https://fancyclopedia.org/index.php?title=Gopher&feed=atom&action=historyGopher - Revision history2024-03-28T10:33:35ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.33.1https://fancyclopedia.org/index.php?title=Gopher&diff=194197&oldid=prevLeah Zeldes Smith at 07:53, 21 September 20232023-09-21T07:53:21Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gophering is a good way to way to get involved in [[conrunning]] and meet [[fans]]. You don't need to know anything about [[cons]] or [[fandom]] to do it. Very often, you can volunteer once you get to the con (gophers who volunteer early sometimes find themselves [[concom]] instead). The kind of jobs gophers do include checking to be sure everyone who enters some con function has a [[badge]], helping out with foodservice or cleanup in the [[consuite]] or [[green room]], setting out tent cards in [[program]] rooms, assorted toting and hauling and running errands on behalf of [[gohs]].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Gophering is a good way to way to get involved in [[conrunning]] and meet [[fans]]. You don't need to know anything about [[cons]] or [[fandom]] to do it. Very often, you can volunteer once you get to the con (gophers who volunteer early sometimes find themselves [[concom]] instead). The kind of jobs gophers do include checking to be sure everyone who enters some con function has a [[badge]], helping out with foodservice or cleanup in the [[consuite]] or [[green room]], setting out tent cards in [[program]] rooms, assorted toting and hauling<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </ins>and running errands on behalf of [[gohs<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] or [[concom</ins>]].</div></td></tr>
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</table>Leah Zeldes Smithhttps://fancyclopedia.org/index.php?title=Gopher&diff=150446&oldid=prevLeah Zeldes Smith at 02:54, 11 March 20212021-03-11T02:54:21Z<p></p>
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</table>Leah Zeldes Smithhttps://fancyclopedia.org/index.php?title=Gopher&diff=125580&oldid=prevLeah Zeldes Smith at 23:33, 20 July 20202020-07-20T23:33:41Z<p></p>
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Gophering is a good way to way to get involved in [[conrunning]] and meet [[fans]]. You don't need to know anything about [[cons]] or [[fandom]] to do it. Very often, you can volunteer once you get to the con (gophers who volunteer early sometimes find themselves [[concom]] instead). The kind of jobs gophers do include checking to be sure everyone who enters some con function has a [[badge]], helping out with foodservice or cleanup in the [[consuite]] or [[green room]], setting out tent cards in [[program]] rooms, assorted toting and hauling and running errands on behalf of [[gohs]].<br />
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The term comes from mundane slang, where a ''gofer'' is a junior employee who "goes fer this" and "goes fer that." Fans liked it better with the [[H]] in it.<br />
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Contributors: ''[[STET]] 9'' Lexicon by [[Leah Zeldes Smith]]<br />
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