Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 00:19:50 -0500 (EST)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Return of The King
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

"Michael Walsh" <mjw at mail.press.jhu.edu> wrote:

> Well, I haven't seen it yet, but then I'm not going to pay
> £10.00 (with the pound equal to . . . hmmm, no dollar sign on
> thesekeyboards . . .

Where did you find a keyboard without a dollar sign?  What's above
the 4 on your keyboard?

> BTW, what's a Fandango charge?

They advertise heavily before every movie I've seen in recent years.
The idea is if you don't pay them a surcharge to buy your tickets in
advance over the Internet, you'll arrive at the theater only to find
that the movie is sold out, thanks to all the people who paid Fandango
a surcharge to buy their tickets in advance over the Internet.  It's
sort of the opposite from how conventions work, where you pay *less*
if you pay in advance.

I've never found an afternoon matinee to be sold out.  I'd be
astonished if one is when it's not even the movie's opening weekend.
Anyhow, Fandango works only for people who have credit cards.

The movie opened Wednesday.  I paid $5.75, at the theater, to see the
movie on Thursday afternoon.  There were only about twenty people in
the theater.
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