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Thanks for the info Mike, I love Stephen King. Unfortunately I don't think i'll be able to go. I work really near to the shop but wouldn't want to chance it in my lunch hour as I think a lot of people will go so I'm going to phone them later to see if I can order one. It's not the same as meeting him myself but it's the best alternative. I also saw that they have a signing with James Herbert as well - He's another of my old favorites.

Can you scan and post it here please or just give us the lowdown. Can't scan it i'm afraid - It wasn't quite as bad as I thought it was going to be. A woman was writing in the Sun that she had an interview booked with him later in the week. Like many people she had been a fan of his since she was young and was really looking forward to meeting him. She said she was on the This Morning set last week when he was on and decided to use the opportunity to unobtrusively meet him. She went to his dressing room and asked him if he wanted a drink, got it for him and everything was fine. She then saw him again after the interview and offered to help him carry his dry cleaning out of the building. She said he was the usual celeb in public, waving at all the fans ect, but when they got in the lift GROSS ALERT he hawked up a load of snot and then swallowed it with no apology. She said she wnt off him after that and cancelled her interview with him. She also said that she did email all this to his PR people.

I've been informed that there is a piece in today's Sun from a disgruntled fan - i'm off to see if I can find a copy. Found it - it's on pg 19

I always get my cash in £5s and have for a while, fortunately I have a bank really near to me so I can just pop up near to the time and get them.

I've only been to a couple of book signings and luckily they were both okish - The first was David Gemmell at Forbidden Planet and he was really nice and the second was the Red Dwarf crew at Virgin on Oxford Street (That one was a little dissapointing as DJJ just ignored me and sat turned away from us talking to the other actors). However on the hoff front i'm really not suprised to hear these comments. In a roundabout way one of the clients of the company I work for was one of those that arranged a signing with him - some of our staff jokingly asked the organisers contact to get them an auto but she said she tried but he got annoyed with the fans/press and stormed off. Also given the comments that have been made in the press and on TV about him recently he seems to have a bit of a god complex - saying Princess Diana fell in love with him the first time she saw him and there are suggestiong that he really seemed to believe that the Berlin wall fell because of him. I used to like his programmes but I can see he is a bit of a self important t*****.

Yeah go from Euston, it will be much easier. Also If you don't fancy the walk - it's very easy as the main road between the train station and the center is straight so there are no turns to take to get lost - you could jump in a taxi. There are usually loads outside the station and just ask them to take you to The Center, the John Lewis entrance (the closest doors) - I haven't been for a couple of years but it should only be about £5-£7ish. If you decide to go for a taxi ask the driver how much it should be BEFORE you drive off. That way they can't scam you. Legally they can only charge you roughly what they quote verbally, with a bit of leaway either way to account for hold ups ect - if there is a big difference between the meter reading and what was quoted you can stick to your guns. Also if you want to get a taxi look around at other people getting off the train - if you see people with poster tube and art holdalls chances are they are going to collectormania as well - ask them if they want to share the cost of a taxi!

The Original one could be addapted: Many Very Energetic Men Jump Sideways Using Nikes However thats probably going to annoy Addidas and Reeboc.

I like that one.

With the downgrading of Pluto from a planet to a dwarf planet, our solar system now only has eight planets. What rhyme are children now going to learn to help them remember to order the planets are in? I was taught: M(ercury)any V(enus)ery E(arth)nergetic M(ars)en J(upiter)ump S(aturn)ideways U(ranus)sing N(eptune)ew P(luto)limpsoles So, what rhymes can be made out of M V E M J S U N. Many Voluptuous Elves Make Juice So Unevenly Now

Seeing as he has shown he's willing to come to the UK, how about trying to get Beau for a SM event, preferably Collectormania MK. He would be a brilliant Stargate guest.

.. how about the sharp sticks instead? But you could poke someones eye out with one of those! How about a blunted stick instead? or to make doubly sure they are safe wrap both ends with cotton wool - they you can be the only predator in the universe to threaten people with a giant cotton bud. Excellent costumes by the way.

I hope you said something to the effect of "so what?" You where as much a customer as them and shouldn't suffer bad service just because someone 'famous' is in.

I've been asking for Dom on and off for a while on another forum so I for one would be stoked if anyone got him. I've seen him in the cannonballs but love his performance as Urgo on Stargate. Please please please please......

Maybe A007 and the other privelaged ones had super clean ungermified looking hands.

I'd love to meet the Blackadder lot. I've got a book of the scripts and i'd love to get that signed by them, especially with a few quotes!

I've never been afraid to ask the guest to sign in a certain colour pen. It only makes sense when you have a photo/poster of a certain colour. Of course it doesn't necessarily always work - sometimes the guest is too busy chatting with previous fan in queue/attendant/pal to listen to your request. Doesn't happen too oten though.

there is a LotR page on this forum - http://showmastersonline.com/forums/index.php?showforum=8 if you want to chat to other LotR fans Whilst I'm sure Eilija will always be a popular guest i'm sure there are other actors/people fans would want more at an event. Peter Jackson, Christopher Lee and Viggo M

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Hadn't really thought about it to be honest - my flat is too small to put my stuff up. At the moment all my 8x10's are in a folder, posters rolled in tubes and 1 big ltd ed picture in a plastic folder under the bed! If I can ever afford to buy something bigger I would like to put the picture and posters, framed on the walls. I also have some screen used costumes I would like framed and up on the wall. I don't intend on having kids so i really don't what will happen when I go to the big sci fi con in the sky!

OT but when is CiN Paul? I'll have to get baking some cakes and biscuits to sell at work.

I'm usually too shy to say much to the guests, particularly if they have a long queue. I usually just say hi and thank them for coming over and being at the show. On the occasions when I have chatted to them though it's always been worthwhile. At another event last year, they had a load of the Enterprise crew. I only wanted John Billingsly for my Stargate poster. Most people where getting his auto for Enterprise so he was quite enthusiastic about signing Stargate stuff - we had an amusing conversation about the episode he was in and how he would have loved to be in more. Nikki Smook (LFCC): I talked to her about the horse she was riding in her SG episode. David Hewett was really funny - He wanted to draw on RDA's head on my poster- I said he could but he chickened out in the end. I got robert Picado to sign my SG poster and he didn't have a problem with it - just goes to show it really is a case of same guest different days. So yeah, as the others have advised just look at their websites and work profiles and see if anything interests you and just go for it. It's often been said that guests appreciate being asked about work they have done they are not mainly know for.

Let's all have a drink to console ourselves.

I'll be at the Amanda Tapping con so I can't go. Good news for those who can go though. I hope you all have a lovely time.

Not sure if it is good news or not! I'll be at an Amanda Tapping con that weekend so can't go.

I played this one a while ago. It's really good.