Are you going to be touring with your husband? If so I think it should be some sort of requirement that all Hatrackers who show up give you a great big hug or something. Or at least a $20 bill for just plain being that cool.
Hobbes Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
::gapes in awe::
Posted by Head Ditch Digger (Member # 5085) on :
lcarus- look away, it'll blind you.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Assuming that Wally succeeds in drawing KACard here . . . the font thread made me curious about something. When OSC types a manuscript, does he use courier font, or does he use some other font instead?
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Wally?
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Theodore Cleaver's older brother. I suppose I could have called him Eddie instead, but I didn't want to unintentionally give offense. Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
"Mrs. Card, you look lovely in that bonnet."
Y'all should practice that in the car on the way there.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Wait--What do you mean y'all?! Posted by kacard (Member # 200) on :
Well, I was going to come, but now I'm not so sure . . .
[ September 25, 2003, 07:30 PM: Message edited by: kacard ]
Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :
Oh don't tell me you don't know what "ya'll" means.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
((((((((((((((((((((KACard))))))))))))))))))))
Doesn't matter anymore, you allready got hugged! <--*Feels that that string of smilies perfectly expresses his feelings*
Maybe after the signing you can stick around and we can all get together and have a few beers. No wait....
Hobbes Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
Icarus: He uses New Times Roman font, I believe. He mentioned at boot camp that he only uses fonts where the h's have little feet, anyway.
And he doesn't like MS Word. Not a bit.
While at boot camp, I actually spoke with Kristine before speaking to Scott. (It took me two whole days to work up enough courage to stand within six feet of Scott.) She is one of those people with whom one is comfortable instantly. She is sincere, genuine, affable . . . she's awesome.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
I remember his column objecting to MS's strategies to invade your computer. I thought that was why he switched away from Windows and MSWord. Beyond that, which makes some sense, both of the majoy WYSIWYG WPs seem close enough to equal to me.
And I agree with your comments about KACard. Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
I'm going to bring baked goods to give the Cards and ask OSC, "Do you remember me? HUH?!" even though we've never met.
Oh, and I'm going to tell him that Bucky is one ugly kid.
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
When you ask him if he remembers you, you need to use lots of details like "Don't you remember? I was the weird one in the orange shirt at the signing in Chatanooga back in 98? I had a hat on?" Yeah, he'll love it!
[ September 26, 2003, 01:03 AM: Message edited by: Narnia ]
Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
Maybe if we all printed our screen name(s) in big black bold letters and waved a "We are Hatrack Family" banner???? Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
Yeah, I need MORE help being a goober.
I just haven't reached that state of Ultimate Goober Zen yet.
Posted by Rappin' Ronnie Reagan (Member # 5626) on :
mmmm....chattanooga
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
Ralphie, get your fine behind in the PNW thread. !!!
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
I remember the first signing at Endercon, I was there with my Mom, and I was feeling a bit nervous. I didn't know anyone (or who anyone was at least) and I'd just used up a whole lot of points and favors with my family to get there without a clue of what was going to happen. Then KACard comes over and shakes my hand and asks if I'm really Hobbes. I felt right at home from then on.
Hobbes Posted by ana kata (Member # 5666) on :
Oh, Hobbes, of course! How could you imagine you'd be anything but a star? Posted by JaneX (Member # 2026) on :
quote:She is one of those people with whom one is comfortable instantly. She is sincere, genuine, affable . . . she's awesome.
ITA. I met her at EnderCon while I was waiting on the book-signing line, and she greeted me with a big hug and a smile of welcome. I liked her immediately.
(((((Kristine)))))
~Jane~
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
AK:
Hobbes Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
quote: Yeah, I need MORE help being a goober.
I just haven't reached that state of Ultimate Goober Zen yet.
Come, Ralphie. You have much to learn.
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
Not THAT much, T.
Posted by Zan (Member # 4888) on :
quote: I just haven't reached that state of Ultimate Goober Zen yet.
Hey, I might be a goober, but I wouldn't say I represent the ultimate state of gooberness.
You take that back!
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
So OSC/Kristine will recognize us at the Ohio booksigning because we have Hobbes along?
One more good reason to keep a pet tiger around!
AJ
Posted by kacard (Member # 200) on :
You guys are too nice
But -- please don't anybody be offended if we don't recognize people we've met before. Especially people we like (for some reason I have a WAY better memory for the faces of people I really hate ) So, just remind us of your name and we'll be thrilled to see ya again!
Anybody who is nice to Hobbes is a friend of ours -- you just might have to point it out to people with old brains and old eyes. Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
quote:Anybody who is nice to Hobbes is a friend of ours . . .
Crud.
Posted by Zan (Member # 4888) on :
That means that if they recognize you it means they really hate you. You guys better wear dark shades and a hat.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
(((((((((((((KACard)))))))))))))
Hobbes Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Icarus:
((((((((((((Icarus))))))))))))
Hobbes Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
Is it ok to email you our pictures so you'll remember us? If not, just ignore anything currently in your inbox from me, and forget I asked.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Is it OK to sign you up for Star Wars mailing lists so that you'll remember us? If not, um, if not, I'm only asking for Papa Moose.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
I don't expect Kristine (or OSC for that matter) to remember what I look like, though I suppose I would do a double take if I told them I was Hobbes and they still didn't know me...
Besides which, if OSC does remember me he may remember that really stupid question I asked him at EnderCon that I think should be stricken from history.
[EDIT: I remember what Papa Moose looks like, especially his hand which seemed to be continually faster and higher than mine. ]
Hobbes
[ September 26, 2003, 02:01 PM: Message edited by: Hobbes ]
Posted by Zan (Member # 4888) on :
quote:I remember what Papa Moose looks like, especially his hand which seemed to be continually faster and higher than mine.
I'm gonna let Pop respond to that one.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Are you going to tell us what this stupid question was--now that you brought it up--or are we going to have to guess?
My vote: "Mr. Card, is it true that you plagiarized the whole Book of Mormon?"
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
Holy Snapdogs, Zan, but that was funny. Thank you.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Icarus: No, it wasn't that stupid, and no I'm not going to tell you because it was still pretty stupid.
Hobbes Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Mrs. Card, you'll be able to recognize the Hatrackers because they'll introduce themselves with "You look lovely in that bonnet."
I heard they were practicing.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
I think I'll introduce myself by doing this:
*look down* I uh.... I'm.... Sorry, goodbye.
Hobbes
[ September 26, 2003, 03:41 PM: Message edited by: Hobbes ]
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
Combined with Zan's comment, that's even funnier.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
This is what I'll do to introduce myself to Papa Moose:
I'd hate to think how I'd be recognized, then. Maybe I could get a shirt that says "<Relieved I'm not wearing that other shirt.>"
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Wow. What a great find!
Hobbes Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Okay . . .
"Mr. Card, is it true that Ender's Game was inspired by Star Wars?"
Anybody have a different guess?
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Is Haley Joel Osment going to play Ender in the movie?
I'll bet that was it.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
at you all.
I asked him if he would consider allowing Stanley Kubrick to direct Ender's Game (obviously if he was still alive).
Hobbes Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Did he slap you?
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
The fact that he didn't is proof of his generosity.
Hobbes Posted by kacard (Member # 200) on :
Was that YOU Hobbes??? We still laugh at that question at least 6 times a day at our house. And we trusted you with vetting the Crystal City manuscript? What were we thinking!
Just kidding of course.
(((((Hobbes)))))
[ September 26, 2003, 07:44 PM: Message edited by: kacard ]
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
I had no idea I was that funny.
[EDIT: <--Back at ya' ]
Hobbes
[ September 26, 2003, 07:48 PM: Message edited by: Hobbes ]
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
I asked a far stupider question the first time I met Mr. Card (the question itself wasn't stupid, but the asking of it was, and that's as specific as I'll get), and I sincerely hope he doesn't remember.
And I was wearing a cowboy hat and boots at the time, too. *winces just remembering, for multiple reasons*
--Pop
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
I'm totally unable to picture you in a cowboy hat.
Posted by eslaine (Member # 5433) on :
Why didn't I see this thread earlier?
Rest assured this classic will get bumped.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
quote:I'm totally unable to picture you in a cowboy hat.
Me too! Though I also have trouble picturing you without Mooselet...
Hobbes Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Pop, I think I may with with the worst way to get recognized. I'd have to flip them off before they realized it was ME. o_O
"And you are?"
"Mackillian."
"Who?"
"Jamie."
"Who?"
--I--
"OH!" *collective gasp that fan flipped off author and wife*
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
(((((((((Mack)))))))))
Hobbes
[ September 26, 2003, 08:37 PM: Message edited by: Hobbes ]
Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :
Mr. Card, sir, is it pronounced Ha-track or Hat-rack?
of course, I could only ask him that if I went to a signing. Near where I lived. In Provo. Hint, hint.
[ September 27, 2003, 08:52 PM: Message edited by: sarcasticmuppet ]
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
Hat-rack.
This is how he prounounced it at Boot Camp. Devasted my whole understanding of the forum.
Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :
darn it all. I never pronounce words correctly.
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
I don't get it. How else would you pronounce it? :raised eyebrow smiley:
Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :
what? Ha-track takes less effort to say.
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
And those of us that pronounce it that way are laaaaaazy. Posted by Her Royal Sweekiness (Member # 5747) on :
and proud.
Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
Hadn't even occured to me that one could pronounce it Ha-track 'till I met Paul who says it that way.
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
The first question I asked Mr Card was:
"Could I get a picture of you squishing my head?"
Hobbes, I think you're in the clear for asking weird questions. But it was a question that I had to ask. So ha!
Posted by Julie (Member # 5580) on :
Ha-track, as in laugh track? I always thought hat-rack made sense, though now I have no clue why.
Posted by Leonide (Member # 4157) on :
I'm confused myself on this "other" pronunciation. are we talkin' "HuhTRACK" or "Ha-Track" like "let's take a trip down to the Ha-Track"...i always knew we pronounced each others handles incorrectly, but i never thought there were multiple pronunciations for the actual website name! Posted by Julie (Member # 5580) on :
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
I once wrote a parody about this place entitled "HalfTrack." The ever-popular science fiction author who set up the site gets killed off, and one of the posters did it.
Ever since then, I read "Hatrack" as "HalfTrack." Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
*tackles CT*
Why aren't you on AIM?
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
mack, I'm on my way to bed, and I'm just not up to AIM. It moves too fast. I'm getting kinda creaky in my old age.
<---- the sound my kees make going up stairs
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
(sadly, it's true. Crunch. Crunch. Crunch. )
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
Listen to CT going upstairs to bed, trailing gray hairs behind.
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((((((((((((((((((((KACard)))))))))))))))))))) ![[Evil]](graemlins/evil.gif)
Yeah, he'll love it!![[Kiss]](graemlins/kiss.gif)
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) So, just remind us of your name and we'll be thrilled to see ya again! ![[Angst]](graemlins/angst.gif)
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You guys better wear dark shades and a hat.
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We still laugh at that question at least 6 times a day at our house. And we trusted you with vetting the Crystal City manuscript? ![[Dont Know]](graemlins/dontknow.gif)
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I'm getting kinda creaky in my old age.