Jim Mills said:
For some damn reason Beau, your just not normal.... Now I don't mean that in a bad way..... It's just your so full of.. how should I say it...... Fvcking (weird) information...... All I know is my reps went out of control. :blink: and I finally passed the hammer.... This isn't your ordinary hammer either..... Take a look and see why it really hurt.
The hammer you've posted, I believe, is a Samoan tattoo hammer. Now, mind you, I know nothing of tattoos .....
Re normal - I should offer a little insight. I am actually very much a "white bread and mayonnaise" type of guy (e.g., I don’t drink, have three great kids, faithful husband, etc.). I always though being a creative goofball “came easy” to everyone. I’ve since learned differently.
Professionally, with what I do/manage, I don’t have much of a creative outlet. I suppose I do in a lot of ways (after all they pay me to find solutions, and to manage corporate functions to do the same); but not the sort of creative absurdity – ala’ David Letterman. No, not the homogenized, toned down Letterman of the CBS era, but the “real” Letterman from the early NBC days. The kind of creativity that enables one to envision a man donning a Alka Seltzer suit and submerging himself into a tank of water. And why would a man do so? Just because. The same type of rationale one would use to explain why he might own copies of “Repo Man”; both in VHS and DVD. The same type of reason on would memorize a good deal of the dialog from the Monty Python “Hungarian Tobacconist” skit, give your kids about 20 different nicknames; you get the drift.
I get a kick out of having fun like this. I like reading (and hope others do as well) things that make me think “wow, how in the dog wamp did he come up with that?”, and shake my head laughing. Take a second and look back at the genesis of this thread. It progressed from a somewhat normal question (although, for the life of me, I don’t see why one would squeeze their (own) nipples “REALLY” hard), and then took a few turns. Notice these turns were not mean-spirited of at someone’s expense, they were a collection of people throwing in odd comments. You know, one begets another, begets another …. Sort of like the things guys do when drinking – and eventually one really drunk guy says “Hey watch this” and then does something that takes on a life of its own (frequently, never to be forgotten). Along the lines of a misplaced piece of coal.
One might guess, with many of the obscure references I use, that I watch a tremendous amount of TV. Actually I watch very little TV. Still, I think it is a great deal of fun to use some odd entertainment or sports references – in ways that make little, if any, sense. I would guess, prior to having these names thrown in the hat, most who have read this thread haven’t spent an enormous amount of time wondering what Fred Grandy is doing, or trying to figure out the name of the actress who played Aunt Bea. I think it is sort of cool to use these icons in totally out of character ways. The same thing for making it appear that some people would actually know of the song Tiny Girls (a confession, I’ve heard a few Iggy Pop songs – but nothing off “The Idiot”). When is the last time you heard the name "Blue Moon" Odom (or heard his real first/middle name)? To me that is part of the fun.
Jim – here is the scary part – this stuff just rolls off the keyboard. Other than correcting typos, I spend almost no time actually thinking this stuff up. It just runs it own course. This I promise: I’ve never once thought about what I would say or how I would respond if someone would reply to a thread. Now that would take all the fun out of it..
Perhaps the most unusual of all: In the threads I take the time to participate in, probably 75% of the time I try to offer some (hopefully sound) advice and suggestions on how to deal with troublesome matters (depression, girlfriend cheating, etc.). Now the other 25% is just pure mayhem, stuff like this thread.
Normal? I guess not. That wouldn't be any fun.