h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

"Bah weep granah weep ninny bong"

You nerd.

well i actually got it off a mr T vs Megatron site...i havent seen the transformers movie in years and had forgotten where t came from. thus, think *you* are the geek in this equation

Bah! Rumbled.

Still, one of us has it in their name and the other doesn't.

One-all in the Nerd Stakes, I think.

ah! but no! mine is witty and ironic. and also a bit post modern. plus it has a bit of mr t in it. so actually it counts as a negative goal to me.

"it counts as a negative goal to me"



Does that mean I'm in the lead? Do I want to be in the lead? Are we talking nerdiness or non-nerdiness? Does Mr T count as 'Post-Modern' or is he actually a bit poo? Is the whole concept of 'Post-Modern' a bit poo itself? And precisely why do I care?

your winning in the nerd stakes. you are clearly far nerdier than i. you go to conventions and are possibly named after a star trek character (if you arent and thats the booze playing wiht my memory i apologise profusely)

"you go to conventions"

Guilty. But I was there for the booze and the craic, not going for Boba Fett's autograph.

"possibly named after a star trek character"

Indeed I am not! It's a Bladerunner reference, if you must know.

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I'll get me coat.

you can go to pubs for booze...you go to conventions to dress up and wave plastic lightsabres at men in beards...

I go to conventions to get drunk and then point and laugh at the bearded lightsaber-wielders. That, and try to stay upwind of them.

well you can laugh at them from a distance. i have a different theory. you go to conventions cos you like seeing GURLS dressed up in leather BIKINIS. or whatever they do at those sordid little gatherings

Get thoroughly ratted in hotel bars and take the mickey out of each other, most of the time.

If there were actually GURLS in LEATHER BIKINIS wandering around, I'd be there waving me lightsabre and using the Force before you could say "These aren't the droids you're looking for"!

theres always one or two, im told. but theyre usually retained by the organisers as a kind of draw, right? like at computer games conventions...

Depends on what sort of convention you're going to... A smaller, more 'indie' comics convention tends to have fewer gimmicks like scantily-clad chicks, but when the big companies decide to draw in the fanboys and get them to part with loads of money, then it's leather bustiers everywhere.

What's more disturbing is when you get 25 stone big hairy blokes dressing up as Xena or something...

never! surely theyd come as chewbacca or something.

comic conventions are ok, actually. but i try nto to buy them cos i ahve other things to buy...