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Lynn's Paternal Grandparents are alive, but she's only met them a handful of times and she's not too fond of them. Because they're super racist. Super racist AND Irish. The Irish bit isn't a problem, but for some reason racist stuff sounds worse in that accent. HAPPY ST PATTY'S DAY

Close Ones

March 17th, 2015 | by Trae Dorn

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└ Tags: jim, lynn, megan

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Dessa

March 17, 2015 at 12:53 am | # | Reply

Wait… how can her LIVING relatives be dead? Shouldn’t that be “nearest”?
- Trae Dorn
  
  March 17, 2015 at 1:01 am | # | Reply
  
  *whistles casually while altering reality*
- Bernhard
  
  March 17, 2015 at 7:53 am | # | Reply
  
  Maybe they’re dead to her? It would match up with what we’ve seen.
calvsie

March 17, 2015 at 8:53 am | # | Reply

is Borkcon ever going to get a nice table banner?
- Trae Dorn
  
  March 17, 2015 at 11:25 am | # | Reply
  
  They do have that nice stand up one behind the table.
  - Geekfeast
    
    March 17, 2015 at 3:36 pm | # | Reply
    
    Way to look at the positive, Trae.
KORfan

March 17, 2015 at 7:29 pm | # | Reply

All the convention people will sit on Lynn’s side at the wedding.
- xero
  
  March 18, 2015 at 2:26 am | # | Reply
  
  Except awesome roy
  - Bernhard
    
    March 18, 2015 at 6:21 am | # | Reply
    
    Awesome Roy seconds that motion!
Heather B

March 20, 2015 at 3:11 pm | # | Reply

These Ambassador Row comics always remind me of Geek.Kon.

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The Weird Things People Send to Duct Tape Boy ( December 18th 2019 )
So the mascot for No Brand Con is "Duct Tape Boy," a member of the No Brand Heroes. Years ago we set up a Facebook page for him. We only post to it occasionally, and you would expect the responses to be innocent.

They are not.

Posts made to the page fall into two categories: Promotional links for the con and "in character" musings. It's supposed to be super obvious that the page is the mascot for a convention. We try to be very, very clear with that.

We are apparently not clear enough.

Every once and a while, the page gets sent messages. It's only happened a couple of times in the last few months, but these... well... are really really strange.

Here are the best examples:

(And yes, I sent that guy a photo of a Playdia)

It's just super, super weird. Like please -- horny fetishists of Facebook -- stop sending messages to innocent convention mascot Facebook pages? The only people who end up reading them is me and the other page manager Calvsie. Spare us from your kinks, okay?

Duct Tape Boy is supposed to evoke a childlike wonder, not whatever gives you your weird boner. What consenting adults do at home is their own business -- so please stop trying to make it mine, okay?

And if you're a pedophile, you can fuck right off.

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