Friday OT - Famous or infamous?

[The_Architect]

Several years back, I created the infamous "kicked in the nuts" image using MSPaint which became wildly popular on this board and even the local radio and TV talents started using and still do to this day.

:th_jtteglad:

 

[Angie]

You guys wouldn't likely know the memes. They're chick ones.

 

[Angie]

I wouldn't call either of these famous, but I came up with the idea and name for WRNL. Others are far more responsible for the day-to-day operations, and the site actually surviving to this day, but I can take credit for the genesis.

I also won the Iowa Geography Bee (childhood nerd alert) in junior high and competed in the National competition in DC. Alex Trebek was the host. It took every fiber of my being not to yell "BUCK FUTTER" in a pre-pubescent Sean Connery voice.

I'm so glad to have another Bee nerd up in here.

 

[Al_4_State]

I'm so glad to have another Bee nerd up in here.

My friends (the ones who know, anyway) give me a little crap here and there, but they really appreciate never getting lost when we go on road trips.

 

[Mr Janny]

You guys wouldn't likely know the memes. They're chick ones.

I've seen them. They're confusing to me on a deeply personal level. I get that the rabbit signifies "new life," and the crow pecking at its entrails symbolizes our own impending mortality, but I get lost when it comes to the rhinoceros in the Panama hat.

 

[3TrueFans]

I've seen them. They're confusing to me on a deeply personal level. I get that the rabbit signifies "new life," and the crow pecking at its entrails symbolizes our own impending mortality, but I get lost when it comes to the rhinoceros in the Panama hat.

That is a surprisingly detailed meme.

 

[Mr Janny]

That is a surprisingly detailed meme.

I think that's why guys don't get it. Give me a picture of some d-bag in a fur coat, with his cap on backward, and some pithy phrase written in Comic Sans, and I'm good. Women need a little more than that, though. They need depth.

Meme Theory 101. Here endeth the lesson.

 

[oldman]

I received a scholly from SMACNA (Sheet Metal Contractors) and they put my picture in their monthly magazine. My dad worked for a sheet metal contractor in eastern Iowa, and his boss came out into the shop and showed him the pic.

 

[Mr Janny]

Ok, I have one more.

In 2005 or 2006, I was at a trade show in Del Ray Beach, Florida with a group of guys during late February. We had been working with this outside consultant to land a client, for quite a while. The consultant, Jackie, lived in Vero Beach, and she casually mentioned that since we were in the neighborhood, we should come up and visit for a couple of days after the trade show, and go to Dodgers Spring Training. A group of 5 of us accepted her offer and drove up there after the show. When we got there, she introduced us to her husband, John Shoemaker, who happened to be long time Dodgers employee and manager of the Dodgers Las Vegas minor league team. We went out to dinner, and he asked us if we wanted to come tour Dodgertown the next day. Of course we said yes.

So, the next day was a total behind the scenes tour of their facility getting introduced to coaches and players. They had just signed Derek Lowe to a big contract, so he was probably the biggest name player we met, although we did meet Tommy Lasorda and watched him teach batting technique to a bunch of players. That was pretty cool. He told absolutely terrible jokes that everyone laughed at anyway because hey, it's friggin Tommy Lasorda.

 

[agcy68]

I told a joke on the Floppy show once...

 

[Mr Janny]

I told a joke on the Floppy show once...

You just instantly shot up about 100 cool points in my wife's eyes. She's got some really strong nostalgic connection to that show. I never saw it when I was growing up, so I'll never understand.

 

[Angie]

My friends (the ones who know, anyway) give me a little crap here and there, but they really appreciate never getting lost when we go on road trips.

My husband was a geography bee dude, too, and it's AMAZING having him on road trips. I have no sense of direction or ability to retain geographical landmarks, so I know that it's a huge help! I just get to proofread a lot of stuff.

I've seen them. They're confusing to me on a deeply personal level. I get that the rabbit signifies "new life," and the crow pecking at its entrails symbolizes our own impending mortality, but I get lost when it comes to the rhinoceros in the Panama hat.

Just because it's above your level doesn't mean you have to mock it. :wink:

You just instantly shot up about 100 cool points in my wife's eyes. She's got some really strong nostalgic connection to that show. I never saw it when I was growing up, so I'll never understand.

For real. Floppy is the ****. I was bummed we didn't get to the State Fair this year to see the booth.

 

[wartknight]

I used to be the voice of 13 North Central IA high schools on a small town radio station and it was amazing how everyone suddenly knew me then.
Got interviewed a couple times on KCCI, once for being one of the first people with an E85 vehicle and another time an extended interview on their morning show as the "success story" of the new p90x class in ankeny.
Was very popular on a Princess cruise when I won their talent show on an Alaskan cruise. Season 1 of the Love Boat on DVD and a bottle of Champagne baby!

 

[isuska]

okay I'm going to need some sort of meme proof, because I am lost

 

[Pitt_Clone]

I worked at the Mall II Theaters in Ames in the late 90s and got to work the door taking tickets at the world premiere of Twister. I got to take Helen Hunt's (stunt double's) ticket! Ok, not that cool of a story.

 

[Cyclonin]

O I forgot, my senior trip was a cruise with 12 of my buddies.

One of the first nights there, we stumbled into a bar and they were doing a karaoke contest. I drunkenly get up there and sing "Build Me Up Buttercup," well apparently I was entertaining enough to make the cruise ship Idol final. Come the last night of the cruise (after a day in Cozumel), and I am told to be in the theater which seats 1,000 or so.

The crowd was nearly half full and I was drunk and lost my voice. I tried to muscle through the song (keep in mind I am an awful singer, I just got the whole crowd involved the first time around). I literally got booed off the stage because I was so bad.

I finished 8th out of 8 though, so that was nice.

 

[The_Architect]

I told a joke on the Floppy show once...

Me too, and I got it give him a plastic hotdog! High-5!

 

[cyhawkdmb]

Im lame..

Same Cruise won a beer chugging contest at Senor Frogs and the Week long Poker Tournament in the Casino on the Cruise.. I think it was $1000. of course I went with my parents and you could charge the entry fees to the poker tournament(and booze) to the room so I ended up giving them all of the money because that was what my tab was.

 

[Farnsworth]

I was in a Hy-Vee comercial in high school.

 

[mcblogerson]

I was on the show Restaurant Impossible as one of the diners.

I was in the Lansing newspaper holding a 2x4 next to some people smashing out the windows of a cop car. They were vandalising b/c they had just won the Ncaa basketball tourney. I was remodeling local landmarks out of hatred for the screw job we got in the Elite 8 game we last to them. Luckily you cant see my face very well, the people smashing the cop car were turned in by people.