Monday, June 19, 2006
It's hard to find a good pair of pants
The year is 1996. My friend the engineer (later turned youth pastor, then back to engineer) invited me and my then girlfriend (later fiancée, now wife...) to join he and his wife to go up to Philly for a free Goo Goo Dolls concert. I'm not a huge fan of the Goo Goo Dolls, and this concert certainly didn't elevate their status for me. I think at the time the song "Name" was getting a fair amount of airplay. At any rate, it seemed like it would be a reasonably enjoyable evening out so we went along. One thing that I recall about the concert is that the bassist never actually played individual notes. He played chords and strummed like it was just a larger, deeper electric guitar. I was not impressed. However, the cool thing about the show was that they would randomly toss a new pair of Dockers pants into the audience. One of the pairs came sailing over our heads, and I, having gorilla arms, was able to reach up and grab them. As I pulled them down into the crowd, my friend helped me wrestle them away from a half-dozen other people and eventually he won the war of words to take them home to be his own. Months later, when I asked about "the pants" (that all along I believed I probably had just as much a claim to as he) he admitted that he never really liked them and didn't really wear them, so he gave them to me. They were stone washed khaki (almost white) with a cumbersome button-fly and no pleat in the front. They were just a completely reprehensible pair of pants.
*FAIR WARNING* The media element in today's post represents a departure from my usual G-rated content. If you click on the audio you will hear several references to anatomy that you may not desire to explain to your 8-year-old child.
Here's the setup: this is an audio recording of a phone call between someone looking for a good pair of pants and an executive at a famous clothing company. Apparently, he is looking for some "special" work to be done.
What you probably can't hear at the end of the audio is the executive asking where he would like these pants to be sent when they are completed.
For a donut, be the first one to post a comment with the correct address.
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*FAIR WARNING* The media element in today's post represents a departure from my usual G-rated content. If you click on the audio you will hear several references to anatomy that you may not desire to explain to your 8-year-old child.
Here's the setup: this is an audio recording of a phone call between someone looking for a good pair of pants and an executive at a famous clothing company. Apparently, he is looking for some "special" work to be done.
What you probably can't hear at the end of the audio is the executive asking where he would like these pants to be sent when they are completed.
For a donut, be the first one to post a comment with the correct address.
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As I commented on your Tape article, the voice sounds a LOT like my grandfather. And this was was the key to unlocking this for me.
I have been [slowly] working on converting some family tapes [reel-to-reel, one of the formats you did not mention!] to digital format. They are from the era when the person in this audio was in office. Some are even older. The accent, manner of speech, etc. all sounded very similar.
Anyway, that helped narrow things down a bit. That and your asking if naming the brand would help. See, I had made an assumption on brand which was not helpful AT ALL. Who knew Joe Haggar was the other voice that LBJ was talking at?
LBJ simply said White House in the recording. Here is what you asked for [the correct address]:
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
[taken from http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ ]
- Ted>
I have been [slowly] working on converting some family tapes [reel-to-reel, one of the formats you did not mention!] to digital format. They are from the era when the person in this audio was in office. Some are even older. The accent, manner of speech, etc. all sounded very similar.
Anyway, that helped narrow things down a bit. That and your asking if naming the brand would help. See, I had made an assumption on brand which was not helpful AT ALL. Who knew Joe Haggar was the other voice that LBJ was talking at?
LBJ simply said White House in the recording. Here is what you asked for [the correct address]:
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
[taken from http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ ]
- Ted>
Ted -
Congratulations on earning yourself a chocolate-glazed donut.
As you'll find on this website, the voice is none other than President Johnson on the phone with Joe Haggar.
Now for the bonus round...
I stumbled across that audio recording doing some research in preparation for Friday night's College Bible Study. I encountered a word with which I was not familiar (other than a casual run-in during the early nineties watching MTV on vacation with my cousins), and felt compelled to know its meaning.
If you can tell me (A) the word and (2) the blog address whence it came, I will not only be more disturbed than I was hearing that nasty presidential burp, but you shall also earn yourself a tasty beverage to wash down that donut.>
Congratulations on earning yourself a chocolate-glazed donut.
As you'll find on this website, the voice is none other than President Johnson on the phone with Joe Haggar.
Now for the bonus round...
I stumbled across that audio recording doing some research in preparation for Friday night's College Bible Study. I encountered a word with which I was not familiar (other than a casual run-in during the early nineties watching MTV on vacation with my cousins), and felt compelled to know its meaning.
If you can tell me (A) the word and (2) the blog address whence it came, I will not only be more disturbed than I was hearing that nasty presidential burp, but you shall also earn yourself a tasty beverage to wash down that donut.>
Russ,
The word is transmogrified and you encountered it on cerulean sanctum. I had to look it up too.
-J>
The word is transmogrified and you encountered it on cerulean sanctum. I had to look it up too.
-J>
Sorry, apparently Russell knew what transmogrified meant when he was only 12, what was I thinking...>
This is the reason I am familiar with the word transmogrify (which by the way is neither in the LBJ recording, nor a theme from an early 90s MTV show, hint hint).
I was actually a teenager when the comic strip came out, and was a faithful reader through my college years. It was the only nationally syndicated cartoon that ran in our free campus newspaper.>
I was actually a teenager when the comic strip came out, and was a faithful reader through my college years. It was the only nationally syndicated cartoon that ran in our free campus newspaper.>
I encountered that word on a blog linked to by your site. Googling transmogrified and MTV together yields enough hits that I thought it worth a shot (in the dark). I didnt really bother to verify the years it was used.>
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