Yeah Chris got us the table. When I arrived on Friday afternoon, Chris wasn't there yet, so I decided to gear up and walk around the Con for a bit.
At around 2pm or so I made my way back to our table and Chris was there in full FNG gear.
(Yeah he was tooled to nines with grenades!)
We basically answered people's questions (most were "who are you guys supposed to be?":roll: ), handed out cards that FNG had made (with the banner logo, and links to the Aliens board and various Aliens sites) and posed for pictures (lots of them!:D ).
It was fun, but would be a lot better next year with more of us and more gear to show off.
Funny story: Chris leaves to go get a drink, leaving me alone at the table. A group of guys walks up carrying several large boxes and stops right in front of our table. The lead guy takes one look at the USCM banner and yells, "WHAT IS THIS!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE!! THIS IS TABLE 35!! WE RESERVED THIS TABLE!!". He looked like he was going to have a heart attack right there. Needless to say, I wasn't impressed.
I answered him by saying this is table 36 reserved for the Colonial Marines group. His friend walks up, and says to him "Ok let's not fly off the handle, I'll go and ask the head guy" (or whatever). Turns out they were wrong; they had the empty table next to us. The second guy comes up to me afterward and apologizes for his friend saying he found out he only has six months left to live and gets excited easily.
Chris comes back and I told him he missed all the action.
I don't know, but if it were me, and I was told I had six months left to live, I wouldn't waist my time getting angry at anything.
For about an hour, we had to endure another guy sitting at that table, who wouldn't shut up, thought he knew everything and anything about the movie Aliens (especially the marines), and went so far as to try and convince us the smartgun is a lazer weapon- he said he read it in the Technical Manual!:roll:
But for the most part, the table was a lot of fun!:lol:
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Marines I see as two breeds, Rottweilers or Dobermans, because Marines come in two varieties, big and mean, or skinny and mean. They've got really short hair and they always go for the throat."