I am very upset <sniffle>. Reading the John Norman thread has made me understand that the volunteer desk at Minicon was discriminating against me because they didn't volunteer to give me the stickers I was entitled to. And I was up there, what, how many times? Five or six or so. And I never remembered to get my badge penguin for attending the con and none of those mean nasty volunteers offered one to me. It's soooooo unfair.
Weep. Wail.
I'll never go to Minicon again.
Rachael, wondering if she spread the irony thick enough
-- Rachael M. Lininger | "Some causes of angst have not worn well." lininger@ | virtu.sar.usf.edu | Dr. A. McA. Miller
Rachael M. Lininger wrote: > I am very upset <sniffle>. Reading the John Norman thread has made me > understand that the volunteer desk at Minicon was discriminating > against me because they didn't volunteer to give me the stickers I was > entitled to. And I was up there, what, how many times? Five or six or > so. And I never remembered to get my badge penguin for attending the > con and none of those mean nasty volunteers offered one to me. It's > soooooo unfair.
> Weep. Wail.
> I'll never go to Minicon again.
> Rachael, wondering if she spread the irony thick enough
> --
The moral of the story is, next time, volunteer. You could surely do a better job than the incompetents who were running it last time, eh?
> In article <Pine.GSO.4.02.9904111225440.24132-100...@virtu.sar.usf.edu>, "Rachael M. Lininger" <linin...@virtu.sar.usf.edu> wrote: > [woe] > >I'll never go to Minicon again.
> >Rachael, wondering if she spread the irony thick enough
> Nope. To quote members of several different panels: "Was that irony? We > don't get that in Minnesota."
"Oh, ho, ho, irony! Oh, no, no, we don't get that here. See, uh, people ski topless here while smoking dope, so irony's not really a, a high priority. We haven't had any irony here since about, uh, '83, when I was the only practitioner of it. And I stopped because I was getting tired of being stared at." -- Steve Martin, _Roxanne_
"Rachael M. Lininger" <linin...@virtu.sar.usf.edu> wrote:
>I am very upset <sniffle>. Reading the John Norman thread has made me >understand that the volunteer desk at Minicon was discriminating >against me because they didn't volunteer to give me the stickers I was >entitled to. And I was up there, what, how many times? Five or six or >so. And I never remembered to get my badge penguin for attending the >con and none of those mean nasty volunteers offered one to me. It's >soooooo unfair.
>Weep. Wail.
>I'll never go to Minicon again.
>Rachael, wondering if she spread the irony thick enough
Maybe it was something you wrote? :)
-- 'I have something to say! | 'The Immoral Immortal' \o JJ Karhu It is better to burn out, | -=========================OxxxxxxxxxxxO than to fade away!' | kur...@modeemi.cs.tut.fi /o
In article <3710E0DF.3611F...@erols.com>, Brenda <clo...@erols.com> wrote:
>The moral of the story is, next time, volunteer. You could surely do a >better job than the incompetents who were running it last time, eh?
It being 'Minicon'.
It's a good thing that we Minicon volunteers who also own bookstores are self assured individuals who have senses of humour and long memories[1].
Now, do I file 'Clough' over in the vampire erotica section [2] or just go hang myself?
James Nicoll
2: Not that I have one but I probably should judging by how the Anita Blake[3] and Poppy Z. Brite material whips out of here.
3: Not erotica, I know. More 'How to by example of what not to do' or _The Catholic Guilt Guide to Polyamory_.
-- "The initial over-all composition, purporting to traverse the nation, deliberately overlooked a large piece of the nation--Chicago to Cheyenne. [...] For more than a billion years, little to nothing had happened there." _Annals of the Former World_, John McPhee
.. who has stated that the reporters from Private Eye can, and I quote 'kiss my ass' after they wrote a particularly scathing revue of one of her novels. I have the forged press pass, the dirty mac... <sigh>(*)
(*)I've just given my third lecture on Life, the Universe and Climbing Plants in a week. My brain hurts.
-- Julian Flood Life, the Universe and Climbing Plants at www.argonet.co.uk/users/julesf. Mind the diddley skiffle folk.
<jul...@argonet.co.uk> wrote: > (James Nicoll) wrote: >> Poppy Z. Brite
>.. who has stated that the reporters from Private Eye can, and I quote 'kiss >my ass' after they wrote a particularly scathing revue of one of her novels. >I have the forged press pass, the dirty mac... <sigh>(*)
>(*)I've just given my third lecture on Life, the Universe and Climbing >Plants in a week. My brain hurts.
Hmm . . . must be spring, eh?
There was an open house at a wholesale nursery up in the mountains on Saturday -- I got the nice fellow three evergreen azaleas and a tiny rhododendron as an early birthday present -- it promptly rained from then to this, so I couldn't plant them for fear of rot and mold overtaking them.
>>.. who has stated that the reporters from Private Eye can, and I quote 'kiss >>my ass' after they wrote a particularly scathing revue of one of her novels. >>I have the forged press pass, the dirty mac... <sigh>(*)
>>(*)I've just given my third lecture on Life, the Universe and Climbing >>Plants in a week. My brain hurts.
>Hmm . . . must be spring, eh?
>There was an open house at a wholesale nursery up in the mountains >on Saturday -- I got the nice fellow three evergreen azaleas and a >tiny rhododendron as an early birthday present -- it promptly >rained from then to this, so I couldn't plant them for fear of rot >and mold overtaking them.
>The nice man likes _pink_ little flowers.
Just a darn minute. Erotica is one thing but you've put my name in a -greenporn- thread.
Hmmmph. Be claiming you get gardening journals for the articles next.
James Nicoll
-- "The initial over-all composition, purporting to traverse the nation, deliberately overlooked a large piece of the nation--Chicago to Cheyenne. [...] For more than a billion years, little to nothing had happened there." _Annals of the Former World_, John McPhee
(Lucy Kemnitzer) wrote: > Hmm . . . must be spring, eh?
For winter's rains and ruins are over And all the season of snows and sins the days dividing lover and lover The light that loses, the night that wins; And time remembered is grief forgotten And frosts are slain and flowers begotten And in green underwood and cover Blossom by blossom the spring begins.
Actually it has been snowing in Coney Weston.(*) Maybe that should be 'when the hounds of spring are on winter's traces...'
(*) But it was a _good_ day.(**)
(**)Obsf. Now who else remembers that one?
-- Julian Flood Life, the Universe and Climbing Plants at www.argonet.co.uk/users/julesf. Mind the diddley skiffle folk.
