Wait, was this a thing that actually happened oO ?

Yes, it did. Ask Malcomson about it, or  rabbi-tom, about it, as he was there as well.

Yes it did..

I was one of several events that happened, that the con was not invited back to the Red Lion.

Holy hell, that's crazy.

But it happened. At the time, I thought it was laughable at the time, as INERT was lettered on the side, but then the maid spoke little English. These days, everyone would react the same, about finding a "bomb" with wires all over it, not getting close enough to read INERT, before phoning it in.

My mom bought my dad a WWII USN practice bomb case. It would normally be full of sand or cement, but it was just a big (250 pounder) blue bomb, fins and all. She mailed it to him, and he told me later that he, distracted by the thoughts on how to get the damn thing home (no car), when the Postal worker asked 'What is it?' He simply said 'A bomb from my wife.'

I remember that! (faintly). I'm also amused I recognize ol' fans from your doodles of 'em. Lessee, Blumrich, Wolf, Whazzisname, the fat fanboy....

Oh there are caricatures all over the submissions.

Which fat fanboy? (there were a lot of them back then!)

Ah, yes, the con that I spent in the hospital! Still have the get well sketches knocking about somewheres...

I think it was Conference 8 that was the Horror show.

Sounds about right. Thankfully, I missed that one.

I didn't, but no, I did not draw a convention report for that one. Just too disgusted at the time.

Can't say as I blame you. :-P

If I may ask, what was the 'CF 8 horror show'? You can PM me if you wish.

I heard a few stories about it from older furs, but I also knew some people who denied everything I was told and sharply questioned me for even wondering about it.

There was a big wedding happening in another part of the hotel, that the fursuiters crashed and were invited to attend the ceremony.
After which we invited the wedded couple and their guests to come an dance with the fursuiters.
While this was going on...
3 People then tried to get into the fursuit dance wearing body-paint, and absolutely nothing else.!!

Thankfully the furs there self policed, and surrounded the fools. hiding them from sight and escorted them back to their room.

Later a Mayo pack got stepped on in a elevator.
Leading to wild rumors of furs having sex in the elevators, an cumming all over the walls.

I got married at CF5, and while the ceremony was going on, and Mark and Rodney kindly gave us the room to get married in and hold the reception. But some damn furries slipped in the back door while it was going on and literally ate all the food that was set up for the guests thinking it was a free buffet.

Mel White came to the Rescue and ordered like 12-15 Pizzas for the wedding guests to eat. Ted Sheppard stood guard with a real Samurai sword by the pizzas so the non-wedding guests (The Furries) wouldn't raid that too.

Both Shep and Ruggels were dressed like mob hit men, Dusty was the door bouncer with the guest list clipboard, Ed Kline was my Best man, dressed as Eeon, Kishma was dressed as Red Shetland along with Terrie Smith as Bridesmaids and Major Matt Mason was the minister...and THAT FUCKER DID THE SMURF FERTILITY PRAYER!!! (364 days later my son John was born!) What got me was the arch of Guns, knives and swords brandished overhead as we exited the room in an arch wall.

Good times....good times.

But that wasn't the CF8 horror show..

But what you did describe lead to CF6 The SPAWNING!

CF8, where Silfur was in the hotel lobby, wearing body paint, a tiny dixie cup hiding his tiny junk and a rabbit tail and ears. Then spreading his ass before some of his friends as they sat on a bench, waving his butt , showing off his rusty starfish. All in front of mundanes sitting at the restaurant RIGHT there freaking out at the scene.

Me and another friend were sitting right there seeing that display and Mark said loudly "I have a large bayonet up in the room, I'm going to get it and turn that guy into a human Popsicle."

Silfur ran off at that point.

To Silfur's credit, I saw him at FC1, and I didn't even recognize him til he said "Hi Rabbi!", I had to double, then triple blink look at him. He was in an actual business suit instead of his usual 'Bunny Boi' outfit. He said that he saw video footage of that CF8 incident he did and was utterly horrified at what he had done. And vowed to never pull that shit again. He kept his word!

Ah! So that's what happened. Thanks for sharing this and clearing up some questions of mine.

Ah, the good old days!

Cons were fun, back then. Now-adays, not a lot in them hold my interest any more.

I used to love the dances; and I met some great people at the room parties.

Australian furry cons run damned fine dances!

Wow...

Police and fire service is one thing, but imagine the full-dress brouhaha that would ensue if that happened nowadays.

Oklahoma City was a year or two into the future. After that was phase one. Then 9-11, but people still call in bomb threats usually around finals week in college... well... actually these days they just whine at administrators or call exams a tool of privilege.

Oh man, I remember hearing about that one from Scott back in 1994 - was in Arizona house hunting at the time and met up with him down in the Phoenix/Scottsdale area. After first meeting him in the Dallas/FW area in 1992 it didn't surprise me when he told me about the prop

Nice guy, but kind of fuzzy judgement.

I remember that incident quite well. I ended up roommates with mr. Malcomson later. It was not a good time.

So what happened afterwards?

Not alot. Everything went well enough for the rest of the con. Remember the man-sauce incident?
We were roomies for several years back in Tucson which is what I was referring to.

ah, okay. I do remember Ed Klein telling me about the Man Sauce incident. Plus I think Phil Morrisey or someone else told me about two people having sex in the ice machine nook on the third floor.

CF6, the Daisy Chain circle jerk openly in the Jacuzzi. The two playing fudge shove in the hallway in the door recesses.

I remember Ed and Kishma utterly flipping out at the spooge in the elevator dripping down the mirrored walls. I've never seen Ed so enraged in my life because the instigators literally just left the elevator as Ed and Kishma were entering.

Yup. and the "Zeta pins".

Foam and plastic prop I hope.

Was the thing something he made or did he buy it from the Warner Brother's store in the mall?

I think it was a novelty clock you could buy at Spencer's Gifts or something. looked convincing , though a bit too shiny.

I vaugely remember this. Cool Flashback!

Glad to have helped jog the old memory.

Facepalms...GOD, Malcontent and his damn fake bomb he thought was 'funny' as a prop, but left openly out in the room. I remember him pitching a fit losing his room. But can't remember what happened afterwards or where he stayed.

I spot Blumrich , no mistaking that hunched over chain smoker. Plus you got Dwight's eyes perfect.

Thing is today, Scott would not only have been charged, but arrested, his con badge yanked and banned for life for that stunt. While certain CONVICTED pedophiles are allowed to roam free at cons in their trashy fur suits or behind a table.

Not worth it going to Furry Cons any more, for me. I have reverted to type and go to TTRPG, and War Game cons, and not for ones out of state. I just find fursuits creepy, anyway.

Fursuit parades and raves, endless dance parties, hug piles and angsty youths griping about insert current topic on Twitter.

And in the Fur suits, I can appreciate a well made suit, and especially a creature NOT a Sparkle Dog, Husky, Wolf, Fox, Husky, Husky, DAD, Fox, some craptactular fursuit Frankenstein.

I saw a Pangolin that was VERY accurate and made with leather scales, and a dragon with actual metal scales that was mind blowing. THOSE kind of suits I can admire and appreciate.

The only fursuits I can appreciate are the non-toony ones that actually look like a good animal/human hybrid. otherwise it's just "meh" to me.

I am utterly fed up with Huskies and Sparkle Dogs. For every different suit, theres a dozen Huskies or Sparkle dogs.

Plus the animals with colors not found in Nature. And the ones with florescent color mouths, noses ears and junk.

I'd have to agree. Cosplayers at Anime cons, or the Superheroes at Comic-con I find more interesting these days.

I agree with you. PDFC just left me cold on furry cons Was fun meeting a few folks but the whole suit thing was just meh to me. I discovered I only took about a dozen photos the whole con - did get one or two of Boiler Roo's signs for the con and the bulk were of that gator on display. Couple pics of the suit parade.

Wow -- 1993 -- I had started working at my first IT job, the company had just been the victim a participant in a hostile takeover merger and I could have used a week off for some fun. I had probably discovered the whole 'furry' thing the previous year.

Unfortunately, fun is no longer allowed. Some meathead always has to ruin things for other people, either to satisfy his own warped sense of humor or for some vague political agenda.

No... No, it isn't. it's also move away from 2D art into crafts, mostly fursuits. it's hard to get books or comic books there. Not my scene any more. Gone back to Table Top Roleplaying Game conventions and War Gaming conventions, and only for a day.

oy vey. on eurofurence only some people had the stupid idea to jump up and down in the elevator until the wire guard springs on. apparently some managed to do that, so the con people hung up sings warning them... artists' lounge seems to wander from place to place. last time I was at EF they set it up in a large open area over yonder where we had to use shovels to bring electric juice there (aka, I asked the staff for two or three extra cables to help people fire their electric devices). haven't been to the art show in years, the price tags have become insane. furdance isn't my music, anyway, pawpet show... *shrugs* not my thing. most panbels aren't my thing, either, and it's too easy to miss someone. or be missed despite sitting right there.
as you say, 2D art isn't much of a thing anymore. I have the stuff for a fursuit, but haven't found time for it yet. and the rest? I am not sure if it's worth traveling across germany for it anymore. last time I went I didn't even have travel costs, but everything (cheap outside housing, supermarket food, a teeshirt, a few comics and bits of art) set me back almost 700€. I just can't afford it. so small cons and furmeets it is for me. and roleplaying cons. though the numbers of those have dwindled a lot the last few years...

This + Comments have been great, I'm always fascinated by the history of this Fandom before I knew it existed.

Have to agree with you on cons, I was at the FCN-became-MCFC (the Detroit one) if only because I could drive over for the day and didn't have to spring for a room, food, long-distance travel, etc. Until about 5 years ago when "vaping" was new and cool and some vendor showed up with a table full of flavored scents. This sold out on the first morning. The stench of all the indoor "it's not smoking, it's vaping, so it's totally ok!" was so bad I was done with that con.

I am sorry I could not include some of the other pages from this series, but Miniature golfing in German Helmets would get removed or me banned, due to the new anti-Nazi policies on this site, But we would do weird shit away from cons as well.

About the only reasons I would go to a con now is if there was some out-of-stater that I needed to see/ catch up with in town for it, and it was within driving/ sleep at home distance. But For now I will limit my activities to D&D and Wargaming cons.