# Most unusual convention you've attended

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-convention-youve-attended/787118>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 21, 2017, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-convention-youve-attended/787118 "2017-05-21T02:33:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-convention-youve-attended/787118/41 "2017-05-25T18:22:13Z")

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> [@ftg](#):
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> The big problem: we weren’t big drinkers. Hotels would give a discount on rooms rates and such thinking we would drink up like normal conference folks. Nope. There was one where the manager was visibly steamed and wandering around asking people why they weren’t drinking. So we could only use a site once since the next time around the rates would jump.

Yeah, Vegas is not real fond of people who can do math. I was at a Comdex, and the cab driver was bitching and moaning about all those computer geek and how they “…come with one shirt and a $20 bill, and never change either.”

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**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-convention-youve-attended/787118/42 "2017-05-25T19:32:37Z")

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BreyerFest, a huge model horse convention held every July in Lexington at the Kentucky Horse Park. It’s several days of model horse shows, seminars, and swap meets.

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-convention-youve-attended/787118/43 "2017-05-25T23:54:07Z")

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So the SFW kind of “pony play” instead of the NSFW kind? 😃

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**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-convention-youve-attended/787118/44 "2017-05-26T19:19:12Z")

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> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> So the SFW kind of “pony play” instead of the NSFW kind? 😃

Absolutely! Some of those plastic ponies sell for hundreds of dollars, too.

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