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Raptorgirl Super Geek  
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posted February 25, 2002 18:44
  
On Saturday, I went to MegaCon with the boyfriend and some friends. I got to see Kevin Smith speak in person (I never got around to begging for an interview). He told some great stories, including one about how he snuck into a "Dogma" protest without anyone recognizing him. The rest of the Con was pretty much merchandising. There were tables full of medieval weapons around every corner. Most of these sharp, pointy weapons were being fingered by little kids. Disturbing stuff. I thought the ninja throwing stars were cool, though. At one point, the boyfriend and I wandered into this display of model spaceships. This agitated middle-aged guy stopped us and rather nastily asked us to "please don't walk through the combat area." I had no idea it *was* a combat area! It just looked like a bunch of model ships on little sticks, with a bunch of men who looked exactly like Comic Book Store Guy from "The Simpsons' gawking and taking pics of them! I'll never understand certain breeds of geek... Sunday night was the Weezer concert in Tampa. I saw them last year. It was pretty much the same stuff, except they played songs from the new album and left out "El Scorcho" this time. Plus Saves the Day, one of the opening bands, kind of sucked. All their songs sounded exactly alike. Fun weekend, overall. Saw lots of oddly dressed people at both events. I even got to shake hands with Dark Vader at the Con. Now I can say I've touched the Dark Side... IP: Logged |
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macadddikt18 SuperBlabberMouth!     
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posted February 25, 2002 19:53
Wow, sounds like you had quite the weekend. Glad to hear you had a great time. Oh ,and it is Darth Vader, not dark vader. Nayt ------------------ IP: Logged |
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TheAnnoyedCockroach Super Geek
Posts: 209 |
posted February 25, 2002 19:53
That's Darth Vader... Ahh... The fun of being a Star Wars geek... IP: Logged |
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Raptorgirl Super Geek
Posts: 118 |
posted February 26, 2002 00:31
Did I write "Dark" Vader?!? Man, I'm slipping. I meant Darth. :sigh: IP: Logged |
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macadddikt18 SuperBlabberMouth!
Posts: 1126 |
posted February 26, 2002 06:02
It's ok, we forgive you. nayt ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Tau Zero BlabberMouth, the Next Generation.
Posts: 1685 |
posted February 26, 2002 07:29
quote:Those were probably gamers. They were having some kind of spacewar game with their models. Gamers are strange even by geek standards. There are gamers who show up at a weekend event and hardly sleep or eat until they leave. You can usually tell who they are at quite a distance, because bathing is an even lower priority. IP: Logged |
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Oldguy geek Alpha Geek Posts: 306 |
posted February 26, 2002 08:21
quote: Maybe it was Dark Helmet . . . IP: Logged |
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macadddikt18 SuperBlabberMouth!
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posted February 26, 2002 19:16
it was a fruedian slip. nayt ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Janeway Super Geek
Posts: 234 |
posted February 26, 2002 20:54
quote: For some reason, this makes me think off Mole, of Disney's Atlantis. IP: Logged |
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blue0ne Newbie  
Posts: 7 |
posted March 15, 2002 08:26
This is a test
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blue0ne Newbie
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posted March 15, 2002 08:32
One more test <plaintext> IP: Logged |
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blue0ne Newbie
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posted March 15, 2002 08:34
This is the last one I swear ! code: IP: Logged |
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macadddikt18 SuperBlabberMouth!
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posted March 15, 2002 09:38
what i am wondering is what are you testing? nayt ------------------ IP: Logged |
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EngrBohn Highlie 
Posts: 686 |
posted March 15, 2002 10:01
Looks like (s)he was experimenting with whitespace, and in the first two efforts, UBB ignored the whitespace in front of the braces. IP: Logged |
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spungo Super Geek
Posts: 212 |
posted March 15, 2002 10:03
I think BlueOne was practising prior to posting a poem in the 'Looking for Love' / Geek poem thread. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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ZorroTheFox SuperBlabberMouth!
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posted March 15, 2002 18:07
and here I thought it was a race, the top bracket is winning......Z IP: Logged |
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Raptorgirl Super Geek
Posts: 118 |
posted March 15, 2002 20:45
What I want to know is how it ended up in my MegaCon post. 
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