The John Deere tractor pulled onto Broadway and rumbled into the madness.
On a Friday night in the heart of Nashville, as crowds and music spilled from packed clubs, it lumbered along at 5 miles per hour, tugging a canopied trailer with flashing lights and a group of friends from Denver sipping drinks and dancing to Shania Twain.
It wasn’t especially conspicuous. The Big Green Tractor, as it’s called, passed an open-air school bus crammed with partiers, and then another, and another. It also crept beside a vehicle with women leaning over a railing in tank tops printed with the slogan “Let’s Get Nashty!”
Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 8:56 amYeah, it's a nightmare. My buddy that lives there doesn't go downtown on Fri-Sat to avoid the bulk of it.
Is Nashville like New Orleans where you can avoid a certain section and still enjoy it there or are you just fucked for entertainment?
There's other parts of town that have some interesting stuff, but downtown Nashville is just completely fucked, so it's not like New Orleans in that respect.
“Those ‘woo’ girls are literally the heartbeat of our economy,”
Its scary that Bend, OR is turning into the same kind of place. No Kid Rock Steakhouse (yet), but lots of bachelor/bachelorette parties, complete with the pedal pubs and party buses.
DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 10:20 amIts scary that Bend, OR is turning into the same kind of place. No K...ock Steakhouse (yet), but lots of bachelor/bachelorette parties, complete with the ... pub...es.
Johnnie wrote: ↑Sat Sep 10, 2022 8:13 pmOh shit, you just reminded me about toilet paper.
Johnnie wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 1:24 pm
When visiting my younger sister last week I did the "Wonder Years" math for her and she got somber.
That show encapsulated the years of 1968-1973 when it ran from 1988-1993. A similar show starting today would be about 2001 and forward.
(Now, the Wonder Years is coming back on TV, but not about the turn of the century and surviving Y2K.)
I ran that one past my Mom, as she watched the show when it aired. She gave it some thought, and it felt that way to her. I think it's all the perspective of things happening before you were born or can remember seeming like the way distant past. She said she felt like life changed more from 2001 to today than 1968 - 1988 what with cell phones and social media. My kids don't watch TV! Imagine 20 years convincing someone that in 2021 kids would barely watch TV. Even when they do, it's streaming, not live TV, and it's on their phone or iPad. I found myself yelling at them to watch on the TV, because that somehow seems less harmful to me than staring at a phone.
An honest to God cult of personality - formed around a failed steak salesman.
-Pruitt
A_B wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 8:03 am
I bet Earth Wind and Fire celebrate today like the '72 dolphins when the last unbeaten falls.
I looked it up and that song was released during my lifetime (I was three weeks old) and not the weird hazy alternate history I had assumed. Shit.
I just found out that the opening of the musical Little Shop of Horrors opens on the 21st of September, but the movie version opens on the 23rd of September. Such a weird thing to change from one medium to another.
How do you all get your death notices since I left?
Johnnie wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 1:24 pm
That show encapsulated the years of 1968-1973 when it ran from 1988-1993. A similar show starting today would be about 2001 and forward.
So instead of Winnie's brother dying in Vietnam, he would a broker at Canter Fitzgerald who died on 9/11.
Johnnie wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 1:24 pm
That show encapsulated the years of 1968-1973 when it ran from 1988-1993. A similar show starting today would be about 2001 and forward.
So instead of Winnie's brother dying in Vietnam, he would a broker at Canter Fitzgerald who died on 9/11.
And a would be Trump voter.
Putting together an All About Me bag for work and found a photo of my first kindergarten students. They're almost 30 now.
Johnnie wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 1:24 pm
That show encapsulated the years of 1968-1973 when it ran from 1988-1993. A similar show starting today would be about 2001 and forward.
So instead of Winnie's brother dying in Vietnam, he would a broker at Canter Fitzgerald who died on 9/11.
And a would be Trump voter.
Putting together an All About Me bag for work and found a photo of my first kindergarten students. They're almost 30 now.
Holy hell this sounds like some horrible team-building exercise.
You know what you need? A lyrical sucker punch to the face.
Johnnie wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 1:24 pm
That show encapsulated the years of 1968-1973 when it ran from 1988-1993. A similar show starting today would be about 2001 and forward.
So instead of Winnie's brother dying in Vietnam, he would a broker at Canter Fitzgerald who died on 9/11.
And a would be Trump voter.
Putting together an All About Me bag for work and found a photo of my first kindergarten students. They're almost 30 now.
Holy hell this sounds like some horrible team-building exercise.
Maybe you're just not ready to handle first grade.
mister d wrote: ↑Wed Nov 10, 2021 9:23 am
"He has to have a really cool name. I have to go through life as 'Larry' and there's no way I'm doing that to my own kid."
"I have a really cool name. I get to go through life where everyone knows me by my first name or last name and reflexively wags their finger, and I'm going to make my kid's name as boring American as possible."
How do you all get your death notices since I left?
There's a craft beer bar right next to where our girls have dance classes and on Thursdays they do trivia. I typically don't play because the class is only an hour and the trivia is two, but last night I was helping two girls who were sitting next to me at the bar. There was a true/false question asking if Mayor McCheese had a cheeseburger for a head or not. They looked at me like the guy spoke Greek and they had no idea who Mayor McCheese even was. The topper was the bartender saying "I bet Blake knows this cause he's older than us". You're not going to get to fuck my wife with that attitude, Cole.
Two Girls, One Pint. And Blake. came in 3rd. Also I am very very hungover today.
well this is gonna be someone's new signature - bronto
Giff wrote: ↑Fri Nov 12, 2021 11:49 am
There's a craft beer bar right next to where our girls have dance classes and on Thursdays they do trivia. I typically don't play because the class is only an hour and the trivia is two, but last night I was helping two girls who were sitting next to me at the bar. There was a true/false question asking if Mayor McCheese had a cheeseburger for a head or not. They looked at me like the guy spoke Greek and they had no idea who Mayor McCheese even was. The topper was the bartender saying "I bet Blake knows this cause he's older than us". You're not going to get to fuck my wife with that attitude, Cole.
Two Girls, One Pint. And Blake. came in 3rd. Also I am very very hungover today.
What kind of trivia has true/false questions. That's bullshit.
An honest to God cult of personality - formed around a failed steak salesman.
-Pruitt
Giff wrote: ↑Fri Nov 12, 2021 11:49 am
There's a craft beer bar right next to where our girls have dance classes and on Thursdays they do trivia. I typically don't play because the class is only an hour and the trivia is two, but last night I was helping two girls who were sitting next to me at the bar. There was a true/false question asking if Mayor McCheese had a cheeseburger for a head or not. They looked at me like the guy spoke Greek and they had no idea who Mayor McCheese even was. The topper was the bartender saying "I bet Blake knows this cause he's older than us". You're not going to get to fuck my wife with that attitude, Cole.
Two Girls, One Pint. And Blake. came in 3rd. Also I am very very hungover today.
What kind of trivia has true/false questions. That's bullshit.
It was just one of the six rounds.
well this is gonna be someone's new signature - bronto
I am within a year of being the same age as Gordon Jump in the turkey episode of WKRP. The clip popped into my Facebook feed, and I was thinking about how everyone in the 1970s and earlier looked so much older than people do now, so on a lark I looked up Gordon Jump's age, and he was 45 or 46 depending on when the episode was filmed!!! Frank Bonner, the other actor in the picture was 35.
And Richard Sanders who played Les Nessman was 38!
An honest to God cult of personality - formed around a failed steak salesman.
-Pruitt
