Report from Dave Bird
Present were, altogether, Dave and Jens and John, plus Martin who
turned up later by coach, Damian was unexpectedly missing, and we
had one Local Lady who turned up at the demo site; two other regulars
are away at the moment for specific reasons. We decided to have a
nice pub lunch while waiting for Martin to roll in, then moved off
to the demo. I brought 500 Xemu leaflets (picture) and John brought
200 Xemu leaflets (text only), of which we gave out 550 to 650.
We had helium balloons, large white one with orange-and-blue
Still, once we got started we were off to a flying start. John
did the slogans on our fine boom-box, Jens did the helium balloons,
Martin did leafleting, I did leafleting too plus handed out the
odd helium balloon when the customers weren't actually queuing up,
and the local lady did some chatting and leafleting. I noticed
people were reading our leaflets, and coming up to us and asking
for them, also parents were looking close up at the Alien Face
on their kiddies balloon and reading the "www.xenu.net" (plus
"scientology sucks") written in smaller type.
Our stuff was well received. I saw some torn up clam leaflets
torn up on the ground, and one passer-by tear up a leaflet in the
face of the clam who gave it to him. No public did that to anything
of ours, except that when I accidentally dropped some leaflets a
clamette tried to grind her heel on them one by one so they could
not be re-used. There appears to be no "What is Scientology"
exhibition in my city this year, so we just went and haunted the Org.
There were a few body routers and leafletters out; actually there
must have been about a dozen clams present, but most were milling
round in plain clothes and trying to be part of the crowd. I didn't
see Gollum, the DSA, but his sidekick "Eight Ball" was sneaking around
occasionally, and Darren from the Birmingham Loons Club was there too.
I must admit, once we sorted the difficulties of the first few minutes,
it was an excellent demo and I thoroughly enjoyed it. We must come back
soon once Hartley is around again. All in all, it was a grand day out.
X E M U
LOVES YOU
which we now have in bulk from a high quality supplier.
A bit too much kit, all in all: I envisaged having some sort
of net tent over the cylinder if we were working quickly and
let go any which shot upwards (to avoid flyaways). We had pre-cut
ribbons with a weight, and a little "Daily Xenus" newspaper style
mini-leaflet, though not enough for all 160 balloons. It was a
bit much too carry, and we were messing around trying to find which
bag I'd put the pressure-reducing valve in at first.
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