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Less Than 24 Hours Left For Applications To BUTT-NUMB-A-THON X!!! Where is your App?
Hey Folks, Harry here - I've got my galoshes on and I'm ready for the flood of BUTT-NUMB-A-THON 10 applications - No matter how much time I give folks, it's always that final 24 hours that brings on a Tsunami. The flood has already begun, and it seems that folks have been busy building props, doing amazing costumes or just thinking of funny & ironic situations under which to be photographed. And it seems BANGS are in for girl geeks that read AICN... I have to say... it is very nice.
But here's something that should make you all a bit paranoid, if you are in a group - and you have submitted with a number and the list of names, and I don't have all those applications, your entire group suffers. As groups are judged by their weakest link, just as much as their strongest link.
So - call your friends, make sure they've finished their apps - or lend them a hand. For example, today - Father Geek was over at my Sister's house helping her make a prop for her photo, now Father Geek didn't put her down as associated with his group, just in case he would get disqualified.
That said, some apps are too good to be punished for their associations with folks that couldn't meet the deadline, but that would mean possibly getting in, without your cohorts. So ultimately, reach out to your friends, family & loved ones that you'd like to go to BNAT with - and let them know, you care.
Meanwhile - to everyone that has submitted thus far - FUCKING AWESOME RESPONSE! The images and answers to the questions have been very well done. The Yearbook this year is going to be so much fun and you folks are a serious part of that... hell, you are the reason it rules.
And just to show you all, that progress is moving forward - here's the official LOGO for this year's 10th Anniversary of BUTT-NUMB-A-THON....
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...pick me. I am DYING to go this year! Thanks Red!
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Turned mine in literally seconds ago! Now time for finger crossings!
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let Harry have a pic of me.
Well, the less said, the better. -
that surviving a beee-nat
is like having really strange sex with someone you have no idea how you got their phone number
awk-ward -
but
like
yah know
Texas is like...
over flowing with Texans... -
...their applications 'cause last year everybody attending got stuck with a HD-DVD-player. The horror...the horror.
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it's about the thime to tease Harry about HD-DVD.
Gotta give the guy credit tho.
He didn't delete the pages
They weren't "lost" to some kind of system crash.
Good days on acin
More fun than I've ever deserved to have -
just in case i decide to fly over from the uk at the last minute :-)
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this is a really long drive
And, you know
into Texas.... -
and now to play the waiting game. :)
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I had to go low rent on my app this year due to a lack of funds... but I've seen some pics from other people who sent me their shots to look at and they're pretty damn brilliant.
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If you want to go, get your application in today. I think you'd get extra points for being willing to travel from so far. However, you would be foolish to come all the way from the UK for standby. Last year it was done by raffle. Show up you get a raffle ticket. I tried. About 50 people were in stand-by. If memory serves me right, two got in. So if you want to go, put some effort into an application.
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Control yourself Harry. You're a married man now. What would Yoko say?Sheesh.
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is in your hot little hand. And this geek girl said No Thanks to bangs and went for the bald look. I hear bald is in this year. ;)
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are totally hot.
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And was thinking iPhone App. Like you could somehow watch BNAT from your iPhone and get streaming nacho cheese and B.O. smells.
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that I've met in the #room23 IRC channel. I'll do my best to try to talk them all into it.
But this year? I couldn't pull the cash for a flight out of my butt if I pooped stocks and bonds.
And Yoko:
Indeed they are. Indeed they are. -
Hey, my HD-DVD player didn't magically stop working when the industry went with Blu-Ray! I have 10 HD discs, but it upconverts standard DVD just fine. Also, it plays all regions!
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...i was thinking it might be first come first served. In which case a night on the pavement would've been worth it to get first in line :-)
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We have been present either in part or in whole at the last eight Butt-Numbs-A-Thon, and it has always been the highlight of our year. Sadly, the economy is now in the shitter, and we are without enough plungers to keep it from flooding the bathroom. IE: we don't have the resources to make it this year. I wish the best to all our b'Nat friends both from Austin and abroad, we will miss you terribly this year, and we will miss Guero's as well.
Love, Vegas and Saffy -
...I so wish I could be there. Next year, mi amigos!
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I like the theme this year and the logo, but move the apostrophe to the other side of the "s" in your name! Some other punctuation geek (a subset of the arts geek) back me up on this!
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...yeah, low budget costume here, too, Nordling :-/ I tried to recreate a regretfully drowning Egyptian, and had to do it all solo. Oh well, every year I always think half the fun of BNAT is even applying for it - I love chewing on the questions and thinking of what to write.
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I've attended seven out of ten BNATs, and I did make it to Fantastic Fest this year, but this economy has claimed me as another victim as well. I was laid off earlier this year, and this has been one of the roughest and most depressing years of my life. I'll miss BNAT desperately, since it's one of the highlights of my year as a film fan and the best Christmas present a geek can get, but reality must be dealt with. I'm not going to cry about it; there are plenty of good people in this country in even worse shape than I am right now, and next Tuesday we can all get our chance to voice our opinion on the situation. What will we miss? I'm thinking "The Watchmen." What else? Maybe "Valkyrie," "The Spirit" and I'd guess at a longshot chance for "Star Trek." The word at Fantastic Fest was that this year's BNAT was going to be spectacular in terms of premieres. But that's not the real reason we love BNAT. We love it because it's like 24 hours of Christmas morning with your 300 of your best friends. God Bless Harry, Tim and all my Austin friends. I'll be seeing all of you again in the near future.
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I just hope my pic makes sense! It is a major character, just a younger version of him. Yep. Him. I am crossing gender lines for BNAT X. Hell, I've crossed multiple state lines for BNATs... what's gender?
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I'll be having a party in my pants!
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Not after hearing how elaborate other people's photos are. Mine involved the iSight camera on my computer and two old school composition books. Plus, I listed The Burrowers as a possible title, not knowing it had already played Fantastic Fest. Damn my lack of research!
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my wife also crossed gender lines for a major character... and she had a blast doing it. We had a lot of fun with the pics this year!
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Well, frack. I don't have bangs, but I'll keep my fingers crossed anyway.
Oh, and I agree: the apostrophe goes after the S. -
I have no idea weather I'll get in this year or not ... but I can say that coming up with our picture ideas and executing the concepts this last weekend was a blast. We had so much fun making our stuff we are using a bunch of it for this Halloween.
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check out the original TEN COMMANDMENTS poster
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They make my face too round. I am keeping my fingers crossed too. I don't have money to afford sets and props this year. I did have some costume pieces and did get PG-13 naked for my photo. I hope that helps some.
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The original is correct because Paramount Pictures was presenting Cecil B. DeMille's (posessive) movie; his name doesn't end with an "s" - your name, however, does end with an "s" so the apostrophe should come afterwards in order to make it posessive (I think).
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I'm not trying to be any sort of punctuation dick! I'll gladly wear the new shirt whichever way it's printed over my Octo-BNAT one, plus the first round's on me Harry (hopefully)!
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I'll back you up, GreatPumpkin. Grammatically, the apostrophe should be at the end. Artistically, however, I've got no problem with it like it is. It looks good, and more closely matches the original poster. Anyway, it could have ten apostrophes, and I wouldn't care, as long as I get in (fingers crossed)
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Are quite hot indeed. Now watch a bunch of geek girls grow them out for the next couple months before BNAT.
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Did anyone dress up as Cecil B. DeMille? Like the start of the movie? Just realize that that would've been an easy one to do.
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I'd love to go to ur festival but I'm not gonna dress up like an asshole
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I think we might have gone to the same place for our costumes.
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Turns out that my artist was Canadian - and claims that's some sort of French Canadian Whiskey punctuation - but if Demille put the apostrophe between his e and that s - I'm following him.
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I've been wanting to go to a BNAT since I first heard of them roughly 8 years ago. Unfortunately this year BNAT falls on the same weekend as the Red Wings/Stars game up in Dallas. I find hockey and meeting up with old chums to be more on the priority list. Please don't take that for lack of interest Harry and screw me over next year when I eventually apply. I just REALLY love hockey ya know?
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and feel i messed one part up badly. brutal!
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I didn't realize that it wasn't an apostrophe, but, rather, a very small whiskey bottle! I must not have that font installed, but I'll start looking for it now... Maple.ttf? Damn, I can only find Molson.ttf - I don't think that's going to cut it...
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gride looks like an arab pimp.
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You went as a guy, too? That's not a stretch ya know...You are a boy. Also, email me on the LJ to tell me what your pic is?
TOMORROW! I can't wait. I hope to get in, and have been saving my pittance from the Theatre I work in to pay for plane tix. Dang! Austin's really expensive to fly to. But, all the work backstage, seeing Jon's ass...and loading Lucky Larry's head with gore for the effect of being electrocuted will be totally worth it if I get to go! -
...as far as making the final selections, have you set a deadline for yourself? How long do you usually give yourself to make the picks-- one week? Two weeks?
P.S. to everyone else, there are currently some great deals on Southwest Airlines flights to Austin! -
The Greyhound of the airways.
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Harry said in the original announcement that he would post the list of selected attendees on Halloween.
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Whee!
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All that's left is to wait and see.
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can I go?
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I'll be sitting here hitting refresh on my browser all day when I should be working. It's gonna be a LONG day.
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and it's not here... I am all a-flutter!
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Harry is going to torment us and make us wait all day. He's evil that way ;) I am sure I will be out trick 'r treating with my daughter and obsessively checking the site on my Blackberry tonight.
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this year? That's the real question.
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I hope so. But honest to god I can't imagine just the time it would take to read all those entries ... let alone choose the list. It's a lot of work.
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The suspense is killing me
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He could just invite all his friends, split the money with Tim League and beat some baby seals with a baseball bat if he wanted to all while consuming copious amounts of tequila and shooting of a shitload of fireworks.
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that sounds like a great party. How do I get invited to that? Except the baby seal part. Takes forever to get that baby seal smell out of your hair.
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I think if you start with copious amounts of tequila, the rest of it just sort of falls into place somewhere during your black out. And we can always replace the baby seal batting with a poodle toss from the roof of the Drafthouse.
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i think that's the Palin inauguration party
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I think that's also the Palin defeat party.
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I will buy you BOTH a beer if we all 3 make it. After a shitty day of spending time with my only grandfather on his comatose deathbed...both comments made me laugh! Well done.
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This is killing me. I swear I've been refreshing the page once a minute since Friday morning.
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Please Harry... post.... and I hope my name's on that list...
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Now hurry up and stop effing around! Love, me and the girls.
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because I so want to go back to BNAT!
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Yet another person hitting F5 over and over again. Sadly this is not one of the cases where no news means good news.
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