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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 08-25-2004, 02:49 AM:
 
I am afraid of Erick Akers' beard.

I am afraid that guy who is supposed to close the curtain in 10 minutes has fallen asleep.

I am afraid of someday running a movie & having Brad Miller & Steve Guttag suddenly show up during a reel, flatten the light better, pull out 2 more fL of light, adjust the lens somehow to create perfect focus all the way across & up & down, knock the pickup sound head backhand to get 3khz more HF frequency response, & then look at me in a marked manner.

I am very afraid that the hurricane may have destroyed Thomas Procyk's computer, eliminating access to his life-sustaining internet pornography.

I am afraid of Mark Gulbrandsen's service van, which contains all the usual ton of service crap plus 200 different platter motors, 40 matched pairs of mirrors for different lamphouses, Norelco lamp tables & gates, and a full machine shop.

I am afraid of driving across Mississippi with someone who will ask me to pronounce the name of the Tchoutacabouffa River.

I am afraid that someone soon will go upside Jack Valenti's head, & we will all be hauled in for questioning.

I am afraid my neighbor's yapping dog has been tied to the doorknob of the Korean restaurant down on Airport Boulevard.
 
Posted by Brian Michael Weidemann (Member # 2243) on 08-25-2004, 03:21 AM:
 
I'm afraid of the evil booth monkey who gradually makes his way around from projector to projector and causes havoc of a technical nature. Every booth has one, but ours is particularly sly. (The 35mm guys have insinuated that we IMAX folk own and cage the monkey ... if that's the case, then our monkey has turned on his owners, too!) Frightening.

I'm afraid that there were actually people who thought Catwoman in IMAX was a good idea.

I'm afraid I'm not thinking of a great response and it's only after I post that I'll think of it.

EDIT: [Smile] I'm afraid of the Post Your Beliefs Here thread. [Razz]
 
Posted by Cory Isemann (Member # 2517) on 08-25-2004, 07:39 AM:
 
I am afraid of thrown prints.

I am afraid of customers gaining entry to the booth and accosting me whilst I thread up.

I am afraid of late starts.

I am afraid of mustard on the screen (it's happened, not a pretty sight)
 
Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-25-2004, 08:09 AM:
 
I am afraid of spelling "sauerkraut"

I am afraid of eating sauerkraut.

I am afraid of what Nintendo will do with the kooky design of their next game system.

I am afraid of the price of dual layer recordable DVD's.

I am afraid that Ethan is too phiggidy for his own good.

I am afraid of buying an HDTV because 720p is not natively supported for some retarded reason, and neither is 1080p. What da hizzell? HDTV should not conform to the lowest common denominator!

I am afraid that all things that are enjoyable are bad for you!
 
Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 08-25-2004, 08:28 AM:
 
I'm afraid of forum members with over 1200 posts who haven't sent in forum pictures yet.
 
Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 08-25-2004, 08:32 AM:
 
quote:
What are you afraid of?
Nothing.
 
Posted by Jason M Miller (Member # 2597) on 08-25-2004, 08:42 AM:
 
I am afraid of brain wraps

I am afraid of Mice

I am afraid of most people that come see late shows

I am afraid of Jeremy sticking that finger to far up his noise that he will have something to be afraid of.

I am afraid of Puke [puke]

I am afraid of someone still in the theater after the last show gets out and I am doing theater checks
 
Posted by Mitchell Dvoskin (Member # 751) on 08-25-2004, 08:47 AM:
 
Political post deleted by Admin. Read the rules.

[ 08-25-2004, 06:46 PM: Message edited by: Brad Miller ]
 
Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 08-25-2004, 09:05 AM:
 
Edit:Nevermind.
 
Posted by Gracia L. Babbidge (Member # 582) on 08-25-2004, 09:10 AM:
 
I am more concerned than afraid that I will not see my beloved kitty again.
 
Posted by Jeff Stuckey (Member # 1718) on 08-25-2004, 11:49 AM:
 
I am afraid of denists and needles, and I have an appointment with both tomorrow. Yipp-a-freakin-ee.

I am also afraid of heights. I remember my first job at a movie theatre with a large street facing marquee. I wanted to be the person in charge of getting up there and putting all the titles up. However when I got up to the top, I freaked out. There was only one steel beam to grab hold of and a large gap where anything and anyone could fall through. I chickened out, and the actual President of the company got up there and did it himself. I was very lucky I wasn't fired. But, it was opening weekend and they needed all the help they could get. I later became the manger of that theatre. Go figure. [Smile]
 
Posted by Erick Akers (Member # 875) on 08-25-2004, 02:02 PM:
 
I'm afraid my beard utilized all of it's magical powers when it saved my face! [Frown]

I'm afraid I would have suffered disfiguring 3rd degree burns to my face, and looked like Freddy Krueger if I had not been wearing a full beard!!! [thumbsup]

I'm also afraid no one likes my new current member picture... [Confused]
 
Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 08-25-2004, 02:32 PM:
 
Political post deleted by Admin. Read the rules.

[ 08-25-2004, 06:46 PM: Message edited by: Brad Miller ]
 
Posted by Bruce McGee (Member # 131) on 08-25-2004, 04:06 PM:
 
I agree with JP.

I am afraid of 3 more Star Wars films.
 
Posted by Bill Enos (Member # 440) on 08-25-2004, 04:42 PM:
 
I'm afraid that there will be more than one more Star Wars film.
 
Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-25-2004, 06:27 PM:
 
I'm afraid I'll have to lock this thread and BAN everybody if it gets any more political! [Smile]
 
Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 08-25-2004, 06:47 PM:
 
I'm afraid I am just about ready to boot the next member who doesn't read the friggin' rules of this forum. [Mad]
 
Posted by Clint Koch (Member # 1179) on 08-25-2004, 06:53 PM:
 
I am afraid of Joe's new picture. Trying to figure out what famous person he resemble in it.
 
Posted by Chris Hipp (Member # 1788) on 08-25-2004, 08:53 PM:
 
In order:

Grasshoppers/Planes
water
tornados
chat rooms
bugs in general, excluding grasshoppers
mediocrity
old age
 
Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 08-25-2004, 09:03 PM:
 
There are way better insects to be afraid of than grasshoppers, which don't bite and are actually sort of cool looking in a bent sort of way.

I am afraid of wasps, bats, big dogs, and talking in front of crowds.

I'm also afraid -- or maybe "apprehensive" would be a better word -- of leaving my theatre in the care of anyone but myself, a fact which tends to drive my poor wife crazy at times.
 
Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 08-25-2004, 09:09 PM:
 
"I am afraid of Mark Gulbrandsen's service van, which contains all the usual ton of service crap plus 200 different platter motors, 40 matched pairs of mirrors for different lamphouses, Norelco lamp tables & gates, and a full machine shop."
_________________________________________________________________

I'm afraid that William Hooper left out the Arbor Press and the Granite Plate.....

Mark @ CLACO
 
Posted by Dave Williams (Member # 299) on 08-25-2004, 09:14 PM:
 
I am afraid that Joe Redifer is really William Baldwin, as he is the most evil of all Baldwins.

Ciao

Dave
 
Posted by Richard Greco (Member # 2032) on 08-25-2004, 09:59 PM:
 
I'm afraid of roller coasters

I'm afraid of whipped cream....really...

I'm afraid of bungee jumping

I'm afraid of spiders

I'm afraid of bees

I just really hate fire ants
 
Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 08-25-2004, 11:15 PM:
 
I used to be afraid of being in an airplane wreck that was not my fault.

But after all the shit I've been through these last dozen years, I, like Jeremy, am afraid of nothing. [evil]
 
Posted by Mitchell Dvoskin (Member # 751) on 08-26-2004, 07:27 AM:
 
You nothing to fear, but fear itself...
 
Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 08-26-2004, 07:55 AM:
 
I'm afraid of Water Towers - really.

Lighting

Throwing up - really, haven't done it since I was 5 or 6 because I don't let myself. Which is also why I don't drink much. [Smile]

I'm just weird.
 
Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 08-26-2004, 10:15 AM:
 
I'm afraid of quarter-ton beehives and kids with rocks.

Watertowers: Sometimes I will look at a water tower and try to imagine that all of the steel suddenly disappeared and for a brief moment a huge spheroid or ellipsoid of water was just hanging in mid-air and then came crashing down.
 
Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 08-26-2004, 01:47 PM:
 
Hahaha!! Steve, that got a guffaw out of me for some reason! [Big Grin]

What gives me the willies is being stuck in traffic on the GW Bridge in my 18-wheeler, and feeling the roadway bounce up and down on the suspension cables. Wheeee!
 
Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 08-26-2004, 02:09 PM:
 
quote:
What gives me the willies is being stuck in traffic on the GW Bridge in my 18-wheeler, and feeling the roadway bounce up and down on the suspension cables. Wheeee!
Unfortunately, with recent increase in terrorism alerts, I am afraid to be "stuck" on a major bridge or going slowly through an underwater tunnel. [Frown]

(I hope someone is occasionally checking what's inside some of those 18-wheelers and panel trucks) [Eek!] I assume truckers are keeping on eye out for "strangers" to the profession.

I feel the best advice today it "get to know your neighbor", whether it's who's at the truck stop, sitting next to you in the airport lounge, or trying to buy ammonium nitrate fertilizer. Just think if those flying schools had all reported their suspicions earlier, as the one in Minnesota did when Zacarias Moussaoui tried to take flying lessons.
 
Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 08-26-2004, 02:14 PM:
 
That thought crosses my mind everyday. I am actually glad that I have to go through the police truck checks. They're really bearing down on the little 6-wheeler/moving-van type trucks, too.

Next week will be especially tense, with the GOP convention in town and all...
[Frown]
 
Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 08-26-2004, 07:55 PM:
 
Brilliant move almost 40 years ago to tear down an architectural masterpiece of a railroad station (Pennsylvania Station aka Penn Station) and build a sports arena (Madison Square Garden, site of the GOP confab) atop it, while the busy train station is compressed into the basement level.

I'm afraid that was the work of idiots.
 
Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 08-26-2004, 08:19 PM:
 
quote: Steve Kraus
I'm afraid that was the work of idiots.
It was Robert Moses. [Frown]

http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Penn_Station

quote:
The destruction of the original structure, although justified as progressive in the trade at the time and largely ignored by non-professional Americans, nevertheless left a deep and lasting wound in the architectural consciousness of the city. A famous photograph of a smashed caryatid in the landfill of the Meadowlands struck a guilty chord. Pennsylvania Station's destruction is considered to have been the catalyst for the enactment of the city's first architectural preservation statutes...

...The above-ground components of this structure (the platforms are below street level) were demolished in 1964, without disrupting the essential day-to-day operations, to make way for present-day Madison Square Garden. The demolition of such a well-known landmark and its replacement by a mediocre slab of real estate was widely deplored and is often cited as a catalyst for the architectural preservation movement in the United States, and for laws restricting such demolition. Immediately after the demolition of this original Penn Station, Grand Central Terminal was declared a monument and protected by law. It also hurt the already arrogant reputation of master developer Robert Moses, whose plans for a Lower Manhattan Expressway were scrapped due to public protests and a rejection of the plan by the city government.

 
Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 08-26-2004, 09:06 PM:
 
I'm afraid of:

* drowning

* getting caught in a tunnel collapse

* cottage cheese

* Gary Busey

* subway third rails

* spiders

* Los Angeles

* elderly drivers

* buttermilk

* angry rabbits (they bite!)

* motels in eastern North Carolina

* sour cream

* falling into a vertical pipe in the ground 18" wide and 100' deep.

* fungi

* Gina Gershon (but afraid in a "good" way)

* wasps

* poisonous snakes

* attorneys

* arriving at work and only then realizing I'm only wearing boxer shorts.

* people who insist a 1280 X 1024 pixel video image looks better than 35mm film done right.
 
Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 08-26-2004, 09:27 PM:
 
quote: John Pytlak
I assume truckers are keeping on eye out for "strangers" to the profession.
Several weeks ago, my company sent a fleetwide message asking us to be vigilant and report anything that seemed askew. The thing is, companies have a pretty good handle on where their trucks are, what they're hauling, who's driving, and whether or not they're making scheduled appointments. Most companies also have continuous GPS fixes on their entire fleet. If a truck isn't where it's supposed to be at a particular time, it shows up in red on the dispatcher's screen and they know immediately. If they have to, they can shut the truck down remotely.

It's the little independents and no-name haulers (like so many container pullers that run through the city and the shipyards every day) that are the unknown quantity, and they are indeed coming under great scrutiny at the police checks.
 
Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 08-27-2004, 12:18 AM:
 
quote: Steve Kraus

Brilliant move almost 40 years ago to tear down an architectural masterpiece of a railroad station (Pennsylvania Station aka Penn Station)
Some of the photos of Penn Station's last days show that it was in pretty poor condition. It had some remodeling at the front, was about as messy as the subway stations in the 1970's, all that square mile or so of glass panes in the roof/ceiling was grungy/oily/nasty etc. It was huge, cranny-dense & a custodial nightmare. The roof alone would have been a major, expensive, ongoing cleaning project.

I think that story is from the NY Times about the destruction of Penn Station which has the line like "a city gets the architecture it deserves", but it also mentions that "in the end, they couldn't even keep it clean."

-----------

I am afraid of running out of oil in the differential & lunching another in the middle of nowhere, & obsessively think about it.

I am afraid of people driving Volvos.
 
Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 08-30-2004, 11:34 AM:
 
I'm afraid that if I had Bill Gate's billions I would buy up MSG and rebuild Penn Station as it was. That and the nationwide network of 70mm & Cinerama venues.

(My other brilliant idea to lighten Bill's pockets was to overhaul the SS United States and since the conversion from steam turbines to combustion turbines or diesels would make it a motor ship it would be renamed the MS United States. Get it? But someone has already taken this on.)
 
Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 08-30-2004, 09:53 PM:
 
quote: Steve Kraus
Watertowers: Sometimes I will look at a water tower and try to imagine that all of the steel suddenly disappeared and for a brief moment a huge spheroid or ellipsoid of water was just hanging in mid-air and then came crashing down.
Steve, that just wasn't nice. [Mad]
 
Posted by Dean Kollet (Member # 1789) on 08-30-2004, 10:44 PM:
 
I'm afraid of:

-drowning
-losing my mind
-getting lost
-finding my mind
-Brad and Joe b/c their pictures get madder looking every time
-that cap code will soon appear in everyday life
-anyone who carries both a gun and a camera
-brainwraps
-film break alarms
-having Right Said Fred come back
-spiders
 
Posted by Tony Bandiera Jr (Member # 2365) on 09-06-2004, 01:51 AM:
 
I'm afraid of:

Snakes! (Disgusting, wily creatures.)
Tornadoes (been too close to too many)(I grew up in Ohio)
Heights (which is why I don't work for the power company)
Electrical burns (see heights)
And most importantly:
"I'm more afraid of being nothing, than I am of being hurt." (Guess the actor and movie)
 
Posted by Josh Jones (Member # 447) on 09-06-2004, 03:30 AM:
 
I'm afraid of

- Drivers too busy yakin on their damn phones to notice lil old me on my bike
- Heights
- Small Spaces
- falling
- damaging film
- being left out or behind
- people ignoring me
- being misunderstood
- mass market radio destroying the chances of having anything decent on the dial to listen to.
- large quantites of moving water (Think Hydroelectric power)

JJ
 
Posted by Wolff King Morrow (Member # 2226) on 09-06-2004, 04:05 AM:
 
I'm afraid of Brad's avatar.

Oh and also lightning, which just struck as I wrote this.
 
Posted by Steve Scott (Member # 630) on 09-06-2004, 06:31 PM:
 
I'm afraid of being vomited upon from above. Very scary with stadium seating [Eek!]
 
Posted by Cory Isemann (Member # 2517) on 09-07-2004, 12:27 AM:
 
I'm afraid the rather large dude-looking woman that accused me of throwing an empty bottle of Hennessey out of the port window at her might come back to my theatre looking for me...

(I don't drink at work... honest!!)

At home, though after dealing with people like that... [beer] [beer] [beer]
 
Posted by Manny Knowles (Member # 1171) on 09-08-2004, 11:20 AM:
 
I'm afraid of posting a list of things that scare me on a public forum.
I'm afraid that someone might read it and then get ideas.
 
Posted by Andrew Lee (Member # 1330) on 09-08-2004, 11:38 AM:
 
I'm afraid of garden gnomes and clowns.
 
Posted by R. Andrew Diercks (Member # 1725) on 09-14-2004, 01:54 PM:
 
I am affraid of:

*Failure
*Becoming senile and forgetting my loved ones
*My children becoming asshole teenagers
*Unemployment
*That drugs will become more acceptable than they already are.
*A 3rd World War (nuclear)
 
Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 09-15-2004, 12:59 AM:
 
I'm afraid of really long "signatures".
 
Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 09-15-2004, 05:30 PM:
 
quote: Manny Knowles
I'm afraid of posting a list of things that scare me on a public forum. I'm afraid that someone might read it and then get ideas.
Maybe part of the plan is that you post a list of things that really don't scare you, but actually draw a would-be prankster into a clever trap of doom!
[evil]
 
Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 09-17-2004, 02:54 AM:
 
quote: Jennifer Pan
I'm afraid of really long "signatures".
I agree Jen! Anyone with more than 3 lines haz to have a small-penis issue.

Us *MEN* do not have to have to pontificate our "importance" in our sigs...

>>> Phil
 
Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 09-17-2004, 08:27 AM:
 
I'm also afraid of people who falsify a medical practice.
 
Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 09-17-2004, 08:47 AM:
 
Jen, take the two pills I prescribed for you and you will no longer be afraid of anything. [thumbsup]
 
Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 09-17-2004, 09:02 AM:
 
I'm sure I'll regret taking them the next morning. If I'm still alive by then.
 
Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 09-17-2004, 09:09 AM:
 
Theres only one way to find out.
 
Posted by System Notices (Member # 2357) on 04-19-2016, 02:22 PM:
 

It has been 4232 days since the last post.


 
Posted by Aaron Garman (Member # 1653) on 04-19-2016, 02:22 PM:
 
I am afraid of Ervin Dwayne Caldwell Jr.
 
Posted by Buck Wilson (Member # 5885) on 04-19-2016, 04:26 PM:
 
I'm afraid of driving on overpasses while a semi trailer is driving beneath it.
 
Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 04-19-2016, 05:05 PM:
 
I'm afraid of "ransomware."
 
Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 05-19-2016, 11:27 PM:
 
Let's revisit my original post and see how I feel these days about some of this stuff:

quote: Joe Redifer
I am afraid of spelling "sauerkraut"
Not really. If it has a red underline I just right-click and BAM fixed!

quote: Joe Redifer
I am afraid of eating sauerkraut.
Yeah, I would not enjoy partaking in such an activity. Not one bit!

quote: Joe Redifer
I am afraid of what Nintendo will do with the kooky design of their next game system.
Yes. This is always a constant fear. They're idiots.

quote: Joe Redifer
I am afraid of the price of dual layer recordable DVD's.
Pffffffttt! Dual Layer Blu-rays on the other hand... aren't that bad being that I can have them act as a master and sell stamped copies, as I do.

quote: Joe Redifer
I am afraid that Ethan is too phiggidy for his own good.
Yep. Now look at him, all disappeared and stuff.

quote: Joe Redifer
I am afraid of buying an HDTV because 720p is not natively supported for some retarded reason, and neither is 1080p. What da hizzell? HDTV should not conform to the lowest common denominator!
Shut up, pussy! You have a TV now where each pixel is the size of a shipping box and you LOVE it! Now we have TVs that cannot multisync and therefore only have one true resolution. The future is grand. Multisyncing and native resolutions are for assholes such as yourself. If it's not scaled in some way, it sux.

quote: Joe Redifer
I am afraid that all things that are enjoyable are bad for you!
Nowadays I don't tremendously care.

OK, new list:

-Wasps. They are stupid and really don't have any right to exist.

-Mosquitoes. Same as wasps, only they don't hurt. They itch. They should be extinct.

-Over rampant political correctness. My fist has a "safe space" and it's your face.

-Getting recognized. Starting to happen more and more as people see through my clever disguises.

-Ervin Dwayne Caldwell Jr

-Getting my data/speed capped/throttled by Comcast. Currently doesn't happen at all but I know they do that in some areas. I know it's coming.
 
Posted by Dwayne Caldwell (Member # 417) on 05-20-2016, 03:36 AM:
 
- Aaron Garman's farts.
- Melissa McCarthy
- Waking up with a hangover in the middle of the Serengeti.
- Not having Internet because how the hell am I going to be able to watch Game Sack?
- Prison Sex

See you all again in a few years!
 
Posted by Steve Moore (Member # 4753) on 05-20-2016, 09:47 AM:
 
I'm afraid of :
Moths

Accordions

Switched mode power supplies
 
Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 05-20-2016, 11:16 AM:
 
I'm afraid that my ex-wife will come back.

To this day, every time I see a white Oldsmobile Alero I have to turn around and check the license plate just to be sure.
 




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