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Joined: 02 Dec 2005 Location: between a pothole and a ditch, Korea
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Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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| actually, it's pretty close to the giant 14 ft. tall potato |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:50 am Post subject: |
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a little off topic for this off topic
Stompin' Tom's old school house is just outside Tignish, North of the Potato Museum in O'Leary PEI. We decided to take a field trip there one weekend (I went to university in PEI) and then spent 4 hours at the museum and touched all the stuff in the school. The school was outside and there weren't any cameras, security nor real potatoes in sight. Good times good times. |
Is it next to a big flying saucer or a giant lobster trap? |
Obviously, you've been to the Maritimes. I used to live not too far away from a very large salmon and a monstrous strawberry. |
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khyber
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Compunction Junction
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Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:58 am Post subject: |
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did my intership in the town with the biggest "felled" mule deer in saskatchewan...the thing was fat as hell.
Also near the biggest sausage as well as the largest perogy.....
I can't even imagine being a town mayor and trying to sell one of these gimmicks...
"These days, EVERY town is getting the biggest, or longest whatever. Scottsdale just got the biggest phallus in the country for goodness sakes...
So, how are we, the tiny community of tatsville...gonna up them.
Well, tatvilliians, I have your answer.....
9 magic words
The biggest blade of grass western canada. Think about it...everyone loves grass. If everyone loves grass, well then, everyone will REALLY love the biggest blade of grass right?
Folks, this idea sells itself".
no one has ever told me to "f" off.... though my cousin threw a beer tray at the jerk oasis guy (hit him right in the back of the neck..it was sweeeet!) at a festival in holland and the whole band walked off stage. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 4:47 am Post subject: |
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It occurs to me now that I told Kevin J Anderson, hack author of loads of hack Star Wars and Dune novels, to f-off. Back when the Internet was small, 1995, I was a big time user of Usenet and some star wars groups. Anyway, I read a couple of Kevin J Anderson star wars novels and just tore them a new one on usenet. I guess Kevin J Anderson actually read that usenet channel and he sent me an email. One of those like "well, how many star wars novels have you written!" kind of defenses. I told him that didn't matter. What mattered was I was a consumer. Did I feel like I was getting value for my money by buying and reading his book? Hells no.
I don't have to be able to build my own car before I can express my displeasure about the lemon Ford I'm driving... |
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Mills
Joined: 07 Jan 2006 Location: Incheon
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:35 am Post subject: |
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| In 1998, or was it 99... some guys from A Tribe Called Quest yelled at me to get out of the crosswalk so their limo could get into the parking garage. |
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kermo

Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 4:03 pm Post subject: |
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This is not quite on target, but a little more relevant than giant potatoes. I wanted to share this anecdote but didn't think it deserved its own thread.
Yesterday at Incheon airport, I saw one of the Great F-Offs of Our Time. Airport security guys, as you might have noticed, walk around with great big rifles and a stern look on their dewy young faces.
I'm not sure what they did to rile this ol' grandpa, but he was tearing them a new one.
The beauty of it was that he wasn't saying a word. I suppose he was deaf, but this is not sign language I have ever witnessed before. They stood there politely as he wordlessly communicated his contempt, miming blowing snot out of his nose, spitting on the sidewalk, indicating horns on his head with his fingers, smaking an x with his hands over his face... just one offensive gesture after another, solemnly and silently. He was standing in front of the baggage-cart rack, and when I approached, he politely signaled me in like an air-traffic controller, then continued his silent tirade.
The two heavily-armed boys looked rather stunned, and I flashed one of them a grin to see if he was amused or perturbed. It was all rather Confucian. |
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Paji eh Wong

Joined: 03 Jun 2003
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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My friend got slapped upside the cabbage while taking a picture of Chrissy Hyde. Its a great picture, the lady's got a nice wind up.
Does that count? |
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JAWINSEOUL
Joined: 19 Nov 2005
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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| I'd say a nice slap is worth a couple of "F" offs |
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fancypants
Joined: 22 May 2005
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Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 11:20 am Post subject: |
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Terry Gilliam politely suggested I was an idiot. Would that count?
And I did piss off Howard Zinn by mistake once. |
what did you do to piss them off? |
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Jellypah

Joined: 27 Oct 2004 Location: ROK
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Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 12:01 pm Post subject: |
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My friend told Rob Lowe to *beep* off a few years back. He was coming out of the Sutton Place Hotel and my friend wanted to talk to him, but his female assistant intercepted and was all "no, he's not talking to people."
My friend screamed at him, "oh you're So busy! *beep* you, asshole!" Then she saluted his leaving car with her middle finger.
Canadian artist Doug Cameron, who had a hit woth "Mona and the Children" at the time, interrupted his concert to tell my friends and I to "shut up." It was a dinner/concert thing, and I guess our conversation and the fact we were barely listening to him pissed him off.
This is not a "eff off" but my friend went to hug Morrisey as he was making his way off stage, and she tripped on her approach. She ended up tackling him at the knees and he landed face up in the dirt. I laughed my ass off! |
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Panic Button
Joined: 15 Jul 2005
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 3:55 am Post subject: |
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When Andy Cole played for Newcastle (about ten years ago) my mate asked for his autograph outside the training ground, and Andy Cole wrote:
"F**k Off,
Andy Cole"
in my mate's autograph book. |
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fatpat
Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Location: The bright lights of Namchang
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 7:47 am Post subject: |
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| My sister went up to Rolf Harris and started making funny noises at him, the kind that he does in his wierd songs. Anyway, you guessed it he told her to f off. Jimmy Saville (He used to be the presenter on UK TV programme 'Jim'll fix it', a show where Jim made children's dreams come true) was jogging in a park in my hometown Leeds and my friend, then aged about 12 asked for an autograph but he couldn't fix it for her and told her to f off. |
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ddeubel

Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 2:10 am Post subject: |
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God.................for many private reasons. To paraphrase a great poet, "thank god I'm not Jesus and have to love everybody.".
Must have worked, he/she/it hasn't replied yet. My only proof that he/she/it actually exists. I guess in some way this is the categorical imperative.....
DD |
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Zenpickle
Joined: 06 Jan 2004 Location: Anyang -- Bisan
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Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 3:02 am Post subject: |
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| fancypants wrote: |
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Terry Gilliam politely suggested I was an idiot. Would that count?
And I did piss off Howard Zinn by mistake once. |
what did you do to piss them off? |
Terry Gilliam: Asked him a question about the political significance of the Knights Who Said "Nee"
Howard Zinn: Got the dates confused to do a phone interview on our radio show, so we called him for a live hour unprepared. |
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cwemory

Joined: 14 Jan 2006 Location: Gunpo, Korea
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Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 6:55 am Post subject: |
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Thom Yorke
SNL afterparty
New York, October 2000 |
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