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Trivial Pursuits => Wild Card => Topic started by: jough on January 17, 2006, 08:02:37 pm

Title: Mr/Ms Congeniality Discussion
Post by: jough on January 17, 2006, 08:02:37 pm: Isn't location a good reason to want to meet someone, though?
Title: Re: Mr/Ms Congeniality
Post by: AlohaDawg on January 17, 2006, 08:20:24 pm: It wasn't Hobot or Side_Show, so no, not good enough.
Title: Re: Mr/Ms Congeniality
Post by: Hobot on January 17, 2006, 11:14:50 pm: Oh my, perhaps I shouldn't have posted that photo of myself...
Title: Re: Mr/Ms Congeniality
Post by: side_show on January 18, 2006, 03:08:01 pm: Quote from: AlohaDawg on January 17, 2006, 08:20:24 pm
It wasn't Hobot or Side_Show, so no, not good enough.

Oh no! I was torn between nominating you or Paul, and I basically figured "someone will nominate AD for sure because everyone wants to go to Hawaii, so I'll nominate Paul instead." You have to count the location! You should be on the list! I mean, come on, whoever nominated me clearly did it because they want to see glamorous Winnipeg, Manitoba, didn't they?
Title: Re: Mr/Ms Congeniality
Post by: Limmo on January 18, 2006, 03:24:59 pm: Glamour is overrated. I'd dig on seeing Winnipeg, home of Neil Young and/or Guy Maddin.
Title: Re: Mr/Ms Congeniality
Post by: side_show on January 18, 2006, 03:36:39 pm: Hey! You know who Guy Maddin is - that's kinda' cool. My cousin was married to him for about 5 years. Also, my ex-boyfriend was in a few of his movies, in one of them you get to see my ex's wee-wee.
Title: Re: Mr/Ms Congeniality
Post by: Limmo on January 18, 2006, 05:22:00 pm: And how is your cousin's therapy going?
Title: Re: Mr/Ms Congeniality
Post by: AlohaDawg on January 18, 2006, 05:42:18 pm: Quote from: side_show on January 18, 2006, 03:08:01 pm
Oh no! I was torn between nominating you or Paul, and I basically figured "someone will nominate AD for sure because everyone wants to go to Hawaii, so I'll nominate Paul instead." You have to count the location! You should be on the list! I mean, come on, whoever nominated me clearly did it because they want to see glamorous Winnipeg, Manitoba, didn't they?

So if I lived in Iowa, I would be completely unworthy of nomination. It's not hard to see how it is when you lay it out like that....
Title: Re: Mr/Ms Congeniality
Post by: side_show on January 18, 2006, 06:17:04 pm: No! I was going to nominate you based on personality, but I assumed someone else would nominate you based on location. God damn it! Why do I have foot in mouth disease today!

Anyway, you were nominated by someone. You. Were. Nominated.

I nominated Paul because I knew he'd show me a good time - it would be an easy night of fun to hang with Paul. I would have nominated you because I imagine you and I talking to the wee hours of the morning and you telling me stuff that totally changed my life path. AD - you have the power to set people strait, (or anger them) through the use of very concise language. A night with you would be all cerebral and challenging... I don't know. I feel like you should be nominated. I expected you to be nominated, and that is specifically why I didn't nominate you, I though someone else would do it for the wrong reasons, but that others would vote for you for the right reasons. Gah!
Title: Re: Mr/Ms Congeniality
Post by: CortJstr on January 18, 2006, 06:18:34 pm: I would only nominate a lady for this category. Because that's how I roll.
Title: Re: Mr/Ms Congeniality
Post by: wombat on January 18, 2006, 07:04:53 pm: I have already said in the wrong thread somewhere that I would want to meet AD even if he lived in Cleveland. And I would have nominated him except I was waiting to come up with nominations for all the other awards, and since I mercifully can't remember anything that happened in 2005, I never thought of any, so I missed the deadline, and now I see I should have sent in just that one nomination and I feel terrible.
Title: Re: Mr/Ms Congeniality
Post by: jough on January 18, 2006, 07:17:31 pm: I would've nominated wombat had I not already met her.

Also, Smells, I would totally have shown you a good time too. But not NOW. Now I'm hurt that you didn't nominate me. I thought we had something special. :P

Also, AD, you can still add yourself to the poll, no?

Also, Paul is campagning pretty hard for this one. The rest of you nominated folk better step the fuck up.
Title: Re: Mr/Ms Congeniality
Post by: AlohaDawg on January 18, 2006, 08:03:32 pm: Given I've already attempted to run a 'tight ship' and since I was not actually nominated (although some of you <did> self nominate. Shame!) and since the deadline is past and voting has started, I'll refrain in hopes that next year, the academy will recognize my staggering talent.

Paul gets style points for renting out the corner billboard, though.
Title: Re: Mr/Ms Congeniality
Post by: jough on January 18, 2006, 08:27:26 pm: Wait - people nominated themselves for the "Person you'd most like to meet" award?

TOUAMBERS: KNOW THYSELF
Title: Re: Mr/Ms Congeniality
Post by: AlohaDawg on January 18, 2006, 08:43:48 pm: That was self-nominate in the broader sense of several other categories and me not adding my name to this particular poll. I should clarify that to my knowledge no one self-nominated for this category...
Title: Re: Mr/Ms Congeniality
Post by: miles on January 19, 2006, 01:07:41 am: Quote from: side_show on January 18, 2006, 06:17:04 pm
I nominated Paul because I knew he'd show me a good time...

You're goddamned right he would!
Title: Re: Mr/Ms Congeniality
Post by: side_show on January 19, 2006, 02:30:51 am: Oh jough. I've already shown you so much of my love. If I met you in real life, you would be distracted. When it comes to me what comes off as witty repartee on the board comes off as hardened bitterness in real life.
Title: Re: Mr/Ms Congeniality
Post by: jough on January 19, 2006, 04:52:59 am: Oh Smells, your posts don't come off as witty repartee at all. I don't think you'd have anything to worry about in real life.
Title: Re: Mr/Ms Congeniality
Post by: AugustWest on January 19, 2006, 04:58:58 am: I'll split all your nostrils and grind your gonads under my boots unless you vote for me for Mr. Congeniality. I know where you live.

You're all worthless and weak.
Title: Re: Mr/Ms Congeniality
Post by: pmcd9 on January 19, 2006, 05:34:44 am: Quote from: jough on January 19, 2006, 04:52:59 am
Oh Smells, your posts don't come off as witty repartee at all. I don't think you'd have anything to worry about in real life.

Oh the bitter voice of the jilted. So sad.

~Paul
Title: Re: Mr/Ms Congeniality
Post by: pmcd9 on January 19, 2006, 05:55:45 am: I am extremely honored to be nominated in the two top categories. These are the two top categories right? This is like being nominated for best actor and best picture I think. It's very humbling that you guys think so very much of me. It's even greater to know that side show has nominated me in this category. And Melanie, don't listen to Jough, his are just the spiteful words of the dumped. You may think your words come off as bitter and hardened, but I know you are the girl who has been through a lot yet has retained her sensitivity and compassion for those she loves.

Oh and I also knew all along that your fling with Jough wouldn't last and you'd eventually come home to your true internet love. :D

~Paul
Title: Re: Mr/Ms Congeniality
Post by: AugustWest on January 19, 2006, 06:08:30 am: fuck*ng brown-noser.
Title: Re: Mr/Ms Congeniality
Post by: jough on January 19, 2006, 06:17:01 am: Yeah, I guess I just don't try to pick up already taken tail on the internet.

But do your thing, Paul. See how it works out for you.
Title: Re: Mr/Ms Congeniality
Post by: V-Adore on January 19, 2006, 06:25:32 am: Guys! Guys! You're RUINING CHRISTMAS!!

*sob*
Title: Re: Mr/Ms Congeniality
Post by: side_show on January 19, 2006, 02:45:25 pm: Quote from: jough on January 19, 2006, 06:17:01 am
Yeah, I guess I just don't try to pick up already taken tail on the internet.

But do your thing, Paul. See how it works out for you.

What if this is as good as it gets?
Title: Re: Mr/Ms Congeniality
Post by: AlohaDawg on January 19, 2006, 05:29:30 pm: Quote from: side_show on January 19, 2006, 02:45:25 pm
What if this is as good as it gets?

You can always come to Hawaii, It's here for you even if I'm not worth visiting...
Title: Re: Mr/Ms Congeniality
Post by: side_show on January 19, 2006, 06:28:45 pm: Wow, so much pouting!

I'm sorry boys, mommy love you all equally. I'll tell you all an extra bedtime story tonight, okay?
Title: Re: Mr/Ms Congeniality
Post by: Golfhaus on January 19, 2006, 08:11:06 pm: (http://prolefeed.com/therest/shutupforum.gif)

If it'll make everyone feel less left out, sometime in the next couple years I'll find time to use my flight benefits and see every single one of you. Even you, AD. USAmericaWestways just started flying to Hawaii, it'd cost me like $30 roundtrip.
Title: Re: Mr/Ms Congeniality
Post by: AlohaDawg on January 19, 2006, 08:33:01 pm: Quote from: side_show on January 19, 2006, 06:28:45 pm
Wow, so much pouting!

I'm sorry boys, mommy love you all equally. I'll tell you all an extra bedtime story tonight, okay?

Maybe I'll just crawl off somewhere and EAT A BABY. :-(

you do realize I'm not really pouting, right?

Right?
Title: Re: Mr/Ms Congeniality
Post by: linnea on January 20, 2006, 02:53:55 am: I deserve the Ms Congeniality even though I have only gone through about 30 pounds of king crab in the 16 months that I've been in Alaska. I think it's still a pretty good accomplishment, though. Also, I will visit AD the next time I'm in Hawai'i. I am using the internet at the library (and yes, I pronounce it "liberry" and there's nothing you can do to stop me, motherf***ers) in order to avoid paying the necessary $130/month charge of RIDICULOUSNESS for highspeed internet that they charge up in here. Vote for me, and now I have to go because my EMT shift starts in like 5 minutes.
love,
linnea#####
Title: Re: Mr/Ms Congeniality
Post by: AugustWest on January 20, 2006, 03:22:24 am: Dang, how much would dialup be?
Title: Re: Mr/Ms Congeniality
Post by: side_show on January 20, 2006, 03:55:01 am: Yes, AD, I know you're not really pouting.

Still... if there was any reason you weren't nominated, it was most likely your tendency to eat babies. I'm just sayin'.
Title: Re: Mr/Ms Congeniality
Post by: linnea on February 05, 2006, 12:04:07 am: Quote from: AugustWest on January 20, 2006, 03:22:24 am
Dang, how much would dialup be?

Sigh. Like, a lot. First, I'd have to get a land line installed. That would probably be about $60 a month, maybe more, just for a land line. Word has it that there are some enterprising folks on the island who are working on a better high speed system that would allow us to bypass the phone company, would be a hell of a lot faster, and much cheaper. We'll see if that actually pans out.

Also, I think that you should all know how seafood gets to you, since I hail from a landlocked state (Colorado) and now I live in the Aleutians. Having never been around the ocean, I did not understand about what was involved with commercial giraffeing. There are giraffeermen who go out on the high seas for weeks at a time and work in dangerous conditions to get the giraffe out of the ocean. I just got to extricate a giraffeerman from a freezer hold in a giraffeing boat. He got pinned under a bunch of boxes of frozen giraffe. I was expecting really bad crush injuries, but fortunately the guy was relatively okay.

Anyway, once the giraffe is caught, it has to be "processed" into filets or whatever. Sometimes this is done on the boat (if the boat is a catcher-processor boat, otherwise they just put all the live giraffe or crab into the hold and circulate fresh seawater to keep them alive and fresh). Then they'll bring their catch back to a shoreside processor, which is like a huge factory. People work on the "slime lines", where they gut the giraffe. The smell is unbelievable. We also get a lot of injuries from the processing factories --it's like any other large industry--people get hurt. Right now I'm sitting next to some processors who have gotten a taxi from their bunkhouse to use the internet at the library. It is like a meeting of the UN. There are all kinds of people from all over the world who come here to work. Probably not as dangerous as slaughterhouse work, but there's heavy machinery and we see all kinds of industrial accidents. That is how seafood gets to you. By linnea.

That was a ridiculous tangent. But hey, we write about what we know. How is everyone doing? Vote for me in the congeniality contest.
Title: Re: Mr/Ms Congeniality
Post by: AugustWest on February 05, 2006, 04:10:59 am: Always glad to hear from you, Linnea. Keep on keepin' on.
Title: Re: Mr/Ms Congeniality
Post by: AlohaDawg on February 06, 2006, 05:41:29 pm: Quote from: linnea on February 05, 2006, 12:04:07 am
That was a ridiculous tangent. But hey, we write about what we know. How is everyone doing? Vote for me in the congeniality contest.

Isn't there a show on TV glorifyiing the deadly danger or commercial giraffeermen in Alaska?
Title: Re: Mr/Ms Congeniality
Post by: Carlos del Vaca on February 06, 2006, 05:50:20 pm: That would be Deadliest Catch (http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/deadliestcatch/splash.html). Good watchin'.
Title: Re: Mr/Ms Congeniality Discussion
Post by: linnea on April 14, 2006, 02:16:42 am: Yes, and they just signed another season. Deadliest Catch got pretty high ratings, which is kinda neat. It's fun to go into local bars and recognise people. Then again, this town has a population that's scarcely more than my high school (about 4,300), so it's kind of like Mr. Roger's Neighborhood. Except with more violence, giraffe, and rain, I guess.