Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 13:19:13 -0400 From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu> To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> Subject: [WSFA] Re: 2007 Worldcon Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> > dicconf at radix.net 8/24/04 12:37:47 PM >>> > >On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Jim Kling wrote: > >> Ted White wrote: >> >> >(Sorry about the previous post-without-reply; my finger >slipped on the >> >keyboard, and apparently "Ctrl" means "send.") >> > >> >Despite it being called "the World Science Fiction >Convention" or >> >"Worldcon," it's mostly American (the majority of attendees >-- even in >> >foreign locations) and analogous to baseball's "World >Series," which has >> >*never* left the USA. It's really the American national >convention >> > >> Uh, I think the folks in Glasgow and Toronto would quibble >with that. > >Not to mention London and Amsterdam and...was it >Dusseldorf? > >Me, I'm looking forward to the Worldcon in Moscow... Don't think I've been to Idaho . . . mjw > >-- Dick Eney >