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Author Topic: What did you get for Christmas? Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 12-26-2003 09:39 PM                        ...my two front teeth. ....... and that's all I wanted!  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 12-27-2003 01:50 AM                        I got Super Mario 128 and Halo 2. Oh! I also got Doom 3.  |  IP: Logged William T. Parr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 823 From: Cedar Park, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 12-27-2003 03:00 AM                     Well being that I had to work Christmas day and My Brother went to spend it with his fiance's family. We have not had Chritsmas in my family as of yet. That will hapen this coming weekend. WoooHooo.  |  IP: Logged Frank Bruno Film Handler Posts: 50 From: houston, tx Registered: Aug 2003 posted 12-27-2003 03:27 AM                     I got plenty of hours & job-related headaches!!! I got a call from management on Xmas eve night, the only holdiay time I request off, that no Union projectionist showed up as planned to build our Paycheck & Peter Pan prints. 10 pm - 7 am was spent building & screening said prints, changing belts that went on one of my makeup tables & in a projector when I attempted to screen Peter Pan, changing trailers, etc. Sitting through Paycheck was the worst misfortune of all. Until... I return to the theater at 4 pm Xmas day. Based on my Xmas eve all-nighter management was gonna let me off the hook for working Xmas. I felt Id come check in anyway. No good deed goes unpunished. I snuck down to the concession stand for a glass of Hi-C. AS I walked out of the kitchen stepped on the bottom of a leaning handtruck, just out of view beside the freezers, causing the handtruck to stand upright, nail me right on the elbow &let go of my beloved glass at just the right moment to no drop it but send it flying, causing it to both spectacularly shatter and irrigate the kitchen area w/ Hi-C. As I cleaned this up an on-break concessionist told me that lotr:rotk had just "stopped." I made the run upstairs & discovered that the print had indeed been thrown, reels 8&9 being all over the tree, the brains of both the platter is was feeing & takign up from, & the arm on which the platter rests. Between tending to my other starts I didnt leave until 3 am. Before you say "but you only threw 2 reels" you didnt see the mess this made. On Chistmas Day I saw my family for 1 hr, my girlfriend not at all & caught a Christmas Story not once on TNT. In an epilogue to this sob story,today a patron aprently tore a stall door from its hinges,& ran with his own poop all over him from the bathroom through the lobby & out the door. He left a trail behind him, including a particularly nice-sized Yule log near the concession stand. I can only assume he must have seen Paycheck. At least I didnt have to clean that up.  |  IP: Logged David Favel Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 764 From: Ashburton, New Zealand Registered: Feb 2002 posted 12-27-2003 04:38 AM                     Halo 2 is out. You shit me not?  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 12-27-2003 04:18 PM                       Bruce said: quote: Today is MY big day. 47 years! Do I look it? Charming, as always, sir! Happy birthday! Scott said: quote: didn't come through with the platter bulbs or splicing tape that I asked for six months ago. Scott, that's a familiar song! Me, I got a TV for my 18-wheeler, and my little boy got me the John Wayne "McLintock!" DVD. Happy-happy! Joy! Joy!!  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-27-2003 04:44 PM                     " Today is MY big day. 47 years! Do I look it?" _________________________________________________________________ Well one thing is for certain judging by that round protruding abdomon to the right of the Banjo in your photo...its been a well fed 47 years...... Happy B'day Tim! Mark  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 12-27-2003 05:37 PM                       MARK!! It's BRUCE who is 47 today! I'm just 42! Don't kill me before my time.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-27-2003 11:11 PM                     Tim, Since Bruce drinks Film-Guard on a fairly regular basis that has to be the key to his longevity. You'd better get busy then and get rid of that by your 47th He's alot skinnier that you! Mark  |  IP: Logged Gracia L. Babbidge Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 709 From: Bowdoin, Maine Registered: Aug 2000 posted 12-28-2003 12:38 AM                        Well, I know that I had a lovely Christmas - stayed at home all day with my immediates family & my sweetie. As far as nifty loot - my grandma knit a nice sweater & two pairs of mittens for me my mom made two flannel nightgowns for me my brother gave me some CD's (Smashing Pumkins & Phish) my sister gave me the Solitary Witch by Silver Ravenwolf; as well as some magickal spell components my sweetie wrote a poem for me & gave me a ceramic dragon he painted my parents also gave me the Two Towers on dvd (the extended version), and a 3/4 length purple leather jacket other loot from parents & other relatives included: two pairs of shoes stackable teapot / mug set two nifty candle holders a powerpuff girls coloring book a bag of dove (dark chocolate) promises a new toothbrush a bag of little lad's herbal popcorn a bottle of lubriderm & a bottle of 'Hempz' lotion a punching balloon a bottle of 'Mr Bubbles' (with the "magic wand" inside the bottle) four Magic: the Gathering booster packs for Yule - I got to spend an evening with my closest friends, my adult siblings, and my sweetie. For Yule my sweetie gave me a spiffy, astrologically themed tapestry ... and a couple of highly noticable marks on my neck. All in all - a great holiday week.  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 12-28-2003 09:40 AM                     You guys!! You should have seen how old I looked before I started drinking! BTW: That reminds me. I need another bottle! The Western North Carolina mountains is the place to be. Jason is going to Fontana Lake. Beautiful place. The closest Wal-Mart is in Sylva, or Franklin. I'm not sure, but it's a long drive to get there either way.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 12-28-2003 02:39 PM                       Mark, I know, I look pregnant in that photo! I wanted Brad to use the new "truck driver" picture I sent, but then Adam made the animation of me picking the banjo and everybody seemed to like it. I'm such a slob! Bruce, buddy, I hear ya! You're right about W. NC! I always loved it there.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 12-28-2003 03:33 PM                     Amung other things...a TIVO showed up this Christmas. Keeping with the video theme...a video projector will be showing up soon. Steve  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-28-2003 06:03 PM                     Steve only "A" video projector you aren't getting two so you can do changeovers  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-28-2003 10:38 PM                     OK, Aside from alot of nice things I got 30 inches of snow for Christmas. Now I feel like I moved in TOO close to the mountains. Its already been snowing for 3 days here and the Weatherman says that tommrrow the big winds are headed in from California (I don't like it there either) to bring us more snow and redistribute what snow it dumped on us the first time. Hopefully it'll blow back where it came from...California in this case. Five snowboarders were caught in a massive avalanche that is estimated to be 4 city blocks wide, 30 feet deep and 1600 feet up a mountain side near Redford's Sundance. Two were able to dig themselves out. One body was found today, two are still missing under 15 to 30 feet of snow! The Sherrif's rescue people numbering about 50 resuses to give up looking for the other two in spite of the fact thet they could also be burried in another avalanche! On the news tonight a story about a family of five that were killed in their Motor Home when they were blown off I-15 then another story about the 8 different UHP Officers that were run into and injured, some seriously, while attending to various accidents along Utahs Highways. My service van is literally frozen shut and its going to snow some more! They say 4" to 6" more in the valley and 1 to 2 feet more in the mountains and they told us we'd get 6 inches the first time . So here the weather has been a real pisser for Christmas and will stay the same for a couple more days. This is the worst winter for people in Utah since I moved out here. The last really bad winter here was in 1994. Mark (Newslink w/out paste removed by moderator.)  |  IP: Logged

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