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Post by default on Aug 21, 2010 13:31:40 GMT -5
Squeeze-Its were great. After they were discontinued, my pap used to pick them up at the discount grocery in town.
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Post by default on Aug 21, 2010 13:29:00 GMT -5
I dunno, part of me wants to say Molly from Bump in the Night, but the other part of my brain says that if she were real, I'd hit it.
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Post by default on Aug 20, 2010 15:11:12 GMT -5
For anyone who doesn't remember Funcoland, or didn't have them around, imagine Gamestop, except you could actually try the games before you bought them, there was a newspaper with published trade-in rates, and the staff was actually helpful. Plus, don't forget that you could buy older games like NES, SNES, Sega, etc. I fell in love with Funcoland was sad to hear them go, even though I had only been to one once as there weren't any around close. We had Electronics Boutique here before Gamestop bought them out as well. While EB paled to Funcoland, it was still a big bummer. EB just had a better vibe, more well mannered clerks, and a far better PC selection. (I had a friend who was big into PC gaming and apparently after the buyout he walked in, asked if that was all the PC titles, then laughed and walked out. It WAS stupid, as there was a college town nearby and most of them played LAN games... and it was a private college, so they wouldn't just buy one copy and pirate it.)
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Post by default on Aug 20, 2010 14:19:45 GMT -5
We still have a Best Plaza in Torrance even though Best has been out of business for years. Most of my dining room and kitchen furniture came from Montgomery Wards. My 'place to go' for home repair stuff used to be either Channel or Rickel. For sporting goods it was always Herman's. I loved the ads for Crazy Eddie, but I spent more money at (Nobody Beats) The Wiz. And I still have two shirts and a pair of shorts that I bought from the Warner Brothers Store. My dad used to work Montgomery Wards, which was slightly before my time (at least the one in my area.) My bro actually has the first microwave he ever bought, back in '79 and it still runs (granted, it's been through over a dozen fuses), and it's honking HUGE, but it's just absurd the way the thing still works. I've actually seen quite a few in the area at thrift and yard sales. In fact, I've been offered at least two for free if I wanted them, both people saying they still worked. I also shed a tear when Value City closed. They were great for discount shopping, especially being a guy who wears men's small-medium shirts and 29x30 jeans as they always had a nice selection of odd sizes for good prices (My bro and I used to get South Pole jeans there for $15). I also took my friend there who's 6'6" and was wearing 4 to 5 xl shirts and he had a field day, buying over $100 of stuff. I think the best, though, was the day shortly before they closed that I went and was buying up my bro t-shirts for like .50-$1 off the clearance racks and then found a pair of designer jeans my size with dragons stitched on the back pockets. They ended up being under $1.50. Sadly, I forget a lot of the other stores names that went out. Usually, I'd go with my grandmother last minute and she'd buy up $5 worth of off-season Christmas decorations while my bro and I ran around nuts. Oh, and The Book Store, which was an awesome little book store (duh) in the town I grew up in. They went out of business in like '01. I remember I just got my final pay check from my first job which was about $120. I promptly spent about all of it on 3 for $12 wrestling videos. Last day, they dropped everything down to $1 as it was pretty well picked over and I was about flat broke. Then they busted out a box of still sealed clamshell WWF tapes they found in the back. I snagged up about 5, which is all I had left. But even before that, it was just a cool place. The only real place to get comic books and Wizard magazine. I remember one day I returned a pack of trading cards that had fallen out of a copy to the clerk and she threw it in my bag.
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Post by default on Aug 20, 2010 12:54:27 GMT -5
Its how I got my incredible on base % in babe ruth league. Nobody could hit the strike zone. Of course by the end of the year it seemed like more pitchers got it so I was hurt. I never played too much anyway... I suck at baseball. Same here, my one base percentage was in the top three on our team... complete with my like .013 batting average (one hit all season... off the only female pitcher, no less). Turns out being short, skinny as hell and left handed meant ball after ball. In a few games, the coach even yelled out to walk me. More often, though, they'd walk to the mound and whispered to the pitcher to, I believe. I also once got to take a base once when a ball hit the dirt about two or three inches in front of me and rolled in, hitting my shoe.
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Post by default on Aug 20, 2010 12:48:04 GMT -5
Nash's stories are almost always entertaining. That's a good suggestion. When I think about it, his stories would be great to and extremely funny. Especially the antics with Scott Hall, Shawn Michaels, Triple H and Sean Waltman. Regarding an Undertaker story, there's a good one that Jake Roberts goes into a little bit of detail about on his WWE DVD a few years back. In 1996 when Jake came back to the WWE and was trying to recover from his "demons", he was being taunted by some of the younger talent in a bar to have a drink. To the point where it got so bad that Taker stepped in and told them all to back off because Jake "will drink them under the f'n table". Would love to have heard the outcome of that one. Wonder if Taker taped his fists? Paul Bearer told one about Taker back in the day, after they were drinking at the bar. Taker didn't want to go to the hotel yet and Bearer did and had the rental car. So he leant it to Taker who dropped him off. The next morning, Bearer can't find Taker and ends up going outside to look around and possibly catch a ride with someone else and pray Taker shows up to the next show. Then Taker pulls up in the rental sans makeup, but looking completely in character. Pale as a ghost, heavy eyes, etc.
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Post by default on Aug 20, 2010 12:41:02 GMT -5
The ironic thing? The thing that attracted my family to the original Hardee's was actually bought from the Roy Rogers company. Yep. For a while, a couple of the Hardee's locations in Harrisburg, PA were converted over to Roy Rogers, during the temporary merge. Carl's Jr. has turned that franchise to s***. I'm not surprised. I used to joke to my friend that there were so many Hardees in and around Harrisburg, they would one day fence in the town and the employees would form an overnight military, seceding from PA and the US and becoming Hardeesburg.
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Post by default on Aug 20, 2010 12:34:44 GMT -5
Yeah, Little League is about sportsmanship/teamwork and learning the basics and less about winning (at least in theory).
The year I played, I can remember exactly one homerun being hit. It was in a scrimmage where the other team didn't show, minus one kid (who my dad gave a ride to as he was our neighbor.) The "kid" who hit it was in HS and our team was a bunch of 5th and 6th graders. (I was on first base thanks to a walk which loaded the bases so it was awesome for me.)
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Post by default on Aug 20, 2010 10:52:46 GMT -5
So it appears as if... ...Batman is robbin.
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Post by default on Aug 20, 2010 10:46:23 GMT -5
May I suggest if a father tests negative that you offer him a German sausage with gooey processed spicy cheese on top? Then deliver it to him screaming "NACHO BRAT! NACHO BRAT! NACHO BRAT!"
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Post by default on Aug 20, 2010 10:41:06 GMT -5
In school I did a lot, now I still correct them quickly, unless it's a telemarketer, then I just use it as a quick exit point.
It's sad as my last name isn't something insanely long or overly complicated. It looks like it sounds... Knouse... House with an N at the beginning. It's one syllable and the Kn follows basic English. However, some idiot distant relatives pronounce it Kuh-nouse and one of them runs a computer store in the area I lived. There were also some others in the area with Kn-names that pronounced the K, like Knarr-s. (And furthermore, apparently there's some even more distant relatives that spell it Kanouse. They probably get KAN-ouse, though. But screw them.)
It was great snapping back at the English teachers, though. "You don't kuh-nit a sweater or tie a kuh-not and undo it with a kuh-nife. It's Knouse, not Kuh-nouse."
I've always laugh on the occasion I got "Noose", though, as it was always the first option on spell check on Word. (Oddly enough, the old apples in elementary and middle school would suggest first "Nazi" for some strange reason.)
If my dad got Noose or Kuh-noose, he'd tell them to learn to pronounce his name and hang up. Then one day a telemarketer called and said "Hello, Mr. Noose." to me and I said "hi" and he asked how I was doing so I said "JUST HANGING OUT!" and hung up laughing.
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Post by default on Aug 20, 2010 10:21:12 GMT -5
A Sid signed Sque-Gee would be awesome.
Oh, and while completely unrelated to the persons... my friends and I went to the first Raw on TNN back in '00 and were hounding wrestlers to come to the fence and sign autographs. Only Lilian and Pete Gas showed up. By the time they did, others were over with us hounding them too. They both gladly signed everything for everyone, including a guy who had them both sign his cardboard cutout of Foley shilling Beef-a-Roni.
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Post by default on Aug 20, 2010 0:36:20 GMT -5
And a new Tom-Tom Club, as soon as I finish editing it and post it. Damn tornado in my neighborhood screwing up the evening. Jed Shaffer ~I'm serious. We had a tornado. No, really. A flippin' tornado. ...a Human Tornado?
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Post by default on Aug 19, 2010 13:52:33 GMT -5
I wonder if they outdo the nutritional values of the Hungryman XXLs?
(I actually ate one of those in high school because of Booker T's commercials. Complete with Booker T hijinks in the grocery aisle when purchasing.)
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Post by default on Aug 19, 2010 13:47:43 GMT -5
The Critic.
My Name Is Earl (I'm hoping, but doubting it will get one to wrap things up.)
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Post by default on Aug 19, 2010 13:45:08 GMT -5
I'm an Eagles fan because of Brian Dawkins (and to a lesser extent, their early '00 defense). Sheer awe of his playing ability led to me becoming a fan of the team. Granted, location and access had a little to do with it... the FOX station on my TV came in clearer (...it was heavily sliced cable)
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Post by default on Aug 19, 2010 13:40:16 GMT -5
I'd let it be known. People should realize with the economy in the shape it is and the amount of people lining up for practically every job that this type of stuff won't fly. And if this was a restaurant, I feel really bad as it's fairly hard to keep them afloat anyway from the statistics I've seen.
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Post by default on Aug 19, 2010 13:31:01 GMT -5
I have tons of tons, but quite a few aren't on youtube. Anyway...
Warning: Language Daft Punk vs. Pussycat Dolls vs. Limp Bizkit vs. Slayer
Juke Box Hero Project (DJ John's work is insane.)
And the classic... Sweet Home Country Grammer
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Post by default on Aug 19, 2010 12:38:25 GMT -5
I don't think it's fair to allow yourself to feel old because of old technology. Hell, the original iPod is completely obsolete and that was just within the last decade. Now, seeing Percy Pringle and Mick Foley talking on Twitter today about the Boiler Room Brawl being 14 years ago today.... made me feel REALLY f***ing old. That reminds me, while not overly popular... newer fans calling ECW/WCW/the Attitude Era retro. I heard someone at the mall a short while back in the wrestling section nearby say something along the lines of "I used to watch old school WWF. Back when Stone Cold was around." I know he's been gone a while and the product has changed, but still...
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Post by default on Aug 19, 2010 6:15:38 GMT -5
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