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Sharps - 2004-08-09 12:18:06
"...but neighbors claim they see him doing yard work and call his alleged need for a helper monkey a scam." You seem to make light, Paula, but these helper monkey scams are no joke. They are tearing at the very fabric of our fair city and--I'm sorry, it's Monday and I just don't have the energy to keep up the required level of sarcasm. Pass.
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Sharps - 2004-08-09 12:45:11
"...but neighbors claim they see him doing yard work and call his alleged need for a helper monkey a scam." You seem to make light, Paula, but these helper monkey scams are no joke. They are tearing at the very fabric of our fair city and--I'm sorry, it's Monday and I just don't have the energy to keep up the required level of sarcasm. Pass.
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2fs - 2004-08-09 14:14:12
Ya sure, Sharples...but you've got the energy to go and clone yourself. So which of you's the "service Sharples" and which the "serviced Sharples"?
Wait - I really don't want to hear an answer to that.
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Garrigus & the Slippery Slope - 2004-08-09 14:56:43
Many o' y'all are pop-music ominiscients. So I'm guessing you know about the Mynah Birds? If not, you really need to know about the Mynah Birds. Best. Music. Trivia. Question. Ever.
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Geek Wars II: Attack of the Sharps - 2004-08-09 15:39:28
Yes. Before (I'm) Rick James (Bitch!) passed away I had vaguely heard somewhere that he had played in an early band with Neil Young. What I didn't fully realize until reading his obit is that it was in *Canada*, where Slick Rick was on the lam from the U.S. draft board during Viet Nam, and that it was right before Neil and Bruce Palmer moved to Cali to form Buffalo Springfield! It's kind of like discovering that broccoli was invented on Long Island by crossing cauliflower and spinach. "Huh? Well, okay..."
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Garrigus & the Slippery Slope - 2004-08-09 15:45:59
Easy, Killer.
The other guy in the band was Goldy Mc John, later of Steppenwolf.
They were signed to Motown. This is 1966. James was apprehended before the recording sessions were done. Someone apparently found the tapes mislabeled in Motown's vaults; that they haven't been released shows up the sorry state of this country.
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Garrigus & the Slippery Slope - 2004-08-09 15:51:14
And it wasn't the Draft Board (from what I hear). He was in the Navy Reserves & hit his limit & went AWOL. 'Kay I'm done.
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Dan - 2004-08-09 17:15:04
You are joking about the broccoli, right?
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Sharps - 2004-08-09 17:33:54
The story has it that around the turn of the century (19th/20th) an Italian immigrant farmer named Broccoli out on the east end of Long Island created the hybrid described above. The storyteller? Albert (Cubby) Broccoli, James Bond movie producer, who claims to be a descendant. I've never bothered to verify the story beyond that.
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Sharps - 2004-08-09 18:16:54
The story has it that around the turn of the century (19th/20th) an Italian immigrant farmer named Broccoli out on the east end of Long Island created the hybrid described above. The storyteller? Albert (Cubby) Broccoli, James Bond movie producer, who claims to be a descendant. I've never bothered to verify the story beyond that.
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Dan - 2004-08-09 20:48:59
I've learned a lot about broccoli in the last few minutes of Internet browsing, and Cubby's credibility has been damaged as a result, to the point where I don't know whether to believe the stuff in those James Bond movies anymore. Here's a link with more broccoli history than you need to know, and here's a discussion thread on the subject of broccoli as a naturally occuring vegetable. And here's George Bush Sr.'s opinion.
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