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(Off) Season's Greetings From AN

AN is most likely becoming a ghost town right about now, what with Blez currently recovering from an acute case of fatal death, and most everyone busy celebrating Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, the Big Bang, Festivus, or--at the very least--Seasonal Affective Disorder.

And though my mane focus right now is on preparing the stable for a special X-Mas present I am eagerly anticipating...For those of you whose loyalty (or addiction) has caused you to log on, I want to take a moment to bring you tidings, on behalf of AN, this holiday season.

As for my gift to all of you this holiday weekend: Here are some of my favorite Steven Wright quotes. Enjoy, and Blez will be back Monday with a new post.

Happy holidays, everyone!

All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand.

I spilled spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.

I didn't sleep well. I made a couple of mistakes.

What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.

If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.

How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.

99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met.

Officer, I know I was going faster than 55MPH, but I wasn't going to be on the road an hour.

When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask me if I'm leaving.

When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, "Well, what do you need?"

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.

I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don't know what to feed it.

Is "tired old cliche" one?

When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety.

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

I bought some powdered water, but I don't know what to add to it.

I bought a dog the other day...I named him Stay. It's fun to call him... "Come here, Stay! Come here, Stay!" He went insane. Now he just ignores me and keeps typing.

I hate it when my foot falls asleep during the day because that means it's going to be up all night.

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.

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I miss Steven. Saw him in SF many years ago (before he started doing just the big venues), I must say the reverse mohawk, the monotone voice and the fact you never know what the hell he is going to say, make him the best commic of my generation. I am not sure I have laughed that hard ever.
"You know I don't like beautiful, well put together women, give me a nice nose break or a lazy eye." Johnny Drama

by rook on Dec 23, 2005 9:29 AM PST reply actions  

some more Steven Wright lines......
I saw Steven perform at the SF Masonic Auditorium twice in 96' and again at the Warfield I believe.

here's some more of my favorites:

"I lost a button hole.  where am I going to get a button hole?"

"My uncle was a clown in the Ringling Brothers circus and when he died all his friends went to the funeral in one car."

"When I was little in our backyard we had a quicksand box. I was an only child...eventually."

"I went to the hardware store and bought some used paint.  It came in the shape of a house. I also bought some batteries but they weren't included, so I had to buy them again".

"One night I came home very late, it was the next night."

"I bought some unscented perfume.  it came in a little empty bottle."

"I was walking down the street and saw a man with wooden legs and real feet".

"I have a map of the United States, its actually size.  It says 1 mile = I mile.  Last week I folded it."

"Do you think when they asked George Washington for his ID he just took out a quarter?"

"Snakes have no arms that's why they don't wear vests".

"I didn't have a toy train I had a toy subway".

"I like to skate on the other side of the ice".

"I like to fill up my tub, then turn the shower on and act like I'm in a submarine that's been hit."

"My girlfriend hates it when we take a bath together and I practice skipping rocks.  Now she sits down at the same end as me. Its not as fun."

"One time right in the middle of a job interview I took out a book and started reading.  The man said, "what the hell are you doing?"  I said "let me ask you one question; if you were in a car traveling at the speed of light, and then turns your lights on, would they do anything?"  the man said, "I don't know".  I said, "forget it then, I don't want to work for you."

"My grandfather was on the first submarine in the world.  Instead of a periscope they had a kaleidiscope.  He said, "My God, we're surrounded!"

GangGreen23

by GangGreen23 on Dec 27, 2005 8:23 PM PST up reply actions  

a few more.........
"I bought some land, it was kind of cheap, it was on someone else's property."

"I bought an ant farm.  I don't know where I am going to get tractors that small."

GangGreen23

by GangGreen23 on Dec 27, 2005 8:27 PM PST up reply actions  

another bit
In my house there's this light switch that doesn't do anything. Every so often I would flick it on and off just to check. Yesterday, I got a call from a woman in Madagascar. She said, "Cut it out."

It's funnier when you hear him tell it...

by Apricot on Dec 23, 2005 9:42 AM PST reply actions  

With some comics,
you have to hear their voice. Whenever I read a Steven Wright quote, I hear his voice in my "mind's ear". Another of my favorite comics is Rita Rudner, whom I had a chance to see in Las Vegas not too long ago. Same deal: Without her voice, just a line; with her voice, funny.
Nico

by Nico on Dec 23, 2005 9:49 AM PST up reply actions  

Don't forget the look..
Give props to the reverse mohawk
"You know I don't like beautiful, well put together women, give me a nice nose break or a lazy eye." Johnny Drama

by rook on Dec 23, 2005 9:56 AM PST up reply actions  

oh my god
there's one of those switches in my parents' house... I used to flick it all the time when I was a kid... I feel really bad now...
"Don't go getting all Alexander Haig on me," Beane told Forst.

by Poppy on Dec 23, 2005 8:10 PM PST up reply actions  

I have a
really great collection of seashells...maybe you've seen it,...I keep it scattered on beaches all over the world.

by tresselfan on Dec 23, 2005 9:57 AM PST reply actions  

So..
I picked up a hitchhiker, and asked him if he wanted to drive. He said no. So we both got in the back seat and went to sleep. Cop pulls us over. He didn't know who to give the ticket too.

I think I just saw the millenium.

"You know I don't like beautiful, well put together women, give me a nice nose break or a lazy eye." Johnny Drama

by rook on Dec 23, 2005 9:59 AM PST reply actions  

"I think men
who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry."   -Rita Rudner
Nico

by Nico on Dec 23, 2005 10:03 AM PST reply actions  

good addition
colorfully off the subject.

Merry Christmas!

Simming Offseason.....

by robber23 on Dec 23, 2005 10:16 AM PST reply actions  

Happy holidays
"If you melt dry ice, can you swim without getting wet?"

"The other day I ... oh wait, that wasn't me."

"I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast any time.' So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance."

I saw Steven Wright about 15 years ago in a rather fancy college auditorium that had a statue of some ancient on each side of the stage. He was doing his usual routine (most of which I had heard before) but in the middle of it he looked over at one of the statues and remarked "this guy's looking at me and thinking 'what the f*** is he talking about?'"

"Don't go getting all Alexander Haig on me, either." - Billy Beane

by andeux on Dec 23, 2005 11:20 AM PST reply actions  

More Steven
from another Wright fan:

Why is the alphabet in that order?  Is it because of that song?

I parked my car in a tow-away zone and when I came back the entire area was gone.

by lurkerD on Dec 23, 2005 11:33 AM PST reply actions  

another one
"I once spent a hour in a casino at the roullette table having a furious arguement over what I considered to be an odd number".

I always thought Mitch Hedberg had an incredibly similar style and was also one of my favorites.

" I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. 'Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Can I put my feet out the window? Boy, you really like Tide.'"

RFB

by Tim J on Dec 23, 2005 12:00 PM PST reply actions  

Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas to Nico and everyone.

by Larry E on Dec 23, 2005 1:26 PM PST reply actions  

Steven Wright
"Why is is called a building when it's already built?"

On the Mitch Hedburg tip...

Mitch: "All right everyone. What's the other white meat?"
Crowd: "Pork!"
Mitch: "No, it's chicken. I was speaking from the pig's perspective."

and

"I came to L.A. to be a standup comic. But once I got here, everyone kept asking if I could do something else. Can you write a screenplay? Can you write for TV? I think that's kind of like hiring a cook for your restaurant, and then a couple weeks later asking, 'So, can you farm?'"

by deadteddy8 @ Athletics Nation on Dec 23, 2005 1:56 PM PST reply actions  

Mitch Hedberg
I think that this guy was awesome, it's really too bad that he passed away, but here's a couple good ones.

I went to a restaurant and I ordered a chicken sandwich, but I don't think the waitress heard me 'cause she asked how I'd like my eggs. So I tried answering her anyways. "INCUBATED! Then hatched, then raised, then beheaded, then plucked, then cut up, then put onto a grill, then put onto a bun. ...., it's gonna take a while. I don't have the time. Scrambled!

I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughnut. I don't need a receipt for the doughnut. Man, I'll just give you money, then you give me the doughnut. End of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I just can't imagine a scenario where I would have to prove that I bought a doughnut. Some skeptical friend: "Don't even act like I didn't get that doughnut, I've got the documentation right here. Oh wait, it's at home, in the file... under D... for doughnut"

by RayRay59 on Dec 27, 2005 9:30 AM PST up reply actions  

More Mitch
This is my favorite place to perform comedy, a big room.

I had a Jack and Coke one time with a lime in it, and the lime was floating.  That's good to know, next time I'm in a boat, and it capsizes, I'll reach for a lime.

People talk about racism.  They say "I don't care if they're white, black, red, purple or green."  Wait, you have to draw the line somwhere.  Purple or green?  To hell with purple people, unless they are suffocating.  Then help them.

I stayed at friends house the other night.  He said I'd have to sleep on the floor.  Damn gravity.  Got me again.

How about a three way? You, me and some of this pork.-Donny Baker

by gatling on Dec 27, 2005 11:20 PM PST up reply actions  

Ho ho ho
Nothing quite says Merry Christmas like the sardonic deadpan that is Steven Wright.  Thanks for the chortles Nico, today and every day, and Joyeaux Noel to the whole AN bunch.

Maybe we'll awake 12-25 to find that Billy Clause left Frank Thomas in our stocking (insert size themed humor here).

Costly Seat Downgrade

by FreeSeatUpgrade on Dec 23, 2005 2:05 PM PST reply actions  

I had my own Steven Wright moment
a couple of weeks ago.

I went to the hardware store to buy a new trashcan.  So that left us with one extra.  Then when it was time to put out the trash, I thought, "How do you throw out a trash can?"

"And Julio Franco is batting right-handed!" -- Wayne Hagin, A's radio play-by-play, mid-80s

by Nick on Dec 23, 2005 4:02 PM PST reply actions  

LOL... real life Wrightisms here, too
We have recycle bins ("official" ones from the city, not just some random things we bought on our own) that are not recyclable... so when one of the recycle bins got mangled a few months ago, I had to throw it away in the garbage.

And I bought some scissors recently that were in a package I needed scissors to open.

"Don't go getting all Alexander Haig on me," Beane told Forst.

by Poppy on Dec 23, 2005 8:20 PM PST up reply actions  

Good ones, Nick and Poppy!
Your stories reminded of the time I spent 30 minutes going all around the house desperately trying to find my glasses, until it finally occurred to me that I couldn't be looking for them if they weren't on my nose.
Nico

by Nico on Dec 23, 2005 9:00 PM PST up reply actions  

There is nothing like........
walking around the house with your keys in your hand, searching for you keys.  

" I was once pulled over by the police in Kentucky.  They searched my car and found my trunk full of books.  They charged me with smuggling books, but they couldn't prove it."

Barry and the "Intangibles"

by Duke of left field on Dec 24, 2005 9:56 PM PST up reply actions  

Happy Holidays to Blez and Nico...
Blez,

I hope you are recovering rapidly, because you can't be sick for your daughters first Christmas.  Thank you for a great year on AN.  I wish you a very Happy, HEALTHY, and prosperous New Year.

Nico,

I wish you better meds and hopefully a clean new stable.  Thank you for your weekend additions to AN.  This is a great place to be.  

I am closing now so I can go gargle some more egg nog.

Peace!!!!!

by Andy907 on Dec 23, 2005 6:02 PM PST reply actions  

Wish you were here
By the way, my name is really Bucky Goldsteen.

by LowcountryJoe on Dec 23, 2005 6:42 PM PST reply actions  

Ho ho ho.
Thank you, Nico, for the Wright attitude. It sure had me ho-ho-ho'ing. But not as much as Santa Beane if and when Frank(ie) Goes Oakland(wood). And, Blez, I'm just now getting over that damn virus/bug/flu or whatever the eff it is. It sure sucks. But it's like banging your head against a wall. It feels so good when you stop. Get well.
Darn it, Bill, you just made Toledo even holier.

by Edwinwinwin on Dec 23, 2005 6:47 PM PST reply actions  

Thanks to Blez, Nico, and the Gang
I've just been a lurker for the past season, but maybe in the lull it is time to thank the regulars here for all the extra energy and insight they've added to my enjoyment of the A's this past year.

I may live in S.F., and sure I cheer on the Giants (though not like 2 or 3 years ago), but there's no team like the A's. We'll just have to see if Zito lasts out the season in 2006 or gets swapped. Here's hoping for the best.

Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Sizzling Solstice, and all the other Holiday Greetings to you guys.

A's rule...

by SF4As on Dec 24, 2005 12:16 AM PST reply actions  

Pour a lil
Robitussin out for the homies infected with the flu. I am recovering from the flu as well and thanks to Comtrex, TheraFlu; I am sorta breathing sinus infection free.

Disclosure: This ad was not sponsored by any corporate entities.  

"baseball bin veddy veddy good to me"

by jav on Dec 24, 2005 12:49 AM PST reply actions  

More comedy....
Me and my wife have a running joke about Mitch's "That tree is far away!" joke, mainly because I may occasionally mumble. Also missed in the mix, although a totally different style, was Bill Hicks. "Remember folks, it's just a ride.".
"I have nothing against the bunt - in it's place. But most of the time that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet." - Earl Weaver

by PosterNutbag44 on Dec 24, 2005 1:47 AM PST reply actions  

Totally Freaky Wierd Thing
OK. So I'm sitting in my apartment doing some paperwork and it's all very quite. Suddenly I hear music playing loudly. In another room I have this ipod stereo thing that you plug your pod into and it works like a stereo. Spontaneously, it has started playing the Celebration song. It has never spontaneously gone off before. I have dozens of songs loaded onto the pod, and yet it plays this one.

Omen?

I swear on my A's cap this is true.

by SportySpice @ Athletics Nation on Dec 24, 2005 9:47 AM PST reply actions  

mine too!
It always randomly plays Lady Madonna off of Past Masters Volume 2 from The Beatles

by WhatElse on Dec 24, 2005 10:19 AM PST up reply actions  

Mr. 20 game winning streak (home run) moving on?
The Mariners are talking with agent Joe Urbon about clients Scott Hatteberg and Kazuhisa Ishii.
Hatteberg is the player they seem to be targeting. "There are some options out there for Scott where he'd get a chance to be a starter," Urbon said. "The Mariners know that. For now, we're going to see where things go in that direction. If (an everyday) job doesn't happen, things could change." As if Hatteberg is playing everyday anywhere other than the Atlantic League. He could be a capable replacement for Dave Hansen in Seattle. Dec. 24 - 3:30 am et
Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer

by GrewUpAtTheColiseum on Dec 24, 2005 11:38 AM PST reply actions  

thanks
Happy Holiday Hugs to all of AN - individually and collectively.

You are always a source of information, insight, and entertainment! Who could ask for anything more from their 'family of choice.'

Thanks! See you at Spring Training!

Thank You Bill...
Go A's

by NomAd on Dec 24, 2005 12:32 PM PST reply actions  

Mane focus?
You were watching the Johnny Damon news conference while you were writing this, weren't you, Nico? :)

Great stuff...thanks for the laughs.

Thanks, AN...happy holidays! Let's have a very memorable '06!

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by FormerHuntsvilleStar on Dec 24, 2005 2:39 PM PST reply actions  

I was watching
the Johnny Damon news conference, while driving on Main St. to go see my barber, while listening to the soundtrack from "Hair," while thinking about letting Brent Mayne pet my new pony's...mane.
Nico

by Nico on Dec 24, 2005 4:03 PM PST up reply actions  

Happy Holidays everyone!
Hope everyone has a good one...
count your blessings! Go Oakland!
YABU: You're always eating cheese. ...Is cheese good for you? . FISCHER: IT'S BETTER THAN SUSHI!!!

by ConditionOakland on Dec 24, 2005 3:34 PM PST reply actions  

Merry Christmas guys
Have some fun tonight and tommorrow for these are the times to appreciate one another even more.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.-W. M. Lewis

by doublehustle22 on Dec 24, 2005 4:23 PM PST reply actions  

Thanks Nico, good laughs
the great playoff miss of 2004 followed by the good try of 2005.

by ak_A on Dec 26, 2005 6:33 PM PST reply actions  

Happy Holidays to all of AN!
One of my fave SW jokes: I went to a restaurant and they said they were closed. I said "But the sign says 'Open 24 hours'." She said "Yeah, but not in a row".
"HRs by second basemen are sexy. They're rare and exotic." -Kyli

by McFood on Dec 26, 2005 9:23 PM PST reply actions  

Steven Wright #1
I bought some used paint,,, it was in the shape of a house.

by yellowman on Dec 27, 2005 3:21 PM PST reply actions  

MH favoritve...
My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana, so I said no, but I wanted a regular banana later so......yeah

by OaktownIn06 on Dec 31, 2005 1:53 PM PST reply actions  

and a little (baseball) steven wright
1966 I was in a little league game. I'm on first. I steal third. I went strait across. Earlier in the week a learned that the shortest distance between two points was a strait line. I argued with the umpire that second base was out of my way.

by OaktownIn06 on Dec 31, 2005 2:00 PM PST up reply actions  

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