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1. My wife (then fiancée) Ellen bought me TiVo for Christmas in 2003. That very TiVo is still in operation, which is great, because she bought me the lifetime service contract to go with it. I was just scrolling through the list of programs and realized there’s some rather old stuff in my queue — the complete second season of Da Ali G Show originally recorded in 2004; a 2003 episode of Animal Planet’s K-9-to-5 that must have held special meaning to my 24-year-old self; and the impromptu postgame show Mike Francesa & Christopher “Mad Dog” Russo hosted on NBC after the New York Giants’ improbable win in Super Bowl XLII. One of these days, I’ll preserve these on DVD. Or come to my senses and clear some hard drive space. What’s the oldest program saved on your DVR?
2. In that TiVo box came a TiVo decal. “What a weird thing to give us,” I remarked. “Who would put the TiVo logo on their car?” Later that day, Ellen defiantly affixed the TiVo decal to our Camry. I thought that was a bold and funny gesture, and I’ve been driving around with it ever since. What’s the best, worst or most embarrassing bumper sticker or decal you’ve ever put on your car? (Alternate question: What’s the most ridiculous bumper sticker you’ve ever seen?)
3. I’m off to another wedding this weekend — my fourth in five weeks. I’ve still got some packing to do, so let me re-post a question from earlier this year:
I’ve been to my share of weddings over the years, and they all went as planned. No bride or groom ever failed to show or said the wrong name or fled the altar. No former lovers ever interrupted the ceremony, and everyone else chose to forever hold their peace. Of course, weddings in books, movies, and TV shows get screwed up all the time. Have you ever been to a wedding where, for whatever reason, nobody got married?
4. Let’s end with an update from last week. I got a kick out of all the wallet treasures you’re carrying around. Some of you sent in photos, too, including Margaret:
“People always ask me why I carry a latex glove, but no one ever asks about the knife.”
If you’d like to send in a picture of the strange items in your wallet (or purse), we’d still love to put a gallery together. Email your photos to flossypics@gmail.com.
[See all the previous Friday Happy Hour transcripts.]
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I have the second Bush-Kerry debate from ‘04 saved. And I don’t even really like politics.
posted by Barry on 7-17-2009 at 9:03 am
It’s A Wonderful life from Christmas Eve about 3 years ago!
posted by Connie on 7-17-2009 at 9:08 am
1. Don’t own a DVR
2. As a joke, a friend stuck a sticker of a squirrel with enormous testicles that he found in a magazine on my back window. That day, I went to pick up my grandmother for lunch.
3. I’m with you, that stuff never happens in real life.
4. I carry a small pouch of rocks that my geology-loving friend gave me. When all conversation is exhausted, it’s fun to say ‘wanna see my rocks?’
posted by MCB on 7-17-2009 at 9:12 am
I think the oldest thing on my DVR is a TV special about Star Wars from 2007. I still haven’t watched it…
posted by EJ on 7-17-2009 at 9:15 am
The funniest bumper sticker I ever saw was during the Iran hostage crisis. It said, “Ayatolla the Assahola” … this brings to mind the best graffiti I’ve ever seen. It was August 1972 and I had just moved into town. I made a few friends and we went to the local hangout to have a couple of beers. Nature called and I went into the one-person bathroom. Scrawled on the wall next to the commode was this sage advice: “Don’t change Dicks in the middle of a screw; vote for Nixon in ‘72:.
posted by Melissa on 7-17-2009 at 9:17 am
The stuff I record is usually HD, and my DVR only holds a few hours of HD video, so I basically have to delete stuff after I watch it.
posted by Craig on 7-17-2009 at 9:22 am
The moon landing.
posted by Kevin on 7-17-2009 at 9:26 am
3. I did video at weddings for 10 years. They always got married. Also, not one person fainted.
posted by Kevin on 7-17-2009 at 9:27 am
2. I’ve seen a couple cars with Republicans for Voldemort stickers from goats.com. Makes me happy.
posted by JG on 7-17-2009 at 9:34 am
My husband still has this year’s Oscar Awards on our DVR — not sure why, but I know I’d hear about it if I deleted it.
Every wedding I’ve been to has ended up with a marriage, but I did go to one wedding where the groom literally had to be held up at the altar because he was let out of the hospital (officially or not I can’t remember) the day after having an appendectomy. As I recall he was about as white as the bride’s dress.
posted by Suzanne on 7-17-2009 at 9:39 am
I had a friend in high school who drove a crappy Honda Civic hatchback. He was/is a total metalhead and had all kinds of metal bands stickers on about every inch of the back. I had just gone to the doctors and took some of the stickers meant for little kids. I found an empty spot in the middle of all his metal sticks and put one of a cute bear holding a wreath of flowers shaped like a heart.
posted by Sheya on 7-17-2009 at 9:49 am
1. “The Portrait of Dorian Gray” from September 2007. I recorded it because I fell asleep watching it in a film class in college (probably in 2004) but still wanted to see it. I’ll watch it one day.
2. We had to buy a new back windshield for the truck I drove in high school. The “new” windshield came with a Marines sticker. I have nothing against the Marines, but I had to explain myself a lot.
3. When I was 10, my uncle was getting married and my sister and I were in the bridal party. They broke up after my mom had already had made our dresses, but we got to use them when our aunt was married a few months later.
posted by AmandaStretch on 7-17-2009 at 10:13 am
1. The oldes thing is probably an old cartoon I keep in reserve for my son in case there’s nothing on that he wants to watch. Mickey Mouse is a reliable favorite.
2. I have a license plate holder that says, “My kid has more chromosomes than your kid.” Because he has Down Syndrome. Only one person has ever understood it. A guy in my squadron was like, “I think your license plate hold is offensive.” I said, “How is that offensive?” He said, “Do you even know what it means?” (Like I’m some kinda jerk.) I told him, “Of course. And it’s not offensive if your kid actually has Down Syndrome. Then it’s just funny.”
3. I haven’t had to go to a wedding in like 10 years. I’m not fond of weddings, I think they’re overrated.
posted by Hannibal Schlechter on 7-17-2009 at 10:20 am
Any NCers remember leaving from a visit TWEETSIE RAILROAD and finding their bumper sticker on your car?
posted by Amy on 7-17-2009 at 10:27 am
After this year’s Southside Irish Parade in Chicago, my friends decided they needed some KFC chicken. While waiting to order they stole a large shamrock KFC sticker off the window and put it on my back windshield. I would take it off but I don’t have that much Goo-Be-Gone. Jerks.
posted by Amanda M on 7-17-2009 at 10:30 am
1. I just got a DVR this week, so the oldest thing on it is the latest episode of “True Blood.”
3. I attend a church with a ministry focused on the GLBT community. Since gay and lesbian marriages aren’t legal in Texas, I’ve been to quite a few “weddings” where no one actually got legally married…
posted by Karl on 7-17-2009 at 10:41 am
Wedding went through, but! It was a small backyard wedding. The caterer did not show up. We ran to the supermarket to get food 30 minutes before wedding. The couple planted a tree to represent long future together. They were divorced in two years after he gambled(?) away $50k of his mother in laws money.
posted by Bob on 7-17-2009 at 10:41 am
I carry a small post-it notebook (I don’t how you call that), a teeny tiny paper boat, a piece of a playing card (Queen of Hearts) and other things in my wallet. THey all have a background sotry. I also used t carry a small pencil and a little magnet.
posted by Matt on 7-17-2009 at 10:55 am
2. The Apple logo stickers I got with my laptop are stuck to the driver’s side of the front and rear windows of my car. I learned to drive in the UK and I got tired of standing behind the car trying to work out which side I was supposed to get in to drive.
posted by Matt on 7-17-2009 at 10:58 am
1.The season finale of Supernatural, but up until about a week ago it was the CNN coverage of the election.
2.I had the same experience you did with the TiVo decal.
4.I have a broken camera I carry around because I can’t seem to part with it.
posted by Kimberlee on 7-17-2009 at 11:00 am
Funniest bumpersticker I ever saw: “Jesus loves you. Everyone else thinks you’re an a$$hole.”
posted by Anne on 7-17-2009 at 11:03 am
We have some DirecTV holiday music specials recorded from about three years ago. I was just wondering the other day why we keep them, because they re-run them every year.
Oh, and also the Spongebob Squarepants Movie, from about that long ago. My daughter still watches it every now and then (much to my chagrin.)
posted by Melissa on 7-17-2009 at 11:15 am
4. A $2 bill. My grandma claims they’re good luck, and always carried one. I’m keeping up the tradition.
posted by Kathryn on 7-17-2009 at 11:26 am
1. Game Show Network used to show what they call Black & White Overnight. I loved to TiVo What’s My Line and I’ve Got A Secret, then watch them the next evening. Unfortunately they stopped doing this earlier this year :(
3. I went to a wedding in 95 where the bride’s grandfather died at the church just an hour before the ceremony. They went through the ceremony anyway, thinking that he wouldn’t have wanted them to cancel on account of him, but I think that later on they regretted it.
posted by Tex on 7-17-2009 at 11:58 am
4. Leatherman (always useful), a copper arrowhead, a small plastic pig, and a chunk of explosion welded metal (given to me during my first internship as an engineer)
posted by Meri on 7-17-2009 at 11:59 am
1. I have a local game show where high schoolers compete for money for their school – my little brother was a contestant. I also have the election episode of South Park that was aired the day after the election. It just amazes me that they were able to finish the show in 22 hours after the results were in.
2. I had a white oval “AUS” sticker from Australia on one of my cars. Beats the hell out of the OBX ones!
3. Everyone got married at all the weddings I’ve attended.
4. I don’t have anything too fun in my wallet, but my purse is ready for “Let’s Make a Deal” – $500 for a glass nail file? Got it. $300 for a pregnant lady still carrying a tampon? Check!
posted by Jamie on 7-17-2009 at 12:11 pm
1) Sadly, I have no TiVo. But I do have a 3 or 4 year old tape full of Lost and such.
2) Best would have to be my decal of Mugen from Samurai Champloo. It even helps me find my car if it’s in a sea of similar ones.
posted by Sarah on 7-17-2009 at 12:13 pm
3. a. at a wedding we almost went to one year, the couple called it off the night before the wedding. We had heard, luckily, so we didn’t show up, but I know quite a few people that did.
b. at another wedding we attended, the bride got a nosebleed in the middle of the ceremony (all over her white dress!!) and almost passed out…
posted by Kimberlea on 7-17-2009 at 12:17 pm
3 – one of my best friends got married a few months ago. She decided to do the lake side untented 2:30pm wedding, which was great until it started pouring during her walk down the aisle. So, I spent my maid of honor duties holding an umbrella over her and telling her it’d be okay. I promise, it was totally awesome when they walked up the aisle and it stopped raining. *sigh*
posted by OkieMelissa on 7-17-2009 at 12:26 pm
1. I don’t own a DVR. but the oldest thing I found that I have on a VHS tape was some MTV contest where you spend the weekend with David Lee Roth. I know it was from 1985.
2. My favorite bumper sticker was one I had to buy for myself and used – “Disgruntled Employee Of The Month.” The dumbest one I had to have seen was BUSH/CHENEY 2004.
3. Although my ex and I were actually married, the ceremony sucked. Turns out the Pastor was suffering after just losing his sister. So his sermon was about how life is ‘fleeting,’ he forgot to tell us to kiss at the end of the ceremony and pissed off my ex by forgetting the candle-lighting part (the 2 burning into 1). Bummer for the pastor but what an a**hole to saddle us with his crap.
4. Nothing strange in my wallet. I like to clean it out and keep it thin.
posted by Bubba on 7-17-2009 at 12:28 pm
My favorite bumper sticker ever is very simple: Maine Lobstah – Wicked Good. “Funny” bumper stickers annoy me, because they never are, but “Don’t Mess With Texas” is always funny. I haven’t messed with Texas to date.
posted by Rob on 7-17-2009 at 12:30 pm
I love the idiots that have the “Coexist” stickers with the letters spelled out with variations on different religious icons. People have fought over religious differences since before history was recorded. But you are making a difference with your stupid bumper sticker.
posted by Turd Ferguson on 7-17-2009 at 12:39 pm
1. we haven’t had the dvr very long at all so we have the fifth element in HD which my dad won’t let me delete and the final episode of scrubs.
2. on my route to work a few years ago, i always seemed to see the same car with a bumper sticker that said “florio free in ‘93″. jim florio was a previous governor in new jersey.
3. i’ve been exclusively to family weddings and am glad to report no hitches and no divorces of the same group.
posted by john m on 7-17-2009 at 12:44 pm
1. The last 2 pages of our DVR list has Clasic Albums and Concerts recorded off VH1 Clasic from bands such as The Who, U2, Led Zeppelin and Jimmy Hendrix. My son recorded them; it’s good when your son likes the same type of music you do.
2. I don’t usually put bumper stickers on my car. In college I had an old clunker with a big smile painted on the hood. I saw a bumper sticker once than mental flossers would appreciate. It said “eschew obfuscating sesquipedalians”
posted by Steve M on 7-17-2009 at 12:47 pm
I have seen two great bumper stickers that I will probably never forget. The first was a variation on the “Fight crime. Shoot back.” slogan. It read “Don’t be a victim. Shoot first.” Then in little letters it read “at your local gun range.”
The second memorable sticker read “I’d rather be spanking the monkey.” on the back of a ratty old Mazda 323. I caught up with it so I could see what sort of person would put that on their car. Imagine my surprise when I saw the driver was a 20-something female! Immediately, I thought:
a) She doesn’t know what it means, but thinks it’s funny.
b) She DOES know what it means, but it’s not her car or she doesn’t know how to remove it.
c) She has one lucky boyfriend.
posted by Anthony on 7-17-2009 at 12:52 pm
@ kevin
I fainted at my aunt’s wedding. I was a teenager (13 or 14), hot summer day, and I was an altar boy for the Catholic ceremony. We had passed on wearing the robes even, as it was 90+ degrees by mid morning. I was very skinny back then, and probably just sweated too much in the heat and humidity. Also, it was during a period in the ceremony when I was standing for a long time. No A/C, there were fans on the wedding party, but not on us standing at the side of the altar.
posted by Jonny on 7-17-2009 at 12:53 pm
Oldest things on my DVR – musical episodes of Scrubs and That 70’s Show.
On my wedding day, my wife had a problem at her hair stylist and was late leaving. Her friend that was driving drove too fast and they got pulled over by a cop. My wife was 45 minutes late for our wedding. Without a cell phone, I thought I was being stood up. All turned out well in the end.
posted by Jason on 7-17-2009 at 1:08 pm
Dallas Reunion Special- 2004.
posted by Tyler on 7-17-2009 at 1:23 pm
1. it’s mid-summer and I’ve caught up on everything, so the oldest would be Jeopardy from Wednesday night. On VHS I do have the entire NBC broadcast from 8-1230 from the final night of Cheers in 1993
2. I only have “my” sports teams (yes, I own them :)) and a flag on my car, but they’re window decals instead of on the bumper. I think political bumper stickers are funny because usually a few days after they’re placed on the car, they have no meaning. A few years ago I saw an old Lincoln driving around with a “vote Nixon” sticker on the back; but my favorite was the one that said “buy American” stuck to the bumper of a Toyota!
3. nope
4. I don’t carry what I don’t need in my wallet, I like to be comfortable when I sit down…but I did for several years carry around a get out of jail free card.
posted by Wayne on 7-17-2009 at 1:55 pm
The best bumper sticker i ever saw was on a motorcycle and it read “ask me about anal fisting” with a picture of a fist so great and so horrible.
I have all the ticket stubs from every midnight movie I have ever seen in my wallet.
posted by Tawnya on 7-17-2009 at 2:09 pm
1. We have the movie “Dazed and Confused” from an airing in 2005. We love that movie so much I just can’t bring myself to erase it.
2. I’ve seen some pretty dumb stuff stuck to cars in the past, but most people around here lease their cars and thus aren’t allowed to have stickers on their autos. But I do see minivans or big SUV’s with the cartoon stick figures depicting the members of their family. Tacky.
3. Unfortunately, my husband and I have been to two weddings where the couple didn’t get married:
-the first was a wedding where our friend knocked up a girl from a fairly religous family, thus her parents insisted they get married. It was a quickly thrown together wedding, and the bride was 4 months pregnant and wearing her prom dress from 5 years previous (not kidding). We noticed our friend at the front starting to look panicked as the bride’s walking down the aisle. All of a sudden, he darts to the left and runs out a side door. We couldn’t believe it, and neither could her family. They chased after him, but never caught him. The drama afterwards is another story…
-the second happened just in May. We travelled to an out of town wedding for my best friend from University. She met and fell in love with a man while living and working in the UK, and they had a baby together. She moves back home with the baby and they start immigration papers for her boyfriend to live here. He’s charming, and attentive to their baby and everything seems fine. They plan the wedding, invite everyone, etc. Wedding day arrives and the groom is nowhere to be found. We all start to panic, look for him all over town, call police, etc. She gets an email on her Blackberry from him telling her he’s sorry, but he met a girl at the immigration office and he’s decided to make a life with her. Again, the drama afterwards is another story. But I will say that she hasn’t seen or heard from him since. He just abandoned his son, and hasn’t bothered to call to see how he’s doing.
So no, those stories don’t just happen in the movies. I’ve been a witness, and I have pictures to prove.
posted by Arcadia on 7-17-2009 at 2:51 pm
When I was 4 I acted as ring-bearer for my uncles wedding. Everything goes fine and I looked so cute with my peach colored tuxedo and big glasses. Then they opened the door and I saw all those and just started bawling at the top of my lungs. My poor dad had to limp down the isle (polio) to deliver the rings for me.
posted by Rob M on 7-17-2009 at 2:52 pm
The oldest thing on my Tivo is “How William Shatner Changed the World”. As an aside, I recorded a few years back the A&E special “Star Wars: Empire of Dreams”. I still have it even though I already owned it on DVD.
Best bumper sticker I’ve ever seen said “Discourage Inbreeding. Ban Country Music”
posted by Muerte Del Toro on 7-17-2009 at 3:10 pm
I was at a wedding where the night before, the bride called off the nuptials. Some of the guests including myself did not get the message from the distraught groom. We didn’t learn until we showed up at the wedding factory venue and the lady checking the couple ahead us in said “Oh good you aren’t with the wedding that cancelled”n “The bride said she would rather be hit by a bus than marry this man” I turn to my date and said “Wouldn’t that be funny if that was the wedding we were going to?”
posted by Heather on 7-17-2009 at 3:22 pm
I think mine is the 2007-2008 FedEx Orange Bowl. A great game won by the Kansas Jayhawks. It’s followed closely by the 2008 Basketball National Championship. Also won by the Jayhawks. These will never be deleted for as long as I live.
posted by Ryan on 7-17-2009 at 3:25 pm
I have had 2 bumper stickers over the years. The first read: “Don’t blame me, I voted for the other guy”. The second was ‘My other car is an ambulance!”. A friend had a sticker on his truck that said ‘I SAVE LIVES, What the hell do you do?’
posted by Owen on 7-17-2009 at 3:28 pm
My dad is a pastor and he has a few funny wedding stories. As far as I know no one has ever run out, but one time in the church during a wedding my dad the pastor asked, “Does anyone know why these two should not be married, speak now?” *Crack* lightning struck, everyone wondered, is that God’s no?
posted by NateJ on 7-17-2009 at 3:42 pm
1. Reluctantly have been cleaning off the DVR of the last season of Battlestar Galactica. The last two episodes are still on there, though.
2. I had to follow the truck that had this bumper sticker: “It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the Beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning; it is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.” A fabulous play off the Mentat chant in David Lynch’s “Dune.”
3. No unusual wedding stories, although I don’t attend many.
4. I carry my father’s mini Leatherman. He passed away several years ago and it makes me feel like I’m carrying part of him wherever I go.
posted by dallaspj on 7-17-2009 at 4:01 pm
1. Have the full season 3 of Heroes, not sure if I’ll watch it, Season two was a downer.
2. My friend had a Mercedes-Benz symbol welded on to the grill of her old chevy station wagon. Turned lots of heads
3. Always had some strange thing happen at weddings I go to, My college buddy fainted at his (good old catholic mass where the groom had to kneel for 1.5 hours then stand up), another college friend had the limo crash on the way to pick her and the bridesmaids up. No one was hurt, but nothing like arriving at your wedding in your mom’s rusty minivan!
posted by Frugatti on 7-17-2009 at 4:15 pm
I’m going to have to agree with most of the comments on bumper stickers. Tacky at best. I have a soft spot for political ones, though, since they’re always ridiculously outdated. Here in MN I still see plenty of “Wellstone!” bumper stickers. My favorite has to be the one around my apartment complex that’s terribly weather-beaten but still clearly says “Clinton/Gore 96″ which means one of two things:
1. They bought the sticker very old and beaten, or
2. It’s been on their car since 1995-1996.
Either way, just not a good idea.
posted by J.D. on 7-17-2009 at 4:32 pm
1. I have a thing against keeping things recorded… not sure what it is, but it makes me crazy to keep old shows. If I have watched it, I delete it.
2. My favorite bumper sticker ever was one I gave my mom – “I brake for tailgaters.” It might just be my favorite because it is true…
posted by Sarah on 7-17-2009 at 4:45 pm
1. Until recently, the oldest thing on my DVR was the episode of SNL that Tom Brady hosted from when it re-aired a couple years ago (I think it was before the Big Game that was an awful bookend to a fabulous season). However, I love the quality of shows in HD and it takes up A LOT more space, so I find myself totally clearing out the DVR to make space. That makes me sad.
posted by C on 7-17-2009 at 4:48 pm
1. I finally got a DVR last August. The oldest thing on it is the Season 4 finale of Lost that they replayed just before Season 5 premiered earlier this year. My 18 oldest recordings are the 18 weeks of Lost programming from January to May. I plan to re-watch it just before The Final Season starts and probably won’t delete it until the series ends.
The oldest thing I have on VHS is a single episode of the classic 80’s cartoon The Mysterious Cities of Gold. I think it was recored in ‘86 or ‘87. I was so into that series. It came on real early in the morning on Nickelodeon. It was a continuous storyline unlike most cartoons so I couldn’t afford to miss a single episode. I was sleeping over a friend’s house who didn’t have cable so I asked my mom to tape it. It was a great episode too, the one where Zia’s dad dies, if there are any other fans out there. I watched it a couple of months ago and it still made me cry.
posted by Kedar on 7-17-2009 at 5:49 pm
The most bizarre bumper sticker I’ve ever seen said “I (heart) concrete”.
posted by Jenn on 7-17-2009 at 6:23 pm
1. The oldest thing on my dvr is some Suze Orman program my wife recorded in late 2006. She’s never watched it but won’t let me delete it either.
2. I’ve never had an embarrasing bumper sticker but I have seen a couple of really good ones reacently:
“Save a Cow. Eat a Vegetarian.” and something to the effect of: “The reason animal rights activists get more upset about fur than leather is because it’s a lot easier to hassle rich women than it is it hassle a biker gang.”
3. I’ve never been to a wedding that ended without nuptials, but my parents did. Turns out he was living with some other woman all along. She later came out as a lesbian, an announcement that shocked pretty much nobody. I was once in a wedding where the bride and the groom both passed out, the groom twice. Very surreal.
posted by eric! on 7-17-2009 at 8:33 pm
1. I have a HGTV episode (”Design Remix”) that was aired in 2006 for which my house was the subject of the “makeover”.
Quite honestly, it was one of the worst experiences of my adult life — the crew consisted of thoughtless, self-serving pigs. Trash everywhere. Furniture that got rained on. Nights when they simply wouldn’t leave until all the scheduled shooting was finished, in spite of the presence of my 3 year old child…
posted by PJ on 7-17-2009 at 9:30 pm
At my college roommates wedding, the photographer went into labor on her way to the ceremony and the minister got lost. Thankfully the minister found his way and the photographers sister was able to stand in. The wedding started 2 hours late, but they are still happily married.
posted by Bethany on 7-17-2009 at 10:15 pm
4. I will have to turn-out some of my purses for you (when my purse gets so full I can’t find anything, its time to buy a new purse. Then I just salvage a few key items leaving the miscellany to eternally line the old purse – so I’m sure I have some interesting collections.)
But, anyway, on Tuesday at the Harry Potter 6 premiere, the theater manager had a t-shirt and poster to give to anyone who had a ticket stub from a previous Harry Potter movie. An embarrassed 14-yr-old girl was the only one who came forward with a ticket from 2007’s Order of the Phoenix. I save ticket stubs from memorable dates – but they don’t stay in my wallet and I can’t imagine it staying there for 2 years!
posted by Lynnie on 7-17-2009 at 10:45 pm
2. I work with someone with a bumper sticker reading “Don’t Worry, I’m a Geologist!”
posted by Krebscy on 7-17-2009 at 10:53 pm
2. You see a lot of vehicles with “Go Back to Ohio!” (alt. “Go Buckeyes! No seriously, go!”) bumperstickers around my city. Its an actual vitriolic sentiment locally, but I can’t help but think how silly those stickers would seem anywhere else!
posted by Lynnie on 7-17-2009 at 10:56 pm
1. I keep a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Little Einsteins episode on my Dvr for when my niece and nephew visit.
2. \ Your proctologist called he found your head\
3. I’ve been to one wedding. Bride and groom were fine, but I ( the ringbearer) almost passed out because in all the pre- wedding goings-ons i had no chance to eat.
4. I keep an old season golf pass in my wallet as well as a punch card for a restaurant I’ve never been to
posted by Caleb on 7-17-2009 at 11:31 pm
2. I have a relative whose vehicle sports a bumper sticker reading “Dr. Kevorkian for White House Physician.” (I know!)
3A.My dear friend was Maid of Honor in the Wedding from Hell. The grooms family were belligerent drunks, (his mom was an alcoholic former Playmate), and the families of the bride and groom were both having screaming fights among themselves before and after the ceremony. The bridal party was so late to the ceremony that they drove 90+ mph the whole way, during which they told my friend to make the mix tape for the reception! When they ran inside, the bridesmaids were forced to change into their dresses in the hallway WHILE THE FATHER OF THE BRIDE WAS YELLING AT THEM! (The bride and groom were both the sole sane people in their families.) The bride’s family also tried to force my friend to go on a date with their cousin, who wouldn’t leave her alone. When I picked her up, my friend understandably burst into tears. We spent the two hour drive back to college belting “Mood Ring” by Reliant K at the top of our lungs, on loop. It was cathartic.
3B. When my Mom and Stepdad got married, they did so in his brother’s two-story log cabin on a lake. The staircase is made up of a single log, with steps as smooth as glass cut into it. The photographer had taken his shoes off, so he wouldn’t make noise during the ceremony. Right before it started, he tumbled down the stairs and landed on his neck! Miraculously, he (and his equipment) were fine. My Mom never heard her cue to walk down said stairs and so was -quite- late, but otherwise it was a storybook wedding. They’re still nuts about each other, 15 years later.
posted by Valkyrie on 7-18-2009 at 4:32 am
Kevin posted “the moon landing”. Need to be more specific. The moon landing was in 1969. There weren’t even any vcr machines then, so you can’t have an original recording, unless you or someone you know worked for NASA.
posted by Pam on 7-18-2009 at 4:40 am
2. I bought a 1969 Le Mans and in the owners manual was a ‘Elect Wallace’ sticker. Had to put that on a very new vehicle.
3. The wedding went ok but my roommate in the military was several hours late for his. He was home frantically trying to repair/sew his sisters dress while the future brothers-in-law paced angrily back and forth. No idea why things took so long or how helpful a cell phone would’ve been that day had they been commonplace. They’ve now celebrated 20 years together.
posted by Jim on 7-18-2009 at 5:28 pm
Forgot #4: I have a Disney monorail driver’s license and a photo of Toy Story’s cowboy and myself in case anyone wants a picture of me with a big Woody.
posted by Jim on 7-18-2009 at 5:30 pm
4. I keep a fifty cent piece with chiquita banana stickers on both sides, I’ve had it for about ten years now. I lost it for three (had terrible luck) and recently found it. Last week I won the powerball…
posted by Jodie on 7-18-2009 at 7:22 pm
1) We don’t have TiVo.
2)People not getting married usually only happens on TV.
3)Since I got 2 & 3 mixed up, I don’t know if Mom still has it, but my sister stuck a “Back off!I’m a postal worker!” bumper sticker in the back window of her car once.
4) I don’t keep strange things in my wallet.
posted by Sara in AL on 7-18-2009 at 10:53 pm
1)I do have DVDs of “The adventures of Ozzie & Harriet”. Does that count? No? Well, I tried.
posted by Sara in AL on 7-18-2009 at 10:56 pm
A good friend gave me an “I love Tromaville High School” bumper sticker, from the Troma movie fame.
posted by Monica on 7-19-2009 at 12:00 am
1. We record almost everything in HD so it fills up very very fast. Then we clear it out. The oldest thing I have is a Burn Notice marathon from a few weeks ago. My sister has the oldest thing which is like 4 minutes of a show from the Disney Channel.
2. I don’t like bumper stickers because I think they kinda ruin your car’s appearance. The weirdest one I have seen was on my way home from Santa Cruz, CA. It was a Prius that had a bunch of those single letter stickers stuck on the back. It read “Terrorist Prevention Vehicle 50 – 60 MPG.” The sad part is that letter were not put on straight…. or in a line.
3. Never been to a wedding.
4. I carry around a $50 bill just for fun. And you never know when you get a craving for $50 worth of food and drinks.
posted by Michael on 7-19-2009 at 2:37 am
Funniest bumper sticker I ever saw was on a minivan on the inerstate one day – “Pray for me-I drive the streets of Memphis”
I laughed so hard I almost had to pull over.
posted by Amanda on 7-19-2009 at 3:04 pm
I always appreciate the passion of the wacky pro-lifers and their bumper stickers. Had to laugh at one that was grammatically incorrect and used “your” instead of “you’re;” I don’t recall what the sticker said, but as an English teacher, I sure thought that it really undermined their cause.
I have a “RI” sticker (Rhode Island) and a “Haiti” sticker on my vehicle which are faded and peeling badly, but I don’t have the heart to remove them because love both places and always makes for good conversation to new passengers.
posted by Marty on 7-19-2009 at 5:39 pm
2. my sister gave me a “STUPID” bumper sticker. i thought it was funny and put it on the back of my truck. lo and behold, later that day, an old woman rear ended my truck. her car was totaled, and the only thing wrong with my truck was a rather crumpled and scratched “STUPID” bumper sticker.
the funniest bumper sticker i’ve ever seen on someone else’s car was “Remember, Pillage First, THEN Burn.”
posted by emily on 7-19-2009 at 5:45 pm
I have a Nixon sticker on my car.
posted by Jenny on 7-20-2009 at 12:25 am
My bumper sticker says, “Sorry I missed church, I was busy practicing witchcraft and becoming a lesbian.” My parents really hate that.
posted by bj on 7-20-2009 at 4:32 am
1. We don’t have TiVo or DVR, but we do have some VHS tapes from the ’80s with “The Three Amigos,” “The Santa Claus Movie” and “The Disorderlies” all on one tape. 1986?
2. The funniest bumper sticker I’ve seen says “Whirled Peas”- always makes me grin.
3. All the weddings I’ve been to ended happily.
4. Nothing too strange in my purse- just the usual for a purse/diaper bag: wipes, mini first aid kit, Kids Benadryl, coupons, scratch paper, prize tickets from the arcade.
posted by Tamsyn on 7-20-2009 at 9:27 pm
Sadly, I don’t have anything older than 2008, but I had to RMA my Series3 TiVo a few times. I also proudly display a TiVo decal on my car, but so does most everyone who works here ;)
posted by Kimberly on 7-22-2009 at 9:13 pm