January 06, 2005

Q1. Happy 2005, 86. How are you spending your new year?

posted by worldcup2002 at 01:15 PM on January 06, 2005

I'm spending mine having flu. Bet 86 can top that.

posted by lil_brown_bat at 02:55 PM on January 06, 2005

I like peanuts.

posted by DrJohnEvans at 03:33 PM on January 06, 2005

I thought this was the peanut gallery. 86 better show up soon or I'll tell you all about the fever dream I had last night.

posted by lil_brown_bat at 03:43 PM on January 06, 2005

My girlfriend had a dream last night that I was flirting with some PYT (her words) right in front of her on the ferry to Martha's Vineyard.

posted by mbd1 at 03:53 PM on January 06, 2005

Fever Dream sounds like some new alt-rock song or something. Let's hear it. Okay. (my dream was about a bunch of Fast Break candy bars, dancing around in what looked like an incompetently-executed (even for candy bars) English country dance to the tune of the Apple Tree Wassail)

posted by lil_brown_bat at 04:20 PM on January 06, 2005

Suddenly I have a craving for peanuts. lbb, please feel better soon. Seriously, that dream is messed up. I spent the commute to work this morning trying to think up one exciting thing that I've done in 2005. I drew a blank. Oh well, at least the year is only a week old. I spent New Years Eve with samsonov14, garfield, another friend and various girlfriends. We house-hopped. For those that don't know, a house-hop is a party that starts with drinks or appetizers at one residence, moves to another for dinner, and on to others like this throughout the night. Fun? Yes. But also pretty pointless and more hurried than I would have liked. As far as I can tell it was set up this way so the various girlfriends would have an answer for family members and co-workers that asked them what they were up to on New Years Eve. Since the food was good and the drinks were plentiful, I was happy to oblige. After that? My 2005 has been filled with lazy days watching football or playing games on the couch and busy days at work. Damn the latter, love the former.

posted by 86 at 08:30 AM on January 07, 2005

I see how it is.

posted by rocketman at 03:18 PM on January 07, 2005

yup. twice.

posted by garfield at 03:54 PM on January 07, 2005

...not that my spofi addiction speaks much of my work ethic.

posted by garfield at 04:17 PM on January 07, 2005

I fear we are headed for the archives before this thing is done.

posted by worldcup2002 at 11:02 PM on January 10, 2005

wc, you're probably right. Oh well. Work is work is work. I'm in the exciting world of insurance. For the kids out there if you're looking for a stable work with loads of excitement, insurance is the world for you. Naturally, I fell backwards into this work. That's how it happens. I was unemployed for a year or so and my roommate (who had previously fallen backwards into the world of insurance) told me his company needed some temporary help. I came in, started to process some numbers, and before I knew it a year had gone by and I was "in insurance." My only regret is that they don't give you with a badge or snazy hat. If I had a badge or a snazy hat that clearly defined me as an insurance guy, my world would be complete. For now, I have settled for a stupid haircut. And to answer your question, the end/beginning of the year is always a busy time of year in insurance. All things considered it ain't that bad. It's decent money, fairly easy work, and I get to hear about all the idiots out there who do stupid stuff and then sue other people as cover for their own embarrassment. That, and insurance chicks are hot.

posted by 86 at 08:37 AM on January 11, 2005

chicks. chicks. proofread. gruurgh.

posted by worldcup2002 at 01:09 PM on January 11, 2005

apparently becky (in the red top) was formally in insurance before she was on football.

posted by danostuporstar at 03:09 PM on January 11, 2005

SF, what is up with that picture? Wrong thread? Hope me!

posted by worldcup2002 at 03:40 PM on January 11, 2005

Is that what it is? That's terrible.

posted by worldcup2002 at 04:21 PM on January 11, 2005

I *think* that's what Hud's about.

posted by LionIndex at 05:31 PM on January 11, 2005

Thank you for flying Church of England, cake or death? thought we needed a bit of izzard

posted by BigCalm at 03:49 AM on January 12, 2005

My GIS on "long interview":

posted by NoMich at 03:40 PM on January 12, 2005

If you're confused by the Izzard, wc, go rent Dressed to Kill toot sweet. Thank the rest of us later. He's a fucking genius. That said, I saw him on some latenight talk show recently and he kind of looked like shit. Still funny as all get-out. You know, running, jumping, climbing fences, putting on makeup.

posted by Ufez Jones at 11:41 PM on January 12, 2005

Sorry for the delayed response. I took the day off yesterday. Here's how I ended up at Sportsfilter... Samsonov and I met at college. Soon after we arrived we discovered we both had a taste for cheap beer. There are a lot of folks like that in college, but Sammy had already made friends with some girls so latching on with him seemed like a good idea. The girls turned out to be crazy, but he and I have been friends ever since. We had another friend at school who knew a slow-witted Canadian kid from back in high school. garfield would come down and visit him for the college's spring festival every year. We'd meet him, get shit-canned for three days and promptly forget all about him until the next spring. By the end of my four years at school I'd spent one too many nights in a South Carolina drunk tank (spring break) and far too many days skipping classes so I headed to my parents house in Seattle to finish my degree and lose the gut. After that, and a year working in the sports and events scene in the great NW, I went crazy living with my parents and moved back east to New Jersey. At that point I lived with the nameless fourth fellow who had introduced us to garfield in college. After two years in a crappy apartment right outside the Lincoln Tunnel we decided it was time to trade up. Since garfield was going crazy at his own parent's place and we thought three people would make the bills more manageable, we picked him up as a third roomie. Somewhere in all this, Samsonov moved to town. He still liked cheap beer, so things kinda went back into the same routine. Anyway, Sammy was a MeFi guy and pointed me to Sportsfilter not long after it got started. I think garfield probably heard us talking about something that came up here and joined up himself. I don't know anyone else here, but I think garfield and Weedy know each other, so that is two degrees at least.

posted by 86 at 08:29 AM on January 13, 2005

me and Weedy are well acquainted.

posted by garfield at 03:44 PM on January 13, 2005

wc: i like catnip for humans

posted by garfield at 04:57 PM on January 13, 2005

so I headed to my parents house in Seattle to finish my degree and lose the gut. I'm hoping somewhere in there, some studying (not of the bottoms of beer mugs and bottles) was happening. Please, 86, don't let me down.

posted by worldcup2002 at 09:28 PM on January 13, 2005

gspm, your interview is over. ... Hoohoohoo.

posted by worldcup2002 at 12:33 PM on January 14, 2005

i didn't get the joke (how's my comment different than any other other than I was the previous interview) and don't see why two people are laughing at it. So HA to both of you. you're both OVER. take that!

posted by gspm at 06:19 PM on January 14, 2005

Has 86 been 86d? Har Har

posted by NoMich at 08:00 PM on January 15, 2005

You must be new, LionIndex. Normally, you monkeys just go ahead without asking. Hah. Fire away.

posted by worldcup2002 at 12:41 PM on January 17, 2005

methinks it was "new to the interview ettiquette". usually we're well into Wiggumisms or Lebowski quotes by now. So no need to ask. Unless you weren't actually asking and Can we just start making up answers for him? was some Lebowski quote that only appeared on the DVD extras or something.

posted by gspm at 01:03 PM on January 17, 2005

So I say, Lion, I say, if you were 86, what would your answer to Q5 be?

posted by worldcup2002 at 02:43 PM on January 17, 2005

86 sotto voce: Well, you know, after all the drinking and ravishment of the lovely womenfolk of South Carolina (plus a few gamehen, but that's a story for a whole 'nother website), with thoughts of study and majors far from my frontal lobe, I dragged my suddenly chubby self back to Seattle. Some might say this was a bad sign but those folks haven't known the excitement that only 215 rainy days a year, on average, can inspire. Though I say "can inspire" because obviously that wasn't my experience, I was too busy balancing microbrews and espressos. Major, shmajor, I escaped with a valid bachelor's degree (as long as employers and the US gub'mint don't look to close) and, as I said earlier, backed into a job and apartment with my old drinking pals.

posted by billsaysthis at 04:41 PM on January 17, 2005

Hahahaha. Good stuff, bill. And not too far off. If I remember correctly I studied Economics and Government in college. Of course, that's about all I remember. Also, I'm pretty sure I went to college in Connecticut. The South Carolina thing was over spring break. Oh, and I didn't go back to Seattle so much as I just went there. I've never had a home town to go back to after. I was a military brat growing up so between San Francisco, and DC (x2), and St. Louis, and Juneau, and San Juan, and NYC (x), and Muskegon, and Norfolk, I had a lot of hometowns. By the time I was done with four years in Connecticut, my parents just happened to be living in Seattle.

posted by 86 at 08:24 AM on January 18, 2005

I think of the northeastern seaboard as my hometown. I lived in DC twice, New York twice (plus the last five years), and went to college in Connecticut. Generally, when people ask though and I'm not in the mood to go on about my moving about I tell them I'm "from" New York. I went to 6th & 7th grade here and after two years in Puerto Rico, I came back for the last three years of high school. Plus, I live in the area now. Of course, I'm technically from New Jersey so it pisses off New Yorkers when I claim some low-grade resident status dating back to grade school. I get asked a lot of about my favorite places and the truth is I have a bunch of them. Most people want a ranking of some sort, but that's not easy to do. Each place I lived had it's ups and downs, but since I never lived in more than one spot when I was the same age it's really like comparing apples to oranges for me to stack them up against each other. For example, a 1st or 2nd grade kid has a worldview that generally doesn't get past his BMX bike or building snow-forts. For me, that meant Alaska was a wonderful spot to be. I could play in the mud, rain, snow, learn to ski, and do all that other junk in small town that doubled as an outdoor adventure-land. My brother and I were free to spend our afternoons hiking in the woods or riding our bikes to the best BMX jumps all the way across town. Had I been in New York or stuck on a base at the same age, I doubt I could have had the same experiences or nearly as much fun. And I've been back to Juneau enough to know that I would have hated it if I had lived there in high school. So, I was fortunate. I lived in Alaska as a rambunctious grade-schooler, New York as an impressionable teen-ager, and plenty of spots in between that managed to make their mark. Puerto Rico would have been wasted on a youngster, but I was old enough to travel the island with my brother and see things visitors miss. By the time my parents lived in St. Louis, I was in college and so even that worked out. I liked St. Louis a lot. Nice people. Some fun stuff to do. Good place to see a baseball game. All around, it's very comfortable. But all be damned if I spend more than three months in that town. Thank God that was only for summers. The only place I recall disliking at all was Norfolk. I was young when we were there and it was only for six months, but we lived in a crappy government house on a base. That's all I remember. That, and Norfolk sucks. Tell your friends.

posted by 86 at 03:01 PM on January 18, 2005

wow, wc, that's a doozy.

posted by garfield at 09:49 AM on January 19, 2005

If you hold on long enough, even through the really lean years, things will come back around and the victories will be that much sweeter. Sweet.

posted by worldcup2002 at 12:30 PM on January 19, 2005

Ahh, this is probably more bland than you would expect. I really meant we passed the time by playing games. We play poker, eucher, dominoes, X-Box (ESPN Hockey, Rally Sport, Halo), Acey-Deucy (a form of backgammon), and various board games. I've spent most of my life playing games. It's one of my favorite activities. What we play depends on who is around. If it's garfield, Sammy, & Co., we play X-Box or poker. If it's garfield, myself and our girlfriends, we play dominoes, eucher, or a board game. If it's just me and the lady, we play Acey-Deucy or Spite & Malice (a card game).

posted by 86 at 01:06 PM on January 19, 2005

Once you have a team, they are yours until death comes or Bob Irsay's moving vans arrive. That's not always true. When it does happens, though, it's not something that you will decide that happens, it just does. You don't have much choice in the matter.

posted by NoMich at 02:10 PM on January 19, 2005

If it's just me and the lady, we play Acey-Deucy or Spite & Malice (a card game). Did you leave the word "strip" out of your sentence? Otherwise we need garfield and sammy to have a little chat with you, and soon.

posted by billsaysthis at 09:11 PM on January 19, 2005

much better!!!!!!

posted by smithers at 01:35 PM on January 20, 2005

*mops brow with big towel* Whew.

posted by worldcup2002 at 04:14 PM on January 20, 2005

This thread makes me wanna dance!

posted by NoMich at 06:52 PM on January 20, 2005

You should see the post about Osterman dancing on stage in cheerleader hotpants.

posted by worldcup2002 at 07:45 PM on January 20, 2005

Ostertag. Right. I'm a big b-ball fan.

posted by worldcup2002 at 12:36 AM on January 21, 2005

Where is 86?

posted by worldcup2002 at 11:55 AM on January 21, 2005

86?

posted by worldcup2002 at 12:18 PM on January 23, 2005

Maybe he got snowed in. I hear it's pretty bad back East.

posted by rocketman at 02:32 PM on January 24, 2005

well, i nearly got stuck in lodi this morning. but i would think (hope) that jc has a better snow removal system than us.

posted by goddam at 05:38 PM on January 24, 2005

be grateful you have a driveway.

posted by goddam at 09:31 AM on January 25, 2005

EVAR!

posted by worldcup2002 at 10:25 AM on January 25, 2005

And yeah, we need to get this on the main page sidebar. Pantheon!

posted by worldcup2002 at 08:33 PM on January 25, 2005

squealy, don't go into insurance. I'm still alive folks. I was out for the last two days. Sorry for the delay. What sports do I still play? Hmmmm... Very few. I was quite athletic and active in my younger days. I played soccer since grade-school, baseball like a good American kid should, golf (I was a proud member of the only golf course in Manhattan), tennis, some hoops, a season of volleyball in high school, some skiing, and I tried to surf when I lived in Puerto Rico. I was best at soccer and golf, but those days are long past. I still get out on a course a couple of times every summer, but now I rent a cart and play for beer bets, so it's no longer much of an athletic pursuit. I'd still ski, but it's way too expensive. I joined a local soccer club a few years back. It was run by the owner of my favorite pub. That one ended when I couldn't make it to games due to hangovers (Sat. morning games) and lack of transportation (no car). I even tried to start swimming last fall, but the YMCA isn't the most inviting place to submerge yourself in the morning. Oh, and garfield, Sammy, nameless fourth guy, and I got to playing hockey a while back. Once a month, we'd get together with about a dozen other folks, rent out the midnight slot at the rink and try to teach ourselves to skate. That was fun, but when summer came the desire dried up and we haven't been back out in a while. So what sports do I still play? Not very many, but I try.

posted by 86 at 08:26 AM on January 26, 2005

btw, glad you're ok. Who should go next?

posted by worldcup2002 at 03:10 PM on January 26, 2005

i'm thinking it has more to do with the last time they lost a world series.

posted by goddam at 03:26 PM on January 26, 2005

Oh, and here's a list of the interviews so far. I thought this was stored somewhere, but I couldn't find it. 1) StarFucker 2) Vito90 3) Ufez Jones 4) worldcup2002 5) Jacknose 6) jerseygirl 7) JennyB & Corpse 8) squealy 9) grum@work 10) Fat Buddah 11) Samsonov14 12) wfrazerjr 13) Achesons 14) goddam 15) billsaysthis 16) lilnemo 17) rcade 18) jbou 19) JJ 20) garfield 21) lil_brown_bat 22) chicobangs 23) dusted 24) Sauril 25) gspm 26) 86

posted by 86 at 04:18 PM on January 26, 2005

spofi interviews

posted by garfield at 04:33 PM on January 26, 2005

Bonus non-interviewer question: Who is the "nameless fourth guy" and why is he nameless"?

posted by billsaysthis at 07:30 PM on January 26, 2005

Talk about luck... finishing up just before this post will drop off the page. What interview wizardry.

posted by trox at 11:46 AM on January 27, 2005