The Onion looks at SF fandom

[jeffreyab]

Someone on one of the mailing lists I am on found this:

http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4019&n=3

Funny I did not know the Onion printed real news.

Comments

[renniekins.livejournal.com]

Funny!!!

[faerie-writer.livejournal.com]

LOL! That was hilarious!

~Maggie

[supergee.livejournal.com]

The Onion has always understood our cultures, from the 1950 report in the Historical Onion about "Sci-Fi Writers Have the Bomb" to a report just before 9/11 on a guy failing to get laid at Dragoncon.

[the-leewit.livejournal.com]

Okay, okay! I'll stop going to cons already.

[thatguychuck.livejournal.com]

*ouch*

The sad thing is that I've seen this happen. At points it was painful reading this one.

But I'm glad you posted it anyway. :)

What??

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

Don't tell me you have experiences like this at cons?

Is this sort of thing more common than I was aware of?