I think I speak for Team Whitey when I say we don't want him either. Unless you guys want to trade for Andy Dick.
Scrappy Doo If you're not familiar with it . . . Scrap metal (ferrous and non-ferrous) recycling is a HUGE business in the South, especially in Georgia and Alabama. You can drive onto some of the local scrap yards with a truck full or a few pieces of various metal (water heaters, storm drains, broken trailers, etc.) and drive off with cash. Not a check, for straight cash homey. Schnitzer is one of the largest scrappers in the company. A few years ago, when I replaced my water heaters, somebody suggested I scrap them there. I had a couple other pieces of junk to throw in the truck, and after driving back and forth across the scales, they gave me a little ticket. I took the ticket to an ATM-type machine, and it spit me out cash. I was in and out in less than 5 minutes. (That's what he said.)
Re: Scrappy Doo Friend of mine used to do haul scrap every morning in his pick-up. $90 for about a half day of work. Minus gas, he walked off with $60. Which is a lot of money on the outskirts of a town called Arcadia. Arcadia only has 6000 people, but this guy's stretch was a bar, a motel, and a scrap yard. That was it for MILES. If there were 100 people living around there I'd be surprised. It was an absolutely terrifying place. Time did not exist there. Anything could have happened to you and nobody would know. My carpenter takes everything he can off a job. Gets a nice pile going in his yard. Every couple months he gets a few hundred bucks for aluminium chunks and copper wire. An old fan motor will get you like $5. It adds up. And, yes, his name is Sandford.
Re: Scrappy Doo I'm not too far from Lancaster, PA which is a big Amish community. Whenever I go there, the way that I take used to take me by a place that was basically a junkyard, advertising as an "Antique Store". Out front it would have an Amish buggy and spray painted on it was "Amish Sandford and Son". And all I could think was how do they even know what that show is? They don't even own TVs. It was Amish owned too as you'd see their laundry on the clothes line. Mostly black, occasionally the ladies dresses and bras and underwear. Classy place. That reminds me when I was a kid, my mom didn't have a clothes dryer. So if she wanted small stuff to dry quicker, she'd put them on our baseboard heating. One time we were having people come over and I said to her, "Mom, and can you please not have my underwear drying on the baseboard when they do?" I mean, it wasn't even sexy stuff. That was always a good time, sitting there talking to someone and realizing your panties are out in the living room drying. And just hoping they don't look over. My mom laughed.
If you told me there was a dude on CNN named Don Lemon being an insensitive dick, I would have put my savings and my 401K on him being a square-ass 50 something white dude. Kudos to Don Lemon for breaking down racial walls of douchebaggery!
Re: Scrappy Doo When I was a flatroofer we would walkways cash in the copper exhaust pipes we'd tear off the old roof, usually it would be enough to buy everyone in the crew a 12 of beer for a Friday night.
Release. That exchange was horrible. I used to like Don Lemon, can't forgive him there. Also, where is the win in interviewing a rape victim as a dude? If someone asked me as a reporter "Hey you're doing a segment when you interview this chick who was raped by a dude." "Fuck no, cough cough, I'm losing my, cough, voice. Fuck that. I'm sick. Cough cough." There is NO upside at all for a guy to interview a woman about a potential or confirmed raping.
I'm coming to think that the movie Network's satire of the news industry didn't go far enough, outrageous as it was. The new depths of news coverage is a never ending acid soaked carousel of unbelievable behavior.
Thanks to a few people who can't fucking count, I almost had to make a very significant call to the RCMP to report a huge amount of missing methamphetamine precursor. Thanks for the heart attack, Logistics department. Christ.
I'd like to request we up the karma character count. I can't be my usual hilarious self if I'm forced to reword stuff because I go over my count. Jason Bateman is upset he wasn't named Sexiest Man Alive. I'm adding him to my Rob Thomas (mmmm...deep voice) and Chris Pratt (adorable) infatuation. Although I'm not digging the hair. Too long.
For free tickets, I bet they got a lot more than 500 people willing to do it. If they were even able to get out of their homes, that is.