... a certain tradition behind it that a significant number of newcomers to the fandom are sadly unaware of. The most important thing to remember is that sketchbooks .... Someone who does something like this should be vilified by the entire fandom (And we know how long fans can hold a grudge). On the ... here is going to ruin your con and burn you out on the fandom, take a break. Be firm. "What part of "No" didn't ...

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... On 25 Aug 2008 20:44:38 GMT, tmcd@panix.com (Tim McDaniel) wrote: Subject: Re: Let me simplify it for you... From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom Organization: United Individualist Karl Johanson <karljohanson@shaw.ca> wrote: Like how 1 pound of Plutonium could kill everyone. Well, it could -- if you hit each person in the head with it, really hard,...

...> wrote: On 25 Aug 2008 20:44:38 GMT, tmcd@panix.com (Tim McDaniel) wrote: Subject: Re: Let me simplify it for you... From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom Organization: United Individualist Karl Johanson <karljohanson@shaw.ca> wrote: Like how 1 pound of Plutonium could kill everyone. Well, it could -- if you hit each person in the head with it, really hard, one at a ...

On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:50:45 +0200, Peter Manders <news@manders.demon.nul> wrote in <mriic415hno36kbfir7h7d6blu6foj7san@4ax.com>: Like how 1 pound of Plutonium could kill everyone. Well, it could -- if you hit each person in the head with it, really hard, one at a time. I don't think it could. To make a dent in world population, one would have to hit at least 2.5 persons a second, 24 hours a day. What if you gave ...

On 25 Aug 2008 20:44:38 GMT, tmcd@panix.com (Tim McDaniel) wrote: Subject: Re: Let me simplify it for you... From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom Organization: United Individualist Karl Johanson <karljohanson@shaw.ca> wrote: Like how 1 pound of Plutonium could kill everyone. Well, it could -- if you hit each person in the head with it, really hard, one at a time. I don't think it...

I never considered myself a Shatner fan. I have always been a "Captain Kirk" fan, a "Spock fan", and (primarily) a Star Trek fan. When Shatner did his "Get a life" bit, I did not think of it as aimed at Star Trek fans. I assumed it was pointed at SHATNERHOLICS. The fans parodied were Shatner-stalkers, not typical Trek fans. I laughed, primarily because I wasn't laughing at myself. I was laughing at people who were not like me....

...of course on the fans with the rubber ears and toy props. The fans soon divided into two camps: those who took their fandom very... seriously, and were insulted by the coverage, and those who shrugged and said, "sure, the rubber ears are absurd, so..." think "trekkies" are loonies and "trekkies" think "trekkers" are humorless snobs who could stand to let some looniness into their fandom. Pitch perfect. [*keeper file*]