to "Josh the auction"
Mar. 15th, 2004 09:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solipsistnationOkay, so, here's the deal with that.
For the past four years or so, I have gone to Intercon and dominated the auction. It started off as a sort of raffle ticket-buying contest with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kviri originally, I think. Each of us would sneak back when the other wasn't looking and acquire more and more tickets, with the intent of getting all the good stuff and making fun of the other. The first year, he and I each had somewhere around 100 tickets each. Most people had one or two, and a few others had 20 or so. He and I got most of the stuff, although not as much as you might suspect.
The next year, I decided that since I had an income and all, I might as well support the con this way intentionally, so I just bought a bunch of tickets. I sat in the front row and grinning maniacally as they drew the tickets. Sure enough, I won a decent number of prizes.
The third year, I was warned ahead of time by, I believe,jducoeur that people might get resentful, and making sure I was okay with public mockery in order to dull the sting of seeing one person win everything. I was all ready to be tied up at the front of the room and stuff, except that even though I had something like 200 tickets in hand, I won... nothing! It was very amusing.
Last year, I had something like 350 or 400 tickets. It was a truly prodigious amount. It took FOREVER to write my name on the back of them all. I won many neat things, and gave some of them to people who wanted them more, and swapped them with people if they had things I wanted more, and picked up a bunch of games using gift certificates and things.
So this year it seems that people were chanting "Not Josh! Not Josh!" during the auction. I am very amused, and I'm sorry I missed it. I hope people enjoy the prizes, which are, I must note, RIGHTFULLY MINE!!!!!!!
Thus, to "Josh the auction": buying tons and tons of raffle tickets and sitting up front grinning in a predatory fashion at the prize table. Winning is not implied, as shown by year three.
For the past four years or so, I have gone to Intercon and dominated the auction. It started off as a sort of raffle ticket-buying contest with
kviri originally, I think. Each of us would sneak back when the other wasn't looking and acquire more and more tickets, with the intent of getting all the good stuff and making fun of the other. The first year, he and I each had somewhere around 100 tickets each. Most people had one or two, and a few others had 20 or so. He and I got most of the stuff, although not as much as you might suspect. The next year, I decided that since I had an income and all, I might as well support the con this way intentionally, so I just bought a bunch of tickets. I sat in the front row and grinning maniacally as they drew the tickets. Sure enough, I won a decent number of prizes.
The third year, I was warned ahead of time by, I believe,
jducoeur that people might get resentful, and making sure I was okay with public mockery in order to dull the sting of seeing one person win everything. I was all ready to be tied up at the front of the room and stuff, except that even though I had something like 200 tickets in hand, I won... nothing! It was very amusing. Last year, I had something like 350 or 400 tickets. It was a truly prodigious amount. It took FOREVER to write my name on the back of them all. I won many neat things, and gave some of them to people who wanted them more, and swapped them with people if they had things I wanted more, and picked up a bunch of games using gift certificates and things.
So this year it seems that people were chanting "Not Josh! Not Josh!" during the auction. I am very amused, and I'm sorry I missed it. I hope people enjoy the prizes, which are, I must note, RIGHTFULLY MINE!!!!!!!
Thus, to "Josh the auction": buying tons and tons of raffle tickets and sitting up front grinning in a predatory fashion at the prize table. Winning is not implied, as shown by year three.