X Day and Starwood- Differences and Similarities?

From: Wraith <viator1@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Wed, Jun 6, 2007 1:15 PM

So, now that I've figured out that my ego was playing a practical joke
on me and have that squared away, back to business.

Anyhow, I've been looking at the information on past XDays as well as
past Starwoods and it seems to me that there are a lot of similarities
and very few differences, at least from the point of view of someone
that hasn't attended either one.

So, what are some of the difference and similarities you've seen?

For example.

Starwood has a group of people very, very dedicated to it.
XDay has a group of people very, very dedicated to it.

At Starwood there is a not insignificant chance that you might have
sex with some type of mutant.
At XDay there is a not insignificant chance that you might have sex
with some type of mutant.

People rant at Starwood.
People rant at XDay.

Wow. Pie.

"Crazy Jim" Jones
likes pie.

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Subject: Re: X Day and Starwood- Differences and Similarities?
From: ima <imasubgenius@gmail.com>

Well DUH, they both promote B.S. Religions

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Subject: Re: X Day and Starwood- Differences and Similarities?
From: Doktor Dark <drdark@37.com>

Except that Starwood is like a shopping mall & XDay is more like an
Apple store.

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Subject: Re: X Day and Starwood- Differences and Similarities?
From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>

Princess Wei runs registration at Starwood and I run registration at X-
Day.

Starwood costs $100-something and X-Day costs $30

There are 10 times as many people at Starwood.

But only 10 of them are SubGeniuses.

But there's babysitting at Starwood.

The pagans build MUCH larger bonfires but the SubGenii burn more
valuable stuff in theirs.

Most of the girls at X-Day shave their pits.

Starwood has to buy insurance and rent extra chem-toilets and X-Day
doesn't.

Starwood has famous people as speakers but X-Day only has famous
people as victims.

Starwood is sincere on every level (except devotion to "Bob") and X-
Day is almost completely sarcastic on every level (except hatred of
"Bob").

Starwood has twice as many restaurants.

Wei's mom attends Starwood.

There is no WitchMart at X-Day.

You MUST be a SubGenius to attend X-Day. Starwood lets in humans.

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Subject: Re: X Day and Starwood- Differences and Similarities?
From: "Server 13" <its@casual.com>

Starwood is huge compared to X-day, both in attendance and gullibility
quotient. This makes for interesting seminars, if you're one of the
paganoid phenomenisms. Way back when I went, there wasn't a whole lot for
ME to do, since I wasn't a pagan - except for hang around the Subgenius
events in a bobbie-like manner hoping to get slack.

However, by my best guess, you are approximately 300 - 3000x as likely to
get laid at Starwood - particularly if you're not turned off by rampant
all-consuming devotion to belief systems often resembling saturday morning
cartoons, can talk a good line of noncommittal woo-woo shit while avoiding
witch wars, and look good in a loincloth.

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Subject: Re: X Day and Starwood- Differences and Similarities?
From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Wed, Jun 6, 2007 3:19 PM
Message-ID: <1181157599.350406.220640@x35g2000prf.googlegroups.com>

On Jun 6, 2:09 pm, "Server 13" <i...@casual.com> wrote:

>
> However, by my best guess, you are approximately 300 - 3000x as likely to
> get laid at Starwood - particularly if you're not turned off by rampant
> all-consuming devotion to belief systems often resembling saturday morning
> cartoons, can talk a good line of noncommittal woo-woo shit while avoiding
> witch wars, and look good in a loincloth.

Well, that certainly describes the average typical everyday SubGenius
to a T.

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Subject: Re: X Day and Starwood- Differences and Similarities?
From: "Server 13" <its@casual.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Wed, Jun 6, 2007 3:28 PM
Message-ID: <f471t0$6ru$1@news.ks.uiuc.edu>

"Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com> wrote in message
news:1181157599.350406.220640@x35g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> On Jun 6, 2:09 pm, "Server 13" <i...@casual.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> However, by my best guess, you are approximately 300 - 3000x as likely
>> to
>> get laid at Starwood - particularly if you're not turned off by rampant
>> all-consuming devotion to belief systems often resembling saturday
>> morning
>> cartoons, can talk a good line of noncommittal woo-woo shit while
>> avoiding
>> witch wars, and look good in a loincloth.
>
>
> Well, that certainly describes the average typical everyday SubGenius
> to a T.

No, I mean even MORE so. Except number three, which was supposed to be
the deal breaker.

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Subject: Re: X Day and Starwood- Differences and Similarities?
From: Legume <none@yerbiz.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Wed, Jun 6, 2007 2:19 PM
Message-ID: <Xns994791BB36B69CortezLegume18465086@216.196.97.136>

Wraith wrote:

> So, now that I've figured out that my ego was playing a practical joke
> on me and have that squared away, back to business.
>
>
> Anyhow, I've been looking at the information on past XDays as well as
> past Starwoods and it seems to me that there are a lot of similarities
> and very few differences, at least from the point of view of someone
> that hasn't attended either one.
>
> So, what are some of the difference and similarities you've seen?

Starwood: Only enough SubGenius to get you thru the week. Better-looking
chicks and in abundance. Naked stripper chicks. Chicks who are
susceptible to deep spiritual bullshit. LOTS of divorced horny milfs who
will fuck you. Great parties at dawn and late at night. Rumble in the
Jungle party is not to be missed. Last year I got laid AT the party ON
my motorcycle. Lots of good bands. You can buy real skulls and skins
and weapons. There is always something going on. There are lots of naked
children there, if you're one of THOSE SubGeniuses. Also you might have
to stand in line to take a shit.

X-Day: An absolute fucking sausage party. A couple of OK chicks, but
mostly dogmeat. There was a stripper from Erie there last year who showed
her tits, but she looked like she'd been passed around by bikers on meth.
She even had a tat on her neck stating she was property of the local Erie
bike club. You'll be glad you didn't get laid. Some gimmick band will
play at XDay, followed by Lonesome Cowboy Dave doing the same songs he
did the last two XDays, if he doesn't break his only string or lose his
only guitar pick. You will see people naked who should never be, and you
may suffer night terrors afterward. DJ Shaver will stand in an old-timey
suit tapping his foot onstage for an hour in a carefully cultivated pose
while playing Dr.Demento records. Really, you can watch a man stand and
play records at XDay! You will experience inordinately long periods
where nothing at all is going on. There will be a schedule of events.
Disregard it, as either it will not happen or it will suck ass. Many
people will take Vicodin and fall asleep all weekend. You will not leave
without hating at least seven people forever. Stang will preach the same
sermon as he will at Starwood. Papa Joe Mama will scream thinly-veiled
racist rhetoric, and Dr.Howl will molest you in your tent while you're
asleep. And Rocknar isn't going at all, which makes it totally NOT Xday.

As one of the original founders of the Xday Weekend at Brushwood, I
myself will be instead eating dead pigs with 1,000 drunk bikers 500 miles
from there.
--
Legume
------------
"Never tell your nightmares to people who have the power or motive to
make
them come true."

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Subject: Re: X Day and Starwood- Differences and Similarities?
From: Modemac <modemac@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Wed, Jun 6, 2007 3:19 PM
Message-ID: <1181157585.784347.46250@n15g2000prd.googlegroups.com>

On Jun 6, 2:19 pm, Legume <n...@yerbiz.com> wrote:
> X-Day: An absolute fucking sausage party. A couple of OK chicks, but
> mostly dogmeat. There was a stripper from Erie there last year who showed
> her tits, but she looked like she'd been passed around by bikers on meth.

Dammit, you forgot about the massive 48-hour D&D session and Magic:
The Gathering tournament! That was the highlight of MY X-Day, no
question about it.

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Subject: Re: X Day and Starwood- Differences and Similarities?
From: Two Beans <two.beans.2b.removeme@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Wed, Jun 6, 2007 3:53 PM
Message-ID: <224e63p8qbticle4dkg5664mekc8n7p41n@4ax.com>

On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:19:45 -0700, Modemac <modemac@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>Dammit, you forgot about the massive 48-hour D&D session and Magic:
>The Gathering tournament! That was the highlight of MY X-Day, no
>question about it.

I heard Starwood has Warhammer LARP. Remind me again why I go to X-Day
instead?

-2B

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Subject: Re: X Day and Starwood- Differences and Similarities?
From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Wed, Jun 6, 2007 3:27 PM
Message-ID: <1181158078.810264.327590@i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com>

On Jun 6, 2:19 pm, Legume <n...@yerbiz.com> wrote:

>And Rocknar isn't going at all, which makes it totally NOT Xday.
>
> As one of the original founders of the Xday Weekend at Brushwood, I
> myself will be instead eating dead pigs with 1,000 drunk bikers 500 miles
> from there.

A closet Rocknarite this whole time! Now it all adds up! This explains
the sounds I heard that one night too.

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Subject: Re: X Day and Starwood- Differences and Similarities?
From: Legume <none@yerbiz.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Wed, Jun 6, 2007 6:35 PM
Message-ID: <Xns9947BD240507DCortezLegume18465086@216.196.97.136>

Rev. Ivan Stang wrote:

> A closet Rocknarite this whole time!
>Now it all adds up! This explains
> the sounds I heard that one night too.

No, that was me and Ed killing that pig with a baseball bat back in '98,
back when Xday meant at least SOMETHING was killed or injured for our
amusement. Before everybody's GIRLFRIENDS started wringing their hands and
whining about SAFETY and they sucked all the FUN out of it.

Legume
"Better to light a fuse than curse the darkness"

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Subject: Re: X Day and Starwood- Differences and Similarities?
From: polar bear <ebear@direct.ca>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Thu, Jun 7, 2007 5:18 AM
Message-ID: <1181207907.779246.8470@w5g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>

On Jun 6, 10:15 am, Wraith <viat...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> So, now that I've figured out that my ego was playing a practical joke
> on me and have that squared away, back to business.
>
> Anyhow, I've been looking at the information on past XDays as well as
> past Starwoods and it seems to me that there are a lot of similarities
> and very few differences, at least from the point of view of someone
> that hasn't attended either one.
>
> So, what are some of the difference and similarities you've seen?
>
> For example.
>
> Starwood has a group of people very, very dedicated to it.
> XDay has a group of people very, very dedicated to it.
>
> At Starwood there is a not insignificant chance that you might have
> sex with some type of mutant.
> At XDay there is a not insignificant chance that you might have sex
> with some type of mutant.
>
> People rant at Starwood.
> People rant at XDay.
>
> Wow. Pie.
>
> "Crazy Jim" Jones
> likes pie.

Chocolate pudding. Otherwise they're identical.

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Subject: Re: X Day and Starwood- Differences and Similarities?
From: scalpod <scalpod@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Thu, Jun 7, 2007 6:27 AM
Message-ID: <1181212032.213122.216040@r19g2000prf.googlegroups.com>

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