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Location: GA USA | I've been wanting to post this to my gallery for a long time now. Maybe one day...
This is a souvenir "guitar" my son brought back to me from his Peru trip last summer. It plays very well despite the strings being fishing line, and all tuned to H#, the frets being drawn on with magic marker. The wood tuning pegs also work great. I don't think he even knew the significance of the llama.
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Capt'n: I'll buy it from you. It would be worth it just to do an El-Ka-Bong over a certain llama infatuated member. Dave |
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Location: NJ | Hanging on a column in the fingerboard area of the Factory is a llama calendar . . . .
. . . I think Woody got a picture of it. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | :D
I'll shoot it to ya when I get home! |
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Location: Denver Colorado | ((((((((((((((((swoooooosh))))))))))))))))))
That's the sound of the Llama joke goin' over my head.
If this isn't a super-private-inside-joke-only-known-to-the-elite around here.... would somebody get me up to speed on this one?
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Location: NJ | YSBT. |
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Location: closely held secret | Look at last years pictures. |
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Location: GA USA | This may or may not help. The origin is sketchy. But mention llamas somewhere in a post and you're in. In a year or two, say that you made the original llama comment, and some may believe you.
Llama comment thread:
1st Llama Reference |
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Location: NJ | It all started MANY years ago with the MontyPython album "Live at CityCenter" (least that's where I first heard it). There is a skit where John Cleese does a dissertation in Spanish and Terry Jones is offering English translation.
Playing on the Spanish word "llama" (pronounced "yahmah" - which actually means "name"), the dissertation becomes an absurd lecture regarding the animal, Llama. Ex: ". . the llama has fins for swimming and lives in mighty rivers, like the Amazon . ."
Thoroughly absurd stuff (but then again, it IS Python) . . .
Cut to about 30 years later:
In an effort to goad/recruit OFC members to participate (I seem to do a lot of this) in the 2nd TourJam, I recounted several extra-curricular events that went on at the previous year's Tour:
Alpep Look-Alike Contest, Naked Chambermaid Rodeo, Elevator Drag-Racing, etc. .
I seem t'remember that one of my comments was that my credit was charged extra because I'd left an Ecuadorian maid naked in the shower with a bottle of tequila and a live llama sleeping in my bed. Such was the impetus.
That'sMyStory&I'mStickingToIt. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Well! I for one am glad THAT's all cleared up. |
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Location: Vermont USA | Thanks Cliff I have much beter insight and understanding of the human race as a whole because of your story. So are you getting the help you need I charge $40.00 a visit. Teach me some guitar licks and it's free.
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Location: GA USA | Cliff, did it go something like this?
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Cliff slipped the llama a roofie... |
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Location: Denver Colorado | Unreal. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Is it just me, or does the llama in the drawing appear to be a male? Way to go Cliff.
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Location: GA USA | It's just you, perv. That's his other hoof. I mean her other hoof. I'd better fix it. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | ....Cliffy wore his ass out... |
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Location: GA USA | You mean HERS, and there's no donkey in the picture. Here. I fixed it, and gave her longer lashes, just like a real female llama
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Does it not strike anyone a bit funny, we are contesting the gender of the *LLAMA* Cliff has just bedded... |
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Location: GA USA | Not until you said so, now it's hilarious. |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | LOL! Too funny! Change those suitcases into Ovation cases and I think you're looking at the official 2007 OFC Tour T-Shirt! |
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Location: NJ | NICE!!! . . . . . |
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Location: Vermont USA | A word of caution watch your back because Cliff will get even. The sound you hear is the click and then bang :(
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Location: Orange County, California | The "click" are the buckles on the guitar case, and the "bang" is the rotten egg going in and the lid being slammed shut.... The reason there's only one audible "click" is that he has help... :D |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | You never hear the one that gets you. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | silent,
but deadly. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Ah cain't do those no more.
They're deadlier, but I ALWAYS get the blame!
(unless I turn and scowl at the person in the row behind me. Only works at the movies.) |
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Location: GA USA | Oh, I never would have done it if Cleef hadn't bragged about it first. I'm as scared of him as the rest of you.
BTW, that's the 20 minute sharpie version I did at work. I'm working on the real deal now. And the Ovation cases was a great idea, Pickles.
Now if I can just get you Lawyers to pay me huge amounts of money to draw your company Christmas cards, I can get some real guitars. |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Guess I need to change my signature.. being called Pickles feels a little weird. :rolleyes: Let's stick with DVD or David.
Cap'n, that's fantastic work! I could walk you through recovering a fragged Linux server with my eyes closed, but I couldn't do something that artistic to save my life!
It may not be boatloads of money, but I would pay you to do my Christmas cards and/or artwork for my family web page! Seriously! Shoot me an email/PM if your game. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Pickles? Pickles is a GREAT nickname! Everybody likes pickles!
Crunchy, snappy, popular at a party. Would sound great from the stage too! "And on rythme guitar and nose flute, Pickles Dupree!"
And when I was a kid, one of my buddies dog was named Pickles, great dog! |
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Location: Denver Colorado | That cartoon is GREAT.
I vote that he changes those suitcases to Ovation cases as well.... add the year to it somewhere too...
Then put it up for sale on cafepress.com on different items.
I want a coffee cup.
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Location: GA USA | Sally-Mander, your real name must be Claire Voyant. I have already drawn it, with the O cases, and I was gonna put the year on his namebadge. So I don't get it wrong and look like more of a dummy than usual, what year was it? Cleef said it was after the 2nd tour jam.
I was also thinking of putting it on cafepress, along with the Al/Miles-Godzilla cartoon in my gallery, just in case any of you wanted one. It may be a while before I finish coloring it, with the Hawaii trip coming up.
And I've actually worked on a few unfinished pieces of some others of you, so don't turn your backs. But I've had some stuff to draw. I did a coloring book this month and am supposed to be working on a children's book.
I'm not forgetting about you, DVD. I'll contact you before too long.
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My Llama Guitar