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Post by ibdave » Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:55 pm

Simon of the Playa wrote:i am the kid riding the unicycle at the end of the "welcome back kotter" show.

i was 12 yrs. old, living in NYC and learning how to ride a unicycle.


i would go about 5 feet, then grab a car, then go 10 feet, then grab (or fall into) another car and so on...


finally, i could almost go a whole block, when a man came over and said "Hey Kid, (they always say hey kid) if you can ride that unicycle all the way to the corner, i'll put you on tv"

and i did....and he did...
Simon, very cool.... Do or have you found it on YouTube yet??
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Post by BitterDan » Mon Mar 03, 2008 4:09 pm

No shit Simon? That little fucker is you?!?

Closest I have to any kind of fame is when I did a series of magazine advertisements for a freestyle bicycle company back in the 80s. They posed us on closed streets for hours on end for NO pay (their reasoning was that it was a privilege to be in a magazine at all. Of course, today they couldnt get away with that because they'd have to pay royalties. We didn't really care, it was fun.
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Post by Simon of the Playa » Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:06 pm

**shuffling feet**

**looks down**

allright......i bet my mom would upload it, but it will take some tech assistance i'm sure...vhs to you tube....we are talking about shifting whole paradigms here..

and i'll never hear the end of it.....

for some reason, my father cherishes his autographed picture of me and vanna (a trade convention....vegas....dont ask) and perhaps i could get him to scan it.....i'm 6'5 and she looks like a pregnant midget.

no joke.

on a side note....since the future of funerals and cemetaries are on-line, my video DeadStone (tm) will defiinately have that video as one, if not the only of my accomplishments...not to mention my "hey, i never told you this, but now that i'm dead i think you're a....." video.
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Post by mdmf007 » Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:47 pm

Simon -

Very cool story. I just pulled up the credits on Youtube, there you are.

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Post by oneeyeddick » Mon Mar 03, 2008 10:08 pm

So where's the link ?
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Post by lothos 1162 » Tue Mar 04, 2008 3:35 pm

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Post by ZaphodBurner » Tue Mar 04, 2008 3:47 pm

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Post by theCryptofishist » Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:08 pm

Lothos is my ride to the playa this year.
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Post by ragabashpup » Tue Mar 04, 2008 10:25 pm

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Post by ygmir » Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:06 am

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Post by madmatt » Sun Jun 22, 2008 5:35 pm

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Post by **burn** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 5:43 pm

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I saw near-extinct flowers and plants, and without each other they would no longer be.
The bird would have a specific shaped beak to fit the same shaped flower bud.

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Post by thirt33n » Sun Jun 22, 2008 11:43 pm

ibdave wrote:
Simon of the Playa wrote:i am the kid riding the unicycle at the end of the "welcome back kotter" show.

i was 12 yrs. old, living in NYC and learning how to ride a unicycle.


i would go about 5 feet, then grab a car, then go 10 feet, then grab (or fall into) another car and so on...


finally, i could almost go a whole block, when a man came over and said "Hey Kid, (they always say hey kid) if you can ride that unicycle all the way to the corner, i'll put you on tv"

and i did....and he did...




Simon, very cool.... Do or have you found it on YouTube yet??

seriously awesome. love that show[youtube][/youtube]
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Post by Thecatman » Sun Jun 22, 2008 11:57 pm

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Post by robotland » Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:49 am

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Post by Thecatman » Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:46 am

I'm a biodiesel whacko. I've been running B20 in my 03 TDI Jetta for close to a year and have'nt had to change the fuel filter yet and still get between 42 and 53mpg.

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Post by Ugly Dougly » Tue Jun 24, 2008 10:25 am

I am a left dresser. Hooray for our kind, to Hell with the right dressers.


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Post by chiefdanfox » Tue Jun 24, 2008 12:51 pm

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Post by Thecatman » Sat Jun 28, 2008 10:19 pm

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Post by bigbluedoggy » Sat Jun 28, 2008 11:16 pm

My anal retentiveness drives people crazy, but you probably already figured that out by now.
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Post by TomServo » Sat Jun 28, 2008 11:25 pm

I let rats lick my tongue.
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Post by Thecatman » Sun Jun 29, 2008 11:54 am

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Post by robotland » Fri Jul 11, 2008 9:58 pm

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Post by LeChatNoir » Fri Jul 11, 2008 10:01 pm

WOOT!!!

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Post by **burn** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 10:03 pm

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Post by Mad Mikey » Fri Jul 11, 2008 10:09 pm

When I was a baby I was amazing at putting together jigsaw puzzles. No, I do not remember it myself. Many people watched me over time & some have told me how amazing it was. Most of them are dead now. That's it, my claim to shame.

To ibdave: That is so f-ing cool. Every Thursday night my dad & I would watch Kotter 2gthr. My mom had bowling league night on Thursdays, so it was dad & I home alone. I was 36 then. No, no, jk. The thing is, we would watch the end credits every week just to see how far the unicyclist could go before they cut away. Nice to sort of, kind of, not really, meet you.

To Madmatt: I swear to Dog, we have uncanny similar names, but we are not the same person. Are we? My cock leans left abnormally also. Very peculiar. Or is it? Maybe someday I will prove it to you all. But don't get your hopes up. On the other paw, I did go naked at Bay 2 Breakers for a bit this year, so who knows. I was mauled by women more than once. What is wrong with you women? I thought you could smell a gay guy like 6 blocks away? So much for intuition.
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Post by cowboyangel » Fri Jul 11, 2008 10:47 pm

some people wanna kill me. Ya. Ha ha ha...
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