Re: "Danny Boy" on Shamrock Day?

In article <memo.20080311162757.3744B@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Paul Dormer <prd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>In article
><b71ce5e1-eea9-4217-ae69-6722c01f700a@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>azurac@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (angee) wrote:
>> Hi Tim,
>> You're right there was a con in New Orleans in '88--- WorldCon
>> (NolaCon) was held in that city that year.

Nolacon II, to be precise.

>I think you are missing the joke.

Don't be too rough on angee -- you have the advantage of being British
and therefore recognizing irony.

I've heard that Nolacon II is one of the prime examples ... ah, Evelyn
Leaper wrote in her con report at
<http://fanac.org/worldcon/Nolacon/w88-rpt.html>

    Had it not been for all the non-New Orleans fans who pitched in at
    the last minute, it would have been a much bigger disaster.  As it
    was, I would rate Nolacon II as the second most disorganized
    worldcon out of the thirteen I have attended (only Constellation
    was more disorganized).

What I generally heard was that a lot of people didn't care a lot
because, well, New Orleans (pre-Katrina).  I vividly remember taking
The City of New Orleans down there (and nearly freezing to death in
the night; an acquaintance happened to be taking the same train to the
con and was able to loan me a blanket because her mother warned her).
I remember several bits of the city, and given my memory, that's quite
an accomplishment (I desperately need a Skroderider cart).
But I remember nothing about the con.

-- 
Tim McDaniel, tmcd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]