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Jul 26 2008 8:21pm
SDCC: An Important Announcement From Tor.com

Overnight, a bird crapped on our booth.  Evidently, in the evening, wild animals have their own Comic Con in San Diego.

Usually, exhibitors cover their display counter with the tablecloth at the end of the day.  I always thought this was to discourage thef, but now I know the real reason.

(We were going to post a picture, but we figured you didn't really want to see it...)

14 comments
Thomas Wagner
1. SFReviews.net
It might have been a Del Rey Attack Pigeon. I'd post sentries.
Clark Tracy
2. Clark Tracy
Oh, we want pictures.
Gabriele Campbell
3. G-Campbell
Oh poop. :)

Yes, post the pictures. We're a hardy bunch.
Maurizio Manzieri
4. MaurizioManzieri
You were lucky! Last edition the sky over Comic-Con was full of flying superheroes...
Pablo Defendini
5. pablodefendini
They were Penguins according to pnh. Superpowered flying Penguins, apparently.
Fragano Ledgister
6. Fledgist
I sympathise, having recently been the subject of aerial bombardment myself.
Richard Clark
7. rdc
Uh . . . um . . . Watch the Skies?
Tara Chang
9. tlchang
The dangers of infested convention centers!

I attended one where we were bombarded by a *bat* swooping around (and he didn't even wait until after we all left to come out to play). There was much screaming and waving of arms(not all of which came from the women)... You may have gotten off easy. :-)
Paul Andinach
10. anobium
They were Penguins according to pnh.
I remember in one of Geoff Johns's comics, there was once a little interlude where two goons are waiting for instructions, and they're chatting about their boss, Batman's foe the Penguin. And one of them says that the whole bird obsession - and here he waves a hand at all the birds perched around the room - seems relatively straightforward, but he's always been puzzled by the Penguin's fondness for trick umbrellas. What, he asks, is the connection between birds and umbrellas?

And then something falls from the rafters and lands, with a soft plop, on his head.
Debbie Moorhouse
12. GUDsqrl
Hehehe. I remember being in a supermarket and seeing two sparrows flittering happily around the sugar. I didn't have my camera with me, tho.

So, you gonna give away the bird-christened merchandise? In some countries, it's lucky!
Melissa Ann Singer
13. masinger
The SF department of my first employer was located in an office next to a bathroom.

What more-than-occasionally fell from the ceiling onto our desks wasn't bird shit.

We regularly covered everything with plastic sheeting when we went home at night.

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