I'm a tool...

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  • Gary CarterGary Carter Posts: 14,067
    I walk by something like this and have to take a picture.
    If you're a "tool" for simply snapping a quick picture of a found object, what does that say about someone who fixes a situation to fit his PJ-influenced worldview?

    A few weeks ago I was doing my Saturday work thing, which often involves wandering around college campuses killing time while the training session I'm supposedly facilitating is in session. On this particular Saturday I was at Bergen Community College in Paramus, NJ, a place that had held no significance for me -- until something happened to catch my eye.

    To many, what I came upon was nothing but an example of low-level graffiti marring an ordinary sign outside an equally ordinary classroom. To others, many of whom are members of this forum, it might be viewed as a sign of another kind. The two words aligned vertically in the top right corner were already there when I came upon the scene. The masking tape is my doing. (Why masking tape? My WWED Magic 8-Ball said that Eddie would disapprove of yet another act of low-level vandalism.)

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    good one tony. that bored huh
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  • Brisk.Brisk. Posts: 11,567
    I certainly think like that but i wouldn't take a photo and put it on the forum.
  • 12345AGNST112345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    I walk by something like this and have to take a picture.
    If you're a "tool" for simply snapping a quick picture of a found object, what does that say about someone who fixes a situation to fit his PJ-influenced worldview?

    A few weeks ago I was doing my Saturday work thing, which often involves wandering around college campuses killing time while the training session I'm supposedly facilitating is in session. On this particular Saturday I was at Bergen Community College in Paramus, NJ, a place that had held no significance for me -- until something happened to catch my eye.

    To many, what I came upon was nothing but an example of low-level graffiti marring an ordinary sign outside an equally ordinary classroom. To others, many of whom are members of this forum, it might be viewed as a sign of another kind. The two words aligned vertically in the top right corner were already there when I came upon the scene. The masking tape is my doing. (Why masking tape? My WWED Magic 8-Ball said that Eddie would disapprove of yet another act of low-level vandalism.)

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    DUDE! I go to BCC.... im definately checking that out tommorow when i go to class!
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  • Much More Than ThisMuch More Than This Brooklyn, NY Posts: 765
    metsfan wrote:
    good one tony. that bored huh
    Yep. Let's just say that I'm not "essential personnel".
  • 58823005882300 Posts: 813
    Ha, I forgot about this one. It was taken at the Tampa airport in January of this year. We are all insane.

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  • BeerBaron wrote:
    lol, not sure I would have taken a picture, but I know that I would have had the same first thought as you if I walked by that on the street :)

    + 1 :ugeek:
  • It really is nice to know that someone else is as obsessed as I am. I mean I love being able to have support when my girlfriend tells me I'm crazy. She already told me that when we get married, if I'm famous and friends with Pearl Jam that they are not allowed to come to the wedding because I would be more excited about them being at my wedding.....and I can't deny that in the slightest. haha
  • CJMST3KCJMST3K Posts: 9,722
    but DON'T FORGET "GIVEN TO FLY" DELIVERY SERVICE!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN8qorQLz2M
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  • PJStatTrackerPJStatTracker Posts: 2,400
    awesome...we're all tools!
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  • Yellow BedwetterYellow Bedwetter NYC Posts: 2,832
    Thorns2010 wrote:
    LOL!!! I'd have thought the same thing...and I don't think you're a tool for taking a picture!


    Well posting it might make him a tool :lol::mrgreen:

    well if you read it, does that make you the toolbox?
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  • thecorythecory Posts: 290
    Until i realized they were all over the place i snapped pics of yield signs.
  • justamjustam Posts: 21,412
    I walk by something like this and have to take a picture.

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    Don't feel too bad. I drive by an old graveyard on my way to work everyday. In it, there's a big old headstone that reads "Stone".

    Before I leave this job I'm going to HAVE to stop and take a picture of it just because I see it everyday (!) and it is marble evidence that Mr. Gossard is not the only person in the world with this unusual name. :mrgreen:
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  • I'd have taken a photo of that :oops:

    There's a place called Stone actually, on the way from ours to Helen's and Evolutionary's seperate houses... I'm yet to have my picture taken by the signpost :geek:

    Ohhhhh!!! I just remembered!! I went on holiday with a few old PJ peeps last summer and had my picture taken outside a jewellers called STONE!!! :lol: :ugeek:

    I'll dig out the picture when I can get on the book of face :mrgreen: (no access at work... doh!)
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  • simmers33simmers33 Posts: 233
    These are the best kind of threads....

    My favorite quote about the Ten Reissue came from one of my good friends. He does not really keep in tune with the current music scene but has loved PJ from day 1. He texted me "Why did Pearl Jam re-release Ten? To celebrate being awesome?"
    Good evening...
  • Vedder_Girl77Vedder_Girl77 Posts: 4,335
    LOL! I guess I am tool too because in the law firm that I work in we have a client called Even Fall (it's a business) and my co-worker and I always call it the Even Flow Restaurant. Every time either one of us works on the file we start singing "Even Flow". By accident I once called the file Even Flow instead of Even Fall while talking to the attorney and he was like "what?" and I was like "Oh, I'm sorry...that's a Pearl Jam song".

    Haha.. in Haverhill, right? I seriously live about a quarter of a mile from that restaurant. Never eaten there, but I chuckle at it every time I fill up at the Irving next door.

    Yes, it is in Haverhill! Wow, I guess it is a small world!
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  • justam wrote:
    I walk by something like this and have to take a picture.

    photo-1.jpg

    Don't feel too bad. I drive by an old graveyard on my way to work everyday. In it, there's a big old headstone that reads "Stone".

    Before I leave this job I'm going to HAVE to stop and take a picture of it just because I see it everyday (!) and it is marble evidence that Mr. Gossard is not the only person in the world with this unusual name. :mrgreen:

    I was at my girlfriend's grandfather's funeral last week and when I exited my car at the cemetery, the stone facing me read "Ledbetter"
  • Bulldog88Bulldog88 Posts: 380
    Don't feel bad, you are not the only one :D
  • CJMST3KCJMST3K Posts: 9,722
    CJMST3K wrote:
    but DON'T FORGET "GIVEN TO FLY" DELIVERY SERVICE!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN8qorQLz2M


    So, no one thinks "Given To Fly" delivery service when they see this commercial on TV?
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