| Twitter 002 - Tweets From gusisoncoffee 07/29/2009 |
[18 Jun 2009|01:56pm] |
gusisoncoffee Had to run to the market to get cartons of cream. Next time TELL me we're out so I can order more!
7 minutes ago from txt
gusisoncoffee Out of creamers in back of house. Who didn't tell me we were out of little creamers? Must find creamers.
18 minutes ago from txt
gusisoncoffee Out of creamers in the front of house.
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gusisoncoffee Customers complaining we're out of creamers.
39 minutes ago from txt
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| 017; March 29th / 2009 3:39 pm |
[29 Mar 2009|03:28pm] |
MARISSA IS DEAD!!! I didn't think it'd hit me this hard but it SO HAS and it's TERRIBLE. How could they do that to her! I know she wanted off the show but seriously it's not like she did anything of interest once she had! I hate Mischa Barton, she totally ruined this show. I cried like a baby when she did. Stupid guy who played the bad vampire in Twilight, which I totally bought last weekend because the queue for it on NetFlix was like....four hundred people long. I'm just gonna re-sell it on craigslist...wait why am I writing all this?
I've got my job back at the hospital for the summer. Just a few hours a week so I don't fall completely behind in all that stuff. I still have Animated Beans to consider. And all of it's workers, who by the way, are awesome.
Speaking of which, I need to put out a thinger for the coming semester to see who'll be around and who's gonna go home for the summer so I can figure out who's gonna stay and who's gonna go on hiatus for working there through the summer. I should probably go do that after I finish writing in my journal.
A lady came in to the shop yesterday and told me I vibrate on a very high frequency Squee Summer! and that it's a good thing. I was quite pleased, really I was. I think I'm a pretty positive person, at least that's what people tell me and who am I to doubt people, you know?
I really need to spend some time at home. I'm at the coffee shoppe far too much, even on my days off. My Aquaswhooshie could really use a good clean out. THAT AND MY WOW ACCOUNT IS NOW INACTIVE BECAUSE I HADN'T BOUGHT THIS MONTH'S TIME CARD. I hadn't even NOTICED until last night when I was alone as per usual when I signed in to play and it told me I had no balance left over. The bastards. I was gonna go out and buy a new card today but I'm not sure if I should. I'm gonna be super busy at the shoppe and then with finals coming up...I dunno. Maybe it's not worth it.
I'm becoming an responsible adult D: This is a scary thought. Off to scrub my Aquaswooshie.
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| 016; March 18th / 2009 8:15 pm |
[18 Mar 2009|10:17pm] |
The Trials, Tribulations and Realizations of Running A Coffee Shop, A List, By Angus J. Venables: Edition 2
1) Coffee Grinds, while they get everywhere, as once stated they also tend to dry out your skin. I’ve had to buy a rather large size, Sam’s Club sized bottle of lotion for the girls in the employee washroom. I think they appreciated it?
2) I understand we’re all on a budget while we’re here at school but asking for your fifth refill of hot water on that $1.20 bag of tea is not okay. You’ve been here four five hours, you could at least buy another cup of tea. Really.
3) If you move a bunch of tables together to have a study session, that’s cool, but it would be good if you took the time to put all the tables back where they belong. It just makes our workers put them back, and some of our workers aren’t that large and some of those tables you manage to move (especially outside) are cast iron.
4) Another thing? Clean up after yourselves. We have garbage cans, recycling bins for paper, plastic and glass. We also have can tab buckets which the service club is diligently collecting…for something, I know some sort of charity. We have a place to put your dishes when you’re done with them, and we have garbage cans for anything else that isn’t recyclable (which isn’t much). Now it’s okay if you leave your dishes out, we know that some people don’t realize there’s a place to put your dishes, but leaving your stuff all over the place.
5) Throwing stuff at the night worker will get you in trouble. Yes, that hot coffee you threw at him, was not lukewarm, he ended up with burns that he needed to go to the doctor for. I’m glad to know that the cops caught you only down the way trying to catch a cab. I hope that you get charged with assault. Good riddance to bad company.
6) I’m sorry, I can’t give out personal information about any of my employees. Even the little one, yes. Because, as little as Perla is, if I gave you her phone number, she would hurt me. And you. Just saying. That also goes for the cute boy who works with the dark hair. I’m pretty sure you mean Eric, but the cute boy with the dark hair obviously isn’t me, so it must be somebody else. And the night guy has blond hair. Sorry.
7) I’m really sorry you hate cinnamon buns, and I’m really sorry that they’re in the case next to the Danish. Really, But I can’t re-arrange the case just because you don’t like the that the buns are next to the Danish. If you were allergic to cinnamon I might be a bit more compassionate rather then you just have a ‘hate for those things’. I don’t know what you’re a professor of, but it makes me truly wonder.
8) I don’t really think it’s anybody’s business what religion my Sunday workers are. If they wanted it off to go to Church, they would let me know. You don’t really need to make fuss over it and harass the Sunday workers, really.
I think that’s all for today, I was going to make it an even ten, but I think that Marissa’s gonna die and I need to pay attention. D: I’ve got to go get some dinner. Until next time!
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| 015; March 6th / 2009 8:15 pm |
[06 Mar 2009|08:07pm] |
Well now I had a pretty decent birthday. I ended up getting some pretty neat presents from friends and that was sweet of them. Jack great gifts, can you give Sophie a kiss for me? She’s such a great little gal. And Perla thanks so much for the gift! Very sweet of you. And er...the Brownies Mary sent are gone, long since gone, gone as in, they're like...gone down the Aquaswooshie gone. They were fantastic. Mom would smack my hands for not sending out thank you notes, but she’s not here and my penmanship has gone to the aquaswooshie since I got my first laptop. My professors in class all groan when they see my exams, because while it’s legible, it’s not easily so. They say I’ve got doctor’s handwriting and I’m not even a doctor.
I spent my birthday at Animated Beans doing some paper work in my little office and then I came home and ordered a pizza. Ate some of that, had an OC marathon a television marathon and then fooled around with a few new things I bought with the gift cards that both my mother and father sent from Best Buy. I think they just gave up this year in all honesty. I’m never going to use the gym membership that mom gets me every year. Dad always tries to get me to read fantasy novels. It’s just not happening.
Can’t believe that everything is coming up to be finished, I mean, seems like Spring Term was just starting and we were all at the bottom of the hill and now that Spring Break is here were at the crest and will soon be careening downhill. Madness I tell you. I’ll likely be reprising my role as Nurse Gus at the hospital this summer to keep myself in pizza and the occasional Net Flix rental. It should be good. I know the nurses miss me there when I’m not around. Their on-call guy isn’t around to be on-call, I can’t blame them.
OH. I was at Best Buy and I went across the street to this place that has these great smoothie things, they’re supposed to be healthy for you or something but I always get the one with the ice cream in it so I guess that defeats the purpose, but I totally saw Neil Patrick Harris there. For some reason I thought he’d be a lot smaller then he was. I guess that’s because of the whole Doogie Howser thing. Anyway I got you an autograph Tinka. I figured, it was a pretty good idea to ask for one, but I didn’t really want to ask for one for myself so I figured Tinka’s the only person I know who likes him too so I got him to sign it to Tinka. He said that he hoped you enjoyed it. I was real sly about asking him too, didn’t want to draw attention to him Except I kind of tripped over a chair and knocked it in to his table and his smoothie fell over and I offered to buy him a new one because I felt real bad. He said it was okay because the first one they gave to him for free and they’d give him another one for free…I wish I was famous. Nice guy.
I think we're gonna have a sale on muffins next week.
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| 015; February 22nd / 2009 3:50 pm |
[22 Feb 2009|03:30pm] |
The Trials, Tribulations and Realizations of Running A Coffee Shop, A List, By Angus J. Venables.
1) Coffee Grinds, they get everywhere. And I don't mean places that are obvious like under fingernails and in pockets of trousers. I mean I found coffee grinds behind my ear last night when I was washing up and in my socks after I took off my shoes. Everywhere.
2) Students, are a different breed of people, stemming from the customer species. Customers, are selfish, pushy, impatient caffeine deprived entitlement cows. Add late for class to this description and you have the breed of students that attend this school. I'm more then certain this breed can be found in all schools across North America.
3) Your manners, they are not valid here. Or at least, this is what people seem to think. And I will find out the person who tossed a cup of coffee at one of the girls last night because it was a stale. It was four am, she was getting ready to brew a new pot, but you couldn't wait. If we find you, we will be pressing charges.
4) Apparently our music is offensive to the likes of teenybopper girls who want to hear the Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus rather then something fitting of the ambiance. No, we will not play that new Birt Brit song, no matter how much you plan on not coming back to our coffee shop. Please, feel free to not frequent our establishment.
5) Tea is not coffee. Coffee is not tea. Coffee doesn't come in a small bag that you put in hot water. At least not here. Maybe where you come from. Where is that by the way? Mars?
6) Perla, while she may be little, is not going to be pushed around by you, sir. So please stop calling her little girl. Because she's at the right height to kick you where the sun would never shine, and I give her full permission to do it.
7) The customer is not always right here. Sorry. My employees are free to serve and not serve who they wish. If you'd like to leave a complaint, please put it in the comment box near the door that's marked, 'Trash'
8) Customers: Children that are left unattended will be given four shots of straight espresso and a free puppy. Thank you and have a nice day.
9) Sugar packets are not FREE. I saw you take those extra and tuck them in to your pocket. And that metal spoon. YES YOU.
10) A cappuccino is mostly foam. A latte is mostly milk. Please don't think you can complain that we didn't 'put anything in to the cup' when you didn't know what you were ordering in the first place. Lillia is our best Barista, with the most experience, she knows how to make a cup of coffee, even if you don't know how to order it.
11) While Eric is cute, to the girls that were holding up the line just to talk to him while he was taking their order, come back during one of his night shifts when there aren't four professors waiting behind you and are giving you death glares. They don't function without coffee, it's a proven fact.
12) Those are coffee sleeves. You put them on your cup so that you don't burn your fingers while drinking the beverage you're about to enjoy. They are not hats. This is not Burger King. You are not wearing a crown.
13) Tip when you can. These people are working for far less then what they deserve and no, your pocket fluff is not a good tip. It will earn you a cup of cold coffee and our stalest muffin.
14) My hair, while it is curly, are not considered to be pubes. You little squirts that complained to Franny saying that I had dropped some of my hair in your cup and wanted free food, Franny's smarter then that, and you've found yourself on the banned list. I hate it when people bring their kids for tours of the campus, really I do.
15) I've never seen somebody drink as much coffee as that tall blond guy that comes in that knows Lillia and sounds like a motorcycle without a muffler when he laughs. You are my hero tall, rumbly man. You are my hero.
More to come...
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| 014; February 15th / 2009 3:00 am |
[15 Feb 2009|02:42am] |
So I'm working the first night shift at the Animated Beans and I can't believe how many people are in here. I'm currently on a break sitting at one of the only computers not being used. I'm glad we opted for 24 hours. Obviously the campus needed it.
For the fun of it, a Meme! You should all fill this out for me. Just fill in the blanks!
I _____ Gus.
Gus is _____.
Gus thinks a lot about _____.
When I think of Gus, I think of _____.
I want Gus to _____ me.
If I were alone in a room with Gus, I would _____.
I think Gus should _____.
_____ reminds me of Gus.
Gus needs _____.
Without Gus I _____.
I want to _____ Gus.
If I could describe Gus in a word: _____.
Gus will never _____.
Gus can _____ my _____.
Worst thing about Gus is _____.
Best thing about Gus is _____.
I hope Gus never _____.
I am _____ with Gus.
I _____ Gus because _____.
Alright there are coffee holder things that need to be washed and more muffin mix to be mixed up for the morning haul. Off I go.
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| 013; February 10th / 2009 1:30 pm |
[10 Feb 2009|01:41pm] |
Looking for a Great Job in a Fun environment?
Come Join the  Animated Beans Team!
Animated Beans is looking for some great new people to become employees. Work on campus and always get to class on time! Free Coffee and all the muffins you can eat during each shift. Be a part of a team that will work together to make sure we have both quality service and coffee. Get in contact with me, Gus Venables here or email me for a interview time. We will be interviewing people today after 3:00pm and all day tomorrow. Training will be on Thursday and Friday evenings. We re-open for Valentines day!
Please bring your resume to your interview.
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| 012; January 31st / 2009 5:49 pm |
[31 Jan 2009|04:05pm] |
Holy crap!
So we all know that Kyra and I were the biggest complainers about the on campus coffee shop Animated Beans, and well, apparently she had something in the works with the school to take it over and never ended up telling me. So when they found out that she'd left the country to go home they weren't sure what to do as they'd restructured everything. They just got in touch with me and...well...
You're looking at the Manager of of Animated Beans.
I guess I should have kept my big mouth shut huh? Though I have to do some restructuring, apparently they're going to be remodeling the whole place, it's going to look great. I'm going to have to do some hiring in the next couple of weeks while they redo the floor because they let everybody go when the old Manager was let go. Apparently they have been investigating the coffee shoe for some time now for some questionable practices (we were right!). And it needed an update as it was originally built in 1989...twenty years ago. That's older then a lot of the students on this campus. It's due for a change.
So I guess I'm going to be very busy on top of my studies. It's probably going to be fun though, working at a coffee shop and all and being able to hire students to work there will be awesome too.
So it's going to be closed on Monday and it'll be re-opened in the coming weeks, not sure when yet, have to talk to the Administration that's responsible for it. There you go Jack, I've got lots going on, you can stop trying to get me out of the house now.
In other news, I have a pizza on the way. It is big and cheesy and I think I need a little mouth owned by Sophie to come and help me eat it! Jack feel like some free babysitting?
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| 011; January 20th / 2009 9:15 pm |
[20 Jan 2009|07:48pm] |
Sorry about the drunk post last time. Apparently it didn't go over so well.
You know. Sometimes I think if I didn't have curly hair, a beard and a large rotund shape, that I could be a pop star. Go on American Idol. Be on the disney channel. Have my own show about my hilariously funny but dysfunctional surfer family. Where my dad would be a surfer dude and my mother would be a hippie chick and I'd sing on street corners to feed my little brother's flan habit.
Maybe, just maybe.
But then I'd have to do drugs, get drunk and smash my cars in to things (and or people, depending on how messed up I really was) and have to go to jail for a few hours.
Ahh, that would be the life.
I should write for a sitcom. Maybe in my spare time when I'm not busy sewing people up and changing bed pans. I'd write about that, but Scrubs has done a good job of ruining any sort of chance of that. I hate ZBraff. Garden State made me want to toss my popcorn at my screen. Almost. If it wasn't my last bag and all.
Dad called to tell me he's getting remarried to she who sets herself on fire. I swear my life is a TV show unto itself. I wonder if they'll be a champagne fountain at the wedding. I'll laugh really hard if there is. And tell dad to keep her away from any sort of candle light.
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| 010; January 1st / 2009 12:15 am |
[01 Jan 2009|11:00am] |
happy new years!
mom had a party w/ jst a few friends and they brought lots of the good jack, john and jose...my beust bust bist bffs. i didnt drink them thou. i thinkk the punch hda a weeeeeee moar alchy-hol in it then i was antic...expe...thoug... aware of. mom sais i'm a light weight...which is jst silly because she's always tleling me im too fat.
happy new years evrybody!
oops..fell over off the chair..i might hvae broked my hair, it'll be big tomorrow!!
i love you guyz man. Especialllly Kyra. she's so pretty and nice and...so very far away. I miss her when shes in england land man you guys. what am i gonna do when she goes home forever? i'll have nobody to love except for jack...and sophie. i like rhett but i dont know if i love him. KYRA DON'T EVER LEAVE ME I LOVE YOU!
hahahah JACK did you know u had a drink named after you? thats awesome man. i'm just named after a gas station attendant that toodk a lot of thinking to spell that word.
time for bed
weee!
HAPPY NEW YEARS!
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| 009; December 18th / 2008 12:15 pm |
[18 Dec 2008|12:02pm] |
I love online shopping. It affords me the wonderful avoidance of going to the store only to be trampled by mad, mad shoppers. Scary thing black friday was. Besides, almost everybody on my list is getting gift cards, except for Sophie and Kyra
It's getting scarier and scarier out there. I tell you. I quite like my quiet little apartment of peace. There's so few disturbances here that it makes me feel all warm and cozy. If only there was a real fireplace rather then the DVD I ordered off amazon.com that plays a fire on my TV screen.
But case in point, a reason why I'm not the type to go skiing, besides the fact that I'll likely fall and break my leg, or hit my head resulting in a concussion, ski lift towers collapse. I mean really. If you can't go up the side of a mountain on a skinny piece of cable and expect it won't breakdown and cause a lot of uproar and scariness, then what can you do?
I'm perfectly content in my little world, thank you.
I won't be trampled by a bunch of crazed shoppers or fall off the side of a mountian in a metal lunch box.
Nope.
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| 008; November 27th / 2008 10:35 am |
[27 Nov 2008|08:47am] |
Well...
Thanksgiving has been interesting thus far. Dad's new 'friend' who is a girl but they are clearly not sleeping together (yeah right), is a bit of a booze hound and when she got a little too close to the candles last night, I swear to God she was set aflame in an instant.
Pouf. And then she set the drapes on fire. Luckily enough, even though my dad's a bit of a hippie he believes in modern technology (not as modern as I of course), and had a fire extinguisher.
So all of last night was spent in emergency. And everybody is far too tired to cook any sort of meal. So Pizza it is. I can't even go over to my mom's instead as she's out of town on a conference. So today will be spent in my pajamas eating left over chinese food for lunch and then pizza for dinner and playing WOW and catching up on shows. Been doing lots of studying lately.
Happy Thanksgiving to me?
Seattle you crazy city, I adore you so. I can wear my flannels and nobody looks at me funny. I love you, never change.
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| 007; November 8th / 2008 2:39 pm |
[08 Nov 2008|01:46pm] |
Dave Berry, you crack me up sometimes:
"We begin today with a disturbing escalation in the trend of coffee retailers giving stupid names to cup sizes. As you know, this trend began several years ago when Starbucks (motto: ''There's one opening right now in your basement'') decided to call its cup sizes ''Tall'' (meaning ''not tall,'' or ''small''), ''Grande'' (meaning ''medium'') and ''Venti'' (meaning, for all we know, ''weasel snot''). Unfortunately, we consumers, like moron sheep, started actually USING these names. Why? If Starbucks decided to call its toilets ''AquaSwooshies,'' would we go along with THAT? Yes! Baaa!"
And then...
"Recently, at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Death March, Mister Language Person noticed that a Starbuck's competitor, Seattle's Best Coffee (which also uses ''Tall'' for small and ''Grande'' for medium) is calling ITS large cup size -- get ready -- ''Grande Supremo.'' Yes. And as Mister Language Person watched in horror, many customers -- seemingly intelligent, briefcase-toting adults -- actually used this term, as in, ''I'll take a Grande Supremo.''
Listen, people: You should never, ever have to utter the words ''Grande Supremo'' unless you are addressing a tribal warlord who is holding you captive and threatening to burn you at the stake. JUST SAY YOU WANT A LARGE COFFEE, PEOPLE. Because if we let the coffee people get away with this, they're not going to stop, and some day, just to get a lousy cup of coffee, you'll hear yourself saying, ''I'll have a Mega Grandissimaximo Giganto de Humongo-Rama-Lama-Ding-Dong decaf.'' And then you will ask for the key to the AquaSwooshie. And when THAT happens, people, the terrorists will have won."
I think I am going to go around asking for the Aquaswooshie key the next time I hit up the coffee shop. What do you think?
Man I blog about coffee a lot....um. Maybe I should get a girlfriend life.
I pre-ordered the new WOW expansion, Wrath of the Lich King. I'll end up holing up and playing that for a few days when it comes.
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| 006; October 26 / 2008 6:01 pm |
[26 Oct 2008|05:56pm] |
I'm trying to decide if a Toga would be completely inappropriate to wear as a Halloween costume. And not because...well me wearing a Toga would be frightening enough to make most people, especially girls take off running, but I'm not sure the Greek's would appreciate being referred to as horrifying.
Anyway.
I was thinking, I think I might have to put my good friend Jack up for auction. He's a good guy and he could use a date. Wouldn't you lovely ladies (or men! I'm down with the gay! Just not for me!) pay to go out with this man?
A shot from when we spent the day at the beach with his daughter Sophie. Who is also absolutely adorable.
I'm not gay even though having this picture screams otherwise
I mean it's just an idea, but isn't it a brilliant one? Money would go to charity of course.
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| Email |
[19 Oct 2008|03:07pm] |
To: Rosalie Cross <rcross@wdu.edu>, Jayne Barrie <jbarrie@wdu.edu>
From: Gus Venables <avenables@wdu.edu>
Sent: October 19 / 2008 3:40pm
Subject:( I have a favor to ask... )
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| 006; October 14 / 2008 4:03 pm |
[14 Oct 2008|03:32pm] |
( Free Cookies! )
Canadian Elections today Eh?
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| 005; October 3 / 2008 11:15pm |
[03 Oct 2008|10:41pm] |
Clearly staying up late by myself...on a Friday night has forced me to watch some pretty awesome shows over time. And generally the writing is pretty raunchy but I've found nothing to be as good as or like Robot Chicken. I'm still waiting for the third season of the OC next dvd off my Netflix to get to me and so I've been watching it pretty much every night on Adult Swim. Pretty neat.
A very awesome throwback to my childhood. OH YEAH!
It's too bad I'm kind of built like him now.
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| 004; September 23 / 2008 9:37am |
[23 Sep 2008|09:28am] |
Last night was the first night I've been able to come home and see what my place looks like after the quake. What a nightmare. I've been at the hospital since Friday helping out with all the injuries. All together spent 13 hours in the Pit sewing people back together. About time I got to show off my mad skills as a nurse though I guess, too bad I had some WDU students as some of my patients. I'd just been napping here and there when I was at the hospital, and last night I came home, shoved the crap that had fallen on to my bed off, and fell over and just slept. I was asleep for 15 hours, and while I don't feel rested, I do feel a bit better. Staying up that many hours in a row is not good for you, I tell you.
I smell like the hospital, as all I've been wearing this past 3 days are scrubs that I borrowed. I'm pretty gross. I should probably go take a shower. I need to do some cleaning and then I'll probably head back to the hospital tomorrow, I'll call and see if they need me. I can't get bad marks for doing practical work can I? I should email my professors and let them know what's going on.
My computer is still working which is a blessing. I need to buy a new coffee pot though.
Worried a bit about Stefan...
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| 003; September 15 / 2008 9:00pm |
[15 Sep 2008|08:55pm] |
I was looking up fanvids for Summer/Seth on You Tube rock videos on You Tube I got totally Rick Roll'd.
What's so wrong with Rick Astley? Skinny white boy could sing. I'm going to download some of his music. iTunes here I come!
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| 002; September 7 / 2008 6:30pm |
[07 Sep 2008|06:01pm] |
Oh man. Coleslaw eating contest today at lunch ala Never Been Kissed: David Arquette vs Alex Solowitz...except without the giant buckets of it, and without those two actors.
Just platefuls.
Some freshman kid thought he could take me. Psh.
Who won? That's right. The Master. The Master I say!
How old am I again?
Oh what I wouldn't do for a cup of Seattle's Best.
I think I'm going to get a subscription to JONA.
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