Gregor Smith

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  • One Of Those Actual Conversations…

    I’ll be the first to admit that me and Robyn are kinda dumb, we laugh at wildly inappropriate things and make up increasingly bizarre conversations as we go. Some have been documented and tonight was another classic…

    But first, I need to set the stage. We’re whittling down the TiVo season pass list as it’s spiralled out of control over the years, and at the very bottom there was one listed just as “(5 WTVI)” nothing more, nothing less.

    Robyn: How can it record nothing?
    Me: Maybe it’s like The Neverending Story, the nothing encroaching on Fantasia. Maybe we need to go to the swamp of sadness to find the answer?
    Robyn: ATREYU!!!!
    Me: ARTAX! YOU GOTTA KEEP BELIEVING!!!! DON’T GIVE IN!!!
    Robyn: Retard…

    Yep, that’s me…

  • More Actual Conversations

    It’s been a year since I did the last actual conversation between Robyn and me, not saying we still don’t have them, cause we do, but it’s easier to document via instant messengers. The set up for this one is Bravo and their reality series The Real Housewives of Atlanta. I honestly hadn’t heard of this (I don’t watch Bravo since Project Greenlight was red lighted) but imagine my surprise that it’s not really Atlanta at all, but Alpharetta, Sandy Springs and Duluth. Duluth? Metro Atlanta at a push…

    Me: I found out something hella funny that made me snort out dr pepper
    Her: what’s that?
    Me: Bravo are showing a prog called the “Real Housewives of Atlanta” which is more like the Real Housewives of Alpharetta, Duluth and (get this) the exclusive area of Sandy Springs
    Her: I take it’s not the “real housewives of the granville”
    Me: I have no idea what part of teh Springs of Sand that “exclusive” enough to warrant a reality show (except maybe Cops)
    Her: LMAO
    Me: I’m *almost* tempted to watch 5 minutes of it so see how horrific it is, I mean Duluth??? That’s closer to Commerce outlets than Lenox or Phipps
    Me: I can just picture some “fabulous” women lunching and shopping at the “fabulous” Mall of Georgia… but where? maybe at Chili’s or the Olive Garden, too many choices…
    Her: LOL
    Her: maybe it’s “real ghetto housewives of Atlanta metro”

    Now we lived in Sandy Springs for a few years, and I really have no idea where this “exclusive” area is, I’m guessing it’s not off Roswell Road… And how comes they couldn’t wrangle in some Buckhead women? that would be a laugh.

  • Time For Another Actual Conversation

    We’re currently watching Celtic vs MLS All-Stars on ESPN2. and Celtic’s Dutch player Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink comes on screen…

    Her: What’s his name? Is it where he comes from? Do All Dutch people do that?
    Me (quoting Wikipedia): “His name – the longest in European football – derives from the 17th century, when two farming families in the Enschede area of the Netherlands intermarried. Both the Vennegoor and Hesselink names carried equal social weight, and so – rather than choose between them – they chose to use both. “Of” in Dutch translates to “or” in English, which would mean that a strict translation of his name would read ‘Jan Vennegoor or Hesselink’.” So there…
    Her: Oh, so he has a conjunction in his name? I thought it was a preposition.

    Just awesome… You can’t make this stuff up. To make it even better, MLS is beating Celtic 2-0 at half time. Shame about the David Beckham over saturation, I wish they would concentrate on the game that’s being played, not some muppet in the stands.

  • Yet Another Actual Conversation

    I swear, sometimes Robyn and I act so weird it’s just too funny for words, like tonight for instance, Robyn was talking about a strange “organization coaching session by an outside consultant” at her work, and all the weird phrases that was getting bounded about, as well as her yearly evaluation earlier this week…

    Me: Well, I get to give you your yearly evaluation in November, and it doesn’t look good.
    Her: Neither is yours…
    Me: I don’t think you’ll be getting a raise
    Her: You don’t have money to give me a raise anyways
    Me: I might by then… But it’s not all bad, you get plus points for your cooking
    Her: You hate my cooking!
    Me: Yeah, that should tell you how bad it’s looking…
    Her: Not cool!

    At which point we both crack up and end up in fits of laughter for minutes afterwards. Just an average day in our married life.

  • Another Actual Conversation

    I need to keep this for posterity really… First, the back story. Robyn’s parents are moving house, so for the last few days she has been going through a crapload of videos, cataloging them to decide which to trash and which to keep, she’s just found a video with Ben Folds Five stuff on it…

    Robyn says:
    sweet! I’ve got Beck on this one too!
    Beck was on the same Sessions at West 54th as BF5.
    AW FUCK!
    I stopped recording!
    Gregor Smith says:
    LMAO
    Robyn says:
    It was just getting good with Devil’s Haricut!
    Gregor Smith says:
    sorry, but that was funny
    Robyn says:
    I had such bad taste in music back then!!!
    Gregor Smith says:
    you have a good taste in music now?
    Robyn says:
    I seriously bet I didn’t know who he was at the time
    I mean, he wasn’t as big as he is now
    Gregor Smith says:
    he was big in 94 after loser came out, infact that was probably his peak in popularity
    Robyn says:
    LOL
    well, you’re prolly right
    I was just a loser for not taping it
    Gregor Smith says:
    awwwww
    my wee lovable loser
    Robyn says:
    I’m really angry at myself.
    I’m angry at the me in 2001… is that possible?!?!
    Gregor Smith says:
    in a paradoxial way, yes
    you need to get all butterfly effect on your ass
    Robyn says:
    LOL
    you know what really pisses me off about these video tapes?
    Gregor Smith says:
    apart from them being video tapes?
    Robyn says:
    well, yeah LOL
    apart from that
    like this one, I only recorded the actual parts of the program that had BF5 (because, I mean seriously, why would I want to watch the rest of the Keenen Ivory Wayans Show)
    so I have like Ben Folds 5 clips from like 4 shows
    total lasting maybe 20 minutes
    then I have their Sessions at West 54th, which I later got the proper tape of
    (and which I can buy [or rent from Netflix] the DVD)
    so I’m keeping this big honkin’ tape for like 20 minutes of content

    Just another day in the life…

  • An Actual Conversation

    This took place between Robyn and I tonight.

    Me: Ohhh Premiership football [on TiVo To-Do List], check it… Ahhh Chelsea vs. West Brom, that sucks…
    Her: What’s West Brom?
    Me: West Bromwich Albion, thats the name of the team from West Bromwich.
    Her: Where’s that?
    Me: It’s in the Black Country…
    (long pause)
    Her: …. Africa?

    I swear to god, that’s how it went… Here’s what WikiPedia says about the Black Country.

    The Black Country is a loosely-defined area of conurbation to the north and west of Birmingham, and to the south and east of Wolverhampton in the English West Midlands, around the South Staffordshire coalfield. It is also known for its midland accent.

    […]

    Places which comprise the Black Country include parts of the city of Wolverhampton, and the towns of:

    * Aldridge
    * Bilston, Blackheath, Brownhills
    * Coseley, Cradley
    * Darlaston, Dudley
    * Great Bridge
    * Halesowen
    * Kingswinford
    * Lye
    * Oldbury
    * Quarry Bank
    * Rowley Regis
    * Sedgley, Smethwick, Stourbridge
    * Tipton
    * Walsall,
    * Warley, Wednesbury, Wednesfield, West Bromwich, Willenhall

    The “capital” of the Black Country is generally considered to be Dudley, not Wolverhampton. The bounds of the Black Country. however, are controversial, and the whole of Wolverhampton is included by some and none at all by others. Despite the 1974 local government boundary, the northern border with Cannock Chase is also rather blurred. Birmingham is most definitely not in the Black Country.

    So now you know…

    EDIT: I must stress, she claims she was kidding, but I’m not so sure…

  • Google Talk: A Quick Review…

    I’ve had a chance to play with Google Talk now, and I’m mightily impressed…

    It has a ton of neat little touches that really sets it apart, plus it’s a tiny, bloat free install, unlike MSN, Yahoo or AIM, which is cool… The first is the actual conversation window, if you have multiple conversations going on, it stacks them like Gmail does with email

    Google Talk Conversations

    So if you have one or more persons on “hold”, it’ll still show you if the other conversations have been updated, which is really nice…You can also minimise everything to prevent people peeking over your shoulder.

    Google Talk Conversations Minimized

    Inside the windows is cool, it’s bare minimal, no emoticons (though it does highlight :) :( :P etc.), no themes, no file transfers and it uses Markdown to bold and italicise words, which can be weird at first, but easy to learn…

    Like I said, this is a quick review, I really need to get a mic to try and “call” people. That’s the ultimate test…

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