What Is The Strangest Thing You've Ever Seen?

[Chanfan]

He could sing "Take Me Out To The Ballpark", one beat off - the whole song, word for word, note for note - just one beat off.

I know someone who does that as well - it's quite disturbing to your brain to hear it!

 

[Diamondback]

He once filled his mouth with lighter fluid while listening to a local band who played the same repetroire every night. When they sang Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire", he blew the burst of naptha through his cigarette lighter, creating a huge ball of flame in the middle of the night club!

I read once about a fighter pilot in VF-162 on the Oriskany who liked to do that little trick in various bars. Was this guy's name McGarry, by any chance?

I once saw a woman shaving her legs in rush hour traffic going 80kms My first thought was 'your lacerations will match your car':eusa_doh:

Young lady, I'm forwarding the bills from my shrink caused by that traumatic little visual directly to you. Around here, it'd be "I'm sure you'll make a lovely smear on the Jersey barrier... just quit trying to take someone else with you." As a general rule, Puget Sound drivers perform colossal air-intake activity--at least twice a week some joker tries to run me over, and that's not even rush-hour out in the suburbs. *fuming*

Weirdest I've seen? Vegas around New Year's. You do not wanna hear about some of the stuff they find in the street--and hanging from the lightpoles on the Strip--the day after New Year's in Sin City... (And I've given my travel agent standing orders of "I'm on a plane back here before 1900 hours on the 28th. I don't care how much it costs to make that requirement happen--charter a Gulfstream if you have to, upgrade me to first-class if you have to, just make it happen. You do get a nice commission, right?")

 

[Dan G]

When I was a kid in South Florida, there was a guy who could be referred to as the 'Jim Carey' of our neighborhood. He was hilarious and incredibly innovative in his humor - a real original.

He could play "Yankee-Doodle" and "Dixie" on the guitar - at the same time!

He could sing "Take Me Out To The Ballpark", one beat off - the whole song, word for word, note for note - just one beat off.

He could lock the accelerator on his car and drive while playing his guitar and steering with his knees. In fact, I once saw him drive down our street, in his convertible, sitting on the windshield frame, feet on the hood, playing his guitar.

He once stuffed an entire box of Vanilla Wafers into his mouth, one cookie at a time until his face was contorted and stretched almost beyond recognition. He then started to laugh and almost choked to death right in front of us!

He once filled his mouth with lighter fluid while listening to a local band who played the same repetroire every night. When they sang Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire", he blew the burst of naptha through his cigarette lighter, creating a huge ball of flame in the middle of the night club!

At the time we all were amused beyond belief. I'm not sure what I'd think of some nut doing this kind of stuff in my neighborhood today, but when you are a kid that kind of stuff seems so incredibly funny. I remember every incident as if it were just yesterday!

-dixon cannon

These are the funniest storys I've heard in a long time!lol lol
I used to play guitar with this kid that played a strat almost Identical to mine. Vintage trem with the old school exposed saddles and set screws. This kid came away everytime with blood running off his strumming hand and down his guitar from the exposed set screws. I mean BLOOD. His hand was like hamburger!!

 

[CanadaDoll]

Young lady, I'm forwarding the bills from my shrink caused by that traumatic little visual directly to you.

Only if you can catch me

 

[Diamondback]

Only if you can catch me

Hmmm... now where'd I put that ACME catalog, and my hacked access codes to the Keyhole satellite network?
EDIT to note: Forgot to mention, I'm a "stealth asset," remember? If I do my job right, nobody knows I'm there until long after I've done the job and gone...

(Seriously, because of my "secondary target" stalker problems--meaning, folks who might whack me just to remind my friend/their ex, "Hi, Sweetie! Remember ME?"--I wouldn't actually go there. OTOH, I'm getting tired of the running and the hiding and the shadows, and about ready to adopt the attitude of a favorite tactical-simulation character... (Sorry, I couldn't splice these into one .WAV, you'll have to click one link, then the other.)

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[celtic]

He once filled his mouth with lighter fluid while listening to a local band who played the same repetroire every night. When they sang Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire", he blew the burst of naptha through his cigarette lighter, creating a huge ball of flame in the middle of the night club!

bacardi 151 works just as well.

of all the times that i did that, i am still shocked that i was drunk enough to do it, yet sober enough to moisten my beard with water beforehand.

caution, though...bartenders and bar-owners tend to get pretty angry...

 

[Grnidwitch]

Seriously, we were driving to lunch and saw a lady on the highway going about 60 mph, and yes...knitting.

I drove into Chicago from the far south suburbs for alot of years. There was a guy that used to play the trumpet while driving. Thank the gods it wasn't a trombone.

 

[Girl Friday]

I drove into Chicago from the far south suburbs for alot of years. There was a guy that used to play the trumpet while driving. Thank the gods it wasn't a trombone.

And a lot of places have made talking on a cell phone while driving illegal... [huh]

 

[Trixie]

I saw a clown in a wheelchair playing a trumpet in the middle of a park I was walking (soon after RUNNING) through at about midnight.

 

[Grnidwitch]

I saw a clown in a wheelchair playing a trumpet in the middle of a park I was walking (soon after RUNNING) through at about midnight.

LOL, ran that 4 minute mile,,,,in heels, wearing lipstick.......................

 

[Andykev]

Strangest and scariest thing

Well, the many scary things from my work I can't talk about. This did happen to me.

Remember the TV Movie? The Day After (1983) (TV).

I was visiting my uncle in the East Bay, where San Francisco is on the other side of the Berkeley hills. I was looking to the west, to the east side of the hills, where the bay was 10 miles beyond.

Suddenly, there was an enormous brilliant green flash that lit the entire sky to the west, from north to south. Since the TV Movie The Day After had just had it's network premier, I was sure that there must have been a nuclear detonation at night over SF. Weird, but that is what that show did to many viewers. Scary.

Upon returning to the other side of the hills and finding everything OK. the mystery was solved the next news report on the radio: a huge meteor had crossed the sky over the Pacific Ocean, causing the very green (gatoraid color) flash visible over most of the coastal areas of California.

Spectacular.

 

[cookie]

You think lighter fluid and Bacardi 151 are dangerous

Have you ever seen a group of guys perform the infamous 'Dance of the Flaming A***holes' as a party trick?

They make a paper cone which is then inserted and lit while they dance to a tune and then hope that their buttocks act as fire extinguishers in time.

Sometimes of course they get to understand the meaning of that old Johnny Cash song 'The Ring of Fire'....literally....nuff said.

 

[Paratrooper]

Have you ever seen a group of guys perform the infamous 'Dance of the Flaming A***holes' as a party trick?

They make a paper cone which is then inserted and lit while they dance to a tune and then hope that their buttocks act as fire extinguishers in time.

Sometimes of course they get to understand the meaning of that old Johnny Cash song 'The Ring of Fire'....literally....nuff said.

AHHHH no I have not seen that....thankfully I have not seen that, I don't think their would be enough mental floss to get that image from my mind.

 

[Diamondback]

Congratulations, Cookie. You just saved charming young Miss CanadaDoll from getting my next psychiatrist's bill--now it'll be headed your way instead...

 

[CanadaDoll]

Thanks for bailing me outta that one Cookie!!!

 

[Jerekson]

Have you ever seen a group of guys perform the infamous 'Dance of the Flaming A***holes' as a party trick?

They make a paper cone which is then inserted and lit while they dance to a tune and then hope that their buttocks act as fire extinguishers in time.

Sometimes of course they get to understand the meaning of that old Johnny Cash song 'The Ring of Fire'....literally....nuff said.

It must be an Aussie thing

 

[Phil]

Well, this one time, at band camp...
Actually, let me preface the story. Our band camp is at Conference Point, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Our marching field faces the lakefront.
Now, one day during our rehersal, our drum majors had us standing at attention, facing the lake. Behind them, two pontoon boats came alongside eachother, and they had a pirate battle. Full dress and all. It must have been for something because a man in a rowboat was sitting there with a nice looking camera.

 

[Lincsong]

Well, this one time, at band camp...
Actually, let me preface the story. Our band camp is at Conference Point, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Our marching field faces the lakefront.
Now, one day during our rehersal, our drum majors had us standing at attention, facing the lake. Behind them, two pontoon boats came alongside eachother, and they had a pirate battle. Full dress and all. It must have been for something because a man in a rowboat was sitting there with a nice looking camera.

This sounds like a scene out of American Pie II.lol

 

[Rosie]

How Could I Forget This!!!!

One day about 6 years ago or so, two friends of mine and I went to Brighton Beach. Well we were on the sand, talking, laughing, listening to music when this big wooden ship, something that TOTALLY looked like a pirate's ship (you know like from cartoons, movies, etc.?) came really close to shore. People began walking closer to look except me and one of my friends who ran towards the boardwalk. (seeing something that totally looked like a pirate ship made me think they would shoot cannons at us or something.) The coast guard or speed boat with men dressed in orange vest (I assume the Coast Guard) came along side the boat and I guess told it to move back and it did. It was really, really weird.

 

[cookie]

Pirate Ship

And you were about to ask Johnny Depp what?????