Where did a Ron Paul voter get the money to rent a Wookie custom?
RENT?!? I think I'm offended. Not that I'd spend my hard-earned money on a piece-of-junk costume like the one in that picture...
Disclaimer: I'm not the guy in the photo. Don't have a Wookiee costume, in fact, so I *KNOW* it's not me.
But I *AM* strongly in support of Ron Paul. I think he's the most Constitutionally-oriented candidate running (for which reason, of course, he'll never even win the primary let alone the general election
). And I *CURRENTLY* own (not a complete list):
- A full set of Stormtrooper armor.
- a (mostly) handmade Jedi outfit. Yes, I have a lightsaber, too. No, it won't cut you in half - but I could give you a concussion with it, and it'd still light up and make sound effects afterwards.
- two different Stargate SG-1 costumes (black offworld ground-combat outfit and F-302 pilot, including the helmet).
- and a full-up Darth Vader costume. Lights, breathing effects, voice changer, lightsaber, everything. Oh, and other stuff I made last year to turn that suit into the Robot Chicken Vader from the Star Wars Robot Chicken special last year, which I made for DragonCon in Atlanta.
Then we can get into what I have plans to make or buy (I have all the parts for a Tusken Raider, will be buying a Galactica Service-Blues uniform from a fellow costumer/seamstress, and I am working on an X-Wing Pilot and a Predator (from the Arnie movie)...). Some people dump tens of thousands of dollars into cars that'll never leave their garages or in going to football games across the country with their chests painted green and purple. Me, I have 5-figures (last estimate, $14,000 over the past 7 years) into a collection of costumes that I use to have boatloads of fun attending multiple annual conventions, and entertaining terminally-ill children at hospital visits, and raising money for various charities as a member of a costuming group recognized by multinational corporations like Lucasfilm Ltd, Walt Disney World, and the Guiness World's Records people as the best in the WORLD at what we do. Last time I worked fast food was in high school - you can't build up a collection like this without having a decent job which pays at least reasonably well, as a matter of fact. Prior to moving to be with the woman I'm currently living with and will be marrying in August, I was an operator at a nuclear power plant for nearly a decade, not exactly a job for random weirdos. And I haven't lived with my mother for well over a decade (and only then, briefly, because I'd just gotten out of the Navy - where I also operated nuclear reactors for several years). Shatter any ill-considered prejudices for you, perhaps? Like, ALL of them (let's see, engaged and living with a woman, holding a good job, NOT residing in parents' basement - am I missing anything)?
I urge you, and everyone else inclined to throw stones at science fiction fans in general and Star Wars costumers in particular, to remember that this is supposed to be the "Armed POLITE Society"...
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