# Hijack this thread! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 22, 2005, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809 "2005-12-22T16:21:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/181 "2006-01-06T18:41:26Z")
I pissed off this thug boss once? Now I “done lost my L.A. privileges.” Henceforth, I’m prevented from using words with “Ls” and “As.” Sucks. ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/182 "2006-01-06T18:50:10Z")
**LA Woman** You’re my woman–Jim Morrison never had LA privileges, but I’m sure he took a few liberties. “Show me the way to the next whiskey bar” ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/183 "2006-01-06T23:28:52Z")
Oh, don’t ask why. Oh, don’t ask why. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/184 "2006-01-06T23:44:23Z")
Why are we here? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/185 "2006-01-06T23:50:24Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > Why are we here? Everybody gotta be someplace ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/186 "2006-01-07T00:31:31Z")
All right now, everybody dance! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/187 "2006-01-07T00:40:39Z")
> [@Governor Quinn](#): > > All right now, everybody dance! Somebody turn on the bubble machine, Ah-one and ah-two. Here now is Myron Floren with Pete Fountain to do the Poor People of Paris as a cha-cha-cha. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/188 "2006-01-07T01:00:55Z")
SUmmer of 2004, I stayed at the Paris Las Vegas. Very nice hotel. and for an extra $10/night, we were on the Strip side of the hotel, so we were able to see the Bellagio fountains from our room, even tho it was partly obscured by the Eiffel Tower ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/189 "2006-01-07T12:43:12Z")
If you give 10,000 monkeys 10,000 years with 10,000 erector sets, one of them will turn out the Eiffel Tower ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/190 "2006-01-07T14:11:03Z")
> [@Sgt Schwartz](#): > > If you give 10,000 monkeys 10,000 years with 10,000 erector sets, one of them will turn out the Eiffel Tower Whenever we played Monopoly I always wound up with Electric Company. That and Water Works. Often those were my only properties. I rarely won a game. ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/191 "2006-01-07T18:57:14Z")
The Electric Company and Sesame Street are responsible for the education of over a generation of children (and the entertainment of thousands of adults). ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/192 "2006-01-07T19:35:08Z")
The Electric Company was one of the best offensive lines in football. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/193 "2006-01-07T19:44:43Z")
I played trombone in a marching band when I was in grade school. We often played at the Merchant Marine Academy Football Games ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2006, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/194 "2006-01-07T23:33:13Z")
After the Big Game of 1982, will any Stanford trombonist in the marching band agree to play in a game against Cal? ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/195 "2006-01-08T03:29:50Z")
> [@](#): > > **Governor Quinn** : After the Big Game of 1982, will any Stanford trombonist in the marching band agree to play in a game against Cal? I finally saw that for the first time on TV’s Most Unexpected Moments. I also **didn’t** get to see (once again) the end of the “Heidi Bowl.” ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/196 "2006-01-08T12:02:31Z")
I’m about to have a bowl of delicious beef barley soup. ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/197 "2006-01-08T17:09:43Z")
> [@fetus](#): > > I’m about to have a bowl of delicious beef barley soup. A recently found an ad in the Yellow Pages (I don’t do all my shopping on Google 🙂 ) That offered ball waxing while you wait. Boy was I surprised when it was for a bowling Pro Shop. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/198 "2006-01-08T17:13:08Z")
> [@Sgt Schwartz](#): > > A recently found an ad in the Yellow Pages (I don’t do all my shopping on Google 🙂 ) That offered ball waxing while you wait. Boy was I surprised when it was for a bowling Pro Shop. Does anybody else remember the days of Wolley Segap? ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/199 "2006-01-09T00:33:50Z")
My memory isn’t what it ought to be, seeing as how I don’t remember what I had for lunch last Thursday. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809/200 "2006-01-09T01:25:29Z")
I didn’t have lunch today. I just snacked on crackers and cheese, then potato chips. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-this-thread/336809.md?page=11)