Jun 23, 2003 02:06
co-Nietzsche-wa,
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in switzerland, a girl ask a performer, who had just played his catalog of songs, what he felt were some of his influences. he responded "Have you heard of The Birthday Party?" she was quick to reply "I had birthday party when I was 18, it was so big"
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once, in a small Greek diner, a women asked a man "Can you come on my tits?" it wasn't until hours later I solved the puzzle: "Can you cover my tip"
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there was a computer junk store on Elston at the northern most point it meets Milwaukee. A man in a orange jump suit was talking a whole bevy of racist slurs about his Jewish boss. I took offense and asked him to please stop talking like that. he replied "oh, I didn't mean anything by it." then continued, "the fucking Jew... oh, sorry.... the asshole..." and there I learned he felt Jew and asshole were synonyms.
(parenthetically: later I found that man's picture in the illinois database of sex offenders for my area)
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in arizona my stepmother informed me that she thought it was ok that my half-sister to work but not my half-brother because, as she had already related to my half-sister, "He will have to spend his whole life working, you just have to marry someone rich" I asked her why she had not decided to just punch my sister in the face. she said "I wasn't mad at her"
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at my former employer, Barnes and Noble booksellers, someone once asked me, "Do you have any books on Greece?" I replied, "The Musical or the lubricant?" she said back to me, confused "The country", jon said "I am such an idiot"
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I saw a dead man get pulled out of Dodge Ram truck parked in the D and D liquor store lot. He had been in the truck the entirety of a hot summer day, the scene was not nice. I asked a cop standing there "Where'd he get shot?" the cop looked at me as if I was wearing a parrot costume and said "In his truck!"
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I made a sign once to tell people that the escalator I was cleaning was not to be ridden. a women who had just gotten off a plane rode it anyway and broke her ankle. I had put the sign at the bottom of an escalator going down.
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these are true and all suitable for a desk calendar. please consult james yoo for the copyright information.
-jae.