One more memorable Mike Nelson quote from the convention: When they were hosting the costume contest, one of the acts was two very attractive women, dressed as Supergirl and Wonder Woman, doing a sexy song-and-dance to "Lady Marmalade." Afther their number, Mike said "There are weird and dirty things in my head now!"
Erich
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> Sampo (beware, terrifying pictures of me are present) > ----- > Remove "fortable" from the end of the "reply to" address to send > email.
Terrifying pictures of you?!? Yay.... <clicks> ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
-- Toolmaster Jef Zehnder MSTIE#95033 http://www.fej.d2g.com ^^^^The site is back, and better then ever... well, at least it's back. (Updated 9/3/2002) "The only thing that ever made sense to me, is the words to a song from an American Movie." - Everclear Valid email address is not nearly so funny.
It was great to see the guys there. I'll note (for people who are concerned about such things) that Mike and Kevin were willing to sign just about anything and didn't charge a thing. As for the costume contest, and I can see Dragoncon's point (time would also be a consideration), but it would have been nice if a compromise could have been worked out. Like have a detente for the little kids but open season on everybody else.
> about anything and didn't charge a thing. As for the costume contest, and > I can see Dragoncon's point (time would also be a consideration), but it > would have been nice if a compromise could have been worked out. Like
have a detente for the little kids but open season on everybody else.
I think you're all operating under a fallacy here that Kevin and Mike wanted to riff the contestants but the DragonCon staff stopped them.
Kevin and Mike seemed like fairly nice guys. I think they realized it takes a lot of courage to get up on stage in front of 5000 people in some outlandish outfit.
All in all, considering the ad lib nature of MCing an event like that, I think they did pretty well.
Though in past years, people like Anthony Daniels and Peter David have done a better job....
Jef wrote: > > Sampo (beware, terrifying pictures of me are present) > > ----- > > Remove "fortable" from the end of the "reply to" address to send > > email.
> Terrifying pictures of you?!? Yay.... <clicks> ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
They can't be that bad. <looks a pictures> <squints looking at picture> Uh guys, If you want to terrify me. You're going to have to get pictures bigger than a postage stamp here.
