Things that make you go hmmmm....

[kitanzi]

I just heard from someone who attended a panel at Boskone about disasters concoms had faced at various cons. He related, minus the names of the guilty, a little tale he heard there about a con which was suddenly forced to find a replacement treasurer, for reasons I won't repeat here in spite of them apparently having been given there.

That's not what caught my attention, though - the story teller's punchline was apparently "We had to find someone stupid enough to be Treasurer". Ahem.

*sigh* (Yes, I do expect it was said that way to make it a punchline. Nonetheless.... hmmmmm.)

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[browngirl.livejournal.com]

That's a great userpic :)

I think they were trying to make the same kind of joke I made when I called myself the "Filk Slave" rather than the "Filk Czar". It's funnier coming from the person doing the job than it is from others, though.

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

I'm quite sure it was meant as a joke, really - I was just pointing out what sort of joke it actually was. Glad you like the pic. :)

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[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Bill pointed out that it actually WAS coming from the first replacement, which I hadn't considered. I wasn't actually being pissed, more just pointing out what sort of joke it was - but perhaps I should have just let it lie.

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[bedlamhouse]

For the record, the person who shared that tale (and everyone on the panel, in fact) had acted as treasurer of a convention before (or even still), so in context there wasn't a problem with it.