Go to the website Boston04.com, and you’ll get to the official Democratic National Convention website.
Go to Boston2004.com (or .org), and you’ll get the web page for Noreascon, the 62nd Worldcon (World Science Fiction Convention), also being held in Boston this summer.
Hilarity ensues.
So, courtesy of the Worldcon folks, here’s some Reasons Why Noreascon Four is Not the DNC:
- We’re not $10 million over budget. We don’t even have a $10 million budget.
- Our promises for the future are supposed to be fiction.
- The folks wandering around with walkie-talkies are likely to be helpful and friendly.
- The slogans on our buttons are actually funny, and many of them are about cats.
- When someone tries to sell you something, it’s because they are a dealer in the dealers’ room.
- In a word-association test, we respond to “Fahrenheit” with “451.”
- We are allowed to accept donations from non-resident aliens…but our aliens may have tentacles and extra feet.
- Some of our attendees have written books about ghosts. Some of theirs have had books written by ghosts.
- There’s much conversation about “character” at both conventions, but we’ve got a lot more to say about “plot” and “setting”, too.
Heh.
(via BoingBoing)
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