Re: catch me up

From: HiramGonash <okfreddy_at_hotmail.com_at_hypermail.org>
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2002 15:49:02 -0000

--- In OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_y..., "toughslush" <meurtre_at_e...>
wrote:
> > > > Sharose: Ask John to tell you Olive history through jokes.
> >>> He should start with the Danny/Glen stories
>
> > > Danny and Glen were a real-life Beavis and Butthead,
> >> except even more socially inept and destructive (most of
> >> their pyromaniacal antics literally backfired spectacularly,
> >> and their various pranks usually ended up with them
> > > as the ultimate victims). I myself was almost SHOT by
> >> the former, but that's a story in itself.
> >
> > Seeing those names certainly takes me down memory lane...
> >
> > The three of us were in junior high, and we had an interest in
> > anything that could be blown up. We made our own
> > gunpowder for years.
> > Occasionally, we made more exotic things:
> >
> > 1) poor man's napalm (made from gasoline and styro-plastic)
> > 2) fulminating mercury
> > 3) acetyline combustion bomb
>
> Some of us just take out our pyromania in playing fast-and-loose
> with the charcoal when we grill stuff.
>

Wait a sec. I have a BBQ but I'm not a pyro. I just like to watch
things burn.

> > These worked quite well, but unfortunately our delivery
> > system (e.g. rocket) was not always reliable, so often
> > the system would explode while we were standing over it!
> > The combustion explosion was particularly scary, since it
> > once blew up in Danny's bedroom and
> > slammed all the doors shut in the process!
>
> Well, if anyone knows about indoor fireworks, it's you. Really
> charming when you put that firecracker under the door on that
> cabin trip when I was with . . . Domingo. I'm sure. (Crossing my
> fingers and toes, here!)
>

One of the rare times you kept things crossed (running and ducking).

> >Truthfully, with all our
> > antics we were very lucky not to have gotten hurt,
> > especially since both Danny and Glen were usually a
> > little careless.
>
> I'm sure that that was more than Sharose wanted to know. As a
> matter of fact, I DON'T think she wants to hear all the old olive
> jokes--ESPECIALLY those that involved Danny and Glen.
>

I still think they should be compiled for posterity. Where's our
archivist?

> > > As I have often said:
> > >
> > > The FIRST time, it's kinda funny
> > > The TENTH time, it's ANNOYING
> > > The HUNDREDTH time, it's like TORTURE
> > > The THOUSANDTH time, it's HYSTERICALLY FUNNY, and I
> can't figure
> > out WHY
> >
> > I think it depends on the delivery. A joke has to be said the
right
> > way to be funny. Some people have a gift at telling jokes and
> > stories. Look at John Cleese: I have seen all the Faulty Towers
> > episodes and could easily watch them again and laugh at the
> same
> > jokes.
>
> Not wanting to be offensive, but you are, Sweetie, no John
> Cleese. There is--how shall I put it?--a difference between using
> finesse and brute force.
>
> --Q.M.

More like Benny Hill - kind of a lovable buffoon (except with a
dangerous smattering of gray matter twixt the ears).

-D.O.
Received on 2002-07-05 08:49:04