Way back in the mists of time, some friends and I took a bus to Colorado for a Rocky Horror Picture Show convention. On the way there, we encountered another group of travelers who were taking the bus to Colorado for a Titanic convention. This was shortly after the DiCaprio flick came out; while I guess it's possible they were history buffs, it seemed more likely to me that they were along the order of squeeing fangirls with period costumes in their suitcases and notebooks full of Suefic.

Oh my god, I was JUST telling my roommate about that trip. But the lady going to the Titanic convention was a history buff! She was, like, 45. And she'd made friends with the dissolute but relatively congenial heroin addict in the seat next to her. Am I wrong?

(Denver, Denver, you've got no pretenvers...)