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Location: Massachusetts | Explain this LLama thing. It's been talked about in the tour threads(I'm going) but I don't get it.
It's an inside joke right?
Is it like becoming a Turtle?
I don't get that either and my mother is a Turtle. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Some Razzing and sophmoric humur graduated to Cliff using his Cut & Paste skills to plop a Llama into the tour, his love life and the hallowed halls of this board.
The OFC, the only website where 12 year old boys pretend to be 50 year old men!
And I mean that in a nice way, of course! :rolleyes: |
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Location: NJ | Thanks for tearing down the "Veil of Mystery", Woodster . . . . you must be a riot around little kids and SantaClaus . . . . ;)
". . . where 12 year old boys pretend to be 50 year old men . . ."
As opposed to Templeman, who . . . .
. . . . oh well, let's not get into that, shall we? . . |
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Location: NJ | ". . I don't get that either and my mother is a Turtle. . ."
. . . . . ? . . . . . .
. . . . okay, I'll bite . . . . . . . please explain . . . . |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Come on Cliff...the guy is a fan of Corvairs....
He probably didn't understand Woody's answer anyway :D |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Cliff,
If you want to uphold the veil of mystery you should take a lead from the Star Wars providers. Give them something different and not necessarily in order!
How many company's IT Departments are shut down today because of the premier of Episode III?
Here's a vignette:
Sound of raspy voice being spoken through a Tricone "Paul, I am your father"! |
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Location: Massachusetts | That sounds like a funny use of photoshop.
Way way way back in like 82 I was in a state conference for a fraternal organization. Apparently kids in the know made each other Turtles...some sort of secret handshake thingy.
Are you a Turtle?
You bet your sweet &^% I am
Was the code.
Last year my 70 year old mother said she was a turtle. Happened at her convention. I was shocked. |
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Location: closely held secret | Of course you were shocked. Anyone would be shocked to find out they hatched from an egg.
Did she at least tell you which beach you came from? |
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Location: Converse, Texas | You mean, that wasn't a llama that was standing beside us in the parking lot? |
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Location: Converse, Texas | SEE! It was there!
Before anyone asks... there are NO pictures of cliff and the llama in his room... |
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| It had never even crossed my mind that those pics were fakes. This shows:- 1) I'm stupid, 2) cliff's skill with photoshop and 3) the absolute awe in which I hold cliff.
number 3 may now have to be adjusted.
woody - you should be ashamed :( |
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Location: Upper Left USA | When I was just seven years old, growing up in a narrow 3 floor tenament shared by 4 generations of Irish immigrants, my older brother and I were in the bed we shared, talking excitedly about what we thought we should get for Christmas. Next thing we notice is someone walking around in our living room and the rustle of packing paper. Unable to hold ourselves back my brother and I snuck to the door and made it down the hallway to "sneak a peak"!
We didn't find someone in a red suit. And whoever this was, wasn't taking things out of a bag, he was putting them in a bag! Then my Father saw us from the other doorway.
What happened next took a lot of therapy to bring forward and deal with. This supposed "santa" was packing more than holiday spirit but my father had two barrells on his "house gun". After the tremendous noise "santa" didn't get up and my Father's left arm never lifted above his shoulder again.
It took us a few years to look forward to Chistmas. I just couldn't figure out why my father would shoot Santa!
So I should be ashamed telling kid's that Santa isn't real?
This story really is a crock of crap, but did you enjoy the journey?
Enjoy the Llama!
Share it with your kids! Enjoy the tour and the company of each other!
And Merry Christmas! :D |
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Location: SoCal | I don't believe that people who weren't there last year have any basis to make a judgment as to whether there was a llama there or not. If you didn't have to clean up llama sh*t then you just don't know.
Just for your comments Woodrow, when you do go to the OFC gig, you're going to have to keep the llama in your room (assuming Hizzy will let you -- that llama spent a lot of time in his room! Those Texas boys are something....). |
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Location: Midland, MI | The llama pictures *are* real, Schroeder...it's a clever double-reverse-psychology ploy by Woody to fake everyone out. I don't think Carter put it in the book, but it's fairly well known that one of the early employees (one from up in the hen house, if I remember correctly) had a spouse who quit their job, sold everything but the house and one car and then invested all the proceeds in llama farming.
Now, you can imagine that llamas, coming from the relatively warm climate of Peru (as opposed to the relatively chilly climate of Connecticut) probably aren't all that well equiped to deal with long, nasty winters and a bunch of humans running around prattling on about nor'easters and sundry other nonsense. Anyway, most of the 'seed' llamas died the first winter (nobody told the prospective llama mogul that they need a heated barn, apparently).
Our very own W2, knowing the plight of the llamas, and being a warm and fuzzy kind of guy (for the most part) encouraged the employee to lodge the remaining few members of the herd in an unused portion of the shipping department. Just until spring, you understand. Well, the llamas sort of made themselves at home, and eventually wound up just wandering wherever they pleased. In no time at all, they became just another part of the Ovation family. If you open an Ovation case from the mid 70s (before W2 built the barn on the *other* side of the parking lot), you can get a 'whiff' of what things were like around there during the 'Llama Days.' To this day, KMC keeps a couple of llamas housed up there; they even let the local kids have rides and show them in the 4th of July parade. You know, everyone loves a big, fuzzy, dumb looking llama. It was a masterstroke of PR genius on W2's part (now you know why he rails against their current marketing, but who could compete with loveable, affectionate llamas?)
Woody knows the whole story as well as any of us here, so don't let him pull the (llama) wool over your eyes. |
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Location: Evansville,IN | I did, I did saw a llama! :D
Bet it was a real pain getting it a vehicle, especially seeing how it wanted to drive. I've heard llamas aren't real adept at driving. :D |
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Location: Evansville,IN | Which one of those vehicles did the llama drive there? :D |
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Location: Midland, MI | Oh, for Pete's sake...the llama didn't have to drive (I don't think they can, but if they can, it'd have to be an automatic, not having opposable thumbs and all...which brings up the Hamer monkey, but that's another board). They llamas live in the barn on the other side of the freeking parking lot. You n00bies have soooo much to learn about Ovation. :rolleyes: |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Sergeant Jim Fowler, here. Federal Bureau of Animal Husbandry, Special Llama Division.
It is in fact a federal crime to:
Transport a Llama across state lines.
Comingle, cohabitate or otherwise cavort with a Llama in non-approved overnight lodging facilities.
Impersonate llamas by stuffing two men with Irritable Bowel Syndrom in a llama suit...Otherwise knowm as Llama Baiting... |
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Location: Houston, TX | Josh Homme rides llamas, thus increasing their value.
Look...the story of cliff and his friend Dolly is a zen thing.
I mean, if every time I see the two of them together I simultaneously hear cliff strumming the chords to san fransisco with that far off look in his eyes just like mckenzie and at the same time I hear the llama singing "paved paradise and put up a parking a lot", but no one else hears the same thing i am hearing, does it mean that I should make my memories less interesting? |
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Location: NJ | not josh homme but johnny holmes |
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Location: Evansville,IN | Originally posted by alpep:
not josh homme but johnny holmes No wonder the poor guy is dead. Diddlin' all them llamas would be devastating to a persons well being. :D |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | Uh-oh, I just had a vision again. Now i'll have nightmares...The thought of Cliff with the Llama was enough, now you guys had to throw Johnny Holmes into the equation. :eek: |
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Location: closely held secret | The Llama Song |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | Waskel,
You're not right!! :D
I know that was cliff on vocals wasn't it? :rolleyes: |
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The Llama thing...what are you talking about?
