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Stephen
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Sep 21, 2009 05:14PM
Now I get it, you send Heidi in to do the dirty work. Very clever.
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, Jim?
Yeah, everybody else would have said brawn, but not me, :-D.
So...was there really a James? Everyone talks about James and makes comments to James but I arrive late to find no James. Now I picture him as a cypher who moves the plot along, like Guffman or Keyser Soze.Also, knowing that Heidi punched a wiseacre in the jaw for saying that she probably hits like a girl makes me an even bigger fan of her than I already was.
Wiseacre should be word of the day! Oh, and Ave Tadpole. Where have you been?
And that's what I love about Heidi - she's modest, but she's no pushover.
As for our "friend" who insisted on challenging you...yeah, I heard about that story. Silly man. He's one of the LEAST badassed people around who fancies himself as some kind of badassed. I wish I'd had been there just to laugh in his face.
As for our "friend" who insisted on challenging you...yeah, I heard about that story. Silly man. He's one of the LEAST badassed people around who fancies himself as some kind of badassed. I wish I'd had been there just to laugh in his face.
Hi James, and welcome.Stephen: Sometimes I get distracted by things that are blinking or shiny.
I've heard that Barracuda are like that too. :-)
tadpole wrote: "Also, knowing that Heidi punched a wiseacre in the jaw for saying that she probably hits like a girl makes me an even bigger fan of her than I already was."a. I was 22 - young, proud, and immature.
b. I'd had a few drinks.
c. I had a massive crush on that guy - 6'5" baseball player (ended up playing in "the biggies," as he called it) from California.
I don't know that I'd ever do it again (then again, I don't know that I wouldn't) because the circumstances will never be the same.
Gus wrote: "As for our "friend" who insisted on challenging you...yeah, I heard about that story. Silly man. He's one of the LEAST ba..."Well, we DID convince him that our friend, who he'd not met before that night, was Norwegian royalty and that pink is outlawed in Norway because it makes the polar bears angry and violent. :)
Oh, I'm sure. snicker. I love it when Heidi uses the 1,2,3 system of explanation. Also the a,b,c.
BunWat wrote: "Hee hee!! How much had this guy been drinking?"At THAT point, nothing at all. We hadn't gotten our drinks at the table yet. We DID have the advantage of knowing we were going to play this practical joke on this guy all day long - so we had all day long to elaborate on this. Apparently this guy had a reputation of being tres gullible. All things considered, though, between Inga, Scott, Ian, Gus, Jaime, Sus, and myself... this guy didn't stand a chance - we were pretty convincing.
RandomAnthony wrote: "Poor James. He's probably deleted his account already."Well I missed all this, but he has deleted his account, hahaha!
No he has not. I just went to his profile and it's private. You can request to be friends.
Stephen wrote: "How much of any of this is true? lol"When Gus logs back on, he can verify every word of it. It really happened. We concocted the story en route to the shooting range (because Inga wanted to shoot a gun, which she'd never done).
We were all together before he joined us for dinner, so we had a good ten minutes to solidify our background info/"proof"/story.
The guy bought it hook, line, and sinker... and even after Inga walked him outside to let him in on the joke, he was still willing to believe PARTS of what we said.
He really was a nice guy, and he was a good sport about the practical joke... and eventually ending up on the ground (several times).
tadpole wrote: "So...was there really a James? Everyone talks about James and makes comments to James but I arrive late to find no James. Now I picture him as a cypher who moves the plot along, like Guffman or Key..."Ah, James pops up right after tadpole's comments, but otherwise appears gone, because I can't see any of his other posts, and the person who started this thread is a deleted member. Eh, no big deal, welcome James!
I'm afraid to comment on Heidi's fun prank because, knowing me, I might have believed it as well, I am far too gullible.
Then again, pink incurring the wrath of elephants is pretty far fetched, haha!
Lori wrote: "Then again, pink incurring the wrath of elephants is pretty far fetched, haha!"Polar bears, Lori. :) Think bullfighting and matadors and red capes and angry bulls, only in Norway... and with pink and polar bears.
And for the record, it wasn't my brainchild. It was Scott's and Inga's. I just played along.
Mythbusters proved it was not the color, it was the movement.
James wrote: "Sorry for those that haven't met me yet. My name is James, and I joined goodreads yesterday. Pleased to meet all of you"We're glad you resurfaced. Clearly some were worried that we ran you off, but I knew better.
I told you James was still here. I have sent him a friend request. Why, why, why?
Hahaha! Maybe we can start something here. Research shows that polar bears AND elephants are affected by the color pink! Pink should NOT be worn to zoos!
BunWat wrote: "Infuriated elephants and polar bears storrming about the fjords, enraged by Barbie dream houses. Enraged!!"Where are you gals getting "elephants?"
Stephen wrote: "Mythbusters proved it was not the color, it was the movement."Which makes the absurdity of our claim and the grandiosity of his gullibility all the more poignant.
Now weasels in petunia hats is something I could support, riding on rampaging Norwegian elephants dressed in pink.
BunWat wrote: "We added elephants for our own amusement. Later on we might add weasels. Or petunias. Perhaps the weasels could wear petunia hats. "Ah. Got it. Well, take it and run... seems like a fascinating exercise of the imagination.
I can verify that everything Heidi has previously mentioned DID HAPPEN. This guy could have been convinced of just about everything...just like I once convinced my sister that Olivia Newton-John's I Honestly Love You was the national anthem of Australia.
I mean, for someone to be convinced that our friend Inga was Norwegian royalty hanging out with us commoners at a Mexican restaurant like she's taking part in a remake of Roman Holiday and not wonder if someone's jerking his chain a bit too strongly, well then, that person can be convinced of anything.
I mean, for someone to be convinced that our friend Inga was Norwegian royalty hanging out with us commoners at a Mexican restaurant like she's taking part in a remake of Roman Holiday and not wonder if someone's jerking his chain a bit too strongly, well then, that person can be convinced of anything.
Now that all sounds rather mean. :( Did he at least get laid?
Seriously, with all the gullibility he revealed, did you expect him to tap some Norwegian royalty's ass?
Plus, he was a Republican. :)
No reason to not tap "royalty's ass." Unless of course, he or she was butt ugly.
Even then, butt ugly people get tapped.
Gus wrote: "just like I once convinced my sister that Olivia Newton-John's ..."GUS! You didn't!
I ABSOLUTELY DID! I'm a natural-born bullshitter. Just ask Jaime someday about the "shark tooth" story.
Gus wrote: "I ABSOLUTELY DID! I'm a natural-born bullshitter. Just ask Jaime someday about the "shark tooth" story."Oh, I've already heard that one from her. I have to say, I'm a pretty good practical joker, too... I had my sister convinced that she was adopted (it seems I mentioned that recently on here).
Now that was cruel! I hope some mama whooped up on some Heidi booty for that one.
My aunt played along... she confirmed to my sister that she was adopted. She deserved it at the time, though - she was a mean, mean, MEAN kid. She's sweet and perfect and wonderful now, though.
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