Colin Harris read someone claim on the Smofs list that there are people using “Worldcon” as a verb. He answered by creating this conjugation of the verb “to Worldcon”…
“I worldconned this year, attended the Hugos and Masquerade and had fannish fun.”
“You went to an SF convention and were a bit nerdy.”
“He wasted a weekend with a bunch of badly dressed people with beards and glasses.”
(Harris chaired Interaction in 2005, so he is a fully qualified Worldcon artist.)
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So, those who bid & “win” a Worldcon get to say “I got royally Worldconned”?
You’re onto something. “Friends don’t let friends get Worldconned.”
Has there ever been a convention called Conjugation? (Perhaps a joint Worldcon/MLA event?)
Don’t get me started on “Friends don’t let friends get Worldconned.” (chorus of voices in background: “Don’t get him started! Don’t get him started!”) After thirty years, I still have occasional minor episodes of being PISSed. (Post Iguanacon Stress Syndrome)
“Hey little fan, wanna chair a small convention … the first one is easy …”