Road trip company.

**RShack** · 11-17-2007 05:54 PM

If you had to be stuck in a car with somebody for a few hours, long enough for them to let their guard down, who would be in your car?

They don't all need to be in the car together at once (although you can mix and match if you want). You can include both living people and dead people if you want. (No corpses here, we're pretending that they come back to life just for your road trip.)

NOTE: This ain't about listing famous pretty ladies who you adolescent jerk-offs fantasize about getting in the back seat. Face it: anybody you'd wanna do that with wouldn't get in the back seat with you if you were the last guy on the planet. So, keep it to people who you find *interesting*, people who you'd like to just BS with for a while. (In other words, keep your Huff-like thoughts to yourself, we don't really wanna know, OK?)

**scOtt** · 11-17-2007 06:09 PM

If not my dear SquEEze...

Thomas Jefferson
Jimi
FDR or Teddy R.
Stephen Hawking, Einstein, Newton, Copernicus, Galileo, Michaelangelo, Pythagorus, many many more.
Babe Ruth
Herbert Hoover (to beat his @$$ to a pulp)

**RShack** · 11-17-2007 06:21 PM

Originally Posted by scOtt

Herbert Hoover (to beat his @$$ to a pulp)

I think he gets a bad rap. I'm not a big fan by any means, but I don't think he was as bad as everybody seems to think. He actually tried to do some stuff, he was just in way over his head. I think he was kinda like the current batch of confused Dem's: not realizing what's at stake, so it was too little, too late.

Anyway, back to the question...

I'd like to drive for a while with Thomas Jefferson, John Lennon, and William F. Buckley. I think that could be interesting.

On the way back, I'd like to see what Adam Smith and Karl Marx could agree about, now that they'd both be looking back on things. I think they already agreed about way more stuff than people realize, it'd be interesting how they sort it out now. Mick Jagger's pretty smart about money and people, so I'd invite him along for that conversation too.

**Crazy O** · 11-17-2007 10:02 PM

Cal
Just Cal. A long roadtrip with him to talk about everything.

**JohnD** · 11-17-2007 10:09 PM

Originally Posted by rshackelford

If you had to be stuck in a car with somebody for a few hours, long enough for them to let their guard down, who would be in your car?

They don't all need to be in the car together at once (although you can mix and match if you want). You can include both living people and dead people if you want. (No corpses here, we're pretending that they come back to life just for your road trip.)

NOTE: This ain't about listing famous pretty ladies who you adolescent jerk-offs fantasize about getting in the back seat. Face it: anybody you'd wanna do that with wouldn't get in the back seat with you if you were the last guy on the planet. So, keep it to people who you find *interesting*, people who you'd like to just BS with for a while. (In other words, keep your Huff-like thoughts to yourself, we don't really wanna know, OK?)

Geez, that's a hell of a jerk-sounding note. Not the content so much as the tone.

**blueberryale77** · 11-17-2007 10:17 PM

Front seat: Jack Kerouac, because he's the first person that comes to mind when I think of road trips

Back seat: Jane Jacobs, Robert Moses, and an "average Joe" middle aged, blue collar Dodger fanatic from Brooklyn ca. 1955 who either has the foresight to realize O'Malley wasn't solely at fault for the Dodgers move or has time traveled before and read The Last Good Season. As a bonus, the Dodger fan will also be a WWII veteran and have interesting stories to tell from that... after he and Jacobs get done tearing Moses limb from limb.

**BaltimoreTerp** · 11-17-2007 10:17 PM

We're a bunch of dorks posting on a message board. Forget the ladies; why would the interesting people take a road trip with US?

**blueberryale77** · 11-17-2007 10:22 PM

Originally Posted by BaltimoreTerp

We're a bunch of dorks posting on a message board. Forget the ladies; why would the interesting people take a road trip with US?

OK, fine. Which 4 Hangouters would you take on your road trip, since we're not worthy of anyone outside the Hangout's company (except the "insiders" who are apparently worthy of the company of at least one person in the warehouse or a sports agency)?

...and Kerouac would be hitchhiking and I'd pick him up. Duh!

**BaltimoreTerp** · 11-17-2007 10:33 PM

Originally Posted by blueberryale77

OK, fine. Which 4 Hangouters would you take on your road trip, since we're not worthy of anyone outside the Hangout's company (except the "insiders" who are apparently worthy of the company of at least one person in the warehouse or a sports agency)?

Which ones can I drop off in the middle of the Mohave?

...and Kerouac would be hitchhiking and I'd pick him up. Duh!

Fair point...

**RShack** · 11-17-2007 11:18 PM

Originally Posted by John-OH

Geez, that's a hell of a jerk-sounding note. Not the content so much as the tone.

Could be, I don't know, maybe.

But if I didn't say anything, then any time somebody mentioned a pretty lady, somebody else would chime in with "Oh, I'd like to give it to her" or "I wouldn't kick her out of bed". And I'd think, "Right, like that's gonna be your problem, whether or not to kick her out of bed." Everybody has their own ideas about what is or isn't jerky. To me, saying stuff like that is pretty jerky.

Nobody else seems to offer the opinion that it's jerky, so maybe it's not. Maybe it's just me. Whatever. Given that I'm a jerk, who's on your list of not-jerks who you'd wanna be stuck in a car with?

**RShack** · 11-17-2007 11:26 PM

Originally Posted by BaltimoreTerp

We're a bunch of dorks posting on a message board. Forget the ladies; why would the interesting people take a road trip with US?

No reason. It's make-believe. (Just like all the trades, and about as likely too ;-)

I ain't saying your not supposed to ride with the ladies on your imaginary road trip either. I just said we don't need to hear people talkin' like Huff about it, that's all.

**chad422** · 11-17-2007 11:29 PM

George Patton, Earl Weaver, Eddie Vedder, and probably George Clooney. You might ask why Clooney. The guy's a practical joker and I can't imagine anyone that needs a practical joke more than Patton and Weaver.

**scOtt** · 11-17-2007 11:32 PM

In that tone... Mae West. The original bombshell.

**scOtt** · 11-17-2007 11:33 PM

Originally Posted by chad422

George Patton, Earl Weaver, Eddie Vedder, and probably George Clooney. You might ask why Clooney. The guy's a practical joker and I can't imagine anyone that needs a practical joke more than Patton and Weaver.

Patton is a fun and interesting choice.

**Cokeman** · 11-17-2007 11:53 PM

Originally Posted by rshackelford

Could be, I don't know, maybe.

But if I didn't say anything, then any time somebody mentioned a pretty lady, somebody else would chime in with "Oh, I'd like to give it to her" or "I wouldn't kick her out of bed". And I'd think, "Right, like that's gonna be your problem, whether or not to kick her out of bed." Everybody has their own ideas about what is or isn't jerky. To me, saying stuff like that is pretty jerky.

Nobody else seems to offer the opinion that it's jerky, so maybe it's not. Maybe it's just me. Whatever. Given that I'm a jerk, who's on your list of not-jerks who you'd wanna be stuck in a car with?

Well, I had the same opinion as John did, even before I got to his comment. I was going to keep my opinion to myself, but since you seem to think others don't share that opinion just because nothing has been posted along those lines...add my name to the list of those who think your note was pretty jerky.

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