I've got an idea for PAX next year!

chef_socrates

It has nothing to do with the actual event, but the odor. I'm gonna buy some spray deodarant (upon vote of which brand to use...some find the scent of axe offensive for some reason...) and smell people whose ultragamingihaven'tshoweredintwoweeksbecauseiwuzplayingeverquest scent is too powerful. Yes, i will need to sacrifice my sense of smell... but at least nobody else will get the sensation of having 1000 midgets crawling into their nostrils and bitch slapping them. I'll be all calm and polite about it, i'll even tell them to close their eyes and hold their breath whilst i make them freshtastic. I dunno what I'd do about resisitance...I might just have to wrestle them to the ground or use it as pepper spray.

...but anyways, anyone got a favorite scent? If not, i'll be forced to consider axe.

redstormpopcorn

I'd suggest a Wagner power sprayer full of Febreeze.

chef_socrates

You know, i've sprayed people with febreeze in the past, it doesn't work as well as you'd like it too. I geuss it's becuase human flesh isn't too much like shag carpet. Unless you count fat beards. But i don't.

terrix

Get a deodarant company(I recommend Old Spice High Endurance or Speed Stick) to sponsor PAX as someone mentioned, and then put little sticks of deodarant in the freebie bags, but have an excess so even if you don't get all the other freebies, you get the deoderant.

Kind of like the freeby samplers they hand out at college.

sPider817

Word to the Old SPice. I put on a good solid 4 layers of that shit Saturday morning and it was still working at 11 Sunday night. Old Spice=FUcking MEtal.

monk

Maybe you all could just... oh, I don't know.... shower?

B:L

Hey, I sorta posted this idea already:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=74745&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=125

But it's a good idea nonetheless :P

terrix

Oh I showered, and I hope everyone else with a hotel room did too cause you have no excuse, but there were some people going all 38 hours or whatever. Honestly, I don't understand how you would sweat in that weather, but people were. Those people were probably really ripe the next day if they didn't at least change in to a spare set of clothes and put on a layer of deoderant.

Weather where I am right now:
Currently:
81 F
RealFeel®: 85 F
Humidity: 57%
Winds NE at 10 mph

Today is a rather cool day for August, take note of the humidity and understand what I mean when I say its like an open sauna with our heat, also note how high it is for somewhere no where near a large body of water like the Pacific Ocean.

Weather in Bellevue:
Currently:
63 F
RealFeel®: 67 F
Humidity: 62%
Winds N at 6 mph

That's a room with really good A/C (like where I'm not right now fixing computers in a hot library lab in a long sleeve dress shirt)

If someone smelled its cause they hadn't showered in a while or had the type of body chemistry that they should know they need to watch the BO.

eelektrik

yeah, I loved the weather up there, I dont remember sweating all that much while I was there, but I still went back to my room for a little sleep and a shower...and put deodorant on like twice each day... But now im sweating buckets again down here in Southern California, I never realised how much this place fucking sucks.

terrix

Well we trade off with the milder winters, being not right next door to Alaska and Canada, but then again with the climatic changes of late we got so much snow this past year(for a state that sees 6 inches of snow total a year and most of it melts when it hits the ground) that it might not be the case anymore.

chef_socrates

Old spice eh? I've got this stuff called Speed Stick Ultimate...it smells the best, but it's a stick. The "it's the best smelling" verdict came about while playing strip poker, and for some reason the topic of deodarant came up XD. I trust the oppinion of the ladies however, as they were a certain schools cheerleading team.

SquallSeeD31

The biggest concern with the original idea is that it would involve doing something to someone, essentially against their will. I took it upon myself at one Sci-Fi con to arm myself with cans of Right Guard spray and leap out of the bushes...or at least elevators, cans in hand, blasting odor wherver it reared its ugly head with my double deuces of deodorant.
...And then con security told me to take a hike. Now I was actually working this con, so they just took my deodorant, but a normal attendee could conceivably get the boot.
A far more inventive idea was The Cult of the Rubber Ducky. This was a group of hygeine-minded people who dressed in bath robes and carried various icons of their "religion" (soap on a rope, rubbery ducky, deodorant, shampoo/conditioner), and chanted their message of power through cleanliness, with such dark dirges as "Rubber ducky you're the one, you make bath time so much fun". They even made their own labels to stick on the sponsored soaps and deodorants with catch phrases like "Lather, Rinse, Repent". If you would like to start up a PAX chapter of the Cult of the Rubber Ducky, I'm sure you could convince some people to go in with you on it.
Failing that, just having a sponsored selection of hygeine products can at least take a cut at it.

RepoMan1023

I can see it now....
"I'm going to spray you with this deoderant cuz you smell bad!" *SPRAY*
"No, don't! I'm allergic to that kind of deoderant! AHG! Can't breathe....."
"MEDIC!"

terrix

I think getting Tycho and Gabe to make a comic about it would work, or post on it....of course everyone its aimed towards probably won't think they are the ones its talking about.

The Geek

We could all just wear car air fresheners as necklaces.

TheMountie

you could all puppeteer read a book on personal hygiene. <--- sp?? splat...i need to read a book with that word in it.

once again, its not hard to bring a small promotional amount of deoderant(sp?) with you. you can put it in your puppies PAX baggy for junk n garbage.

Christ on the cross...you guys make it sound like an epic idea never thought before.

and now that we all know hot girls will show up to PAX,
maybe youll be self conscious and jump in a pond of deoderant(sp?)

too lazy to correct swell language.

EDIT: i should probably clean up my language too...but i have the flu and i'm too tired. to correct it. ahh fiddle sticks ill just do it now.
i just filled in the vulgar obsenities with the first word that came to mind.
its like ad-libs!!!

Red Machine D

Hey, don't look at me. I had a can of Axe in my bag and used it every hour.

Taramoor

Red Machine D wrote:

Hey, don't look at me. I had a can of Axe in my bag and used it every hour.

So YOU'RE the one.

Man, I'm so allergic to that crap. It makes my entire face go numb.

sPider817

I had an idea for an event that should take place. Two, actually. First, I say we have people send in .wav format audtion of them imitating Aqua Teen characters. Then pick an episode and have people act out the episode on stage. Maybe in costume (I was thinking cardboard cutouts, personally). Meh, maybe not.

Second is pretty good, though. You give everyone hats that you've secretly presoaked with soap and water. You tell them that they have to be at the event wearing that hat at a certain time. At the set time, turn all the sprinklers on to give them an impromptu shower. I know it'll fry the gaming machines, but it's a small price to pay to kill the stench that all of you keep bitching about that most of us didn't notice.

Lincoln

sPider817 wrote:

I had an idea for an event that should take place. Two, actually. First, I say we have people send in .wav format audtion of them imitating Aqua Teen characters. Then pick an episode and have people act out the episode on stage. Maybe in costume (I was thinking cardboard cutouts, personally). Meh, maybe not.

Second is pretty good, though. You give everyone hats that you've secretly presoaked with soap and water. You tell them that they have to be at the event wearing that hat at a certain time. At the set time, turn all the sprinklers on to give them an impromptu shower. I know it'll fry the gaming machines, but it's a small price to pay to kill the stench that all of you keep bitching about that most of us didn't notice.

Aqua Teen = Awesome, but not the purpose of PAX.

Red Machine D

Taramoor wrote:

Red Machine D wrote:

Hey, don't look at me. I had a can of Axe in my bag and used it every hour.

So YOU'RE the one.

Man, I'm so allergic to that crap. It makes my entire face go numb.

Oh. Sorry, bro. I just didn't want to stink.

sPider817

Lincoln wrote:

Aqua Teen = Awesome, but not the purpose of PAX.

Aqua Teen by itself, no. But what about an episode with the Moonintes or Super COmputer? What about the WWWizard? It would have to be an episode that played heavily on game/computer geekiness, so I would say one of those.

The Geek

Red Machine D wrote:

Taramoor wrote:

Red Machine D wrote:

Hey, don't look at me. I had a can of Axe in my bag and used it every hour.

So YOU'RE the one.

Man, I'm so allergic to that crap. It makes my entire face go numb.

Oh. Sorry, bro. I just didn't want to stink.

Axe does stink.

Horribly.

Taramoor

Red Machine D wrote:

Taramoor wrote:

Red Machine D wrote:

Hey, don't look at me. I had a can of Axe in my bag and used it every hour.

So YOU'RE the one.

Man, I'm so allergic to that crap. It makes my entire face go numb.

Oh. Sorry, bro. I just didn't want to stink.

Well, I'm of the opinion that axe has the opposite effect, but that's a whole other thread.

Don't worry about the allergy thing, it's Axe and a few types of perfume that do it to me, but it's very minor. Unless I'm doused in the stuff or am inhaling it for a couple of hours I probably won't notice.

Seriously, at least you tried to prevent reeking. I didn't notice the smell much myself, but most of the time I wasn't doing volunteer stuff I was backstage talking to Porkfry and a few of the panelists. (and munching on the free snacks provided for volunteers). I really wanted some clarification on my voice-acting question from the "Breaking into the Industry" panel since that's something I'm really looking into pursuing and it took some time but I learned a ton.

eelektrik

Yeah, get some Old Spice or something instead, Axe fucking reaks... Which was why I passed on your offer when we were stopped in Sacramento... keep that shit away from me.

Mr.Sci-Fi

Car fresheners work great, LOL at one con I went to there was a green tree brigade. They had green hoods and ran around putting green tree car fresheners around peoples necks.