"It doesn't get any better than this."

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― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 15 February 2004 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

My guitar is better!

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 15 February 2004 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Aja, just so you know, many years ago this phrase was associated with a series of advertisements for a piss-poor brand of beer. The advertisements were also pretty lame.

jody is probably implying that only "asshats" are weak-minded enough to have adopted the phrase IRL. In any event, it isn't much of a point to hang a thread on.

― Aimless, Sunday, 15 February 2004 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

In either case, my guitar is better.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 15 February 2004 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Bravo!

― Aimless, Sunday, 15 February 2004 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

In any event, it isn't much of a point to hang a thread on.

I didn't think so either, but this phrase is REALLY starting to chap my hide. Especially bad when uttered by weekend-warrior paintball/skydiver/stormchaser cockfarmers.

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 15 February 2004 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, then, that makes all the difference.

― Aimless, Sunday, 15 February 2004 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

ts: starting pointless threads that waste people's time vs wasting your time complaining about them

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 15 February 2004 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

This is what my guitar looks like. Mine is left-handed though.

http://www.zzounds.com/media/brand,zzounds/p20639H-df1b4f235931493f090485dfffa41af0.jpg

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 15 February 2004 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

i like to think aimless ws bein serious in his second post

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 15 February 2004 18:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Trying to wriggle out, are you? Scotch rub!

― Aimless, Sunday, 15 February 2004 18:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Especially bad when uttered by weekend-warrior paintball/skydiver/stormchaser cockfarmers.

This made me imagine that Jody has been getting unsoliticed friendster messages from Dan Cortese.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 15 February 2004 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.wtv-zone.com/Blulady/GIFS/7/77/SadEyesPup2.jpg

It doesn't?

― jazz odysseus, Sunday, 15 February 2004 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Dan Cortese.

so OTM it's depressing

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 15 February 2004 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

this can be a thread about weekend-warrior paintball/skydiver/stormchaser cockfarmers too if you like

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 15 February 2004 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Aw, black-haired puppy. :-)

As for said cockfarmers, they can go and farm all that cock.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 15 February 2004 19:15 (twenty-two years ago)

That phrase always makes me think of Poison's "Nothing But a Good Time".

― Arthur (Arthur), Sunday, 15 February 2004 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and their hair

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 15 February 2004 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/TV/08/01/mtv.cnna/story.dan.cortese.jpg

I LOVE THIS PLACE!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 15 February 2004 19:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Please wash out your mouth with soap (then chop off your head).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 15 February 2004 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.hknet.org.nz/skydiving-group.jpg
this is undoubtedly what Dan Cortese would prescribe for ILX blues.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 15 February 2004 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

HAHAHAHA. oh, the ill-fated attempts of Burger King to increase market share, when they used to make popcorn and have the employees deliver the food to your table...

― Kingfish Beatbox (Kingfish), Sunday, 15 February 2004 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.afn.org/skydive/people/atsign96.gif
NOTHIN' BUT A GOOOOD TIME!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 15 February 2004 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Learn to FLY!!!

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 15 February 2004 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.mountaindewguide.com/dewad8.jpg
AWOOOOOOO!!!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 15 February 2004 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

come to the light...

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 15 February 2004 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

HAHAHAHA. oh, the ill-fated attempts of Burger King to increase market share, when they used to make popcorn and have the employees deliver the food to your table...

That said, nothing but nothing ever beat the idiocy of...

HERB

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 15 February 2004 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

That picture has convinced me to drink some soda

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 15 February 2004 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

http://gorillanation.studiostore.com/images/p/CRH/pcCRH.jpg

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 15 February 2004 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, I'm sure Cortese would agree that it doesn't get better than herb.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 15 February 2004 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes yes yes but READ THE LINK.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 15 February 2004 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)

dude! Herb made it to Wrestlemania!

― Kingfish Beatbox (Kingfish), Sunday, 15 February 2004 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

it says this page cannot be displayed for me, but I do remember the buzz around my elementary school that Herb did cause.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 15 February 2004 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Waldo was so on his jock.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 15 February 2004 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

This is true.

Herb the Nerd - In 1985 the Burger King Corporation launched a 40 million dollar campaign featuring "Herb" the only man in America who hadn't tasted the goodness of their hamburger products. Herb was never seen in the early commercials but the awe and astonishment over the fact that Herb hadn't tasted a Burger King burger was the focus of the campaign. Mock testimonials from family members and friends were edited into the commercial telling how different Herb was from other people and imploring him to eat at Burger King. Finally, Herb was revealed to the public. He was played by John Merrick, a classically trained 35-year-old actor who donned glasses, white socks, and pants that didn't quite reach his ankles. Herb's nerdish persona was hawked in all sorts of advertising gimmickry including tee-shirts which read "I dated Herb." NBC's SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE lampooned the campaign by holding a mock press conference with Herb and his lawyer pleading with the American public to let the man be and give him back his anonymity. John Merrick made personal appearances at Burger King restaurants nationwide, giving prizes to anyone who first recognized him when he entered the burger joints. One year later, Herb and his popularity fizzled (or as one reporter put it "the Herb campaign wilted like week-old lettuce." The Herb the Nerd ad campaign was created by the J. Walter Thompson Co. ad agency and became one of the decade's biggest failures.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 15 February 2004 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I like that they bothered to mention his classical training.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 15 February 2004 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Didn't he realize he'll never do Shakespeare In The Park if somebody in the audience can yell "I FOUND HERB!" at him?

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 15 February 2004 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

John Merrick is The Elephant Herb.

"I AM NOT AN AD CAMPAIGN."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 15 February 2004 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.retrocrush.com/archive/fiasco/herb.jpg

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 15 February 2004 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

You beat me to the "Elephant Man" joke... *sigh* I guess it really doesn't get any better.

― jazz odysseus, Sunday, 15 February 2004 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

if that doesn't work...
http://www.retrocrush.com/archive/fiasco/herb.jpg

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 15 February 2004 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

that link works if I cut and paste it but not if I press on it. That image would make me feel old if you guys weren't so much older. SO much older.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 15 February 2004 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

but miccio, i'm a little older than you!

― jody love (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 15 February 2004 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

And I'm assuming I'm younger

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 15 February 2004 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

hee hee

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 15 February 2004 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

it just doesn't get any better than this.

― 100% WJE (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 6 October 2005 04:54 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg6YC2AXqQo&feature=related

― velko, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 07:24 (sixteen years ago)

as close as you can get to flying without leaving the ground

― andrew m., Tuesday, 9 June 2009 16:54 (sixteen years ago)

no, that's called "jumping"

― snoball, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 17:03 (sixteen years ago)

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