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I am now taking applications for a sidekick. (Original Post) Grantuspeace Dec 2012 OP
Ah. Is it a long application? In_The_Wind Dec 2012 #1
Not long at all..... Grantuspeace Dec 2012 #2
So In_The_Wind Dec 2012 #3
I can give you.. Grantuspeace Dec 2012 #12
Cool. Thanks. In_The_Wind Dec 2012 #17
I'm in...conditionally. Chan790 Dec 2012 #4
No Red shirts. Grantuspeace Dec 2012 #11
I look great in tights but only if I wear them on my head. nt rrneck Dec 2012 #5
Katie the wonder terrier backwoodsbob Dec 2012 #6
k MiddleFingerMom Dec 2012 #7
Will these do? LeftofObama Dec 2012 #8
Those look like my long underwear. Grantuspeace Dec 2012 #13
I wear Speedos TrogL Dec 2012 #9
But I was gonna wear the Speedos! Grantuspeace Dec 2012 #14
Okay, here is my photo submission. I'll supply the application if I pass. Baitball Blogger Dec 2012 #10
Do we get a say in this, Grant? fleur-de-lisa Dec 2012 #16
I don't know about a sidekick, but once my mom found a whip, rope and handcuffs in my room. MiddleFingerMom Dec 2012 #15
Or when it's time to move and they take the bed down to find panty hose Baitball Blogger Dec 2012 #20
I had to start wearing women's underwear Grantuspeace Dec 2012 #22
Uh-huh. You just stay with that story, mmmkay? MiddleFingerMom Dec 2012 #24
Erm...let's hope you had a thing for full bodied women. Baitball Blogger Dec 2012 #25
My older brother, my hero, my mentor, my bodyguard/champion on several occasions... MiddleFingerMom Dec 2012 #23
This message was self-deleted by its author Baitball Blogger Dec 2012 #26
I don't wear tights... exactly.... It's more like a full-body condom. Also, I can fly... Bucky Dec 2012 #18
I have tattoos, I work out so of course I have nice legs... a la izquierda Dec 2012 #19
I already AM a sidekick. trof Dec 2012 #21

Grantuspeace

(873 posts)
2. Not long at all.....
Thu Dec 13, 2012, 11:46 PM
Dec 2012

Must provide own mask if needed.
Must have one or more of the following traits:
Be able to provide cryptic but philosophical insights (Tonto).
Be willing to do most of or all of the work and let me take all the credit (Kato).
Be able to come up with catch phrases.Such as "Holy this or that" (Robin).
Or do whatever Lenie.....or was it Squiggly did?

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)
3. So
Thu Dec 13, 2012, 11:55 PM
Dec 2012

what's in it for me? hmmm [img][/img]

I gotta a mask. In fact I've got several.
Cryptic but philosophical insights ~ no problem.
I can do catch phrases [img][/img] no problem

 

Chan790

(20,176 posts)
4. I'm in...conditionally.
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 01:03 AM
Dec 2012

I look great in tights. I can bring my own mask. I'm full of cryptic insights, willing to do all the work and let you take the credit...and I'm a writer, so catch phrases: "Oy! I think I can swing that."

My conditions: I get to carry a cool weapon of some sort. If I ever need an alias, I get to use Ben Quest. In exchange for me doing all the work, I get to be known as the genius one. No red shirts, I've seen too many shows where the guy in the red shirt always buys the farm. I can have stubble-beard.

 

backwoodsbob

(6,001 posts)
6. Katie the wonder terrier
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 03:00 AM
Dec 2012

says she would consider looking at your resume to become her sidekick but only if it doesn't cut into her FaceBook time.

MiddleFingerMom

(25,163 posts)
15. I don't know about a sidekick, but once my mom found a whip, rope and handcuffs in my room.
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 05:32 PM
Dec 2012

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I had to convince her that I was Wonder Woman.
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Baitball Blogger

(46,757 posts)
20. Or when it's time to move and they take the bed down to find panty hose
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 07:24 PM
Dec 2012

tied to the legs of the frame. Not...that...it's...ever...happened to me.

MiddleFingerMom

(25,163 posts)
23. My older brother, my hero, my mentor, my bodyguard/champion on several occasions...
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 08:29 PM
Dec 2012

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... died at a pretty young age -- 33.
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Our parents wanted to go up to his farmhouse and clean it up and close it up. My little brother
and I knew that he had had a VERY active and varied and interesting sex life -- so we quickly
volunteered to do that for our parents (so they wouldn't be contronted by anything that might
horrify them about the person they still saw as their little boy).
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Lo and behold, we found a bedroom dresser FILLED with toys. No bondage or pain-oriented
things, but an amazing variety of "marital aids".
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To paraphrase Tom Waits, "He didn't tie himself up or nothin'."
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I had learned a lot living in Europe for 4 years, so I was at least intellectually aware of most
of the things we found, but my little brother, though in college, was still pretty much the
uber-naive smalltown innocent boy that I had been just 7 or 8 years before.
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Though we were experiencing IMMENSE grief (we both loved our brother very very much),
we were both crying our eyes out while laughing our asses off as we went through that
dresser, bagging items to be thrown out on our way back to our folks' house.
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Funniest thing? My little brother repeating over and over and over again:
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"What the HELL do you do with THIS?!?!?
"What the HELL do you do with THIS?!?!?
"Sweet Mother of all that is holy... WHAT THE HELL DO YOU DO WITH THIS?!?!?
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Tears of laughter and of grief streaming down our faces.
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Then, on the way home before we could find a dumpster to trash it all:
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"Please, please, please, please, please... don't let us get pulled over by the police!!!!!"
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Response to MiddleFingerMom (Reply #23)

Bucky

(54,065 posts)
18. I don't wear tights... exactly.... It's more like a full-body condom. Also, I can fly...
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 06:22 PM
Dec 2012

Sadly, I can only fly in one direction: down--and only then when I jump out a window or off a very tall cliff. I haven't used this power lately, but as I recall the effect is quite spectacular.

trof

(54,256 posts)
21. I already AM a sidekick.
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 07:47 PM
Dec 2012

My buddy Earl is a wheeler-dealer.
He buys and sells stuff.
Heavy equipment, real estate, used cars and trucks, and also does disaster clean-up.
FEMA contractor.
He's a self-proclaimed redneck and one of the smartest businessmen I know.
He'll find a good deal on three used bucket trucks and know a guy who needs some.
Four front-end loaders and a buyer waiting.

His 'office' is his big-ass pickup and I ride shotgun with a legal pad on a clipboard.
He's constantly on his cellphone and I take notes.
Phone numbers, addresses, specs on equipment, etc.

He doesn't actually 'pay' me anything. And I wouldn't do it for pay.
it's just good to get out of the house (I'm retired) and ride along and watch this guy DEAL!

There are some benefits.
He buys lunch.


And a while back Miz t. said she'd like a golf cart to run around the neighborhood in.
One showed up in the driveway a few days later.
"I bought 8 from a guy I know. Already sold the rest of them. This one was "leftover".
Yeah, right, Earl.


It's truly a symbiotic relationship.
He can use the help, and I enjoy the experience.


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