Mister Blackpool Alien Man.
About 8-9 years ago, when I was just a yoof, I went to Blackpool with my parents. Just for the craic, really. I was having a great time. There was a joke shop that was literally even larger than my local supermarket, tons of toy stores, and an ice cream place. As any kid, it was heaven. However, for ME, I enjoyed it even more. For you see, down the road from the hotel, there was an alien museum. That's right, an alien museum. Inside it, there was a gift shop selling loads of alien action figures, books, DVDs...anything extraterrestrial, they had it. In the hallways, they had these 6 foot wax models of aliens from films like The Fifth Element, Aliens, Bad Taste, and Predator. As any Sci-fi geek (Even back then), I was in my element. Now, inside they had a billboard up, and it said that there was some form of "talk" on. Seeing as how I was in the coolest place I'd ever been in (apart from the joke shop, of course), I decided to go and have a seat, and see what was what.

This bearded man walked in the room, wearing a "believe" t-shirt stretched over his rotund belly like a second skin. He trotted over to a blackboard with an alien grey drawn on, and pulled his glassed down his nose. "Awwright, then..." he said in a really nasal- almost the stereotypical nerd- voice. He proceeded to talk about "life out there", and I'll admit, he was quite interesting at the best of times. As a skeptic and an atheist, I didn't believe a word he said, but he made some interesting points...at first. This little chat with a small audience lasted for three hours. By the end of it, the blackboard almost looked as though it had been painted white from his chalked scribblings of aliens, graphs and quotes. The audience had halved, and the ones that hadn't already gotten up and left were sitting down, twiddling their thumbs. One even fell asleep. I would have left, but as a kid, I was kind of scared what he would do if I did.

I still lament over those lost three hours to this day.
(almightyjoey is most likely listening to Electric Wizard on, Sat 29 Aug 2009, 11:54, 2 replies)

You make me feel old...
The Fifth Element is a fairly recent film to me -- is it now so old that it's classic?
By the way, technically, if you believe in life on other planets ,most religions disagree with you.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Sat 29 Aug 2009, 13:33, closed)

Well,
I'm pretty sure the film was fairly recent when I went there. It was released in 1997, according to Wikipedia, so I guess it is pretty old. Doesn't make it any less awesome, though.
(almightyjoey is most likely listening to Electric Wizard on, Tue 1 Sep 2009, 10:54, closed)