It was a running joke at a number of sci-fi Cons even before 1992. IIRC, I first heard it at a WorldCon in Phoenix in '88. That's probably where the buttons grew out of...
*hangs head* Why yes, I was a fanboy. Why do you ask? ;]
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Yeah, I had that button.
In 1992.
I'm pretty sure you didn't have the button until 1996, since that's the first record I can find of the meme.
Where did you look? I looked on the Google Usenet Advanced Search engine and found many examples from 1992, including:
http://www.google.com/groups?q=vote+cthulhu&start=10&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&selm=C59A64.Gr9%40ns1.nodak.edu&rnum=20
JK: Oh, good work then!
It was a running joke at a number of sci-fi Cons even before 1992. IIRC, I first heard it at a WorldCon in Phoenix in '88. That's probably where the buttons grew out of...
*hangs head* Why yes, I was a fanboy. Why do you ask? ;]