That is very cool. What kind of oil?

It's a light medical oil called Ondina. Canola or even olive oil can be used, but I know Ondina is used in HV transformers and electric motors so figured it would be safe. Also, it is almost completely transparent unlike vege oils.

From the creepy article..

Did you it what you were aiming at?

If I told ya... I'd have to kill ya... ;)

I shut down Black Flag in 1986 at an outdoor show at University of Oregon. I warned the sound man three times that it was too loud. Last time I told him to pull the plug. I was terrified that we would have a riot. Nope. Just a bunch of punks walking away. Didn't even yell.

Larry

PS - Rollins is a dufus.

I saw Rollins and the rest of the band get tossed into the Paddy Wagon outside the old church in Hermosa.....sitting on my balcony with a beer and spleef laughing my ass off.

I scratched my butt.. No one else has ever scratched my butt, nor ever will I reckon.

When I was in high school, I asked a friend if I could borrow a pencil. He flung one in my direction at a fairly high rate of speed. I missed it. The pencil bounced off my chest and fell to the floor. Our school was old and had the standard tan, linoleum square tiles of the day. The pencil fell and landed standing straight up and down with its point in the intersection of four of the floor tiles.

We all freaked out a bit. What are the odds of a pencil landing on its point standing straight up and down??? After staring at it for a few minutes I got down in the floor and barely touched the side of the pencil. It immediately fell over. We spent the next 10 minutes trying our best to manually stand a pencil on its end between the floor tiles. We couldn't do it.

Ha, it can be quite a laugh getting escorted off after the even I mean. When I was a teen the thing to do amoung our circle of drinking buddies was to go into large organisation's lunch rooms/cafeterias and buy lunch, sit down and enjoy it pretending you worked there. I'd done it lots of times IBM, Telecom, Railways, the list goes on. BUT when I was in NY I thought I'd go to Pan Am's and enjoy lunch then take a photo out the window down Park Ave and that would have been my big one. Umm, a plain clothes security guy slid in next to me and said "What are you doing here?" I said "meeting my girlfriend for lunch and carried on." Not so good, he said "No you're not, come with me." and saw he me off the premises.

Some great stories here.

I once got rufied by a gay dude, figured out what happened and ran to the bar across the street. It was a strip club. I woke up on the floor of the place in the morning. My credit card had 3 grand worth of charges on it... Must have been a fun night. Wish I could remember it.

I have a similar job where the armed guards and 20' fences topped with razor wire are there to keep people out, not in. That's all I can say about that.

On a lighter note; I once shook the hand of a man who was 2' taller than me and weighed three times what I did at the time. It was Andre' the Giant. He was 7'4" and weight 450 pounds.

Well there was tihs time at band camp .....

Never mind.

I sell smell to people/businesses and make a dang good living doing so...it ain't easy.

I saved a little girl's life.....

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Awww.... Baz - who saved who?

angela

I don't think I've done anything unique... But I've done some extraordinary stuff.

Probably the most special was 9 months in Namibia with the UN.
Helped some locals as a medic and did some risky stuff that scares me now when I think about it... Crazy times :eek:

Honestly Milt. I wish you would produce these. I know I'd buy a set.

Beautiful girl Baz!

On our honeymoon in Fiji....way back in '91.....our cruise ship was having a beer chugging contest and I won by outchugging an Auzzi!!!....How many of you can stake that claim!.....OK, well he was a hairdresser!:p

Took my ex-wife's virginity ;)

I had two women, at the same time, does that count. Just want to clarify. Then I woke up.

No, but you're my new hero!

I just had a date with a redhead and lived to tell about it.....

A redhead lived with me for 9 months and I survived ;)

I think this is the universe's way of saying "Hey Joe Bob - we've got some JUST batschit crazy enough to be a match for you!"

p.s. Steve says to learn to sleep with one eye open.

angela

I was married to a redhead (AKA The Fair Godzilla) for two years and lived to tell about it.

I would really like to read the responses people type out and then delete before posting... I know those are the best. Typed a good one myself and deleted it. No confidence in internet anonymity.

I married my ex when I was young and dumb. Pretty certain that no one will ever be stupid enough to do that again.

When I was six I sat in the pilots lap in a JAL DC-8 Super 80 headed from Tokyo to LA. Plane made a turn and I ran back through the cabin yelling, "Mom, I flew the plane!"

On a plane full of Boy Scouts, flying back from a national Jamboree, I walked through the cabin shredding a sanitary napkin asking, "what is this thing for?"

In 1976 I was the 2nd or 3rd youngest Eagle Scout in the nation.

I was accepted to Medical School and decided not to go.

I met Andre' also. Shook his hand and it was like shaking hands with someone wearing a baseball mitt. My outstretched fingers barely spanned his palm.

15 years here. Scary. Now she wants me back and me being the idiot I am, am seriously considering it! Guess I'm a thrill-seeker. :)

Gave Billy Idol a slap in the head after finding out my girlfriend blew him.....

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But she's still got the box it came in.

I escaped injury from an exploded cast iron flywheel while driving a small block Chevrolet hotrod at age 16 while Neal Armstrong strolled on the moon. Then I was unharmed by Mutt and Jeff during an armed robbery that started me laughing at the perp's (age 19) when leaving work to make the nighttime bank deposit. At that age you already think you are immortal, these incidents only enhanced that delusion. DP

Flew between the peaks of the Farralon islands at 300' in a P-3 with Chuck Yeager at the controls.

Wasn't just me though, there were 5 or 6 other guys on-board. I still can't believe no one complained.

Some pretty cool stuff. I think I have a bunch. Probably the most visible is that I took on a new client for the ad agency I worked for -- when nobody else wanted to have anything to do with him. A scruffy 21-year old named Steve Jobs. My team developed a logo and a 'brand personality' that have done fairly well for the company.

I am a redhead

Has this birth defect been the cause of much consternation?

POP,

I have enjoyed (and related to) reading your posts for a long time. I find you one of the most rational posters on the board, and I tend to agree with your pov on just about every topic.

I followed your move from Cali to NH, your challenges with your job, and then ultimately your impending divorce. I don't post here a lot, so I may have missed some of the details behind how that all fell apart. Or maybe (and understandably), you didn't post much about the details. I often wondered what happened since you seem (at least based on the virtual world here in PPOT) to be such a sensible person.

Now, to hear she wants you back. Wow. What a nightmare. And while I can understand why you might be considering it, it just strikes me just how messed up people really can be. I am a person who believes in commitment. Marriage is absolutely nothing without it. I have been there myself. But I am black and white on the marriage commitment. You either committed, or you didn't. And if you committed, and breached that commitment, then you never can be trusted again, period.

Or, just ignore the whole "commitment" aspect of a relationship, and just hang out together. That would be fine, too. But the fallacy of "I am committed", and then, "just kidding", just doesn't work for me.

Interested in any history or details now that you can share. Again, I am only interested, because you seem very sensible, and a lot of what you talk about your perspective on here resonates very much with me.

JA