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By now you know, we love cult classics, we love local venues like The Loft Cinema, and we love that you had so much patience the last two weeks when the website went wonky. To make up for that we're having TWO Ticket Tuesday today (watch for another post soon).
I'm going to tell you about Ticket Tuesdays again, just for yuks. Each Tuesday of each week for now until forever, or until we decide to quit it already, we are going to provide 15 of our Bookmans.com readers with tickets for two to the Bookmans Late Night Cult Classic movie showing at The Loft Cinema. This weekend enjoy Tommy Boy at 10 p.m., Dec. 3 and 4.
Tommy Boy follows the incompetent, immature, and dimwitted heir to an auto parts factory who must save the business to keep it out of the hands of his new, con-artist relatives and big business. Oh, why bother with the synopsis when all you need to know is Tommy Boy is fun-nay? In fact, E-film Critic says it is "a grossly underrated comedy. Oh, come on now, tell me you didn't laugh ... it's Chris Farley, for crying out loud. To consider Tommy Boy a great film is stupid. To recognize it as funny is just a reality we'll all have to live with." That pretty much says it all.
You know you want to see Tommy Boy and we want to give 15 of you tickets. To get your pair of tickets, just tell a funny-because-it's-so-horrifying work story in our comment box and be sure to obscure the names and businesses involved. I'll start, I once worked for a costume-themed restaurant where my employer's son thought it was hilarious for me (at the time a 16 year-old young lady) to fill the men's urinal with ice. Yeah, so... If more than 15 of you respond, we will randomize the winners. Winners will be notified by e-mail Wednesday mornings or Wednesday sometime or maybe even Thursday, but you have only until Wednesday morning to comment. Comments are moderated and may take some time to appear. Please do not resubmit your comments -- one is plenty.
"If at first you don't succeed, lower your standards."
****UPDATE****
Congratulations to all our commenters because you are all winners! Tickets for you and you and you and you -- okay, all of you! I'll send an e-mail shortly to discover your preferences for which lucky store will see your shining face to pick up your Tommy Boy tickets.
November 30, 2010
Haha....we got an old military signal flare in at work not too long ago. We thought it would be cool to see it gush smoke. Well it was until the wind changed, and blew a LARGE amount of smoke into our bosses office. It stained the walls red immediately.
November 30, 2010
I work at Bling Buster in the Park Place Mall and a lot of my customers are Juggalos. Now the other day I ran into a gay Juggalo that was wearing a pink hatchetman pendant. I was trying so hard not to laugh while selling to him, I have nothing against gays, but the fact that it was a juggalo, something you almost never see being gay, it made it strangely funny yet horrifying that something like that exists.
November 30, 2010
In high school, I worked for a "dollar" movie theater. They had a "brilliant" idea to put the "butter" (butter-flavored oil, really) for popcorn where customers could put it on themselves, instead of making us take the time to do it. Problem was that most people didn't know when to stop pouring it on their popcorn. We'd end up with a bunch of bags whose bottoms fell out and spilled the oil all over the floor, but the only way we'd know that was if someone slipped on the oil and took a cup holder to the ribs, arm, face, etc. We used to call it our "rite of passage" for new workers...
November 30, 2010
In high school, I worked for a "dollar" movie theater. They had a "brilliant" idea to put the "butter" (butter-flavored oil, really) for popcorn where customers could put it on themselves, instead of making us take the time to do it. Problem was that most people didn't know when to stop pouring it on their popcorn. We'd end up with a bunch of bags whose bottoms fell out and spilled the oil all over the floor, but the only way we'd know that was if someone slipped on the oil and took a cup holder to the ribs, arm, face, etc. We used to call it our "rite of passage" for new workers...
November 30, 2010
I worked in tech support and this (notoriously difficult) lady called and was quite condescending and berated me heavily. I put her on hold and went to talk to my lead (with my wireless headset still on my head) and told him in several colorful words how this lady was wrong about her problem for a good 3 minutes straight. I walked back to my desk and realized she wasn't on hold. True story.
November 30, 2010
When I was in school, I worked at one of those Halloween costume stores you see around. We sold those animatronic characters from horror movies like Freddy Krueger in an area dubbed the "Fright Zone" where they could be triggered by a big red "TRY ME!" button. We also had an extra button after we sold our last animatronic of one variety. So one day, a manager decided to dress up in a full body costume and hang out in the Fright Zone, waiting to scare children who pressed the button that didn't do anything. I must say, it was pretty entertaining.
November 30, 2010
on a construction job, only one person would do any work while everyone else just kinda sat around. sad but true.
November 30, 2010
I worked at Cross Country a summer while back. There was one call I got that stuck with me for whatever reason. It was a women who was complaining about the service she got from a tow truck. The guy who towed her truck was the "dirtiest man she'd ever seen" with oil on his hands and everything of that sort. Well I was doing a three way call with the service provider and the lady with myself and we get the service provider to take responsibility for the incident (the worker had gotten dirt all over the lady's car), however, the whole time the lady had been screaming in both our ears making it impossible to even hear each other unless she decided to start yelling at her husband.
December 01, 2010
I work at Ace Hardware and I was just cleaning the counter while remembering the toilet scene from Look Who's Talking Now. For some odd reason I feel the need to blurt out random parts of my thoughts so of course I belched out one of the toilets lines from the scene. The line being "LET ME EAT YO PEEPEE!" At that point I realized how loud I said it and found myself staring a very confused and scared old woman looking right back at me. She left the store without buying anything.
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November 30, 2010
You should do give-a-ways for Madcaps =/