phillycore

I've thought about trying it myself... did one time a LOONG time ago and knocked the wind out of myself so bad I said F it... With size 13 feet and my size it's probably not the best idea for me anyway, but I always wanted to go back and try it just to mess around with it.

x2 I thought they were closing or raising the ticket prices or something like that.... dayam don't scare a brother

The wife had me out shopping for over 12 hours, but I did score some hot deals... K-mart was open on thanksgiving and I live less than a mile from it so figured WTF, they had the spiderman and spiderman 2 movies for like $5 or some crap so I figured wtf I'll go snag them. Mad people up there heard there were people waiting outside the store since 3am. Not me I walked in there at 7:20 (they opened at 7) and scored my movies, but couldn't find the king kong movie that was also on sale..(scored later on at walmart friday) I heard this dude and an employee getting into it, so I was listening in...turns out he was in line and they gave him a ticket for a 32" tv for $419 but he didn't get one.. They went looking into the back stock and found 6 more of them, 5 of which they didn't hand tickets out for to those people who waited in line at 3am and shit. I was like yo man let me get one of those tv's you just found and score 32" lcd tv for $420 was mine. I don't need one, but that was a good deal and I figured I had to buy it and see what the wife said... Anyway she said I can kep it for the bedroom if I gave my current 20" to the kids for their bedroom (current 19" tube style.) N/p Tv is mine.. woot woot. Then Friday Some ghetto ass department store named value city opened up at midnight and was giving cards away to first 500 peeps in there.. $10 off $20 purchase.. OK cool I'm in, I'll find something for $20 pay $10 and bolt. Wife, 12yo, and me all roll up there about 10:45 to get in line. 100 or so people already there, but I'm thinking F it we only need to be in the top 500 so we'll sit in the car where it's warm. 15 mins later mad rush of people start coming, ok we get out freeze our asses off in line and the guy comes out to start passing out the tickets.. He passes them out down the line and hands us ours then gets called back in the store by another employee. They open the doors and we walk into the store and hear the people behind us say to the guy we didn't get our ticket. He says get it from the guy over there... so my wife walks over too, gets another one and tells me to go get one for my 12y/o who didn't get one so I got one for him. We now have $40 Saweet.. we picked up some toys and crap for the kids, and my son bought some silver necklace for his g/f b-day or whatever.. Took us 2 hours to check out and we didn't get out of that store till 3am, but it was cool cause nowhere else opened until at least 4. At 4 kohls opened so we headed there only to find another mob scene of people waiting in line... for what I dunno cause they weren't giving away shit so no need to wait in line I say. We wait in car till like 3:58 then start walking to the store.. they open the doors and everyone from the line starts rushing in there, we just walked right in, F that line oh well got in there and bought what we needed to get and bolted out. (I was rushing the wifey out of there cause I knew that sports authority opened at 5:30 and were giving away cards worth somewhere between $10-$100 to the first 100 peeps in.) We went to TSA and there was already like 10 people in line, waited till 4:45 and started getting crowded 25 or so people, I was like I'm going (this was one of the only places I even cared about on this whole outing...lol) She got in line with me and my 12y/o took a nap in the car. DAYAM it was cold as hell now and we were freezing. Doors opened up at 5:30 and we got out cards, caled out to the car for my son and told him to hurry and get in line to see if he could make the cutoff or not. He did and got one too. These were scratch off cards and mine ended up being $25 as did my wife's while my son got $10. WERD!! $60 worth of free ski gear for me at TSA!! Picked up a pair of Burton Sizzler gloves which were on sale for $30- $25 gift card = $5 (Delaware no tax), my son needed poles so we went and got him some swix poles for what we thought was $29, but scanned in at $19.99 the lady at the register told us we needed to spend the $25 in order to use it so we snagged a transworld snowboard mag and a piece of .05 gum off the counter and bamn ski poles for a net .97 or something like that. My wife used the $10 card on something, but I dunno what she got as she was obviously getting something for me and snuck off to the register. Left TSA at 6am and headed to KB toy store for some High School Musical thing for my neice as well as some Cars toys for my kids. Left there and headed to Target which opened at 6. Took about 20 mins to find a parking spot. Got in the store, ma people biggest crowd of the trip so far, but they had tons of registers and a boatlod of inventory so we were cool. I've never seen so many people walking out with tv's in my life. One guy had 6 big ass lcd's or plasma's or something all stacked up on one cart... We were there to get some play doh, doodle pro's, and some other crap for the kids, not to mention the $3 and $5 dvd's I always stock up on. I also picked up one of those r/c havoc helicopters for $15 I wanted that for me as I think it would be fun to F around with. After Target we headed back to Pa. and to the toys r us. Mad people we walked in and the line was ridiculous, said F this and went to Mickey D's for what felt like lunch but was actually breakfast. Damn even the Mickey D's was packed..left went over to the mall (Granite Run) so I could see if models had any of the $20 75th Eagles jersey's left still... No luck there, went to FYE so my son could use this gift card he had laying around, and hit up the game stop for some used PS2 games, then headed to JC penney for some knife set and a gift card, Got out the mall and went to the Wallmart picked up some smoothie maker for my mother, a boatload of dvd's and some other crap. It was now 11am and we were tired as hell been out for literally 12 hours now and had to get back home cause my mother was watching the two little ones and had to go to work at noon. Then a slept until 3 when my wife woke me the F up to go out and do more damn shopping. This time to the michaels, and then k-mart (WTF I was just there Thursday), and then back home for more sleep. It's now almost 11am on saturday and my wife isn't home from shopping yet and she left at like 8 this am. She did drop off donuts for me and the kids though while picking up some store ad. Needless to say I'm broke now and she has pretty much cleaned out out vacation club and she doesn't have any plans of stopping either.. not to mention the newspaper guy just dropped the Sunday paper off and it's chock full of more damn sale ads.. If you actually read all this thanks.... it took me an hour to type it all.... and fwiw I'm stoked that I at least got some new gloves out of the whole ordeal...

Isn't it going to be mad hot tomorrow?? I know they were taliing about 70 degree shit here in Philly.. Sounds like SLOW skiing day to me... I'm waiting till Sat. or Sunday after it gets colder and they have a chance to blow some more.. Good luck tomorrow peeps and I really hope it's closer to 30 than 70 for ya.

No matching ones don't matter but if you can then F it why not...lol Hell Doug you saw my poles with the molded grips last year from the early 90's had shocks in them and all... they rock!! I just bought the PE poles this year for the hell of it... just figured why the hell not

I've had to use gorilla glue and a clamp before for a delam issue at the tail.... worked great

as would be resting your legs.. bar coming down

Those there would qualify for Rock Skis

got change for a nickle?

TGR will eat him up and shit out what's left Hey Glenn is that a commodore 64 or 128??

I'd tell someone they got owned if I ever heard a liftie say "Back of the line Biotch" oh man that would rock

My damn dog just farted and it F'N stunk up the whole darn living room... oh man that stanks... Dude... you skis are going to get chopped up like that every trip out... one edge hits the other ski and peels it like a carrot... get used to it and get over it

Dude you are always bitching about something, do something else

oh dayam I wanna go now again...lol my wife's going to kill me though as I went Friday, then spent all day at a drag racing event today.... Going tomorrow might just be the straw.... I better not... see you guys next weekend I guess = (

For the record I never nailed it, nor would I... damn get of the queer thing already..

ok so I get long winded when I'm stoked...lol Short and sweet... Get your asses off the damn computer and hit up big boulder for some steezy pre-season skiing!!

Ski, I just figure with all this talk about GSS and Atomic Jeff snugglin up that you might have thought all of us Blue skiers ran that way. I just needed clarification as I recently found out that Atomic Jeff is only queer Mon-Thurs Doug's the one on a roll, he had a post locked without anyone even replying to it, 3 minutes after he posted it. Has to be some sort of record there. I'm starting to think he wants that staff position so badly just so he can unlock his own posts.. Once again I hijacked another thread.... but FWIW Sno didn't call me either (not that they were supposed to)

They were firing up the guns when I left there tonight at 6:30

Wow what a difference a few days of crappy weather makes... We were a little on the slow side at work and my supervisor called me into the office. He then tells me that he was wondering if I'd like to take a half day today as I was the only person there that was going to finish their work early and they had nothing for me to do. I was like, ummmm let me make a phone call. So I called the wife and asked (yes asked, once again she wears the pants...blah blah she's hot as hell and I'm a fat dude, letting her wear the pants has kept me married for over 11 years now and VERY happy in the bedroom dept.) She said no problem as long as I was taking Michael (my 12 year old) with me. I then told her to call Mike and tell him I'd be home at 12:30 and to be ready to rock... he had a half day from school for parent teacher conferences so that was cool. I got done work, drove home and loaded up the Eclipse and we rolled out. Got about 6 miles away and SHIT!! I forgot my damn jacket, U Turn where possible.... yeah yeah that's what the damn GPS kept telling me all the way back home to retrieve my jacket. (Like I really need a GPS to tell me how to get to a mountain I've been to 100 F'n times, but I like using it because it tells me estimated time of arrival and all that jazz..) So we're back en route to BB. We arrive at the parking lot right at 3pm and there's like 15 cars in the lot. We pull into the spot and run down to get our lift tickets. Michaels jacket is blue and white so we tried to do the red white and blue thing, but no luck they not doing it any longer... oh wel it's only $15 anyway... We pay the girl and go get geared up. Holy Crap it was colder than anticipated for shizzle, not to mention that thin cover is a severe understatement. It's amazing what a week of bad weather can do to a slope. There was literally half of the snow there compared to last Sunday when I was there.. grass coming through in spots, and hard to not get in the way of the jib honks doing their thing on the boxes, and rails. Not to mention that this was Michaels first time on real skis, and his first time ever with poles. (my old poles which were WAY too long for him, but this was a last minute thing and I haven't bought him poles yet..I'm 6'1" and he's pushing 5'0) He's not a kid with a lot of confidence although he acts like he's GOD 99% of the time... He tried his best and I was pretty proud of him once he got done his whole baby routine after falling the first time. It was 90% ice and 10% holes, loose snow was not to be found anywhere on that slope. Had to expect that though with the rain the past couple days. Not the best conditions for anyone to start skiing on. He did great though didn't fall not once going down the hill. Only seemed to fall, and struggled hard heading onto the lift. Not at the lift, but getting to it. It's uphill, icy, and he's trying to use poles that are too long for him to push, not to mention it's his first time on skis. (he used 75cm snowblades the past 5-6 times over a 2 year period that he's actually gone at all) So it was to be expected. It wasn't exactly easy for me either so I can see his troubles were very validated. Everyone was totally cool there tonight, even when Michael was holding people up by falling in the lift line or struggling to get up the hill. He was doing his best not to get in peoples way, and everyone was totally cool about it which was IMO just great! as I know how it is to be on the other side waiting to get up a slow lift and having some dumbass falling and crap all over the place. Michael did do a good job staying away from the features and didn't get in anyones way whatsoever on the hill... just in the lift line which was short being as it was a Friday and not too many people there before 6pm. They started firing up the guns in the terrain park and looked all ready to go on the Freedom Park run as well with all the lights on the guns lit. We bolted out at 6:30 as it was getting really crowded and not the place for Mike to be at. The guns were blowing all towards the lift anyway and it was colder than we had expected it to be to begin with. Amazing that BB can keep that trail going, and they are doing a kick ass job with what they have to work with. A little help from mother nature would be great for sure. Gotta give them mad props for keping it open for us to get out there this early. I've gotten 35 runs in and 2 days before thanksgiving... Holy smokes never would have thought it to be possible from someone who lives 110 miles away and has averaged less than 15 days a season for the past three years. I wanted 20 days this season and I'm well on my way to getting it thanks to Peak giving me such a good head start. Thanks JFBB for giving all of us PA skiers and riders a place to ski at this extremely early season.... mad stoked!!

not the right size for you anyway... I think scott has some that might match... green and yellow I thought

I'm 34 FWIW and Toast is right this shit's gettin old...

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I do believe you answered your own question there Dudley.

Ever hear Yo Mama from Pharcyde I used to love that song back in the day.

who made that rule that sucks!! and Who said it was a joke?