Secrets of the City

Do they still do the Pink Floyd laserlight show?

Was that even here?

Where am I?

Is there anything to do with J.R.R. Tolkien in the city?

When The Rat was in high school, pot smokers would get stoned and read those books and talk about them like they had all the answers.

The Rat read them (not stoned.) Threw down the second book halfway through and said the hell with it.

They don’t.

I’d send ‘em to the the new Star Trek movie, sitting in the front row.

Rat: maybe THATS why I could never get through “Altas Shrugged.”

Legalize it and tax it so I can switch habits. Wait, how much would be in a pack? Would it be sold in packs? Would a pack then be $68.00?

If pot was legalized, pot companies could then create marketing campaigns aimed at teenagers with some weird hipster animal as its brand rep and then we could focus our hate on pot companies.

Of course you would need to make the requisite stops at Clown Glass or Down in the Valley for a gnar gnar glass bubbler…then off to JoAnn fabric with your shorty to pick up corduroy and velvet. You can never have to many pairs of twirling pants or “safety pouches”. Top it all off with a walk through the park barefoot so you can really connect with mother earth.

@cat except we wouldn’t hate anybody cause hate is a strong word and stoners can’t express that much emotion…more like it would really bum them out.

I nominate Stoner McGhee for a regular Star-Tribune column.

Legalize it so I could get busy on a campaign to ban it, if only for The Rat’s sake.

That makes me think: Is there a bit of a double standard there? Would the same people who scurry away from cigarette smoke or angrily confront the smoker, do the same thing with marijuana smoke?

Are people as scared of marijuana smoke?

Why would you ban it…that’s lame…its from the earth man.

Besides it sounds like Rat got all wrangled up with the intellectual stoners…those cats are the worst, all talk. Get stoned sit around and discuss things but when it comes to actually doing things…we’ll sh*t man that takes effort.

This stoner sh*t is tuff man…it aint all rainbows and basslines.

Don’t make Bob angry Mr. McGhee. You wouldn’t like him when he’s angry.

The Rat-
The difference for me is the addiction. Companies selling something that largely takes away my choice to stop once I foolishly start? Bad. Companies selling something that just makes me get a huge craving for Cheetos? Good.

Anyway, I think this dude’s got the answers on how to do it.

Bob does have a pretty solid pushbroom. A mustache like that commands respect!

The blacklight posters and pink floyd references are cute, but keep in mind there are many smokers who hold professional, high paying jobs and have families, and enjoy the pot just like others enjoy the cocktail on the deck after work….just sayin’

I was talking about the presence of the smoke.

If you think it’s any company’s fault that you can’t control your sorry ass: well that’s the state of things these days.

that being said, it should most definately be legalized. It’s really foolish that it isn’t. deficit bye-bye.

“it aint all rainbows and basslines”

Poetry, man. Poetry.

I think Atlas Shrugges and The Lord of the Rings are due for a mash up.

Atlas Shrugged, that is.

Well since reefer smells faintly of wet skunk…the good stuff anyways…I think that you would probably have some folks that object to it.

On the other hand it pretty much dissipates much faster and doesn’t leave your clothes needing a trip to the dry cleaners so we got that goin for us…which is nice.

That’s just like, your opinion, man.

I think Tolkien could have told the whole story in one large, tightly edited book.

This time next week, I’ll be in Amsterdam. That is all.

Just like that you take it there huhJane?

I guess when talking bout stoners the Dude has to make an appearance.

Getting back on topic…I highly recommend getting all kieffed up and heading to the skyways around 4pm…watch the khaki monkeys do their dance…maybe stop at potbelly and get “A Wreck”

Amsterdam you lucky bastard that’s like my graceland.

Weed, spacecakes, gonja goo balls, hookers…damn

To The Rat’s point, our national scientific consultant chimes in on a recent Canadian study on pot, tobacco and COPD.

Then again, there are the views of the former Miss New Jersey, who once served as a spokesperson for the ALA, it seems.

You must be that guy I saw in the Skyway randomly giving the middle finger to men wearing ties.

Outragous! I’m going to report that incident Rat described to the Tie Embassy!

“To The Rat’s point”

No, it’s not, Bob.

Not me but I like him already.

I guess hobbies are rewarding for anyone.

you ever find yourself just wandering the aisles at cub wondering who the f*ck buys all this sh*t?

They got mayonaise jars the size of your head…that’s a lot of ham and cheeses man. I like tuna salad as much as the next guy but lets get real here.

…and #10 cans of pudding. Mmmmm pudding.

But it is easy to get rid of the smell of weed. Just make sure you exhale through a toilet paper roll stuffed with dryer sheets. Or at least that’s what you do if you are smoking in the dorms.

10 pounds of pudding makes a lot of “worms in dirt” how different do you think the chemical composition of gummy worms is from say every day bathroom caulk? They sure do taste better.

towel the door man..towel the door.

…and burn incense. You know they’re smoking in the dorms if you smell incense.

BTW your itinerary for the TC depends entirely on which kind of weed ya got. If you smoking jays of the mexicali brown/schwizzy-schwag/dirt variety…I recommend fishing or some other activity that will keep you busy and drive off the paranoia. Don’t forget the large bottle of Red gatorade necessary to calm your firey throat. And always chase the “mersh” with light beer such as corona to mask the head ache that is sure to follow. Taco Bell is good for the munchies.

If you got a hold of some diggity dank/mindwarp/nuggets from BC or better yet homegrown..sitcher ass down on the front porch, throw in some Grateful Dead…I recommend starting with Franklins Tower… get comfy and just take a nice little mental vacation. For munchies take it up a notch maybe some hummus or a nice cheese spread on bagel chips. A red wine and a grilled steak might be just the prescription to bring you back from orbit.

Instead of voting on marijuana, how about we get folks voting on me being able to buy booze, on Sunday, IN a grocery store.

Sorry, that’s a derail. (Or a third rail.) NEXT

Thats just crazy talk and these good upstanding lutherans won’t stand for it.

What about getting sudafed back on the shelf….I got a real bad cold!

its making me grind my teeth and itch all over. Want to clean something with me?

I don’t what it has to do with Lutherans, but if you can’t plan far enough ahead to buy enough to drink on Sunday, you deserve to go dry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_law

Its f*cking stoopid and arcane.

Car dealerships closed on one of the two busiest days for shopping…they deserve to go under.

The no booze on sunday thing. It’s the liqour lobby wanting you to have to go to a bar on sunday for football and booze.

It’s like perkins not opening up till 2pm.

re-donk-u-lus

I don’t want to derail this thread, but I am really enjoying the creative names in use here. So much better than “Anonymous”. Thanks for the effort!

Thanks Douglas…thats means a lot to me.

The Rat’s talking about being a responsible drinker. If you can’t drag your sorry ass off the couch one day early, you have problems, dude.

All that’s asked is a little discipline and planning outta this state’s drinkers, and Blue Laws help instill it.

It’s about building character.

Car dealerships closed on one of the two busiest days for shopping…they deserve to go under.

Most car dealers WANT to be closed on Sundays. They’re not going to gain many, if any additional sales by being open, but they’ll have addtional costs to open that extra day. So, increased costs, but sales numbers stay the same (and for the sales staff, more hours worked, but same # of sales),  a bad deal for them,

But, as soon as one dealer opens, the rest can’t risk losing sales, so they’re then forced to open as well.

The Rat’s talking about being a responsible drinker. If you can’t drag your sorry ass off the couch one day early, you have problems, dude. All that’s asked is a little discipline and planning outta this state’s drinkers, and Blue Laws help instill it.

Oh, please. shit happens that you can’t always plan for: Unexpected company shows up and you run short, stuff like that.

I can’t believe you bought that bit about being closed sunday on WCCO.

What are the two busiest days at the Mall?

But your right weekdays are better because there’s nothing I want to do after a long shift at work than sit in some retards finance office seeing if he can “make the numbers work”

Its simple: get rid of the law, if you don’t want to be open don’t, if you do, then do. It’s your choice I am not saying you have to. Give it a shot run the numbers, if its a losing proposition shut er down.

Boy a guy steps out to put on a little Talking Heads “Heaven” on repeat and takes a toke or two and the whole dang thread dies.

“I was talking about the presence of the smoke”

With vaporizers I don’t think Bob would have much to rally around.

“So much better than “Anonymous”. ”

@DouglasD – eff you 2

This all sounds fantastic. However, T-Paw has said he would veto it.

–Stoner Magillacutty

Stoner your not also a doctor? are you?

lol @ all the dumb stoners on here.
Khaki dance? You mean gainful employment?
That was me 15 years ago. I hope you’re under 20 at least.

@Stoner McGhee: I wouldn’t hate pot companies, I’d probably work for one … in their marketing dept., of course.

Now I’m craving bagel chips and cheetos. Is that wrong?

lol @ baker thinking a guy named Stoner McGhee is actually a real person or even thinking he represents anything other than a caricature of a persona.

@Cat Trying to figure out what the marketing campaign/flogan for legal weed would look like:

“Try out Blueberry Bonsai, it will f*ck yer sh*t up!”

“he represents anything other than a caricature of a persona.”

All of us here are about as real as the characters in the Sunday night lineup of Fox cartoons.

D’oh!

@Stoner McGhee, more like:

“Master Kush, smooth, cool … wait, what was I saying? Oh yeah, cool … wait, hey man, don’t bogart that thing. Ok, where was I? Right … cool … damn, I sooo want a Chic-o-stick right now.”

Homer Simpson (in voice) as Chris:

The cigarette companies sold me cigarettes and now…I can’t…stop smoking.

Homer Simpson on Blue Laws:

I drank all my Stoli Saturday night and fell asleep on the couch. Now my fiance and her girlfriends are coming over, and the Lutherans….won’t let me buy…any more……Those chicks are really hawt, too……now they’ll be mad.

Sorry, marijuana should always be spelled with a ‘j.’ It’s so much more stylish and allows my favorite nickname “maryjane.”

Maybe origins for car-dealers-closed-on-Sunday might go back to when banks weren’t open on Sunday, either? Being able to arrange proper, on-the-spot financing would be next to impossible to do without bank approval.

Probably one of the later justifications for keeping it, noodleman, but the “origins” are probably the same as any other blue law: got to keep the (Christian) Sabbath Holy.

I remember when North Dakota would close up on Sundays. About 20 years ago I was driving from Sioux City to Winnipeg on I-29 and got turned away at the SD/ND border. They had a huge gate across the lanes of the interstate. Had to detour up U.S. 75. Added an extra two hours to the drive. Crazy religious nuts and their weekly holidays.

Just drive to hudson on sunday

Isn’t the “bank approval” the asshat in the glassed in office who’s seeing if he can make the numbers work?

I guess I’ve always had my financing pre-arraigned.

Car dealers can be open if they want on Sundays, but they don’t want.