§ June 4th, 2008 § Filed under Uncategorized Comments Off on An incomplete list of silly and completely unprofessional things we’ve done at the store over its 28 year history.
- Played Iron Butterfly’s “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” 28 1/2 consecutive times, keeping track on a posted piece of paper
- In-store Tetris competitions
- Made up half-baked musical numbers on the spot (“The Leprechaun Punisher” – “Priority Mail – The Musical” – “Mike Racer”)
- RUBBER BAND GUN FIGHT!
- Used a megaphone to announce special deals at our “Midnight Madness” sales
- Used a megaphone for pretty much any other reason we could think of
- Displayed Crack Comics and Speed Comics together in the glass case (well, I thought it was funny)
- Recounted, in excruciating detail, our Trade Wars 2002 adventures
- Set fire to a comic out in the parking lot (don’t remember which comic…oh, okay, it was West Coast Avengers)
- Picked up another employee and twirled him around in the air, making him scream like a girl
- Read Kitty Pryde’s dialogue from the Kitty Pryde & Wolverine mini-series in a gravelly voice (a la The Venture Brothers‘ Doctor Girlfriend)
- Learned a lot about gay porn (thanks, Dorian…I think)
- Put up a promo poster for Jonni Thunder AKA Thunderbolt up by the register with other new promo posters, some 20 years after the series was over
- Debated, at length, the DC Universe timeline, and how the presence of the Teen Titans screws it all up
- Got a wandering balloon-sculpture expert to make us all kinds of cool balloon-sculpture-type stuff (sword, hat, etc.)
- Had conversations entirely in tough-guy gangster-type voices with former employee Corey
- Played “Makin’ Bacon” by the Pork Dukes on the store stereo (trust me, that’s entirely inappropriate)
- Had a “Suit and Tie Day” (ironic, no?)
- Wore this
- Mom jokes. Lots of them
- Stood on the roof, wearing no pants (may be apocryphal)
- Hired Kid Chris
- “Mike’s Super Disco Party Dance-Off!”
- Occasionally brandished The Peacemaker in a friendly-yet-threatening manner (The Peacemaker: wooden baseball bat with a peace sign scratched into the handle)
- Knowingly and willingly sold copies of Youngblood to customers
- Played the circle game
- Kept around a ziplocked bag filled with former employee Rob’s lengthy shorn locks
- Did impressions of Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street
- Allowed myself to be one of the objects of a county-wide scavenger hunt
- Gathered material for weblogs
