What are some of the sillier, goofier, fun moments you've had at a Letterhead meet? You know...the kind you hope never get posted on You Tube.
C'mon. Fess up. Rapid
[ August 05, 2008, 10:29 PM: Message edited by: Ray Rheaume ]
Posted by Bob Rochon (Member # 30) on :
You mean like the time I found out you can't take a left on red going to the cabin from your meet?
New Hampster sure is a weird state!
[ August 05, 2008, 10:41 PM: Message edited by: Bob Rochon ]
Posted by Kissymatina (Member # 2028) on :
Hahaha, I thought of the same thing Bob. Uhm let's see....
Tattling on Karyn to the bus driver when she broke the window in Quebec
While Signdog & Laurie were taking me to the Atlanta airport, spotting the "Lost dog?" billboard.
Here, hold this.
Trying to contort myself into a semi-comfortable position to sleep in the most uncomfortable chair ever made in the hospital after the clams incident.
Posted by Jon Jantz (Member # 6137) on :
Kissy painting Jakey's toenails with hot pink Oneshot at Dixie (and some other dude's.. )... and then Jake not bothering to change out of sandals to go eat with Mike Faig at Applebee's later that evening. Shoulda seen the kids checking out them pink toenails. Blake and I acted like we didn't know them... Posted by Jon Butterworth (Member # 227) on :
The birth of the "Hardly Normal Sign Co." in Canada last year with Sarge and Duncan. !!!!!!!
From the time we got together at Duncan's place then on to the Moose Jaw meet, there was never a dull moment.
It all started with Sarge's "Crutch-cam" trip through the Canadian Rockies
Our Company motto is "We can turn normality in chaos in seconds".
One classic HNSC moment at Moose Jaw was when Sarge and Jamie were installing the hinges on the easels. The screwed the first set on the wrong side of the legs! The second set, they managed to get one leg on the right side and the other on the wrong side underneath!.
"That's OK, I'll fix it easy" said Jamie and promptly removed the offending hinge. Turns the hinge over and screws it back down on exactly the same wrong side!
Needless to say we couldn't let such a valuable employee escape the Company so he was made an associate member on the spot. Posted by Kelly Thorson (Member # 2958) on :
Being abandoned atop a scaffolding right in the center of a highway intersection in Mazzeppa while John and Paul Jordan and Dan Sawatsky tried to catch Laurie (Duncan's wife)to make her hop on for a ride too.
Duncan boosting me up tp change the "WALNUT" sign to "WALLDOG" in front of Dan's mural - although in retrospect, with the crew working there, Walnut may have been more appropriate.
Great Post Ray!
Posted by goddinfla (Member # 1502) on :
A long time ago at a Skeeter Roundup Some guys, including Gary Godby were staying late goofing around and probably enjoying some adult beverages. A stray black dog happened along so they decided to "flame" it. The next morning another "head" who wasn't there the night before arrived early and was sitting in his car when the dog on fire walked by. He thought maybe he had had a little too much to drink the night before and returned to his hotel to sleep it off.
Posted by bill riedel (Member # 607) on :
Alan Johnson and I were to travel to Kentucky for a wall dog meet. We had the same airline, same flight number. The day before we were to go, he calls from Kentucky asking where am I. I panicked, thinking I had mistaken the date and missed my flight. It seems his wife made the reservations and had his date the day before mine. As if that wasn't enough, on the way back we got a ride to the airport, but on the way the car got a flat and there was no jack in the trunk. It was a Sunday and no one around, everything closed. I flagged down a car (brand new Caddy) with an elderly couple. Told him our problem and he said get in. We just walked into the airport and right on to the plane. Five minutes later and we would have missed it. Bill
Posted by Rick Sacks (Member # 379) on :
When twenty something rooms in a row at the motel were from our group and we pinstriped all the Televisions, and each room put a large letter on the window reading LETTERHEADS down the row. We also returned many pinstriped rental cars.
Posted by Terry Baird (Member # 3495) on :
I took my girlfriend to Boone's for her first ever meet and she spilled an entire glass of coke on his keyboard (we replaced it of course).
10 or so letterheads in the back of my F-150 with bald tires and another 5 or 6 pushing me up Boone's icy hill to get home.
Posted by Raymond Chapman (Member # 361) on :
At Nancy and Noella's Cornwall meet, Gary Anderson asked if he could bum a ride with me to the airport since I had a rental car. Since his flight out was about the same as mine, we set up departure times, where to meet at the hotel, etc.
At supper the night before leaving early the next morning we were discussing how terribly early we had to get up to make our flights. Somewhere in the conversation he asked how far it was to Montreal. Why Montreal, we're flying out of Ottawa. His flight was from Montreal and mine was from Ottawa and neither of us had bothered to mention airports.
Last minute scrambling got him a ride to Montreal, only to find out when he walked up to the counter that he had left his ticket in the car of the person giving him a ride...and he had to purchase another ticket.
Posted by Raymond Chapman (Member # 361) on :
OK...here's another one.
At Mike Jackson's Bash in '82, Mike asked me to do a show card demonstration. It was the first time I had done anything like that and was extremely nervous, especially considering the caliber of folks that were watching.
He wanted a show card to give to the folks doing the barbecue catering, which I did...and promptly misspelled the owner's name.
Posted by Ron Costa (Member # 3366) on :
Picking up "lunch to go" from "Bubba Burger" in the Yankee Bus on the way home from Dixie Civil War. That was goofy, but not very funny.
It really was a "lunch to go"
[ August 06, 2008, 10:48 AM: Message edited by: Ron Costa ]
Posted by Ray Rheaume (Member # 3794) on :
I thought my $464 speeding ticket on the way to the meet was more memorable, Ron. I especially like Officer Speedtrap's attitude...
Posted by Jon Butterworth (Member # 227) on :
OK ... here's a pic I took at an "un-named" OZ Letterhead Meet. The scene was also shown on National TV.
#1. "Ladderjacks" are totally illegal in every state!
#2, Working on a single plank above 2m (6ft) without safety rails, double planks, harness, tie-offs and all that BS!!!!!
#3 ... where are the pedestrian safety barriers?
#4 ... Do you have a permit?
#5 ... Excuse me Sir ... are you aware of the weight loading on that plank?
(I could go on!)
Workplace, Health and Safety swooped like vultures when they saw this.
Sad (for them) to say it was a futile pursuit.
Pub said it was a freebee. These guys just turned up and re-gilded my sign for nothing.
Meet Director said "No money changed hands. It was not a commercial transaction. They were not asked to do it ... chase them"
Hard to ID faces from arse end shots eh?
Posted by Mike Pipes (Member # 1573) on :
Guess it would have to be my first meet at Fred's, when I spilled sissy pink one shot all over the floor and my shoes... something about that pink one shot seems to like men's toes.. and Adrienne and Si taunting me as I'm on hands and knees cleaning it up.
Oh, and as part of that taunting, yes, it was broadcast live on HeadTV. Posted by Ricky Jackson (Member # 5082) on :
At the International meet in Independence, Ohio someone had some "Letterhead sacrificial watermelons". It was late at night and I decided to paint one of the melons as if it had been cut open. Pink inside, fleshy pith, you get the idea. I was painting the inside of a watermelon; others had their mind in the gutter and quickly saw the resemblance to something else.
At the same meet, I hitched a ride back to the Hilton with Cosmic Ray who had rented a Trans Am. Ahead of us was a red light that he did not fancy stopping at so he cut through a filling station - at about 40 mph, not even slowing down as he cut across, then back onto the road. There were a couple of other guys in the car too and we were laughing so hard we were about to puke.
At the Waco letterheads, Alton, Spaz and a couple of others made a trip out to the still smoldering ashes of the Davidian compound. We picked up some morbid "souvenirs" and made some pix - on the other side of the "Do Not Cross" barrier tape. Spaz found a love letter to David Koresh from a little girl, about 10 years old, obviously his lover.
At the Mad SIGNtist Symposium that I hosted, we airbrushed my white bulldog with bright green racing stripes. Stuff like that is pretty normal though - especially late at night.
Posted by Curtis hammond (Member # 2170) on :
Me winning the really nice brush box in Dixie. And me looking around at all the other "heads" with their cat just caught the mouse grins..
That is something I will never forget.
And then looking at all the labels all over every thing in Steve's garage when Bushie was visiting.. If it stoood still it was hand labeled.
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Posted by George Perkins (Member # 156) on :
Those two guys that dressed up as women at the 85' Chicago meet..........really ugly women.
My truck having a for sale ( cheap ) sign lettered on the back window at the Dixie meet in 2000 and me getting approached by some guy at a traffic light wanting to buy the truck Posted by Bob Peach (Member # 2620) on :
Since we were stuck in the back of the Yankee Bus with no opening windows... Bubba Burgers will always be "memorable",Ray!
Posted by Ricky Jackson (Member # 5082) on :
LOL, George I have pix somewhere of those two "chicks". They had balloons under their shirts. I'm pretty sure they were Canadian, eh? I think that was the meet that Rick was talking about too. I went to two meets there. I think Wild Bill Betz threw the hotel manager into the pool at one of them. Had a wonderful time with Al Grand and Ken Millar there too. And... Dave Beatty (got his swap project from there), and his mucho hot girlfriend and us went out for pizza. We ordered a large pizza and the girl looked at us like we were from another planet. I just sort of "bring us the large pizza lady; you gotta problem with that?" She did and that sucker weighed about 30 lbs. I kid you not, I still have stretch marks on my lips from that. I bet Dave remembers that too.
Posted by Anne McDonald (Member # 6842) on :
Watching Elvis put his head inside a bucket, the funniest part was when he removed the bucket he needed a mirror to understand why we all fell over laughing. The bucket had been used for charcoal and he was black!! Also watching Elvis (Dean Johnstone) and Alex doing duelling banjos with Maul sticks.
There's always so much laughter at meets, it's hard to remember what about half the time but alcohol is usually involved!!
Posted by Bob Rochon (Member # 30) on :
Driving to Mars with Cam, when we got to the Pennsylvania border, I turned to him and said " cool we're almost there" He turns to me and said "Boy you aint never ben' to Pennsylvania have ya?" " We ain't even half way there yet "
My therapist says I ought to be clear to drive back into Pennsylvania sometime in 2011 Posted by Ian Stewart-Koster (Member # 3500) on :
At Letterheads-Oz 2000, the courtesy bus took everyone out to a restaurant for dinner, then did an hour's trip around to drop everyone off at their motels- only no one got off. The bus eventually got back to the shed at about 11 pm (at night), and everyone piled out & went back to painting!
Posted by Stephen Deveau (Member # 1305) on :
You will never see myself at the Meets. But you may hear me in the background.
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Posted by Monte Jumper (Member # 1106) on :
David Cooper (Coop) and I were heading down to Jimmy Chathams meet from Oklahoma...we'd been driving all nite and as we approach the Georgia border I look at the map and say "Hey Dave here's a short cut I bet would take 2 hours off our trip."
Famous last words...the road started out alright then turned at the (too far in to turn back point)it gets so switchback, wooded and quiet then the road turns to gravel and David says in a calm but concerned voice. "If ya hear any banjos roll up the windows and stand on it!"
Our short cut added nearly 3 hours to the trip!
Posted by Ricky Jackson (Member # 5082) on :
quote:Originally posted by Monte Jumper: David Cooper (Coop) and I were heading down to Jimmy Chathams meet from Oklahoma...we'd been driving all nite and as we approach the Georgia border I look at the map and say "Hey Dave here's a short cut I bet would take 2 hours off our trip."
Famous last words...the road started out alright then turned at the (too far in to turn back point)it gets so switchback, wooded and quiet then the road turns to gravel and David says in a calm but concerned voice. "If ya hear any banjos roll up the windows and stand on it!"
Our short cut added nearly 3 hours to the trip!
So you took "the road less graveled" huh? You were obviously using a GPS navigation system, LOL. Pig trails are not off limits to those babies; ask me how I know! BTW, the dueling banjos thing was about hillbillies in Arkansas, not Georgia; hey, that's right NEXT door to Oklahoma isn't it? Posted by Jillbeans (Member # 1912) on :
When Pierre Tardif got into the sleeping bag with Steve Shortreed for the group shot at FKAB (or was it vice versa?) Pierre painting Steve's toenails at the same meet, I think he started that fad.
Being woken up at 1am from my first dead sleep in a week by someone asking me if I had a condom (Mars meet, in the upstairs of the ambulance station in a Red Cross cot)
Painting in the panel jam area at Mazeppa '99, feeling something keep hitting my leg under the table. It was John Falotico with his mahl stick Driving Mike Meyer's American Dream Chevy van at the same meet, everyone thought I was him and it sounded like a motorcycle
Stevo doing Elmer's voice at the Winter Muster Ryan Young hijacking Letterville at the same meet Stevo doing Brooce's voice anytime Rabid and Brooce's voices together at the same meet anytime Listening to the accents at any meet any time (better when Scotsmen or Southerners are there)
Watching Micheal Clark scale the Post Office roof in the dusk at the '05 Muster Watching the crew sneak off and customise the spaceship at the Mars meet Painting a bad thing on the pesky minister's van at the Mars meet (and erasing it)
Embarrassing Bob Peach at any meet (easy to do) Sitting on John Jordan's knee at meets, knowing full well I outweighed him Jordo telling me he couldn't wear a kilt and the reason why at the Tickle meet Hearing Jordo do critiques, sometimes very harsh, of meet panels, usually mine Rabid's bear hugs upon greeting at any meet Dan Sawatsky and the Juanita story at Mazeppa '05 Bill Diaz enjoying the music at Mazeppa '05 and saying "Hurt me, hurt me" real funny-like
Walking into Zumbrota with Stevo in 95° heat to find an ATM and seeing that there was one right beside our hotel on the way back Hearing stories about the Bates Motel style room the Briskies stayed at for Mass Mayhem, we stayed there too and there was actually an arrest made for assault in the middle of the night which we slept right through Catherine Foster and I booking a B&B at Cork by the FAS Centre and finding out it was about 5 miles from the meet site (other FAS Centre) and having to take the bus
Seeing Dewayne Connot "customize" a name decal on an easel at the World of Wheels last February Hearing him do his Igor voice
Mike Meyer showing up here one winter day when I was out in the garage painting signs in my nightie and parka
Listening to the cackling coming from "The Round Table" at FKAB and later finding out just what it was all about!
Eating wild boar sausage and buffalo at Paint the Prairie, bridies and haggis at the Tickle, and poutine at FKAB, feeding Whitey corn cobs at Boone's and learning that cows have a rough tongue like a cat
And lots more. Love....Jill
Posted by Stevo Chartrand (Member # 2094) on :
Going to my first meet in Unity Saskatchewan and ripping by Duncan and Mike Meyer in my little 4 banger s-10 at close to 100mph. I think Duncan left about an hour before me!! Speed ‘er up there boy! (no ticket for me Rabid)
Watching Mike and Curt Nelson make out with cut-out airbrushed MDO pinups at Paint the Prairie! I think Mike made it to 2nd base! Curt got shot down.
Mike taking Jill and I to Elmer’s and just layin on the horn to wake him up! HOLLY JEESCHUSCH!! At least ya didn’t give him a heart attack Mike! Elmer’s floor makes weird sounds!! Ryan hijacking letterville at the winter muster. I think Mark Matyjakowski was onto you Ryan! Hearing BROOCE’s voice for the first time! EHHHHHHHHH!!! OH! Mike and I imitating Elmer. Seeing someone paint a dibond panel with the plastic mask still on. OOPS! Making Jill laugh so hard I thought her head was gonna explode. Painting a panel that had meatballs on it and Steve said it looked like POO!
Making flatulent noises going over rumble strips driving to Mass Mayhem from PA. Everyone thinking I was Brian Papa’s long lost twin brother. Eating REAL clam chowda! Watching western conference hockey playoffs in the Bates Motel at 1am. With NO remote. Rabid likes powdered donuts!!
Eatin wild boar at Paint the Prairie 2. Wondering about the “hat”. Listening to a jam session that had lyrics involving alcohol and sex. Again, making Jill laugh so hard I thought she was gonna die!! The Saskatchewan Sign gals posing on the old Model T!! Click Click. Grope photos.
Brooce takin Jill and I on some abandoned interstate that took another hour to get to Rochester to see Mark! Hahhahaha. I drove by a Tim Hortons too! Mark crankin’ SLAYER for me in his garage!!
Laughin my ass off about Anita at the Muster. Someone stealing all our beer! Seeing Elmer again! Frying in the sun hand lettering a truck. John Lennig kickin up dust dancing. That magician (frank?) stickin all kinda of things up his nose. “Elvis” The masquerade party. Sorry Stewart Shrek just aint “you”. That damn ATM was across the street and the front desk didn’t tell us! Piggybacking Jill for awhile on that hike. Driving Mike’s van every night at the meet.
Turning beat red having Letterheads sing happy birthday to me. I think I could hear Don Coplen snoring from 200ft! Not keeping an eye on the “Puppydogs” and were painting outside the lines at the jamboree! June! (not the month) Gary Godby, Jeff Lang, Bill Beckner and I doin BAWstun accents in a restaurant in Johnstown PA. (half in the bag) Eatin squid of some sort at the same restaurant Spending a night in a motel with Mark Neurohr. PHEW!
Too many more to list. Many great memories and I hope to make some more.
Stevo
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Posted by Jason Davie (Member # 2172) on :
At Boones I remember Harris falling in the trash can when he fell asleep
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