Our First Friday ♥

[RedKittieKat]

It’s our first Friday in our new home. First I want to say how happy I am that we are gathering back together again. I’ve missed our wonderful times together. And so I thought it would be fitting to dust off an old standard for today.

Our Kool, every Friday, for well over a decade gave us a wonderful wrap up of the week with QOTW aka Quote Of The Week. He would open with something like this:

All you, Fortune cookie writing, Odd complement getting, So So close to getting your houses, Zombified, Didn’t know Jerry Garcia was a criminal mastermind, Wishing you’d thought of “Poo Hand Luke”, No longer wondering if the mods actually do anything around here, Graphic Designers!!

Have a great weekend!!

Since this little spot on the forum is in memoriam of our dear member, moderator and friend Garricks. Known to some as Gary, G and of course Badgerman. To me he was Jooba (I was Ooba). I don’t even remember how we ended up with those nicknames. It stemmed from more GDF silliness.

I figured our first Friday could be his, since he was part of soooo many of our Friday shenanigans

So without further ado, I give you …

The Garrick Edition

garricks:

Awesome, according to the Google home page, today is Rodin’s birthday. I wonder if he’s meeting Godzilla for drinks after work?

garricks:

I hereby declare that 2nd is the new 1st place, since Yoss refuses to lose.

I’m number 2!!! I’m number 2!!!

garricks:

I’m not bothering to post lunches because I’m on this ridiculously boring 2000-calorie, low-fat, low-carb, low-sodium diet.

I might as well be eating cardboard.

ah, but the leering cows don’t twitch, rattle and roll!

runs in wearing a sombrero…and nothing else

It’s still no-pants day, right?

Marketeers are from Satan. Especially when they stand over your shoulder and point and get fingerprints on your monitor.

Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit.

“Honey, could you pick up a couple of boobies of milk on the way home?”

The funny part is, even though the back and the knees ache, generally looking out from in here, I don’t feel any different than I did at 25. I just make more noises.

Yeah, I keep trying to quit. My butt hurts from falling off the wagon.

CMD -N-O-M should do it.
Oh, I forgot to be bi-lingual… for you PCers that would be CTRL-N-O-M.

I’ve got a foot dragger in my office

Shhhoooop! Shhhhoooop! Shhhoooop! Shhhhoooop!

Aw, virgo, at least it wasn’t filled with a rainbow gradient!

hands virg a barf bag

Pats urst’s hand, it’s OK. the poo is washed away. The plant fiber is left. Lots of zoos are on the bandwagon, selling poo paper in their gift shops

Oooh, tacos that bite back!

I’ll prevail, though…get in mah belleh!!1!

I work up the courage to ask Date out to a movie.

We go to see “History of the World.” (My choice. I’m an idiot, should have chosen sappy Chick Flick.)

Here’s where it went wrong:

Exterior, day: Paris
Voice Over: France. 17xx (whatever year it was)

Camera starts with a wide shot of Paris. Zooms in as the VO continues.

We zoom in tight on a local street. Brass street plaque reads, “Rue d’ Merde” Garrick translates in his head, “Sh!t Street.”

Garrick laughs. Loudly.
Date shoots a look…“WTF?”

Garrick realizes he’s the only one in the entire theater who caught it, and tears streaming down his cheeks, laughs louder, huge guffaws that cause people to turn around and WTF him.

The laughter dies out as Garrick realizes:
A) Date is poking Garrick in the ribs, hissing “What is so pancaking funny?!?”; and
B) Garrick is laughing so hard he cannot breathe. Garrick has to go to the lobby to get control.

And… scene.

Results:
A) I had to go back the next night to see the 15 minutes of the movie I missed from laughing; and
B) There was no second date; and
C) It was Date’s loss. Several years later I learned that Date moved to California and joined a “commune.” shrug

That little moment is one of my favorite memories.

/end hijack/

buda, i would think the ones that do are likely missing a finger or two! Badgers seem to be rather nasty creatures…except for the cartoon variety!

If I had a hedgehog I’d call him Dimsdale!

not of ME, silly. re-reads post Oh, I see how you could think that. No, I’m white-bread boring vanilla. It’s all in my mind and googling skillz. Sorry to disappoint!

Today was a long day, and to top it off, I heard from a client regarding a logo design, "Well, I like the font you chose, but it only says Blorg Snarf. We’ve been using Blorg Snarf Piffle, so you need to change it. Oh, and can we see some with just BSP? (Which, the actual acronym spells nothing and has absolutely no brand equity to the larger organizationl.) This after several days of sketching and lots of thought put into it.

I’m a bitter, bitter person tonight.

My favorite thing to do (especially in a meeting) is to stare at a person’s forehead with a vague WTH look on my face. They gradually get really uncomfortable, and when they finally say “WHAT?” I just calmly say “April Fool.” Works every time!

My bullsh!t alarm went off.

I’m the guy that insists on calling “Times New Roman” a typeface rather than a font, regardless of what Redmond and Cupertino think. So no, not too pedantic.

Looking at the noms has me really thinking about negative space now. I need to start taking some pix and nomming them up.

I see noms everywhere. Some don’t even know they’re noms. (OK, bad ‘Sixth Sense’ joke)

I had a hankering for some Underwood Deviled meat a few weeks ago, and couldn’t find it at my grocery…they had other brands, but not Underwood. That was my grandmother’s brand preference, therefore it’s mine! (I know that makes very little sense, but you had to know my nana!)

gets in Acme jet plane to drop airline blue toilet ice on Ckret

sits up straight and formal
The toilet ice would be Pantone 3005C. (because Process Blue would just be too easy.)

Also on the topic of Pantone colors, I went to Amazon to price a new Solid Coated fan, as my current book at home is 10 years out of date. In the comment/review section under THIS set of guides is written:

“It’s quite nice. You know, like it has all the colors and stuff. I mean, ALL the colors. Name a color . . . bingo, it’s there. My only complaint is, they don’t use nice names for the colors. They’re all “PMS147” or “PMS1457” but really, I’d prefer something like “mediterranean blue” or “tuscan yellow.” Just a suggestion.”

Followed by the response:

“Jeff, you are stupid. go to Home Depot and steal paint chip strips if you want “pretty” names. pantone books are used in print so that color is the same no matter where you get things printed. just like car painting…”

He wants something people will throw away?

'k, do me a favor. Give him my address and tell him to just send his money to me. I’ll give it a good home and he won’t have to worry about it any more!

Cool find, longboy… runs off to play with gradient feather tool

Wait. Does “gradient feather tool” sound dirty to anyone else?

Typically, dude, are you seriously huffing a diaper genie??? WTH is wrong with you!?

Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

(Now, if only that worked…

SSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

My boss went around for MONTHS saying, “Does that make you horny, baby?” Made me cringe every time.

See, that’s why you need us old farts, to 'splain how we used to do stuff!

Like walking 520 miles each way in the driving snow to get to school every day. ROFL

garricks:

This thread is deranged.
sings
“Home, home on deranged
where the Tea and the Tuliptree play.
Where Bladez is heard,
An encouraging word,
And the shoes
they get painted all day.”

garricks:

Nobody likes a soft banstick. It takes SOOOOO much longer for them to die. You have to keep beating, and beating, and beating…

garricks:

Dear Agency Dude,

This is the third time in as many months that you’ve shown up in my building to present, and not had the proper cables/adapters. Of course I’m going to mock you.

garricks:

Wow, this is as overanalyzed as a Crit Pit post!

garricks:

Yup. So much fun it makes me stabby.

garricks:

Ah, now a muffin top is something completely different. That’s the part of a too-ample waistline that spills out over the belt. Frequently seen at WalMart.

garricks:

I’m happy to see Apple abandon skeuomorphic design, which always seemed to me to be condescending to the user. “Oh, here, we’ve made it look like something from meatworld so you don’t have to be afraid of it. Here, click on it! That’s good!”

garricks:

I’m older than PrintDriver, and I have a banstick. Wanna rephrase that, grasshopper?

garricks:

I work at a large company with huge hardwired internet and a firewall much stronger than the walls at Jericho.

Have a super weekend everyone!!!

Feel free to lift a BFGOW or Scotch to our friend

[Kool]

Nice collection Red! Thank you

Have a great weekend everybody!

[PrintDriver]

Thanks Red.

Gar was a funny guy.
Miss him.

[HotButton]

Very nice!

[cornfed]

Happy Friday! Thanks for the collection RKK!

[bjmramage]

Happy Happy Friday.
a great start to our Fridays here

[Buda]

Oh this QOTW edition got me right in the feels.

Happy Friday everyone! It’s Saturday morning here and it feels like years since I lay in bed on Saturday morning reading GDF QOTW. A tradition I forgot. Nice to be back but miss Garricks terribly.

[kemingMatters]

That’s an awesome collection, I’ve always missed QOTW and forgot about “pancaking”, show’s how tame the ole forum got after “the update”.

Thanks for putting that together, happy Friday everybody, I’m headed back to the ski hill shortly.

[RedKittieKat]

I’ve got chicken soup brewing on this cold, blustery day. I need to venture to the store later but don’t want to go out It’s too cold

Tomorrow I am going to my brothers for a while and get to spend time with my grand nephew … that’s always fun

Have a great weekend everyone!!

[cornfed]

My office closes at 12:30 on Fridays. I’ve been in my pajamas since 1. I’m planning a quiet, cozy evening. Tomorrow I’m going about 30 miles away to buy a king cake and visit my bands accordion player. Planning to watch the super bowl Sunday. I wish my Saints were playing but whatever

[CraigB]

QOTW? pancaking? longtime GDFers posting replies?

[RedKittieKat]

[Amelia]

Nice!

[PrintDriver]

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