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Broken Face
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USA
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 Posted - 01/19/2005 : 08:47:48
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As a bookend to Kathryn's best vacation ever, what is your worst?
This is easy: When i was in 6th grade my family was going to make the 16 hour drive down to Hilton Head, South Carolina to spend ten days with some cousins who we hadn't seen in awhile. Well, in Delaware, when stopped at a Roy Rogers for dinner (nothing but the best), we noticed some sort of odd pimple on my arm - only it turned out to be chicken pox. So for the first 7 days i was in bed with not only normal chicken pox but also INTERNAL chicken pox, which means that i couldn't swallow anything without being in pain because my throat had a few, and my stomach had a few, so if i didn't swallow anything, bile would scorch the pox in my stomach. then, around the 3rd day, my brother got them. so between the two of us we were sick the entire trip. And the "long lost" cousins became obnoxious white trash hicks who are the poster children for not laying in the sun - my brother (2nd grade at the time) really thought the mom was african american because of how much she was in the sun.
-Brian
If you move I shoots!
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Carolynanna
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Canada
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Posted - 01/19/2005 : 09:22:55
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My god that sounds horrible.
Internal chicken pox???
That certainly beats the time when my whole family went house boating in the Shushwaps and all got swimmer's itch in the water.
Which according to http://www.hope.edu/swimmersitch/faq.html#1 "Swimmer's itch or schistosome cercarial dermatitis is a skin reaction that certain people have to the entry of a larval stage of certain flatworms into the epidermal layer of the skin."
And looks like this except all over your body;
We went to shower in the campgrounds and later found out that the water in the showers was from the lake.
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Godfather of nothing, ancesters of none.
Black glasses and feedback took my sense of fun.
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
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Posted - 01/19/2005 : 11:52:41
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wow, i don't think i can top those. those both sound horrible.
i don't think i've ever had a bad vacation.
the only thing i can think of is the time when i was about 7, on a road trip with my family, and left my stuffed Shamu teddy bear at a rest stop. didn't discover it for a few hours after that. and my parents refused to go back.
i'm still a little bitter about that
i'll find you Shamu! i haven't given up!!!
ist es möglich für ein quesadilla skrotum zu lecken? beim sprechen der quesadillas von LBF, ja. ja in der tatheheheheheheehehee! |
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
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Posted - 01/19/2005 : 11:58:23
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Wasn't Shamu a whale?
I'm with floop. There's no topping Brian and Carolynanna's
gross disease-ridden vacations. My worse just took place,
the ill-fated Christmas Trip Of Dental Horrors, which
I posted about as it was occuring, I am sure to the delight
of those who were on the forum at the time.
 I still believe in the excellent joy of the Frank |
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Posted - 01/19/2005 : 12:00:18
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All vacations with my parents in south Spain were horrible...
Purify the colors, purify my mind,
and spread the ashes of the colors
over this heart of mine!
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
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Posted - 01/19/2005 : 12:03:00
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shamu was part whale, part bear. right?
ist es möglich für ein quesadilla skrotum zu lecken? beim sprechen der quesadillas von LBF, ja. ja in der tatheheheheheheehehee! |
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Carolynanna
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Canada
6556 Posts |
Posted - 01/19/2005 : 12:06:46
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Ooooo I got another one,
and this one I'm scarred by.
I was really really little and still carried my blanky around.
I don't remember much except that we were going to visit grandma out of town and during the car ride I got a bleeding nose that went on for quite awhile. My dad refused to stop for kleenex and they made me use my blanky! The horror, my soft pink blanky covered in my own blood! I cried for the whole ride.
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Godfather of nothing, ancesters of none.
Black glasses and feedback took my sense of fun.
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floop
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Mexico
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Posted - 01/19/2005 : 12:09:00
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you mean you don't carry a blanky now?
ist es möglich für ein quesadilla skrotum zu lecken? beim sprechen der quesadillas von LBF, ja. ja in der tatheheheheheheehehee! |
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Carolynanna
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Canada
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Posted - 01/19/2005 : 12:12:42
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No but I actually still have that one,
its pretty threadbare.
I gave it to my daughter.
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Godfather of nothing, ancesters of none.
Black glasses and feedback took my sense of fun.
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
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Posted - 01/19/2005 : 12:16:18
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I am on a mission to fix everybody's childhood.
Floop, your parents should have turned that car around.
Carolynanna, words can express my outrage. What was the matter
with your parents!? This is for you:
http://www.johnlewis.com/jl_assets/product/230190353.jpg
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 01/19/2005 : 12:21:43
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childhood?
did i say 7? i meant 17.
ist es möglich für ein quesadilla skrotum zu lecken? beim sprechen der quesadillas von LBF, ja. ja in der tatheheheheheheehehee! |
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Cheeseman1000
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Iceland
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Posted - 01/19/2005 : 12:26:17
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Caroly, you gave your daughter a threadbare, blood-stained blanket? Wow, you must love her...
And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
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KimStanleyRobinson
* Dog in the Sand *
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Posted - 01/19/2005 : 12:47:22
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That one when I was about 5...was on a trip out west.
We were driving across the desert when we came upon an accident scene.
Apparently some native Americans were involved in an automobile accident.
We drove past the scene slowly, my young face pressed against the dirty glass.
I made eye contact with an old man that was lying injured on the ground.
He was wearing a head dress and had other special looking things on his person.
As we passed I stared into his eyes. He looked at me like he was trying to tell me something - as if he wanted me to help him somehow.
Suddenly, I felt a surge of spirituality...as if the old man's spirit was crowding my young eggshell mind.
I think he was a shaman or medicine man and his soul jumped into my body as we passed so that it wouldn't die with the old, damaged body.
Some think this helps to explain my general dark mysteriousness, special powers over large crowds and my legendary sexual prowess.
It also may help to explain my tendency to get unreasonably drunk and shout incomprehensible garbage at the sky.
Maybe.
In any case, I occaisionally wear a large codpiece.
Love me two times, baby.
Recently misheard:
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Posted - 01/19/2005 : 13:07:55
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Floop/Tony, I see that you have never got through that...now you have multiple personalities!
Purify the colors, purify my mind,
and spread the ashes of the colors
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
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Posted - 01/19/2005 : 14:58:17
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He's a father now floop.
I would say my worst was Magaluf in Majorca in 1998. I never liked those kind of holidays (the Brits here will know what I mean). A horrible, horrible place.
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The King Of Karaoke
> Teenager of the Year <
USA
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Posted - 01/19/2005 : 15:31:00
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I'd have to say the worst vacation I ever had was the time I went to Tijuana Mexico by myself to celebrate my birthday. I was there about five minutes before I stopped at this place for some taco's and a beer. I mentioned that it was my birthday to the bartender. He told the owner, and after that they kept buying me shots of tequila. I got so completely wasted I blacked out. When I finally came to my head hurt so bad I can't even describe the pain. I attributed it to all the tequila they gave me, but it felt like no other hangover I had ever had. As my head started to clear, I began to take in my surroundings. I realized I was on a filthy stage of some kind. I felt something dripping down my head so I reached up and realized I had this dirty old blonde wig with hay all in it apparently stapled to my head. I jumped up and noticed I was in a womens bikini. It was at that moment that it became clear, that I had somehow become the unwilling particpant of the local donkey show.
I would not recommend that Tijuana to anyone.
The food is good but your ass will pay later.
That was probably the worst vacation I've ever had.
Orlando was a close second though. Too touristy.
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Edited by - The King Of Karaoke on 01/19/2005 15:42:56 |
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KimStanleyRobinson
* Dog in the Sand *
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Posted - 01/19/2005 : 15:45:29
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Originally posted by The King Of Karaoke
I'd have to say the worst vacation I ever had was the time I went to Tijuana Mexico by myself to celebrate my birthday. I was there about five minutes before I stopped at this place for some taco's and a beer. I mentioned that it was my birthday to the bartender. He told the owner, and after that they kept buying me shots of tequila. I got so completely wasted I blacked out. When I finally came to my head hurt so bad I can't even describe the pain. I attributed it to all the tequila they gave me, but it felt like no other hangover I had ever had. As my head started to clear, I began to take in my surroundings. I realized I was on a filthy stage of some kind. I felt something dripping down my head so I reached up and realized I had this dirty old blonde wig with hay all in it apparently stapled to my head. I jumped up and noticed I was in a womens bikini. It was at that moment that it became clear, that I had somehow become the unwilling particpant of the local donkey show.
I would not recommend that Tijuana to anyone.
The food is good but your ass will pay later.
That was probably the worst vacation I've ever had.
Orlando was a close second though. Too touristy.
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Ok.
Thats it.
Top of the heap.
No one can fuck with this.
Recently misheard:
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The King Of Karaoke
> Teenager of the Year <
USA
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Posted - 01/20/2005 : 09:14:04
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| I forgot about my vacation two years ago to my home town, Lowell Massachusetts. Hot, humid, mosquitos, and lame ass people. That was worse than the Tijuana donkey show incident. It was so humid that when you got out of the shower you never really could fully dry off. I slept in the middle of the kitchen floor most nights. The rest of the time was spent driving here and driving there because everyone wanted me to visit them. More work than relaxing. If I ever go back I'm renting a place in North Hampton, or Rye beach, and they can come visit me. |
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starmekitten
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 01/20/2005 : 09:27:09
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When I was a kid we went to a holiday camp called pontins (butlins for poor folk) my dad drove us there and we put all our stuff in the room and my brothers and I went to play in the adventure playground. My mum came out after a while to watch us and I ran off to see my dad. He wasn't in the cabin, so I checked the playground, and the 'entertainments lounge' and everywhere. I was running around asking everyone if they'd seen my dad. I grabbed one of the entertainers and was weeping at them saying I couldn't find my dad and he was missing so they came round with me looking for him. My mum had freaked out by this point because I'd ben gone too long and she found me with this rep in tears, and the rep asked my mum where my dad was because thats why I was upset. And thats when my mum told me that they'd not been getting on so well so dad didn't stay. It was the first time I realised they were having troubles. Poor mum, she must have been so embarassed.
Thats about second for worst, just, I'm not talking about the worst though. Still brings tears to my eyes that one.
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Surfer Rosa
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Posted - 01/20/2005 : 10:55:58
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My worst one was snowboarding with my husband, one of our best friends, my sister-in-law and her girlfriend. All sounded good on paper, only problem is our friend had slept with my sister-in-law's girlfriend just before the holiday. The whole thing was nearly called off but it was one of those where everyone thought they could be grown up about it and enjoy the holiday regardless. Boy where we mistaken.
2 weeks in a remote French village with 3 people who hate each other and the remaining 2 trying to keep the peace and not take sides or kill anyone. Thankfully I'd smuggled a large block of hash with me which was the only thing that kept me sane (that and making snowbears) for the entire holiday. |
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VoVat
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
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Posted - 01/20/2005 : 18:57:55
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Wasn't Shamu a whale?
He was a killer whale, which, I believe, is technically a kind of dolphin.
"Reunion? Shit union!" |
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Daisy Girl
~ Abstract Brain ~
Belize
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Posted - 01/20/2005 : 20:37:32
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
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Posted - 01/21/2005 : 02:52:57
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quote:
Originally posted by VoVat
quote:
Wasn't Shamu a whale?
He was a killer whale, which, I believe, is technically a kind of dolphin.
"Reunion? Shit union!"
I think he said that on porpoise.
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