Coffee talk

[DevilishWon]

So some idiot here at work was walking quickly while talking over his shoulder not looking forward. He was going to run into me. To protect myself I used his momentum and did a belly to belly suplex on him. Now hes in traction and I'm somehow an asshole. I dont get this place.

You're the Scott Stevens of the cube farm my friend....keep then co-workers on their toes!

 

[mattola]

So some idiot here at work was walking quickly while talking over his shoulder not looking forward. He was going to run into me. To protect myself I used his momentum and did a belly to belly suplex on him. Now hes in traction and I'm somehow an asshole. I dont get this place.

NSFW language

 

[dash]

So some idiot here at work was walking quickly while talking over his shoulder not looking forward. He was going to run into me. To protect myself I used his momentum and did a belly to belly suplex on him. Now hes in traction and I'm somehow an asshole. I dont get this place.

Careful Comeds, the next dude you meet in the hallway might be from Canada...

 

[mattola]

Former Memphis Grizzlies owner Michael Heisley hospitalized » The Commercial Appeal

apparently he just passed away.

 

[Judge Fudge]

Sitting in a hotel room in Bellingham. Flying to Las Vegas today

Puckhead, Blind Baby, Jstew and Mattola

just a heads up. Cheaper flights in the states if you fly out of Bellingham

 

[mattola]

Sitting in a hotel room in Bellingham. Flying to Las Vegas today

Puckhead, Blind Baby, Jstew and Mattola

just a heads up. Cheaper flights in the states if you fly out of Bellingham

yeah Ive explored that option, some good cheap parking out near there as well.

 

[blindbaby]

Sitting in a hotel room in Bellingham. Flying to Las Vegas today

Puckhead, Blind Baby, Jstew and Mattola

just a heads up. Cheaper flights in the states if you fly out of Bellingham

My daughter flew to Vegas last year with her aunt......by flying out of Bellingham.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

yah fudge cheaper to fly to maui from there too

My coworker went to vegas on allegiant last week. Prices r higher than the used to be though. They had $49 flights a while back


/im in parksville this weekend. Howie and leah meeker r in the phone book here. I should call him lol

 

[Judge Fudge]

Anyways. In Hotel. Down 260-275 in about a day an a half.

And i Finally figured out wifi

 

[blindbaby]

/im in parksville this weekend. Howie and leah meeker r in the phone book here. I should call him lol

I have to head to Port Alberni this weekend for the finals of my sons soccer league that ended back in mid-March.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

I have to head to Port Alberni this weekend for the finals of my sons soccer league that ended back in mid-March.

whats with the 6 week delay?


/did you know Parksville is "Canadas Riviera" ... alledgedly

 

[blindbaby]

whats with the 6 week delay?


/did you know Parksville is "Canadas Riviera" ... alledgedly

In a nutshell, it's because we celebrate Easter vacation up here two weeks before Victoria (whom they're playing in the final). And no, I'm not exactly sure as to why we're playing in Port Alberni.

 

[Comeds]

RIP Bob Hoskins

Damn good actor.

 

[evolver115]

RIP Bob Hoskins

Damn good actor.

 

[Comeds]

Bob Hoskins, he will be missed.

 

[evolver115]

Bob Hoskins, he will be missed.

thought this was a very good obit:

—Bob Hoskins, the pugnacious British actor known for playing gangsters, tough guys and working-class gentlemen in such films as "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," "The Long Good Friday" and "Mermaids," has died, his publicist Clair Dobbs said Wednesday.

He was 71.

His passing comes nearly two years after he retired from acting following a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease.

Hoskins was perhaps best known for 1988's live-action and animation hybrid "Who Framed Roger Rabbit." In the comedy, he played detective Eddie Valiant, who hates "toons" -- cartoon figures who live in a separate showbiz world bordering Valiant's 1940s Los Angeles -- and takes up the task of proving the innocence of the cartoon title character, accused of murder. The film was the second-highest grossing movie of 1988, after "Rain Man."

He followed the turn with performances in a variety of films, including 1991's "Hook" in which he played Smee, the pirate assistant of Captain Hook; 1995's "Nixon" as FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover; and 2001's "Last Orders" as the gambler friend of protagonist Michael Caine, whose pals gather to spread his ashes after his death.

Hoskins was nominated for an Oscar for 1986's "Mona Lisa" as a cabdriver who establishes a relationship with a high-priced call girl. Caine was also in the film. Hoskins won both a BAFTA and Golden Globe for his performance.

Robert Hoskins was born on October 26, 1942, in Bury St. Edmunds, England, the only child of a bookkeeper and a cook. He dropped out of school at 15 and took jobs as a truck driver and window cleaner, among others, before falling into acting by accident: A friend was auditioning for a part and Hoskins, who was waiting nearby, was asked to try out. A natural, he got the role.

"I fit into this business like a sore foot into a soft shoe," he told the UK paper The Telegraph in 2009.

In Britain, he gained fame for his performance as a Depression-era song-plugger in Dennis Potter's miniseries "Pennies From Heaven," later turned into a 1980 movie starring Steve Martin. Though he had a handful of recognizable roles in films after "Pennies" -- including 1980's "The Long Good Friday," 1982's "Pink Floyd the Wall" and 1985's "Brazil" (in which he played a gleefully malevolent repairman), it wasn't until "Roger Rabbit" that he broke through to mainstream American audiences.

That film drove him a bit nuts, he told The Telegraph.

"I think I went a bit mad while working on that. Lost my mind. The voice of the rabbit was there just behind the camera all the time," he recalled. "The trouble was, I had learnt how to hallucinate. My daughter had an invisible friend called Jeffrey and I played with her and this invisible friend until one day I actually saw the friend."

It was his daughter, however, who set him straight.

"My daughter, when I came back from filming in San Francisco, she said 'Dad, slow down, slow down. You're going barmy, mate.' And I was."

Always a steady and straightforward worker -- no "Method acting" for Hoskins -- he appeared in at least one production every year from 1972 until his retirement in 2012.

"There's two things I love about this business. One's acting and the other one's getting paid for it," he told the UK paper The Guardian in 2007. "The rest of it is a mystery to me."

In one of his last roles, he played the elf Muir in 2012's "Snow White and the Huntsman." In the 2011 TV miniseries and Peter Pan prequel "Neverland," he played Smee -- a character he had portrayed in "Hook."

But true to his working-class roots -- The Telegraph described his natural voice as "cockney as jellied eels" -- he hated to put on airs.

"I met a little old fella in Regent's Park when I was walking a character around. He said, 'You are who you are, ain't you?' and I said, 'Yeah, I am who I am.' And he said, 'That's good. I grow roses,' " Hoskins recalled. "And we sat talking about roses all afternoon. It was wonderful."

Hoskins is survived by his wife, Linda Banwell, and four children.

 

[Comeds]

Here is a fun Bob Hoskins fact. In the late 80s early 90s there was talk of an X-Men movie. The head writer's, I think a comics writer, first choice to play Wolverine was Bob Hoskins.

 

[evolver115]

Here is a fun Bob Hoskins fact. In the late 80s early 90s there was talk of an X-Men movie. The head writer's, I think a comics writer, first choice to play Wolverine was Bob Hoskins.

That is interesting, though I think he would have made a very good Beast as well

 

[Comeds]

That is interesting, though I think he would have made a very good Beast as well

I can see that.

Bob Hoskins Was 'X-Men' Writer's First Choice for Wolverine - TheWrap

 

[IPostedWhat]

From an interview in 2011

Reporter - "What is the worst job you've done?"

B.H. - "Super Mario Bros."

Reporter - "What has been your biggest disappointment?"

B.H. - "Super Mario Bros."

Reporter - "If you could edit your past, what would you change?"

B.H. - "Super Mario Bros."