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Yeah, pretty much this, exactly.

#22
LOL most of these!

Number 7? no one ever accused me of being boring, but I have been called weird! :woot:

One of my co-workers did number 10 the other day, when he asked me what I was doing that weekend and replied "playing my bass". After his awful 30 second impersonation of Paul Rudd, I told him if he didn't stop being an ******* I would be "slappin' da face".

Number 3? When I do get asked this, it's usually by someone that doesn't know any better (a non-musician) or a guitard who thinks he's being funny.

Oh, and 12 doesn't apply.
 
#23
crucislancer said:
LOL most of these!

Number 7? no one ever accused me of being boring, but I have been called weird! :woot:

One of my co-workers did number 10 the other day, when he asked me what I was doing that weekend and replied "playing my bass". After his awful 30 second impersonation of Paul Rudd, I told him if he didn't stop being an ******* I would be "slappin' da face".

Number 3? When I do get asked this, it's usually by someone that doesn't know any better (a non-musician) or a guitard who thinks he's being funny.

Oh, and 12 doesn't apply.
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Yeah, I get the "slappa da bass" thing every now and then. I laugh and keep walking. Unless she's hot...
 
#27
I doubt he was being sarcastic. I heard the slappa de bass thing on the radio so I knew about it, but didn't know (or care) what movie it was from.
similarly, without even trying to avoid them I've never seen a single John Cusack movie. I just checked his IMDB to make sure.
 
#30
pklima said:
One of my proudest accomplishments was proving #8 ("but when you break a string, EVERONE notices") wrong - I once broke a string playing DB in a trio once, and the singer who was standing right next to me didn't notice anything for about two songs, and then only noticed me pulling out the remnants between songs. I did get bad cramps with a few songs left in the gig from all the flying around the fingerboard between the G and A strings, but up until that point apparently I managed to sound like nothing was wrong.
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+1
Broke a string on my DB and nobody noticed, at all. I only told the fiddler about it at the end of the night when we finished, so ... still nobody knows about it, except he and me. Nobody cared but me, though the fiddler was impressed.
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+1 - for not knowing the Rudd Reference.
Recently someone made such a big deal out of my NOT knowing the Rudd Slappa crappa that I actually checked out the YouTube clip of it. I didn't care about it before, I could not care less after watching the clip.
:meh:
 
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#32
What's even weirder perhaps is that i've never seen office space where they destroy their copier in the parking lot. I fix copiers for a living and customers like to bring that up to me. They act like it was the wizard of oz or something and everybody just HAS to have seen it.
 
#33
Well, I've seen a lot of crappy low-budget post-apocalyptic movies but never watched "Blade Runner" and didn't bother with more than a few minutes of any of the "Mad Max" movies. Or even "Shrek" for that matter. Also never heard Jaco.
 
#34
morgansterne said:
What's even weirder perhaps is that i've never seen office space where they destroy their copier in the parking lot. I fix copiers for a living and customers like to bring that up to me. They act like it was the wizard of oz or something and everybody just HAS to have seen it.
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pklima said:
Well, I've seen a lot of crappy low-budget post-apocalyptic movies but never watched "Blade Runner" and didn't bother with more than a few minutes of any of the "Mad Max" movies. Or even "Shrek" for that matter. Also never heard Jaco.
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Office Space is not the Wizard of Oz, but it is a necessary movie. I would say watch it online for free next chance you get.

Blade Runner is a must-see, and Mad Max (the first one,) is essential viewing, and even more so The Road Warrior (the second one.) The third one (Thunderdome,) is not in that same league. Mad Max is a low-budget Australian film that does a great job using what it has, and as action movies go, is a bit slow, but very dark. The Road Warrior is perhaps the greatest post-apocalyptic film ever devised, and gets everything right. Emil Minty as the feral child is one of the most iconic performances ever, and you'll swear the blonde guy is Mick Jagger's younger brother.

The buses/cars/motorcycles/gyrocopter scene is one of the greatest action scenes ever filmed.

And Jaco is amazing.
 
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mellowinman said:
Office Space is not the Wizard of Oz, but it is a necessary movie. I would say watch it online for free next chance you get.

Blade Runner is a must-see, and Mad Max (the first one,) is essential viewing, and even more so The Road Warrior (the second one.) The third one (Thunderdome,) is not in that same league. Mad Max is a low-budget Australian film that does a great job using what it has, and as action movies go, is a bit slow, but very dark. The Road Warrior is perhaps the greatest post-apocalyptic film ever devised, and gets everything right. Emil Minty as the feral child is one of the most iconic performances ever, and you'll swear the blonde guy is Mick Jagger's younger brother.

The buses/cars/motorcycles/gyrocopter scene is one of the greatest action scenes ever filmed.

And Jaco is amazing.
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+1 to all. I don't care for most of Jacos music, but you can't deny the technique and conceptual leap he brought to the instrument.
 

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