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Not too many takers, this time around, but it was still interesting. Did that woman say her baby wasn’t good looking?!!!
Now I’m sitting at my desk here @ work wondering what I can trade for the spa pacakge..Let’s see….I have a Monty Python’s “Spam-A-Lot” tankard I bought @ the show or a Paul McCartney “Yellow Submarine” action figure !!
Hard to trade where other’s are shopping. But good try.
I have a Timothy Leary pychedelic Altoids drug container.
by the by, who would trade anthing for a receipt? Could somebody explain that one. And yeah, her baby was damn ugly, which is why it was never filmed.
Notice I said “it”
 
Hey Kam, everytime I open the Altoids case I hear…
http://www.resistiegler.com/media/Sly_and_the_Family_Stone_-_Everyday_People.mp3
Have you heard of JSG Boggs? He makes drawings of currency notes and trades them for goods and services. You reminded me of him this morning. Good Job, Dan
Hey, B-man… I have a cool hand-made ‘peace symbol’ roach-clip I bought in the Haight in ‘69 (still works!) I’ll trade for your Leary Altoids case!
Together or separate, as i dont need spa treatment, but as old hippie would love peace sign necklace?
I have a home video of myself and my soon to be ex-wife that I’d be willing to trade?
m…5, k & p still at Gold Street, the Wall street area?When the blitzkrieg raged/And the bodies stank … √ page 69.
jo - u could have made a killin with the panties, imagine what britney would have then bartered?
(The name) Joanne is first introduced on page 270.
I’d just like to point out that free trading happens all the time thanks to Freecycle, which is an email list where you can offer and receive free items.
There are Freecycles for each locality, usually meaning a city or county.
I hope that the spa package wasn’t just a promotional ripoff. You may be glad that you kept one of the peace signs!
As for freecycle - it is a cool concept, but I wish the implementation was a little better. It’s a bear to navigate all of the e-mails. I did score a free unicycle there though (not kidding!)
Keep up the good work. I can’t wait to see where the next trade leads. Can’t do this without a sequel.
RB is that really the correct lind for the Spa people? It’s just a links page. Or is it this page I found http://www.nardibeautycenter.com/index.html
Also is this the peace symbol you have?
Tryin’ to help…
Joe,
Suspicious because you don’t know who is trying to take advantage of you on the NYC streets. I would be skeptical of such a “trade” because it sounds like a scam. But rude, no f*cking way man! New Yorkers aren’t rude just brusque.
-BK
well that was a good deal for joanne! now she has a spa free spatreatment and a peace sing necklace! WOO!
Drew wrote:
Please let us know if anyone is serious about making a trade and would like to offer a formal proposal!
Yes Drew, I would like to offer a formal proposal for the hand of the fair and luscious maiden Joanne. With your approval of course Drew.
New Yorkers aren’t rude. They’re just busy. And because there are people hawking things all the time, plus the numbers game, I think Joanne would have the best chance to barter in Manhattan.
As for Freecycle, it isn’t really a trade. Either you’re giving something, or you’re getting something. So the reciprocity manifests in your karma. In other words, don’t get on Freecycle always looking for sh*t — you gotta give, too!
I work promotions on the streets of Manhattan all the time. Sometimes it’s damn near impossible to give away stuff for free… especially midtown and the Upper West Side…
Ahhh. Another episode of generosity in its finest hour!
Next time I wouldn’t target shoppers. Didn’t make any sense to me to look for people with bags full of stuff they just bought. Of course they would want to hang on to it. Don’t abandon the idea though. How about taking it to a convention where people get a lot of schwag.
poke me mon
http://www2.gamesville.lycos.com/html_poke/poke_penguin.htm
keep poking you’ll be surprised!
Good work.
Those inflatable frisbees
made me watch it twice.
Have a good weekend.
Lovely, just lovely. What a good spirit you are, Joanne, to go out to people and just take them at “face value”–just the way they come across. And a good human tour around the park. It warms the spirit to go along with you!
Very intersting idea. Ashame so many people are freaked out by something like that. The Spa package thing was cool. I think you’ll get a nice trade for that. Good luck! Great show!
By the way, about Freecycle:
This morning someone gave away a 27 inch TV. I didn’t need or want it since I don’t watch TV except on the Net, but there it was along with what seemed everything else a couple owned.
I once got a bicycle via Freecycle.
I wish I had something to trade for the spa certificate, but I don’t think I have anything interesting. I enjoyed this episode!
did someone say spontaneous human combustion?
Kinda of pointless, wasn’t it?
ric