If you were a newbie and shy at Phoenix, after the badge swapping you were fucked
 

hehe - I was on a mission to fuck everyone up - I traded over 60 badges and other got in on it too - by the end 3/4 of the people at the convention had the wrong badge on.

I totally destroyed any newbies chances of knowing who the fuck they were really talking to.

hehe

so, what name did yuou end up going by?

Awwww :( That's so mean :(

But helps fend off the hoards. :)

*yawn*.

Reason #541 I don't plan on ever going to another convention.

I ended up as Billie from Yankscash.
No, you can't fuck me. :321GFY

:ugone2far

Damn you, Sleazy!

I got screwed a bunch of times when I glanced at people's nametags for reminders during introductions.

I have no where near enough brain cells for that game. :eyecrazy
I call for a badge trading truce!

For god's sake, Think of the poor drunkards!

ROFL that's quite the bastardly thing to do

Now that was clever.

You're mister smartiepants right? :1orglaugh

i was charles (wsguy) for a while he told me "prepared to get alot of spam coming your way "

hehe

I was telling people all about epassporte because i was kimmykim :)

WG

I ended up in the end being Moose from Phatservers.

nastyyyyyyyyyy

i might not be a beauty but i do not think anyone thought i was Paul Nash

no wonder newbs, are frustrated in the begining....

have no fear newbs we will unite and stand as one.....:)

And I thought most of us were out of high school...

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

SleazyDream you did that in Florida too. LOL

VirtuMike was wearing your name badge and to this day every time I see your name I see VirtuMike's face! :eek7

Another great example of the professionalism of our industry.

Actually it was quite fun, so stop hating.

The best one for me personally was when someone I totally didn't know came up to me AS me. Quite the ice breaker.

Hey WG -- you looking for commissions ;)

LOL no kidding...I think Sly_RJ might be booked with gallery orders for the next 2-3 months being that he was eroswebmaster for most of Saturday.

yeah that was pretty funny! i kept it simple and was Just Rob the whole time.... no one wanted to be me... oh well!

i had a great time hanging with everyone anyways... see you guys next time! :thumbsup

Hey eros, icq me please, I dont have you on my list -- 101 69 619 --

I am getting ready to head up to the valley for the day but I want to talk to you about something --

Whew! I thought Richard had just cleaned up :)

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if you don't already know everyone you're fucked.

haha

awwwwwwwwwwwww come on ....Youre so cute :1orglaugh

I had Raven's badge for awhile...and a stack of her business cards to go along with it. :1orglaugh

Oh man.....I can't believe the madness that musta ensued outta this one :)

Can't believe I missed it....hehehe

Hope everyone had a fantastic time....

I was referring more to the fact that most people have trouble acting like anything older that 15.

I believe it is because a large amount of people attending have few real friends in real life and take these conferences as a chance to interact with real people, which they rarely get to do otherwise.

This is exactly why I find conferences to be a large waste of money. Just because we peddle smut does not mean that we need to act like a bunch of overgrown irresponsible kids.

And most people that I have encountered do. There are, of course, exceptions to this and I am proud to deal with them.

I am aware this is simply a bait reply but I felt my original feelings needed further expression.

LOL man if people would only realise how much one show can expose them to the people you need to be working with in this biz you would not feel the need to make this comment.

Sure people acted silly...it's an event. There was business done as well as some playing..

Exactly, this is why it was a good thing. People would come up to me and be like, hey your not so and so, and we would start up a conversation.


At the lightspeed afterhours party the last night when they were trying to get rid of the non show attendees I was wearing poppy's badge at the time, and someone comes up to me and was like, hey your not poppy.

So I explained about the badge trading, and to confirm I was in the industry I was asked whos board GFY was.

I answered and was given the :thumbsup

haha what a crazy night.

Seems like a perfect way to get networking started and have some fun in the process! Mainstream has been doing this for years. When my Dad was with IBM they did something similar. Those damn immature children, lol!

Sounds like a fun time was had.
Wish I could have went. :(

Sounds like good clean fun to me!

I gotta get my ass to some of these events...:glugglug

Lol, Sleazy was a new man every time I saw him. From Newbie to 123 Bill it was one stop name cluster fuck out there.

Fucking Party Crashers :321GFY

Yeah that sucked.

just a confirmation that conventions are just a place for webmasters to go and get hammered and no serious business occurs,.