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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 06:14 PM
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Do you ever act out the theme of a restaurant?
When I was a teenager, I was part of a group that went to Long John Silver's. We had fake swords and eye-patches and talked like pirates, asking questions like "where be the poopdeck, wench?" instead of "where is the bathroom?". It was fun.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 06:53 PM
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1. When Burger King had the "Have it your way" campaign going on
a bunch of my girlfriends and I, after eating, decided to sing the jingle to everyone who walked in the door.

The staff loved it except for the manager.
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StellaBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 06:55 PM
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2. I LOVE Long John Silver's
and I ALWAYS ring the bell

But, yeah, I dress in costume whenever possible.

Your little story is hilarious. We're kindred spirits.

:hi:
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 07:11 PM
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8. I ring the bell and ring it like hell
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 07:00 PM
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3. Sure, I act Irish every time I go to McDonalds.
"Ooo, I'll be havin an order a potatoes and a fifth o' McBooze, me boyos."

:hide:
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 07:14 PM
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10. Faith and begorrah, what did you do with my Shamrock Shake ya bastard!
McDonalds is also clown-themed because of Ronald, who seems to have been abandoned
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 07:16 PM
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12. He's a clown?
I thought he had read hair because he's Irish and a big red nose because he's Irish.

:hide: :hide:
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 07:24 PM
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15. Nah if he were Irish
He'd have a whiskey keg and would have little McDonalds and beat Mrs. McDonald, then go to the pub.
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 07:27 PM
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17. He'd just tap Grimace.
I mean for beer.

Then he'd smack Birdie around.
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 07:30 PM
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18. Yeah I guess
Smae thing would be if McDonald brothers were Scots instead of Irish.
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Jed Dilligan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 07:02 PM
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4. Does getting really drunk on tequila and starting to sing
in a Mexican restaurant count?
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 07:04 PM
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5. Only in an American Mexican restaurant.
Not a proper one.
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Jed Dilligan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 07:05 PM
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6. In Mexico they aren't Mexican restaurants,
they're just restaurants.
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 07:07 PM
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7. Maybe it's the tequila talking, but I just noticed something...
FSM and Cthulhu... it looks like they were made for each other...
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Jed Dilligan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 07:13 PM
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9. In this house in R'lyeh,
Dead Cthulhu waits dreaming of his long-lost son, the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 07:18 PM
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13. I thought they were married. Or at least went to the prom together
But I guess it's not mutually exclusive when it comes to the Great Old Ones and the Great Saucy Ones.

Either which way, we know who's got the balls in that relationship.
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Jed Dilligan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 07:21 PM
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14. Yes, I hadn't considered that
If Cthulhu had sex it would have to be some form of incest anyway. There are two few beings in the universe isomorphic enough to have intercourse with Cthulhu for all of them not to be closely related. The question is, did Cthulhu evolve, and what are the Great Old Ones' teaching on marriage between gay relatives?
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 07:16 PM
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11. I took acid and went to Chuck E. Cheese's.
I think that counts.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 07:27 PM
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16. Did you freak out?
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 10:06 PM
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46. I got a little bothered when the hillbilly robot puppet show started.
Edited on Tue Jun-20-06 10:06 PM by swag
Nobody had prepared me for that.

But I did have my highest scoring game of Tempest ever.
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Radical Activist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 07:48 PM
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19. I'm doing this at Olive Garden tomorrow.
But should I act Italian or act like shitty food? :)
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 07:52 PM
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20. Act like you're part of a loud annoying Italian family as depicted in..
the commercials they show. Even if you are dining alone you must: engage in loud and animated conversation, recall events from long past (even if they are further in the past than your lifespan), swear in Italian, drink lots of Sambuca, re-enact scenes from every mob movie you can think of, etc.
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Radical Activist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 07:55 PM
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22. I'll talk about Mussolini
and the good old days back in Fascist Italy. :)
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 07:56 PM
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23. And how the trains blow now and here
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u4ic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 07:57 PM
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24. Act like Tony Soprano n/t
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 07:54 PM
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21. Good God, no.
Consideration for the poor people who work there, and all that. How many times do you suppose they've heard that?

Redstone
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 07:58 PM
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25. ...
It's a theme restaurant, it's in the job description.

Besides, they probably like it.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 08:00 PM
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26. It's not as though one is going around fucking up book displays.
So you act a little strangely, you eat and you get out, just like any other strange person
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 08:01 PM
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27. Totally, it's not like anybody's being an asshole.
We're just making fun of their stupid, stupid restaurant.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 08:04 PM
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28. I'm sure that some tight-assed manager who has dedicated his life...
Edited on Tue Jun-20-06 08:04 PM by JVS
to the company probably views it as an affront to the sacred cause of Long John Silver's. But I doubt that the kids slinging the fish really give a shit. At worst they might consider it to be a joke that has "been done"
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 08:10 PM
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29. Yeah, right. I'm SURE that the girl working the counter at lunchtime just
Edited on Tue Jun-20-06 08:11 PM by Redstone
LOVES it when some schmuck comes up and says "ARRH, shiver me mizzenmast, ya're a saucy wench, ain't ya? Whatta ye say me bize, shall we bundle 'er up to the foredeck, me hearties?"

And she's looking at the twelve people in line behind Mister Funny Man, and thinking "I wish you had a parrot on your shoulder so it could shit on your shirt. Just give me your fucking order, would you?"

Redstone
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 08:13 PM
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30. That's what I'm thinking.
And if she doesn't like it, well, she works at Long John Silver's.
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 09:07 PM
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40. Great condescension, there. "If she works there, she's not worth shit."
Edited on Tue Jun-20-06 09:07 PM by Redstone
People who work in fast-food places are just drones and garbage and who the fuck cares if you make her job harder because "if she doesn't like it, well, she works at Long John Silver's."

So therefore she's dirt.

Nice fucking attitude. I thought we DUers were better than that.

Redstone
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 09:58 PM
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44. ...anyone? Where are the DUers who stick up for the "little people?"
Redstone
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 08:17 PM
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31. I've had worse things happen to me at work
What you describe is no worse than all the morons who can't figure our the damned menu
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 09:12 PM
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41. And that's an excuse for people acting like assholes just to get
a laugh out of their seventh-grade buddies?

Redstone
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 09:28 PM
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42. There is nothing wrong with acting a bit foolish
Edited on Tue Jun-20-06 09:30 PM by JVS
And there is a big difference between acting like a pirate and being an asshole.
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 09:43 PM
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43. Everything has a time and a place. My big problem is with people who
think like this: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5287737&mesg_id=5288135

If you want to goof around at 8:30 at night when the place is empty, well, why not? Might give the crew a laugh during the boring time. They'd probably even join in and enjoy the break in the routine.

But to say that it's OK to make someone's job harder just because, well, "she just works at Long John Silver's" so your fun is worth MUCH more than her having a good or bad day...

THAT attitude is what I have a problem with.

Redstone
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Tyrone Slothrop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 11:17 AM
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49. I have a problem with it too, Redstone
Particularly as my brother used to work at an LJS in high school. The comment you linked to was highly offensive to me.

Also, I used to work as a fishmonger; after hearing and watching some jackass customer stride into our store and cheerily say, "Boy! Something smells fishy in here!!!" and then scan the entire store waiting for someone to applaud his AMAZINGLY witty remark (this would happen at least once a day -- and was a routine for some of our regular customers), I made it a personal goal of mine to never, ever be that jackass.
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 08:21 PM
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32. Any guys want to hit Hooters...
dressed as scantily clad pretty young ladies?
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Radical Activist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 08:22 PM
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33. Can I dress as an owl instead?
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 08:23 PM
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34. LOL! Sounds funny
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marzipanni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 08:23 PM
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35. The first time I went to a McDonald's
I had to tell the guy at the counter that the ladies' restroom was out of McToilet paper.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 08:23 PM
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36. I would have called it McButtwipe
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Radical Activist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 08:31 PM
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39. No, that's a menu item.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 08:24 PM
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37. Poopdeck's ain't fer poopin', squirt. Ye be wantin' the "head" fer askin'.
Too funny! Pirates that don't know nautical terminology...

:rofl:

:P
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 08:27 PM
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38. I know that, but then you don't get to say poop
besides, one should only match the authenticity of the food of the establishment in one's act
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txwhitedove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 09:59 PM
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45. Is this a Tuesday night show only, or will you guys be here
all week?
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 09:02 AM
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47. I won't be here this weekend. I must travel
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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 09:05 AM
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48. I remember when LJS was much more nautical-themed
than it is today. And instead of prizes in the kids meals, you were given tokens to use in the "treasure chest." And yes, Long John Silver himself would sometimes make an announcement over the Muzak.
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