Comments on: But They Don’t Need Cooking Sleeves Anymore

By: Flasshe

Flasshe — Tue, 02 May 2006 04:57:01 +0000

I think the general reason to do the marriage proposal in front of an audience is so that the woman won’t say no. Although one of my co-workers was saying she recently saw one (I think at a sporting event) where the woman did say no, and got mad to boot.

Ticketmaster is Evil. Now I know why so many rail against it. $25 tickets became $37 tickets after all the various fees. Seems almost like false advertising. If only there were some other way to get tickets…

Kudos on making them do the the mail thing. Weird that they don’t charge more for that, like the airlines and travel websites do.

By: DJSmallberries

DJSmallberries — Tue, 02 May 2006 02:16:26 +0000

You’re right, that is weird. It really doesn’t seem very funny at all. I can only assume that somehow the guy sweet-talked Jim into setting the whole thing up so that he could propose on stage (thus making it really difficult for her to say “no”).

And now that you brought up Ticketmaster, we went to Jazz Fest in New Orleans this weekend and it’s the first time in years I think that I’ve had to buy through Ticketmaster. Good Lord! Not only did they have *two* different surcharges (they must have learned something from the phone company), they wanted to charge me extra for the privilage of using my own ink and paper to print out the tickets! I went the cheap route and let them mail them to me, and sure enough, they waited until the last possible moment to send them.

By: Flasshe

Flasshe — Mon, 01 May 2006 16:12:47 +0000

At the end of Jim’s encore, he said that Ticketmaster (the vile, hated Ticketmaster – they of the outrageous surcharges) had a new thing where at each show they would give away one of Jim’s CDs to a random ticket holder. He called the name of the winner, a guy, and told him to come up on stage “with your girlfriend” to collect the CD in person. I was suspicious right then, because it assumed that every guy attending had come with his girlfriend. The two of them finally arrived on stage after a long wait. After giving him the CD, Jim handed him the microphone and left the stage. At that point, the guy got down on his knee and proposed to his girlfriend. She of course accepted. She didn’t look very surprised. Awww, it was so sweet. *Gag* As Ben mentioned, the frat boys in the audience (which seemed to be a majority of the audience) were really getting into it.

By: DJSmallberries

DJSmallberries — Mon, 01 May 2006 05:57:48 +0000

OK, now you have to explain the “marriage proposal thing” for all of us that didn’t get to see the show.

By: Flasshe

Flasshe — Mon, 01 May 2006 02:49:32 +0000

Gee, thanks – just when I had managed to block the whole marriage proposal thing from my mind, you had to go ahead and remind me.

By: InfK

InfK — Mon, 01 May 2006 02:33:40 +0000

I checked the back of the box (I’m not too proud to admit that I like a hot pocket now and then – especially the BBQ flavor, which has no cheese) and it says they’re distributed by a company in Englewood. And you didn’t mention the weirdness at the end of the show, with all them pro-marriage frat boys…

See you next time! Unless I don’t! Someday maybe we’ll go see someone even funnier.