Yesterday, a group of us gathered at confusednazgul’s apartment building to watch the classic Christmas movie, A Christmas Story, and to demonstrate to one another exactly how the piggies eat.
Except instead of mashed potatoes and red cabbage, we did it with pizza and cookies. I must admit, I look quite fetching coated in cookie crumbs up to my eyebrows.
After the movie, we played a couple of games of Apples to Apples, and then…we took a ride around the block in a freaking DeLorean.
Do we know how to party or what?
An 83 Delo.
Who’sWHOSE is it????That icon of yours simultaneously creeps me out and cracks me the fuck up every year. 🙂
Awesome car, great for memories and geek points. Shame they handled like bricks. 🙂
cheers,
Phil
He’s going to eventually put in all the time machine stuff, I hear. 😀
Overblown Cargeek/butthole sez:
OMFG THE MOVIE CAR WAS AN ’82
though the difference is mainly the hood.
This one was made in August ’82 and has an ’82 engine but didn’t hit the road until ’83.
I got the years wrong. Production was 81/82, not 82/83. Movie car was an ’81.
I have officially lost my geek status.
I won’t tell anyone, you’ll always be Super Geek to me!
You’re right that the only significant difference is the hood, though. I think the earlier hood doesn’t look as nice.
Used to know a guy who had one. He hooked up a mock flux capacitor behind his head. Lit up and everything. He got so sick of people asking him if it actually worked, though, that he eventually disconnected it and threw it out. Shame, really. 🙂
cheers,
Phil
🙁 That’s terribly sad. Something like that shouldn’t just be tossed out!
JEALOUS.
I love the icon!
PS: http://www.etsy.com/listing/64311564/cthulhuclaus-magnet-reserved-for
Sweet! She says he will look smashing on the fridge! ;-D
I wish I could have a party like that!
The stage version of A Christmas Story only has food at breakfast so our Randys only got to faceplant in oatmeal.
How is the stage version?
It is really excellent. The playwright is a huge Jean Shepard fan and it shows. He added a couple of girls – one of the is the smartest girl in town “but we boys all respected her anyway. She could beat us up.” and the other has a crush on Ralphie. They also pay off the joke of the Bumpus hounds ignoring every creature on Earth except the Old Man.
I saw A Christmas Story for the first time a few weeks ago.
I was underwhelmed.
Not Jesus-y enough, right?
Heh, heh…car reminds me of the dick in the wedding singer
I don’t believe I’ve ever seen that movie start-finish.
I ADORE that movie! well, and I am a child of the 80s so I love all the 80s references!
Tell me you got that thing up to 88.
It was just a ride for funsies, not a time-travel expedition.
I would so hook up a flux capacitor where stupid people would walk by and prove their stupidity.
I guess before the movie DeLoreans were awesome in their own right, but after the movie just elevated to totally geeky status.
I believe a flux capacitor is forthcoming!
i spy with my little eye that the DeLorean is cleared to park at Microsoft 🙂
I can die happy now.