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Post by Chris on Jun 14, 2007 20:12:22 GMT -5
Re: Name-droppers
I have a friend in Austin who likes to tell me about his chummy conversations with Calvin Schiraldi at their sons' Pop Warner football games.
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Post by Chris on Jun 20, 2007 12:47:44 GMT -5
My Dad once had an old beater of a car painted at an economy paint shop chain here in California called One-Day Paint & Body. He called the shop to see if his car was done, and the guy asked "What color is it?" My Dad replied, "I don't know...you tell me." When they finally got through the nonsense of figuring out which car it was in question, and my Dad was told that the car wasn't finished, he asked, "It's been one day. I thought you were One-Day Paint & Body." The guy's reply was, "Oh, that's just our name."
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Post by BigAl115 on Jun 20, 2007 14:34:12 GMT -5
About a year and a half ago ..Chrissy and I were at a wedding at some place in, maybe Bayville somewhere. We got there and Valeted the car as you really don't have a choice. It was one of my friends weddings and they had the ceremony at the place. Well we about a half hour into the cocktail hour and we had a nice buzz on. When I get a phone call..so I look at my phone and it was Chrissy. So , part puzzled and partly annoyed. I go look for her and to my surprise, she was standing behind me. Well when I confronted her about the phone call she became as puzzled as I was, because she left her phone in the car. Well at that, our car being only a few weeks old at the time, I ran out to the valet guy and told him i needed something out of the car. He gave me the keys and when I got there her phone was where she left it. When i checked it there was indeed a call to my phone. But nothing was out of place. Pretty lame story but weird none the less
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Post by Chris on Jun 20, 2007 14:38:59 GMT -5
The Valet guy did it! Rent Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
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Post by BigAl115 on Jun 20, 2007 14:56:54 GMT -5
Thats what i figure but there was to evidence to prove it. Also, I was out there pretty quickly and the keys were on the peg board and the car was pretty far away. So, he must of realized he fucked up and bolted.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Jun 20, 2007 15:02:43 GMT -5
I have never seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
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Post by BigAl115 on Jun 20, 2007 15:05:50 GMT -5
Yeah, I have seen it once. You don't really need to see it.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Jun 20, 2007 15:12:32 GMT -5
Yeah, the way people spank one out when talking about this movie you would think it was To Kill A Mockingbird or something. I took one look at the plot, heard some of the hokey gags, and took a pass. So many years later, I am a better man for it.
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Post by Chris on Jun 20, 2007 15:38:58 GMT -5
Sometimes I think your claims of not having seen movies that are considered inconic Americana are similar to Michael Kay's claims of never having tasted ketchup.
But having said that...what you say is true. If you watch the few-minute trailer for this flick, you've seen all the best humor it has to offer.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Jun 20, 2007 15:40:34 GMT -5
Not a movie guy. I'm a book guy. Anyone who knows me outside of this board can attest.
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Post by Chris on Jun 20, 2007 15:53:24 GMT -5
But movies like Meatballs, Animal House, Ferris Bueller - they came out when you were (I assume) at an age when most of us are in our prime movie-going years...weren't you the least bit curious to see what all the fuss was about?
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Post by elliejay21 on Jun 21, 2007 15:44:24 GMT -5
This morning I had a training class downtown, so I went to visit my parents last night & drove into Newark in the morning to take the WTC PATH train... I entertained myself with my phone on the train, and with much of the ride being above ground, I was able to send myself the pictures... below is my photo essay! This terrorist-looking dude was standing right in front of my seat, with his ID in my face for the entire 22 minute ride. Oddly enough, I cannot remember what his name is, and unfortunately the picture is too blurry to see... This cute little blurry girl sat across from me, looking demurely into her lap for the duration... The dude next to me kept himself busy playing with his phone, too... but he's cooler, because his is a Treo or some shit... I'm not sure why this guy has his newspaper under his arm... why carry it, if you aren't going to read it? Maybe he is planning for later on, in the men's room. Check out the junkie nodding out behind him. This guy is actually READING his paper... maybe Asian people actually are smarter... This dude was reading a book that was bigger than a phone book... who would lug something of that size onto a train for light reading??? The doors are closed... why aren't we moving? Yup... we're still not moving... Yeah, and then I got bored with this.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Jun 21, 2007 17:30:06 GMT -5
By the way, no joke - taking pics on the train is illegal. A fineable offense, at the least, akin to drinking on the train or blocking seats with your bag.
Look it up. Especially after 9/11 - they dont want people "canvassing" trains and subway stops, and on top of that its called a nuisance, because of reasons like "upskirt shots" and people not liking getting their picture taken.
Wrong person spotted you doing that and they could have made your day even longer, and I am being serious here.
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Post by elliejay21 on Jun 21, 2007 17:37:59 GMT -5
Really? Not doubting it at all, but I am surprised that it is not conspicuously posted in trains, at stations and platforms, and on the PA/MTA/NJT websites. There are signs at the bridges and tunnels stating the prohibition of photographing the area...
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Post by $heriff Tom on Jun 21, 2007 17:52:27 GMT -5
There are no signs posting no drinking on the subway either. Its something I guess they expect you to have heard about. If you got questioned and they saw you are from the area, ignorance would have been no excuse.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Jun 22, 2007 7:37:30 GMT -5
Back in my FD days we used to just sit around and drink, listening to tunes or watching tube. Then the game system came in, and me and some friends would sit around and drink and watch people play video games. Whee!
Anyway, this is an image that always pops in my head and kinda makes me laugh. ' It was one of those "city-building" games where you manage a city. You know, the people get "dissatisfied" so you are supposed to build them hospitals, but instead you put a monument in the park to get your approval rating down. Well, thats not what you are SUPPOSED to do, but I digress.
Anyway, my friend Ken is playing and me and this guy Rob are drinking beer and watching. So a "brush fire" breaks out in a patch of woods in the Northeast section of the city. Ken decides to put it out, being a fireman and all. In this game, you can zoom into the area you need, so he zooms into this "forest" and starts putting out the fire. And on and on and on and on it goes.....what he has to do is click on a piece of orange "flame" and click again, and it goes out. And he moves to the next one. And the next one. And the next one. And the next one.
Folks, this goes on for a half hour....kind of like this story. Now its a must to put out the fire, since he put so much work into it, although nothing is more appealing than logging off. He keeps putting out this patch of flame. It takes an hour. Finally, he is wrapping up, and Rob goes, "Oh...Christ....no way."
So we're like, "what." And he says he notices some little box in the right bottom corner in this close-up shot as Ken is putting out this stupid fire, and it does not look right. "Zoom out" Rob says, his voice shaking.
So Ken zooms out, and the whole Goddamned city is on fire. Hospitals, monuments, roads, houses, you name it. The entire Goddamned city. While he wasted an hour in these woods, the whole city caught fire. It was just a supreme waste of time. But I learned a lesson from it - whenever I think something is a waste of time, which is almost always, I remember that, and I laugh.
Ken went to work on putting out the fire, but Rob and I left. I think he was putting it out for the next 4 hours.
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Post by 9 on Jun 22, 2007 11:06:28 GMT -5
Nice job by the firemen!
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Post by $heriff Tom on Jul 18, 2007 12:41:05 GMT -5
How is this for a groaner?
During a break in work action, a few of us were standing around here in the front of the office discussing old school rap. Along the way, I mentioned Melle Mel, who used to be a regular bleacher denizen back in the day. One of the guys hanging around was like, "I'll be right back."
He comes back 5 minutes later waving around an envelope, and singing a dumb attempt at a rap song. I look closer and notice he drew a face of sorts on the envelope, with sunglasses. Then he starts going, "Get it? Its the rapper Mailey-Mail."
Needless to say, it ended any and all discussion, and we are all still shaken at how dumb that really was.
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Post by 9 on Jul 18, 2007 14:38:09 GMT -5
He should have been beaten with nearby office supplies.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Jul 18, 2007 14:42:24 GMT -5
We kept the office supplies out of it.....we were afraid he would simply try to make them the envelope's posse.
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Post by IronHorse4 on Jul 18, 2007 14:50:54 GMT -5
I believe the aforementioned story to be 100% false.
Shenanigans, I say.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Jul 18, 2007 14:52:49 GMT -5
If I am going to use this forum to put up an act of fiction, I can surely come up with a more entertaining one. Give me some credit here.
Also, that aside, how could I pull that "Mailey Mail" story out of thin air??? Thats just bizarre.
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Post by jwmcc on Jul 18, 2007 15:06:06 GMT -5
This kinda reminds me of the time when we were standing around outside of Shea for one of the interleague series, and some guy went up to Tom and flashing a lighter going "Hey, can I get a Al Leiter?" Jw
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Post by IronHorse4 on Jul 18, 2007 15:33:17 GMT -5
Of course you could. But that never stopped you from making up ridiculous stories before.
And right up your alley.
I stand by my assertion.
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Post by grover on Jul 18, 2007 16:21:35 GMT -5
Yeah, Justin beat me to the punch. This sounds like a Sheriff Tom Special.
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Post by cactusjames on Jul 18, 2007 17:34:38 GMT -5
I third it, he knew it was bad, so Tom tossed the blame on a "co worker" and packaged it in some trite little story. Tom should have been beaten with office supplies.
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Post by Jason Giambi on Jul 27, 2007 9:27:13 GMT -5
so I'm at the MCdonalds near the house picking up dinner for the family. I live outside of Tampa, there's tons of white trash and redneck pockets in our county. So I see this fat broad online ahead of me with two kids that look like they could be hers (albeit mixed race) and one girl with beautiful blonde hair and blue eyes (she had brown hair)...... anyway, the woman must have weighed 250lbs, and was wearing these stretch pants that had seen better days., shirt too tight etc..... as they are getting her food ready, she's eating one or two french fries, and then decides to slam the box down on the counter like she was packing a pack of cigarettes. when the girl comes to give her a burger or whatever, she shouts out loud "can I PLEASE get these filled up.....
what a fatass
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Post by $heriff Tom on Jul 31, 2007 8:25:25 GMT -5
I'm such a fag. Oddly, the saddest song I have ever heard is from a middling thrash band called Annihilator, of all things. Its a track called Phoenix Rising, buried in the backend of a cassette I have had going on 2 decades now. Its a terribly sad song with a tremendously weepy hook. I developed a bad habit of playing this track when someone died, and amplifying the grief a thousand times over. Had not heard the song in a while, and no one really close had died, so I had no need to pull it out. The other night I was ripping a killer track from the band, "Set the World On Fire" from the same release, so I decided to rip "Phoenix Rising." So today I am riding in on the train, and I finished listening to a wrestling podcast, and moved on and played "Set the World on Fire" and clicked on "Phoenix Rising" against my better judgement. And I will be damned if I did not start thinking of Grandma and Grandpa Brown and Grandma and Grandpa Vicchiarelli, and a friend of mine lost in the mess of 9/11, and I pretty much started to cry. Well, almost, I was almost there, and then I shut the damn song off and put on Gang Green's "Born to Rock." That song gets me every time. Day by day, watching you disappear Wishing that you were still here beside me On my own, swimming against the tide There's nobody on my side but your memory
Then you'll rise right before my eyes On wings that fill the sky Like a pheonix rising Like a pheonix rising
Wings on fire, tearing into the night Screaming into the light of another day Carry me out the hurricane Into the smoke and flame and we'll fly away
And we'll rise right before their eyes On wings that fill the sky Like a pheonix rising Like a pheonix rising
Higher, higher, hear the thunder roar from above Fire, fire, fire makes me whole Into the smoke and flame and we'll fly away
And we'll rise right before their eyes On wings that fill the sky Like a pheonix rising Like a pheonix rising Wings on fire, tearing in to the night And we'll fly away
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Post by dabadguy on Jul 31, 2007 8:45:07 GMT -5
I went to Yonkers Raceway(Empire City Casino) on Sunday and I was down about 200 bucks. I was on my last 20 and I hit a jackpot for $1350 bucks on the dollar slots.
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Post by jwmcc on Jul 31, 2007 9:17:48 GMT -5
My Dad has visited that Raceway casino numerous times and vouches for it, and it's a quick five minute ride from my parents house. I hope to hit the slots there before the summer is out. Jw
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