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July 14th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Very funny show guys, definitely entertaining. Love where you started with the main theme again in the middle. Classic Hypernonsense! Happy belated birthday Shawno. Like the Doors song for Hypernomsense. I’ve never heard of a Slam book before a few episodes ago when it was first mentioned, but here’s my attempt at answering the questions. Floor of the closet I use: hangers that have fallen, folders, box of old vhs videotapes and a few neckties that have fallen and I don’t wear any more. I do not drive a stick shift nor do I know how.
July 14th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
That Dutch pronunciation of “Stichting Brein” you did wasn’t all that bad! The Dutch “ch” combination is probably the weirdest thing in the world, it sounds like a very sharp “g”, almost like clearing your throat. The “sch” is even worse, you’re not really Dutch unless you can say “Scheveningen” properly. I still can’t do it and I’ve been living here on and off for about 30 years.
The bottom of my closet…There’s the organized part with shoes, I keep my shoes in their original boxes so I can stack them, and I put clothes I don’t use a lot in paper bags. The bags are from U.S. stores like GAP and A&F, we don’t have paper bags here, it’s all plastic so that’s useless for storage. In the unorganized part there’s all kinds of crap, an old football, all kinds of crap. I used to have a box full of the biggest cliche in the world in there, yes, Playboy magazines, but I got rid of that when I got broadband internet or when Karen moved in, I’m not sure.
Most cars in Europe are stick shift, only some really old people use automatic.
July 14th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
Erk has a stickshift and he knows how to use it. But in Erk’s country, we usually don’t call it a stickshift unless you are the age of Erk’s mum. Erk would call it a manual.
As for what is the bottom of Erk’s closet, Erk is presuming that we are talking about wardrobes or cupboards. At the bottom of my wardrobes, Erk has clothes, shoes & spare podcasting gear.
July 15th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
I’ll agree with Dave Calderbank. You made a valiant attempt at Stichting Brein. You actually nailed the second part. The first, is a lot harder. My dad is from Amsterdam, so I have the genetics to pronounce the sounds necessary for that Dutch “ch” sound. And Scheveningen is really fun to say once you get it. Mostly, since it feels like it was created just so that nobody else in the world can pronounce it.
Ok, questions time. Drive a stick? (Manual for Erk) I’ve done it and know how, but you wouldn’t want me to drive one if you had one. It’s been too long. I imagine it wouldn’t be pretty. But, who cares. Sticks are unnecessary these days. Technology has moved on. Europeans are just stubborn. I know. My parents are european. Time to move on guys. Just like it’s time to move off gasoline. (petrol for the non-Americans)
What’s in the closet? The bottom of mine has shoes, some electronics and some spare pillows in plastic bags. (For when guests come.)
And a Happy Belated Birthday to Shawno. Sorry I missed it. Probably because I was moving down to the Valley and wasn’t on the Twitter much for the last week. Glad to hear you enjoyed it.
July 18th, 2009 at 2:20 am
The only reason I started driving a manual in the first place was because I wanted to drive Fire Engines and other vehicles and they are all manual. I didn’t learn to drive a manual until about the age of 27 as both my mum and I had automatics prior to that. Learning at that age is like learning to drive all over again.
When I drove around the US, I was quite happy to stick with an auto (pun not intended).
July 19th, 2009 at 1:35 am
“Presumably that will take out all the stuff that the Chinese are putting in there to kill us.”
Shawno can make the mundane process of buying an iced tea maker both amusing and entertaining.
Unfortunately, the show dragged on for a good hour past its freshness date.
What’s a slam book?
@kturet
Mood: drugs
July 19th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
I’m guessing with the Star Trek episode that they just had a load of costumes and props left over.
“There’s a lot of fucking science shit in here” LOL
To answer your questions: I don’t actually have a closet, everything is in draws and I don’t drive, but if I did I would drive a manual (stickshift)because as Dave says, here in Europe there are very few automatic cars. That was informative wasn’t it?
July 19th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Thanks for another great episode guys! I was LOLing on the train on the way to work. People must of thought I was nuts or something. Anywho on the floor of my closet I have a sewing machine for mrs squeakaz and some blankies. I also can drive a stickshift or a manual car as we call it here.