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    • #433

      Shannen
      Spectator
    • #15232

      just read the auction description, man. it’s all there.

    • #15233

      Arthur
      Spectator

      Oh really… wait, let me put me glasses on… ah yes, I read that already. Thank you, Cool As Ice Cream.

      Now the real insiders info please.

      For example, what is \"The rivalry between the Red Sox and the New York Yankees is one of the longest and the most dramatic in professional sports.\" all about?

    • #15234

      manillascissor
      Keymaster

      The Red Sox and Yankees have a historic rivalry, lasting most of the 20th century. Very deep-seeded and long lasting. So, over time, fans have become OBSESSED with supporting both teams vehemently.

      I think there was some stupid curse associated w/ Babe Ruth (who played for the Yankees). I’m too lazy to look this up.

      The Red Sox are also the only team to ever come back in a World Series from 3-0 deficit, only to win 4 in a row and steal the Series. And they did this against the all mighty Yankees. This alone is an historical accomplishment, not to be repeated any time soon, if ever.

      So, there’s lots of bad blood.

      But this construction worker burying the jersey in a new Yankee stadium is another \"curse\". To me? It’s fucking retarded and I cannot believe ANYONE would buy that piece of crap. However, we’re not caught up in the baseball collectors, we are more interested in a particular band that rhymes w/

      Duh Crashing Dumplins

    • #15235

      darcysiva
      Spectator

      Very true. The Yankees-Red Sox curse is definitely one of the more intriguing topics in baseball. Being from the NY/NJ area and having many family members be die-hard Yankees fans.. I know :)

      At least the jersey is raising money for a good cause to help the fight against cancer. I salute them for doing something positive like that.

    • #15236

      Arthur
      Spectator

      The shirt went for US $175,100.00. :shock:

    • #15237

      what!!!

    • #15238

      Arthur
      Spectator

      Yeah. When I had that money I would buy:

    • #15239

      blueczarina
      Spectator

      Yeah, thats a lot of money for some baseball shirt. :wink:

      So, you wouldn’t buy $175,100 worth of Pumpkin stuff, Arthur? :lol:

    • #15240

      Arthur
      Spectator

      Yeah, thats a lot of money for some baseball shirt. :wink:

      So, you wouldn’t buy $175,100 worth of Pumpkin stuff, Arthur? :lol:[/quote:1logzub0]
      What Pumpkins item would be that expensive? :wink:

      I thinks it’s more fun to organize a secret Smashing Pumpkins concert in US or EU for 150 SPfreaks members max, and fly all of us in for 4 days of "Pumpkins’ Rock & Acoustic Party". That would be a good cause also for that amount of money, right? :lol:

      (Keep on dreaming Arthur… :roll: )

    • #15241

      manillascissor
      Keymaster

      Yeah, thats a lot of money for some baseball shirt. :wink:

      So, you wouldn’t buy $175,100 worth of Pumpkin stuff, Arthur? :lol:[/quote:1nkfl1ie]
      What Pumpkins item would be that expensive? :wink:

      I thinks it’s more fun to organize a secret Smashing Pumpkins concert in US or EU for 150 SPfreaks members max, and fly all of us in for 4 days of "Pumpkins’ Rock & Acoustic Party". That would be a good cause also for that amount of money, right? :lol:

      (Keep on dreaming Arthur… :roll: )[/quote:1nkfl1ie]

      Make this happen!

    • #15242

      yes yes yes

      that must happen!!!

      think that guy would loan us some money?

    • #15243

      manillascissor
      Keymaster

      yes yes yes

      that must happen!!!

      think that guy would loan us some money?[/quote:2ryjq7er]

      yeah, i think so. we just need to become a charity. ;)

    • #15244

      we will tell him that we are

      humm

      i will think of something, if not can you?

    • #15245

      blueczarina
      Spectator

      Yeah, thats a lot of money for some baseball shirt. :wink:

      So, you wouldn’t buy $175,100 worth of Pumpkin stuff, Arthur? :lol:[/quote:24k9nk55]
      What Pumpkins item would be that expensive? :wink:

      I thinks it’s more fun to organize a secret Smashing Pumpkins concert in US or EU for 150 SPfreaks members max, and fly all of us in for 4 days of "Pumpkins’ Rock & Acoustic Party". That would be a good cause also for that amount of money, right? :lol:

      (Keep on dreaming Arthur… :roll: )[/quote:24k9nk55]

      Before you raise the money through manillascissor’s charity scam, I think you need to find 150 SPfreak members. I’m not sure there are even 20 active members. :) :lol:

      Although it could be a really small gig. :P

    • #15246

      yeah, if you limit it to, say, 90000 (85000 cheaper) you could fly the active members out and still have enough to convince BC/JC to do it :lol:

    • #15247

      blueczarina
      Spectator

      to true :lol: or Arthur could always just pay them to chat for real on the site. :)

    • #15248

      Nah.

      I’d rather prefer an intimate concert with them :)

    • #15249

      blueczarina
      Spectator

      Yeah, he could rent BC and JC for a night. :lol: At least they wouldn’t have to worry about people talking and shouting \"more Siamese Dream\" (at least I don’t think so, although I do like Today :wink: ). :)

    • #15250

      Nah, we’ll yell for more of the obscurities that you only get from being even partially involved in the collectors community :lol:

    • #15251

      blueczarina
      Spectator

      \"More Early 1989 stuff\" :lol:

    • #15252

      No way – we’re going for the 1987 stuff!

    • #15253

      blueczarina
      Spectator

      I want to hear the Marked and Hexen. :lol:

      (He’d probably get scared and run away. :( :lol: )

    • #15254

      lol

      you all are so silly
      :lol:

      i would love to hear anything. so who is gonna come up with the money? are we still going with the charity thing?

    • #15255

      Arthur
      Spectator

      My newest suggestion would be: inhouse Smashing Pumpkins concert at my place for everybody with 25 posts or more here on the boards. Free flights and free food, drinks and lodging included.

      My cunning plan for gettin’ the money: we call it a \"3 day Rock Campus\" and write letters to our governments and Universities everywhere to sponsor it for 2500 people (can we help it that less then 25 only show up? Guess not huh? :wink: ). We will then put Post-It notes with the sponsors’ names on the fridge in the kitchen. Duty done. And 3 days fun will be there! 8)

    • #15256

      now that is a plan i can get behind, so when do we start the letter writing?

      we can even use the big post it notes, and in diffrent colors.

      yay for arthur for the great idea!!!!!

    • #15257

      blueczarina
      Spectator

      so the next scam is education funds. nice. is your house big enough though Arthur? :lol:

    • #15258

      a couple days hanging out with the pumpkins would be educational. :wink:

      i am still really liking that idea.

    • #15259

      blueczarina
      Spectator

      yes, it would be. :lol:

    • #15260

      for everybody with 25 posts or more here on the boards.[/quote:xbrt3e97]

      What about the people who have that post count but haven’t reared their heads in months? Namely, BleedingTheOrchid?

    • #15261

      blueczarina
      Spectator

      it should be 25 posts in the last couple weeks.

    • #15262

      Arthur
      Spectator

      Ah well, just bring together a bunch of nice people, I’m not excluding anybody…

      And yes, my appartment of 120 m2 would do I guess for this small (& educational, yes bullet, see my programme below :wink: ) gathering, when we have around 25 people showing up.

      Programme for this 3 days Rock Campus

      Day 1, morning: breakfast & meet ‘n’ greet with Smashing Pumpkins
      Day 1, morning: bass workshop with Ginger
      Day 1, lunch: includes speech of Billy about the making of a rock song
      Day 1, afternoon: drums workshop with Jimmy
      Day 1, dinner: includes favourite snacks of Jeff
      Day 1, night: first acoustic gig of Smashing Pumpkins
      Day 1, late night: after party

      Day 2, morning: songwriting workshop with Billy
      Day 2, lunch: includes speech of Jimmy, about how to cooperate together in a band
      Day 2, afternoon: guitar workshop with Jeff
      Day 2, dinner: includes Ginger’s most favourite Mexican recipe
      Day 2, night: second acoustic gig of Smashing Pumpkins
      Day 2, late night: after party

      Day 3, morning: piano & keyboards workshop with Lisa and Billy
      Day 3, lunch: includes questening the band
      Day 3, afternoon: teams of 5 each write and practise a song with individual bandmembers
      Day 3, dinner: in restaurant of choice
      Day 3, night: third semi-acoustic rock show performance of Smashing Pumpkins
      Day 3, late night: encores with teams’ songs
      Day 3, late late night: after party

      Is this educational enough, and to everybody’s likings? :lol:

    • #15263

      Oh my god, that schedule made me lol, and I kid you not!

    • #15264

      darcysiva
      Spectator

      My newest suggestion would be: inhouse Smashing Pumpkins concert at my place for everybody with 25 posts or more here on the boards. Free flights and free food, drinks and lodging included.

      My cunning plan for gettin’ the money: we call it a "3 day Rock Campus" and write letters to our governments and Universities everywhere to sponsor it for 2500 people (can we help it that less then 25 only show up? Guess not huh? :wink: ). We will then put Post-It notes with the sponsors’ names on the fridge in the kitchen. Duty done. And 3 days fun will be there! 8)[/quote:fl6zqtkq]

      Two words.

      Hell yes.

      ;)

    • #15265

      i second that!!

      so how we gonna make this happen? when do we start the letter writing?

    • #15266

      blueczarina
      Spectator

      Sounds great. We’ll hold them hostage for three days in Arthur’s house and make them spill their secrets.
      I’m in. :)
      Now you need to get started on the money scam. :lol:

    • #15267

      czarina, no scam, education!!!

      and we aren’t going to hold them hostage, we will pay them to be there(like a geust speaker at a school, it will just be at arthurs house), but after meeting all of us, they will want ot stay and maybe even give back the money, cause we are so super cool!!

      edit**
      or like a seminar, yeah a seminar

    • #15268

      blueczarina
      Spectator

      All right then, glad to hear the funds will be raised through legitimate means. There was just so much talk about charity scams and the like. :)

      I’m sure the Pumpkins will love us all so much they will want to stay forever. After all we are the best Pumpkin fan group on the web :P . It will be great. :lol:

    • #15269

      yes, they will, but i don’t know if arthur would want us to stay forever. the pumpkins probably, but the rest of us, he would probably get tired of us after a week or two.

    • #15270

      blueczarina
      Spectator

      He will keep them and kick us out. For shame.

    • #15271

      yes, but what ya gonna do?? :wink:

    • #15272

      blueczarina
      Spectator

      We could move it to another location or better yet we could start a Pumpkin commune where we could all live together and share in the music. It could be the new Pumpkinland. :lol:

      (just kidding)

    • #15273

      well in theory it would work, but in reality i don’t think so.

      but a few days at arthurs w/ the pumpkins would be awesomeness!

    • #15274

      Arthur
      Spectator

      well in theory it would work, but in reality i don’t think so.

      but a few days at arthurs w/ the pumpkins would be awesomeness![/quote:nnp38liu]

      I second that, both statements of yours. And for some reason I think the Pumpkins would love to do such thing also. Different setting maybe, but having fun with a little group of serious people that are not screaming "wow I adore all of you! and Billy is god!" all the time, and passing along some of their knowledge, I think almost all of them are into that. It would be the best 3 days in my life Pumpkins-wise I guess. Maybe in a quiet period when they are not touring nor recording…

      3 Days Rock Campus… Billy, Jimmy, are you reading this maybe? Can we humbly ask your cooperation for this? 8)

    • #15275

      would be amazing,

      and yes, there would be no yelling, none at all.

      think they read this stuff?

    • #15276

      blueczarina
      Spectator

      I always wondered if they actually do read any of the stuff on the Pumpkin sites. They’re probably too busy. :wink:

      Probably just as well in some cases. There can be some wierd crap.

    • #15277

      yeah, it would be hard to wade through all the (cover your eyes now) s*it, to get to the good stuff, like this site.

    • #15278

      What’s the point of censoring?

      Their most essential album has a song called Silverfuck for christ’s sake.

    • #15279

      Arthur
      Spectator

      yeah, it would be hard to wade through all the (cover your eyes now) s*it, to get to the good stuff, like this site.[/quote:2f5nxysp]
      Let me tell you guys a little secret.

      A few months back I was emailing a bit with sp.com people. This is what they said at that time. I presume for 99.9% they do know us. "The band definitely wants to collaborate with our sister sites more. You guys have one of the best!" 8)

      Shhhh, as I can’t tell anything more now, please understand. Nice things coming this year, I’m pretty sure.

    • #15280

      blueczarina
      Spectator

      interesting Arthur :)

      The crap I was refering to was not so much the swearing as much as the stalkerish wierd crap you see sometimes thats a little disturbing or stuff like the Siamese Dream girls Netphoria post.

    • #15281

      holy gouda cheese arthur.

      i’ll keep it on the dl, promise

      agreed czarina,
      i just like to try and keep it clean you know for the kids.

    • #15282

      plus i am trying to clean up my own diry mouth, every other word out of it is fuck, ok superlord i said it. not in front of my son though, that is why i try to keep it clean.

    • #15283

      blueczarina
      Spectator

      i don’t care about the odd swear word so much, as long as its not so profuse to the point of ridiculous and unecessary.

    • #15284

      yeah, but everyone here is super duper cool, we don’t talk like that.

    • #15285

      blueczarina
      Spectator

      yeah, i think this site has less crap then all of the others. no one is really rude or anything.

    • #15286

      and we have very nice discussions, very civilized and such. indepth conversations. we are just too cool :wink:

    • #15287

      blueczarina
      Spectator

      to true. :wink:

    • #15288

      you don’t think they will look at our discussion about the clothes do you?

    • #15289

      blueczarina
      Spectator

      i hope not, but i think the fact that they wear them shows that they don’t care. :lol:

    • #15290

      Arthur
      Spectator

      we are just too cool :wink:[/quote:1uib816l]
      And a bit too small. Few more members, up to 250-500 would be nice. Maybe the name "freaks" scares everybody away? How did you get here anyway, and what did you think/expect when you opened an account here? Just curious. Same for blueczarina.

    • #15291

      well, it was from sp.com, i saw the avatar on someones page, or on a post then i clicked on it and seen the link to here, then i was interested in the shirt member? and we emailed back and forth about it, and i am still gonna get one, maybe after i get the extra money later on this month. i read some of the posts and thought, wow these people are cool, and have interesting discussions, and what a collection, i am super jelous, and that was it, i had to get in on the cool stuff.

      so that is how :)

    • #15292

      blueczarina
      Spectator

      I have poked around the collection page as a guest before and I decided to check out the message board part one day. It looked alright so I joined.

    • #15293

      i hope not, but i think the fact that they wear them shows that they don’t care. :lol:[/quote:2sq844q1]

      oh thank god. :oops:

    • #15294

      blueczarina
      Spectator

      :lol:

    • #15295

      Arthur
      Spectator

      I have poked around the collection page as a guest before and I decided to check out the message board part one day. It looked alright so I joined.[/quote:vsc4k6fi]
      Are we freaks? (post 999, cool! 8) )

    • #15296

      blueczarina
      Spectator

      not really (at least as far as i know) :wink:

    • #15297

      no, it is just a catchy name.

    • #15298

      oh, and i have links to this site on my blog, and am always telling other people they should come here, so hopefully word of mouth (so to speak) will help.

    • #15299

      Arthur
      Spectator

      no, it is just a catchy name.[/quote:g1mhjfnp]
      I was hoping so. I made it up in 2003 myself to be honest, and looking at all those wellknown names in those days (Blamo, Netphoria, SPFC, Starla, SPLRA) I was like uhmmm… kinda official. Not catchy.

      Then, there was Siamese Dream (my favourite album), first song Cherub Rock. Look at the very first lines:

      Freak out
      And give in
      Doesn’t matter what you believe in
      Stay cool
      And be somebody’s fool this year

      There you go. SPfreaks was born. At that time dot com was not for sale (some people called SpeedFreaks had it I believe), so we were on Darktech.org for a while, later on Redwolf.org if I’m right. Last year SPfreaks.com became available, and that’s too cool to miss. Glad you like the name, it has a whole history. 8)

      (and this is post #1000. cool.)

    • #15300

      cool history, and i really like the name, plus what it says on the back of the shirt.

      i am really glad to be a member here.

      (post 1000, super awesome)

      do we get prizes when we get to 1000? we should get you a prize.

    • #15301

      Arthur
      Spectator

      cool history, and i really like the name, plus what it says on the back of the shirt.[/quote:2tlj1u40]
      Ouch. It hurts talking about "the shirt". We only sold 3 in half a year. :cry:

    • #15302

      blueczarina
      Spectator

      maybe you should sell catchy Billy bumper stickers instead :)

    • #15303

      i am going to buy one, don’t you worry. just let me get some more money. cause it will be more for the shipping i think.

      bu i will!!!

    • #15304

      Shannen
      Spectator

      My newest suggestion would be: inhouse Smashing Pumpkins concert at my place for everybody with 25 posts or more here on the boards. Free flights and free food, drinks and lodging included.

      My cunning plan for gettin’ the money: we call it a "3 day Rock Campus" and write letters to our governments and Universities everywhere to sponsor it for 2500 people (can we help it that less then 25 only show up? Guess not huh? :wink: ). We will then put Post-It notes with the sponsors’ names on the fridge in the kitchen. Duty done. And 3 days fun will be there! 8)[/quote:1mfguev0]

      Wow! Arthur, your house must be a HUGE mansion that could put in so many people :P

      Btw, I read somewhere that Red Sox imported a 17 yrs old Dutch boy to play for them. Can anyone confirm if this is true?

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