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Behind the ropes

Started by Guest_WaterBoy_* , Oct 14 2003 07:04 PM

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#1 Guest_WaterBoy_*

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Posted 14 October 2003 - 07:04 PM

Hi

Having lurked round the area, I thought I should tell the tail of how I came to be here (no, not that story).

For a few years I have known a some people who were involved with Jason (SM) and told me of the fairs and events that he was involved with.  As I Star Wars fan, I enjoy visiting these things as it gives me a chance to see (and buy!!) merchandise I had only read about.

At some of these events Jason kept asking if I wanted to help at a small little event in MK.  I was not sure as I wanted to see what it was like before hand.  I have seen some fairs which are a bit "geeky", and thats not really my thing.  Anyway, one of my friends lives in MK and was helping out at C3.  He invited me up for the weekend to crash at his place and see what the event was like.

I was totally taken aback by the scale of the event.  It was huge, loads of people and lots of activity.  Famous people, press, stalls, crew, it was great.  I realised that I had to volunteer!

This I did, and on the Thursday before C4, I left my home in Basingstoke to travel to MK.  Arriving in the hall I saw the preperations underway, but it was only when I got my crew shirt on Friday that I realised how good the event was.  Saturday was even busier, with more people and more guests.  Sunday was complety crazy with loads of people coming to see some residents of the Shire (!).

I never experianced anything like it.  The teamwork, the good vibes, the hard work, the happy faces.  It was a pure adrenaline rush the whole weekend.  I went home just wanting to be back in the hall helping people.

Crew are worked very hard.  If you are there to do little but gawp at the stars, you are there for the wrong reasons.  But if you want to give all your effort and keep going when you are exhausted, help the team and try to be constantly happy and helpful for the public, it is amazing.

It was at C4 that I heard about the forum and wanting to continue the good vibes of the event, I registered.  If there are any other crew out there who can remeber a guy with ginger hair and glasses who brewed lots of coffee, please get in touch!!

Paul

Edited by WaterBoy, 14 October 2003 - 07:06 PM.

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#2 cordelia

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Posted 14 October 2003 - 07:07 PM

Hey.. Coffee / water boy. lol. I was the one who begged for your phone for Robert to use. Cheers for that. Glad you could join.

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#3 KaramelRose

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Posted 14 October 2003 - 07:09 PM

OMG! I think I talked to you! Me and my friend talked to someone with ginger hair...! We were only asking if we could get all of us (3) on this one ticket this very nice man had given us to see Sean Astin! My friends were about to kill me when we found out we couldn't all sneak on!

As it turned out this guy gave us another ticket (!!!) and the guy on the Sean queue let us all in on two tickets!!! lol!

I always knew Viggo had good taste, you know.  Never go for the kind of dark brown dark beard you know, but strawberry blonde is something that really brings out her skin texture. ~Dom on Viggo's bearded lady love

She's a woman, so I get that out of her, but she's also bearded which means I can kind of... I can get a different kind of spin on things.  And you know, thats fine.  Viggo's an artist and he can do whatever he wants.  It's not really going to float my boat, but I'm not going to say anything against it.  You just keep on trucking Viggo. ~ More Dom on Viggo's bearded lady love

I mean... one could but perhaps shouldn't delve into a few of his... stranger episodes.  But I'll save that.  ~Viggo's attempt at revenge for bearded lady love.

Thats great.  He's gonna kick the f...k out of me for that one. ~Dom reflecting on telling of bearded lady love.

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#4 Guest_WaterBoy_*

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Posted 14 October 2003 - 07:13 PM

Cordelia- The phone thing was just quick thinking. I did not want to annoy him, (Remember his character of Sanchez?!?). It is kind of cool though, and was just one of the surreal moments of the weekend.

KaramelRose- I do not think that was me....there was another!! Maybe its just a ginger helpful people kinda thing?!

Paul

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#5 KaramelRose

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Posted 14 October 2003 - 07:15 PM

WaterBoy, on Oct 14 2003, 08:13 PM, said:

Cordelia- The phone thing was just quick thinking. I did not want to annoy him, (Remember his character of Sanchez?!?). It is kind of cool though, and was just one of the surreal moments of the weekend.

KaramelRose- I do not think that was me....there was another!! Maybe its just a ginger helpful people kinda thing?!

Paul

Dammit! Nevermind! It must be the other ginger guy then!!!

Just a question - do you know how many of you were helping out at C4?!?

And also - you are so lucky! I would have loved to help out! IT must have been such a buzz to help with something as huge as that!

I always knew Viggo had good taste, you know.  Never go for the kind of dark brown dark beard you know, but strawberry blonde is something that really brings out her skin texture. ~Dom on Viggo's bearded lady love

She's a woman, so I get that out of her, but she's also bearded which means I can kind of... I can get a different kind of spin on things.  And you know, thats fine.  Viggo's an artist and he can do whatever he wants.  It's not really going to float my boat, but I'm not going to say anything against it.  You just keep on trucking Viggo. ~ More Dom on Viggo's bearded lady love

I mean... one could but perhaps shouldn't delve into a few of his... stranger episodes.  But I'll save that.  ~Viggo's attempt at revenge for bearded lady love.

Thats great.  He's gonna kick the f...k out of me for that one. ~Dom reflecting on telling of bearded lady love.

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#6 Guest_WaterBoy_*

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Posted 14 October 2003 - 07:23 PM

I do not know how many were on site at any time because A) I was very busy and

The site is very large!

I do know that several are on the forums, but the only tags I know are Houdinia and Snow. Do you know of any others?

Paul

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#7 Shirefruit

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Posted 15 October 2003 - 12:11 PM

Hi Paul, it's Becky here, who helped with Robert, the Phelps twins and the lovely Dom. Just thought I'd identify myself! Now I must get back to nasty work...

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#8 LilElfGirl

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Posted 15 October 2003 - 01:20 PM

I was a helper I was crowd control by costa on the sunday and i worked Honors queue then on the monday i worked Elijahs queue in the morning and Seans for the rest of the day.... Did we meet im not sure but hello anyway

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