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While My Hastings Gently Weeps vs. Hastings Is A Warm Gun, part 2: The Salad Days of Terror

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― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Saturday, 17 June 2006 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

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― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Saturday, 17 June 2006 01:29 (nineteen years ago)

Oh awesome.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Saturday, 17 June 2006 01:42 (nineteen years ago)

OMG. I leave my office to get some exercise and waste some time and THIS is what I come back to: me looming over Dan like some terrifying... I don't even know what. At least I wasn't wearing the shoes that so disturbed you that one time FB (do you remember that?). I wonder what happened to H31d1. Did you guys know that F4 married the roommate of one of my Olaf exes, the guy we referred to as Malaria M@tt (because he contracted malaria)? FB and Dan: I'm still in love with your accessories.

BTW, I found my old scrapbook (hiding in plain sight, quelle surprise), including several copies of the Raider's Digest. Somehow I managed to keep the one that has a picture of John in lederhosen. Priceless. Also another one with Dan and John playing an "intense" game of chess.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 17 June 2006 01:54 (nineteen years ago)

Was this before or after F4 got fired by the DNC for going to a convention as a delegate and spent the whole time in her hotel room getting high? (I think I have that story right...)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Saturday, 17 June 2006 02:02 (nineteen years ago)

(How do I shot verb tense? Sheesh.)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Saturday, 17 June 2006 02:05 (nineteen years ago)

????!!!! Okay, clearly I missed something there... I didn't know about that! I only know about who she married because I ran into her parents one night randomly a few years ago when I was out shopping.

Sigh. That's what happens when you lose track of people. You miss all the best gossip... Jeez, what else don't I know?

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 17 June 2006 02:22 (nineteen years ago)

F4 and her husband were burgled while he was studying to be a social worker. Everything of value was removed from their apartment and they had no insurance. M@tt G00dman told me that while he was visiting them, shortly thereafter, "Malaria M@tt" (my how the pieces fall into place--thx Sara) bought over $200.00 worth of Magic The Gathering cards from G00dman. G00dman admitted that he should have felt guilty, but he was laughing when he told the story.

I did not know about the DNC debacle or the Olaf connection. Soon we will be able to piece together enough information to uncover the true identity of Kaiser Sose.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Saturday, 17 June 2006 04:35 (nineteen years ago)

Why Prince is THE FUCKING MAN.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Saturday, 17 June 2006 04:46 (nineteen years ago)

Connections... wow. Actually, I think F4 told me about the burglary on the phone the very last time I talked to her. I lost track of her after (which was probably a deliberate F4 thing, but I don't know for sure).

Magic cards... LOL, my "book club's" (I use quotes because we never read books anymore, just get together and try not to get into too much trouble) name is Magic Widows. A bunch of the husbands still get together on Thursday nights to play that game (A. did it for a while, but got distracted by the climbing wall at Carleton first, then the marathon/running thing... and the craziest part about the marathon thing is that D34n talked him into doing the first one. Sometimes I think my entire life is a giant geometrical figure of weird connections...). Anyway, if I say I have to go to Widows, now you know what I'm talking about. And the cards can be insanely expensive... can't imagine spending that on them after being burgled, though. Crazy.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 17 June 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I'm going to Hastings tomorrow for an afternoon of Happy Father's Day and Happy June Birthdays at my parent's house. I know you're all filled with envy now...

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 17 June 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, back up -- context of that photo above? (I mean, everyone looks dashing and all.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 17 June 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

Though there is the problem I am not in it. But space and time and different destinies and all that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 17 June 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, Ned. Photo context: F4's (short haired girl on left) senior photos - she asked several of us to pose with her for a picture. And there it is! (FB has the crazy black glove and Dan has the croquet mallet, just because.)

Um, I don't think I'm missing any kind of deeper explanation of the picture.... (FB? Dan? Am I?!)

Ned, if only you had been there, I'm sure all of our entire lives would have turned out differently.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 17 June 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

Hooray!

You have not, I think, identified the person standing in the back. I am therefore to assume she is a spectre.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 17 June 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

Nope, that is a friend of F4's, H31d1. I didn't know her well (or really, at all), but she seemed pretty cool. I can't speak to whether or not she was a spectre, but in Hastings anything is possible...

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 17 June 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

IIRC, at the time she was FB's girlfriend.

F4 was FB's ex.

OH WHAT A TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE WHEN WE HAVE RED HAIR

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Saturday, 17 June 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

There was a license plate holder I saw yesterday that said 'blondes only wish they could do what redheads do.' This is perhaps a sign.

In the 'you didn't ask but anyway' category: I have just realized, Sara, that you look an awful lot like an old ex of mine, who was (and is) very cool and very cute. Hurrah for coincedental goodness!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 17 June 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

You can't blame me for all of that (and certainly not my hair coloring madness... jeez).

Oh wait, you mean FB! Well, then, yes, you can totally blame him.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 17 June 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

I was happily blaming FB too. It's fun!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 17 June 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

Yikes, Ned, did your ex have crazily pink cheeks, too? (But thanks for the lovely compliment! And now I'm even pinker. Dammit.)

It was only after I let my hair grow back to its natural boring color (which my friend L0u calls "strawberry brown") that I realized that everyone at college thought the red was real.

Come to think of it, having my hair that color did seem to coincide with an awful lot of craziness. Hmmmmm.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 17 June 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

The next step is to dye your husband's AND your kids' hair red. WACKY HIJINKS.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 17 June 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

(And J4ne's cheeks were very pink when she blushed too, so there is that, yes!)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 17 June 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

Now there's an idea that hadn't occurred to me yet. J. would love that for sure (she's terrifyingly girly sometimes)... but imagine the upkeep.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 17 June 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, wait, what Cure shirt is Dan wearing there? (I am assuming by default he is wearing a Cure shirt.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 17 June 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

Blushing cheeks = more trouble than you can imagine. You can't hide anything!

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 17 June 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

I am assuming by default he is wearing a Cure shirt.

You do know Dan... jeez. (Of course I have no idea about the shirt... and I am pretty sure the Cure concert I went to with Dan was in 1992. This picture was 1991, so before the wish album was out.)

I'm going to go take a nap but will have to check back in with you all later...

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 17 June 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

I'm the only fire-crotch here and I'm going to take a stand for authenticity.

Hey LAY-DIES!

I believe Dan is wearing a Mr. Bungle t-shirt.


― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Saturday, 17 June 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.oneposter.com/UserData/Poster/CopiedImage_15430.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Saturday, 17 June 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah that's my dearly-departed Bungle shirt (RIP ;_;)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Saturday, 17 June 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Where is IAN JOHNSON (AGE 13), JW (AGE 16), ELMO (AGE 15?).JPG????

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Saturday, 17 June 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

I had somehow forgotten Mr. Bungle...

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 17 June 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

Since I've turned the Hastings thread into a "what did you and your friends (who didn't agree to this) look like before you reached legal drinking age" (WDYYFWDATTLLBYRLDA) thread, here's another golden nugget that I just uncovered:

http://static.flickr.com/62/168965529_81dc4e52d3.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Saturday, 17 June 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

OMG, I swear you have my photo album, FB. (But really, that is not the best photo of you guys... LOL...)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 17 June 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

GODDAMN YOU ALL. I HAVE JAY LENO MAXIOFACIAL DISORDER IN THAT PHOTO FOR SOME REASON.

I want to see Noizeboardtriumverat.jpg now. JW, make it so.

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Saturday, 17 June 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

This might be related to the whole, "when John dances, it seems like he has no neck muscles" thing. I'm sure you're over that, though.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 17 June 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

And, now...death by landlord:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/57146665@N00/

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Saturday, 17 June 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

And, now...death by landlord:

http://static.flickr.com/73/168965527_1240cae039.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Saturday, 17 June 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

Hahahahahahaha omg you are so dead, dude, but it was really worth it hahahahahahaha

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Saturday, 17 June 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

DUDE THAT PHOTO ALBUM!!!!!!!!!!

http://static.flickr.com/53/168964880_2bb2d8bfc6.jpg?v=0

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Saturday, 17 June 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

Scaaaaary! (Although I can't see "death by landlord" for some reason. (Hope you haven't been killed, FB).

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 17 June 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

FB's landlord (M1ke Sk0glund, aka sometime-poster subgenius) is standing on is right in that picture wearing a very fetching boa.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Saturday, 17 June 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

Oh I'm so sad now. Cuz that would be pretty!

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 17 June 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

There's a better picture of M from that party, but I can't find it. He is wearing fetching red dress. Sara, you met him the other night at the Dr4gon.

Dan, i believe I'm wearing your bungle t-shirt in the photo above. Or was that John's? I eventually gave it back to the owner. I was so irate when my ride to the concert backed out at the last minute.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Saturday, 17 June 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

I forgot I had a scanner. More to come. http://www.flickr.com/photos/57146665@N00/

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Saturday, 17 June 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

Sara, observe that, in the killer clown photo above, I am wearing the same styling biker gloves that you so adore.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Saturday, 17 June 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, I saw him (but didn't have a chance to say hello even; too many people), but sadly, no feather boa in sight.

I fear FB's scanner. I have a pile of photos but you'll have to see me to see them (sorry, no scanner, no clue how to operate a scanner, no money for scanner...).

Must go to kid's birthday party now... fear what I will see when I get home...

(PS Wow, FB is terrifying on Halloween sometimes!)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 17 June 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

holy shit those first two pictures

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 17 June 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

Death by landlord features 2, count them 2, of my exes. NEITHER OF WHICH ARE FB OR SUBGENIUS SO FUCK OFF.

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Saturday, 17 June 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

FB IS A JUGGALO FURRY 4 LIFE.

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Saturday, 17 June 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, I also no longer have that Bungle shirt. CONSPIRACY?

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Saturday, 17 June 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

OMG John I didn't even notice that because I was laughing at the impending landlord-induced death! (Also I haven't actually seen N4dia in... 10 years maybe???)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Saturday, 17 June 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

I miss that house. sigh.

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Saturday, 17 June 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/30/48657963_119b98c196.jpg?v=0
http://static.flickr.com/31/48657947_655beb8e1c.jpg?v=0

Oh joy!

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Saturday, 17 June 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah that's my dearly-departed Bungle shirt (RIP ;_;)

Hahahaha...GUESS WHO HAS THAT EXACT SAME SHIRT.

We should just remake the movie Twins already.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 17 June 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

I've seen that kitchen photo before, BTW. SOMEWHERE.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 17 June 2006 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

Sara, observe that, in the killer clown photo above, I am wearing the same styling biker gloves that you so adore.

-- Fluffy Bear (el.jeffe.bonanz...), June 17th, 2006.

I see! Love them. But in the killer clown photo, I think it is the hair that makes it.

I must have been really out of it this morning (both before and after my nap) because of course I can see the landlord photo with subgenius in boa (it looks perfect on him!). It looks like FB tried to post it more than once. I'll plead "tired and distracted by trying to organize this weekend"; remember, my in-laws will be here by tomorrow night. And I have to hang with my family tomorrow afternoon. With my kids and my sister's kids. And the new house is even more of an acoustic nightmare than the one on Louis.

I want to know whose cat that is. (LOL!) Also, I recognize N4d1a, but which other one is one of John's exes? (Actually, I'm not sure who the rest of them are anyway, regardless of playing "spot John's ex.") (Oh, that sounds like such a wrong game...)

Finally, Ned and Dan are long lost twins? Well, that would explain so much... like how Ned could have seen the kitchen photo. (Maybe Ned was a spectre and we just didn't notice him at that party? If so, I apologize for our adolescent cluelessness. To get our attention, though, you really would have had to be a vicious poltergeist or worse.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Sunday, 18 June 2006 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

I think the kitchen photo ended up as a Friendster picture at some point. Regardless, I am deeply embarrassed by my hair in it.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Sunday, 18 June 2006 03:22 (nineteen years ago)

You had the Bungle shirt around that time = all is forgiven.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 June 2006 03:23 (nineteen years ago)

Th kitchen picture predates the Bungle shirt by at least two years. Sadly.

(Sara, ever sinve Ned and I met online in 1995-6, there have ben copious jokes that we are the same person, much like there were copious jokes that John and I were the same person except for the whole race and wearing underwear thing.)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Sunday, 18 June 2006 03:28 (nineteen years ago)

I've been accused of being the same person with... let's see, Chr1s McGu1re (my evil twin! Or was I hers? I miss her...) and also with T0dd O. (such a long story there...). But seriously, TMI on the underwear. (Or was that why John was wearing those odd biker shorts under his tux at the 1990 prom? Seriously funny. And M3l's first comment to John about them the next morning. ROFL. It is good to have funny memories of what was generally an ill-considered evening (remember, I went with D34n). Also Dan, do you remember that M3l stole your clothing?

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Sunday, 18 June 2006 03:37 (nineteen years ago)

the whole race and wearing underwear thing

So John wore underwear, I assume.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 June 2006 03:42 (nineteen years ago)

Jesus Dan, MESSIAH O' COMMANDO LOVE

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 June 2006 03:42 (nineteen years ago)

Um, I think it must have been Dan wearing underwear. Reason: I saw him run out to retrieve the clothes M3l had stolen. I was sitting at the top of the stairs, laughing as silently as possible. Of course I'm basing this conjecture just on that one night.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Sunday, 18 June 2006 04:00 (nineteen years ago)

Perhaps some underwear defies its stated purpose and leaves of its own accord.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 June 2006 04:05 (nineteen years ago)

Post drunk, moments ago, FB and me, painfully aware of our predicament:

http://static.flickr.com/47/169412196_e9e3e87710_o.jpg

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Sunday, 18 June 2006 06:14 (nineteen years ago)

WHO IS WEARING UNDERWEAR NOW, BITCH?

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Sunday, 18 June 2006 06:15 (nineteen years ago)

BTW, SRC, the other ex is 4li, the one to the right of FB. She is made of all manner of crazypants.

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Sunday, 18 June 2006 06:19 (nineteen years ago)

Hahaha crazypants

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Sunday, 18 June 2006 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, you kids and your digital cameras... FB looks weirdly worried there, but somehow John appears unconcerned. (Er, thanks for the explanation of who is your other ex, John. Dan and the raver pants: stop now, before my sewing machine magically revives itself...)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Sunday, 18 June 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

John is serene and unruffled. Though beardy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 June 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

Ned refuses to sleep, ever apparently. John is practicing his Don Johnson look. (But where is the white jacket?) FB looks so worried that I almost feel concerned. Almost.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Sunday, 18 June 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

Ned refuses to sleep, ever apparently.

Oh, I sleep. But the World Cup is on.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 June 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

It all begins to make sense...

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Sunday, 18 June 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

And soon YOU TOO will be part of the mania and obsessively follow teams and dress your children in replica shirts and...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 June 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

Well I'll grant you that stranger things have happened, but it does seem unlikely. We only ever watch the Olympics at our house and that is partly due to the opportunity to make random bets on teams. A. loves the marathon stuff, too, and we have a long-standing habit of making fun of the gymnastics commentators.

Do I need another mania? Hmmmmm. (I do note that my cousin, just back from Uganda, is totally into it, though. And if there's one thing I know about B3th - for the past few years at least - it is that she is rarely wrong...)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Sunday, 18 June 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

See, this is familial wisdom at its best.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 June 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

I'll take my familial wisdom where I can get it. Plus I'm just relieved that B3th and her brother are turning out to actually be sane (unlike the vast majority of that side of my family. I love everybody else, of course, but OMG the things they come up with...).

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Sunday, 18 June 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

Actually that expression had less to do with the buckets of beer than it did with the 8 pounds of deep-fried cod JJ's traded me for, like, 50 cents.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 19 June 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

deep....fried...cod....

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 19 June 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

My digestion rebels at the mere suggestion of your crazed diet. (I think it is the notion of 8 pounds that is traumatizing me.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 19 June 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.britishcouncil.org/ukinfocus-330-food-issue-photo-with-logo
http://www.britsuperstore.com/acatalog/sarsons_malt_vinegar.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/73/Fishandchipsguy.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 19 June 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

My FB, how you've changed... in just the space of a week.

Shapeshifting ability shouldn't be broadcast like that, though. Best to keep that sort of thing secret.

The glasses are a nice touch, though.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 19 June 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

That is not a very nice plate of F&C.

This is more along the lines of what's available down the road:

http://www.niagara.co.uk/niagara/niagaraImages/fish-ch.jpg

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 19 June 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, that does look better. Much less like something my mother would produce on a Friday during Lent.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 19 June 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

...FB's one also looked like evil school lunch F&C, with the fillets formed into a postmodern wedge shape. It took me about five years to eat any cooked fish at all after those lunches.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 19 June 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

Terror fish stories!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 19 June 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

I only enjoy fish in sushi/sashimi form anymore. Partly this is due to my mother's Friday fish thing, but also I've not forgotten being served fish for lunch when I was in early labor with Julia. (A. ate it, probably saving himself from being hurled on shortly thereafter.)

My only bad fish experience in Japan was the raw crab I was served at a lunch that M4rn13's friend took us to. I only made it through one bite of that.

If I have more terror fish stories, I'm blocking them out. (and everyone else breathes a sigh of relief...)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 19 June 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

RE: fancy fish. Lipstick on a pig. A delicious, deep-fried fish-pig, with crispy, golden, deep-fried potato-pig, and peas, which are tasty, sweet, high-carb veggie-pig.

The fish looks magnificent, but that parsley isn't fooling me, and if it isn't wrapped in paper or her modern culinary cousin, styrofoam, it isn't proper.

The JJ’s fish was mediocre. The fish was of a decent quality, but somebody decided it would be best to chop it up and stamp it into wedge-shapes (very improper). Their fries are to die for, however.

The quantity was unnecessary. I can only eat that much deep-fried cod a fish-fry, with a table, a pint, and a long lovely evening of gluttony. It's all about the pacing.

Sitting in the alleyway by the Turf Club didn't aid my digestion.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 19 June 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

I fear your fish-eating ability.

But I think I could maybe match you on fries.

Maybe.

(FB, I hope you're recovered from all that. Why were you sitting in an alleyway? And for how long. As you know, I always enjoy the sordid details.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 19 June 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

Hippity hop. AKA the rock and the roll. Also, terrible sound. Why do I keep going to the Turf?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 19 June 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

Turf 'n' Surf. (haha. My little puntastic aha moment.)

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 19 June 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

SRC, also see MINNESOTA FISH PARANOIA eg. 'oh, shit, is that the BULLHEAD dad caught earlier?' followed closely by whatever the words SMELT FRY do to your soul...

Actually I have had to eat bullhead AKA Northern Catfish because my uncle the cop was also prez of the local Izaak Walton chapter and enforced standard conservation rules on that expedition..

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 19 June 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

Walleye, anyone?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 19 June 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

Walleye shmalleye, you don't know true fish fear until your well-meaning mother makes you eat CRAPPIE (aka "the most aptly-named fish in the universe). I am now so revolted that I'm changing the subject:

Q: HOW DO I SHOT AIR CONDITIONER INSTALLATION?

A: Like a champ! PHEAR MY ENVIRONMENT-KILLING FREON DISPERSMENT

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 19 June 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

FB, your Saturdays are clearly fun, despite digestive repercussions.

Suzy... you are striking fear in my heart. Of course, that endears you to me.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 19 June 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, this is not a repair tool:
http://www.promopeddler.com/catalog/images/images_big/3400000/3405282.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 19 June 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, congratulations on a.c., you environmental hazard you.

Crappie. Blech. And here I thought it was just Cheerios that grossed you out.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 19 June 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

AGH CRAPPIE STUFFED WITH CHEERIOS BLEAH BLEACH VOMIT HURL

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 19 June 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

I'ts tough being a land-locked fish lover. Ned, walleye OTM. Also, sun fish. Generally overlooked, but one of the tastiest fresh-water fish around. Too small to fillet, you have to eat it off the bone. Best not to do drunk.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 19 June 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

AGH CRAPPIE STUFFED WITH CHEERIOS BLEAH BLEACH VOMIT HURL
-- Jesus Dan (djperr...), June 19th, 2006 10:05 AM. (Dan Perry) (link)

The Fuck you say?!?!

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 19 June 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

I said "AGH CRAPPIE STUFFED WITH CHEERIOS BLEAH BLEACH VOMIT HURL". Seems pretty straightforward to me.

(Where you there to witness my abortive attempt to fillet a sunfish at Tomahawk? I think I ended up with enough fishmeat to cover a quarter.)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 19 June 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

Thank god that I never had to face a plate full of the dreaded EELPOUT.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Monday, 19 June 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

("BLEACH VOMIT HURL" was the unauthorized sequel to "BEACH BLANKET BINGO")

(xpost Pout Shout! is here at last!M WELL THANK GOD)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 19 June 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

If your sunny is THAT small you really should throw it back. Crappies (pron. 'croppy', actuellement) are gross and every kid catches and eats them ONCE, because it's a fairly catchable, stupid fish.

/izaak walton league

The only fish my mom ever made us eat is those strange ready-prepared Sole Stuffed With Crab and Shrimp things that either Jerry's or Byerly's do (my mum had to indulge a lot of fussy eating from me once upon a time). Minnesota could be a lot worse; we are close enough to Hudson Bay to get decent fish right about now.

Dan, what is it with Cheerios? Is it the way that when you have them for breakfast on a school day, you're belching oaty goodness by 10.30?

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 19 June 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

The sunfish wasn't that small, I was just that pathetic. I am a man of many talents but "master fisherman" isn't one of them.

Suzy, do you REALLY want to hear my Cheerios story? It's somewhat vile.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 19 June 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

It's not that bad, Dan. Well, at least I don't think so. But I don't gross out easily. Suzy seems like she'll be okay.

(Not a master fisherman? I'm shocked. But relieved. Nothing worse than fishing trips in my (limited) experience.)

B(l)EACH BLANKET BINGO... who knew?

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 19 June 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

Re: Tomahawk. At least you caught a fish. Your skills were unparalleled. I think there was more meat on the blade of your knife than in the fillet. Do you remember, who caught the turtle; was it J3r3mi3?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 19 June 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

YES IT WAS (poor turtle). I heard J3r was in jail a while ago. AH, BOY SCOUTS.

The Cheerios story... ick.

Basically, I was eating a bowl of Cheerios on a hot summer day and reading a book, ergo I wasn't really paying attention to what was going on in my bowl until I bit into something that SPURTED in my mouth. Revolted, I spat the food back into my bowl and discovered a chewed fly that must have flown onto the spoon as I was putting it in my mouth. Cue copious amounts of vomit and a severe antipathy for Cheerios from that point forward. I can feel more gorge rising just typing this story out, gah.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 19 June 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

We do get decent fish, but it's not quite the same as what I've had on the coast (see exceptions above). Sara, love sushi, but I felt like such a faker after going out for some with Shin0, who grew up in Hokkaido.

She couldn't fathom just how land-locked we are. Tsunamis were a weather event in her home town.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 19 June 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, I am so happy to have an explaination for the cheerios, because I was imagining your father experimenting in the kitchen. And while he is a good cook, I will forever remember the duck.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 19 June 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

Hahaha wait, so you were thinking my dad stuffed a crappie full of Cheerios and said "HERE IS YOUR HAUTE CUISINE, UNGRATEFUL DEMONSPAWN; HOW YA LIKE ME NOW??????" I kind of wish he had, that would have been awesome!

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 19 June 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

(Personally I will never forget the Christmas he bought a goose from the H4lls and stuffed it with prunes, like we were going to eat that or something. Although in fairness it did SMELL good...)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 19 June 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

I'm assuming you were referring to a recepie on the ellpout page. But, yes, your dad is a wiz in the kitchen, but sometimes I think there is just a little bit o' the mad sceintist hiding behind his serene composure.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 19 June 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

No recipe! I was just taking two gross things (crappies, Cheerios) and imagining how gross it would be if you combined them ("You got your Cheerios in my crappie!" "You got your crappie on my Cheerios!").

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 19 June 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, you wuss, that was the OTHER food group: Protein The Hard Way. You may know or have eaten several things that fall into this food group. My foray was Gnat Up Nose, In Sinus, Out Mouth, On Motorcycle.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 19 June 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

Okay.

1) YOU DID NOT CHEW ON THE GNAT AND THEN USE THE RESULTANT PASTE TO RUIN A BOWL OF CEREAL

2) See 1).

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 19 June 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

Must have been worse than the worms.

10 "Oh my god, I can't believe you ate that worm. I'll bet you a dollar you won't eat another worm."

20 GOTO 10

File under How To Make Money Off Usefull Idiots.

(We're just full of Boy Scout stories today.)

One time, at scout camp...

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 19 June 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't chew the worms!

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 19 June 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

(I think that was the easiest $7 I ever made.)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 19 June 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

ROFL. I've been upstairs with my MIL, trying to make a ball of yarn from a sort of yarn that should be used as a WMD (very pretty, but God I never thought we'd get it done). I am fascinated by worm-eating!!! LOL.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 19 June 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, and FB, I was lucky in learning to love sushi in that my friend M4rn13 learned to love it in Japan. So when we went to Japan together I felt pretty confident about that. (Language was a whole other thing; M4rn taught me the most useless Japanese ever. My first word was "chocho," which means butterfly. That should give you an idea about what I learned before we left.) The raw crab thing was at an all-crab restaurant, which was otherwise great.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 19 June 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

Shin0 always said our local sushi was "very nice", but tourists from Honshu go to Hokkaido in part to sample their famous sushi, so I always called bullshit (and she just smiled and shrugged). I noticed that she didn't go out for sushi more than twice while she lived with us.

Shin0 is an Americaphile with an insatiable appetite for idiom and slang. We abused our position as hosts and taught her such hip phrases as "the cat's meow" and "the bee's knees".

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 19 June 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

Flufft Bear shrimp eating story to thread.

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Monday, 19 June 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.dumbphotos.com/images/Animals/scaredkitty.jpg

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 19 June 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

Flufft Bear shrimp eating story to thread

Help. Bad oysters. Improperly prepared shrimp. WAHT

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 19 June 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

Shin0 is an Americaphile with an insatiable appetite for idiom and slang. We abused our position as hosts and taught her such hip phrases as "the cat's meow" and "the bee's knees".

My God, if I introduced her to M4rn13 they'd probably cancel out each other's very existences.

Bad oysters, improperly prepared shrimp... I can imagine where this is going...

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 19 June 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

Am I the only person who remembers the video of Dan as a young boy doing a cooking show in his home? The cutest thing ever! ("...not that my floor isn't clean...")

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 19 June 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

GUESS WHO'S CRINGING HARDCORE OVER HERE

Sara, EVERYONE remembers that videotape. People who haven't SEEN it remember it. It's transcended time and space and become LEGENDARY. I'm kind of shocked there's no YTMND site dedicated to it.

NOTE TO ANYONE WHO MIGHT BE POSTING UNDER THE NAMES FLUFFY BEAR OR JOHN JUSTEN: IF YOU STEAL THAT TAPE FROM MY PARENT'S HOUSE AND PUT IT ON THE INTERNET I WILL KILL YOU AND SPREAD YOUR ENTRAILS ALL OVER YOUR LOVED ONES, NO LIE.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 19 June 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

Feh. I don't even HAVE any loved ones.

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Monday, 19 June 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

John is so hard to threaten. You have to be more direct in his case, Dan.

(Sara thinking: Now that suspicion is cast upon the others, I shall proceed to Dan's home apace and pilfer the tape... I'm sure if his mother catches me I can come up with a convincing excuse for breaking and entering...)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 19 June 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not even sure I have entrails. Never taken the time to look.

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Monday, 19 June 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

Ouch. Yep. There seems to be something down there.

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Monday, 19 June 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, for John substitue "bass guitar and iPod" for "loved ones" and "Daniel Powter" for "entrails".

Sara, I will let my mother's icy librarian-fu handle you.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 19 June 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not sure I like the connotation that Daniel Powter resides in my lower intestine.

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Monday, 19 June 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, I do not fear your mother (remember, I went to library school for a while, too. Plus, I can hypnotize her if I must).

I will refrain from commenting on John's entrails, but really John... while you're online? TMI.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 19 June 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

This, however, is more plausible.

http://bojack.org/images/powter.jpg

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Monday, 19 June 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.swr3.de/specials/newpop2005/donnerstag/daniel_powter/pix/lounge_unplugged1.jpg

John after a burrito binge.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 19 June 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

Truly he is having a "Bad Day".

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 19 June 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

FYI: I have replaced my entrails with a ninja-proof vault. Plus I have shields powered by all the suns in all possible universes plus my shields are anti-matter proof (plus infinity).

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 19 June 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

Should we go perform a hostile takeover on the Wisconsin thread?

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Monday, 19 June 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

Send FB in first since he's made himself invulnerable to any but the most personal of attacks.

I'd better go knit with MIL... who is, btw, from the dark land of Wisconsin.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 19 June 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

i think you could get 40-50 ilxors chipping in $10 each for a YouTube of that video.

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Monday, 19 June 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

I will have to stop the bidding. Dan is my comrade, my brother in arms. I have fired the first salvo over the Wisconsin thread. We must stand united (plus infinity).

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 19 June 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

DEAR WISCO THREAD,

FB SETS THEM UP, I KNOCK THEM DOWN.

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Monday, 19 June 2006 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

Raise the bridge! Barricade the gates! Man the battlements! Draw my bath! The scented oils man, not the bubbles. This is war!

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 19 June 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

GBX IS ALSO DOING HIS PART, PEOPLE.

Where does YOUR true loyalty lie?

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Monday, 19 June 2006 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

Let's see, I had to work all afternoon and I see this thread passed in a blur of vomit, air conditioning and video blackmail. This surely is an accurate representation of Hastings.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 19 June 2006 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

OPO who gets it thread to thread. I get Ned's jokes. And I like them.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 19 June 2006 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

Wisconsin - undone, and crying to mommy.

NEXT?

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 02:08 (nineteen years ago)

On Wisconsin. Which sounds like a bad porn.

My world view of Wisconsin consists solely of the people shown in MST3K's Giant Spider Invasion. This would imply that Wisconsin residents are covered in greasy hair and bad beards and will attack huge spiders with guns at any provocation, when not otherwise wearing polyester shirts. I gather Minnesotans see the film as a documentary.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 02:27 (nineteen years ago)

For Hastings Thread eyes only (super secret):

Exhibit A

Exhibit B

Exhibit C

― Instigator Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 03:25 (nineteen years ago)

Back to discussion of my favorite MST3K ever. ("Away out here we got a name for stinky hairy white guys..." Also: "Got MILK?!" And the point that the giant spider is less a spider than "a Volkswagon covered in chenille..." I'd better stop before I get into serious laughing mode.)

this thread passed in a blur of vomit, air conditioning and video blackmail. This surely is an accurate representation of Hastings.

-- Ned Raggett

Ned is eerie in his perceptiveness.

I'd better get the in-laws to bed, but couldn't resist checking back with you nuts one last time. Good night, Irene.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 03:27 (nineteen years ago)

Wisconsin Thread says you guys don’t know how to make pizza.
-- D.C. Thread (bullshi...), June 19th, 2006.

FB wins internet.

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 04:54 (nineteen years ago)

THERE SHALL BE ONLY ONE.

they bark and root and bark and bark and root: mongrels and sheepfuxors go bush

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 04:56 (nineteen years ago)

Ned. 1982. 11 years old. TV. Captain Kangaroo.

Also, in a different way, Ned wins internet. You'll have to excuse me...I'm all misty with pride.

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 05:03 (nineteen years ago)

Amazing!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 05:04 (nineteen years ago)

HOOFUCKINGRAH!

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 05:06 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously. That's the greatest thing EVER.

How we wish you were actually from Hastings....our shining star. Also, we need submarines, IML. BRING US YOUR SUBMARINES, NED OF THE KANGAROO CAPTAIN.

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 05:11 (nineteen years ago)

NOW. The Canadians threaten our northern lake-like sea. With their dry comedic wit, and their GODFORSAKEN BACKBACON dreams of prosperity.

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 05:13 (nineteen years ago)

As long as I'm talking to myself, I might as well open up the nomination of events for the WHEELAHFREEFORALLFOURTHOFJULYFERONIASEXTRAVAGANZAWHOOPWHOOP.

Here's the plan so far, as determined by a bunch of drunks on my front porch this evening:

1. Waterballoon dodgeball.
2. Tour de Feronia (20 laps, each of which requires either a shot of questionable liquor or a white castle slider) Note - laps are short. day is long.
3. Waterballoon slingshot/capture the flag
4. HANDS FREE WATERMELON EATING CONTEST.
5. Wet T-shirt contest. Points awarded for hairiness, thus most likely leading to all-male revue.

I will be providing stupid DJ frenzy, and inappropriate screaming of obscenities. For the kids!

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 05:24 (nineteen years ago)

looking forward to WHEELAHFREEFORALLFOURTHOFJULYFERONIASEXTRAVAGANZAWHOOPWHOOP.

Alpha Tau Feronia!

Also, dudes, you've got to do this early enough in the day so that I can make it to lawyerman's multi-thousand dollar fireworks extravaganza.

Dig?

ATF is dead! Long live ATF!

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)


I have sent everyone - including my in-laws' dog - to Cannon Fall's most important (okay only) cultural attraction, the bakery.

July 4 - um, so you guys won't be babysitting for me this year, I guess...

Ned, that Capt. Kangaroo clip is just brilliant; it made my morning! As soon as I can figure out how to alter space and time, I'll be moving your younger self to Hastings. Not to worry about your father's job; geography will be undergoing some changes as well. I'm sure this won't affect anything else.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, my dad was stationed at a Navy base in upstate New York about 150 miles from the ocean for three years once. ANYTHING is possible.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

I hereby nominate everybody on this thread to be an honorary member of Alpha Tau Feronia, where Hastings brood soar and Navy brats rule.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Well, Hastings is on the Mississippi...

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

Hey sub boy, meet the USS Burden R. Hastings DE 19. What class was that? Destroyer?

http://www.desausa.org/images/USS%20Burden%20R%20Hasting%20USN.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

Ah yes, the surface fleet. AKA, target practice.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

First he's sweet, then he threatens... wait, I've seen this show before.

Watch out, Ned, there may be sharpshooters in Hastings. (Regardless of what happened at Boy Scout camp...).

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

John used to be a competitive shooter! NED LOOK OUT IT'S A TRAP

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

*fires up the Polaris missile aimed at Hastings* I'm sorry, say again?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

HE'S NOT IN HASTINGS!!!!!!!!!!!! o.O

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

Too bad you weren't running silent. Once your pathetic missile bounces off my shields (powered by all the suns in all possible universes plus my shields are anti-matter proof (plus infinity)) the super-x-ray-gamma-ultra-plasma depth charges will make quick work of your modern-age submersible.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

That's right, the USS Burden R. Hastings has been refitted with a little something I like to call SPACE TECHNOLOGY!!!

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.collectaire.com/advisor/books/Space%20Technology.jpg

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

HE'S NOT IN HASTINGS!!!!!!!!!!!! o.O

He can yet be moved there. His flaming red hair will give him away.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

This is, of course, assuming that John has flaming red hair. Which he does not, unless some bizarro "Face/Off" action has been going on behind my back.

(FB, HE'S GUNNING FOR YOU! WITH GUNS!)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

(I love confusing a conversation.)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, we can conflate Fluffy and John as needed. Fflohn.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

LOOK OUT IT'S JUFFY BUSTEN

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.tropicalgrillcatering.com/Images/Food/flan.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

Everyone looks the same with a plate of flan in front of them?

(Or is that creme caramel? Either way, yum.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

Fflohn.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 03:26 (nineteen years ago)

Gesundheit.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 03:29 (nineteen years ago)

Fflohn.

May I quietly suggest that there's a reason that particular dessert has never gained popularity?

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

But it's so tasty.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

(omg) (omg) (omg)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

Hehehe

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

Listen, all I'm saying is that John and I am a delicious dish, and John would make a fabulous desert. Am I being clear? I do not mince words.

Waht?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

Sara, rebuttal?

(I am totally getting smacked.)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

Sara has never tasted me.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

You just haven't been basted properly.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

Ned, back to business. I would like to note that if it hadn't been for my SPACE TECHNOLOGY, you would have killed all of our parents, and left us alive to avenge their deaths. I have an acetylene torch, John is a sharpshooter, Sara is a wiz with textiles and disguises, and Dan is a computer genius. It would have been like the A-team meets Hackers was on your ass (imagine Dan flying through cyberspace in 3D).

Since tragedy was averted, let me propose a truce. I still have the map. League of extraordinary gentlemen meets Treasure Island (imagine Dan getting cheeky with the ladies as the invisible man). Brilliant!

(I call I get to be Murdock/Hyde/Ben Gunn)

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

I TASTE WONDERFUL.

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

Bump, set, spike!

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

Hey John, remember when we all went to that "rave" in the Cities one summer and I shared a tent with you and your date (Rebecc4?) and you thought I was asleep?

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

That's why Dan wasn't in my tent. Sneaky little voyeur.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

Ahem.

I'm not sure. Remember that time I went to your house in Hastings and started my home movie distribution service?

OH WAIT I HAVEN'T QUITE GOTTEN AROUND TO THAT YET.

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

Touché.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

(Douché.)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

That's why I taste wonderful!

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't think it was possible for the phrase "toss your salad" to get any more sinister.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

I really am/was a sharpshooter, BTW. So proceed with caution, Raggett.

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

Have you considered re-enrolling in the NRA? I bet you'd get awesome brochures from them.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.puppetbuilder.com/pics/ChefSalad.jpeg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't think it was possible for the phrase "toss your salad" to get any more sinister.
-- Jesus Dan (djperr...), June 21st, 2006.

However, you never let the dream die, and now you have been rewarded for your dogged determination and grit.

xpost: I think I might be a lifetime member, courtesy of dear old dad.

― John Justen, UMSOGTH PERMAPRESS CTHULU. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

AWESOME

WAIT WHERE ARE THE FREE GUNZ?????????? RIPOFF

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

That's why I taste wonderful!

You and your tofulike self.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.kokopelli-designs.com/qays/images/tofu_map.jpg

― John Justen, great tasting marksman. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

OMG, I should never have left for the park this morning.

Dan, return to Twin Cities area immediately because you are in so much trouble...

Actually, scratch that, it occurs to me that my children who are often a hindrance to whatever plan I have cooked up, would TOTALLY distract your mother. No need to hypnotize or disguise... Just remember, I have a car, two children who know how to act adorable when the need arises, and I know where your parent's house is. Finding the video wouldn't be that hard. Do I make myself clear?

Ironically, the sharp shooter I had in mind was not John (apparently John has talents he was able to hide from my all-seeing eyes), but in fact my friend MJ who is female, 6 feet tall, and is indeed in Hastings. (But she does appreciate backup).

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

HI SARA NOTHING BUT LOVE SO NO NEED TO GO BOTHER MY FOLKS FOR ANY SO-CALLED "VIDEOTAPE"

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/62/172020667_1fa6ac62b5.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

HI SARA NOTHING BUT LOVE SO NO NEED TO GO BOTHER MY FOLKS FOR ANY SO-CALLED "VIDEOTAPE"

Please ignore this request, Sara.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

The bidding stands at:

I'll send you three key lime pies. also: two escorts to your doorstep
-- gear (speed.to.roa...), June 19th, 2006 4:36 PM. (gear) (link)

OR

45.00
-- GILLY'S BAGG'EAR VANCE OF COUPARI (ca...), June 19th, 2006 4:18 PM. (Ex Leon) (link)

Depending on how you value gear's pie.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

Um.

― John Justen, great tasting marksman. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

Give into your shameless lust.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

OMG have you guys seen the thread about Gear's roommate?

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

what to do when your roommate doesn't realize you're home and thusly is having loud sex in the living room

INSTANT CLASSIC

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

xpost:"into" vs. "in to"?

NO. WHY? WHERE?

― John Justen, great tasting marksman. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

ALERT: FB. GEAR WISHES TO GIVE YOU HIS "PIE". THREE TIMES. HE WILL ESCORT YOU TO YOUR DOOR ONLY TWICE.

― John Justen, great tasting marksman. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

Dan is correct about that thread, which justifies ILX's existence.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

(Seriously, if this video ever makes it online so many of you are going to be disappointed by how boring it is.)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

sure, dan. sure.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

Imagine Dan, clad in an apron, looking as though he just sucked on a lemon, blinking, holdiong his hand out, so as to present his parents kitchen to the camera. He has just made a joke about cleanliness.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

Imagine a neverending series of SLOOOOOOOOOOW zoom in/zoom out shots as my mother attempts to work out how to use the library's new videocamera.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

Confess Dan: you were cute. Plus the cleanliness comment. Priceless.

You are still on my good side (what is left it). Barely.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

OMG that gear roommate thread.

― John Justen, great tasting marksman. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

solid gold

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

The best part about that cleanliness comment never made it onto film! My mom stopped recording and yelled at me because I was cracking her up so hardcore that she was on the verge of dropping the camera.

(xpost: JOHN I KNOW)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

Hehehe

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

Hastings thread reknown well represented here:

PO9: ILX HOLLYWOOD SQUARES!!!

Fluffy Bear, you have arrived. Fame awaits you.

― John Justen, great tasting marksman. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

Stop posting other hilarious threads, please. Too much laughing... starting to cause pain. J. is the only other person here and she doesn't know how to dial 911.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

Perhaps you should have figured that eventuality into your PARENTING CHOICES.

― John Justen, great tasting marksman. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

"Friends don't let friends read overly funny shit on the Internet"

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

Perhaps you should have figured that eventuality into your PARENTING CHOICES.

Do not start with me or I will tell stories on you, John. (I could start with C3l3n4 and work backwards!)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, I'm just thinking of your safety. If I had a kid, I would train it to dial 911 and open beer bottles.

― John Justen, great tasting marksman. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

I really do not want to visualize this possibility.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

Besides, no-one really wants this to degenerate into POX:John's bizarre and off-kilter hookup history...

― John Justen, great tasting marksman. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

Not to mention embarrassing in some instances I could name.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

Embarassing for me, or for them?

Besides, if we start down this path, FB is next.

Then I will make up some things about Ned, just so he doesn't feel left out.

― John Justen, great tasting marksman. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

QUIET TOFUBOY.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

Embarrassing for both, no doubt.

But yes, whatever. (I'm so biting my tongue here.)

(BTW, do you remember that C3l3n4 couldn't stand to listen to us talk to each other because she said we talked like soap characters? Because we always used each others' names, apparently. For some reason that stands out in my mind.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

Sara, now that you mention it...yes.

I think you should just ascribe all of my various misdeeds to Ned, and then I wouldn't have to make a bunch of stuff up.

My threats would be far better if I had some dirt on you. MUST RESEARCH FRIENDS TO CREATE ENEMIES.

― John Justen, great tasting marksman. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

Reason #1 why it was a good thing you never got closer to the L00n1es than St4cy's birthday party.

(BTW, I saw St4cy and C4rr13 last night and they fondly remember you and P3rry. Apparently that house still has a mark for P3rry's height and another for P3rry's hair's height on their door! I never did find out exactly what went on with you guys when I was out of the room but I feel sure I could ask someone.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, the only thing I can think of you using is B3l1nd4.

So, now I'm safe. She was dumb.

Anybody mentions that girl who used to yell "SPAAAARRKKYYYYY!" through the doors of classes I was in will earn CERTAIN SWIFT RETRIBUTION.

xpost: I honestly have ZERO recollection of who st4cy and C4rr13 were. Where was this? Was I chemically altered? WTF?

― John Justen, great tasting marksman. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

Well, okay, B311nd4 was probably the most hilarious example. (It was awfully fun to call your house collect after that, though, pretending to be her).

St4cy's house on P1ne Street. Her 21st birthday. I was leaving for college in a week or two. I have no clue how much you drank or what went on when I wasn't in the room. T0dd was also there and I crazily lent him my lipstick (I must have been in a good mood; I buy expensive lipstick). I had forgotten that P3rry was there entirely, actually, until C4rr1e told me about the wall. Anyway, they remember you with fondness and amusement. (I promise to show you the photo of you I have from this party, it is really funny... to me anyway.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, I'm just thinking of your safety. If I had a kid, I would train it to dial 911 and open beer bottles.

And ashtray hats! Also, they must be able to mix coctails. Can't you just see their little hands sticking up above the bar as they shake a Chelsie Sidecar above their downy little ashtray-bedecked heads?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

Woah, baby Archel on the way! (Do not read if you hate me (or Matt) (or um, babies)).

It takes all of my willpower not to post on this thread, just because I think it would be fun to go on a BABY-HATIN' RAMPAGE.

Unfortunately, I have some decency.

― John Justen, great tasting marksman. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, I'm just thinking of your safety. If I had a kid, I would train it to dial 911 and open beer bottles.

And ashtray hats! Also, they must be able to mix coctails. Can't you just see their little hands sticking up above the bar as they shake a Chelsie Sidecar above their downy little ashtray-bedecked heads?

-- Fluffy Bear (el.jeffe.bonanz...), June 21st, 2006.

Exhibit 1 why I can't have parties at my house.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

According to his birthday thread, Tu0m4s is 27 years old.

This startles me.

Return to previously scheduled broadcasting...

― John Justen, great tasting marksman. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

dear fluffah barr,

please to make more comics, they bring joy to hearts

xoxo
elmo

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

HASTINGS BLASPHEMY FROM MNSPEAK.


"I live in Minneapolis and would never live anyplace else in Minnesnowta, but it seems like you would be happier with an older inner-ring suburb. Maybe Edina or St. Louis Park or Golden Valley. I have a friend who just moved out to a v. cool, v. non-cookie-cutter house in GV, and he has a much better commute to DT Mpls than I do. (Well, that and the fact I take the 14 back and forth....)

As for Lance ("This whole thread it totally gay"), one thing you have to realize about this state is the farther you move from the center cities, the more likely you are to run into redneck hicks. I grew up in Hastings, and continue to be astounded and dismayed by the horrible effects inbreeding can have among rural (now exurban, I suppose) populations. (Just today, I went back to visit the fam and noticed that the monster-truck-driving mouth breathers renting a house up the street had a big ol' confederate flag hanging in their garage -- where's General Sherman when we need him?) Given a choice between a bullet to the head and a free house in some 'burb like H-Town or Lakeville or Mound or Elk River, I'd probably take the bullet -- as long as I could count on being buried in the 612. But that's just my humble opinion.

»» Submitted by mike s at 4:43 PM on March 19"

MIKE S WE WILL HUNT AND KILL YOU WITH SUBMARINES.

― John Justen, great tasting marksman. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

Quite. LAND submarines.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

But John, that's totally true.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

People who exclusively like the MPLS are the SUCK.

― John Justen, great tasting marksman. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

WRONG SIDE OF THE RIVER.

― John Justen, great tasting marksman. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

But! People who would rather take a bullet than living in Hastings = ALWAYS RIGHT. HOW TO RESOLVE????

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

I have a friend who just moved out to a v. cool, v. non-cookie-cutter house in GV, and he has a much better commute to DT Mpls than I do.

Wait a second, didn't M give this friend the nickname, "White Flight"?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

xpost:

TS: Taking a bullet to not live in Hastings vs. getting accidentally shot due to the fact that you live in Hastings.

It's a tough call. Also, this is a thread about Hastings LUV, you malcontent. In the face of all adversity.

― John Justen, great tasting marksman. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

Dan is correct. Plus, St. Paul is in my heart, but, well, home is where the heart is I guess. You go to Minneapolis to do stuff, like live there if yer smart.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

OH HOLY SHIT I NEVER NOTICED MADE THE NAME CONNECTION UNTIL NOW.

Wow. That's funny. I'm dumb. I actually found that through Googlesearching "Hastings monster truck".

Sorry bro.

xpost: FB, you are completely insane. BOOOOOOOOOOO!

― John Justen, great tasting marksman. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I thought that's why you posted that! Wow, when our best and brightest can't even give their friends shit correctly, what does Hastings really have left to offer? (A: Monster trucks.)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

TEH INTERNET IS HARD.

― John Justen, great tasting marksman. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

AND SO AM I ARE U

shit

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

BTW, the first Hastings thread is #2 on google for "Hastings monster truck"

― John Justen, great tasting marksman. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

I just noticed that.

I need to go home now. WORLD OF WARCRAFT AWAITS.

Oh, and my wife.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

Also, this thread is about Hastings survival. DOES ANYBODY ON THIS THREAD LIVE IN HASTINGS?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

It's a tough call. Also, this is a thread about Hastings LUV, you malcontent. In the face of all adversity.

There's the paradox. I loved my parents' old house and was seriously pissed when they sold it, but even if A. and I could have afforded it... Hastings versus Northfield? Obvious choice. (Other than Northfield, of course Twin Cities in MN, but Northfield probably a better choice for kids.)

The Confederate flag nonsense freaks me out. I met a woman who moved here from Florida and she seemed almost normal until we started talking politics. First I discovered that she was a Bushie/Republican nutcase and then later she complained that she couldn't wait to get into a house rather than an apartment so that she and her husband could display their Confederate flags. (When I gently pried into this without saying outright, "um, are you a racist moron or what?" - she claimed that the Confederate flag is "all about family." Whatever. I don't need friends that badly. Plus, in Northfield, that could about start a bizarre guilty white liberal riot.)

St. Paul vs. Mpls: is there a reason to choose? (Okay, I will drive in St. Paul with less nervousness...)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

Also, this thread is about Hastings survival. DOES ANYBODY ON THIS THREAD LIVE IN HASTINGS?

No, but I have friends who do. Friends I love. Friends that I must protect.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR OWNING A CONFEDERATE FLAG IN 2006 UNLESS YOU ARE A CASTMEMBER OF "THE DUKES OF HAZZARD" AND EVEN THEN YOU MIGHT GET PUT AGAINST THE WALL FOR BEING JESSICA SIMPSON OR JOHNNY KNOXVILLE

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

I need to go home now. WORLD OF WARCRAFT AWAITS.

Oh, and my wife.

-- Jesus Dan (djperr...), June 21st, 2006 4:36 PM. (Dan Perry) (link)

Not for long. WOW and Mairrage go together like a horse and carriage sans connecting bolt.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

First, the funny link:

http://www.hastingschoirs.org/UnderConstruction.asp

COULDN'T HAVE SAID IT BETTER MYSELF.

― John Justen, great tasting marksman. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.hastingschoirs.org/

What animal designs these things?

― John Justen, great tasting marksman. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR OWNING A CONFEDERATE FLAG IN 2006 UNLESS YOU ARE A CASTMEMBER OF "THE DUKES OF HAZZARD" AND EVEN THEN YOU MIGHT GET PUT AGAINST THE WALL FOR BEING JESSICA SIMPSON OR JOHNNY KNOXVILLE

Honey, you know I'm with you on that one but I am trained to be polite ( I only let the inner vigilante out in very extreme circumstances). I was kind of fascinated by this woman's idiocy for a while but eventually I decided either she was crazy or stupid or both. I see her once in a while around town but am glad our kids go to different schools now.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.hastingschoirs.org/Graphics/HeadPoundUC.gif

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

I still don't understand why the show choir has 700 people in it now. (Is the stage that much bigger in the new high school or what?)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

I will be using that gif for EVERYTHING from here on out.

― John Justen, great tasting marksman. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

Honey

Start talking about the Confereracy and Sara goes all antebellum.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

At least you're warning us now. (Imagine the Christmas card possibilities!)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

xpost: Yes, I've got my hoop skirts around here somewhere, darling... along with my vials of poison and my old-fashioned pistol. I'll always prefer the more direct approach of a unitard and a knife to the throat, though. Call me a modern girl, I guess.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.hastingschoirs.org/Graphics/flmarky_e0.gif

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

xpost: Yes, I've got my hoop skirts around here somewhere, darling... along with my vials of poison and my old-fashioned pistol. I'll always prefer the more direct approach of a unitard and a knife to the throat, though. Call me a modern girl, I guess.

-- Sara R-C (sr...), June 21st, 2006 4:53 PM. (Sara R-C) (link)

Sara,if I proposed to you in a platonic, non-legally binding way, would you un-marry me? (see un-birthday for suggestions for usage)

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

I truly hope that is not supposed to be me in a unitard.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

So sorry to hear of your terrible loss...
http://www.hastingschoirs.org/Graphics/HeadPoundUC.gif
Our hearts go out to you in this, your time of need.

― John Justen, great tasting marksman. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)


Sara,if I proposed to you in a platonic, non-legally binding way, would you un-marry me? (see un-birthday for suggestions for usage)

-- Fluffy Bear (el.jeffe.bonanz...), June 21st, 2006.

Um, I'll have to check on that, but thanks for the enquiry.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

xpost: the Alice in Wonderland references on the un-birthday thread freak me out a bit. But I really can't post why on thread.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

To the email-mogile!

I truly hope that is not supposed to be me in a unitard.

No, I'm just fascinated with the idea of linking to all gifs Hastings.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

It's like a vehicle, but argile.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, well then, I'll take the un-proposal more seriously.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

We regret to inform...
http://www.hastingschoirs.org/Graphics/flmarky_e0.gif http://www.hastingschoirs.org/Graphics/flmarky_e0.gif http://www.hastingschoirs.org/Graphics/flmarky_e0.gif http://www.hastingschoirs.org/Graphics/flmarky_e0.gif

― John Justen, great tasting marksman. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

Okay so it's wife-swapping now. Yes, this thread IS Hastings. It's like The Ice Storm without Christina Ricci in a Nixon mask. (Instead it is Fluffy Bear in a Newt Gingrich mask going "You can FUCK me when you love me" a la Elizabeth Berkley in Showgirls.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

(Meantime John is holding Fluffy's manboobs a la that one Janet Jackson cover.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh, Newt Gingrich. Is there a less sexy man on the planet? (His trophy wife seems to disagree with me.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

In-laws have been sent home. Knitting not completely screwed up (yet). Inappropriate jokes made on Internet. Children asleep in bed. I think that officially closes down my Wednesday.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 22 June 2006 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

What part of un-proposal do you people not understand? The moral is that you propose to one whom you seem to be friendly with but with whom you secretly have a desire to remain friendly with in a manner consistent with your attempts to appear to mean exactly what you intended.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 22 June 2006 03:26 (nineteen years ago)

FB... I will confess that I missed you. HAPPY NOW?

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 22 June 2006 03:35 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, sentimentality creeping up on me. Definitely time to sleep.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 22 June 2006 03:52 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, you wuss. Oh wait.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 22 June 2006 04:03 (nineteen years ago)

Know what I hate? Nightmares! Freaking sleep problems, grumble grumble grrrrrrr.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 22 June 2006 09:54 (nineteen years ago)

http://users.ca.astound.net/~sourduck/sourduck/2006/01/carnival/goya-large.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 22 June 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

http://pfboost.com/african/images/can_012.jpg

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 22 June 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

If you're playing "guess Sara's nightmare," FB, you are closer. (If not, do I want to know what those images are about? Probably not, but I'll ask anyway and live to regret it later. The story of my life.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 22 June 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

The sleep of beans begets nightmares.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 22 June 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

Undeniably.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 22 June 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder if there has ever been an ILX thread devoted to revolting and unnecessary food products. I just ran across a coupon for steak in a foil packet. Yuck.

xpost: Ever since the Confederacy talk yesterday, I was remembering other things my crazy acquaintance said to me. Possibly the moment when our potential friendship ended was when she told me that she'd taught her daughter that the South won the "War of Northern Aggression." I kind of want to be a fly on the wall of that girl's classroom when the Civil War is taught.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 22 June 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder if there has ever been an ILX thread devoted to revolting and unnecessary food products.

There is this:

dr. strongo's neuvo cuisine

Another true classic of this place, trust me.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 22 June 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

Thx Ned - I will check it out ASAP (i.e. whenever I can get J. settled down to doing something that doesn't involve tripping me or hanging on me. 3 year olds!).

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 22 June 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

Hastings thread, this is your life...

http://static.flickr.com/60/172766018_d7016b0181_o.jpg
http://static.flickr.com/69/172766020_110f54c448_o.jpg
http://static.flickr.com/68/172766021_f83e6f548c_o.jpg
http://static.flickr.com/76/172766017_76de5ddec2_o.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 22 June 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

Sara, where did you go to grade school? gbx?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 22 June 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

These photos are the mosquito's eye view, I assume.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 22 June 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

I can't place the top pic at all.

The third pic give me a ginormous nostalgia rush, tho.

(Sara went to Pinecrest, right? gbx I'm guessing either Kennedy or MacAuliffe...)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 22 June 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

I can't place the top pic at all.

Sad to say, that is the Middle School. If this photo were up-to-date, it would be condos and a Green Mill.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 22 June 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

Yikes, those images make me dizzy.

My grade school: Pinecrest. Good memories of said school? None. It's a sad statement when junior high is an improvement on anything in one's life. (Also sad that I preferred Hastings High School to evil experiences at St. Mary's; Hastings should never be considered a highlight. Actually I remember my mother saying that to me when I was about 18: "...but these are the best years of your life!")

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 22 June 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

If this photo were up-to-date, it would be condos and a Green Mill.

And a Grande Olde Creamery. Jesus, don't forget the important stuff.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 22 June 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

AAAAAAAH okay! I was oriented the wrong way.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 22 June 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

No comment.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 22 June 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/75/172774138_342007b6db_o.jpg

Sorry, Sara.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 22 June 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

(I'm still sitting over here shaking my fist at Sara and growling "YOU STINKER!!!!!" btw)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 22 June 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, I owed you for yesterday. However, I don't think I've ever heard you say words identical to those uttered by my mother. (If you start saying, "you've bitten off more than you can chew!" "I hope someday you have a daughter just like you!, "If your mother doesn't tell you, who will?" or "No man would marry a girl who acts like you," we'll know you're going through a transformation I would never have guessed at...)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 22 June 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Dan, what's your favorite geo-position. (ouch)

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 22 June 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

Extemporaneous Dan memory that popped into my head because of the phobia thread (does that count as double xpost?) - am I remembering right that the tv version of 'Salem's Lot freaked you out when you saw it as a child? I taped it years ago off the Sci Fi network but have never watched it on the theory that if it scared even Dan Perry....

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 22 June 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

Can I guess?

Upside down.

(more ouch)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 22 June 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

Right behind Pinecrest...the magnificent track. I ran in Chucks. I wish I could find a copy of that video tape where they critiqued our running styles. I ran with my head way back and my feet out in front of me, like a cartoon character.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 22 June 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

Evil, evil track. The phrase "field day" still strikes fear in my heart.

Who the hell videotaped you, FB? ("Chucks?") That is bizarre (and yet I want to see the video now, too!) I'm sure that would have further traumatized me. I already walk strangely due to early ballet training. (Of course now most people notice the limp when it appears instead. Or possibly I have stopped walking like a duck at long last.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 22 June 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

i went to Christa McAuliffe. I think I was in the first class to go through???

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 22 June 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

HE SHOOTS HE SCORES!!! KNOW AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL REGIONAL BREAKDOWN!

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 22 June 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

I remember when they built McAuliffe, back in the dark ages. There was pretty much nothing in the area and one night I went up with some friends and looked around (in the windows, etc.) - pretty much just walked around. As we were driving away from the scene of our investigation, we noticed the police driving up to the school. We chuckled and went to Perkins. (Of course, this has nothing on the cloudbusting story from the first Hastings thread.)

(gbx... um... what year would it have been that you started there? I want to see if it makes sense with what I'm remembering here).

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 22 June 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

We chuckled and went to Perkins.

The great equalizer.

I started in fourth grade, so... 1990?

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 22 June 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmmm. This must have been spring of 1989-ish (they were just building the school). That makes sense since one of the people with me was D34n and I don't remember fighting on this particular night.

If the walls of Perkins could talk...

(...it would be a confusing, jumbled mess.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 22 June 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

Who the hell videotaped you, FB? ("Chucks?")

I was in track. Allstars. John and I took shortcuts to avoid running the entire 3 mile loop around Hastings.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 22 June 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

My God. The things I never knew about you people.

(Also, no wonder John had the panicked look in his eye at the Red Dragon when A. suggested, "you can run marathons!" I'm pretty sure I had an identical expression on my face.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 22 June 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

FB, when was this anyway? (Surely not in high school...?)

Also, did they suggest ways to correct your running style or just pretty much insist that you were doing it strangely and then offer no help?

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 22 June 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/58/172806589_c1ca459dc4_o.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 22 June 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

Freshman year, and part of Softmore year, I ran. I was lousy.

Oh, yes, we received instruction. That was the purpose of the video.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 22 June 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

MacAullife was built in 1988 according to the website and my awesome memory.

Remember Cooper??????

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 22 June 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

gbx, you don't want to know what went on on Christa McAuliffe property.

(orange orange thread to thread)

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 22 June 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

Crazy Cooper, or the School?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 22 June 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, I had no idea. (Now struggling with desire to dig out yearbooks and look at evidence versus fear of centipedes - and I know there are some around where evidence is stored. Hmmmmm.)

I won't ask you what possessed you to run since I've never gotten an adequate answer from anyone who did. (Except maybe A's answer "because I like to eat a lot.")

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 22 June 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

gbx, you don't want to know what went on on Christa McAuliffe property.

I fondly remember the day when you guys were more innocent than I was. Sigh. How times changed.

(Now I want to know if this is something other than the cloudbusting story, though.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 22 June 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

Which, for no good reason, reminds me of my favorite answer to the question:

"Why are you a vegeterian?"

"Because I hate vegetables."

Thank you, subgenius.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 22 June 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost)

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 22 June 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

There was a woman at Olaf who was not only a vegetarian, but she also felt guilty about eating anything at all. I really wanted to like her, but between that and some other stuff it was not easy.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 22 June 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

Now I want to know if this is something other than the cloudbusting story, though.

No you don't.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 22 June 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

Let's just say that, while channeling some wierd Finnish dude, I was suddenly struck by the idea of a Google Maps satalite image thread of places people have had sex.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 22 June 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

xpost 1988 makes even more sense, thanks Dan.

Stop taunting with your awesome memory, we already know you remember Everything.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 22 June 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

Let's just say that, while channeling some wierd Finnish dude, I was suddenly struck by the idea of a Google Maps satalite image thread of places people have had sex.

Suddenly I feel soooooo boring.

(or don't I?)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 22 June 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

Dan wins.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 22 June 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

Satellite.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 22 June 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

Yikes, the principal is still L1s4's Dad!

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 22 June 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

Crazy Cooper, or the School?

I was thinking the school but we can talk about Crazy Cooper if you want to!

The only reason I ran was because my father and brothers did.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 22 June 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

The only reason I ran was because my father and brothers did.

I think that is really sweet. (wow, but are we ever opposites)

Crazy Cooper is....?

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 22 June 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

Track "shortcuts" = hiding in the park and not running at all, as I recall.

― John Justen, great tasting marksman. (johnjusten), Thursday, 22 June 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know much about Cooper (the school). I moved to Hastings in 4th grade and I didn't really meet anyone from Cooper until Middle School.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 22 June 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

xpost: That is correct, sir. "shortcuts" also involved popping out of hiding places and throwing snowballs at the rubes who were running.

We were slackletes.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 22 June 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/75/172774138_342007b6db_o.jpg

http://radar.smh.com.au/archives/hit_melon.gif

― Persecuted Decals (ex machina), Thursday, 22 June 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

Slackletes. LOL.

I think I went to Cooper School for half of kindergarten (before that we were in Wisconsin), but then we moved into the Pinecrest district after that. I have only the dimmest memories of Cooper, none of them good. (Who the hell has bad kindergarten memories? Other than me I mean.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 22 June 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

I do! My kindergarten best friend was killed in a car accident.

The really fucked-up thing was that I learned about his death because the teacher told us to gather around the radio because we were going to hear about one of our classmates on the local news station.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 22 June 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, that is horrible! I'm so sorry.

And yes, the way you heard about it is just... well, there aren't words. (WTF, did they plan to tell you that way? Because that is just sick. And stupid.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 22 June 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

To be fair, I was 5 at the time so I'm likely conflating two stories into one incredibly awful one. Still, given the state of affairs in Hastings, it doesn't really seem out of the realm of possibility, does it?

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 22 June 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

No, that is pure Hastings clueless-about-children stupidity. I suppose you could be conflating but I kind of doubt it.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 22 June 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

Clueless-about-children or clueless-about-life? Because, you know, if I got called into a conference room to hear a news report about how one of my friends was killed I'd be bullshit.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 22 June 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

These new tales are extremely disturbing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 22 June 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

haha! i used to be pals with one of the many many s4und3rs kids.


remember when the baby burnt the house down?? LOL

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 22 June 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

These new tales are extremely disturbing.

WELCOME TO HASTINGS, NED! (Hope you survive the experience!)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 22 June 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, for real. the full complement of Hastings "disturbing talez" would make your head spin.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 22 June 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

Tell him about the kid who got his friends to help him dismember his parents!

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 22 June 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

Clueless-about-children or clueless-about-life?

You're right, of course: it's both. (But I wandered around for years wondering what the hell was wrong with me in that town. BTW, the rest of my family still fits in great there!)

Did I ever tell you about the guy (K31th Schult3, I believe) who informed me that FB, John, Dan, M3liss4, K4t3 and I were the "six weirdest people in town?" This must have been circa 1991 or so; I took it is a huge compliment.

S4und3rs stories: I have many, so so many. L1s4 is the eldest; I remember when that baby-who-burnt-the-house down was expected... when L1s4 and I were freshmen in college. Oh my.

Ah, the dark side of Hastings. It's bigger than the brighter side.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 22 June 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

xp

wait, is that the same as the one where the kid got his friends to help him shoot his parents at that place next to the dairy store*?


*which, as has been noted above, has KILLER milkshakes. GET IT??? "KILLER!" Making light of tragedy... it's what RAIDERS do!

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 22 June 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

Did I ever tell you about the guy (K31th Schult3, I believe) who informed me that FB, John, Dan, M3liss4, K4t3 and I were the "six weirdest people in town?"

Wow, really? I guess he didn't know Br1an K1mmes...

wait, is that the same as the one where the kid got his friends to help him shoot his parents at that place next to the dairy store*?

Yes! I was maybe embellishing a little.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 22 June 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

Tell him about the kid who got his friends to help him dismember his parents!

When I woke up from my nightmare this morning, I literally got up, walked down to my office and wrote for half an hour or so. Part of what I wrote was a fictional conversation between MJ and I in which I say, "You know, A.____ has never really understood about Hastings."

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 22 June 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know Br1an K1mmes (or am spacing it) - any relation to S4ndy or Gr3tch3n?

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 22 June 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

No, or at least neither of them would claim him. He was a very... odd guy from our class who John recently found on a furry site. (And I think I'm going to end the explanation right here.)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 22 June 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

Okaaaay then. (All, right, I'm going to brave the yearbook search now. If I get bitten by a centipede, it's on your head, Daniel.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 22 June 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

Tell him about the kid who got his friends to help him dismember his parents!

Hmm. Did it work?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 22 June 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/75/172874134_bc704257b2_o.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 22 June 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

That looks like Charles Manson!

Yearbooks were blessedly close to the front of the under-the-stairs storage. Br14n K1mm3s looks completely unfamiliar to me. However, the rest of it is quite funny. (I seem to have written snotty comments all over the Great Expectations pages, for example. M3liss4 has written some interesting stuff. Why were we all so skinny? Also, I demand an explanation for John's hair.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 22 June 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/68/172879832_b15c8e3ede.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 22 June 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

FB sums it up nicely.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 22 June 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

I went to high school in B1ue E@rth with this guy, Ryan Owen. A couple of years after HS he killed a woman and tied her to a carbourater and sunk her body in the river...there was a huge manhunt for her, so they couldn't charge him for a month until they found the body. he was an asshole. he beat me up in 7th grade:

http://info.doc.state.mn.us/publicviewer/showing.asp?OID=200426&PhotoKey=166800

― M@tt He1geson, Rendolent Ding-Dong (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 22 June 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

welcome, ryan!

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 22 June 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

WHAT is upscreen swastika building, FB?

― John Justen, great tasting marksman. (johnjusten), Thursday, 22 June 2006 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

M@tt, that guy is super-creepy.

More nightmares for me tonight!

Well, at least this time I'm prepared...

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 22 June 2006 23:55 (nineteen years ago)

WHAT is upscreen swastika building, FB?

Pinecrest Elementary School, of course!

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 23 June 2006 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, the resemblence to Pinecrest P.E. is disturbing now that it's been pointed out. The word that I dreaded most those years: TRENCH.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 23 June 2006 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

Mouth?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 23 June 2006 00:08 (nineteen years ago)

No, evil EVIL game in which kids on two teams hit each other with hard rubber balls. I'm convinced my IQ would be 10 points higher if I had been better coordinated (I cannot tell you how many times I was hit in the head. By the way, the boys loved to throw those balls REALLY HARD).

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 23 June 2006 00:10 (nineteen years ago)

RE: R.O. Shit, I know that look. Freaky. It's instinctual. You know he's wrong inside. He just oozes it.

RE: Hitler eating a watermellon. That's Pinecrest, with the track and field behind it and the High School parking lot and tennis courts at the top of the photo.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 23 June 2006 00:10 (nineteen years ago)

FB on R.O.: OTM.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 23 June 2006 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

That sliver of building at the top is the storage space/shop area attached to the auditorium of the high school.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 23 June 2006 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

Huh, I thought it was the catwalks... the creepy, creepy catwalks.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 23 June 2006 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

This is sad:

http://www.hastingsstargazette.com/articles/index.cfm?id=12853§ion=homepage

Not-funny Hastings related thread of the day.

― John Justen, great tasting marksman. (johnjusten), Friday, 23 June 2006 00:27 (nineteen years ago)

FUCKING HELL.

Anyway, John Brouilliard (Art teacher, Track coach, etc.) RIP.

You can probably search for the story, since the link doesn't work.

― John Justen, great tasting marksman. (johnjusten), Friday, 23 June 2006 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

OMG, I'm so sorry. My Dad told me about that last week when I was a home. I was no art student, but remember him fondly for the way he never EVER washed his coffee cup (he claimed washing coffee cups made the coffee taste bad. I remember this from 7th grade study hall or something). He also came into House of Wines sometimes and was always gracious. Also, his daughter was a friend of friends.

I freaking hate death.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 23 June 2006 00:34 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man, that SUCKS.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 23 June 2006 00:52 (nineteen years ago)

:-(

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 23 June 2006 00:53 (nineteen years ago)

Dude was an oasis in Middle School. I was happy in art class. I always looked forward to it.

Remember working with the Koala Pad? What year was that? '85? '86?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 23 June 2006 01:10 (nineteen years ago)

h, I thought it was the catwalks... the creepy, creepy catwalks.

-- Sara R-C (sr...), June 22nd, 2006 8:20 PM. (Sara R-C) (link)

That's right.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 23 June 2006 01:12 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, now I have FB Art Class Envy. (and I have no clue what a Koala Pad is. Possibly this is why I still can't draw proper stick people.) Mr. Brouilliard was unfailingly kind and, if memory serves, put up with a pretty obnoxious study hall group in our case.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 23 June 2006 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

i http://homepage.mac.com/vectronic/appleii/articlepics/koala/koala2.jpg

― John Justen, great tasting marksman. (johnjusten), Friday, 23 June 2006 01:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://homepage.mac.com/vectronic/appleii/articlepics/koala/koala2.jpg

― John Justen, great tasting marksman. (johnjusten), Friday, 23 June 2006 01:34 (nineteen years ago)

PHEAR MY FANCY INTRANUT MAGIK!

― John Justen, great tasting marksman. (johnjusten), Friday, 23 June 2006 01:35 (nineteen years ago)

Well, that explains everything then.

(seriously, thanks; I get the gist from the image)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 23 June 2006 01:40 (nineteen years ago)

OK, kids, for ease of access to the Hastings Star Gazette (http://www.hastingsstargazette.com/), I have set up a Hastings Thread account.

Log In:

Email: hastingsthread@yahoo.com

Password: salad

No more problems with links to articles.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 23 June 2006 01:52 (nineteen years ago)

How perfect is this:

Opinion: Chewing tobacco proves a nastier habit to kick than anticipated

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 23 June 2006 02:02 (nineteen years ago)

oh no Mr Brouilliard. me and my buddies used to hang out in the Art Club after school and play Magic and draw comics.

he was totally an oasis.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 23 June 2006 02:07 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, guys remember the oldie-times at the LeDuc Mansion?
Left to right: Sara, Jeff, John.
http://www.hastingsstargazette.com/gfx/photos/full/int.cw1.6-8.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 23 June 2006 02:15 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, see what you missed, The Summer Everybody Went Insane?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 23 June 2006 02:16 (nineteen years ago)

gbx
http://www.hastingsstargazette.com/gfx/photos/full/int.cw4.6-8.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 23 June 2006 02:22 (nineteen years ago)

ned
http://www.hastingsstargazette.com/gfx/photos/full/int.cw5.6-8.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 23 June 2006 02:23 (nineteen years ago)

Left to right: Dan, Fabian.

http://www.germany-tourism.ie/media/lederhosen.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 23 June 2006 02:28 (nineteen years ago)

Left to right: Suzy, M@tt.

http://www.dudmc.com/photoslapland/pages/Laplander_&_Reindeer.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 23 June 2006 02:39 (nineteen years ago)

Who's the guy to the right of M@tt?

― John Justen, great tasting marksman. (johnjusten), Friday, 23 June 2006 02:42 (nineteen years ago)

HEYOOOOOOOOOO!

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 23 June 2006 02:45 (nineteen years ago)

And now we see why I prefer the unitard/knife combination to the freaking hoop skirts: no one expects you to wear a hat with a unitard. Again: who is stealing from my photo album?

gbx: more Magic cards madness. You must marry so that my book club (the M4gic W1d0ws) can adopt your wife into our sinister schemes (so get on that, stat).

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 23 June 2006 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

So I just went and read the article about quitting tobacco. I suppose the message that I was supposed to derive from it was not, hey, I'll be less crabby if I just take up chewing! (Finally, my children will love me...)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 23 June 2006 03:03 (nineteen years ago)

http://lonestartimes.com/images/siren.gif

Drudge Report Website Down.

Drudge Siren gif is not working.

Dead?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a1/Drudge0508.jpg

Developing...

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 23 June 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

I suggest kidnapped and killed for crime of combining that hate with that tie.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 23 June 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

I JUST GOT OFF THE PHONE WITH A HASTINGS NATIVE.

He wanted to buy a die-cast model of a JLG Lull Telehandler. I sold him one. When he gave me his billing address in Hastings I had to suppress a roffle.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Friday, 23 June 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

Should the Hastings Thread have an oficial t-shirt? If so, what should it be?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 23 June 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, direct communication with the far-off, exotic city of Hastings.

Tell us elmo... do you feel any different? ;)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 23 June 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

FB: I still have an original Hastings High School t-shirt, graciously given to me at some sort of weird pepfest for honor students (like that wasn't the weirdest thing EVER). I only wear it in my house while walking on my treadmill, though.

True confessions of a woman who doesn't throw stuff away!

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 23 June 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

Er, not that that was a t-shirt suggestion of course.

For Hastings you'd probably want something with a skull and crossbones on it, mixed with... I don't know... cornfields or something.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 23 June 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

Sara: Not especially different. His name was P4UL B4U3R, though, if that rings any bells.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Friday, 23 June 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

The B4u3rs are to hastings what chihuahuas are to Juarez.

I initially missed the "die-cast" part of the description above.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 23 June 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

The name B4U3R is familiar, but only because there are roughly 4,000 of them in that town.

Not feeling different huh. Maybe you have to go there for the full experience. (Not that I really recommend that, although some things have improved.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 23 June 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

Sara. I still have my Hastings Middle School t-shirt. I wore it to the 10-yr. Joe Cool Snoopy in blue and gold.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 23 June 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

Welcome to Hastings, Elmo. Corruption and sin are the watchword.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 23 June 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/63/168634357_40b1827dd1_o.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 23 June 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

i would like a t-shirt and i would like it to be the opening post of this thread, plz. sirens and all.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 23 June 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

FB and I can have a pack-rat off. I fear he's going to win, though.

Corruption and sin are the watchword.

Watchwords, Ned. Besides, you forgot murder. (Although, to be fair, that doesn't affect everyone in Hastings every day...)

The T-shirt suggestions, ROFL.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 23 June 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

Here is the graphic requested by gbx:

http://static.flickr.com/65/173302061_383a47bd52.jpg

More suggestions, votes, etc?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 23 June 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

Besides, you forgot murder.

"Who...who will I kill?"

http://www.mst3kinfo.com/satnews/images/drf.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 23 June 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

y'all know I work for a t-shirt print-shop, right? minimum order is 500 pieces, tho.

also, TIE-DYE???

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Friday, 23 June 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, 500 might be a bit hard to reach...

Ned, stop taunting me with the Satellite of Love.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 23 June 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

there were about 460 in my graduating class. i could make some phone calls.


VICE PREZ, PEOPLE.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 23 June 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

I think this image looks better on a t-shirt:

http://static.flickr.com/53/168634354_3cdf3e3df8_o.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 23 June 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

Elmo, how much would an order of 500 t-shirts cost?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 23 June 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

b-b-but the SIRENS! AMERICA!

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 23 June 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

it would be great if you could make the image HUGE. Like the elephant in the background of the Ivory Coast soccer jersies.

http://www.subsidesports.com/uk/images/product/xlarge/IvoryCoastHSS0607.jpg

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 23 June 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

Also, postage:

http://static.flickr.com/58/173368555_554942ba79.jpg?v=0

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 23 June 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/72/173373650_7bf8f8539e.jpg?v=0
http://static.flickr.com/72/173375280_f12afca607.jpg?v=0

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 23 June 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

FB, cost would depend on the size of the print & the number of screens / colors needed for the image, etc.

but probably about $5 / shirt, give or take

we're a specialty printer with limited production capacity, so honestly you could probably find a lot cheaper...

anyway --

www
dot
liquidblue
dot
com

for all you hippie needs

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Friday, 23 June 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

OK, Cafe Press vs. Zazzle. Any difference?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 23 June 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

OK, elmo, is there anybody at Liquid Blue that isn't stoned right now?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 23 June 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

VICE PREZ, PEOPLE.

-- gbx

gbx confesses to being Dick Cheney. Yikes. We really are in trouble.

Of course if you mean of your high school class, all I'm going to say is YOU KNOW THAT WILL BE HAUNTING YOU FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE, don't you?

xpost - about that Satin/Satan cat. Dan, John and FB - do any of you remember my mothers bizarre phobia of cats?

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 23 June 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

She should have a phobia about blenders, not cats.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 23 June 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

FB am I forgetting something? (Or did I once tell you the story about the time she tried to make a malt for us and wound up mangling the spatula in it, leaving hunks of tasty plastic in it. So we had a mess to handle, plus Dairy Queen treats. I'd be surprised if you remember THAT.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 23 June 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

That is exactly what I'm talking about. ROFFLES.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 23 June 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

Poor J4n3. I never get tired of telling stories about her... (I can't believe you remember that!)

Of course sometimes she can still tick me off, too. Like right after J. was born, when she decided that it was finally time to lecture me about sex. LOL. Thanks, Mom, I think I have the birth control thing handled now that I'm THIRTY. (Okay it's funny now, but wow was I pissed off that day.)

Mom: You know that breast feeding isn't adequate for birth control...

Me: (actually, I'll just let you imagine my response, keeping in mind that my kids are four years apart)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 23 June 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

I just remember thinking, J4n3 is going to lose a hand. It's inevitable.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 23 June 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

ROFL... but nope, somehow she is still in one piece. (No thanks to me, I assure you.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 23 June 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

my hat is pretty sweet in that picture.

― M@tt He1geson, Rendolent Ding-Dong (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 23 June 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

Can we get the animated "Under Construction" GIF turned into one of those magic moving images with the ridges on it and put that on a shirt?

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 23 June 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

M@tt, that is exactly how I always picture you.

(I won't add, "with antlers....") (Oh wait...)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 23 June 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

Can we get the animated "Under Construction" GIF turned into one of those magic moving images with the ridges on it and put that on a shirt?

Also perfect for plastic dinnerware enjoyed by children everywhere! (except that you must hand wash...)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 23 June 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

magic moving images with the ridges on it

I cannot figure out what they're called, damnit. Somebody has to make those on demand. This is the dawning of the age of the of the internet (the age of the internet).

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 23 June 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

I think they're called lenticular prints, FB.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Friday, 23 June 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

THANK YOU ELMO!

Learning... http://www.shortcourses.com/how/lenticular/lenticular.htm

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 23 June 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

I can also check with the guys by my house that run a small-batch custom print shop...they did the shirts for Sh4un's band for stupidly cheap, because they think that he and I are KICKASS ROCKIN' MUSICIAN DOODZ.

Which, of course, I am.

― John Justen, great tasting marksman. (johnjusten), Friday, 23 June 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

Can we do a series of Talking Cat Funnies shirts?

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 23 June 2006 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

Before I had to run away this afternoon, I meant to say Happy Weekend!

Also, FB, I really have to thank you for reminding me of the blender/spatula story. I had a new "when I was in high school..."/J4n3 story to share with A. and a couple other friends tonight. All were duly amused.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 24 June 2006 02:00 (nineteen years ago)

Black label, once again you have bested me.

BTW, is ANYONE going to the End Times Festival? FB, GBX, M@tt, this means you.

BOREDOMS SUNDAY? FLYING LUTTENBACHERS/BORBETOMAGUS SATURDAY?

WHAT WHAT?

― John Justen, great tasting marksman. (johnjusten), Saturday, 24 June 2006 08:10 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds like a lot of noise, a lot of bad sound engineering, and a lot of duckets. No individual concert tickets, right? They want me to pay, like, $60 bucks to watch bands at fucking the turf and big V's?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Saturday, 24 June 2006 11:36 (nineteen years ago)

Go back to bed people; you don't have two tired, crabby children to watch. Someone has got to sleep in for me.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 24 June 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

Of course I totally acknowledge that I stayed up too late last night. It was worth it to win a nickel bet with Austin about who the lead actor in Knight Rider was, though. (He thought Michael Landon, LOL.) He shouldn't bet about tv stuff.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 24 June 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

"I'm very disapointed in you, Austin."

http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~acorn/kr/pics/kitt.gif

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Saturday, 24 June 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

ROFL (IML).

I'm never totally sure if he's humoring my competitive streak or what with the 5 cent bets, but he seemed quite convinced that he was right last night. That's what happens when you grow up without a tv, I guess. You think all cheesy 80s stars with curly hair are Michael Landon.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 24 June 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds like a lot of noise, a lot of bad sound engineering, and a lot of duckets. No individual concert tickets, right? They want me to pay, like, $60 bucks to watch bands at fucking the turf and big V's?
-- Fluffy Bear (el.jeffe.bonanz...), June 24th, 2006.

Individual tickets available @ $20.00, turf only, QUIT YER CRYIN'.

― John Justen, HUSH UP LITTLE MANG. (johnjusten), Saturday, 24 June 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

Finally, some bickering that I can enjoy instead of having to break it up.

With regard to future Rueb FAP: my best friend left for summer home in Michigan today and won't be back until August. I'll be more bored than usual for a while.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 24 June 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

I am seriously entertaining the thought of attending tomorrow's NOISE extravaganza. It will suck, however, when I finally get to see Yamakuza Eye, and I have the spins and am out of my fucking mind with disharmony, atonal dazlement, feedback and unnatural/primeval vocal stylings.

Listen, if I get my bitching out of the way now, I might be less grouchy at hour 8 of NOISE.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Saturday, 24 June 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

YOU'RE A COWBOY! LOOK AT ME! YOU'RE A COWBOY!

― John Justen, HUSH UP LITTLE MANG. (johnjusten), Saturday, 24 June 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

There's a story.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Saturday, 24 June 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

...and FB's capitulation begins.

Cowboy? (Dare I ask?)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 24 June 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

t-shirts: http://www.zazzle.com/hastingsthread

Off to drink in the shade.

More to come...

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Saturday, 24 June 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

T-shirts = brilliant.

Have fun drinking (and don't get dehydrated). (Nagged the mother. Ugh.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 24 June 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

don't even talk to me about end times festival. it was my plan all summer to make it back, but i don't have time to drive back from Montana.


FROWN FACE

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 24 June 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

Will someone just invent reliable teleporting already? Jeez.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 24 June 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

HI DERE! IT'S MONDAY!

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 26 June 2006 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, it is. Dan, why can't you fix that anyway?

My weekend was a blur of the treadmill, making a pie, and seeing Cars (seeing that movie was especially surreal because we saw 4nt0n 4rmstr0ng there and were like, wait, shouldn't he be seeing a serious movie?!). Also, I think I have screwed up my knitting. Sigh. Bright side: I got two good naps. Even brighter: 4 day weekend next week.

Anyone have any shocking tales to relate? (Please no more run-ins with characters more nefarious than yourselves. Ourselves. Whatever.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 26 June 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

Shocking Tales!!!

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 26 June 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

OMG YOU TOTALLY RULE

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 26 June 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

I'm flummoxed!

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 26 June 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

8 days 'til WHEELAHFREEFORALLFOURTHOFJULYFERONIASEXTRAVAGANZAWHOOPWHOOP.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 26 June 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe I should beseech you to make a video of that for me. For God's sake, at least post photographs!

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 26 June 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, we'll have photographs, won't we, John.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 26 June 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

STFU, slave!

― Kitty Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 26 June 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA YA CHECK OUT MY ASSHOLE.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 26 June 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

I suppose it doesn't bode well for the week when it's only Monday morning and death by margarita sounds like not only the path of least resistance, but possibly the best idea ever.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 26 June 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

john did you go to end times? i don't think i saw you.

i went friday and sat. nites...could bear to go on sunday though, so i didn't see the boredoms.

i feel like i got back from 'Nam, except 'Nam with a lot more noise and Grain Belt.

Smegma was amazing though, one of the coolest things I've ever seen. Oxbow had one of the most intimidating/wierd vibes of any band i've ever seen....

― M@tt He1geson, Rendolent Ding-Dong (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 26 June 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

I sat on my deck and read all day, like a lamer. Like a calm, sun loving, bird-song listenin', peaceful lamer.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 26 June 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

M@tt and FB - both fun, but totally different kinds of fun. (FB, hope you didn't get sunburnt; M@tt, I hope your hearing is okay!)

I have now dropped 4l3x off at camp for the afternoon so am feeling less aggravated.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 26 June 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

I went to the G/L/B/T/furry PRIDE festival!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Monday, 26 June 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

judging by the number of people in attendance approx. 99.9% of minneapolis is gay

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Monday, 26 June 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds approximately correct...

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 26 June 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

In fact, I'm guessing at least two of my ex-boyfriends were there! (This does not say much about my effect on men, I realize that.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 26 June 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

judging by the attendance at end times %.00001 percent of mpls/st.paul likes noise rock and experimental musiks.

― M@tt He1geson, Rendolent Ding-Dong (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 26 June 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure there are a lot more of us than you think. It's just that I liken the idea of a noise rock festival to riding a roller-coaster for about 10 hours. "If you have to pee, use this cup. There will be commemorative neck braces at the end of the ride."

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 26 June 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

Well, at least it wasn't too crowded then, M@tt... more music to yourself?

(You know, I don't think I've ever managed to effect anyone's music-listening habits. Which is too bad in the case of one unrepentant Debbie Gibson fan who shall remain nameless.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 26 June 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

actually there was a decent turnout...i'd say probably 150 at the peak each day. i just think they needed a lot more to break even, i heard they spent quite a bit, all the artists were flown in...$60/3 day and $20 per day (except sunday which was $30 which is why i didn't go on sunday) was a LOT to ask....

it was fun....but yeah, fluffy's roller coaster thing is a good comparison...i feel like they broke me down like the marine corp! i'm a shell.

― M@tt He1geson, Rendolent Ding-Dong (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 26 June 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

Left to right: End Times Festival, M@tt.

http://www.mun.ca/biology/scarr/Deer_mating2.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 26 June 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

OMG, John, check this out.

Q: what do bad dudes have to do with being both an RA and a cowboy?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 26 June 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

haha if this was the no1ze bored you could post an mp3 of "no vaseline" by ice cube to go w/that pic.

― M@tt He1geson, Rendolent Ding-Dong (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 26 June 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

That photo reminds me of the time we were leaving a friend's house in Apple Valley at Xmas time. Some clever person had gone around and, um... rearranged all the light up reindeer in the neighborhood (and there were a lot) to look suspiciously like that photograph. One of those, "I wish I had thought of that!" moments.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 26 June 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

2 BAD DUDES ONLY HAS ONE STAGE, THE ONE WHERE YOU DROP A LOT OF ACID AND BEAT UP THE COKE MACHINE. FORTUNATELY, IT LASTS ABOUT TWO HOURS.

― John Justen, HUSH UP LITTLE MANG. (johnjusten), Monday, 26 June 2006 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, indecision, obligations, and lack of money in pocket prevented me from going to the END TIMES deal. WAH.

BTW, the Boredoms were apparently using the patented 3 DRUMMER ATTACK FORMATION.

Fuck, I AM stupid for not going.

― John Justen, HUSH UP LITTLE MANG. (johnjusten), Monday, 26 June 2006 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

1500 miles prevented me from going.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 01:09 (nineteen years ago)

1500 miles of BEING A GIRLY.

― John Justen, HUSH UP LITTLE MANG. (johnjusten), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 01:20 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck, I AM stupid for not going.

otm

― xero (xero), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 01:39 (nineteen years ago)

1500 miles is a pretty long drive... probably okay if you have several days or a week to do it in, though. (Then you have to get back...) I also sympathize with the whole "wait, maybe I can't afford this" thing.


― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 02:02 (nineteen years ago)

Twinkies-L.A. 8-2. Pussies can't pitch. Live baseball, no need for binoculars. Yay work. VP from LA. (Respectfully) gave him the hand. FACE!

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 02:44 (nineteen years ago)

So.... um.... you went to the Twins game? (I never could translate FB's dialect as well as he could translate mine. Hate that.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 02:48 (nineteen years ago)

If you wish to understand the ways of the FB, SMOKE MORE CRACK.

― John Justen, HUSH UP LITTLE MANG. (johnjusten), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 04:27 (nineteen years ago)

Also, this is heartwarming, and todays Hastings (thread) link of the week.

http://hometown.aol.com/aliveoasis/fan/index.htm

― John Justen, HUSH UP LITTLE MANG. (johnjusten), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 06:36 (nineteen years ago)

Message from H3nn3p1n courts (no legal trouble as of yet) weird...advised to consult attorney. Semi-sad confused emoticon?

TOO BUSY FOR THIS BULLSHIT.

― John Justen, HUSH UP LITTLE MANG. (johnjusten), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

Should have perhaps considered less google-searchable internet persona. Perhaps paranoid. Also, DON'T CARE AT THE MOMENT.

More importantly:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Raggett

Request to "Expand this stub" uncomfortably personal (No offense, Ned.)

― John Justen, HUSH UP LITTLE MANG. (johnjusten), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 08:00 (nineteen years ago)

If you wish to understand the ways of the FB, SMOKE MORE CRACK.

As always, I bow to your advice (and then ignore it).

Ned is adorable. Having a fan club: just funny.

I don't know what to say about the advice to "consult an attorney," - but hang in there and get some sleep. (If I'm not mistaken, the time mark on your last post was 4 a.m.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

J0hn, I urge you to consult an attorney. I'm sure you're fine, but at least get advice from lawyer friends. We know a murder of them. No need to get paranoid, but you should change your name to JuggaloIceMan69 for security purposes.

So.... um.... you went to the Twins game? (I never could translate FB's dialect as well as he could translate mine. Hate that.)

I went to a Twins game with the boss and the big boss. We were four rows in off the first base line. Good fun. Big boss is from Los Angeles. Twinks played the Dodgers. Twinks dominated. USA! USA! USA!

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

FB, thanks for the translation (see John: no need for drugs when you can just ask!). It sounds like you had fun.

Also, FB is right: if you are advised to consult an attorney, you really should. Great user name suggestion, too.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

I would also bust out the silk shirts from Oaktree that you wore during high school to reestablish that air of sophisticated refinement that was always so uniquely you.

(Seriously, FB and Sara right; how many lawyers do we know, and I'm not even there in the TC to know ALL of the ones you guys have met in the intervening years! Drunk dude might be claiming assault but I think that a) being drunk and b) threatening to shoot you hamstrings his case.)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

JuggaloIceMan69, I'n sure you'll be fine, but it would suck to leave yourself open in any way. You have multiple witnesses on your side plus sympathetic police, plus threats on the record, as admitted to by crazy drunk. Talk to a lawyer and probably contact the police or courts or whoever to make sure the record is straight.

YOU WILL BE OK. TALK TO A LAWYER. GO TO YOU WILL BE OK.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

Second on the silk shirts, especially if the blue one (since I had one that was identical). (Maybe do not combine with bandannas on head, though; that is probably best left in the past).

Dan is right - we all know lots of lawyers. I would say "especially you guys," but about 50% of my friends that you don't know are lawyers. CONSULT.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

Ouch, I just tripped over a lawyer. Somebody hasn't been picking up their lawyers after playtime.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

I hope you didn't break anything, FB. (Lawyers don't want to be sued, they just like arguing.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

As Imperial Ardvark of the Ned Raggett Fan Club, I hereby announce the redeployment of the Hastings fleet to Prescott, WI. 'Cuz fuck those bitches.

Cap'n, you may patroll these waters at peace.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Choosing the best preposition is what Imperial Ardvarks do best.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

I see my minions have been at work.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

Mmmmm, the St. Croix River. I haven't been out there for years and always felt just a little uneasy swimming there (due to early exposure to the film Piranha), but still, gotta love it.

Waitaminute. Ned thinks we're his minions... that can't be right.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Or maybe it's MORE RIGHT THAN YOU KNOW.

Hi dere all BTW. I am in Portland and it is warm, oh yes. There are however no killer mosquitoes so clearly I am safe, unlike in the drowsy oppressive heat of a killer Hastings summer. Um, dude.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

I would also bust out the silk shirts from Oaktree that you wore during high school to reestablish that air of sophisticated refinement that was always so uniquely you.

omg i forgot about those wierd silk button ups! that's the most bizarre slept on clothing trend ever...although maybe it was just a midwest thang...

...like i remember a roomate of mine who grew up in maryland had never heard of girbaud jeans! they weren't a big deal in her school at all...

― M@tt He1geson, Rendolent Ding-Dong (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Portland is probably a nicer place in summer than Hastings, I won't deny it. (Killer Hastings summer... yes, that sounds darkly familiar).

That being said, I'm not sure that you'd even want us to be your minions. I think the closest to anyone's minions any of the people on this thread have been (collectively anyway) would be theatre department minions. Sometimes that was fun and sometimes... not so much (PIP).

If you try to direct us to do something, you might not wind up with the expected end result.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

M@tt, I believe you'll see one of John's silk shirts if you look far enough upthread.

Girbaud jeans. Cringe. Insanely expensive, as I recall (although to be fair they also took a very long time to wear out; I had a pair since J4n3 and H34th3r insisted...).

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

Ned Raggett, 1985.

http://www.christophermerritt.com/Blog/sad/stryper2.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

OH YEAH!!!

http://www.stryper.info/stryper777.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

http://cgi.ebay.com/MARITHE-FRANCOIS-GIRBAUD-VINTAGE-BLUE-JEANS-88-SIZE-34_W0QQitemZ7776562494QQihZ018QQcategoryZ11483QQssPageNameZWD1VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

― John Justen, HUSH UP LITTLE MANG. (johnjusten), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

Sara, the minion stuff provides good benefits. (I forget what they are currently, admittedly.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,
and by his wounds we are healed.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

This is an open invitation to nail you up, I assume.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

My brother rocked both GUESS? and Girbaud 5 years before everyone else in Hastings! He was always fashion-forward; this is the only reason why I had designer clothes in high school. It is also sad how tempted I am to bid on those jeans.

Also if we're going to nail someone up, can it be Rush Limbaugh? Although I guess his wounds would get us high and raise our cholesterol as opposed to healing us...

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I guess I could get on board for that one mission. Regardless of benefits.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

This is an open invitation to nail you up, I assume.

Ned's ESL skills are coming along nicely, but he's still having trouble with the idioms.

I'm flattered, but no.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

BTW, I think all readings from the bible should be done in the operatic screaming metal voice.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

Not the vomit-gargle metal voice?

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

I'm thinking more more along the lines of Bruce Dickinson.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

I went upstairs to lunch after last posting and the only thing I could think was, "hmmm, maybe we need a harder mission."

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

Damn, I can't do an audio src thingy on this board.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

I'll try not to think about what that means.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

OK, Dan's inadvertant challenge: what lead singer has the "vomit-gargle metal voice"?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

Another pop quiz failed. Sigh.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

My brother rocked both GUESS? and Girbaud 5 years before everyone else in Hastings! He was always fashion-forward; this is the only reason why I had designer clothes in high school. It is also sad how tempted I am to bid on those jeans.

When was this, Dan? The first Guess? jeans with the side-zippers appeared in my neck of the woods in 1981/82 and it was SCANDAL that they cost $50 (well, to my mom, anyway). Also I owned black Girbaud jeans from when they were stil called Complements - acquired around the same time. I have never seen them embraced in quite the same way outside MN as within; I blame the Dayton's fashion buyers (RIP).

BTW Dan, I have you totally down as someone who wore a heckuva lot of Matinique.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

Dan/John/FB: metrosexuals before it had a name (I have photographs as evidence).

My mother never seemed to look at the price of the jeans, just went with it. She still goes to Burnsville to tithe every Thursday afternoon where Dayton's was (now Marshall Field's, I guess soon to be Macy's). Anytime we went shopping, I just felt... uncomfortable and pissy. (Possibly the last time we went together was when I was shopping for a wedding dress. Instead of listening to clothing critiques, I now only hear about how I should attempt to get a tan.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.clothesco.co.uk/acatalog/ns60025orgbrn_a.jpghttp://i12.ebayimg.com/02/i/05/85/b7/0c_1_b.JPG

e bay

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmmm, I never did try going shopping with FB as a solution. I don't know, though; that sweater on the right looks suspiciously like something Dr. Huxtable would wear on The Cosby Show.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

...or one of Casey Kasem's rejects.

My mom could not afford to buy us anything for school that was not either already on sale or inexpensive and hard-wearing to begin with (by which I mean the ONE pair of shoes we got each September). This was augmented by grandparental Gift Aid (my mom was ill with back hassles for five years when I was in school). Any discretionary clothes spending was funded by babysitting I did from the time I was in 5th grade onward because of her general attitude to designer clothes, and also she and my aunt would regularly bumrush the Oval Room and Cedrics at the end of seasons for REAL designers (inc Halston jumpsuit once for $20).

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

Ned, please tell me if I've crossed a line, and I will delete.

I do this out of respect and admiration, as Imperial Ardvark.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

When was this, Dan?

The GUESS? jeans would have been from around 81/82 (he had the charcoal ones with the leather crotch triangle over the zipper) and the Girbauds would have been sometime between 83 and 85; I was wearing the hand-me-downs starting in 86 and continuing through college.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

Probably because I am the oldest child in my family, I love the notion of hand-me-downs (also, I am cheap and horrified by the costs of things). Probably half the clothes I have are from my little sister (including a pair of fantastic strappy black shoes that I rarely have occasion to wear). I also inherited a good deal of the clothing my beloved Aunt Kathy - a devoted clothes-fanatic - had when she died in 1995. Kathy was tiny, especially at the end (ovarian cancer will shrink you to nothing, apparently), so I got rid of a lot of it after I had 4l3x... but I still have about 12 pairs of her shoes.

Dan was always a snappy dresser; I had no clue it had anything to do with hand-me-downs. (All part of the genius that is Dan...)

Suzy: the name "Cedric's" causes me to break out into hives (Dad loved to shop there and there was nothing worse than the boredom of clothes shopping with him. Unless he was going to try to teach you golf, I guess.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

SRC, I have a similar aunt who died in 1997 - imagine a combination of Grace Kelly and Ingrid Bergman trapped in the suburbs, ex-model, bored shitless, etc. She gave me, among other things, a black couture Nina Ricci spring-weight coat from late '50s/early '60s and some brown suede hipster flares from like 1972...and the graduation dress (bias-cut summerweight black velvet floor-length gown) my grandmother made for herself for use in 1938.

Dan, oh BTW, her best friend was a Boston techy person you once mentioned as not liking much.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

Now that you've busted me out of the phychiatric ward, I'm going to fly this helicopter to rescue my teammates and...oh no, I'm changing into a large violent brute...I just ripped out the controlls and I'm crashing on this deserted island where I will live on goats and berries and I'll only have this pet lizzard for companionship.

― Murdock/Hyde/Ben Gunn (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

(D, not that I'm implying you shouldn't -- I know little of that side of the woman you mentioned)

The joke is, my mom seems like a bigger fashionhound now in hindsight because she obscured it before with spindoctoring about doing hard labour from about the age of two just to wind up raising the ungrateful. We were skint, but she wouldn't buy any old cheap shit because it would drive her bonkers if it wasn't well-made (like, does the tartan match at the seams-style nitpickery). My mother and aunt worked in Power's for ages - that's apparently what they were doing in the cosmetics department when Kennedy was asassinated. Typical. Lots of the stuff my mom has given me is from Schlampps and Peck & Peck (early '60s, like Edie Sedgwick before going speedfreak with a bit of Audrey Hepburn thrown in). YES I AM HOMESICK.

My grandfather used to tease me that Cedric was his middle name . The Cedric's women's store was (along with Marvin Oreck and Southdale Oval Room) totally my aunt's turf for sale shopping. My mom now does the same with Opitz to the point where they save her stuff.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

I think the "Raggettude" T could quickly become an ILX staple.

Also, FB, welcome back from space.

― John Justen, HUSH UP LITTLE MANG. (johnjusten), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

What could be better than one of FB's thwarted rescue attempts? Don't eat the pet lizard until strictly necessary. Help is coming.

xpost: Suzy - your aunt sounds like she was cool and she might have gotten along well with Kathy. (When Kathy died I remarked that she had most of the 70s hidden in her basement... and I was only half-joking.) I wouldn't say that she was bored, though; she was the principal of an elementary school and very into her profession. Married but no kids. She was the one person on either side of my family that I thought ever had a clue what I was talking about. Paradoxically, her death made it really clear to me that if I wanted kids I should have them early; my grandmother also died of ovarian cancer (which we discovered only after Kathy's diagnosis; previous to that is was just "cancer," and no one knew what kind). Grandma was 54, Kathy was 44. My mom is fine, thankfully, but the genetic history is scary as hell. Well, this is depressing, but it's on my mind lately since a friend's mother died the other day - also of ovarian cancer - and I have a doctor appointment tomorrow.

On a cheerier note, I love visualizing the items that were your aunt's.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

I think the "Raggettude" T could quickly become an ILX staple.

As physically painful as I find it to agree with John...

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

Raggettude shirt: caricture of ned waterskiing behind the SS Loveless with babes

― Werner Herzog Netflix Quine (ex machina), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, it's pretty obvious my mum and her sister were the daughters of a trained fashion designer (both of my grandmothers studied fashion design at MCAD). My aunt was at home from marriage until divorce organising my uncle's non-cop life and charity work and being generally feared by other women in her neighbourhood for being a blonde Leo man-magnet ice princess.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

JJ: talk me into buying your lap steel v. one off eBay v. trying to make one myself.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

Can I make my own lap steel out of a base amp?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

How come nobody told me I misspelled aardvark?!?! I appeal to the library scientist in each and every one of you. Oh my god, and my grammar! I just ripped out the controlls HEL-LO-O?!?!

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

FB, if we spent our time correcting other people's grammar and spelling, where would we be? A: At Rudeness High. (Hey, I just thought you were showing off your flexibility and creativity.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 01:26 (nineteen years ago)

GBX: Mine is old and cool.

FB: Rudeness High called and said "base amp".

― John Justen, HUSH UP LITTLE MANG. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 01:47 (nineteen years ago)

Because it's a really nice base amp, so there must be some way to do it.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 02:04 (nineteen years ago)

PICS PLZ.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 02:11 (nineteen years ago)

also, cut and pasted from the Chicago thread, but I figured you all would appreciate it:

holy shit you guys...i just overheard a freshman orientation session (WHAT IS DRUGS, WHO IS RAPER??) here at Montana State University. My head nearly exploded.

One girl said that she kept a pistol in her glovebox because, you know, when she's in a bad neighborhood (BOZEMAN, POP. 30,000) she wants to have some insurance since men basically rape women at will.

Q: What would you do if you found out a friend of yours was gay?
A: "Dude, if he was gay, he wouldn't be my friend."

Q: (i sorta forgot what the question was)
A: "Well, you know, my town is pretty bad. It's like 50% Hispanic, and there's definitely just some neighborhoods you don't go to."

MEXICANS MUG LIKE THIS AMIRITE?!?!?!


...just when I was beginning to like it here. Then again, these kids were all 17-18, from towns in Northern/Eastern MT with populations of about 500 or so (when asked "are any of you from a small town?" nearly all of them asked "like, small small, or Montana small?"). Still. Wow. Life in the Greater Western States, dudes.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 02:12 (nineteen years ago)

gbx - I'm so sorry about overhearing idiots. Some of them will (hopefully) grow up to be less idiotic. I think the first person who came out to me (when I was maybe 15) changed my perspective totally; that is likely to happen to them, too. On the other hand, sometimes I'm just disgusted in general - and with Minnesotans. A guy at Olaf did a chapel talk about being HIV+ (a guy I knew who I actually disliked, but respected the hell out of because well, that took some serious guts). On the way out of the chapel I overheard one student say to another, "well, at least we know who it is now..." I was completely horrified, disgusted, and angry. Then there is the fact that I have to keep my own kids from the conversations that some of my older family members have. One stands out with the word "ragheads" in it (right after 9/11; I just moved 4l3x out of the way); then this past Christmas my Dad goes off on a totally different racist tangent - during Christmas dinner! (Thankfully, the kids were at a different table). Of course in Minnesota, people are less likely to spout off stupidly like this in public (maybe not the 17-18 year olds).

It also reminds me of the horrible blind date that L1s4 set me up on before I swore off blind dates forever: I don't know what the hell I said to that guy, but after about an hour of insanely racist and homophobic comments, I know I announced that I'd rather walk home and risk being killed than spend another second with him. Worst Date Ever! (Ha, he probably thought so, too. I later gave all the details to my friend MJ and she wrote it into a novella that's in an anthology - she made it really funny.)

Wow I am in a chatty mood tonight. Hang in there; I'm sure there are lots of cool/sane people around, too. You just have to find them.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 02:31 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - suzy, your aunt sounds hilarious/intimidating.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

OLD THREAD REVIVE TIME!

Is it bad for a baby to see you masturbating?

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 03:07 (nineteen years ago)

i did my part.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 03:07 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, you are so bad. (Doesn't that beg the question, "where do you live where you only have one room?" Also, hello, babies sleep. A lot.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 03:12 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.mncriminals.com

login: hastingsthread
password: salad

Which of our Hastings peers do you think are most likeley to be criminals?

Search away! (and post, pls)

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

My vote from my class, J4s0n McMurr4y, died. In a car chase with cops. I was completely unsurprised. (He was in my first grade class... not a great memory.)

This is a tempting game, though. And I do still have that yearbook sitting on the floor by my desk...

(FB spelling lesson: "likely," not "likeley." Welcome to Rudeness High. Are you happy now?!)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

Is negative reinforcement likely to work? Dunno.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

We could always try shock therapy. I hear that is effective for some things.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

City of Hastings official website: http://www.ci.hastings.mn.us/
Hastings Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastings,_Minnesota
Hastings public schools: http://www.hastings.k12.mn.us/
Hastings Newspaper: http://www.hastingsstargazette.com

Other useful links:
http://www.classmates.com
http://www.reunion.com
http://www.addresses.com/public_records.php

http://www.mncriminals.com

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

That reminds me of the Sesame Street game "one of these things is not like another..." But in terms of Hastings and those links, I'm not sure it really works.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

OLD THREAD REVIVE TIME!
Is it bad for a baby to see you masturbating?

-- Jesus Dan (djperr...), June 27th, 2006 11:07 PM. (Dan Perry) (tracklink) (link)

That thread! Where to begin?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

I still think my grammatical clarification request on that thread may be my most memorable ILX WTF? moment.

― John Justen, HUSH UP LITTLE MANG. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

I admit I was up for about half an hour last night puzzling over that thread and being amused at the same time. My favorite comment was Dan's aside, tucked into his username, "that's what kitchen tables are for." I also like how it moves back and forth from serious discussion of what must constitute the least likely problem ever to hilarious commentary... and back.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

And yes, John, I read your comment and had a good laugh - good catch. (Plus I had a great mental image of the look on your face when you read that.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

Ned, please tell me if I've crossed a line, and I will delete.

I am so very very happy. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

He didn't mean he'd delete himself.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

CLEARED OF ALL WRONGDOING BY HENNEPIN COUNTY.

Looked up my felon on the MNcrimelist thingy. YIKES.

Two counts of aggravated robbery 1st degree w/a deadly weapon. Plus a bunch of other shit.

― John Justen, HUSH UP LITTLE MANG. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm, then clearly the law allows you to squash him into a jelly jar.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

god i'd forgotten abt. that baby masturbating thread. jesus fuck.

― M@tt He1geson, Rendolent Ding-Dong (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

Everyone on this thread should RSVP for the WHEEEELAAHFOLDEROLFERONIABATAANDEATHMARCHOFFUNTIMES fourth of July party. I need to know how many watermelons to buy. KIDDIE POOL FULL OF FORTYS! BRING THE KIDS! (actually...don't bring the kids.)

Working on Flag-Burning competition rules.

― John Justen, HUSH UP LITTLE MANG. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

Capture the (burning) flag?

Also, FB, we would like to commission some trophy-building, if you are willing.

― John Justen, HUSH UP LITTLE MANG. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

6 days 'till WHEEEELAAHFOLDEROLFERONIABATAANDEATHMARCHOFFUNTIMES (previously known as WHEELAHFREEFORALLFOURTHOFJULYFERONIASEXTRAVAGANZAWHOOPWHOOP)!

Also, FB, we would like to commission some trophy-building, if you are willing.

John, give me some specifics immediately!!!
1) How many competitions
2) Name/Type of competitions
3) How many per.

Of course, volume may be limited due to time constraints and laziness. Details post haste, man!

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

YOU GOTS A BROKEN IMAGE RIGHT THURRR.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

Um, as humorless as this sounds, I don't think I'd feel all that comfortable participating in a flag-burning event.

Also, image above: how do I shot man squished in jar?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

oh geez, i don't think i can make it. i mean, obviously.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

gbx, you can participate via satellite linkup.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

we don't have satellites in montana.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

Fire shotgun twice if you get this message.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

Everyone on this thread should RSVP for the WHEEEELAAHFOLDEROLFERONIABATAANDEATHMARCHOFFUNTIMES fourth of July party. I need to know how many watermelons to buy. KIDDIE POOL FULL OF FORTYS! BRING THE KIDS! (actually...don't bring the kids.)

John - thanks for the invitation, but since the kids won't watch themselves, we can't make it. (Plus, I'm pretty sure A.'s worst nightmare scenarios are always prefaced by my saying, "I have some friends from high school...," "Once, at a party..." or anything else Hastings-related. It must be hard to be an introvert.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

FB, how about if we burn some other countries flag? TAKE THAT, LUXEMBOURG!

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

Another international incident awaits.

(Oh yeah, glad Hennepin Co. cleared you of all wrong-doing and also glad you are still freaking alive. Crikey.)

Off to Red Wing for appointment.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck a Trinidad and Tobago! You're going down, bitches!

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

Onward, to Liechtenstein!

http://static.flickr.com/63/177169297_858185ecd4.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

Liechtenstein:
http://www.appliedlanguage.com/flags_of_the_world/medium_flag_of_liechtenstein.gif

Luxembourg:
http://www.appliedlanguage.com/flags_of_the_world/medium_flag_of_luxembourg.gif

Trinidad and Tobago:
ihttp://www.appliedlanguage.com/flags_of_the_world/medium_flag_of_trinidad_and_tobago.gif

YOu choose.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

This is a detail from the flag of the Turks Caicos Islands.

http://www.flagfocus.info/worldflags-large/flag-TurksCaicosIs-detai-lg.gif

WHY DOES THIS FLAG CONTAIN A REBUS FOR "VAGINA LOBSTER SHUTTLECOCK"?

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

GUYS GUYS I FOUND A COUPLE

http://www.mncriminals.com/criminaldetail.php?id=305264
http://www.mncriminals.com/criminaldetail.php?id=228315

GO BSA TROOP 534!

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.theodora.com/flags/ao.gif

Angola wins the best flag ever award.

xpost:holy shit.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.mncriminals.com/criminaldetail.php?id=204049

IIRC, the great bodily harm one involved BITING OFF SOMEONES EAR.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

Angola needs to rethink the iconography.

In view of political developments, it is quite likely that a new flag will be adopted by a future Angolan government.

http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/ao.html#des

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

Coloring Contest:

http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/misc/us-ms-m.gif

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

I FOUND ANOTHER ONE

http://www.mncriminals.com/criminaldetail.php?id=204706

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

LESS THAN I EXPECTED HERE:

http://www.mncriminals.com/criminaldetail.php?id=283308

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

I thought St3v3 Mads3n got busted for dealing way back in the day...?

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

Buddy!

These are my favorite: Fleeing a Peace Officer in a Motor Vehicle

http://www.filmrot.com/images/runronnierun.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

Buddy! (xpost)

These are my favorite: Fleeing a Peace Officer

http://www.filmrot.com/images/runronnierun.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/64/158022348_73c9d7f72d.jpg?v=0

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.mncriminals.com/criminaldetail.php?id=258412

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

hahahaha

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

(Also, wasn't Buddy the brother of Frances?)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

ANOTHER HUGE SHOCKER

http://www.mncriminals.com/criminaldetail.php?id=216040

Who'd've guessed that the guy who got caught attempting to sell a shotgun out of his locker would have run-ins with the police?

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

Home again. Now the question that looms before me: do I want to look at all your links to criminals with whom I might (or might not) be acquainted?


xpost: It never occurred to me that I might have nightmares based on flags before. Thanks guys. I can always count on you.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

Multiple thefts SHOCKER. I can't find a way to get free mugshots. SHAME. Also, have no idea about H1t3. Don't remember Buddy's bro.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

Buddy was Frances's bro, I thought. There were definitely two of them, I remember them standing next each other with matching "UH" expressions pretty much every school day.

Does anyone remember the name of that guy who kept punching brick walls because John was macking on "his woman" that our paranoid arty friends thought was a 21 Jump St-syle narc for about a week?

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

???????? (punching brick walls?! Not a wise pastime...)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

21 JUMP STREET oh noes! Dude had the mangiest stash.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

Yuck. I don't know how to spell the name of the person I am thinking of and I don't know what class he was in. All I know is that he dated C1ndy H4m1lt0n, who sat next to me sometimes (when R3n4 was gone) in Women's Chorus (and, btw, was perpetually flat) and the blood froze in my veins every time I allowed myself to imagine that they might reproduce.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

K3vin something?

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

K3vin something?

gbx, everytime you post more info about Montana, I imagine that you are posting from a computer with a crank on the side of it that also churns butter.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

The woman in question who caused the wall punching was J3n4 $1bb4ld

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

3ric/k something. 4chump4ch? Ugh, he was one of the few that I found actually frightening.

Poor gbx... now I'm imagining him digging a well, too. (Oooh, Little House on the Prairie! Can I be Mary?)

So... were you "macking" on J3n4? (Whatever that means; no need to define, I'll use my imagination.) Enquiring minds want to know.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

Probably.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

Well, that would have been my guess, but...

(oh wait, was I supposed to write, "b-b-but, I'm SHOCKED!?!" I can never figure that out).

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

Apropos of absolutely nothing, I will share something 4l3x said the other day when told not to touch something again. "But I touched it gingerly... whatever that means." No idea where he learned that word.

Also, my arm freaking hurts from the tetanus booster I got this afternoon. If memory serves, that is going to continue for weeks. (Still better than contracting tetanus, I confess.)

And now back to your regularly scheduled silliness.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 29 June 2006 00:50 (nineteen years ago)

HI DERE YEARBOOK

http://www.mncriminals.com/criminaldetail.php?id=212459
http://www.mncriminals.com/criminaldetail.php?id=37299
http://www.mncriminals.com/criminaldetail.php?id=190572
http://www.mncriminals.com/criminaldetail.php?id=290929

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 29 June 2006 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

I do not dare search for basically the bottom half of my HS class.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 29 June 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

Dan's alarming memory ability continues to impress. (suzy - I'm with you... but at the same time, I kind of walked around in my own world in high school, so I'm not even sure what names I'd be looking for.)

My arm hurts worse today. Sigh.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 29 June 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

Nice alias, Sc0tt: T4te Vl4dnor Guck1n.

For I am Vl4ndor!


― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 29 June 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

I should note that I found out about mncriminals from my lurker (?) landlord.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 29 June 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

John, events, please! Only 6 more days til BANANARAMABOBAMAFEFIFOFAMASUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIWHOOPWHOOP!

http://static.flickr.com/71/153643873_457f916e41_o.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 29 June 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, I meant JuggaloIceMan69.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 29 June 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

I should note that I found out about mncriminals from my lurker (?) landlord.

But how long did it take for you to realize the entertainment potential?

(Also - nice trophies!)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 29 June 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

(Hahaha Sara, you mean "my alarming ability to read through my senior yearbook this morning and throw in likely-but-still-random names"?)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 29 June 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, you know you can't prove that. I am in awe of your Total Recall.

(Actually, my senior yearbook is still sitting here on the floor; I don't know if I lack motivation or if it's more I Just Don't Want to Know. I had a weird Hastings-related dream about murders last night and I don't need more of that!)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 29 June 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

gbx:
http://www.renardadv.com/images1/smokesignals.gif

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 29 June 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

You don't think those smoke signals are a cry for help, do you?

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 29 June 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

Another random thought about Hastings: I just realized while happily posting away about pregnancy and birth on the Archel's baby thread that the hospital and birth classes I was freaked out by were in... Hastings! I know, what a shocker. Switched doctors and changed hospitals to Northfield and had a far better experience. (Hastings birth classes were unbelievably stupid and the teacher said some of the most clueless stuff about birth I've ever heard.)

I don't think I ever had any other bad health care experiences in Hastings (except maybe when I had my wisdom teeth out and was bemused by my oral surgeon's name being "Dr. Schmuck3r), but... just one more thing you don't want to do in Hastings. (i.e. get sick or have a baby)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 29 June 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

I don't want to get sick or have a baby ANYWHERE.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Thursday, 29 June 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

Funny, you're one of the sickest people I know...

(Of course I mean that in the nicest possible way. Scurvy, Scarlet fever did you say...?)

Babies: yes, I don't recommend you try it. The medical personnel will look at you strangely when you ask for a pregnancy test. (Suddenly I'm picturing you in place of Arnold Schwarzenegger in that movie... Junior was it called?)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 29 June 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.awards-r-gr8.com/images/trophies_cat.gif
http://www.atlantictaxidermy.com/images/fish-trophies/trophy5.jpg
http://www.rodster.com/assets/TROPHIES.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 29 June 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

Tres belle!

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 29 June 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/67/177916605_8ea3fdf1d6.jpg?v=0

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 29 June 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

?????? But WHO IS THE FATHER?!!!!!!!!

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 29 June 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/70/168634784_fbd7514490.jpg?v=0

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 29 June 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

I have got to lay off the soap-watching. Meanwhile, FB, I suggest you cancel your subscription to Cat Fancy.

(OMG, the expressions on your faces!)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 29 June 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

HOW DO I SHOT PREGNANCY?

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Thursday, 29 June 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

Scratch that:

HOW DO I SHOT INFANT?

is better.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Thursday, 29 June 2006 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

Have you considered the Mini-Pill?

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 29 June 2006 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

(Actually, that reminds me of a couple of humorous condom anecdotes, one of which involved a practical joke that we once considered playing on a family we know with lots of kids. I actually emailed it to P3rry on Myspace since we had been talking about this family at the Red Dragon. Both are probably better mentioned off thread, though. I told them to friends last Friday night at a small get-together and we all laughed. Then A. tried to change the subject to the book he's reading, Riding Rockets. I about fell out of my chair laughing.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 29 June 2006 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

Devil Cat Friday

http://static.flickr.com/50/111226506_874a16ce20.jpg?v=0

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

oops, there goes my soul
all into that cat
oh my

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

Dan is lost to the terrifying kitty monster? This is not good news. (FB, can't you control your pets?)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, quick, point at it and laugh. That is your only weapon. (It worked with Jim's devil-cat, Henry.)

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Friday, 30 June 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

I was going to suggest an exorcism, but FB's idea sounds like it will work better. Plus, less likely to wind up with someone spewing pea soup all over the place, a la The Exorcist (I don't think that is what Dan has in mind for his weekend plans. I suspect J03i might complain about that end result as well. Best to stay on her good side.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 30 June 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/22/32391990_d150e6b97a_m.jpg

HI DERE I 8 YOUR BABEE.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Friday, 30 June 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

http://members.optushome.com.au/evilpundit/blog/images/cat-detonator.jpg

IM IN YOUR BASE BLOWING UP YER DOODZ.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Friday, 30 June 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.hairyfishnuts.com/images/misc/cat_01_evil.jpg

HALE SATIN!

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Friday, 30 June 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

The humane society has restricted you from acquiring a pet, haven't they...

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 30 June 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.zen25051.zen.co.uk/b3ta/evil-polar-cat.jpg

GRRAGGGGGGHHH!

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Friday, 30 June 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

Feline-phobia rampages through Hastings. Film at 11.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 30 June 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

Hey guys, let's mess some stuff up. Hey guys, where ya goin'?

http://www.flickr.com/images/spaceball.gif

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Friday, 30 June 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.flickr.com/images/spaceball.gif

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Friday, 30 June 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

FB, 1991 is over. We must feign sanity. For the children.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 30 June 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

I heart polarbearmonkeyholdingcat.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Friday, 30 June 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

The fuck are you doing to that cat?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eiknip/22030975/

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Friday, 30 June 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

http://mostemailed.xidus.net/images/260751.jpg

STFU, SLAVE!

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Friday, 30 June 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

Huh. And all my cats ever do is sleep. (Even on Devil Cat Friday.)

Instead I am having Devil Daughter Friday. More dangerous. Soon I will set her loose in the Arb with her brother. Maybe there's a house made of candy in there somewhere. Not to worry, we'll take breadcrumbs.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 30 June 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

http://members.aol.com/kievhusky/pcage.jpg

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Friday, 30 June 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

It might work, but both kids are afraid of dogs.

Actually, the size ratio there is making me a hair uneasy, too.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 30 June 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d129/evil_is_necessary/cat_ralph.jpg

I FEEL UNWELL.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Friday, 30 June 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

Suggestions: Advil. Vitamin C. More water. Catnip. Valium. Klonopin. Neutering.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 30 June 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

I think you can probably get your daughter under control without the last three...

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Friday, 30 June 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/43/88041798_ae351033a3.jpg?v=0

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Friday, 30 June 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/41/98709771_3d5a7a06e0.jpg?v=0

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Friday, 30 June 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/5/7420004_3d000bc340.jpg?v=0

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Friday, 30 June 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c241/snifter2005/207022167_l.jpg

― M@tt He1geson, Rendolent Ding-Dong (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 30 June 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

That's what you'd like to believe, isn't it...

Actually, I am still under the weather from the freaking tetanus shot. And every other member of my family keeps touching the injection site (I don't think it's intentional, but I'm already tired of peeling myself off the ceiling). It is probably less J. being out of control and more me succumbing to the aftereffects of immunization.

Off to the Arb...


― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 30 June 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/56/137799174_5b4532b183.jpg?v=0

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Friday, 30 June 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/32/44052169_7ae0932054.jpg?v=0

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Friday, 30 June 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/41/97286373_d78beaff2d.jpg?v=0

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Friday, 30 June 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/64/161310092_02fe90b63c.jpg?v=0

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Friday, 30 June 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

Admiral FB, I am intimidated by your petting zoo. (M@tt, get your cat to a vet, pronto).

Moderately concerned to have not heard if Dan escaped the First Bad Cat with his soul intact. Request permission to begin preparations for rescue attempt if not heard from by 23 hours tomorrow. Dan's Hastings-related superpowers may not be enough to handle the Devil Kitty without assistance of some kind. Please begin activating your own mutant superpowers if necessary. Will report back if news comes my way.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 30 June 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

Ahem. 23 hundred hours.

Mutant superpowers terribly rusty. My bad.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 1 July 2006 02:20 (nineteen years ago)

KITTY HAS SUCKED ME INTO A STIR-FRY LOBSTER VORTEX OF YUM

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Saturday, 1 July 2006 02:50 (nineteen years ago)

That could be good or bad, of course, depending on whether you get to eat the lobster or you yourself are part of the meal.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 1 July 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://ilx.wh3rd.net/newanswers.php?board=1&hot=true

PEOPLE, WE CAN DO BETTER.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Sunday, 2 July 2006 01:14 (nineteen years ago)

LOOK SOME OF US HAVE SHADOW PRIESTS TO LEVEL, OKAY??????

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Sunday, 2 July 2006 01:40 (nineteen years ago)

I'M BUSY DRINKING, AND THAT ISN'T STOPPING ME.

PRIORITIES!

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Sunday, 2 July 2006 01:42 (nineteen years ago)

OH SURE, MULTITASK BOY

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Sunday, 2 July 2006 01:43 (nineteen years ago)

It pains my heart to know that it was the Pet Shop Boys, not your motherland, that called you back from your BUSY SCHEDULE.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Sunday, 2 July 2006 01:44 (nineteen years ago)

I posted here first! And anyway, isn't Sara the only one who can actually call Hastings her motherland?

MAYBE I'LL START DRINKING, WOULD THAT MAKE YOU HAPPY??? WOULD IT????

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Sunday, 2 July 2006 01:46 (nineteen years ago)

Um. Well, yes. Of course.

What a silly question.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Sunday, 2 July 2006 01:47 (nineteen years ago)

JUST CHECKING

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Sunday, 2 July 2006 01:48 (nineteen years ago)

... MAKER'S MARK OR STOLI?

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Sunday, 2 July 2006 01:52 (nineteen years ago)

BOTH MIXED TOGETHER! WITH A SHOT OF GRENADINE AND A SHOT OF JAGERMEISTER!

WE'LL NAME IT THE "I HATE MYSELF AND I WANT TO DIE".

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Sunday, 2 July 2006 01:54 (nineteen years ago)

i don't have jaegermeister ;_;

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Sunday, 2 July 2006 01:55 (nineteen years ago)

If there was ever a reason NOT to make a sad emoticon, that's it.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Sunday, 2 July 2006 01:56 (nineteen years ago)

I am off to the CC CLub to meet FB and Subgenius. I will try to force one of them to drink our new EXXXXTREEM cocktail.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Sunday, 2 July 2006 01:56 (nineteen years ago)

Dude, I LOVE JAEGER. Like, unreasonably so; the only thing I like more is Absolut Peppar (altho if/when you come out here, I have to take you to this place that does martinis with scotch-bonnet infused vodka, they are the shit and then they give you the shits)

Okay rrobyn is CHALLENGING us with the Canada Day (ie "Wish We Were Minnesota Day") thread, I must beverage up and gird my loins for the CHALLENGE!

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Sunday, 2 July 2006 01:58 (nineteen years ago)

HAVE FUN, I WILL BE AT HOME PRETENDING I HAVE A LIFE

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Sunday, 2 July 2006 01:58 (nineteen years ago)

I'M LEVELLING UP, BITCHES! GET OFF MY LAWN!

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Sunday, 2 July 2006 01:59 (nineteen years ago)

There's a country called Canada?

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Sunday, 2 July 2006 02:01 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's by Brainerd.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Sunday, 2 July 2006 02:02 (nineteen years ago)

Glad you are okay Dan. I was concerned rescue attempt would be diverted by overuse of own magical powers in making Chocolate Cherry Cake. F*cking tetanus shot took more out of me than I thought. Also worried that John's interdimensional-travel-by-music power might land him in awkward situation/dimension. Hell, it's happened before.

Enjoy your drinking, Hastings people. (MOTHERLAND?)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Sunday, 2 July 2006 02:45 (nineteen years ago)

Still awake. Still fighting. AMERICAHASTINGS NUMBER ONE.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Sunday, 2 July 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

5:31 a.m.! Don't you ever freaking sleep? I lost consciousness about 1 a.m., after giving up on cleaning up the kitchen, instead preferring a small chocolate binge.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Sunday, 2 July 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

The wife is singing at church today while "clean" around the house (ie, throw away all of the old mail). By this evening, the living room and bathroom will be PWNED BY BLACKMAN.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Sunday, 2 July 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

My kitchen continues its questionable state, due to making of some kind of Indian dish, vast amount of gazpacho, and cake yesterday. If I clean by throwing away old mail, I don't think anyone is going to notice. It's the dishes that get you in the end. (Bathrooms, though, that is impressive. I should do that, too. Perhaps I will be inspired by your example!)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Sunday, 2 July 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://image.blog.livedoor.jp/wallflower7318/imgs/e/6/e6fb8044-s.jpg
PWNED
http://www.soul2k.com/en/iso_album/cameo.gif
BY
http://www.lmjordan.fsnet.co.uk/records/pd2.jpg
BLACKMAN.

Hey look at me! I'm awake again! How are our stats?

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Sunday, 2 July 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmmm....

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Sunday, 2 July 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

That is not how I remember Dan.

Glad you have regained consciousness, John.

Stats? Well, look for yourself.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Sunday, 2 July 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

REJOICE, INFIDELS! MY LAUNDRY IS 15% COMPLETED!

(Hoarding clothes: C/D?)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Sunday, 2 July 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

15%? It sounds like you haven't even gotten it to the spin cycle yet! I can't rejoice with you until you at least get it into the dryer, on general principles.

(Hoarding clothes: Classic. Even if they don't fit you anymore. Because they might someday, you know.)

Also, laundry is my favorite household task and the only one I ever have under any kind of control.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Sunday, 2 July 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

No, you misunderstand; three loads have been washed, dryed, folded and put away. Ergo, the laundry is 15% complete.

(I'm just going to step away while the math on that sinks in...)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Sunday, 2 July 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

"Oh... my." (She said weakly.)

Well, it's too bad you're so far away: I could help you with the rest of it happily. (Is it freaky to like to do laundry? When my arm was broken I was so frustrated watching A. try to do it. I might be a little obsessive about the Right Way to do some things. Laundry might be one of those things.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Sunday, 2 July 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

If you wait long enough, clothes clean THEMSELVES.

With the possible exception of underwear and socks. Those, you simply replace with new ones.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Sunday, 2 July 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

Yikes, someone else who needs laundry help... and mental help. (But hey, bright side: at least he's replacing the underwear and socks...)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Sunday, 2 July 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

If you wait long enough, clothes clean THEMSELVES.

EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE SUGGESTS OTHERWISE

I really, really need to go to the gym because the scale has just made me its BITCH. Holy shit.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Sunday, 2 July 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

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― subgenius (subgenius), Sunday, 2 July 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

Man, I screwed that up. This dude always scared me.

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― subgenius (subgenius), Sunday, 2 July 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Dannnn.... Buffy plus treadmill will fix all your troubles! Oh yeah, plus free weights. (Hey, I gained about 50 pounds with Julia: I know what I'm talking about. Dr. S4ul has no idea to this day how much danger he was in of me sitting on him and forcing him to induce me. He's not a large man. I could have taken him.)

Also, are you really going to argue with John about laundry? There are places even I'm not willing to go.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Sunday, 2 July 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Greetings subgenius! I hate to run off, but must take my eldest child to the movies. I will be certain to check in later for more tales of laundry, weight gain, and criminal activity. (Ah, Hastings. The nostalgia chokes me up sometimes.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Sunday, 2 July 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

...and the world (or just this thread)(or maybe just me) waits with bated breath to find out the answer to today's cliffhanger: just how many loads of laundry did Dan actually do? Tune in tomorrow...

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 3 July 2006 03:17 (nineteen years ago)

3 loads = (0.15)$TOTAL

20 = $TOTAL

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 3 July 2006 03:23 (nineteen years ago)

Thank you crazy math gbx; I had gotten that far on my own (okay, actually, I didn't but for some reason A. felt compelled to work it out when I mentioned it). The real question: did he do that many loads? (Hey, just because I say I'm going to complete a task doesn't mean it's going to happen. I should be writing a review right now and instead I'm thinking seriously of getting a snack...).

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 3 July 2006 03:26 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, Dan probably did finish: if I had to vote for "most virtuous person I know (and still actually like) from Hastings," he'd likely get the nod.

That aside, do you have classes over the summer gbx? Orgo awaits you...

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 3 July 2006 03:31 (nineteen years ago)

Well, assuming that 1 load = approx 1 hr wash + 1 hr dry (for convenience) and that one load is drying while another is washing, 20 loads = 22 hours of laundry (20 wash/dry + 1st wash + last dry). So no, I did NOT finish.

I did get halfway through, though. Who knew doing laundry could fuck up both your back AND your legs? Argh.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 July 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

Yikes. I think you need a system. And possibly a chiropractor.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 3 July 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

I think a reasonable system would be "do laundry at least once a week as opposed to once every two months when you absolutely have to and buying more underwear would be silly" but we can't seem to properly implement it.

Complete tangent: have you redone the bathroom in your place? If you have, how much did it cost you? We're looking at doing that at the end of the summer and I'm not looking forward to the (presumably) ginormous expense.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 July 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

Every week is what the Home Comforts woman suggests, and I did that when 4l3x was little, but I find it works better now to do it every night. (yes, seriously) I usually integrate it into my "exercising and watching tv" routine - so, put in laundry, walk on treadmill for 2.5 miles, move laundry to dryer, walk 2.5 more miles, quick shower, fold laundry. I put laundry away the next day. (I have this worked out with my weight lifting video, too - mommies must multitask at every moment!) I do sometimes skip a night, but usually not, even if I'm going out.

Bathrooms: no, we just bought this house in 2003 and the only thing we ever did to (one) bathroom in our previous house was to peel the wallpaper off and paint it. The bathrooms in our current house are okay, although I absolutely hate the toilets and the master bath is a sickly mint green that I also detest (but fear taking down the huge mirror to fix). I do imagine the expense to be huge, but I'm clueless. What are you thinking of doing to it? (My in-laws put a whole new bathroom in their house... I suppose that costs more than just re-doing?)

BTW Dan, I went to bed last night worried that I would offend you by calling you virtuous.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 3 July 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

Hahaha! DAMN YOU FOR CALLING ME VIRTUOUS! I AM EVIL INCARNATE!

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Our bathroom is currently FUBAR: there is a hole in one wall where the condo association had to break through to get to a leaky pipe, the ventilation is wholly inadequate so we've been having a mold problem (which I've since killed and cleaned up but am fearful of returning), our toilet wasn't set properly and now rocks back and forth when you sit on it (worst carney ride ever), the door needs to be rehung before it falls off and our cool-looking claw-foot tub leaks out of the entry point of the faucet when you turn on the shower. At a minimum we need to replace/fix the tub/door and reset the toilet, fill in the wall and repaint; we should also put in better ventilation and repaint, and since we're doing that we're talking about redoing the cabinetry.

BIG FUCKING GINORMOUS SIGH.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 July 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

Well, come to think of it, L1s4 was probably more virtuous. (I don't recall you ever trying to get me to go to religious retreats, for example.) Happy now? I thought of someone less evil.

OMG, your bathroom. What to say. It does sound like it needs to be re-done. I don't know if you have to do all of it at the same time, though. You could probably rehang the door and paint yourself (fun); we have talked with K3v1n, our plumber, about replacing toilets but I can't remember what he said about cost (it helps that K3v1n is a friend of A's - they have exchanged computer work for plumbing in the past). Ventilation and mold... yikes.

Something else to consider: how long do you plan to stay in this house? Not that that is always obvious, but if you plan to have 7 children or something, you won't likely be in a condo forever and you might not want to do as much work. We really meant to stay in our townhouse for longer but after J. was born it was just too crowded. (Plus I was sick of M4rnie referring to my home as "Peasantwood." It was Pheasantwood, thankyouverymuch.) In your case, it sounds like your clothing alone might drive you to move to a larger home. ;)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

The clothing is a completely seperate project; I have a goal to reduce my wardrobe by 50% by the end of the summer with the first big purge happening this weekend.

We were actually talking about how long we were going to stay here yesterday; we currently have the mad scheme of saving up enough money to purchase the condo upstairs and creating a massive supercondo (4 BR, 2 BA, 2 kitchens(!), 2500 sq ft), mostly because there's already a door at the foot of the steps up to our place. Whether we do that or not, it's probably worth doing major bathroom work because if we do decide to leave, that's the type of improvement that gives a huge ROI on your property value (it's something insane like 85%).

J03i wants to do all kinds of insane shit to our place like turning the living room into a huge master bedroom and other similar nonsense but I'm not convinced that's a good idea, particularly since when we are ready to move, that type of change will make it almost impossible to sell our place.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

Your clothing. My God. Now I will write what I was thinking before... just how many pairs of underwear can you possibly own?

I love to get rid of stuff (particularly after visiting the in-laws house b.c. they never throw anything away and it's pretty scary). The Epilepsy Foundation comes through every month or two and takes piles of clothes. I love it when I manage to get my boxes to the curb. Also, I love that it helps them out, especially since my brother developed a seizure disorder after hitting his head really hard, flying off his mountain bike. (Maybe I told you about this? He even had brain surgery to try to repair the damage but unfortunately when they tried to wean him off the anti-seizure meds, he started with problems again. Sigh.)

(Now who is the tangent master?)

Your house plans sound like fun (two kitchens! Is it a dream or a nightmare...?) and, while you're maybe right about re-selling, J03i sounds like she has wildly entertaining ideas. (I could use her help!)

I think we have around 2500 square feet right now, 3 BR (one of which is my "office," at least until 4l3x wants to move downstairs), 3 BA. It is the kitchen that drives me the craziest... Anyway, the house works okay with two small children and the full complement of accompanying toys (plus tons of books and other collections - A's LEGOs, etc. - but at least he got rid of most of the computer graveyard he had). I think we could stay in this house forever if we had to, but actually kind of fear that, too, because moving forces purging.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, and even just recarpeting our townhouse and repainting the walls made a huge difference in selling it and how much we got out of it. I think we paid $3,000 to recarpet and probably got $7000 more out of the sale, plus the fact that it sold to literally the first (and only!) people who looked at it. If we had left it with the original carpeting (tormented seafoam green), I don't know that it would have ever sold. (My friend C0ry came in after we recarpeted and said, "who knew that the old carpet was so oppressive?!" The difference was amazing.)

So yeah, you're right - improvements are not going to hurt you in re-selling. Unless your improvements are really bizarre, like the crazed texture painting previous owners of our house indulged in. In 4l3x's room, someone had taken white walls, black paint, and a feather duster. Ugh, it looked like a gorilla's armpit in there. NOT GOOD.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

We would probably toy with removing one of the kitchens if we did do the condo merge idea but I'd rather leave it because we could then sell them piecemeal if we had to without having to add a kitchen back into one unit.

I don't think you told me about your brother! When did that happen???

J03i and I currently have enough underwear to warrant two entire loads in and of themselves (one white, one multicolored), which is one reason why we can go for so long without really doing a full sweep of the laundry; we can just do an underwear load and still have enough clothing left over to last another month. Up until two years ago, I still had pants that I'd worn in HIGH SCHOOL in my closet. SOMETIHNG MUST BE DONE.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

(Did I mention we also need to get our windows replaced? ARGH FUCKING HOME OWNERSHIP)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know... sometimes the idea of two kitchens seems great. At the very least, I'm slightly infatuated with the notion of a double oven (not that it would work in our current kitchen, but...). Besides, then you'd have enough room for all the plates. (Am I the only person with the trouble that I simultaneously don't have enough plates but I also don't have cupboard space for more plates? WTF?)

My brother. I think it started in 1994; at any rate it was after I graduated because I remember I was working at Victoria's Secret and House of Wines... and possibly Barnes and Noble. He hit his head and had some weird after-effects, but then seemed okay. Then he started breaking out into a sweat randomly - he described it to me as, "when I remember this dream I had... but I can never remember what the dream is." The night before his first seizure this happened right in front of me; we were at Papa Charrito's with J4n3 and I saw the sweat pop out on his forehead. I had no clue what to make of it, of course. The next morning he was at one of the Red Wing stores (Burnside Bottle?) and he was just lucky that one of the salespeople was there, too - and the guy was a First Responder. M4rk lapsed into grand mal seizures, got taken to hospital in Red Wing then airlifted to Mayo. Eventually he went through several medications - Dilantin was the first, I remember that - and finally it was determined that scar tissue had formed in his brain and that was the problem. I think the brain surgery was in either 2000 or 2001. But it is still not clear whether he'll ever be med-free. Which sucks because he can't even really just go out and have a beer or anything; you don't mix alcohol with anti-seizure meds. Plus it probably drives M4rk nuts to have J4n3 constantly worried about him.

Based on your message, my family desperately needs to shop for underwear. I don't know whether to be impressed or intimidated. (And for God's sake, I worked at a lingerie store for a year, why do you have more underwear than me?!) On the other hand, I probably do have a few things from high school leftover. And a few I wish I still had (black cardigan sweater that was my favorite and I can't freaking find a black cardigan anymore).

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 3 July 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, do not stress about home ownership; remember, it's an investment! (That's what I always tell myself...)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 3 July 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

HOW DO I SHOT LOTTERY

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 July 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

our toilet wasn't set properly and now rocks back and forth when you sit on it (worst carney ride ever)

Dan's toilet:

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― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Monday, 3 July 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

wtf the fuck

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 July 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

"Who wants to get drilled in the back by Mr. Potato Head's nose? Anyone?"

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 July 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

LOL IML. It's your toilet, dude.

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Monday, 3 July 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

If my toilet also realigned my spine I would be complaining about it!

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 July 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

Er, WOULDN'T.

Stupid keyboard, READ MY MIND

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 July 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Admiral FB! You're ALIVE! I was so worried...

(Okay, actually not. At least not enough to interrupt my nap. I'm kind of a bitch that way.)

Dan! Chiropractor, stat. Do I have to start nagging? So not my job.

You guys have never heard any of my "men shopping in Vicki's" stories have you. I loved the guys who used to come in looking for a bottle of the scent called Rapture. "Um... do you have something called Rupture?" Heh.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 3 July 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

Please tell me you pointed them towards the fantasy bustiers!

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 July 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

LOL, no.... just snickered cruelly and continued on with my Very Important Work. The other classic thing was men shopping for bras for their wives or girlfriends. I don't know how many times this happened, but it happened to all of us NUMEROUS times. They'd never have a clue about the size when you asked. Then they'd look and you and say, "I'd say... she's about your size."

Retail work is often very funny. (And for God's sake, guys, if you're shopping for lingerie for some woman, find out the correct sizes first!)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 3 July 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

"I think she's a 26DD?"

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 July 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

Strangely, no one ever came to that conclusion.

(26?!)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 3 July 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

I thought you'd appreciate that.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 July 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

I most certainly did. If you had said, "yeah, 26DD" to any one of these guys, they would have just nodded and said, "yeah, I think that sounds about right!" (26DD - so wrong, in so many ways...)

Working at Vicki's was funny. Bookstore - whole other kinds of funny. (Rule of thumb: If you can't find a title that should be on the shelf in the sexuality section, always check the diaper changing table in the men's bathroom. And then there are the people who think they know what book they are looking for, but just... don't. "Do you have Marching Toward Armageddon by Bill Bennett?" "Uh, no... but maybe you're looking for Slouching Toward Gomorrah by Robert Bork?") Least funny retail job: Casual Corner. I had a woman throw a box of pantyhose at me because she thought she was next in line and I didn't. (Christmas season!)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 3 July 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

Easily the funniest job I have ever had was THE PIZZA RANCH. Everything else has been really boring in comparison. (Well, maybe not the operas but those kind of don't count.)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 July 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

omfg the pizza ranch

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 3 July 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

What did you do at the Pizza Ranch? (And when was this?!)

As I recall, working at a pizza place can be quite funny, even if you are just the cranky waitress with an attitude. (Unless no one gets your jokes and you stupidly accept random dates ahem). Some of the Carbone's silliness is recorded for posterity in my journal from that era. We had a lot of fun when it was quieter in the restaurant.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 3 July 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

I made pizzas, of course! This was during the 90-91 academic year; sometimes I also was dishwasher, particularly after the regular dishwasher got fired (along with the manager) for breaking in after hours and drinking half of the wine coolers in the refrigerator.

I remember when this girl I'd been in German IV with who was two years ahead of me showed up as an employee with the following sage advice: "When you go to college, study. Otherwise you will end up back at the Pizza Ranch."

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 July 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.oostburg.org/business/pizza_ranch/prlogo-color.gif

I bet I still have my work shirts at my parents' house.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 July 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

I haed no clue you ever worked there. (Probably because I was off in Indiana, I suppose). Love the random advice from German IV girl!

Carbone's had a couple of waitresses who were incredibly dumb - Buff1 B4n4zewski was one - she really didn't get my jokes (later I saw her at the horrible Hastings childbirth class). I can't remember the name of the other girl who was spaced, but she was definitely a Jehovah's Witness. She thought my mother's name was "Just J4ne," because Mom called and said, "oh, this is just J4ne calling..."

We used to have an important saying at Carbone's: "I'm not a pizza cook. But I play one on tv."

(Dan if that shirt is still at your parent's house, it's time to come home and purge here, too. But NOT the video!)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 3 July 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

OMG BUFF1

OMG OMG OMG

She was about as bright as a tack.

Was Jehovah's Witness girl blonde and in my/John's/FB's/subgenius's class? If it's who I'm thinking of, she was also about as sharp as a light bulb.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

we used to have middle school dances and shit at the pizza ranch, if i recall correctly.

CREPEY COINCIDENCE: I LATER WORKED AS A DISHWASHER AT THE WRIP-WRAP, THE FANCY RESTAURANT THAT WENT INTO THE PIZZA RANCH'S OLD SPACE.

ALSO: FIRED.

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

I almost got fired for being an unwilling participant in a flour fight! (FB, remember that? Remember T1na R1enardy?)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

Okay the juxtaposition of "fancy restaurant" and "Wrip-Wrap" just registered. Roffles.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

Buff1 did not get my joking at all. She quit before the day the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" movie came out and totally did not follow my, "so I hear you have a more important job at the movies" joke. I spent a lot of time getting blank looks from her. It was really disturbing to me to think of her becoming a mother. I wonder if she knew how she got pregnant. (How many times did I wonder that about people in Hastings...)

Yes, Jehovah's Witness girl was definitely blonde and had only one speed - superslow. I felt like I was talking to a bowl of Jell-o when addressing her. Probably the same person who was in your class.

gbx - you had dances at the Pizza Ranch? I thought that Hastings only ever held dances of any kind in the gyms. (?!?)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, you don't mean T1n4 R0s3nd4hl, got married when she was 19 or something R31n4rdy, do you? (Did FB work at the Pizza Ranch, too? I'm so confused!)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think so, remember that Hastings has way too many Re1nardys. The T1na I'm talking about was also class of '91. I think. Maybe her name was Tr1c1a?

FB is also a survivor of the Pizza Ranch, as was T4r4 E!

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

No Tr1c1a was someone completely different, this was def a T1na.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, the T1n4 I'm thinking of was in my class and even shorter than me. She was blonde. I remember her being engaged in high school and thinking, "hmmmm, this seems like not such a great plan." (Of course I then spent a significant part of the first half of my senior year of high school with the conflict - shall we break up or get engaged? Another reason I felt I had to leave the state.)

I had no idea you all worked at the Pizza Ranch. Or maybe I did and I forgot? Possibly. I was kind of distracted while I was gone, though, and didn't absorb much information that wasn't directly presented in a classroom. (Because otherwise I was alseep or crying.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

Did your T1na look like a Muppet come to life?

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

Ummmmm...????

(My T1n4.... my preciooooooooooussssssss...)

I can see that this is going to require a trip downstairs to look at my old yearbook. If I look at the photo maybe I'll see the look you are referring to. (Or run across a different T1n4 R31n4rdy?)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

i think there were a few, outlying dances that happened at the Ranch. That, or pizza parties or something. This was because some kid in my class's dad owned the place.

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.pizzaranch.com/indexsw.php <--ROFFLES!

Their taco pizza was really fucking good!

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

gbx - I don't know if that is better or worse than the gym.

I think I found the T1n4 R31n4rdy that you are referring to - she was in your class (Dan/FB/John/1991). I think I see what you are saying about the Muppet thing...

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

Taco pizza... yum. (and I'm not even hungry right now...)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

FB GIRD YOUR LOINS FOR COMPETITIVE SPORTS ON THE MORROW.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Monday, 3 July 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

GBX BOARD A MONTANA DIRIGIBLE FOR STPL AND RACE IN BIKING FOR FOURTH OF JULY.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Monday, 3 July 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

SRC RELEASE CHILDREN INTO WILD AND ATTEND FESTIVITIES.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Monday, 3 July 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

DP GET HARVARD ASTROPHYSICISTS TO CATAPULT YOU THROUGH SPACE AND TIME FOR TUESDAYS ALL-MALE WET T-SHIRT CONTEST REVUE.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Monday, 3 July 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

SUBGENIUS PLZ APPEAR TO SUPPLY LIKELY NEEDED LEGAL ADVICE RE:DEBILITATING DRUNKEN BIKE INJURIES.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Monday, 3 July 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

SUZY TO PLEASE SWIM CHANNEL, CROSS SEA, DESTROY COMPETITION IN WATERMELON EATING CONTEST.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Monday, 3 July 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

NOIZE BORED PEEPLES PLEASE TO BOARD GREYHOUND AND PROVIDE COLOR COMMENTARY.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Monday, 3 July 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

KINGFISH TO PLEASE PROVIDE JOHN A BIG FROTHY GLASS OF BOOTY JUICE

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 July 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

Piza Ranch! How did that flower fight get started? The worst was the love affair between the cook and the waitress. Also, bussing tables/doing dishes on buffet night. OMG fucking filthy people! This one family came in regulalrily for the buffet, by the time they left their faces and shirts were full of BBQ and pizza sauce, and the table was a mound of dishes with pop and napkins and dressing and bloated jo-jos floating in katchup and bones scattered around the booth on the floor. Jesus fucking christ, I think I have PTSD! NOOOOOOOO, NOT PIZZA RANCH.

Remember how the pizza would sit out under the buffet warming lights, slowly turning into discolored, ruberized fossils, like the shed, curled up leaves of some exotic, man-eating plant.

OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Monday, 3 July 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost) John, you know I would release the children into the wild if I could, but sadly, they can't fend for themselves. Of course I would be there if I could (and I'm sure the same could be said of everyone else. Or at least they would say so if only to keep you happy and out of trouble.)

FB - love affair between cook and waitress? We didn't have any of that going on at Carbone's. (possibly in part because of the IQ level of some of the aforementioned persons. That blonde girl was about as bright as a box of hair.) (Of course now I'm matching up distantly remembered people in my mind and it is REALLY scary what I'm coming up with.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 3 July 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

whatwho is a kingfish?

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Monday, 3 July 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Oh God, the buffet.

I used to plant myself at the pizza-making station so I wouldn't have to bus tables and deal with the ravenous Sleestacks customers.

I think the flour fight actually started with the two of us fucking around (SHOCKER) and then T1na decided, "OH THAT IS FUNNY I NEED TO DO THAT ONLY INSTEAD OF FLICKING FLOUR AT SOMEONE I AM GOING TO DUMP AN ENTIRE BOWL OF FLOUR OVER YOUR HEAD HAW HAW HAW OH FUNNY LET ME DO THAT AGAIN HAW HAW HAW" and got us all into trouble.

Which cook and which waitress???? Surely you don't mean M1chelle St3nsgaard and the dude who didn't get fired in WineCoolerGate? (Also, remember the middle-aged dude who kept stealing money from the cash register when T4r4 was operating it?)

(xpost: John, look at the "Words whose metaphorical uses become part of their primary definitions" thread; I'm not making a link to it as to avoid the tracklinking.)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 July 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

NONONONONONONO.

Ugh. no. Dan is no longer invited.

DO YOU SEE WHAT YOU HAVE DONE?

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Monday, 3 July 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

btw, HASTINGS THREAD NOW #5 ON THE HOT ILE CHARTS.

GOOD JOB, PEOPLE. KEEP STRIVING FOR EXCELLENCE.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Monday, 3 July 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

John, my days of not taking you seriously are definitely coming to a middle.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 3 July 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yes, and Happy 4th of July people. I shall think of you all while suffering the indignity of a morning in Cannon Falls and an afternoon and evening in Hastings. (With any luck I will at least catch a nap.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 03:23 (nineteen years ago)

WATERBALOON IN BACK OF HEAD FROM HIGHPOWER SLINGSHOT=OUCH.

OUCH.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 04:03 (nineteen years ago)

OUCH. WELTS. OUCH.

CAPABLE OF 75 MPH. 30 FEET AWAY. OUCH.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 04:05 (nineteen years ago)

TESTING 123...WHO WILL PASS THE FERONIA WATERBALOON CHALLENGE?

TOMORROW IS FB DAY.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 04:10 (nineteen years ago)

#6?

WHY, HASTINGS? WHY?

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 04:11 (nineteen years ago)

HATINGS, WHUT R YOU LISTENING TOO?

SRSLY.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 04:14 (nineteen years ago)

Ulver - Blood Inside
Sparks - Lil' Beethoven
Strangely enough, Jayhawks - Blue (song only)
Strapping young Lad - Heavy As A Really Heavy Thing
Gogol Bordello - Multi-Contra Culture
Firewater - Get off the cross...
Soul Coughing - Ruby Vroom
Datarock - " I used to dance with my daddy"

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 04:24 (nineteen years ago)

The Cure - "Friday I'm in Love"
followed by whatever is on my favorites list, probably - so
Eurythmics "Angel"
The Cure - "Pictures of You"
Del Amitri - "Always the Last to Know"
Indigo Girls - "Mystery"
XTC - "Dear God"
Howie Day - "Collide"
Sarah McLachlan - "Full of Grace"
blah blah blah, strangely mellow list, it just sort of goes on like that. (you knew I would have the dorkiest answer, I'm sure. I've also been on a weird Abba kick lately, I don't know why.)

Basically I'm hoping to go back into my coma but J. woke up at 6:45 and A. is out running, thus I am sitting here.

Have fun today all. FB and John - I don't want to see you on the 11 pm news. Stay safe.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

COMETS ON FUEGO
JOHN FAHEY
FEELIESFEELIESFEELIES

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

also, 3 feet high and rising

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

Mmm, vacation. Anyway, hello all. (Still on vacation mind you but checking in briefly.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO
MEN WITHOUT HATS
POEM-CEES
KELIS
KENNA
ORBITAL

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

OUCH MY BRANE.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 00:43 (nineteen years ago)

SO DRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUKNNNNNN

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 00:45 (nineteen years ago)

Predictably sober, but thank goodness. Surreal holiday involving my Dad's side of the family. If my cousins would just stay married long enough for me to learn their wives names, that would be great, but no, instead it is this revolving marriage/divorce thing so I never know if I should try to recall a name or just introduce myself. (Poor A., whose extended family is tiny, is even more confused because he can't keep the cousins straight). Still, very good to see my grandmother. Extremely long parade. Kids loved it and gathered tons of candy. A. and I made snide remarks under our breaths at each other.

Then to Hastings. "A tradition of progress since 1857." I had somehow forgotten the town motto (can't imagine why). I thought it would be fun to make a post on the Hastings thread from Hastings, but was defeated by combination of ancient iMac, AOL, and dial-up connection. Took huge nap in Mom's sun room. Awoke somewhat disoriented.

The rest of the evening was fairly typical/boring family 4th of July stuff. I think the highlight was Br14n M0lit0r, my BIL, asking me if I had a lighter. "Uh... no." His response? "Okay, well, I have my torch." Yes, imagine five small children, plus Br14n lighting sparklers and small-time firecrackers with a butane torch. WHY did we leave the digital camera at home?!

So, John and gbx sound like they had... uh... fun. I'm dying to hear reports, people.

(As for what I'm listening to at this moment: blessed silence for once).

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 03:46 (nineteen years ago)

Wowowowowow. And I thought the muppety girls from my school were A LITTLE SLOW. I also thought Sara was the only person posting from Hastings! Where are you really?

Postprandial naps at parents' houses = classic Minnesota move.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 05:39 (nineteen years ago)

I am listening to two pregnant women talk about pregnant things in pregnant voices, and I think haha, your pregnant.

Fourth of July, Two Thousand Six: Two of the best parties ever. Good job, Team Feronia. Thank you, ancient Chineese scientists, for inventing sparkly pretty finger-removal devices. Thank you, Dave, for launching a gazillion BOOM BOOM.

More details to follow. But let me leave you with this, for now. At 8 PM, when we left John's, his front yard was covered in beer cans, beer bottles, liquor bottles, a mound of watermellon rinds sloughed off the porch, cigarette packs, chicken bones, potato salad (what wasn't launched at the mailbox from the giant sling shot), expended fireworks, a coffee cup, office furniture, a kiddie pool full of squirt-guns, malt liquor and broken glass, crushed boxes, wrappers, bubble-makers, busted water baloons, a shoe, mud, and many dazed celebrants. This inventory is incomplete. State fair cleaning staff would be shocked.

Plus pictures to follow, too, I'm sure.

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Wednesday, 5 July 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

J0ei and I stayed home and watched fireworks on the TV. Steven Tyler should have spent a few more weeks off of his vocal chords, wow.

Also we watched Elmo molest Vanessa Williams. I may be in therapy for weeks.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

Suzy - nope, not one of us is still in Hastings (that I know of anyway); all expatriates as a result of a sense of self-preservation or maybe just wanting to live someplace safer/more interesting. I'm in Northfield (just off Exit 69 if you are coming down 35, hee!). The nap at my Mom's was great (especially since the kids were being monitored by others), but I woke up in her sun room wondering what the hell was going on. (Then I was disappointed that her crazy neighbor was gone to his cabin; we spent a good part of last Christmas Day watching him wash his car and his driveway. Hastings is full of kooks.)

FB, I am so looking forward to photos, you have no idea. The picture you paint so eloquently with words is intriguing, and doubtless would have been very entertaining to witness in person as well. It sounds like you had a fun time! (Also, glad you survived.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

...and Dan dares to mention Steven Tyler. Nooooooooo! (His mouth disturbs me. Also, flashbacks to listening to that awful song from Armageddon while at Disney World in March. "I miss you babe... and I don't want to miss a thing...." AAAAAaargh, who wrote those stupid lyrics?!).

Elmo and Vanessa Williams? Hey, I knew about their affair long ago. That's the kind of thing parents get clued into early.

(So Dan, explain to me exactly why you and J0ei weren't tossing tea in the harbor?)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

Two words: CROWDS and LOGISTICS. If you go down to the Esplanade for the fireworks, you can expect to be next to someone obnoxiously smelly with poor impulse control (ie, me), plus you are trapped there for a good 90 minutes after the fireworks end unless you live on the river and can walk home. Given that the Boston display always ends up obscured by smoke/firework residue, it's easier to watch it from some distance away.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

Ack, huge crowds. That is no good, you're right. You're off the hook this year, Perry.

We had the advantage of being at my parent's house, which has an even better view of Hastings fireworks than the old house (because there's no gigantic tree blocking the view from the balcony. Although the next door neighbor's trees are getting large enough that my father has been plotting out how to kill them. The trees, I mean, not the neighbors). I briefly considered driving up to the Country Club because I knew M3liss4 was up there with 4nn3 0ls0n (and others), but just didn't want to deal with traffic up there combined with my kids.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

traffic up there combined with my kids.

http://www.flashgames1.com/games/action/frogger-x.jpg

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Wednesday, 5 July 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

My kids don't look like frogs! Well, not very much anyway.


Smartass.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, I haven't thought about 4nne 0lson in YEARS.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

4nne and M3l have been good friends for years. I just know her to say hello to really. (The only friend of M3l's I ever had any conflict with at all was G1n4 something; something about her sets me off to say completely outrageous stuff and watch for a reaction. I'm sure you've never seen me do that...) Anyway, I think they both lived in DC at the same time as well.

M3l is awesome for any number of reasons, but one of them is that she has forgotten a lot of stuff. Example: "Do you remember when we scared the crap out of Ry4n R0ther?" Mel: ...No? Then I get to gleefully watch it all come back to her. So funny! (I am still not done digging through my closet full of old letters and junk, but I did spot a couple of M3l's letters to me in their giant manila envelopes. The first one I opened was from right after the summer of 1991. M3l helpfully did a retrospective list that is just really funny. ("One hour into the summer hysteria: T0m Kl3ffm4n." Dan, you were not even in Germany yet. Ha. The accompanying letter is pretty funny, too. It begins, "I took your word when you said it was going to be a strange summmer..."))

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/70/181996642_f48f266ce9.jpg?v=0 http://static.flickr.com/78/182057180_d5a47f63f0.jpg?v=0

― subgenius (subgenius), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

I'll post some pictures once I figure out where my camera is...

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

I can't decide whether to comment on the photos or wait for John to stumble across his or what. (How much time should I spend trying to figure out, for example, what the objects at John's feet are? Beer, cups and... a lot of white paper? It's a bit early for NaNoWriMo.)

FB - nice t-shirt! (Superman - still my favorite superhero. Sigh...)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

My mom always made us go watch St Louis Park fireworks in the Knollwood Mall parking lot as opposed to in the hill next to the field where everyone else was - and the feeling-cheated vibe was only heightened by early memories of my uncle scoring us pit passes (cotton in ears plus fireworks equals WOOO!) for all the fireworks lit by Chinese on Mpls. cultural exchanges in the '70s.

Guys I have a job interview tomorrow, fingers crossed please...

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost, GOOD LUCK SUZY) What was in that blue box? Was it a juicer or a sex aide (or both)?

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

WDYLL after falling into a kiddie pool full of malt liquor?

To answer Dan, that's what some of the fortys were packed in. So, both, I suppose.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - Suzy, good luck - I'll send "get perfect job with awesome benefits" vibes.

Dan/John - re: blue box. Mental. images. too. much. Must find brain bleach...

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

It's in the blue box!

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

(Okay I have inadvertantly put the song fragment "Don't it make my brown box blue..." in my head. Ew.)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

AAAAaaaaargh! (The worst part being that, for some reason, the image I am able to make out on the blue box reminds me of "Hello, Kitty." So many many bad associations, from my Very First Diary to my trip to Japan. The agony....)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.digitalism.com/rhudson/book/hellokitty.JPG

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

So wrong!

On so many, many levels.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

Levels or speeds?

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

Both!

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

(I'd link to a photo of Ralph Nader's book, Unsafe at Any Speed, but why bring Ralph Nader into this?)

oh no, too late...

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

The photo on the right is from D4ve's party. The kid to my right is Z4ndy's youngest, L1am. I am in his chair. PWNED

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

L1am does not seem upset about your being in his chair. (At my house who is in whose chair can cause a small riot at times.)

You look happy and not too out of it. I'm not sure I've ever seen you in a hat like that before!

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 6 July 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

http://info.doc.state.mn.us/publicviewer/showing.asp?OID=198787&PhotoKey=140551 http://info.doc.state.mn.us/publicviewer/showing.asp?OID=198787&PhotoKey=140552

― subgenius (subgenius), Thursday, 6 July 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

subgenius is so cryptic.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

subgenius, I don't recognise the criminal featured above. Please to inform.

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Thursday, 6 July 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

I want her name to be "Sheila," but I have no idea why. (Is this a Hastings person or just my heretofore unexplored propensity for naming criminals?)

Also, why does her hair look better in her mug shots than mine does on a daily basis? Unfair.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 6 July 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

Look here and here.

― subgenius (subgenius), Thursday, 6 July 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

I never knew her name!

OMG GBX YOU WERE AT THE HIGH SCHOOL FOR ALL OF THAT

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

Our high school years were so tame compared to gbx's. (Although M3l was in the honors program when two of the English teachers - one of whom we all - Dan, FB, John, and I - knew fairly well - were having an affair with each other. She had some good stories about that, actually.)

Something is really wrong with that town. (Is this why I always feel half-compelled to pull out my Julee Cruise albums and re-enact Twin Peaks when in the city limits?)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

Do you guys remember Kyl3's story about catching Mr. S44tzer and... oh shoot, I can't remember the other teacher! Anyway, he walked into one of the first floor bathrooms and saw two people facing each other in one of the stalls in VERY close proximity. He quickly about-faced and hid in the stairwell and 5 minutes later S44tzer walked out, followed shortly by another male teacher, both of whom were married.

DAMMIT WHO WAS THE OTHER TEACHER?????? Does no one else remember this story?

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

(While you're thinking... Putin kissed boy 'like a kitten')

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

Oh poor Kyl3. That is really disturbing.

I actually still have the occasional nightmare about that school (that I'm lost in the halls and I can't remember my locker combination), but I see that I only dimly sensed the darkness around me...

(My Evil First Boyfriend (EFB) just loved Mr. S44tzer, so I'm going to sit her and be amused by that. Also, EFB used to feel the need to whisper the word "lesbian" as if it were a swear word. Wow he was an idiot.)

Dan, appropos of nothing, would you say that deX is more of a superhero or an anti-superhero? (the thread about superheros and villains has me plugging in alter identities of friends in my head.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

OMG GBX YOU WERE AT THE HIGH SCHOOL FOR ALL OF THAT

fuck yeah I was!

Kid that she molested continued to wear their "engagement ring" and proudly proclaim his love for her for at least another few weeks. Poor guy. J3r3mi4h.

funny thing is, my buddy Steve had said a few years before that she was always hitting on the young men in her class, "showing off her cleavage," and stuff, but we figured he said that because a) he wanted it to be true and b) he was a bit of a perv.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

At a christmas dinner, for her favorite students, she handed out gifts to each one. Everybody got a "serious" gift that reflected their personality or goals. Dude got Legos.

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

i just remember hearing/reading the text of the saucy note she left for J. Yowzer.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

ROFFLE

(deX! is a total hero! He steals from the rich and steals from the poor! Um.)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

"Here's what I want. 1. Go to our place. 2. Great Sex! 3. Dinner out--Olive Garden? Planet Hollywood? We dress up! 4. Dancing or a movie? Or our place and more great sex?"

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

THAT IS THE REAL FUCKING NOTE, BTW.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

So disturbing! (why watch soap operas when you can experience them yourself?)

Dan, thx for info on deX. Ha, I'm putting him on my villain list (not to worry, I'm there, too! Well um. Sort of.).

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

omg, that note. Olive Garden/Planet Hollywood - so classy!

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

Great Sex!

That sounds like a comic book expletive.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

LOL. Kind of like "Ka-Pow?!"

("our place?" creepier with every word written...)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

WE DRESS UP

that's how i found the note online, btw. there was something about the creepy enthusiasm of "We dress up!" that has stuck with me all these years. so, google "f3il 'we dress up'" et voila.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

"We can go wherever we want! The Olive Garden, Planet Hollywood... THE WORLD IS OUR OYSTER!"

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.1966batfan.com/bgl701s.jpg

*Great Sex*

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

Breadsticks? Salad? Malts? Double cheeseburgers? HOT!

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 6 July 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

The way to a teenage boy's heart: skins (potato) and skins (nappy dugout)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 July 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

Which is more disturbing: FB's Batman 3-way image or Dan's words about teenage boys. (FITE!)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 6 July 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

Sara's combo.

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Thursday, 6 July 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

Hello!

Results of job interview, divided into pros and cons:

PROS:
1. They like me and their questions were encouraging and inquisitive.
2. I rocked a Japanese look that was very Comme but cost less than $50.
3. When they were telling me about the handful of people that they were also interviewing, I did not get that 'date I liked gone bad' feeling in the pit of my stomach.

CONS:
1. I felt like I rambeld on a few answers.
2. I am always wary when interviewers praise my creativity.
3. Could have been a bit more helpful explaining that my career is pretty well split between visual-based editorial and publishing and writing, and that job there would complement both my experience and need to write,

Hmm. Because of hierarchies it will take about two weeks to find out. Shall I write comprehensive thank-you, to send tomorrow, as want job? What shall I say...

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 6 July 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

Suzy - overall it sounds good, esp. #3 on pros - also don't think #2 in cons sounds so bad, but have no experience there, so...? I'd write the thank you, it can't hurt. Is this job in a new and different place or...?

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 6 July 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I was a bit speechless when they told me I might be up for actual project editorship of contemporary art book - a good place for my skills that are not my own writing - rather than one of a small team for this very chichi art books publisher with offices in NYC, Tokyo and Berlin etc. Hence actual stammering. They were compelled also to apologise for oppressive mugginess and frybaby potential of our conference room.

OK with "creativity" I sometimes feel it is a backhander, as in jack of all tades and master of none. At the same time, though, it was overall positive and they liked a lot of my answers. However there is this problem where I genuinely do not want to hear that there might be anyone else in the frame and I need more work now. It's initially a freelance gig but they are looking for people to go to perm as ther is loads to do. They also like my magazine work.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 6 July 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh, humid conference room. That helps when you are trying to appear together. Overall it sounds positive - I hope it works out for you!

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 7 July 2006 03:10 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning/ guten morgen/ ohayo gozaimasu.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 7 July 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds promissing, Suzy. I read that last sentance as, "they are looking for people to go to perm as their loads do," and I was trying to wrap my brain around this unfamiliar British idiom...

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Friday, 7 July 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

FB to coffee urn, stat.

I'm thinking of taking money out of 4l3x's savings account (which I've never done before EVER) to send him to more weeks of day camp at Carleton. I hate money. (Of course if it were some kind of activity for J., I wouldn't hesitate for a second because she is determined to drive me to the brink of sanity. I need to go to an isolation booth for about a week where no one touches me and especially where no one clings to my legs as if they were a demented monkey while I'm trying to walk.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

Scratch cling-to-legs-as-if-one-was-a-demented-monkey of the list of approved greetings for Sara.

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Friday, 7 July 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

Oh what, so now we're all semi-mystical, hyper-athletic spellcasters?
-- Dan Perry (djperr...), March 23rd, 2004 1:23 PM. (Dan Perry) (link)

Dan, I just read this and thought, "Some of my best friends are semi-mystical, hyper-athletic spellcasters."

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Friday, 7 July 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

Almost everyone I know from Hastings qualifies under at least two of those three qualities. Well, at least the ones I like.


Scratch cling-to-legs-as-if-one-was-a-demented-monkey of the list of approved greetings for Sara.

FB, exceptions may be made by application. Will be refused if person is smeared with peanut butter, however.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 7 July 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

Of the list or off the list? I'm not a very good spell-caster. Haha!

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Friday, 7 July 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

Spelling will no longer be graded, so no need to worry. Final grade composed of categories most would not begin to imagine (i.e. hazing through endless drama productions of varying quality, What Did Your Teacher Do (or Say), eluding police, surviving driving styles of friends, etc. etc.). You're still alive, so clearly you passed.

I always admired your spells; they are very clever. Clearly, word play and puns are one of your superpowers.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 7 July 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/1/184265017_75348a673f.jpg?v=0

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Friday, 7 July 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

Awesome! Combination of FB's visual joking superpower plus Dan's awesome dancing. Plus not everyone can pull off that shade of green.

Major xpost, sort of - So A. took a good look at the photo of some of us at the top of this page yesterday (as I was showing him the photo of Julie F3il and telling him that story - reminding really - but it was 1998 when that happened, so he was distracted by my hurling constantly). Anyway, his first question is, "Um, what is with the croquet mallet?"

(Also, A. seems to have put a Mr. Bungle song on my iPod. I found it the other day and was like, "????" He claims that his former roommate - who later became crazily religious - was a Mr. Bungle fan. I do not remember this at ALL; I just know that his roommate and he had mostly opposing music tastes. To get on Sc0tt's nerves to this day, we will put on the Pet Shop Boys. Of course now everything secular is maybe suspect, but still.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 7 July 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway, his first question is, "Um, what is with the croquet mallet?"

lolz +10

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 July 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

Mallet in shot = I thought that you had all been to see Heathers.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 7 July 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

That croquet mallet is one powerful accessory; the ability to confound others appears to be inexhaustible. (Personally, it always makes me think of Heathers and The Shining, not necessarily in that order.)

suzy - Heathers very important movie (to me anyway, since it featured my sister's name and all) and still one of my favorites. It's not in that photo, but I owned a monocle at one point... However, I don't believe that is what Dan was doing.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 7 July 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, so what happened now? The DildOlympics were won by Gbx, who screwed a teacher?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 July 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

Yes Ned, that is exactly what happened; everything went down at The Olive Garden.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE that 13 years later my thought process re: the croquet mallet ("It matches my outfit and it will confuse people!") is still bearing fruit.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 July 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

Ned! Hello!

If you read upthread a bit, you'll see who screwed a teacher (none of us, I assure you - that I know of anyway!). No comment on gbx's talents (do I want to know?)

But I do need to thank you for help with the song from "The Blob." A. was completely surprised and delighted when I dragged it home from the library. THANKS!

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 7 July 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

The DildOlympics were won by Gbx, who screwed a teacher?

Oh my!

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 7 July 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

btw, my original screenname, "giboyeux," was my french name in 12th grade.


IN CASE ANYONE WAS WONDERING.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 7 July 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, I should start calling myself "Wolfgang" to match. (Although at German camp I was "Siegfried", which was much better.)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 July 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE that 13 years later my thought process re: the croquet mallet ("It matches my outfit and it will confuse people!") is still bearing fruit.

I know, it's awesome! (I can't decide if it is more fun to confuse/horrify A. with stories about Hastings or if it is more fun to actually introduce him to the people featured in the stories... the funny thing to me is that I've had that particular photo out for years - in fact, it has always been out in our apartment or house - and he had apparently never noticed the croquet mallet before.)

xpost - Wolfgang?! (Me: French - Victoire, Christelle, Madeleine; German: Marlene; Spanish: Lila; other nefarious activities: numerous pseudonyms, but most commonly Q, Peg, Tabitha/Angelfire, and the one I still hear on a regular basis and detest, "Sare-Bear.")

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 7 July 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

You Eurotrash, you scum. (I love you.)

Yes Ned, that is exactly what happened; everything went down at The Olive Garden.

Everything or everyone? And is that how marinara-drenched breadsticks are supposed to look?

Ned! Hello!

HI DERE. Flickr photos of my vacation to be uploaded over the weekend or something.

But I do need to thank you for help with the song from "The Blob." A. was completely surprised and delighted when I dragged it home from the library. THANKS!

Hooray!

Oh my!

YOU ADMIT IT YOU SHAMELESS HUSSY.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 July 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

Is it bad form to say that I like the Olive Garden breadsticks dipped in the garlicky sauce they cook mussels in? (Have I said too much?!)

Ned, I'll be looking forward to seeing your photos.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 7 July 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

HAHAHAHAHA "Sare-Bear"!

I don't remember what my name in Spanish class was so I'm assuming it was "Diego".

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 July 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

Can we start calling you "Sara-tonin"?

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 July 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

God, and if you could hear the way they say "Sare-Bear," you'd really laugh. Not that I'm bitter or anything. (MJ is one of the few guilty ones who still use that and I'll never forget her walking into the delivery room when I was having Alex and saying, "Hi, Sare-Bear!" in her unnaturally cheerful voice. That's why I told the medical staff around us that MJ slaughtered goats for a living shortly thereafter.)

I swear half the reason I married someone younger than I am is that I was tired of being the group mascot for Youngest Friend.

Dan, you may call me "Sara-tonin," but not if you want to live.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 7 July 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

Sara-phim?

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 July 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

Dan transcends death. (As distinguished from me, who absconds with life.)

Sara-quim, surely.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 July 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

Haha I am so not the dead one now!

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 July 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

No no no. Good lord, you two.

Isn't there a quote about "it is good to have friends both in heaven and in hell...?" I can't think why that has popped into my head right now...

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 7 July 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

But yes, Ned is in more trouble... for the moment. On the other hand, Dan's video is close to my house, therefore retaliation is closer to hand.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 7 July 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

And thus the cosmic balance is restored.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 July 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

I never thought of Dan and John as so similar as to be twins, so now I am having trouble with Ned and Dan as twins. Or is it possible you are all triplets, separated at birth? Makes the most sense of any scenario posited yet!

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 7 July 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

Sara-tonin...Sara-phim...Sara-quim...

How to choose? Sara-phim may be my favorite.

Sara-cha sauce? No.

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Friday, 7 July 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

Sara-jevo

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Friday, 7 July 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

Plus FB = Quads. Your disguises are clever, but I'm on to your games.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 7 July 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

Sara-ppa The Rapper!

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 July 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

HAHAHAHAHA! In Hastings, nicknames you!

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Friday, 7 July 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

Sara, why must you break our collective hearts skulls?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 July 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

Breaking hearts and skulls is what Hastings is all about.

(Rapper?!)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 7 July 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.toysnjoys.com/psx/parappa.jpg

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 July 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, the resemblance is startling now that you mention it. (Time for me to get some spa treatments, don't you agree?)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 7 July 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

Of course hearing me attempt to rap would disabuse you of this notion post-haste.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 7 July 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, you'd do better than me, I'm sure.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 July 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

I was in a choir in college where the director informed us that he wished that he could replace us with the gospel choir for a piece (I guess because they had rhythm, but this bugged me since they were a primarily Black choir). My problem might not be WASPY lack of rhythm, but rather the inevitable giggling and laughing that I'd lapse into very quickly. Once I start laughing it's hard to get me back on any kind of track. (So unless rapping involves holding sides and crying Real Tears, I don't know... how could you be worse than that?!)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 7 July 2006 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

unless rapping involves holding sides and crying Real Tears

Sounds like Ja Rule to me.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 July 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

The reason I never listen to rap music becomes painfully clear...

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 7 July 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

u witey

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 July 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

Guilty. Even worse, my fondness for really sappy stuff. I can't help myself, though. (Possibly I make up for it with liking a broad variety of other music, and with making chocolate stuff at regular intervals? I assume that is why my family lets me live.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 7 July 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

"making chocolate stuff" as defense of whiteness C/D?

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Friday, 7 July 2006 23:05 (nineteen years ago)

No no, you mean 'making chocolate stuffed.'

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 July 2006 23:26 (nineteen years ago)

I can do nothing about being fishbelly white and you know it. (Burning and peeling is not a look or an experience that I enjoy.) I can and will, however, make a coconut chocolate icebox pie this weekend. NOT stuffed.

(Besides, I'm not making up for whiteness, but rather for my enjoyment of morose music.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 7 July 2006 23:46 (nineteen years ago)

FLUFFY BEAR U R MY FAVORITE


THAT IS ALL

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 8 July 2006 03:14 (nineteen years ago)

FUKC YOU GBX.

oh i am spurned.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Saturday, 8 July 2006 03:54 (nineteen years ago)

My husband says I don't understand the concept of "favorite."

You are all my favorites.

(SEE?)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 8 July 2006 03:58 (nineteen years ago)

(That being said, John, I can supply you with the lyrics to "Greensleeves" if necessary.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 8 July 2006 04:00 (nineteen years ago)

Alas my love
You do me wrong
To treat me so
Discourteously

HI DERE SENIOR YEAR MUSIC THEORY PROJECT

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Saturday, 8 July 2006 04:15 (nineteen years ago)

For those of you removed from the wacky world of comic books, I give you the artistic stylings of ROB LIEFELD, ESQ:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v143/Pandas/liefeldWTF.jpg

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Saturday, 8 July 2006 04:23 (nineteen years ago)

I had to sing "Greensleeves" in front of my voice class my first semester at Olaf. Thankfully, almost everyone else in the class had no singing experience at all, and so they were weirdly impressed with my limited ability. (Actually, that class was amazing - I swear people who were tone deaf could sing decently by the end of the semester. 4nt0n 4rmstrong impressed me.)

Comic books: my friend 4ndr3w owns a comic book store in Eagan and is a total fanatic (of course). He has me hooked on the Y: The Last Man series (not surprisingly, very few penises, but also no superheroes) and gave me a couple Fables graphic novels for my birthday one year. I am surprised by how much I like them! (Because I needed more addictions...)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 8 July 2006 04:34 (nineteen years ago)

(BTW Dan, if I had a scanner, I'd figure out how to send you the comic book style drawing of Stiletto I have sitting on my desk right now. So over the top!)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 8 July 2006 04:37 (nineteen years ago)

FAVORITES (insomnia edition)

Dan is my favorite for friendship bracelets, plays, pretending to be an MTC bus, general hilarity and being safe, always.
FB is my favorite for exploding caculators, police questioning, quirky good humor, visual puns and red hair.
gbx is my favorite for chemistry, premed programs, and Montana blues.
John is my favorite for insane music hidden in pockets, braids in hair, making Jell-O shots scientifically and once fixing the unfixable.
M@tt is my favorite for good humor and being in a BAND.
Ned is my favorite for irrational Hastings love, clear sweetness of spirit, kindness, and dirty jokes.
suzy is my favorite for lost aunts, fashion madness, and shared fish fear.

All that being said, if you make up more nicknames for me, I'm still going to smack you.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 8 July 2006 06:01 (nineteen years ago)

...with LOVE.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 8 July 2006 07:15 (nineteen years ago)

Being in a band and making Jell-O shots
Lost aunts, shared fish fear and being safe always
Pretending to be an MTC bus
These are a few of her favorite things

Friendship bracelets, plays and quirky good humor
Chemistry, premed and sweetness of spirit
Police quesioning, Montana, red hair
These are a few of her favorite things

Baiting Sara
With the nicknames
When we drive her mad
She simply remembers her favorite things
And posts on the Hastings Thread

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Saturday, 8 July 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

That tune will haunt me for the whole next week.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 8 July 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

I'm still taken by the devil cat

― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Saturday, 8 July 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

When you stare into the eyes of the devil cat, THE DEVIL CAT STARES INTO YOU.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Saturday, 8 July 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

When the devil cat last appeared, I ended up in a restaurant eating stir-fryed ginger-infused lobster, so the devil cat is A-OK with me.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Saturday, 8 July 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

That tune will haunt me for the whole next week.

It's a haunting of love. And Julie Andrews. (The two are not necessarily equatable.)

When the devil cat last appeared, I ended up in a restaurant eating stir-fryed ginger-infused lobster, so the devil cat is A-OK with me.

When it next appeared, THE TABLES WERE TURNED.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 8 July 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

Devil cat jealousy rampages through Hastings. (Dammit, being landlocked is not a good thing sometimes.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 8 July 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

I don't mind Julie Andrews; it's that film that I have mixed feelings about. (Also The Lonely Goatherd, but nevermind.)


Ned, not to worry, we can handle saving Dan from the Devil Cat if we must. Besides, as a mascot, I think it does have something to offer over and above an oversized mangy raccoon.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Saturday, 8 July 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

Visited Hastings today. Was not accosted by mangy raccoon. Survived experience, although wound up with headache.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 10 July 2006 03:10 (nineteen years ago)

Moving distracts me from my KEEPING HASTINGS #1 duties. I'm sorry. I feel I've let you all down.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Also, books are heavy, and the sun is hot.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

Books are heavy; last time we moved it was July, too. We had lots of volunteer helpers who complained about heavy boxes of books (if I wasn't bad enough about buying books, I also married a former English major with the same disease; it's amazing any of those people still speaks to us). Upside: the books are good insulation in winter, plus they are still books.

Anyway, try not to dehyrdate yourself in the process. Moving sucks. Dehydration makes it worse.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

I have yet to call in assistance for moving. Because I am MANLY. And stupid. And my friends are all deadbeats, like me.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

If I say that is the dumbest thing I've heard all day, will you be offended?

We usually feed people who help us move (pizza last time, but the time before was homemade lasangas of two varieties - easier to cook stuff when you don't have kids yet) and it sort of turns into a bizarre party. Offer food and/or booze. (Um, booze only after breakables have been moved).

Downside to last time was that there were seven children here to watch. I spent the entire afternoon counting and re-counting heads and thinking that Capt. Von Trapp had the right idea with the whistle in that movie.

(Best moment of that day - W1ll, age 9, looking at the cemetery and asking, "aren't you worried about zombies?")

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

i don't know what's worse, boxes of books or boxes of vinyl?

― M@tt He1geson, Rendolent Ding-Dong (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

Does vinyl melt? Cuz that would be worse. Boxes of melted stuff you wanted to keep. BAD.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

I HAVE BOTH. THEY ARE BOTH WORSE THAN EACH OTHER SOMEHOW.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

Moving anguish. Um... it will all be over soon?

(This is why I made A. promise that we would stay in this house at least 10 years. Because moving makes me completely crazy, rather than the semi-nutjob level I usually exist at.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

THEY ARE BOTH WORSE THAN EACH OTHER SOMEHOW.

OTM

everytime i move my vinyl collection and books it occurs to me that my entire life may have been a gigantic waste of time and money.

― M@tt He1geson, Rendolent Ding-Dong (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

Try adding comic books and DVDs to that.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

For fun! *weeps at the prospect of moving again*

HI DERE EVERYBODY. I saw llamas, did I mention that? Can I say it again?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

DVD's and videogames ALSO A PROBLEM.

Also, lest we forget, my towering compensatory penis of CD's.

M@tt OTM re:OH YES THIS IS WHY I HAVE NO SAVINGS.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Oh God, videogames AND gaming systems AND old computers...

I'm burning everything I own tonight.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

Rock collection beats books and vinyl. Context matters.

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Monday, 10 July 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

Also, boxes marked: "Things that look like other things."

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Monday, 10 July 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

PERHAPS I WILL MAKE YOU MOVE MY STUFF AS PUNISHMENT. YOU SON OF BITCH.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

Don't forget "Things that look like people" and "Round things: NOT MARBLES".

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I went with the punchline first.

Hey, oldey-timers. Can someone explain why Kingfish called me "Nude Spock" and what this means. (Other than "You are a jerk for calling people names for serial hot-link errors")

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Monday, 10 July 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

Amusing mistaken identity! Not complimentary.

Perhaps he wishes to give you his BOOTY JUICE.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

...flakes?

(Ripping rarely played CDs and selling them on = a cleansing feeling.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

Rock collection? (As in, like, actual rocks?)

xpost - Ned - llamas!?

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

OH GOD

Did I tell you guys the bootyflake story? I must have at some point...

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

????? (not me anyway)

(Um, is it a mistake to enquire, though?)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

YES, ACTUAL ROCKS. WHO CARRIED IT?

THIS GUY.

JOKE OF "WHAT THE FUCK IS IN THIS BOX?! ROCKS???" MADE LESS FUNNY BY THE REALIZATION THAT, IN FACT, THAT WAS WHAT WAS IN THE BOX.

xpost:no. what?

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

John, no need to yell. I was just asking is all. (now having small fit of giggles trying to imagine what era collection dates from... sorry.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

Stupid New Messages Alert. Well, here it is anyway:

Moving into third-floor apartment. 16 hours into the move. John is carrying boxes up final flight of stairs. Thinks, "This is heavy. What's in this box? Rocks?" Looks down. Reads label: "Jeff's rocks".

Found by friend, curled up and whimpering.

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Monday, 10 July 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

Oh so they were your rocks?

You guys are too cute.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - Ned - llamas!?

Llamas!

http://static.flickr.com/46/186220330_f7af7c0045.jpg

More here.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

Cool - llamas and other photos - thanks for link!

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

Hahahahahaha

Re: bootyflakes, start here and read down:
So I went to take out the trash the other night and...("next-door" sex, C or D?)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

Cool - llamas and other photos - thanks for link!

Yer welcome. More photos forthcoming, there are a number of sets up already.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=bootyflakes

GRR GOOGLE I HATE U

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

Nomeansno and llamas, two great tastes that go great together...

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

nomeansno is coming to the triple rock again! i'm not missing it this time.

― M@tt He1geson, Rendolent Ding-Dong (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

"Did you mean:Booty Flakes?"

Thx google. Hey Dan, you're famous!

xpost: M@tt - what? when?

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

john - Triple Rock - NOMEANSNO - Sept. 18 - 9pm 21+, $10.00...no openers announced yet, but it's on the 3R website.

― M@tt He1geson, Rendolent Ding-Dong (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

Hastings thread Nomeansno FAP?

Good lord, they're INCREDIBLE live.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

And you had all best well go. Donut's heard the new album and proclaimed it his release of the year. Based on the new songs I heard, I can see why.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

I have now been traumatized by Dan's story. I hope you're all happy now.

Ned, if you start walking, I'm sure you can be in the T.C. area by Sept. 18.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

omg raggett at the triple rock would be amazing!

― M@tt He1geson, Rendolent Ding-Dong (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

Hair everywhere!

And now Sara knows the joys of flakes o' the booty.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

Taken out of context, Ned's message seems particularly sinister.

I'm just sayin'.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

Ned's sinister bootyflakes.

NOMEANSNO is the best show I've ever seen (it's always hard to qualify that, but they're in the top 10 for sure). Yay, they're still alive!

NOMEANSNO FAN FAP.

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Monday, 10 July 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

Is this the kind of show where you come home with glitter in your underwear? I'm not sure I can repeat that experience without some kind of traumatic flashbacking.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

Is this the kind of show where you come home with glitter in your underwear?

Unless things have changed dramatically since the last time I saw NOMEANSNO...

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Monday, 10 July 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, I haven't heard the new album, so I can't say anything for certain.

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Monday, 10 July 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

I'm just saying, that was a surprising aftereffect of Consolidated/Meat Beat Manifesto. (apropos of nothing, that is also the night that M3liss4 and I stayed up so late that we came up with some really crazy thoughts. I'm sure no one else remembers my purple Italian spider named Mussolini. But she actually created one a few months later and gave it to me.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

they do a great cover of "domino dancing" on the new nomeansno!

― M@tt He1geson, Rendolent Ding-Dong (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

Well that's me out, then.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

You could just plug your ears!

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, if this works, it is me in 1996, playing the koto while wearing a kimono (in Japan, obv).

If it doesn't work, um, it isn't.

http://homepage.mac.com/arobinso/.Pictures/sara/sara-koto1.jpg

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

When the dog bites [twang]
When the bee stings [twang]
when I'm feeling sad...[twang]

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Monday, 10 July 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

I kind of think I look like I'm about to do some bizarre remake of The Exorcist, but I suppose The Sound of Music would have been equally out of context.

I can't remember what on Earth music I was supposed to be trying to play, but if I had to guess I'd say it was called Sakura. (It is amazing how many things are called "cherry blossom" in Japan). Our Japanese hosts found this whole thing very amusing. ("Let's dress up the gaijin! The only reason M4rn escaped is that they had made her do it on a previous visit).

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 10 July 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

my friend @ngie taught english in japan for a year. she said dudez would grope her on the subways all the time.

― M@tt He1geson, Rendolent Ding-Dong (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm. I was only there for two weeks and only had one experience that I would describe as a bit off - and I think that gentleman may have been slightly retarded (and yet he was able to address me in some English!). I have to say, though, that I was with a really tall woman and her very blonde, blue-eyed 2 year old son, so I was always with someone who looked like me. Mostly people wanted to touch the little boy's hair. We heard a lot of "Kawaii, desu ne?" (Isn't he cute?) and "Genki, desu ne?" (Isn't he energetic?)

My main problem in Japan was not being able to get enough water. Here if you go into a restaurant, often there is ice water available and if it isn't just there, you can ask and get it promptly. There, even in June when it is unbelievably hot and humid, a lot of the time the automatic thing to place in front of a guest is hot tea. One night at a sushi restaurant we just couldn't get them to bring any cold water no matter what we said (we were with a group of Japanese people, so it wasn't just that we looked different). We wound up drinking beer, which normally I don't care for but at least it was WET. (Also preferable to sake, which I really can't stand).

What most amazed me about the whole trip was how even kindergarteners on the train were able to speak a little English to me, when my Japanese was very limited.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

Of course, now that I think of it, maybe the men on the trains were afraid I was going to grope them back. Here is the cover of one of the books I read while there:

http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451185560.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

i should go to the tokyo game show one of these years, never been to japan....the flight seems like too much work.

― M@tt He1geson, Rendolent Ding-Dong (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 10 July 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

It is so far that it's almost unimaginable until you're well into it. I wouldn't go that far for less than 2 weeks, that is for sure. At the time there was no direct flight from Minneapolis, so we had a short layover in Chicago, a long layover in L.A. and then on to Narita. Then we had to take 3 different hour long train rides to the apartment in Hachioji. It was beyond exhausting. And I caught a horrible virus there that lasted about 2 months - A. insisted that I go to the doctor (who shockingly said, "uh, it's a virus, nothing I can do").

All worth it for a pretty fantastic time, actually. And in my mental dream house I have an ohuro - a deep Japanese bath that you soak in. You get clean first and then just... soak. It's awesome. (And weird - you keep the water for a few days and reheat it by pushing a button... kind of strange!)

I'd go back in a second, but not with young kids and not without knowing more Japanese than I did.

But you should go when you're young, childfree and energetic!

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 10 July 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I'm childfree. I guess 1/3 of me can go. I'll send my legs.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Monday, 10 July 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

I'd recommend sending your top half; it's hard to eat with just legs. Plus I'll spot you young because you're younger than I am.

I was just sitting here stewing about something and thinking, "(expletives deleted), I'd move John's g.d. boxes if he'd take over my life for an afternoon." I am not having a pleasant day. The irony would be that Julia would probably act all sweet and cute for you. (Also, you are probably not so tired of being grabbed by a small child that you want to lock yourself in the bathroom.) At least when you move the boxes there is a finite ending, not this endless wheel-spinning with Destructo Girl.

(Sorry to sound so bitchy; this has been a really frustrating afternoon on pretty much every level and I just feel completely incompetent.)

So yeah, send your upper 2/3 to Japan. Then you can eat and feed yourself at least.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 10 July 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

Sara, I'm jealous. Japan sounds wonderful. I imagine you twirling atop Mt. Fuji in your kimono, singing:

The ogawa when as for the hill as for them thousand years the hill which is sung my center which fills up my center with sound of music that we would like to sing all songs which are heard my center which is thought like the wing of the bird that rise my center to the wood from the lake we would like to strike, like the chime which it flies sigh that stumbles from the church of the breeze we would like to be attached, with sound of music with the song which has lived, goes down way in order to laugh, the skylark which learns the fact that the fact that you sing with the stone night of method is prayed likes as for me my center is lonely in the hill As for me who the time go my center which knows that a certain thing which I hear before I hear the thing sound of music am praised and I sing once more...[twang]

― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Tuesday, 11 July 2006 02:34 (nineteen years ago)

Oh don't be jealous. It actually was a great trip, but not one that took us to Mt. Fuji and there wasn't much singing. Although I did try to keep W1ll happy by singing on the trains once or twice - no wonder I didn't get groped. The trick is to take a spicy looking Erica Jong novel and a 2 year old and sing a few selections from Les Miserables in English. This will intimidate and confuse the natives so that The Sound of Music will be rendered completely superfluous.

We did have a good time, particularly when trying to find the souvenier A. had requested, a temple bell (M4rn's husband Cur7 had one and A. thought it was cool). We had to go to a Japanese funeral home and M4rn instructed me to "pretend I was a Buddhist." I never knew what that meant and I still don't, but I do have the temple bell.

Another great moment: M4rn looking at me over breakfast and thoughfully saying, "don't ever have an affair with Cur7; he doesn't clip his toenails very often." Sometimes her conversation borders on the surreal.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 02:58 (nineteen years ago)

Maoist Jokes:

How does the Amerikan womyn avoid the singles bar scene?
Answer: She marries her kidnapper.

HEYOOOOOOOOOOO!


― Fluffy Bear, Grand Admiral of the Hastings Thread Navy (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainb, Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

Oh dear.

My trip pictures are all up so you can go and laugh. Or not. There are a few more llama shots. The first ten sets, in more or less reverse chronological order. One of my favorites, from the humanless but not lifeless Minor Island -- those are indeed a bunch o' seals on the shore:

http://static.flickr.com/67/186986781_298094805b.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

You have tons of great photos; what beautiful scenery!

Jealous now...

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

It was a good time. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

It's just dawning on me that Ned lives on the West Coast and therefore likely has easy access to See's Candy. REALLY jealous now. Ned, I will try to refrain from jealous rage.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Alright, kids. Now ew need an anthem.

http://static.flickr.com/54/187412787_f45d42dadc.jpg

― Fluffy Bear, Perpetual 12-Year-Old (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

Ned, beautiful pictures. I love the Pacific Northwest.

― Fluffy Bear, Perpetual 12-Year-Old (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

Now ew need an anthem.

What, not the high school fight song? (Didn't it go "V-I-C-T-O-R-R-Y?" at one point? Surely that says all you need to know about that school.)

The other night I was walking on the treadmill, watching Buffy and someone on the show said something like, "we all know Sunnydale High isn't like other schools. Bad things happen here..." I thought of this thread and laughed (said laughter was tinged with nostalgic hysteria, of course).

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

ROFLALALALALALALALMAO

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

Hellchasm, Hellmouth... really, what's the difference.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

What, not the high school fight song?

No, I think we need an anthem. The fight song is a good place to start. Here's what I remember:

Hastings High School, you are the tops
Blue/gold, your colors, sport our mascot
O'er the line and through the net
You'll always be our very best bet

Anybody remember the rest of it?

― Fluffy Bear, Perpetual 12-Year-Old (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

I have a great memory for this - you've got the beginning exactly right. What follows:

...Hastings High School you're shooting high
V-I-C-T-O-R-R-Y
Loyal, steadfast, true to you
Our cheer is for Hastings High.

(sigh)

The music was the same as the ND fight song (popular choice), so being at football games there was always a strange haze. The only lyric I remember from the ND fight song was "shake down the thunder from the sky."

Anthems I can't help you with. Especially ones that have yet to be written. I'm better at remembering random stuff - words to songs in particular - exactly. Useless skills...

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

On the other hand, if there is an already established tune, I can sometimes come up with new lyrics that rhyme and scan. (I used to do this all the time with Les Miserables - that was what I did to entertain A. at 2 am when he'd wake me up to feed me bread to stave off morning sickness. Of course he hates that musical, so it was all the more fun for me.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

I'm thinking something like this:

Portugal National Anthem

Heroes of the sea, noble race,
Valiant and immortal nation,
Now is the hour to raise up on high once more
Portugal's splendour.
From out of the mists of memory,
Oh Homeland, we hear the voices
Of your great forefathers
That shall lead you on to victory!

CHORUS

To arms, to arms
On land and sea!
To arms, to arms
To fight for our Homeland!
To march against the enemy guns!

Unfurl the unconquerable flag
In the bright light of your sky!
Cry out to all Europe and the whole world
That Portugal has not perished.
Your happy land is kissed
By the Ocean that murmurs with love.
And your conquering arm
Has given new worlds to the world!

CHORUS

Salute the Sun that rises
On a smiling future:
Let the echo of an insult be
The signal for our revival.
The rays of that powerful dawn
Are like a mother's kisses
That protect us and support us
Against the insults of fate.

CHORUS

― Fluffy Bear, Perpetual 12-Year-Old (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

Our anthem could be a limerick:

There was an old biddy from Hastings
Who stockpiled guns, powder and casings
her gentleman caller
gave out a big holler
When caught out he got a lead basting

Or maybe not.

― Fluffy Bear, Perpetual 12-Year-Old (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

therefore likely has easy access to See's Candy

...as in just up the road from me at South Coast Plaza?

Ned, beautiful pictures. I love the Pacific Northwest.

It's a great place to go, for sure. :-)

The anthem should be that victory song from SpongeBob.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

The winner takes all
It's the thrill of one more kill
The last one to fall
Will never sacrifice their will

Don't ever look back
on the wind closing in
The only attack
were their wings on the wind
oh the daydream begins

And it's sweet, sweet, sweet victory,
And it's ours for the taking
It's ours for the fight
And it's sweet, sweet, sweet victory,
And the world is ours to follow

Sweet sweet sweet victory

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

OOOOOOH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25WfqPjblsk&search=victory

ALSO: GIMME HASTINGS LIMERICKS NOW PEOPLE

― Fluffy Bear, Perpetual 12-Year-Old (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

There once was a bear that fluffy
A perpetual youth and a toughie
But he started to weep
After he shagged all the sheep
Since it turned out their backsides were scruffy

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

I will have to be careful rhyming with raggett.

― Fluffy Bear, Perpetual 12-Year-Old (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

See, it's all already been done, therefore I am immune.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

There once was a Ned named Raggett
Who when he saw garbage yelled, "Bag it!"
He trolled all the dumpsters
For ragged mogwomp furs
Rejecting all meat without maggots

― Fluffy Bear, Perpetual 12-Year-Old (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

You try rhyming with "dumpster". I'll come back to that one.

― Fluffy Bear, Perpetual 12-Year-Old (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

Mugwump, surely. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

therefore likely has easy access to See's Candy

...as in just up the road from me at South Coast Plaza?

Ned, you irredeemable bastard. Eat some scotchmallows for me.

Then I was really confused about why Spongebob was covering an Abba song. (Oh, just misread the first line and jumped to confusing conclusion).

Limericks!!! Adorable.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

There was once was a cool Sara R-C
Looking for her own Mr. Darcy
Then a fine upstanding fellow
Gave her a scotchmallow
And now she has kids who speak Farsi

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

There once was loner named Raggett
Who like Onan squeezed it and gagged it
To a picture he'd glom
Of his pendulous mom
Where he blew it scraped it and bagged it.

― Fluffy Bear, Perpetual 12-Year-Old (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

OK, that's better. Onto new targets.

― Fluffy Bear, Perpetual 12-Year-Old (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

Alas, my mom is not pendulous. And after all, I only spoke of a bear.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

I've never met your mom. I'm sure she's quite lovely. You do realize that was the equivalent of a "your mama" joke.

Combined with incest and masturbation.

OK. OK.

― Fluffy Bear, Perpetual 12-Year-Old (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

It's a good thing Ned didn't actually go to our high school; the classes would have been even more chaotic. (Who would he have been on The Yesterday Show?)

Yay, I just got my financial aid stuff from St. Kate's, which on the surface looks very helpful. Also got tickets for A. and I to join my cousin to see the Raconteurs at First Ave. Insane impulses begin to pay off (or not; this could be the beginning of a death spiral for all I know). Still, much cheerier than yesterday.

I'm pretty sure than any limerick I write about any one of you is going to end up obscene.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

This is why we want you to write them.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

I SEE! (Okay, now I'm just thinking of Kyl3 saying that after looking at the I HAVE PUSSY EYE WARTS note. I can't say, "I see!" anymore without giggling.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

Young Perry, while roaming the towns
Wore a series of saddening frowns
The reason, to be sure
Was missing the Cure
So now he juggaloes for insane clowns

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

Nice one, Ned.

I came up with these on the bus.

Just nasty:

There once was a housewife named Sara
Who’s postman found her weeding terra
He said stay on your knees
She said do as you please
Just don’t let it run through my mascara

Almost without merit:

There was a good son named John Justen
Who’s father’s boots he was a dustin’
On his crown fell a slap
He looked up with a snap
On his chin siblings were a bustin’

Somewhat clever, actually:

There was a role-player named Dan
Who would dress up like a milk-man
Ol’ ball-and-chain Perry
Liked it in the derry
His mother took it in the can

Good luck with “Jeff Peterson”, hosers.

― Fluffy Bear, thy name is Jeff Peterson, Perpetual 12-Year-Old (Fluffy Bear Heart, Tuesday, 11 July 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff Peterson lived on a reef
Where he let off queef after queef
He'd gone there to be rid
Of an obnoxious wite kid
Who had sonned him in an AOL beef

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

FB you are going to be lucky to live. But.

Dan, Sara and John all wrote poems
And sent them to friend from their homes
They collected so many
And sold each for a penny
To Jeff, who bound them in tomes.

(and has the virtue of sticking a bit closer to reality, AHEM)

Not to mention that my mail carrier is a woman.

Jeff's limericks were all so obscene
No one could discern what they mean
They poisoned the thread
And hurt my poor head
And the brain bleach cannot get me clean.

(That last one is entirely Austin's extemporaneous creation, btw).

Also composed with Austin while cooking dinner - mostly Austin, really, he's good at this)

There once was a young man from Hastings
Who hosed illicit drug tastings
His plans went all wrong
On a trip to Hong Kong
When his sideburns detached from their pastings.

(I guess whoever that is will remain nameless).

In a town with an old spiral bridge
Whose children kept beer in the fridge
John Justen drank ten
Which impressed all the men
But caused him to fall off the ridge.

Hastings old spiral bridge clearly demonstrates
As Dan Perry frequently remonstrates
The morals of town
Could go up or go down
But John Justen's booze he defenestrates.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, that last one wins.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

It helps to marry an English major.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

Also, A.'s thoughts while watching me eat some Fritos (he hates Fritos):

There once was a girl who loved Fritos
She ate them while drinking mojitos
The salt and the booze
Quickly caused her to lose
The ends of her feet, but for 3 toes.

(My feet are fine, but I do love mojitos. And Fritos.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

It helps to marry an English major.

Well, I *am* one, so I approve even more of your excellent approach!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 23:26 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I'd like to claim that was what attracted me to him first. So I will.

That's right... I used to walk through the halls where they taught English, hoping for a date.... this explains every date I ever had. (Okay, that's pretty much all lies, but I do have an appreciation for people who are well-read. Evil First Boyfriend was proud to be practically illiterate... ugh. So English majors = awesome.)

Actually, one time I took an English class that was also a women's studies class. It was almost all women. On the first day of class, there was one guy who realized he was in the wrong room - and in a women's studies class - and he almost ran out of the room to escape.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

SOMEONE COME TO MY OFFICE AND REVIEW THESE EFFING DOCUMENTS.

Not you, Jeff. You go finish the foyer.

― subgenius (subgenius), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 23:35 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure any of the rest of us would be happy to do it except that none of us would know what to do with them. (I could check the grammar and spelling... maybe.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 23:45 (nineteen years ago)

There once was a lawyer subgenius
Who avoided accepting suppoenas
His secretary lie
in locos delicti
On which his briefs were filed sub judice

― Fluffy Bear, Perpetual 12-Year-Old (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

O'er Hastings a foul cloud begat
A queer gale that blew off my hat
T'was a big fire at Koch
from an old pipe that broke
Now the Old River Town smells like scat

― Fluffy Bear, Perpetual 12-Year-Old (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

I hope you don't mind, The thread was getting a little long.

Moved to: Hastings, The Young Man Who Was From There, And What Happened To His Pastings, Part 3: The Spiral Bridge Defenestrations

― Fluffy Bear, Perpetual 12-Year-Old (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 02:31 (nineteen years ago)

minnesotans, RIP for one of our own, Paul Nelson:

http://citypages.com/databank/27/1336/article14526.asp

― M@tt He1geson, Rendolent Ding-Dong (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

Hastings IS a warm gun (at school) - yikes!

http://www.startribune.com/local/east/89924847.html?elr=KArks:DCiUHc3E7_V_nDaycUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUr

― kulinary gangsta (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 15:39 (fifteen years ago)

I brought that up on the rolling used-to-be-mollification-but-is-now-random-burbling thread. The dude who did something similar when we were in high school was just trying to sell an old shotgun to someone; this makes him seem positively quaint in comparison.

(still not quite as hardcore as the bad seed 12-year-old whose mother dressed her like a creepy porcelain doll who tried to burn down the middle school back in '91, tho)

― Wood shavings! Laughing out loud! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 15:43 (fifteen years ago)

jesus h

― drink more beer and the doctor is a heghog (gbx), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 15:46 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

I will be in Shakopee again next week for Twin Cities folks who'd like to meet up

― Primm Slim, Robot Sheriff (kingfish), Thursday, 6 October 2011 04:34 (fourteen years ago)


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