Fandom Brotherhood

[scarfman]

This link from jrittenhouse made me think of Tom Lehrer.

Oh --
The SMOFs hate the Trekkies
And the Trekkies hate the gamers
And the Whozits hate the Warsies
And everybody hates the Furs!

(I've been gone a long time; do they even say Whozit and Warsie still?)

Comments

[pedanther]

I don't know, but elsewhere on my flist there was discussion of somebody-or-other's attempt to promote "Whoover" as the 'proper' term for what used to be called a "Whovian". There was general derision, not to mention a narrowly-contested race to be the first to comment that the new name sucks.

[dave-iii.livejournal.com]

....and I don't like anybody very much! ^_^

(HA, Mister obscure song reference, chew on that one! ^_^)

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

"They're rioting in Africa, they're starving in Spain..."

(Filkers rise to such a challenge.)

[dave-iii.livejournal.com]

Well done! Give that lady a man in the balcony! ^_^

[blinovitch.livejournal.com]

I've never seen the names Whozit and Warsie before today. Thanks a lot, Paul.

The SMOFs are a faction in the Illuminati card game, as it happens.

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

I just had to finish this.

Oh, the lit fans hate the film fans,
And the film fans hate the lit fans.
To hate all fans but your fans
Is an old established rule.

But at your Local Media Con, Local Media Con,
Bill Shatner and Ellison have happy faces on.
It's fun to eulogize
The people you despise,
As long as you don't think that they are cool.

Oh, the LARPers hate the filkers,
And the filkers hate the LARPers.
While the dealers make us paupers,
It's American as apple pie.

But at your Local Media Con, Local Media Con,
The 501st admit that they kinda liked The Wrath of Khan.
Step up and shake the hand
Of a GoH you can't stand.
You can tolerate him if you try.

Oh, the SMOFs hate the Trekkies
And the Trekkies hate the gamers
And the Whozits hate the Warsies
And everybody hates the Furs!

But at your Local Media Con, Local Media Con,
It's None-of-us-have-got-a-freaking-life-a-Con.
Read a fanfic or two
Written by Mary Sue.
It's only a weekend, so pleae don't pine-
You can still flame them all online!