BUS-NUT BATHROOM READER

boxcarOkie · February 05, 2015, 04:17:42 PM

My other thread has went to hell in a handbag, so I suppose it is time to start something new? My hat is off to all of you who can work outside in this weather on your bus. You are true champions in every sense of the word. Mine having reached a point where I consider it finished, forces me to find other avenues in the winter, to amuse myself. Have considered Dancin' With The Stars, but have a glitch in my left hip, so that is out. Oh well?

Now ... Let's run this one up the flagpole, see if anyone will salute it.

Think we really missed the boat on some of this. In the five or six years I have been haunting the hallways and secret corridors of this board, there have been some really whacko and/or interesting material presented. If this material had been harvested and collected, it might make for an interesting novel or a book.

Makes you wonder, "Would anyone actually buy it?" (a great deal of what you see here, does at times end up in the BCM magazine, think about it)

BCM (the board anyway) is a collection of the sublime and ridiculous, often absurd and at the same time occasionally entertaining. Jerry Seinfeld made a million bucks off the very same material, by just taking ordinary issues, and morphing them into hyperbole.

Why couldn't some enterprising bus guy, collect it and categorize the material into some kind of bathroom reader.

Think of all the diesel fuel you could purchase with the royalties, and then again, there is the fall mini-series on NBC. Last-night as I lie in my rack, and the winter wind hit hard, and the old house creaked. I wondered if they do a movie ... Who is going to play my part?

I want Chuck Norris.

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buswarrior · February 05, 2015, 05:16:27 PM

Tom Selleck please.

And we need Thomas Beers...

Happy coaching!
buswarrior

Van · February 05, 2015, 05:21:27 PM

SALUTE!

TedCalvert · February 05, 2015, 06:45:02 PM

You sound like the man for the job, BoxCarOkie. I know you can write.

John316 · February 05, 2015, 06:47:52 PM

Hey Don. I think you are over reacting

Slightly

Good to have you back on here!

RJ · February 05, 2015, 06:55:00 PM

I nominate Professor Irwin Corey (please excuse the poor video quality, old clip):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHlLmYVCzKY

Lin · February 05, 2015, 07:45:38 PM

Actually, I think that the Seinfeld crew was paid a million per episode.

boxcarOkie · February 06, 2015, 01:25:29 AM

I nominate Professor Irwin Corey (please excuse the poor video quality, old clip):

Wonder how old that clip might be RJ?

Surely dates me I know.

Thanks,

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boxcarOkie · February 06, 2015, 01:28:29 AM

Tom Selleck please. And we need Thomas Beers...

With our without the mustache?

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boxcarOkie · February 06, 2015, 01:30:05 AM

You sound like the man for the job, BoxCarOkie. I know you can write.

Some here would vehemently disagree with you on that, but thanks.

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boxcarOkie · February 06, 2015, 01:34:08 AM

Hey Don. I think you are over reacting Slightly Good to have you back on here!

Thank you John, took a little time to clear up some issues and rest, appreciate the warm welcome. Might embellish it a little from time to time, in order to clarify John, but usually stop just short of going over the top. Not a big cat fan, but I gotta admit, I could watch that clip over and over, it sure made me smile.

Thank you for your comment.

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boxcarOkie · February 06, 2015, 01:37:32 AM

Actually, I think that the Seinfeld crew was paid a million per episode.

You are right, they were. Jerry Seinfeld continues to this day to be one of the highest paid comedians in the industry. Now look at it again (If you please).

"a collection of the sublime and ridiculous, often absurd and at the same time occasionally entertaining. Jerry Seinfeld made a million bucks off the very same material, by just taking ordinary issues, and morphing them into hyperbole."

It referred to the material Jerry used which made him a millionaire not the episodes. The word episode is not in there Lin, sorry. Maybe I should have stated "millions" instead of "a million" either way, it is no big deal.

Thanks,

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CrabbyMilton · February 06, 2015, 03:41:17 AM

Don why not try it? It worked for the late Andy Rooney.
John, that video loop and the cat and the lizzards made me laugh.

boxcarOkie · February 06, 2015, 07:00:18 AM

Don why not try it? It worked for the late Andy Rooney.
John, that video loop and the cat and the lizzards made me laugh.

The idea is at times enticing, the material is surely there, if someone would like to spend their days digging thru the archives and fish it all up. Used to feel the same way about the Railroad, the old stories, the phrases they used. Knew a guy in Bakersfield that actually did do a book, had a modest success with it.

And you are right, the cat video, well that has to be the best one for me in a long time.

Thank you for your comment.

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TedCalvert · February 06, 2015, 07:41:04 AM

It's all in the telling, boxcarOkie, and i've read your stories in the past. And Andy Rooney is a good example. Look at the songs of Alan Jackson. They are dog-s**t simple, but who cannot relate to them? They speak to the common man, the common experience.

Another good example of turning sow's-ear incidents into silk-purse stories, Adriana Trigiani wrote a series of "novels" about a small (3 stop lights) town in south western Virginia. Big Stone Gap. Just off US23 between Pikeville, KY and Kingsport, TN.

Good luck. Maybe someday we'll see your name on the New York Times bestseller list.