Stupid Guest Tricks

JugglingFreak wrote:DisneyMom: Glad to have brought back good memories.

RandyB: Yes, pain is a good motivator.. You get the same with clubs and rings.

Rings being the worst, bruises, split fingers, cracked fingernails, and sometimes permanent damage to the scrotum..

Yes, but have you done the chain saws that we saw on a trip to San Francisco?

(pier 39)

OoOoOoOoh, I love Fisherman's Wharf. Having grown up just a 30 minute drive from The City, we always had great Sunday's over at the wharf or Golden Gate Park. We used to eat at The Cliff House, a very popular place back in the day. We always, always had to bring home a loaf of sourdough bread from the wharf, even tho every grocery store in the Bay Area carries SF sour bread. I MISS that bread here. :( I always bring some back with us when we get to the Gray Area. ;)

You just do NOT get the same sourdough at a mile high! The climate and elevation play a HUGE part in making that bread (and well, every other baked good as well, you have to change cooking times and temps for the elevation! Strange!!!! Elevation does weird things to food.....and to minds as well...:twisted :)

Pier 39 came along later, but they used to have a great wind up toy shoppe there. I don't know if it is still there. I have quite the collection of wind up toys.
Yeah, they have a great carousel and jugglers and all sorts of buskers out on the wharf! Fun times! That brings back memories for me of my childhood in the SF Bay Area!

susi

Juggling Freak, do you do the Buskerfests around the country? We have one here in Denver every year that is a blast to go to and watch all the talented folks do their *thang*

Juggling Freak...

I think I know you...You ever juggle for the mouse?

Wow, lot of responses.

Grumpy Pirate No, never been to the west coast. I will tell you a trick though. Jugglers who juggle chainsaws juggle them while the motor is running, but not the chain. The chain isn't engaged at any time so there would only be a minor abrasion if it was caught on the wrong end.. Sorry to be a spoiler.

Princess Susi I'm mostly on the east coast (south east specifically). Juggling is more of a hobby than a profession to me.

Notatourist No, I never worked for the mouse.. I wish I did. I know a couple who did. Male nurse Danny(Danny Devaney), Sergio (Sergey Ignatov Jr.) and Randy the Juggler (Randy Cabral).

I'm not as good as they are :( . (Sergey in particular. He is one of the best ring performers I have ever seen)

JugglingFreak wrote:Wow, lot of responses.

Grumpy Pirate No, never been to the west coast. I will tell you a trick though. Jugglers who juggle chainsaws juggle them while the motor is running, but not the chain. The chain isn't engaged at any time so there would only be a minor abrasion if it was caught on the wrong end.. Sorry to be a spoiler.

Princess Susi I'm mostly on the east coast (south east specifically). Juggling is more of a hobby than a profession to me.

Notatourist No, I never worked for the mouse.. I wish I did. I know a couple who did. Male nurse Danny(Danny Devaney), Sergio (Sergey Ignatov Jr.) and Randy the Juggler (Randy Cabral).

I'm not as good as they are :( . (Sergey in particular. He is one of the best ring performers I have ever seen)

OOOOooohhhhh.... YOU ruined the magic!!!!!!!


hehehehehehe

(even if the chain was "dull" it would still hurt!)

Yeah.. A little. Penn Jillette had a bit in Penn and Teller where he would juggle torches on the flaming end to show that it wouldn't hurt. He also had a bit where he would juggle broken liquor bottles.. Now that was dangerous.. :twisted:

JugglingFreak wrote:Yeah.. A little. Penn Jillette had a bit in Penn and Teller where he would juggle torches on the flaming end to show that it wouldn't hurt. He also had a bit where he would juggle broken liquor bottles.. Now that was dangerous.. :twisted:

Unless it was made out of the "sugar" glass that is sometimes used....

Princess Susi wrote:You just do NOT get the same sourdough at a mile high! The climate and elevation play a HUGE part in making that bread (and well, every other baked good as well, you have to change cooking times and temps for the elevation! Strange!!!! Elevation does weird things to food.....and to minds as well...:twisted :)

You should try to make decent tea or coffee at altitude! I finally resorted to using a pressure cooker to brew decent tea at 6000 ft. Once I figured out the recipe, it works at any altitude!

GRUMPY PIRATE wrote:Unless it was made out of the "sugar" glass that is sometimes used....

No, they aren't sugar glass in that act.

Penn usually comes to the IJA (International Juggling Association) or WJF (World Juggling Federation) conventions.

I can promise you they are real liquor bottles.

Zazu wrote:You should try to make decent tea or coffee at altitude! I finally resorted to using a pressure cooker to brew decent tea at 6000 ft. Once I figured out the recipe, it works at any altitude!

Yeppers! Pretty much every recipe or cooking time and heat has to be changed at altitude. The only thing I really like about living here is that when we come down to Florida or California, I can go and go and go, because my blood is so rich, kinda like blood doping! That is why the Kenyans win the marathons. They run at 10,000 feet and can go forever when they run in New York or Boston or any low altitude city.

The worst part is when we get back after being away for 3 weeks. I get really tired very easily and short of breath until we re-acclimate to the altitude.

Life is different living at a mile high! We got snow last night but it is pretty much melted off when the sun came out this morning and now this afternoon it is clouding up again and we are supposed to get 3-8 inches of snow depending where you are in the city or the foothills. At least it is not supposed to be a blizzard! And this after a pretty pre-Spring week of sunshine and shorts weather, for a couple days. It goes back and forth every day.

So if you ever end up living in the Rockies, you will need to readjust every recipe in your file or cookbook! And wear lots of warm clothes!

I just want to live in my tank tops, shorts and flip flops again all year round!!!!
susi