• Scavenger hunts (was: HPs were built like tanks)

    From JOE MACKEY@1:123/140 to DARYL STOUT on Tue Nov 24 05:47:56 2020
    Daryl wrote --

    There was a movie several years ago called "Scavenger Hunt".

    That was a hilarious movie.
    On campus there used to a scavenger hunt by different groups and people
    would ask me where something or other could be found.
    There was one once where freshman had to find some building or office on campus from a close up photo of the location.
    I would be asked "where is this building?" and sometimes I had to think
    since the photo didn't show that much.
    Joe
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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to JOE MACKEY on Thu Nov 26 01:44:00 2020
    Joe,

    There was a movie several years ago called "Scavenger Hunt".

    That was a hilarious movie.

    I'm chuckling thinking of the memories of it.

    Cleavon Little was one of the actors in there. There was also some
    sort of medical sitcom years ago, where he was in the cast (the name of
    it escapes me).

    Also in there was Scatman Caruthers...and the guy who played Burt
    on the sitcom "Soap"...his character was named "Marvin Dummitz". <G>

    Some of the items were:

    1) A toilet (invented by John Krapper). It was taken from the Hotel MontClaire...to which "this dumb blonde" named the toilet that. :P

    2) A cash register drawer (without the money)...these guys put masks
    on to rob the place, and took it...but left all the cash there.

    3 and 4) A policeman's uniform (it was "graciously volunteered", thanks
    to a tank of nitrous oxide (laughing gas). When the cop came out of this
    van, due to the leaking tank of nitrous oxide (he was half naked), he's laughing, and said "I'm going to lose my @$$ for this!!" <G>.

    5) A microscope (it can see small things...like "the dumb blonde's"
    brain <G>).

    6) A heavy set individual, among many other items.

    I think there was a scene, with a guy knocked over all the motorcycles
    of this gang of "Hell's Angels" at this restaurant. <G>

    Toward the end, the one team stole a bunch of items from the other
    teams. So, the other teams combined their deals, and won.

    As the rules were initially announced, the character "Stuart Seltzsum"
    said "Eccentricity isn't illegal...but it sure is a pain in the @$$". He
    does have a point. :P

    I would be asked "where is this building?" and sometimes I had to
    think since the photo didn't show that much.

    Unless you really knew your way around, and could decipher the clues,
    you were at a loss.

    Daryl

    ... I finally got 8 hours of sleep. It took 3 days, but whatever...
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  • From JOE MACKEY@1:123/140 to DARYL STOUT on Thu Nov 26 06:07:08 2020
    Daryl wrote --

    Cleavon Little was one of the actors in there. There was also some
    sort of medical sitcom years ago, where he was in the cast (the name of
    it escapes me).

    Temperatures Rising, I think. Paul Lynde was in it as the head of a
    hospital or something.
    I think it was on for like five minutes before it was yanked off the air.
    It was pretty bad.

    I think there was a scene, with a guy knocked over all the motorcycles of this gang of "Hell's Angels" at this restaurant. <G>

    Reminds me of the old joke.
    A mild mannered truck driver stops at a roadside diner for a cup of
    coffee. In the diner are about 12 members of a motorcycle gang who give him a hard time. He's called a coward for not fighting back. He finishes his coffee, gets up and leaves.
    One gang member says to another "Not much of a man is he?"
    The diner operator says, "Not much a driver either. He just ran over
    your motorcycles."
    Joe
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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to JOE MACKEY on Fri Nov 27 12:54:00 2020
    Joe,

    Cleavon Little was one of the actors in there. There was also some
    sort of medical sitcom years ago, where he was in the cast (the name of
    it escapes me).

    Temperatures Rising, I think. Paul Lynde was in it as the head of a hospital or something.
    I think it was on for like five minutes before it was yanked off the air. It was pretty bad.

    Amazing what they consider "humor"...and the "canned laugh track" does
    not cut it.

    A mild mannered truck driver stops at a roadside diner for a cup of coffee. In the diner are about 12 members of a motorcycle gang who
    give him a hard time. He's called a coward for not fighting back. He finishes his coffee, gets up and leaves.
    One gang member says to another "Not much of a man is he?"
    The diner operator says, "Not much a driver either. He just ran over your motorcycles."

    LOL!!

    I heard an elderly ham radio operator on a net earlier today, share a
    deal with an experience he had with his granddaughter. He had one of the
    OLD rotary phones (possibly with the bells and hand crank) on the wall,
    and his granddaughter, seeing it, asked her grandfather what it was.

    When he told her "A telephone", she increduously said "You have got
    to be kidding me!!"...and with that, she left the room. <G>

    Daryl

    ... Yesterday was the deadline for all complaints.
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