CON FUNK! (01 September 07)

[Mike Taylor]

I'm guessing Jennie had a close enounter of the stinky kind at Dragon*Con.

[Gorbash]

You know, I never understood the whole no bathing and poor hygene thing, I feel icky if I go more than a day without a bath........
I usually carry a spare stick of deoderant in my car to. I live in a hot area.
Geeze, whats wrong with people?
I oughta carry a can of body spray around to spritz funky smelling fan boys. And some perfume so my gal can spritz down the funktified girls...... Hmmm, a new convention game is percalating in my mind.... we could be the anti stink squad, with various sprays and bars of soap and so on........

[Mike Taylor]

Trust me when I say that body spray and perfume can't hide THAT smell. In fact, they make it worse. Imagine the combined odors of cat pee and cologne. That's what you'd be left with.

[Evandril]

Industrial strength fabreeze?

[meghasissues]

gamer funk: one of the worst smells known to man

con funk isn't too bad but go in a gaming room especially one with rhythm games and the smell might make you pass out

[Gorbash]

Ah yes, I hadnt thought of that, well, then fabreeze and deoderant spray, thats the ticket!

[Tanukitsune]

I've never noticed con funk at any of the UK conventions I've been at...

[Plunder Down-Under]

I've never noticed con funk at any of the UK conventions I've been at...
Rain is natures shower.

[Tanukitsune]

Rain is natures shower.
It only rained at one of the cons I attended... :jbp:

[Leffy]

atlanta's hot humid and crowded. if theres to be funk it'll be here.

[sableagle]

Loofah............................................ .$2
Long-handled brush............................$7
Shampoo..........................................$ 8
Body wash goop................................$9
Hotel room........................................$105
Four enforcers...................................$400
Big pile of towels................................$60
Spare underwear, various sizes.............$103
Latex gloves, box...............................$25
Pokey stick.......................................$7
Everyone else being clean too..............Priceless!

There are some thing in life money can buy.

For some of the others, there's MasterCarWashCentre.

[Little Crow]

Loofah............................................ .$2
Long-handled brush............................$7
Shampoo..........................................$ 8
Body wash goop................................$9
Hotel room........................................$105
Four enforcers...................................$400
Big pile of towels................................$60
Spare underwear, various sizes.............$103
Latex gloves, box...............................$25
Pokey stick.......................................$7
Everyone else being clean too..............Priceless!

There are some thing in life money can buy.

For some of the others, there's MasterCarWashCentre.

*snerrrrrrrrk!*:clap:

[moreta]

Um...dare I ask.


Pokey stick?

[Leffy]

gotta keep em in the water to clean em. thus the poker. kinda like a cattle prod. only without the zappys. cause zappys and water makes you all zapped too. and that defeats it.

[moreta]

ooooh Can I do that? Huh? Can I can I Huh? :poke:

[meghasissues]

three complete washings and i still smell slightly like axe. i don't know why. confunk smells nothing like that and i wasn't that close to any guys. oh well

[xlr82xs]

cs tournament funk rivals con fun :'(

imagine if you will, an underground (as in down stairs) netcafe filled with 70 cs players spending 3 days screaming at eachother and eating fast food..

the smell of urine in the back alley actually made for a pleasant change :cry:

[Kamn]

YOUCH! Where is the enarest palce where I can cut off my ense of smell? Legaly and non-fatal like...

[Crazeyal]

Yeah.. towards the end of the last day, I was a bit.. pickled... Hot day + waiting in line outside + Nonbreathing fabric in Pirate outfit = moist towlette shirt!!!

Differance is... I took OFF the stinky clothes and showered!!! Con funk is NOT just people sweating... It's days of ...perco-lating....

[Gorbash]

Ahhh, you know, I think if the convention centers took into account the funk factor as being bad for business they'd put up some shade providing temporary structures for the line type areas.....

[Mike Taylor]

Con Funk strip number 2 is up.

[jameslgrant]

True and hilarious story:

I'm old friends with Randy of S*P. Both of our sites started getting big back around A-Kon 15, but neither he nor we purchased a table that year.

But he showed up anyway, and started handing out soap.

Yes, he'd had 200 soap bars, yellow and shaped like the frowny face on his site, created custom and printed up 200 instruction sheets on how to use it.

Hilarity ensued.

[warhorse_03826]

1992? 1993? I went to dragon-con with a bunch of my military buddies..
HSL-94, VR-52, and MAG-49

we were all broke, we spent just about everything we had to get there and register. none of us had a room, nor access to defunkifying equipment. one guy (a marine) had a pack with some..uhh.."appropriated" MRE's..enough for everyone, 1 per day...

we all figured we survived bootcamp..we'll improvise!

(ahh to be young, and oh, so stupid!)

we slept in the movie room (untill the security guys roused us, that is), took wipe-downs with hand towels in the bathrooms we had access to...but it really didn't work as well as we had hoped...living "in the field", where everyone else is just as funky as you are, and living at a 'con where most have access to showers were definitely not the same thing!

and then our angel of mercy came to our rescue..I wish I could remember her name....she did have this funny looking gremlin-like thing on her shoulder that moved it's head by some sort of hand control...

she let us use her room to take a shower..more than a few times in the next few days. she asked nothing of us but to hold on to our wallets while we used her room....fair trade, we thought..I mean the wallets were pretty much empty anyways....

damn, I wish I could remember her name....

[JennieB]

Everyone needs to do that once while their still young and "bohemian"
I did it in Michigan. Slept in the van with the pirates and changed in the convention bathrooms. One night at the hotel con party I sidled up to a guy and asked if he had a room at the hotel and then asked to use his shower. I forgot my hair brush so I ended up leaving his room with a huge rats nest in my hair.
That was motor city in 2005
http://devilspanties.keenspot.com/MotorCity05.htm

[Animae]

yeah, my best friend almost threw up at chicago wizard this year. I told her it was gonna smell, but she didn't believe me. I swear some of these people leave their houses once a year for the con, and then go right back into hiding.

[Death Dragon2]

*Pounces the newbie*

[Animae]

hi *picks self up off floor*

How are you?

[Death Dragon2]

Hungry. I've had nothing to eat all day.

[Plunder Down-Under]

That is an intimidating thing to have a dragon say to you

[Leffy]

*refuses to make the obvious connection between kitty ava and hungry dragon*


I'M A GOOD GIRL! SWEAR!

[Seolta]

*refuses to make the obvious connection between kitty ava and hungry dragon*


I'M A GOOD GIRL! SWEAR!


oh, good...I'm not the only one who caught that...

[Mike Taylor]

*refuses to make the obvious connection between kitty ava and hungry dragon*


I'M A GOOD GIRL! SWEAR!

Like Betty Page?:love:

[Leffy]

she was soooo badass. such a DARLING but she could look as bad as she wanted

[Mike Taylor]

she was soooo badass. such a DARLING but she could look as bad as she wanted

Know where I discovered Betty Page?

Dragon*Con/ACE 1991.

[warhorse_03826]

Know where I discovered Betty Page?

Dragon*Con/ACE 1991.

hmm did they do that look-a-like contest more than one year?

maybe it was 1991 when I was there....

hmmmm.....:confused:

all those military years are such a blur now...between paintball and gaming, I wonder how I actually fit in any actual military stuff...

[Animae]

I don't taste good with fish sauce, so I figure I'm good.

*give dragon a cow and backs away*

[Death Dragon2]

No, Pussy is good by itself.:al:

[warhorse_03826]

all those military years are such a blur now...between paintball and gaming, I wonder how I actually fit in any actual military stuff...

A-HA!

I found an oldoldold picture in the bottom of my old seabag (yes, really)

does anyone know what year they first did the "robot battles"?

I remember only 1 guy showed up with an actual robot, and someone went out and bought a radio shack special RC monster truck car so that he wouldn't win unopposed!

of couse, it's the only pic I can find...I have plenty of pics from gencon/origins 1988..hell I still have 2 of the shirts, but all of my dragoncon pics have disapeared!

[Mike Taylor]

hmm did they do that look-a-like contest more than one year?

maybe it was 1991 when I was there....

hmmmm.....:confused:

all those military years are such a blur now...between paintball and gaming, I wonder how I actually fit in any actual military stuff...

I don't think so. That was the ONLY Dragon*Con I went to where I felt safe letting my younger brother wander the Atlanta Hilton & Towers at 3 a.m.

I became familiar with Betty by way of "The Rocketeer" by Dave Sims. It wasn't until the next year that I had the pleasure of seeing the contestants in the Betty Page lookalike contest. One was nice enough to share an elevator ride with me and initiated a discussion about D6 Star Wars. The only reason she didn't go back to the hotel room with me was because the rest of my group (Braggart, Thief, Little Brother, and Little Brother's Friend) was there. I'd have ditched them, but I was the GM.

[Compton]

The only reason she didn't go back to the hotel room with me was because the rest of my group (Braggart, Thief, Little Brother, and Little Brother's Friend) was there. I'd have ditched them, but I was the GM.

Mike, this statement cost you one MAN card, but awards you one GEEK card. You get to decide if it was worth it. ;)

[sableagle]

New Study Reveals Shocking Extent Of Nude Showering

"It's been in the news, of course," said shocked local councillor James Beatty, "but it was always somewhere else. Usually it was a party location like Florida or Ibiza, so you could say it was people getting carried away on holiday, but this reveals it's been going on right here in England. I suppose I knew there were some people doing it. In a country this size, there would be some, but I never would have guessed it was so many."

He was speaking after the publication of the findings of a recent anonymous survey that has revealed the true scale of nude showering in the UK and abroad. The findings have been greeted with mixed responses. While some have expressed outrage, there have been others who cite this as proof that the practice is not as harmful as it has been made out. Michelle Guiseppe, MP for West Anglia, went on the record to say that the extent of nude showering in the UK could not have gone on undetected for so long if it was truly harmful, and that many people clearly were leading successful and normal lives including nude showering in their leisure time.

One respondent is quoted in the study's findings as saying: "For me, I'm probably as likely to take a shower in the nude as I am to have a cup of tea on any given day." Supporters have hastened to point out this is not to say the two are equivalent or connected.

Among the most startling revelations was that this is something men and women do in almost equal numbers. Until now, it had been seen as largely a feminine activity by much of the population. That view may have been based on a misunderstanding, says report author Flounder Plaice:

"The study was partly inspired by the high-profile cases seen in the media in the past, and a lot of those did involve women more than men. The investigators behind the Girls Gone Wild documentary uncovered an all-female group who were doing this in Florida, and the Daily Star brought the matter to the forefront of public attention when they revealed that the otherwise respectable Sienna Miller was also in the habit of taking a shower with no clothes on.

"In the Florida case, there was also clearly alcohol involved, and some people we interviewed believed that alcohol was likely to be involved in nude showering. The results, however, show that it happens without alcohol being present at least as often, or even more so.

"The age range involved was also a surprise. The cases with which we're all familiar have involved young adults, but we've had respondents who say they regularly shower nude even though they're now into their forties and fifties, and some said they started when they were as young as eight."

Asked what could be causing so many people to take up a habit of undressing, lathering up with shampoo and soap or body wash and rinsing their bodies and hair under running water, Ms Plaice said: "The causes are not all clear yet, but some have indicated that they enjoy the sensation, while others said it was about the after-effects, particularly not stinking. A lot liked both, which leads us to speculate that the effects of taking a shower reinforce the pleasure found in doing so."

In response to a question from a youth worker, she added: "Certainly peer pressure could be a factor. It's very strong among teens, particularly, and we've found that people who do shower nude tend to form groups and exclude those who don't. Particularly with competitive pressure to find a date, a girlfriend or boyfriend, there's a lot of pressure to join in what is seen as a 'cool' activity."

A footnote attached to the report said there was insufficient evidence to draw conclusions on whether nude showering was a "gateway" activity to running naked through rainstorms and even snow, which has been asserted by some action groups and campaigners, including Mr Ben Darren Danny Sell, who was at the press conference where the results were published, and said: "Said to 'em! They come an' put 'em! Put 'em! Got a newspaper here, got to know how to read it. See the eggs? In my pocket. It's the jam. They go for the jam. Got to see read the paper, they buggers took my dog, said he was dead, got all insis... instisshniffthing ... Shower? Whassat? No, dey don't roll me like this, see? Can't put your lamppost on a ship if you don't roll."

[Mike Taylor]

Mike, this statement cost you one MAN card, but awards you one GEEK card. You get to decide if it was worth it. ;)

I was young and stupid. :o

The dinner date with Christine, the hot French gamer chick, gets me my MAN card back. ;)

[Compton]

That depends on what kind of "game" you played with her after dinner. Strip Halo, for example, gets you one of each.

[Mike Taylor]

That depends on what kind of "game" you played with her after dinner. Strip Halo, for example, gets you one of each.

It was a VtM LARP, her character's name was "Pet" and I'll leave the rest up to your imagination. :lol:

[Compton]

/Hands Mike one geek card and one man card/

[Plunder Down-Under]

Strip Halo... Sounds fun.

Even more fun whe you're the only one playing with the 'strip' stipulation

[sableagle]

It was a VtM LARP, her character's name was "Pet" and I'll leave the rest up to your imagination. :lol:"Me Tarzan. You Jane?"
"Huh?"
"Tarzan, me. Jane, you?"
"Jane her! Pet me!"

[Mike Taylor]

"Me Tarzan. You Jane?"
"Huh?"
"Tarzan, me. Jane, you?"
"Jane her! Pet me!"

Have a laugh point, Sableagle.