He is large, he contains multitudes.

He seemed so normal.

Geeks on parade.

Robot Battles
LARPS
Board Games
Tracts of all interests.
Hot chicks wearing next to nothing, er.. COSTUMES, I meant COSTUMES. (did I mention they were mostly naked?)

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Originally posted by Black Jacque:
Set me straight on this. "Cons" are where really nerdy people go to party and hook-up.

Edit, who (from my reading) is medium-cool, has no trouble finding a good time, and gets more tail than the toilet seat, is going to a Con?

lol (at your distorted impression of me), the new girl goes every year and she got me to agree to it. I even agreed to let her dress me as Marv from Sin City and she will dress as Nancy.

I am pretty sure I was naked at the time.

Somebody a lot smarter than me once told me to never refuse an invite to something new. I have found this to be great advice so I will go and have a good time.

I was under the impression there where hordes of: short fat dudes with bad skin and questionable hygiene walking around, in food-stained clothing, kneading 10-sided dice in one hand, perpetually shrugging a bulging schwag-bag full of “graphic novels” back up onto their shoulder, and picking their nose with the other hand; to Ben-wah certified, mostly naked, costumed hot chicks.

you mean like this?

that is my girlfriend on the right when she went last year.

The only thing that could make that picture better would be some bacon.

Are you going with the band-aids over the eye? I think I would have asked how she was going to replicate the scars before I agreed to anything.

She is a makeup artist and is using silicone to build up the bridge of the nose and the chin and do the scars.

Band aid next to the eye, not over it, and after reading this thread she might just cut me to create the scars.

Awesome costume your GF has there.

Conventions.



Never give up ! Never surrender !

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Originally posted by ladykatza:
Awesome costume your GF has there.

Thanks!

Yeah she is doing that again, as well as Nancy from Sin City and one or two others. She does a really cool Harley Quinn too.

I don't want to think about all the shit I'll have to carry upstairs.

Do you two do dress-up, alot?

Not in that way no.

In fact as a rule I don't dress up for anything but a funeral.

Also "a lot" is two words. Always.

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Originally posted by Limulus:
Conventions.

Just because they're called conventions doesn't mean they're conventional.

So the latex for my get up is in and my hair is now longer than it has been in years in prep for a flat top haircut. This better be worth it, I am actually taking my clippers to Atlanta so I can cut this mess off once I am done.

I am going to have to dip my whole face in Vaseline to keep the latex from ripping every bit of facial hair out as well.