Overheard at DragonCon

While I'm transcribing my trip report, let's have some tales from you guys. I'm an avid reader of Overheard in New York and Overheard in the Office, so let's have "Overheard at DragonCon"!

Reply to this thread with a funny conversation that you overheard or were a part of at DragonCon. Here's an example from my ChattaCon report:

Saturday - 5:57 PM
Rosie finishes tearing a Star Wars fan a new one for saying "Stargate is sucking in all KINDS of new ways this season..." Then she turns to us.
Rosie: Sorry if I'm being a bit of a fan girl.
[Silence from the group of us dressed as Hobbits, Pirates and Wizards.]

So what sort of Tangents did all of YOU overhear?

I didn't catch the first of this conversation/joke but I sure wish I would have...

I walk into the bathroom at the Hyatt bar around 4:00AM. There are about 4 other guys in there doing their thing. I walk in as I hear this:

"So, I tell the guy to go ahead and throw in some corndogs while he's at it!"

The other guys erupt with uncontrollable laughter. Man, that must have been some punchline.

Also, not so much overheard but overseen.

A woman, not in costume, but kinda mildly goth walks through the Hyatt smoking section. Feeling there is something possibly stuck to her shoe she kicks her foot ahead of her only to find a pair of mens boxers hitching a ride on her boot. She laughs, her friend laugh, and Hill and I laugh. The Hyatt custodian worker doesn't laugh but picks up the boxers, barehanded, and tosses them in the garbage.

I overheard a Stormtrooper telling a Slave Leia that Jabba the Hutt was at the Hyatt, and giving her directions on how to find him...

After I finished snickering I ran over to the Hyatt to find Jabba myself.

Foe and I had been standing in line at the Atrium Express waiting to pay for our ham sandwiches.

Foe: "...the Klingon lady behind us said they just brought out some roast beef...."

(only at Dragon*Con...)

LOL!

That was the funniest thing, right?!

How weird it is to NOT see Klingons and Troopers in the Supermarket Line. I can't wait to go home again next year.

When Troy and I were in one of the lifts, coming back from the parade dressed as Elizabeth and Norrington, some guy says to us "Why're you guys pirates? Ninjas are sooo much cooler!" Troy replied "If we were ninja, you couldn't see us." The guy thinks about this a second, says "Ah, yeah... right." Then goes on to say, animatedly, "But you could be, like, Vikings! Yeah! Vikings are like pirates *and* ninjas!"

Ah. Oooookay.

LOL! That's brilliant...

I was heading back to the hotel room when this guy starts yelling at me. I turn around to see what he wants, and he shows me a pamphlet and tells me that I probably have HIV. Since it's written in the pamphlet, it must be true. I told him that I couldn't have HIV because I had taken a secret vaccine just last week, which he couldn't argue with. He tried to salvage the conversation by asking if I used condoms, and if I was sure to use a clean one every time (???). His friend then arrived, inquired as to whether he had asked me the HIV question, and said he was a dangerous man and I shouldn't have stopped. I left at that point...

The second wasn't so much overheard as seen, but I was playing an Are You A Werewolf variant in the Motor Lobby, when a pair of Zombie LARPers arrived. One decided to crash the circle and sit in for a while as his partner terrorized the dead villagers. They left eventually, but came back and took over the turnstyle door. That's when the Zombie enchanter arrived (I don't know what else to call him... tall guy with one of those flute keyboard things) with two other zombies and they entered the turnstyle as well. I think they walked around in there for a good ten minutes...

I remember a conversation with someone who had just taken my picture and began to ask justified but by now irritating questions…

> Is that beard real?

~ No, it’s glued on.

> Is that a fake nose?

~ Yes, it’s a prosthetic.

> Do you get hot in that outfit?

~ Yes, but it’s ok as long as I stay indoors.

About this time some people walk right by us

> Man, that guy really smelled bad! Did you smell that?

~ No. Don’t you remember? I have a fake nose.

Well, BTP, doesn't sound like you've got much to work with here. Sounds like pretty normal boring stuff to me.

Reminds me of a bad joke the kid liked when she was younger:

Man 1: My dog has no nose

Man 2: How does he smell?

Man 1: Horrible!

Ooo. My first post on AOME. I am so nervous!

But I just have to share this quote from the Yule Ball.

From Grouchy Snape (there were 4 Snapes at the Ball this is the one who was always in-character) to my friend dressed as a Star Trek half-dead Red Shirt:

"Shouldn't you be dying somewhere off-screen?"


Jen (aka Dueling Lockhart at Yule Ball/Orc in the Parade)

Sounds like Shawn.

Yep it was Shawn Snape

Alright this might not be as funny as some of the others but it was just one of those moments:

Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo, WhiteLadyEowyn, and I were standing outside letting Gandalf get a quick smoke in (took over an hour) soon with the four of us grouped together in costume a photo shoot occured. As people were rotating in and out of the shots one of the congoers looked down at Bilbo's feet and in amazement said "YOU HAVE FEET!!!!" Of course after that Bilbo and I played around in character with the person totally freaking them out about the misconception that hobbits don't have feet and how people at Dcon are amazed that he does.

Just one of those times.......

P.s. I'm sorry to use character names but at Dcon I met way to many people and to keep everything straight this just seemed easier at the time! Not all of us are as wise as

:: smacks ::

But you know MY name, you tard.

:: huffs ::

Wow,that is a really weird thing to come up and ask someone.Even at a Con.Would have loved to have been with you at the time though.
It was great to see the lovely WitchQueen again btw.I'm going to be brushing up on my Tolkien Trivia for next year.Can't believe I got to busy for my annual ritualistic reading of the Lotr and the Sil.lol..
Namarie for now,
Neume

....I'm.....sorry........who are you again?


lmao

Last year, conversation between a random mundane who happened to be manning one of the kiosks around the food court. The kiosk was selling belts, and I had forgotten my sword belt, so I went to pick one up so I could carry Sting. Mind you, I'm in full Frodo gear at this point.

Mundane - Are your ears really pointed?

Me - No, its a prosthetic (not even a very well blended in prosthetic) I'm looking for a sword belt. I left mine at home. Anything plain and narrow should work

Mundane spends the next five minutes trying to sell me a belt with a buckle that says SEXY in huge bright gold letters on the buckle

I finally give up explaining that its for a sword for crying out loud, and pick out a different belt while he is still extolling the virtues of having a SEXY belt buckle.




Is it OK for me to add one that was overheard at a different con?

Klingon to hobbit:
I love hobbits, they taste good with ketchup.