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Posted by Dukhat (Member # 341) on :

I'm just curious if anyone's heard anything about the band. The last thing I heard was that Gary Chirone was kicked out (a good thing), and that the July 4th, 2000 concert featuring David Lee Roth was a no-go b/c Eddie Van Halen found out he had cancer of the tongue (not such a good thing).

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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

What IS it with you people? Moody Blues? Backstreet Boys? And now Van frigging Halen?! Add to that Sol's inability to like a band if anyone else in the world has heard of it. . . And as for They Might Be Giants, here's a bit of wisdom for y'all: the liking of a band based on their funny-clever lyrics is an adolescent thing you grow out of really quickly.

Now excuse me, I'm going to listen to some Abba to calm my nerves.

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Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :

ABBA = Shittiest shit shit ever shitted. In fact, a giant piece of shit, after eating a big bowl of shit, couldn't shit more shit than the shit that is Abba.

You're damn right you're a dancing queen. Shit.

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Jeez, UM, you went from nerdish, to amusingly weird, to bile-spitting hater of everything. ABBA are okay, if you're in the mood.

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

An excerpt from ABBA! The Musical.

"Oh Bjorn!"

Oh Bjorn! Oh Bjorn!
A decade have you scorned
To leave us in the 90's, lost
Without your love we're torn

"Agnetha, Joy of Man's Desiring"

Alone
I awake in the night with one name on my lips
And your love is worth more than a whole bag of crisps
I could sail round the world on a series of ships
Just to see your umbrella, or shoulder, or hips
There is only one name that can pierce these miasmata
Agnetha

"Universal Benny"

Well there's a little bit of Benny in all of us
Yes, you might have a liter or two
Whether your name is Peter or John or Gus
I can see the Benny in you

"Anni-Frid"

My heart skids
You know it
Like lightning
You show it
'Cause it's just me and you kid (Me and you kid...)
Anni-Frid!

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Well, I've lost all respect for Vogon now... *L*

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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

Coming up next, a disquisition on irony.

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

ABBA did good work for it's time, and some songs still work, IMO.

I got hooked on Pink Floyd after trying that nanana/deedeedee-contest where you were to guess the song. Aqualung rocks, duude.

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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

Ma-na ma-na!

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Luke Ford: "What's it like having a dick in your ass?"

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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

Once wonders if Vogon likes anything at all...

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Nimrod: Erm... "Aqualung" is by Jethro Tull. I didn't even put any Pink Floyd songs in that contest. But, please, by all means, get hooked on Pink Floyd. :-)

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Although it's much easier to get hung on Simon. You could get several large elephants to hang on him, without any droop what so ever.

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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

Actually, I was just thinking about things I hate, and I'd really kinda picked up on one: I hate renting videos.

No, really. I really fucking hate everything about the process. I hate video rental stores, they're either small and dingy local corner-shop places or vast soulless auditoria like Blockbuster. I hate the staff, morons one and all, yet thinking "huh, I'm so cool, I work in a video store, it's deeply post-modern, man" - Quentin Tarantino has a lot to answer for.

I hate video boxes. They're crass. Garish covers which always misrepresent the content of the movie, so you get assholes who go on the IMDB and slam a great film like "Sonatine" because they thought from the box they were getting a John Woo movie. And all this desperate need to appeal to the masses - "from the co-screenwriter of TITANIC!" the cover blurb screams.

And ultimately it's the whole meaning of videos I hate. The fact that I'm out, but I'm gonna go home with this vid, and, whether with friends or by myself I'm going to stay in and watch TV. Plough through half an hour of crap trailers first. If I'm with friends, I know we won't really watch the film - we'll be joking about it, talking of other things, getting drunk or stoned. . . Or how I used to be at home with my parents, knowing that this will be the only feature of my Saturday night. Reminding me that my life used to suck that much.

So, I watch digital satellite instead, I like the unpredictability.

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Luke Ford: "What's it like having a dick in your ass?"

Zoe: "Imagine taking your bottom lip and pulling it over the top of your head. You get used to it but it does hurt."

Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :

Yeah, you've sure got it bad. You're so opressed, you'd think you were a minority.

Well, I say: Fuck The Man!

Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

You know what I hated?

The kid at 824 Staffordshire who orders a small pizza and a soda for $9.33 and gives me a $.50 tip and thinks he's awesome for being such a high tipper. Gee, thanks kid.

Now, the old fart at 10-C Firefly actually thinks he's tipping well when he gives me a quarter (and tells me not to "spend it all in one place"), and I can't really blame him for that, because he's probably been alive since the Civil War (he looks it, at least).

The people that really piss me off are the corporations. McCormick Spices, MBNA, MCI, UPS, etcetra. Order fifty pizzas and twenty 2-liters? No problem, put it on the company card, no limit for our employees! Oh, I'm sorry, a tip? No, we can't afford that. Tah-tah!

I love college students. Especially on Friday and Saturday nights. I'm offered beer, CDs, and just about everything possible (including a few cats, a busted computer monitor, cereal & McDonald's kid meal toys, and of course, sex). There's nothing better than dropping off a $10.49 pizza, being handed three fives, "keep the change man, wanna come in and have a beer and play some pool?" and playing a quick game of pool, while tucking the beer into the hot-bag to save for another day. Ahhhh, pizza delivery.

Or being pulled over by a cop for speeding. "Sir, do you know how fast you were goi -- wait, you work for Papa Johns?" "Yep." "With Wayne?" "Yep." "Good man. Take it easy, you hear?" "Yep!" ::drive off::

It's great during the summer. I don't have an air-conditioning unit, but I've got something better: a car that can shed its doors and top in warm weather. Now, if only I didn't have vinyl seats ... oh well.

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Wait, the pizza was $9.33, he let you have 50c, but demanded the other 17c? Wow, tight.

My tipping rate depends on how much money have at the time, and whether the guy was quick. At the very least though, I let them keep the change. I hated it when people made me stand in the rain while I counted out 13 pence for them. Bastards.

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-Bubbles

Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

Did you deliver?

Checks are a bitch. In this kid's case, he was calling in mommy's credit card on the phone and writing in .50 on the tip line. Bastard.

Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :

Next time, you should put ham INSTEAD of pepperoni on the pizza. That'll show that little fuck.

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

Yeah, but then he'd call back and complain and I'd have to go back and take him the right pizza. And he probably wouldn't even tip me. Bastards.

Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

So, we've already heard about how you turn down the sex. . . now you're telling us you DON'T turn down games of pool? That's just a bit twisted.

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Luke Ford: "What's it like having a dick in your ass?"

Zoe: "Imagine taking your bottom lip and pulling it over the top of your head. You get used to it but it does hurt."

Posted by Teelie (Member # 280) on :

I thought this would be some thread about Van Halen. I rarely order the pizza but when I do, I try to tip them if they don't take forever delivering it.
My brother however, damn you'd want to deliver to him all the time. He tips way too big.

Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

I don't give tips to delivery people.

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Luke Ford: "What's it like having a dick in your ass?"

Zoe: "Imagine taking your bottom lip and pulling it over the top of your head. You get used to it but it does hurt."

Posted by Dukhat (Member # 341) on :

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I thought this would be some thread about Van Halen.

Yeah, so did I. How the hell it turned into the subject of what people tip the pizza guy is beyond me.

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Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :

Like most threads, this one is multicoloured.......

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

And that's why I hate you, Voggy.

Actually, I don't mind not being tipped as such (unless is pissing down with rain, or a public holiday, in which case they owe me), but is it so hard to just say "keep the change"? Eh? Will that 17 pence REALLY make a difference to you?

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"And Mojo was hurt and I would have kissed his little boo boo but then I realized he was a BAD monkey so I KICKED HIM IN HIS FACE!"
-Bubbles

Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

Well, it went from Van Halen to about how video stores suck, and then it moved onto assholes who stiff. BTW: I'd stop ordering food for delivery Vorgon, do you REALLY want to know what the people making it are doing to it? Trust me on this -- you don't.

Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :

I didn't start tipping pizza deliverers until I got to college...

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Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :

I pushed a pizza guy down once. Does that count as a tip?

MAMAMAMAMAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

I'm = RULE!

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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

Ooh no! By not tipping, I have earned the wrath of an entire generation of dead-end McJobsters!

I mean, come on. Why the hell should I? Delivery is bloody expensive enough as it is. And just let them try any funny stuff, right now I'm virtually on first-name terms with the folks over at Hackney Environmental Services.

And not tipping doesn't seem to affect our service in any way, we get a Christmas card from our local curry house. All hail Holloway Indian Takeaway!

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Luke Ford: "What's it like having a dick in your ass?"

Zoe: "Imagine taking your bottom lip and pulling it over the top of your head. You get used to it but it does hurt."

Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

VP, news flash:

if we ain't spitting in your pizzas when your enviornmental service isn't around, they can't prove a thing ...

MUWAHAHAHAHA!

But seriously. Actually, pizza buis is hardly dead-end. My boss started as a phone-bitch making $5.20 per hour, runs the store now (70k a year), and probably will be a supervisor in a year making the same. Ten years he'll be a regional manager at the rate he's going, making a couple hundred thou'.

Yes, service can be affected by tips unless you live in a bum-fuck dead area. If I'm leaving on five deliveries, and I recognize one of 'em as people who never tip, they're going to get their pizzas last.

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Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :

Yeah, but we get it in 30 minutes or less, so I don't see how keeping it late will do much harm other than having us get a free pizza.

Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

I hate pizza.

Pizza breaks the three cardinal rules of eating:

1. Never eat anything with "tomato paste" in it.
2. Never eat anything bigger than your head.
3. Never eat anything that looks like it's been eaten once already.

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

I'm not going to get into a tomato-debate, but...*deep sigh*

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A narrow and a tall one.

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

UM,

You're probably alone in that. I don't know of any company around here that has that policy.

Posted by Saiyanman Benjita (Member # 122) on :

Ya, they stopped that a long time ago. Now they just give you a free order of breadsticks (worth about 10% of your entire order) if you get it late. Or a coupon for a dollar off, or something.

Normally we round up to the nearest dollar, since we pay by check. We give more to people from Domino's because they don't have a delivery charge (maybe a dollar and the change), but places that do, don't get as much (normally just the change), since the delivery charge mostly goes to the driver (at least it did when I was driving)

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