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-which shark is the best? -what is something you are afraid of? -do you think pluto is a planet? -do you believe in aliens? -do you ever give panhandlers money? -every class has children that are having trouble following directions, what would you say/do to help manage that? -do you ever wish you could live alone? -when was the last time you went to the movies? what did you see?
- Great White. - Tim Tebow starting a game for the Jets. - Yes. - Yes. I think the universe is far too big and unexplored for there not to be any other forms of life out there. - Yes. I also will buy them a hot dog and water or something on a hot day. My dad always gave money to them so I grew up thinking it wasn't wrong to do so. I think it's sad some people do think that way. - Hit them. - Absolutely, my roommates are great and one of them is like my brother basically (I've known him for almost 20 years now), but there are times where I wish I could just sit on my couch naked and eat a bowl of ice cream. One day....one day. - Confession: I never, ever, ever, ever go to the movies. Ever. I'm not even remotely kidding. I think the last movie I saw in the theaters was....Jackass 3d? And that was only because we were in Cape Cod and it was basically a monsoon outside so we had to take cover somewhere.
You said that you have the tendency to go on Floyd binges. When you binge, is it within the Syd era, Waters era, post-Waters era, or a mixture?
When did you first fall in love with football? Did you play as a kid/teen, or have you always been a spectator?
- Usually Waters-era. I like stuff from when Syd was with the band, but I really have to be in a certain mood for it. - My dad had a copy of the Jets' Super Bowl III win and when I was 5 or 6 I got him to sit down and watch it with him. Seeing how happy my dad got (20 years after the actual game) was something that stuck with me I guess. I also remember being in awe of how Namath popped back from under center and with a flick of his wrist had a missile going at a WR. I was hooked.
I played up until the last game of my senior year of high school, when I got cheap shot and blew out my knee. I had been pretty much dominating a kid for an entire game, we were a minute from completing the upset that would send us to the state tourney, and he dove at my knee during a meaningless play. I was all set to play D-2 ball, but when that happened I decided to go to business school instead of chasing the dream.
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Eh, I realized after freshman year in college that I probably would've ended up quitting the team at some point anyway. And instead of going to school in NYC I would've been going to school in East Bumf*ck, PA. I'm okay with the way things worked out.
-where is one place you want to go but haven't? -who would you pick to play a free concert in central park? -what's the most important thing your mom taught you? Your dad? -hipsters or hippies? -what's your favorite ethnic food? -remember when you said you were being nice? That didn't last very long did it? -what's your dream car? -how old do you think you will be when you retire?
-where is one place you want to go but haven't? -who would you pick to play a free concert in central park? -what's the most important thing your mom taught you? Your dad? -hipsters or hippies? -what's your favorite ethnic food? -remember when you said you were being nice? That didn't last very long did it? -what's your dream car? -how old do you think you will be when you retire?
- Iceland - Pink Floyd (all living members involved) - Mom - patience (as funny as it is because of the way I interact on this board, in real life I'm an extremely patient person and rarely blow up or get so angry I can't compose myself), Dad - how to be a man (sounds corny, but it's true, my dad put himself last my entire life so I wouldn't ever have to worry about anything, so I find that inspirational in a way. - In what regard? Who would I rather be around? Hippies. Who would I rather have relations with? Hipster (they're hot and I'm simple, leave me alone) - Is Italian considered ethnic? *ducks from block of provolone cheese thrown at his head* No? Then this is tough to answer. I love food, grew up eating incredible food from all over the world, so I can't really pick a general ethnicity that I like over the other ones. I guess gun to head I'd say my favorite ethnic restaurant in the city is this Mongolian BBQ place, so I'll go with that. - I don't remember saying that, I probably said it while I was drunk. - I used to be into cars, and my answer would've been a '68 Shelby GT 500 Mustang. Hell, I'd even give you the color (silver/grey, and yes this is completely stolen from Gone In 60 Seconds, and no I don't care that I'm copying Nic Cage) - F*ck if I know. The way I see it my life can go in two major directions. I move from NYC and become a bigger fish in a smaller pond and become successful in a smaller market (and thus probably retire earlier), or I stay put and work a bit longer and probably a lot harder, but this is home. So either the normal retirement age, or 55ish if I'm lucky.
Which was the most scary? Which have you not experienced that you fear the most?
Hurricane, flood, tornado, earthquake, blizzard and a rogue wave hit a boat I was on once and capsized it.
I was too young to remember the hurricane, but my mom said she just sat with me in a closet and read to me by candlelight and I was fine. I'd say the rogue wave was scariest.
I think an avalanche would be the scariest, just a wall of ice coming down on you at a ridiculous speed.
Which was the most scary? Which have you not experienced that you fear the most?
Hurricane, flood, tornado, earthquake, blizzard and a rogue wave hit a boat I was on once and capsized it.
I was too young to remember the hurricane, but my mom said she just sat with me in a closet and read to me by candlelight and I was fine. I'd say the rogue wave was scariest.
I think an avalanche would be the scariest, just a wall of ice coming down on you at a ridiculous speed.
-which game of thrones family would you want to belong to? -do you think zombies could actually ever happen? -when you were little what scared you? -shorts or pants? -best era in history? -do you have a favorite painting or sculpture? -coco ice t's wife...hot or scary? -what is something that is overrated in NYC? -if you could change your first name to something else, what would you pick? -camping fest or city fest?
favorite pet of all time? and why? please post pics if you have them.
I've basically only had two real pets, and I loved them both. Sadie was a the runt of her litter (my parents' neighbors bred German shepherds, but when she wasn't going to get them $ they gave her to my parents). My parents got her when my mom was 7 months pregnant with me, so I grew up with her and she was an insane over-protective sister, basically. I don't have any pictures of her, though, at least not on my computer.
Oscar was a basset hound we rescued when he was about a year and a half and he passed away in July just shy of being 15 years old, which is ridiculously old for a basset. He pretended he was stupid so he would get away with stuff, but he's was pretty clever and his entire live revolved around stealing dog biscuits. Anyway, here are some pictures of Oscar:
Basset's typically have bad skin and get rashes when they're older, so we had to give Oscar baths at least once a week to keep his skin from getting infected. One day we were going to get one of our cars washed and saw they had a "Doggy Wash" on the side of the building, and it's basically a car wash for your dog. It was awesome so we just brought him there all the time, and despite his face in this picture he loved it.
And this is oscar rubbing his face on our ottoman, which he did constantly, sometimes I'm pretty sure just to drive my mom nuts.
Bassets are really cool dogs because they have a certain "I really don't give a f*ck about anything you want to do now or ever" attitude, but they're also giant puppies and really loving. And their howls. My God. There's a video on facebook of Oscar howling, but I don't know how to take it off Facebook and post it to Youtube, so here's a substitute:
(Yes, this is really how bassets act...Oscar would wake up from a nap, howl for 5 minutes until someone gave him a doggie biscuit, then fall back asleep)
If you could be a bird for a day, what kind of bird would you be? Why? Where would you go?
How do you normally spend New Years Eve?
Where were you for Y2K?
What is your favorite book?
Have you ever had a nail gun shooting competition?
- Peregrine falcon. I grew up looking for them on bridges and skyscrapers, and once in a while you'd be lucky enough to see one zip out of cloud cover to snatch a pigeon and be gone...all in a blink of an eye. Incredible precision for such a difficult thing to do (I would assume). And I'd fly as high as I could without passing out from lack of oxygen. - I've celebrated New Years with the same group of people every year since my sophomore year of college. The place changes every year, but the guest list doesn't. But overall I do what most people do, get drunk and try to get laid. - I was 15, so I was at a party at my friends house stealing beers downstairs while all our parents were upstairs getting drunk. Then my mom came to give us our "one cup" of champagne at midnight and my friend puked right in front of her. Now that I think about it, that might've been the moment she realized her son was going to be a pain in the ass for a decade (which I was). - Paradise Lost is probably my favorite fictional book. My favorite non-fiction book might be When The Garden Was Eden, and my favorite series of books is the Song of Ice & Fire books, but that might be because that's the only series-style books I've read since Goosebumps. Scratch that, Goosebumps wins. - My uncle was a carpenter and had a wood shop/barn in his back yard, so we used to get drunk and go back there to do stupid sh*t, but never a nail gun shooting contest. One time we did play a game where we were taking a hand saw by the handle, tossing it end-over-end at the other person who then had to catch it by the handle. We called it "the saw game" and my cousin got 22 stitches.
-which game of thrones family would you want to belong to? -do you think zombies could actually ever happen? -when you were little what scared you? -shorts or pants? -best era in history? -do you have a favorite painting or sculpture? -coco ice t's wife...hot or scary? -what is something that is overrated in NYC? -if you could change your first name to something else, what would you pick? -camping fest or city fest?
- Dorne. Those women are fi-yaaaaaa. - No. At least not in the "undead" sense. One day there could be a virus that makes people eat each other, though - Old people and the Reverend Al Sharpton - Uh, is it hot or cold? - Bronze age. - Mona Lisa.................j/k. That thing is dull and the size of a piece of computer paper. I thought Michelangelo's David was really impressive when I saw it, I also thought Van Gogh's museum was my favorite collection of art that I'd ever seen. - Sober flanzo: Scary. Drunk flanzo: Scary. - You mean besides the Yankees? NOTHING!!! WE DA BEST!!! j/k I think one thing people overrate is how mean the city is. I always go out of my way to give people directions when they're clearly lost, I try to be polite and courteous to older people and not backhand every little sh*t that slams into me because their parents think a NYC sidewalk in midtown is a f*cking playground.
I mean, don't get me wrong I know there are tons of sh*tty people here, but I think it's not at a higher rate than other places, I just think that there are so many due to the overall size of the population in NYC that it's inevitable you run into some of them. I've actually gotten into shoving matches with scummy homeless dudes and drug addicts on subways for harassing tourists. I can't stand that sh*t, and I know most NYers feel that way too.
And you know what's overrated? Pies n' Thighs. F*ck that place. - LeRoy (which is what my Dad wanted to name me) - Tough call. Roo is the only real camping I've done at a festival, so it's hard to say. I love the Roo community, but don't expect all camping festivals are like that. City fests are nice because I can sleep in my bed after a day of concerts.
How do football fans in NYC decide who to like between the Jets and Giants?
Well, it's hard to say. Historically, Jets/Mets and Yankees/Giants have always gone together. Obviously that's not the case for every NY-area sports fan, but generally speaking that's how it splits up. Mets/Jets rely on spurts of success and they do it kind of in "rockstar" fashion. Mets sucked, then had their '69 title (seemingly out of nowhere) with a bunch of nobodies, a "working class" team, so a lot of the fans that were left teamless after the Giants and Dodgers left went to the Mets. Then, since the Jets played games in Shea Stadium until the early 80's, Mets/Jets basically became Long Island's teams.
I think NY sports fans are split into 3rds for baseball/football. A little more than 1/3 are die-hard Yanks/Giants. A little less than 1/3 are die-hard Mets/Jets. Then there's a 3rd that just kind of floats from one side to the other depending on who is doing better. That's why the Jets were ZOMG SO SO SO SO SO SO popular when Rex first came, because he was new and exciting and that 1/3 of fans who don't really have an allegiance picked the Jets. Now, after last season, that 3rd is firmly back in the Giants' camp.
I know people that do this, I've called them on it, and they reply with the "I root for both" comment. I'm sorry, but that's just not allowed. You pick a side. If you don't care, just say you don't care. Just say "I like to root for a winner," it's not like we can't already see that. But when I scroll through a guy's FB photos and see a year-by-year breakdown where he's switching teams every other season? Bush league.
Anyway, most of us just go with what our dads rooted for. My Dad's family were die-hard NY Giants (baseball) fans, but when they left they sat in limbo until the Mets came. Then my Dad was 13, and a man by the name of Joseph William "Joe Willie" Namath came to the Jets, over the Giants. That single act had a huge impact on my dad's generation of sports fans, and their generation was pretty evenly split. You had the stalwart Giants, and the upstart Jets, and the Jets were better at that time. They won a lot of fans, then lost them in their awful 70s years, then won them back with solid 80s, then lost them in the early 90s, then got them in the late 90s, then lost them during the Mangini years, then got them and lost them in the Rex years. The Mets are very much the same way. The two franchises mirror each other quite a bit, until recently when the Jets got a great owner the Mets got stuck with the two sh*tbags they have now.
So, Mets/Jets and Yanks/Giants, 1/3 of the fans are flimsy and fair-weather, and our dads shape our rooting interests.
The peregrine falcon talk reminded me of a book series called Animorphs that I read as kid. One character got trapped per mantle into the body of a red-tailed hawk and had to adapt to a hawks life/diet lol
02/08 Tool 02/11 Jeff Mangum 02/17 of Montreal 02/29 Blind Pilot 03/31 The Naked & The Famous 05/14 M83 and I Break Horses 05/19 Flaming Lips, Young the Giant, Dawes and AWOLNATION 06/07 Bonnaroo 2012!!! 06/13 Roger Waters 07/28 Toadies
You've suddenly come into an ungodly amount of money. What's the Weirdest thing you do for yourself? Do for your family? Do for charity?
- Travel the US and watch a game from every major sport home arena (MLB, NBA, NHL and MLS...NFL would take more than one season, but I'd do that too). - I'd pay off my brother's student loans and give him a large sum to start an environmental urban planning firm. I'd buy my parents a house in Cape Cod and tell my dad to stop f*cking working and relax for once. - I already do a lot of charity-related stuff and volunteer work, to be honest. The illness that has impacted my life the most is breast cancer (grandmother died from it, three aunts have fought and beat it), but I feel like if I had a lot of money it should go to a lesser known illness that doesn't get the funding cancer does. So, I'd probably just have people send me causes and spread money out over a couple of them.
I was too young to remember the hurricane, but my mom said she just sat with me in a closet and read to me by candlelight and I was fine. I'd say the rogue wave was scariest.
We were 6 for Hurricane Bob, that's old enough to remember! I remember it! I was going to correct you and say that you were alive for Hurricane Gloria too, but apparently I was 3 months old, and you were still in the womb for that. Youngin'!
Welcome back Bonz, but I do not find it strange that your presence being requested in the Orgy thread and then you showing up, like it was the quacking Bonzai Bat Signal.
I was too young to remember the hurricane, but my mom said she just sat with me in a closet and read to me by candlelight and I was fine. I'd say the rogue wave was scariest.
We were 6 for Hurricane Bob, that's old enough to remember! I remember it! I was going to correct you and say that you were alive for Hurricane Gloria too, but apparently I was 3 months old, and you were still in the womb for that. Youngin'!
I have no idea why I thought this, but I always assumed you were a year younger than I am. I have no idea why.
And I vaguely remember Bob (I was 5, btw), but not well. I remember being outside and the sky being almost green, and it being eerily quiet. I was on Cape Cod for the hurricane, that much I remember.
-do you like pickles? -has a movie or tv show ever made you cry? what about a concert? -when you were little did you used to say i can't wait to be a grownup or did you wish to be a kid forever? -when you die what do you think happens? -if you could pick any area in NYC to live in, rent not an issue, where would you chose? -when was the last time you dressed up in a costume? what was it? -hahahahaa you used to wear earrings right? how long was that phase? diamonds or hoops? -do you collect anything? -what is your special talent?
You've suddenly come into an ungodly amount of money. What's the Weirdest thing you do for yourself? Do for your family? Do for charity?
- Travel the US and watch a game from every major sport home arena (MLB, NBA, NHL and MLS...NFL would take more than one season, but I'd do that too). - I'd pay off my brother's student loans and give him a large sum to start an environmental urban planning firm. I'd buy my parents a house in Cape Cod and tell my dad to stop f*cking working and relax for once. - I already do a lot of charity-related stuff and volunteer work, to be honest. The illness that has impacted my life the most is breast cancer (grandmother died from it, three aunts have fought and beat it), but I feel like if I had a lot of money it should go to a lesser known illness that doesn't get the funding cancer does. So, I'd probably just have people send me causes and spread money out over a couple of them.
Breast cancer survivor myself so gotta say I love you! Keep up the good work.
Post by Longtime and Frequent Poster on Sept 20, 2012 23:04:43 GMT -5
Here's a good one my friends and I have gotten into serious discussion about: Would you rather date a girl who was a HUGE sports fan, but was way into the Yankees/Pats/whatever other teams you hate, or a girl that didn't like sports whatsoever. All other things being equal of course.
What is your most embarrassing childhood memory you're willing to share with us?
Are there any photos of you wearing parachute pants? (I have a hunch about this one) If yes, please post.
I got pants'd in front of my entire grade at an assembly when I went up to speak at an assembly about bullying. Dick'n'balls for all to behold. I have quick hands so it was only half a second, but yeah that was pretty bad.
Parachute pants? Nah, my dad wouldn't allow those in our house. Although I did force my mom to buy my a pair of spandex bike shorts with a sweet orange racing stripe when we were in Cape Cod when I was like 3 or 4.