Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 10:03:59 -0500
From: Mark Mandel Mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]DRAGONSYS.COM
Subject: last dog

Here's something that I think is an extension of the expression: At
science-fiction fan conventions, there are typically
"Dead Dog" events -- DD party, DD dinner, DD filking* -- that come at the very
end of the (typically) weekend, when all
the regular scheduled events are over and the regular programming is done or
winding down, for the diehards who
want to prolong the socializing as long as possible.

* filksinging [sic], the activity of singing filk music, which is the genre of
(originally folk-based) music arising out of the
subculture of sf/fantasy fans. See http://www.hooked.net/~kirib/filkfaq.html .

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