True dat!Sarcasm is in purple not to distinguish it from serious but to distinguish it from stupid. Spend 5 minutes on the internet and you'll realize reality is way dumber than you can imagine. I've come across many posts I've thought were sarcasm or trolling only to find the OP was serious and offended at a jocular answer or sarcastic and I'd denny'd it. The difference between ignorance and stupid is ignorance is fixable. I love ignorant folk, they're willing to listen and learn. Stupid, not so much.
If you budget the cost of travel and entrance to the gun show then run the math on the site supporter fee. By the time you figure parking and entrance (up to what, 8 and 12 respectively?) to the 1500, that site supporter fee doesn't sound so bad anymore. Plus you don't have to be around the aromatics and stupidity at the show. The show hasn't really had good enough prices to warrant the trip the last couple times I've been anyway.
I lol'ed on "aromatics". Predominately male venues, like gun shows, lend a whole new meaning to "aroma therapy".
I think some attend solely to crop dust their brethren.