PITCH ROOM

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Sat Apr 11, 2020 6:54 pm

PHIL you honor us with these

Phil · Post by **Phil** » Sat Apr 11, 2020 7:47 pm

OK, here's a pitch from Agathe, verbatim just now:

"What if I had a band called Apples
and the names of the people were
Banana
Cherry
Watermelon
and
Orange
?"

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Sun Apr 12, 2020 4:14 am

wow this board is already changing lives

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Sun Apr 12, 2020 6:50 am

Who plays what instrument? Can I venture a guess?
Banana on bass
Cherry on drums
Watermelon on guitar and keys
and Orange just wailing and occasionally turning knobs.

Post by **joni** » Fri Apr 17, 2020 9:26 am

In all seriousness though, when was the last time anyone put in a piece of gum? I have a feeling that no one on this board has done a gum since quar. Steve doesn’t count since he is gum.

alexshred420 · Post by **alexshred420** » Fri Apr 17, 2020 9:44 am

I'm not a huge chewer of gum but I'll usually take an offered piece if it ain't cinnamon.

Definitely no gum during quar.

uncleboatshoes · Post by **uncleboatshoes** » Fri Apr 17, 2020 9:50 am

I have put in a gum during quarantine but it doesn't count apparently because I am gum. I'm pretty sure I chewed some while we took a Sunday drive after not using the car for many weeks and we drove to the airport to check it out and it was empty and I chewed gum in the car.

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Fri Apr 17, 2020 9:56 am

I’ve had no quar gum
I read yesterday about how you can slice a piece of red cedar sap off the tree and it becomes gum and I will try it if I ever see that kind of tree

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Fri Apr 17, 2020 9:59 am

I don't love how I do gum and generally abstain. BUT did you know that cinnamon gum is only done in North America? I always bring home a stash of cinnamon gum from trips and I put one in the other day on my way to stock up on items because I realized I had not brushed my teeth!
@alexshred420: Yes! Up with cinnamon gum! (I almost called it cinnamon zub!)

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Fri Apr 17, 2020 10:11 am

COULD YOU IMAGINE
A zub but GUM

Gum zub

RCH · Post by **RCH** » Fri Apr 17, 2020 10:39 am

m o l l y wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 9:59 am I don't love how I do gum

Hehe!

uncleboatshoes · Post by **uncleboatshoes** » Fri Apr 17, 2020 10:56 am

m o l l y wrote: ↑Sun Apr 12, 2020 6:50 am Who plays what instrument? Can I venture a guess?
Banana on bass
Cherry on drums
Watermelon on guitar and keys
and Orange just wailing and occasionally turning knobs.

Banana is definitely on bass. You nailed it

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Fri Apr 17, 2020 3:00 pm

Can’t wait to describe gum to my children

infopetal · Post by **infopetal** » Fri Apr 17, 2020 4:47 pm

team cinnamon gum here!!

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Fri Apr 17, 2020 7:02 pm

also shoutout to Clove Gum

Is it cinnamon? No
Is it similar? Yes

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Sat Apr 18, 2020 12:17 am

Clove zub. But it's gum.

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Sat Apr 18, 2020 3:19 am

cinnamon zub make my tongue hurt

RCH · Post by **RCH** » Sat Apr 18, 2020 10:34 am

GUYS: pitch = resin = GUM!

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Sat Apr 18, 2020 11:14 am

!!!!!!

Post by **joni** » Sat Apr 18, 2020 8:55 pm

♫ WOKE UP THIS MORNING, GOT YOURSELF A GUM ♪

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Sun Apr 19, 2020 2:06 am

♫ THEN LOOKED INTO THE MIRROR, AND BY GOD DAD, YOU'RE GUM! ♪

Evan.V.N.S.J. · Post by **Evan.V.N.S.J.** » Mon Apr 20, 2020 10:44 am

a pack of gum but instead of individually wrapped sticks of gum the whole thing is just one big piece of gum. also the package (made of gum) says "spearmint" but the flavor is "juicy fruit"

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Mon Apr 20, 2020 11:42 am

Pitch: sheets of gum, from the factory, before they cut them into strips, so you can cut your own desired shape

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Mon Apr 20, 2020 11:42 am

“Raw gum”

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Mon Apr 20, 2020 11:43 am

Steve, remember when we were in Chicago and took a photo of the two of us in front of Wrigley Field because it was “the house that gum built” or something?

Evan.V.N.S.J. · Post by **Evan.V.N.S.J.** » Mon Apr 20, 2020 11:52 am

You can also visit the Wrigley Mansion in Pasadena! It's opulent! And made of 100% delicious Wrigley's gum.

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Mon Apr 20, 2020 12:14 pm

GUM MADE OF GUM

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Mon Apr 20, 2020 1:19 pm

Evan.V.N.S.J. wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2020 10:44 am a pack of gum but instead of individually wrapped sticks of gum the whole thing is just one big piece of gum. also the package (made of gum) says "spearmint" but the flavor is "juicy fruit"

I literally have never said the flavor "juicy fruit" in a way that sounded like it was a juicy piece of fruit. Juicy fruit has always come out of my mind's mouth as one word, 'juicyfruit.' It is blowing my mind that it is supposed to be flavored like an unnamed juicy hunk of fruit.

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Mon Apr 20, 2020 1:33 pm

juicy FRUIT
JUICY fruit
Juice Fruice
Froot

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Mon Apr 20, 2020 1:33 pm

THE TASTE
THE TASTE
THE TASTE
ITS GONNA MOVE YA

RCH · Post by **RCH** » Mon Apr 20, 2020 2:26 pm

Here's a good Juicy Fruit song (maybe the best):

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5tYgzD6FuYc

The chorus goes "Sara loves her Juicy Fruit!" I sing it very often, but instead of Sara I usually say David. But you never know

kmikeym · Post by **kmikeym** » Wed Apr 22, 2020 1:07 pm

get your skis shined up
grab a stick of
Juicy Fruit
the taste is gonna move you
move you up
move you out
the taste is gonna move you when you pop it in your mouth
Juicy Fruit
is gonna move ya
it's got a taste
that gets right through ya

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Wed Apr 22, 2020 1:11 pm

Just watched!
"Take a sniff, pull it out, the taste is gonna move ya when you pop it in your mouth"

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Thu Apr 23, 2020 4:24 am

From the golden 80s years when "skiing" was a huge aspect of advertising

skiing was so 80s. Why??

The 80s was when my hometown of Telluride blew up. Until then it had been a fairly sleepy town of around 1,000 people, certainly with a major tourist economy, but not the wild celebrity mansion festival zone it has become today. It all began in the late 80s I believe when we were featured in a Visa commercial, which we all found bizarre and hilarious. Little did we know what was coming!

And now the skiing tourist economy seems as big as ever, but you never see skiing in commercials anymore really. All those gum commercials featuring chairlifts. Also I feel like there were a lot of skiing movies in the 80s (and movies with important skiing scenes, like Better off Dead). What was it about?

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Thu Apr 23, 2020 5:10 am

You're FROM Telluride? The name of that town only conjures up the fancy kids from elementary school who went on skiing trips. I can literally hear the word Telluride coming out of Katie Atkinson's 8 year old mouth. I have not heard that name uttered since 1989, probably for the above-stated reasons.

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Thu Apr 23, 2020 5:18 am

I just took a stroll down Colorado Ave on google maps. That town is charming as all getout.

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Thu Apr 23, 2020 5:41 am

Hahahaha! Yes I grew up there. We moved there from Texas when I was 7 years old, on what was basically a random whim of my parents, who wanted to live a hippie lifestyle but who got in way over their heads (house on rural mesa with no telephone lines, not on the power grid, and on a dirt road the county didn't maintain in winter thus we had to ski or snowmobile up and down from the highway, etc. Also no running water during the winters until the mid 90s when we finally got a well dug)

It is a very interesting mix of people, or at least it was in the 80s-90s (I haven't been back since college as my parents moved to a different tiny rural Colorado town with a ski resort). It has an interesting history (Wikipedia takes a surprisingly long view of the matter: "The Telluride region was shaped over millions of years by changes in the climate and various rock formations. Originally an inland sea, the area was underwater until a mountain building episode called the Laramie Orogeny pushed up the land 70 million years ago.") Anyway it was a mining town in the 19th century. In the 30s this guy Senior Mahoney who was a miner basically invented the ski mountain (it seems like ancient history but I KNEW HIM, he was still alive and I went to school with his grandkids) when he created a primitive ski lift (a car engine with a tow rope). Swedish miners in the late 19thc had brought the concept of skiing to the region, and all the miners would ski down from the mountain when the workday was done, which was probably pretty fun (Wikipedia says they skied directly to Popcorn Alley, which was at that time full of brothels). Senior Mahoney went on to become the first manager of the official ski mountain. What a career!

Oh anyway but my point is that when I lived there the town was an interesting mix of millionaires who had come there to swan about in glorious natural beauty and hang out at the ski lodge (Oprah famously had a house there at that time, also Tom Cruise, but that was kind of it re: celebrities although many celebrities did come there for the Film Festival and just generally for ski vacations (Arnold Schwarzenegger patted my friend Jill on the butt and everyone talked about it for like a year) and just regular working class people who worked construction and such. A lot of people had this seasonal lifestyle where they worked construction in the summer and then worked as Ski Patrol in the winter. I also know people who make their livings now as caretakers for the various epic mansions that nobody lives in. And so the public school (at that time, K-12 in one building, tiny tiny school) was a mix of rich kids and poor kids for sure. The resort courted the good feeling of the townspeople (who despite of course knowing that much of their livelihood was predicated on the tourist economy were nonetheless extremely grouchy and prickly about the big money and constant tourist nonsense generated by the ski resort) via this truly amazing practice: every single child in the Telluride school district, from kindergarten until they graduated high school, received a FREE SEASON PASS to the mountain. This was a major thing for a lot of people, my family included, who would not or could not have paid for such a thing on their own. It was attached to this vague idea of us "working" for the mountain, like in the summer you'd have this one really boring-ass week where you all had to go up on the mountain and "pitch rocks" or one summer I had to seal like 50,000 envelopes for the tourist office or something. Total make-work to justify then giving us tens of thousands of dollars worth of ski passes. But after that you got your season pass and so everyone in the town grows up skiing very intensely. I went to school with people who went on to being in the Olympics etc. But my point is that it generated a weirdly classless version of ski culture--one result of growing up in Telluride is that I didn't associate skiing with wealth until I went off to college. For us it was very mundane and obvious--all winter long, every single person I knew went skiing all day every Saturday and Sunday, AND back then they also CLOSED THE SCHOOL every single Thursday and Friday after lunch so we could all go to practice (we were all on ski teams). I thought this was totally normal, in fact I complained about it as I would rather have stayed in school on those afternoons but you literally weren't allowed to; now I see that this is fucking bizarre. I'm sure they don't do it anymore. Also on really good powder days it was just taken as a given that school would be closed so everyone could go enjoy the fresh-ass wicked pow pow

MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD

Also very randomly this popped up on my news feed and I was like !!!

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/arc ... ty/608590/

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Thu Apr 23, 2020 6:21 am

This is impressive. Skiing sounds terrifying to me. I do not think I could survive falling down a mountain. I think it is one of those things you need to learn early enough in life, before fear settles in.

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Thu Apr 23, 2020 7:33 am

When I look back on skiing I can't believe I did it. Hurtling down a mountain at max speed so nonchalantly, often eating a bagel with one hand and holding both my poles in the other. I haven't skied in twenty years and do not wish to

GARY-19 · Post by **GARY-19** » Thu Apr 23, 2020 8:27 am

Can you ski on gum?

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Thu Apr 23, 2020 8:43 am

that's all I've ever skied on

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Thu Apr 23, 2020 8:51 am

Pitch: Fresh gum powder, for skiing.

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Thu Apr 23, 2020 9:21 am

gum powder you put in a gun that shoots gum

Post by **joni** » Thu Apr 23, 2020 9:57 am

You went back after college: WITH ME! I liked it a lot. I remember the co-op being great.

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Thu Apr 23, 2020 10:26 am

Oh yeah I guess that was after college. You met Dusky!
Were you there for bluegrass festival? Was that when we ate so many veggie hot dogs from that hot dog cart?

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Thu Apr 23, 2020 11:02 am

Gum(my) hotdogs.

GARY-19 · Post by **GARY-19** » Thu Apr 23, 2020 11:23 am

I also went back with you post-college. In fact, we lived there the whole summer of 2005.

We did not use gum to ski but we did see gum around.

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Thu Apr 23, 2020 11:58 am

oh yeah

dang I guess "college" was longer ago than I thought

meadows · Post by **meadows** » Thu Apr 23, 2020 12:09 pm

I tried to downhill ski for the first time at 15 and it was so scary and hard- I suddenly understood and appreciated my parents cross country ski habit that had embarrassed me for so many years.
Growing up here all the cool kids went on the ski bus each weekend, and instead I went x-country skiing with my mom and dad in their full woolen socks and knickers getup!

meadows · Post by **meadows** » Thu Apr 23, 2020 12:10 pm

Ritchey, the highlight of my very disastrous Colorado trip last summer was seeing a photo of your parents pinned to the wall at the dank sandwich shop in Gunnison! V. cool valued customers!