Yes, it's as funny in print as it is in my head. Carry on.

I have a mansion and a yacht.

--G.
I don't have a mansion. Or a yacht.
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Hey, if I was employed, I'd consider sending you a check made out to the Royal Institution of Great Britain just for the amusement factor.

Peter Eng
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I probably wouldn't consider it with any seriousness, but I'd consider it.

Michael

Michael C. Fortner, BSc.
What the hell, just this once....

Which is pretty fucking impressive. Don't sell yourself short.

Who knows? Maybe there was a UF reader among them who would have been tickled to know they were sharing a class with you...

Edit: I have had the privilege of twice encountering a stranger under non-fan/non-convention/non-whatever circumstances who, upon learning my name, eventually asked, "Are you the guy who wrote...?" (One was for Drunkard's Walk, the other for one of my GURPS books.) The experiences were both a heady blend of mild embarassment and not-quite-so-mild exhiliration... and if you have not felt it, it is a sensation I highly recommend. (And which I believe you deserve to feel.)

-- Bob
Geeze, that came out a bit longer than I intended...
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My race is pacifist and does not believe in war. We kill only out of personal spite.

I haven't had that happen outside an at-least-tangentially-fandom-related context, but I live in fear that one of these days someone I have to convince I am a Serious Grown-Up Person (in a job interview, say) will google me and Not Get It, and I'll end up spending the entire time trying to defend my life's work to the fandom equivalent of a censorious muggle.* :)

Also, I'd just like to note for the record that I managed to work a reference to several of my own original SWT characters into the paper, in a context in which I needed the names of some hypothetical Inuit for illustrative purposes. (I used Karana's family as the sample group in an explication of how family names were disrupted by the Canadian government's efforts at "normalizing" Inuit personal naming in the 1970s.)

--G.
* band name
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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
zgryphon at that email service Google has
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

I found out several years after the fact that the office manager of my collegiate department lobbied against hiring me due to me being honest about the 'so what are your hobbies' question. I had to explain to her during my answer what table top role playing games were, and apparently that made me far to weird to bring into the department.

Thankfully my boss was and continues to be a long haired, bearded Berkley hippy.

Brian

Yeah, see, I've had that dream. It's my equivalent of the one where there's a test I haven't studied for and I don't have any pants.

--G.
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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
zgryphon at that email service Google has
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

This is true, but I bet if you'd said "I watched Avatar: The Last Airbender for the first time last year and really really liked their knockoff-Inuits, so I developed an interest in actual Inuits" you'd have gotten more than a few nods.

-Merc
Keep Rat

N.B. Inuit is plural. The singular is Inuk. (Technically Inuit means "three or more people". If there are two, Inuuk.)

--G.
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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
zgryphon at that email service Google has
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.