Comments on: Flaming Golf Cart

By: jerkwithacamera

jerkwithacamera — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:43:10 +0000

So this comment is more then a few months late but someone just sent me a link to the post! Oh yes being a fellow Gastown resident I am all too familiar with the joys of running Gastown tourist gauntlet to get coffee. Some day’s I may need to run it three or four times, and each and every time I curse them, and their country of origin. I tend to take a Henry Rollins approach to it! I lean forward and start walking building up speed like a juggernaut, being a big guy that looks as though he is in the midst of a coffee withdraw rage, the ones that notice tend to get out of the way, pulling the oblivious to the side with them. Outside of tourist season the clock (that supposedly keeps perfect time) will be off by an hour and a half most of the time! This makes me smile! If you supply the golf cart I will load the explosives!

By: Miss604’s Canuck Life :: A Vancouver Blog » Blog Archive » Gastown Steamclock Saga

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:46:09 +0000

[...] Every single workday I walk through hoards of tourists all crowded around the steamclock in Gastown. On the 15’s, 30’s and 45’s it lets out a little toot and on the hour it plays its little steamy whistles for about a minute. Now, I’ve unveiled the “true” steamclock in a previous post and I for one know of at least a dozen locals who can’t stand the sight of the thing: I enjoy the coffee, I enjoy the coffee often. In order to get to my green logo’d dealer I must bob and weave through this sadly miss led crowd of photographers whom appear to be awaiting a press conference from the next alleged father of Anna Nicole’s baby. Does it anger me, well…yes! After all I’m Jonesing for my caffeine fix and tripods and the likes slow me up which increases my withdrawal headache to the point of having irrational thoughts about loading up a golf cart up with screechers and bottle rockets and driving it through the clock to put and end to the madness. Daddy needs to feed the addiction, damn it! [Rod Bruno on MatthewGood.org] [...]

By: Rod Bruno

Rod Bruno — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 08:44:50 +0000

If you get out your jewelers loop, you can find me in that very picture. I aint making this shit up, THE CLOCK OWNS ME !!!!

By: Miss604

Miss604 — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 04:11:34 +0000

That’s too funny. I just called up a post I wrote about the clock a while ago and remembered it was dedicated the day John was born. Not only that, it ain’t as “steamy” as everyone thinks. Scandalous.

By: Samar Mazloum

Samar Mazloum — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:14:10 +0000

“it’s me, not Osama Bin Laden” hehe, funny

By: mmaw

mmaw — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:31:26 +0000

I needed a laugh this morning, and this entry provided it.
I promise to stay away from The Clock when I finally visit Vancouver …

By: xarcadia

xarcadia — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:27:06 +0000

I feel like I must make a trek to this clock, just so I can fit in and have a picture of you among my mass of touristy photos.

Unfortunately I dont have any other touristy photos so the album may consist entirely of photos of the clock, crowds and you hiding amongst them.

By: Ugly

Ugly — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 05:23:58 +0000

I didn’t know he was a toque collector as well, he never told me. Granted I don’t think I told him about my little collection, either. He and I should have a toque fight. So yeah, one more won’t hurt. We can make sure it’s created with the finest pom-pom or something.

By: keira-anne

keira-anne — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 01:54:29 +0000

Ugly, I highly suspect that Rod already has an appropriate toque in his vast collection. However, what’s one more?

By: Tyeson

Tyeson — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 01:27:21 +0000

Simply awesome.

By: Ugly

Ugly — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:34:54 +0000

I forgot to add … BAH!

By: Ugly

Ugly — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:20:04 +0000

Pffft. That’s a perfectly good golf cart you’re destroying there for a fuckin’ cup of coffee, you Jackass!

Keira, you get the stripey-shirt and I’ll get him the red & white pom-pommed toque, and I figure we can borrow Matt’s glasses.

By: finkeel

finkeel — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:02:49 +0000

D. Lilly….Flipping the bird in the background. Guess it beats getting ‘tea bagged’ when someone takes your photo. Ha!

By: Duane Storey

Duane Storey — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:02:18 +0000

You so gotta do the Waldo shirt thing, with a tuque and a smoke of course..

By: D. Lilly

D. Lilly — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:50:13 +0000

Back in the day prior to digital cameras I used to cut heads off of tourists when they asked me to take their pictures.

Now I just discreetly flip the bird when in the background of their shots.

okgirls2003. just look for the guy with the permanent tuque and on game days look for the Canucks jersey and you will find “Waldo”.

By: thecomplexities

thecomplexities — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:55:36 +0000

i think i saw you at a starbucks on davie a few months ago.

By: keira-anne

keira-anne — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:32:07 +0000

Forget the Bob Ross Happy Tree t-shirt for Christmas…we’re deckin’ you out in stripes this year.

By: antisocialchick

antisocialchick — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:26:54 +0000

dude, that was hilarious. I love your sense of humour. Such a different writing style form the other stuff usually up here, but it’s nice for a change. props to ya ;)

By: okgirls2003

okgirls2003 — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:19:33 +0000

So if one was to find themselves at the “clock” how would we spot you?

By: marchtide

marchtide — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:17:30 +0000

AHAHAHAHA.

If I ever make it out there I’ll make it one of my main goals to visit that clock to obtain a ‘real-life waldo’ picture. You should play in to it a little and start wearing a red and white striped shirt that waldo sports.

You’re an enigma of sorts to those tourists.