Differences between WorldCon and DNC

Posted by MacDood
This year's World Science Fiction Convention is in Boston, and accordingly, the URL for the con is boston2004.com. By a funny coincidence, the Democratic National Convention is also in Boston, and its URL is boston04.com. The inevitable confusion is quite humorous -- the organisers of the WorldCon have compiled a list of ways in which the WorldCon is unlike 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.

# You don't have to donate thousands of dollars to us (though we wouldn't complain)—we'll give you a high-level appointment to work for us for free!

# The media will not outnumber the attendees.

# Thoats and banthas are more interesting animals than donkeys and elephants.

# 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.

# No one will be kissing babies except their immediate families and friends.

# When we talk about "skull and bones" it's probably in a discussion about paleontology.

# When we sling mud, it's probably in a workshop on making alien pottery.

Link [Boing Boing]