I don't get any lines in this one, but I'm posting this because of how funny Carmen("Whoa!") is. His last name is Pizzo, but Ken paged him as "Carmen Pizza" one night, and it took. This is his first job selling cars, and I think he's been with us for a little over a year. He's a natural at selling because he's likable. He also cares about enough doing a good job to do his paperwork properly. He learns from his mistakes, which is actually kind of rare in this business. With some of these guys its like everyday is their first day.

He will be a manager one day I'm sure.



The bald prick that walks through Jamie's scene (near the end. .. long Brown hair), oblivious to us shooting A FUCKING COMMERCIAL, is the guy that is constantly taking customers after we close, and keeping everyone there two or three hours past closing. we closed at 6 Saturday.... I got out at 8:45. He could give a rats ass about how you feel about him. but he is also very successful. he just needs a high five... in the face ...with a chair.

I spend more time with that asshole than I do with my kids. That's pretty fucked up, right there.

I want a Nissan Juke.
This is obviously because you have been subliminally advertising it to me just by working in a place with my name on it.

I'm going to be on a billboard. Group shot of was taken Tuesday morning. should look kind of like the group poses in the tv commercials... I'll be in the back peeking over the shorter folks.

I'll take a picture or maybe a video of a drive-by when it goes up. No idea how long that will take to get put up. I'm gonna get the picture on a T Shirt, though...ya know...if you guys want to buy a couple for your friends and family...(Christmas is right around the corner!!)... ;)

that sounds swell, jimbo.


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What about the bike??

The Royal Star still lives in the showroom at present. Wanna buy it? I'll get you a good deal.

I actually rode a Road Star yesterday.... every other bike I ride just seems to make me like mine more. fuck it. I'm keeping mine.

heheheheh... would you deliver it, personally? cause that would be cool.

but seriously, no thanks. I don't really have a spot in my life right now for that bike, though it is very pretty.

I'm delighted to hear you report you're getting repeated reinforcement of your choice about your bike, that's great man. be safe and have fun.

This might be the shot on the billboard:

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he took about 20 shots though.... so I'm not sure. this is on our facebook page though..... so maybe. I'm doing my Giant Pose.

Crop the others out and hell, yeah, I'd wear that t-shirt!

Somebody call the Navy? Cuz Jim showed with the big damn guns.

Is that Black dude photoshopped in? ;)

Quinn Faddler is the name of the mother fucker that broke into my Jeep last February. A detective called and said that they got a DNA match from the blood left on my driver's seat. I may be called to testify. Gladly.

Badass. They almost never catch the guys in low-level robberies like that. I hope he fries for it! ;)

I probably won't actually testify in person. It cost me $200 for the window, and the bag he stole had nothing I've missed inside. ... I don't need some miscreant with a vendetta out there if he beats the wrap. .. or gets out in 6 months.

This where sharia law comes in helpful, they'd cut off his hands. Except then the taxpayers would have to foot the bill for prosthetic hands. That's why sharia law won't work here.

Of course, the "3 strikes-and-you're -a-lifer" works the same way.

I'd be suspicious that the detective is doing all this DNA -testing
and follow up just to close LJ's car -break-in case, when a 3rd
conviction can put the guy away forever.

Then the costs go on for a lifetime.

This was just shot Monday Morning....

That's the line of Giant Bottoms?

Dude you should Totaly do a techno Viking thing for them !!!

Great, Cherry's Giant Bottom is now on the internet.

I spent last night in the arms of a girl in Louisiana .
And though I'm out on the highway, my thoughts are still with her.

Just wanted to let y'all know.

My ice cubes are now cube shaped.
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And I feel just a tiny bit better about the world as it is.

Also, I can now deposit cheques into my TD Bank acct from my smart phone. They have an app for that.
You prep the cheque just like you would at the teller, but then you just open the app, which loads your camera,.... take pics as prompted, fill the fields on the next screen, agree to take it in the dupa if you are fucking around. Then you submit it, write deposited on the cheque, and retain it until it clears.

I also took a screen shot of the confirmation for my own records.

Whoa that is a pretty amazing app function!

just had to fire a guy I like.

that's a bummer.

nice guy, great dry sense of humor. terrrrrible salesman. closed 10% last month. we called him Eyore, and he fit it. his glass is mostly empty, and probably poisoned. He'll be better off doing something non commission, but it still sucks to change someone's life like that.

Sorry Jim. That sucks.

Fortunately, I don't have to fire anyone in my job. But my boss talks to me about who she plans to fire, so I get to walk around acting all normal to these people, most of whom I actually like, for the couple weeks or month or whatever that it takes for it to happen.

One guy has been spiraling downhill with personal problems (probably drug related) and he's not able to fool anyone anymore. His days are numbered, and I think he knows on some level, but it still sucks. He used to be pretty good, and he's likeable. But it's been over a year of steady decline.

I'd love to pull him aside and just warn him to jump to another firm, but I can't do that. He worries me more than most. I don't know how he'll land if he's fired.

Shame when you can see that coming. People fool themselves more easily than their bosses.

Oh man... there was a time where our department was told we had to lay one person off due to budget cuts. Our boss called the three of us in and told us in confidence that the fourth guy in the department was getting laid off next week. Someone was going to have to take over his game, so it was semi-legitimate for him to warn us in advance, but it sucked SO hard to have to work with this guy for the next week knowing the axe was going to fall through no fault of his own.

And THEN, the very morning he was supposed to be laid off, some random person in another department quit. That freed up the money, and our boss called us in again to let us know that nevermind, the plan was off, and we should just never, ever mention this whole episode to the fourth guy.

"Susan, I don't know how to say this but I either have to lay you or Jack off."

"Well, you're just going to have to jack off because I've
Got a splitting headache."

I don't know why there's a paragraph return there

perhaps the jacking motion caused an involuntary humerus interruptus.

Sounds like you didn't fire him so much as push him out of the nest so that he can find his true calling. Tough love.

Yeah. .. he knew it was coming, apparently. The other salesmen said his blow out box had been packed for 2 weeks.

you'll notice that I am NOT in this ad....

Bye-bye Colonel, bye-bye.

Is that because you've decided to move behind the camera, do some directing, maybe produce a little here and there? I see big things for you in this town, kid. You could be the next Steve Spielberg of car commercials!

No its because that was so Corny, my agent wouldn't let me do it.

http://imgur.com/hXT8Gak

epic table

I love that!

wow!

I really want that.

I couldn't get the gif to load right on my phone...
http://i.imgur.com/hXT8Gak.gif

This animation makes it look like it's automatic, but it might be a HUGE pain in the ass to open and close... I just don't know.

I wonder if it's motorized or if it's stop motion animation. It's got to be really complicated underneath.

At the start the cracks are seamless, but at the end the cracks look too wide.

And what happens when people sit at it and lean their elbows on it? Does it move at all?

The mechanism underneath is critical. But I don't know how it needs to be.

It's operated manually by turning, down pressure won't cause movement. It's a one off and if memory serves me right, they charged something like $60,000 for it.

Check it out:



foot, glatt, griff, bigV, bruce...all you handy dandies can get together and can build us one:

IM, you rock!

That looks like a job for f³. I prefer stylish butchery to tight tolerances.

One day, when I'm rich.... Ima get me one of them thar tables.

there free

my brother. I'm more of a framer than a finish carpenter. Except when it comes to framing, then I'm more of a lumberjack than a framer. On the upside, I can still count to ten without someone else taking off my boots.

stunning work on the table.

thanks im for the great post on the videos.

BESPOKE indeed.

Yeah, I can appreciate but will not emulate.

Want. Will not have.

I'd have to build an addition on the dining room before I would be able to build the table. Not enough room.

Or we could turn the living room into our dining room.

Or live under the table.

:D

catchy!

I settled with my soon to be ex yesterday. things will get slightly better for me financially and she has what she needs to keep the kids in their school, and have some security in case I carc it. things kind of shook out how i expected, so i don't feel wronged. It must have aligned with her plans as well, because it's agreed. now we just wait a few weeks for the final decree to be created, and we can officially be single.
We spent 3 hours at the conference,... maybe 1/4 of that in the same room as each other, and at no time did she even look in my direction. Part of me thinks she does that because she know it fucks with my head... but then i remember how she is with stressful situations. avoid, avert, escape. no eye contact means i wont speak to her. works pretty well, i guess. I was afraid to say anything to her. she looked like a stranger to me.

Time to put that in the rear view.

This stuff always sucks, but at least it was agreeable in the end. So often it has to be laid out in every detail by the judge, because there is no hope of agreement on anything. You did the best you could, and that's all anyone can ask of you.