An incomplete list of silly and completely unprofessional things we’ve done at the store over its 28 year history.

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  • 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

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