You can check my credentials if I can check yours.

[seanan_mcguire]

So it's been a little more than a week since my glorious return from the San Diego International Comic Convention, where I saw cool things, met cool people, and learned that "Hell" is another word for "being on the SDCC exhibit floor in a wheelchair." I also contracted a horrific cold, and have been fighting my way back to the semblance of health

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[dostehseh]

This reminds me - right before (or just after, I don't remember) the Green Lantern movie came out, I went to the grocery store, wearing my husbands Green Lantern t-shirt. The guy at the deli eyeballed me when I asked for a pound of whatever, and said, "Do you even know the Green Lantern oath?"

I said, "which one?"

He said, "what do you mean?"

I said, "well, I mean, as Alan Scott said it or as Hal Jordan said it? Although I guess most subsequent Lanterns - if we're going strictly human - had their own little variations of it, too. So, which one?"

He said, "...who's Alan Scott?"

I said, "The first human Green Lantern. But, I'm really not a DC fan, I'm more into Marvel. Can I have a quarter pound of provolone, too?"

He stopped asking me questions. :(

*I should say, that was my first and only time experiencing any kind of Geek Check, 'cause I, sadly, have never attended a convention or any kind of geeky gathering. I didn't even realize what an ass the fellow was being until I got home and recounted the story to my husband, and he was like, "haha, he thought you were just a Ryan Reynolds fan!"

[oneminutemonkey]

Then you bust out the oath of the F-Sharp Bell Corps and blow his tiny little brain away. Bwahaha.

Though seriously, no one should have to know the oath to wear the shirt. Now, if you're wearing a Green Lantern -ring-, you better know the oath, in case you run into a working battery. That's just common sense.

[seanan_mcguire]

Bwahahahahahahaha.