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Username: Olddetroiter
Post Number: 1325
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 02, 2008 - 8:38 pm: |    |
GB: If she was really that great why aren’t you still with her? What happened at the end of that summer? Did she find a better housekeeper? HT maybe??? Tell us. |
Goblue
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Post Number: 2415
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 03, 2008 - 1:07 am: | |
OD: Sadly...she broomed me for a football player...a letter in golf wasn't high enough status for a queen of the cheerleaders...I was brokenhearted but found other means to ease my grief. |
Olddetroiter
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Post Number: 1335
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 03, 2008 - 8:25 am: | |
GB: Oh well, life goes on. |
Olddetroiter
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Post Number: 1340
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, September 04, 2008 - 8:09 am: | |
ES: Have you heard anything from GB? Did he make the trip OK? Some folks in Prescott said he painted the trailer to match his banana helmet so I was worried some varmints may have bushwhacked him along the way. |
Eastside61
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Post Number: 2116
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, September 04, 2008 - 10:43 pm: | |
OD: Is it that Tango is taking him to Colorado? GB does need a lot of training for sure ... In regards to SR .... HT liked golfers for various reasons - I am wondering if that is where GB landed next after this one date business with SR ... where they HUNG clothing out to dry .... HT was the dominant domestic type .... GB does make reference to being Broomed by a football student manager type....Interesting that GB ever got off of Fordham ... |
Olddetroiter
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Post Number: 1344
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Friday, September 05, 2008 - 8:35 am: | |
ES: It’s understandable why SR wouldn’t want to be seen with a putt-putt letterman. It would completely demolish her social standing. No wonder she made him take her to Zug Island for their one date….. Give me your professional opinion. Could this rejection have driven GB’s over-achieving professional life? Might he have been trying to prove to the ghost of SR and to himself that he was almost as good as a high school football team student manager? |
Eastside61
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Post Number: 2119
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, September 07, 2008 - 2:01 am: | |
OD: there is current research about the Student Manager syndrome and its influence on Achievement ... It might have push Old GB over the top within his professional career with Ringling Bros. .... |
Olddetroiter
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Post Number: 1359
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Sunday, September 07, 2008 - 9:29 pm: | |
ES: I remember seeing him at the Shrine Circus once. GB was in the middle of the ring holding the lead line while Tango galloped around in circles. HT was riding Tango and doing flips on his back. |
Eastside61
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Post Number: 2123
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 - 7:27 pm: | |
Wow!••• Center Ring - with Howie doing flips. I have wondered if GB did household chores with Howie after SR dumped him after their first and only date ..... |
Olddetroiter
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Post Number: 1369
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 - 11:33 pm: | |
GB and HT worked together to clean the ring after each show. After Tango got through galloping around it there was a lot to clean up. |
Eastside61
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Post Number: 2128
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 10:39 pm: | |
GB: Seems to me that OLD GB - AKA: Father bananahead was compulsive about cleaning - Cleaning SR house - Cleaning HT Golf Balls at night - Sheath Cleaning various animals across the country - and now center ring cleaning..... Obsessive for sure.....••• |
Olddetroiter
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Post Number: 1379
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, September 11, 2008 - 8:31 am: | |
Obsessive for sure. After his parents bronzed his baby shoes he sprayed them with white lacquer paint because that was easier to keep clean than bronze…. And it’s a wonder he ever earned his putt-putt letter. He was always taking penalties for picking his ball up to clean it before he got to the green. |
Eastside61
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Post Number: 2133
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, September 11, 2008 - 10:08 pm: | |
OD: GB needs to be credited with inventing the ball washing machine in 1959 in SE's garage ... and then from there going into the sheath cleaning / beauty school franchising business .... |
Olddetroiter
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Post Number: 1386
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Friday, September 12, 2008 - 8:29 am: | |
ES: I’ve seen ball washers on golf courses, but I thought GB’s invention was for bowling balls. You don’t think someone stole GB’s idea and adapted it to golf balls do you? Possibly some underhanded DHS athletic coach? Just as well. The wet balls tended to warp the lanes, and many a bowler lost his grip due to the soap in the finger holes. |
Eastside61
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Post Number: 2139
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, September 13, 2008 - 11:24 am: | |
OD: It was when he and Howie started not only UPS (Urban Prairie Salon) in fact I saw one of their 'salon' trucks on my driveway just yesterday, but when they thought that washing ping pong balls would be the IN thing to do in 1960 before they started the Plymouth Valiant training school in the Saint Jude parking lot. |
Olddetroiter
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Post Number: 1397
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Sunday, September 14, 2008 - 9:56 am: | |
ES: Didn’t GB make a raft out of ping pong balls once so he could take his date on a moonlight cruise to Bob Lo without paying the boat fare? I heard it came apart near Zug Island, which is how he discovered that romantic site for his future dates. |
Eastside61
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Post Number: 2147
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, September 14, 2008 - 1:24 pm: | |
OD: That's right ..... he could have saved some of my dates who jumped off the bridge and swam for safety down river at Zug Island. |
Olddetroiter
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Post Number: 1402
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Sunday, September 14, 2008 - 4:35 pm: | |
ES: He might have. He used to wait on the the island and throw a lifeline to anyone who would promise to be his date for the rest of the night. But most of them decided to try their luck further downstream. |
Eastside61
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Post Number: 2148
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, September 14, 2008 - 5:51 pm: | |
OD: I think what scared them was the Helmet ..... when it would get wet and shrink on his head......and would become a 5 7/8 size or was it 4 7/8 ???? I think the size the 7 still wears to all the SJS reunions.... |
Olddetroiter
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Post Number: 1407
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Monday, September 15, 2008 - 11:00 am: | |
ES: I watched the U-of-M game Saturday, and it looked like some of them had helmet shrinkage too. |
Eastside61
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Post Number: 2156
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - 2:01 pm: | |
OD: Well it is now up to MSU to crush the little boys from golden dome university...... GO GREEN!•••••• Oh ..... GO ALMA, too!•••• |
Olddetroiter
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Post Number: 1417
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - 10:33 pm: | |
ES: I don’t hold a lot of hope for MSU this week, but GO GREEN anyway. Maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised. At least they’re better than Denby this year… zero victories… lost to Southeastern last week 50-0… Not like the old days when we were there, and GB was the star tackling dummy. |
Eastside61
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Post Number: 2160
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 12:56 am: | |
OD: I don't think that they never even used the word "tackling" to describe him........Z still thinks that he is a communist .... but it is tango who is the commie.....but little funny Z is not happy with me so I will let you "Back-up" guys tell him ....(cough) |
Olddetroiter
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Post Number: 1420
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 10:29 pm: | |
ES It’s a matter of context. From the perspective of the whole school you are right. Everyone just called him Dummy. But on the football practice field Ed Budde said GB was his favorite tackling dummy. |
Eastside61
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Post Number: 2166
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 1:32 am: | |
OD: 50 - 0 score against SE is sad to hear .... I wonder who SE 59 rooted for????? |
Olddetroiter
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Post Number: 1425
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| | Posted on Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 10:32 am: | |
ES: Word on the street is she was really disappointed to learn GB wasn’t the Denby tackling dummy anymore. Think there still might have be a little spark there? |
Eastside61
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Post Number: 2172
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 1:55 pm: | |
OD: Spark ..... like nuclear? a chapter in the Eastside book could be "From Dummy to Golfer" and dating women who only would go out with me once........ |
Olddetroiter
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Post Number: 1430
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 11:40 pm: | |
ES: GB is fortunate he couldn’t get second dates. SE59 went out with him twice and that did not end well... |
Eastside61
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Post Number: 2177
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Friday, September 19, 2008 - 1:10 am: | |
OD: According to GB ... it was an arranged marriage ..... and the wedding day was the first time he saw her, etc. Think his family could provide police protection and her family unlimited bowling at East Warren after 2 AM on weekends.....Oh and a map of Iowa!•• |
Sabrelancer
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Post Number: 25
Registered: 08-2008
| | Posted on Friday, September 19, 2008 - 2:33 pm: | |
hi all...been in hospital...whatever you do NEVER eat chicken in a german imbiss...tasted good tho....anyway.....
off topic....is gb really still a virgin?...
off topic... I'm sure you heard about the canadian gal who called palin supporters white trash, etc.....anyway...just saw greta, call me liberal from cnn, on fox.......she actually called this woman a pig...twice! i live for days like this. |