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bonniegrrl
07/20/09

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Also: BRING MINTS AND SHARE WITH EVERYONE. Seriously.
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mothos
07/20/09

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Proposed Rule #10 Please oh please where deodorant! Be extra thorough before you leave. Maybe even strap them open to your armpit.
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Stephanie A Fox
07/22/09

@mothos: Deodorant also totally adds +10 to your 'getting close with the celebs' roll.
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Chip Overclock
07/19/09

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This is actually very good advice for any large event.

Take a sweatshirt, a light sweater, or maybe a fleece vest. I find a lot of hotel and convention centers to be really over air conditioned.

Mrs. Overclock taught me to bring at least two different pairs of good walking shoes, and switch them off each day. (If you're spending three weeks in Japan, take three pair. She did, I didn't, to my regret.)

Pack a water bottle or a power bar or two (mentioned in "Be Prepared (2)").

As hard as it is to believe, people are more important than things. It's okay to just sit back and have a beer or a latte or two with your friends and talk about what you did (or are going to do) that day. Those times with your friends are going to be what you remember later.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
07/19/09

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*grumbling* Lousy no tickets and shit...

What's the point of a furlough if I can't go to SDCC? HMM??
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gods-n-clods
07/19/09

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Backpack. With water and durable lightweight food, very very important.
A basic map of the Gaslight District helps if you want the trolley or decent eats. Also, familiarity with the northern suburbs (Carlsbad, LA Jolla, Oceanside, etc) helps to get out of town where it's more economical.
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PostMarque
07/19/09

@gods-n-clods: dont forget WetNaps
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Bigdamnhero
07/19/09

@gods-n-clods: The backpack seconded, equipped with 1) water bottle (which you will refill at any of the fountains at the con), 2) big bag of trail mix, 3) one of those tuna-in-a-can w/the crackers lunches, 4) can of V8. Bring your food, or you will get screwed.

The above, and a $10/per diem Pretzel Dog allowance (someone should write a sonnet to the healing power of those warm, magically delicious, holy things), will allow you to survive all day, every day, at the Con.
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gods-n-clods
07/20/09

@Bigdamnhero: "Bring your food, or you will get screwed" is a great slogan... listen to us vegetarian witchdoctors: almonds, bananas, dark chocolate, H2O. You can survive for years on these.
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gods-n-clods
07/20/09

@PostMarque: Hilarious, I thought that was a condom!
You reminded me when I would bring my clove cigarettes to meet girls. Yeah.
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♠ Final ♠
07/19/09

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In regard to #5, can I still punch Mark Millar in the face if I do it politely?
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FiorenzaDampt
07/19/09

@♠ Final ♠: Only if you remember to say "please" and "thank you".
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braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
07/19/09

@♠ Final ♠: I think you must.
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gods-n-clods
07/19/09

@♠ Final ♠: Isn't Mark Millar a Scottish brawler? You might want to show up with your big brother, unless you like the taste of knuckle sammiches.
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dicksson
07/19/09

@gods-n-clods: A self pro-claimed genius and a Scottish brawler to boot? I have a feeling any fight we hear about starring Millar will end up much like this video. The harder they claim the harder they fall.
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PostMarque
07/19/09

@♠ Final ♠: i imdb'd him, dont know... but he made wanted... and wanted 3, is listed. other than crying about what the implications of the number 3 mean... well i dont understand your violence tendencies.

i would prefer if you aimed rage at Fox Broadcasting
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
07/19/09

@gods-n-clods: In which case, Final needs to politely kick him in the nuts and then punch him in the face. Courteously.
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gods-n-clods
07/20/09

@dicksson: Wow-- Poor dumb Danzig. Remember: yelling in the bouncer's face is the assault, shoving the bouncer is the battery.
Question is, where did you learn how to deconstruct my high-school heroes? What's next, ripping into Bob Mould and Bill Sienkiewicz?
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gods-n-clods
07/20/09

@Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: In certain parts of Scotland, that's a first date.
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Franklin Harris
07/19/09

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One of these days, SDCC will wise up and sell pay-per-view access to the panels for those of us who absolutely positively refuse to be in a place teeming with that many *shudder* people.
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PostMarque
07/19/09

@Franklin Harris: hey, you know that creepy nightmarish thought from The Sandman, where the guy got stuck in the dream of a city... and he said, "what will happen to us when the cities wake up?"

yeah, now apply that to SDCC... there is a much greater chance that the SDCC will gain a sentience personification first
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JimBonJovi
07/19/09

@PostMarque: And oh, what a sentience that will be. A heaving mass of twisted metal and sweaty fanboys lashed together into some hellish engine of destruction, the brain of which will be made of nothing but Aint It Cool News Talkbackers bent on finding and annihilating Michael Bay. Glorious, I tell you.
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PostMarque
07/19/09

@JimBonJovi: you sir are brilliant, just brilliant.
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