Fashion: Bag
Fake Conference Bag   (+51)  [vote for, against]
"Chapeau World Conference - San Diego, 16-19 July 2005"

As everyone who has ever been to an academic or business conference knows, you get a bag with the name of the conference on. This idea is for a range of fake conference bags to pique people's interest or suggest you've been on a fab boondoggle.

"Surfboard Designers Forum - Hawaii, March 20 -25 2004"

"Creative Writing Workshop, Costa Rica, 24-28 January 2005"

"Patisserie Trade Fair, Paris May 2-6 2003"
-- hippo, Jan 28 2005

Clip Circles Clip_20Circles
[hippo, Jan 29 2005]

(??) Phoenix HalfCon Items! http://www.cafepress.com/ksrastuff
Sweeeeet! [k_sra, May 27 2005]

Fake Conference stuff http://www.cafepress.com/fakeconferences
[hippo, Mar 12 2006]

National Gallery: December 2004
-- po, Jan 28 2005


Would function well for skipping work for a week. "Business/Leadership Improvement Seminar" etc etc.
-- contracts, Jan 28 2005


"International Adult Filmakers Workshop - Las Vegas, Nevada: April 8 - 16th 2004"

"Fabulous Boondoggle - Timbuktu, March 15 - 20th 2004"
-- cuckoointherye, Jan 28 2005


I am more jealous of T-shirts (e.g. Pine Harbor Music Festival Orchestra 2003). Aww, I wish I had practiced the piano more.
-- phundug, Jan 28 2005


i likes it!
-- jonthegeologist, Jan 28 2005


Fifth Annual International Halfcon
-----Spring 2005-------London-----
-- Shz, Jan 28 2005


Later, does your email account receive fake SPAM from the vendors you talked to on the fake exhibition floor?
-- krelnik, Jan 28 2005


Tea & Scones Halfcon
National Gallery, London
21 Dec 2004
-- UnaBubba, Jan 29 2005


mmmmmmm butter!
-- po, Jan 29 2005


Me gusta!! [+]
-- Pericles, Jan 29 2005


I get the feeling that I missed something really good in December.
-- wagster, Jan 29 2005


Laser P.A.N.T.I.E.S. 2005, London
-- wagster, Jan 29 2005


[wagster] You missed the crop circles UnaBubba had bleached into his hair, thus cleverly baking his own "Clip Circles" idea (see link).
-- hippo, Jan 29 2005


mind you,if it were a kid at my school I would have sent him to the doctor at the very least, to see if he were infectious.
-- po, Jan 29 2005


And that's another bun for Clip Circles!
-- wagster, Jan 29 2005


Dude, I just made some of these! Check the link! (Except of course, this HalfCon is real [crazy].)
-- k_sra, May 27 2005


My soft briefcase is a bag I got from my sister--I don't know how she got it--Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Election Observation Mission.
I think it's fab, but in my current line of work I sometimes meet people who know what the OSCE logo stands for, and I have to pretend that I do too.
-- baconbrain, May 27 2005


Nice, [k] - did you ever see the t-shirts st3f designed for the UK HalfCons?
-- hippo, May 28 2005


Brilliant ! ([neilp] places an order for "Time Travelling - a thing of the past? Seattle, 10th April 2009")
-- neilp, May 28 2005


Tailgaters Conference - May 14th-17 2005

Chemistry Camp - June 14th-17th 2005.
-- froglet, May 28 2005


/"Time Travelling - a thing of the past? Seattle, 10th April 2009"/ That would make a very nice present.
-- baconbrain, May 28 2005


I just saw someone on the tube with a surprisingly new-looking "Fiji Tropical Surf Team 1964" bag...
-- hippo, Jul 04 2005


Like turning up to a district attorneys' drug conference with a bag full of drugs?
-- zen_tom, Jul 04 2005


"National Convention of Fake Conference Bag Producers, Wigwig 2005."
-- Basepair, Jul 04 2005


Well I've definitely gone off the idea of stalking k_sra now that I've seen how expensive it is.
-- DrBob, Jul 04 2005


Yes, it's costly, [Dr.Bob], but it's worth it for the ones you love. ; )
-- k_sra, Jul 05 2005


What do you do if you accidentilly have a fake bag with a name of a very very little known conference that your boss went to without you? [+]
-- CloakedBeauty, Jul 05 2005


Well then, you explain to your boss how someone had spiked the water and that's why he/she doesn't remember you, then scold them for not picking up one of the bags.

Intergalactic Treaty and Monkey Infestation Conference - Roswell, July 10-17 2005.
-- Kozi4361, Jul 05 2005


I like the idea of the 'Fiji Surf team' bag. A series of conference bags for conferences that were held before conference bags were invented.

Can we start with a bag for the 'Congress of Berlin, 1878' complete with profiles of Bismarck, Disraeli et al? It would bring a real highbrow caché to the conference bag world and make people think that you were a knowledgeable history geek, although you'd secretly know that you weren't, even though you know about things like the Congress of Berlin 1878. Umm...
-- DrBob, Jul 06 2005


"Field of the Cloth of Gold - Royal Summit, 1520"
"Sermon on the Mount, The Mount, c.30 AD"
-- hippo, Jul 06 2005


The Genesis, Eden, May 1-6, 4000 BC.
-- daseva, Jul 06 2005


1999 National Procrastinator's Council Meeting, June 2005.
-- zigness, Mar 12 2006


Great T-shirts, [Hippo].(see cafepress link) I'm more than a little tempted to buy both the "Conference du Monde de Patisserrie" and "Time Travel Ethics and Procedures Seminar" models. I'd look quite inappropriate in the "InterPizza" women's tank top, however.
-- jurist, Mar 13 2006


Excellent - someone just walked past my desk wearing what looked like a brand-new "Sapporo Winter Games 1972" sweatshirt.
-- hippo, Oct 27 2006


Love it! Just got back from the beer tasters Convention in Stuttgart.
-- energy guy, Oct 27 2006


BUN! I actually do this myself. I buy plain white or blue tote bags and then I get that inkjet iron-on transfer paper. I also create fake "back stage" passes that I wear around my neck so when a big name singer comes to town I proudly wear my badge everywhere I go.
-- Jscotty, Oct 27 2006


"It's in the bag" - Testicular Examination Conferance 2006
-- Skybird, Oct 28 2006


Evil Twin Conference: 6.6.06-12.6.06
-- froglet, Oct 28 2006


Afghani Nudist's Convention, 1st of Ramadan, 2006, Kandahar.
-- RayfordSteele, Jul 12 2007


The Socratic Method at The Parthenon, Athens, 420 BCE

The Flux Capaciter Convention, The Doc Holiday University Auditorium, 1953
-- quantum_flux, May 21 2008



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