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Trailer Park Boys Call Us Collect
Sage insights on prison, politics, poverty and provocation. A Tyee interview.
Satire from 'low culture.'
Julian and Ricky, potty-mouthed stars of the hit mockumentary TV series Trailer Park Boys spent the holidays getting some much-deserved R&R in prison and they're psyched to reunite with their buddy Bubbles and party hard with Vancouverites tonight and tomorrow night at The Commodore. It will be the second stop on the Trailer Park Boys: Out of The Park tour of Western Canada with Swollen Members.
For the uninitiated, The Trailer Park Boys chronicles the lives of the fictional residents of Sunnyvale Trailer Park in Nova Scotia. Julian (played by John Paul Tremblay) and Ricky (Rob Wells) are chronic party animals who pursue various "Freedom 35" illicit activities like running booze cans, porn rings, stolen Christmas tree lots and marijuana grow-ops. Their bespectacled sidekick Bubbles (Mike Smith) lives in a shed with stray cats and is the constantly flabbergasted voice of reason and morality. Monitoring, though rarely foiling the boys' schemes is a bitter alcoholic ex-cop trailer park supervisor named Jim Lahey and his paunchy ever-shirtless bisexual lover Randy.
The show might sound as intellectually stimulating as COPS, and these are indeed exaggerated stereotypes of low rent culture. But the scripts, co-written by long-time friends Tremblay, Wells and TPB director Mike Clattenburg have a provocative skewed logic, with an underlying theme that for some people, prison beats abject poverty. The show is wildly popular with people from all walks of life because it digs at all of our social hypocrisies and rallies against the cognitive disconnect with folksy messages about the importance of close connection with friends, family and community. Instead of cliché family interactions, the TPB, for example, Ricky shares a nicotine patch with his cigarette-addicted pre-teen daughter.
Season six of the series now airs in a dozen countries round the globe, the 2006 big screen debut Trailer Park Boys: The Movie was the top box office draw in Canada opening week and it was recently nominated for three 2007 Genies. The much anticipated season seven has already been filmed for the Showcase fall lineup, there's talk of a season eight and perhaps a sequel movie.
But all this fame hasn't gone to the boys' heads as we learned when Julian and Ricky got drunk and called The Tyee offices collect from Sunnyvale to share their latest news, angle for smoke-able green "presents" from local fans and advise Harper how to run the country. They even slip out of the usual in-character interview shtick to speak as the actors playing these much-loved characters. What follows are excerpts from our conversation.
On Bubbles being MIA
Ricky: "It's only me and Julian on the phone. Bubbles got caught in a snowstorm on the way back from New York. He was down there with Axl Rose, watching him record his new record. We're jealous. Me and Julian only did a couple of shows with Axl [last December on the Guns N' Roses tour], but Bubbles did most of the tour and did his awesome song 'Liquor and Whores.'"
On the current 'Out of the Park' tour
Ricky: "We're just gonna get out there and giver and have some fun with everybody. Bubbles will do music for sure, but we're more like Bubbles' side-kicks managers I guess."
On the perks of rock star fame
Ricky: "Our tour rider's awesome: seven 40 ouncers, 180 beer, sandwiches, seven bottles of wine, a few cartons of cigarettes and of course pepperoni and rolling papers. We're hoping to meet some great people with presents too. They're gonna throw us on some planes to get around [Western Canada]. Pretty cool, but I'm a little 'fraid of flying, so I'll just get drunk and different other techniques. Hotels'll be good. Beats livin' in my shitmobile."
Low rent entourage
Ricky: "One guy'll come out with us to make sure we don't get thrown in jail, but that's it."
On global domination
Julian: "It's insane how many people know who we are now. People are great and really nice and they're always hookin' us up with cigarettes and drugs. It's great."
Ricky: We haven't got to the point where we need to hide from it all.
Julian: "We watched one of the [TPB] episodes from French, dubbed. It was weird. The voice of Bubbles is really creepy. I don't know French but you can usually understand what Ricky's sayin'."
Ricky: "French people are enjoyin' it from what I hear anyway. Hopefully we can get over there soon, and Amsterdamned."
On how you can't take the Canadian trailer park out of the boys
Ricky: "It's kinda like Little House on the Prairies from Hell here. But, Sunnyvale is home. We can't leave it. That's where our family is."
Julian: "And I love Canada, so I'm not leavin'."
On the Patriot Act, hoser-style
Julian: "The show was on in the US for a while [on BBC America in 2004]. But they were bleeping out all the swear words [about four per minute]. Originally it was supposed to play late at night but that didn't happen, so the producers pulled it. But some people are jacking satellite from Canada and that's cool. There's an underground cult following down there.
Ricky: "I don't think it's good to become too much like America, cuz some of the people I meet down there just aren't as cool and friendly as Canadians. I think we should stick with our guns and be Canadian and not baby the Americans. We should just stop worrying about who we're not and be ourselves."
On war and peace
Ricky: "Is that war still goin' on? I think we should just bring our boys home. Maybe I'll run for politics cuz none of them seem to know what the hell they're doin'. I could do a much better job.
"There's some rumour about how I was related to Stephen Harper. I don't know where the hell that came from, but it's not true!
"I actually voted for the first time in my life [at the last Federal election] and it didn't make a damn difference. I could do a much better job runnin' the country. I don't agree with this stupid war and we need to get our boys home. I doubt they can really party over there. How strict are they about that?"
Julian: "I think we should lower cigarettes taxes."
Ricky: "And gas and liquor taxes. Make up the money by decriminalizing marijuana. That'd balance everything out and we'd be a lot happier.
"At the trailer park we don't have a problem with anybody, so we're not against gay marriage or anything. It doesn't matter what race you are."
On New Year's resolutions
Ricky: "I'm tryin' to quit smoking. Just cigarettes. I'm thinking about gettin' my grade 11. Supposably it opens up a lot of doors and people say that havin' grade 11 is better than havin' grade 10. But I don't know if I believe that or not.
"Maybe marriage therapyin' would be a good idea with me and Lucy. She definitely has some things to deal with. I'd like to spend the rest of my life with her, but she's being difficult, getting drunk and tryin' to get with other guys. So we have to work through all that I guess. Once in a while she lets me in the trailer, but for the most part I'm livin' in the shitmobile and that's a drag."
Julian: "I don't make [resolutions]. I'm just trying to stay focused on making money, staying out of jail and retiring. I'm lookin' at Freedom 38 or 39 now. But that's okay. We'll find it one of these days. Freedom 45 doesn't sound that bad."
On the call of the 'clink' and standing up for smokers
Julian: "Going back to jail brings you back to your roots, keeps you focused, grounded. But we're gettin' smart, more experience startin' to not want to go to jail.
"Of course, we just got out yesterday for smuggling smokes. No big deal. There's so much money to be made in taxes that it pisses us off so we steal 'em. I was dabbling with [potato] vodka [making] here and there in jail, but cigarettes are where the money's at. Problem is, the penalties are harsher than with the dope. The other problem with jail is that you can't just leave when you want to."
Ricky: "Yeah, I don't agree with that or not bein' able to smoke. That's fucked. Smokes are so friggin' expensive that you have to smuggle them from the US or steal them.
"Anyway I like jail. You can't do whatever you want to: play lots of sports and ball hockey and you get pretty much whatever you need in there like food and booze and dope and everything. So it's not that bad. They're not stealin' satellite like we are in the park, but we get to catch up on TV cuz we're usually too busy partyin' and stuff to watch it at home."
On mentoring Canada's next generation
Julian: "We just hope the kids'll learn from our mistakes. It's good for younger kids to watch the show."
Ricky: "My daughter's getting older so I gotta try and stay out of jail. She knows it's wrong, but it's kinda cool to have a dad in jail and she knows I'm just going there to support the family and stuff. But I gotta try to stay out of there now that I'm getting older and she's getting older. Unless it's for the right reasons: have a good time, look after my family and my friends."
Split personalities
John Paul Tremblay: "We bring a bit of ourselves to the characters, but, yeah, constantly acting the part can be frustrating."
Robb Wells: "Yeah, it can get a little monotonous at times. We've only done one or two out of character interviews. The characters are based on a bunch of people we knew growing up, but mostly very exaggerated, so it's hard to keep it up all the time. But when Mike Smith has the glasses on, we're on. He went to an eye doctor and apparently his eyes are fine; wearing those glasses actually made his eyes stronger. His jaw's usually in pain after about 20 minutes though. But we're having fun and we're game for a season eight. There's rumours going around about another movie but nothing 100% confirmed. It's nice to do something hardcore and edgy and homegrown." ![[Tyee]](http://thetyee.cachefly.net/ui/img/ico_fishie.png){kind=small}
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maestro
5 years ago
TRAILER PARK BOYS : Still a
TRAILER PARK BOYS :
Still a Canadian classic.
"It's kinda like Little House On the Prairies from Hell.." describes it quite well.
6th season already? ...plus more planned ? Yes !!! Glad it's still going strong.
Truman Green
5 years ago
some stupid funny lines, but...a classic?
A few funny lines in here alright, but Maestro, I dunno, a "Canadian Classic"?
How come?
I live in a trailer park and if these guys pulled all that crap here there'd be police cars parked in front of their places, and the City bi-law people would be harrassing them.
And we'd drive them out of here.
We've got a committee in here, eh, especially for creeps like these idiots.
Nope, 90% seniors in here who sold their houses and retired. We love peace and quiet.
Now, way back in the gulley there's still coyotes yelping at night. But that's about it.
TPBs--a goofy schtick, but no relation to reality, which means it's a dishonest and unfortunate stereotype.
maestro
5 years ago
Truman:
Truman:
I had heard about this show a year or two before I actually watched the first episode .
From the basic " redneck" description, I actually thought it was filmed in the US.
After picking out the accents , and some familiar faces of Canadian actors...I thought WTF???
TPB 's documentary style and dry sense of humour without a laugh track encourages one to peel back the layers of this show. The social satire is great...
I myself don't like negative connotations to those who live in Trailer Parks...I think that the Trailer Park is simply a platfrom to let the main characters develop and unfold.
How many Mr. Leahy types have we met...ie a-hole authority figures...Leahy maybe is a metaphor for Gov't or bureaucracy...Don Quixote-like ...delusional.
The TPB show is perhaps also a metaphor for the Justice System , itself possibly more "legally corrupt" than those illegally corrupt they feed off of.
Losco as the Vet....used as a medical doctor in time of need , ... the bizarre logic.
Bubbles is a unique one, a bit of a geek, yet ready to scrap, yet a loyal friend type,yet ready to break the law, a total inconsistent package.
Otherwise....Like anything else, its how one interprets it in a bigger context. Can't say I've sen anything like it, its made in Canada, and I think will end up a Classic we'll talk about for years to come.
Capitalism
5 years ago
My Take
I've bought each season on DVD. I love the show. However, you have to watch them consecutively. I couldn't watch it - one episode a week.
I don't really read much into it. I just enjoy the foolish humour.
Truman Green
5 years ago
lets do an analogue on the name, then.
A bit cerebral, I admit, but let's change the name to "Canadian Life" or how about "Life in Canada."
This is how we always judge things, anyway, by doing analogues--stand ins.
Or how about a stupid show about people in wheelchairs, or people who live in institutions?
What if, for instance, the Americans did a show like TPBs and called it "Life in Canada"?
Because, subliminally we're doing "Life in a Trailer Park," I think, whether we recognize it or not.
Still funny, or an insulting stereotype?
Would Canadians be laughing and tying to cobble interesting metaphors with which to consider the various portrayals in a more respectable theatrical light, (like you do, Maestro) or would we just feel insulted?
See what I mean, Maestro? Whatever bucks the show makes or however nice it is to see a bunch of Canadian actors, writers directors and producers do well--it's still just laughing at and mocking people who live in trailer parks--trailer trash--in the popular idiom.
Which isn't nice.
anarcho
5 years ago
TPB doesn't mock these people.
I don't feel that TPB really mocks the trailer people. For me there is a sadness with the laughter. I have known people like this and they are basically poor devils trapped in a cycle of poverty and prison whose only outlet is their uneducated fantasies and a bit of smoke or booze. What is really mocked by the show, is as others have pointed out, are the authority figures.
doggone
5 years ago
Hey! Soma my best friends
Etcetera.
I enjoy the show. Having been a bit of an a-hole myself in younger days and still working successfuly (according to my wife) at it i got to say that it rings true.
I have yet to live in a trailer park (though if herself doesn't back off I may soon) but the fact that they do form a "community" may have something to do with the popularity of the series.
If I had my druthers (after she kicks me out) I'd rent a pad and build a box that could keep out the cats - forget mice, they get in to whatever you build.
Truman Green
5 years ago
intersting anarcho, but why not...
Interesting, anarcho, but why not, then, call the show (your words): "...poor devils trapped in a cycle of poverty and prison whose only outlet is their uneducated fantasies and a bit of smoke and booze."
What's that got to do with trailer parks?
Answer: nothing.
There's twelve hundred trailer park homes (honest) in this part of Surrey. Your desription of the pathos is well entrenched in your imagination, but it has absolutely nothing to do with the vast majority of the residents around here.
alive
5 years ago
poor values
Right, let us glorify anyone who spits on authority!
Teach the kids how to rip off everybody and laugh at them.
Way to go!
maestro
5 years ago
Well......
Well, when you see the creators of any shows, and especially comedy, the creators almost always admit to having real life inspirations to their shows characters.
When Seinfeld became established, apparently George was modelled after Seinfelds co-creator Larry David....as was Kramer modeled after another real life eccentric the Seinfeld team knew personally...Soup Nazi had a real life inspiration etc etc.
Norman Lear apparently modelled Archie Bunker after his own Father.
Modern comedy, I agree, will tend to seek new frontiers that are at times less discreet and perhaps lacking in taste. I am sure we all feel a bit "insulted" to some degree by characters that may somewhat represent our personal backgrounds to some degree.
I often drive by mobile home "trailer" sales lots and find the structures quite well designed...and who knows ???, come retirement, albeit many years from now, we may choose to access a similar abode lifestyle.
clubofrome
5 years ago
Community!
Nothing wrong with trailer parks, nothing wrong with this show. I'm looking forward to adding the TPB Christmas Special to my list of Holiday must viewing. Right up there with Scrooge and It's a Wonderful Life. How can you argue with Ricky on finding the true meaning of Christmas? Way to go Ricky, love ya bud...
doggone
5 years ago
are we in the process?
Community
I don't know. some posters quite often "hurt my feeling" as if I only had one.
Now this here Internet chat thang is not "tried and true" I dabbled in '88 with some "bulletin board" and gave up because the connection was so iffy. Lately things are much better. However, what would we do if it crashed?
Who ya gonna whine to?
Lets move on with what we have: I propose that thetyee hosts voting on issues that could come from the comments or they could "make it up" and tally votes on any topic chosen.
Truman Green
5 years ago
but doggone, the votes are in.
The votes on this issue are in. So far it's 2 (alive and I) who think the show's a pile of crap, and 6 who think it's just hunky dory. I project the pros will take the whole ball a wax.
sdgreen
5 years ago
Why?
Trailer Park Boys is nothing more than a classic example of socialistic failures.
The actors and the parts they play portray nothing more than low life thinking.
The beast should be killed.
anarcho
5 years ago
Capitalistic failures!!!
"Trailer Park Boys is nothing more than a classic example of socialistic failures."
I would say capitalistic failures. 50 years ago the Boys would have been on a fish boat or working as coal miners, loggers or farmers. Thanks to capitalism there is no place for an uneducated, working class male, so they end up like this...
maestro
5 years ago
Naaaahhh
I think I'll agree with ....or "vote" with sdgreen...TPB is a classic example of socialistic failures.
Pretty damn obvious, isn't it ???
How could anyone refute THAT ?
C,mon...as Ricky would say "it ain't rocket appliances"
doggone
5 years ago
yae and nay
Truman: I'm not sure about anarcho but sdgreen would have to be counted as a "nay".
I think we may have a game after all.
Up until just now it did not occur to me to analize why I enjoyed the "Boys". Maybe my cover is so deep that even I don't know the truth.
I thought it was because I spent a significant number of years worrying about my wreck of a car, swearing and drinking too much. So far I have yet to spend the night in a jail (though I did work at the local "correction" centre for a year or so as "liasson officer") One night one of the inmates came to me and asked if I wanted a coffee. This was unusual but I (the eternal innocent) accepted. There was another old fart like me there doing "remedial reading" or some such thing and he also got a cup of this special brew.
On my drive home I was impressed with the brightness of the city: sparkling street lights and beautiful hookers everywhere. I woke my wife and chattered for an hour or so and finaly slept. The next week I was back in the jail and the other "old fart" came to me and recounted his evening the week before: apparently he also woke his wife and yattered at her till he crashed.
I guess the inmates there had gotten a shipment and were kind enough to share it.
joben
5 years ago
The Article
Hey, Since the first line of this article states the wrong name of one of the two major characters, I'm lead to believe the writer has limited knowledge of the TPB. Oh and again in the segement "War and Peace". Good proof reading. No mention here either if Corey and Trevor are coming back for potential 8th season?
Me3
5 years ago
High Flyers
You're too much, Doggone. You should be writing the script, not just commenting on it.
But I pity yer old lady......
maestro
5 years ago
joben
joben:
Corey and Trevor are being recruited by Layton, Dion and the Green party.
Danielle E
5 years ago
Randy typos
Thanks for pointing out my sloppy typos Joben. I assure you I've done intensive TPB schoolin' but shithawks happen as Lahey would say.
I had Trevor and Corey-related Qs, among many others, but after 45 mins the boys had to go off and do a radio phoner. They did say they tried to get J-Roc for their tour, but he's touring the east coast!
I think the show makes fun of bourgeois culture as much as anything else. The boys also buck many stereotypes about "white trash" rednecks, such as homophobia and racism. (Remember the time they walk in on Lahey and Randy in the S&M mask and don't even bat an eyelash?)
Lahey and Randy are also doing a theatre tour right now.
Vanessa Richmond
5 years ago
Re: The Article
Alas, joben, it's her editor who got the character name wrong. Thanks for pointing it out.
Truman Green
5 years ago
nice little piece of writing, doggone
Not sure where you're coming down on this, doggone but that was a nice little piece of writing, I thought.
All that I'm saaaaaying, is these trailers are just a kind of inexpensive housing. Not really fair to hang any kind of stereotypes on people who live in them.
Actually, though, few if any of the people anarcho describes, for instance, could get the 20-80 grand it takes to buy one anyway, so the 'down and out-trailer trash-ex-con, beer swilling, dope-smoking and lovin it' stuff is just a lot of bullshit. Out of a hundred trailers in here there's exactly one which houses people who are remotely like the TPBoys.
This isn't rocket science. It's not nice to create false stereotypes, eh--whether they're funny or not.
maestro
5 years ago
Truman :
Truman:
See....mobile homes aka "trailers" are the least likley places another 9/11 attack will happen, due to their low height -to- surface area ratio...(sorry I had to say that).
Truman Green
5 years ago
I knew you were gonna say that, Maestro.
I knew you were gonna say that Maestro, but you know I really worry that maybe our species will not even speciate--that most of us are just too stupid to figure out that the world trade center buildings were blown up with explosives and stuff.
I bet there's a minimum intelligence requirement for progressive speciation, eh, and maybe this is it for our kind. I bet, (even) that God has a speciation IQ test for future prospects.
Afterall, the penalty for gross stupidity is extinction.
doggone
5 years ago
The wife
Works for the "beleagured" health system as I have mentioned. She assesses the functionality of the patient's home and surroundings (family or community support, accessability (can you make it to the toilet)
Possible threats to following health workers - nasty dogs, abusive in house relatives.
She goes from the top end to the bottom and that information should not be shared with me (though she does need to unwind at the end of a shift) and certainly not with you. Since I have lived with this for a number of years I do not retain any sensitive information anyway and run the tape: "Yes Dear" whenever she pauses.
The point:
People in high end suburbs tend to have no connection with their neighbours and often have alienated their childern to the point where the "system" has to step in and provide service. On the other hand the Mobile Home Park (Trailer or R.V. if you wish) resident usually answers when asked what care they need: "I'm fine, dear, Fred or Wilma check every day and Morris picks up any groceries."
She wants to retire to a trailer park
maestro
5 years ago
C'mon Truman
C'mon Truman...that's the 2nd time you said you knew I was going to say "X" ....if you KNEW I was going to say it...then type it for me.... otherwise we are doubling the effort, wasting energy and contributing to global warming .....errr " climate change ".
" Speciation IQ " ,.... naaah Braniacs(a truly relative term) tend to burn out...reverts to Darwin society members, masters of their own " culling ".
Shelter thine self under the highest point of the Bell Curve...if you catch my drift...Generalist-ic covers all survival bases, the Pharisees have always needed the masses , but the contrary has often not proven true.
maestro
5 years ago
See Truman ...
See Truman...
Doggone's endorsement of Trailer Park's with his real life tales based on his wife's practical experiences.
Truman Green
5 years ago
Pharisees--911 I don't get it. (Not)
For thousands of years people living in the Northern Hemisphere have been trying to figure out how not to freeze to death. Now the earth heats up a bit and everybody starts bitching. There's just no pleasing some people.
Oops, see what you made me do, Maestro, comment on the wrong subject.
Trailer Parks--gotta love 'em, eh.
doggone
5 years ago
Thermos
truman:
I figure we should build stainless steel thermos bottles big enough for at least one 6'4" individual and bury them level, open end exposed, in south facing slopes. Some kind of cover for the open end would be necessary but very likely an used T-shirt tacked up would do unless we need to weather an hurricane with sub zero temperatures.
People taller can either scrunch a bit or go extinct.
Wrong subject? not necessarily
Truman Green
5 years ago
nice try, doggone
I'm waaaay funnier than you, doggone.
You gotta have wit. You can't just be morbid.
Anyways, great story Danielle Egan. We all had huge fun in here.
half-way score pros 4, cons 6. (not con-VICTS, like the tpbs).
Just kidding, doggone. You're funny, too.
But Maestro's not funny.
Well maybe a little bit.
doggone
5 years ago
I spent years
Truman:
not joking.
If you had one of these"fallout shelters" and the excrement hit the fan would you or would you not crawl in to it?
Elliot
5 years ago
great show, but it's not so
great show, but it's not so much about trailer parks as it is about rural canada. especially in the north. who's got your belly?
Truman Green
5 years ago
Do you mind if I steal your piece, doggone?
Hey doggone, I think your piece about working as a liason guy was so well written ("...up until just now it did not occur to me...") and...uh..well...GOOD, that I've just now plagiarized it and put it word for word into the body of a creative non-fiction piece I'm writing for publication--money even.
Hope you don't mind.
As for your methane-propelled fartmobile...is this a coded message? If so, I'm just not getting it, in spite of my rather...ahem...higher than average IQ. (I developed my own test, eh)
Truman Green
5 years ago
Maestro, admit it. That was funny.
Maestro admit it. That was funny.
Skookum1
5 years ago
what are you trailer park types talking about
Pretty damn obvious, isn't it ???
How could anyone refute THAT ?
C,mon...as Ricky would say "it ain't rocket appliances"
What are you guys talking about? None of Ricky, Julian or Bubbles collect welfare. They don't even get EI, and I have yet to see them go to a regular health clinic for free medical care. They even avoid paying taxes by stealing their smokes and booze.
Avoiding paying taxes, getting private medical care, not living off social services and fending for themselves - these guys are capitalists, plain and simple. Low-life capitalists, and not very good at their trade, but capitalists all the same.
I always thought that a show based in North Surrey had potential as a sick sit-com. The Scotians beat us to it. Not that British Columbians know how to laugh at themselves - as evinced by Truman Green's complaints farther above, as well as sdgreen's.
Ricky and Julian socialists? C'mon now. The only freebie they get from the gov is the free eats and shelter when they're in jail.....
Truman Green
5 years ago
Why north surrey, skookum. We're smart.
How come North Surrey's so ripe for dumb satire, skookum? Have you done surveys out here, or something? I graduated from North Surrey High School in l968, eh. We're plenty smart. Lots of us even went to unifircity.
Jeez, though, I guess I should really be laughing at myself now that you've pointed out how funny it must be to not only live in a trailer park, but to live in a trailer park in North Surrey.
Don't be so stupid, Skookum-chuk.
Truman Green
5 years ago
oops, it was l963
Correction, I graduated from NSH in l963. (Not that anyone gives a rats ass...but) Had a seniors' moment there, (for a minute). Not THAT's stereotyping, eh.
clubofrome
5 years ago
Guarding
Truman, I think you were supposed to "guard" the grop op. "G-u-a-r-d." Guard it....
Skookum1
5 years ago
North Surrey, huh? AND from a trailer park...
Boy, does that ever explain a lot about you Truman....I went to MSS, Grad '72, and even back then North Surrey had a weird/rough reputation, and THAT was on comparison to Abby and Chilliwack and MR....
I guess you thought you were clever with "Skookum-chuk". If you think that's an insult, you must not get out of Whalley much.
Skookum1
5 years ago
and...
and what was I saying about BCers not having the ability to laugh at themselves? Thanks for re-proving my point, Truman.
Truman Green
5 years ago
Can't you take a little joke, skookumchuck?
Why so hostile, skookumchuk? Can't you laugh at yourself a litttle?
Actually we used to say 'skookumchuk' a lot out here. I get what you're saying about a hidden insult, but I don't do that kind of stuff, so it was conincidental.
Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't you do a post months ago about people having a stereotypical image of you because you're a very large man? Didn't you even say something about you tending to scare people a bit even though you're not scary at all?
Apologies in advance if I've got you confused with somebody else.
Can you see how I might possibly think referring to North Surrey as ripe for satire might be a big grating? Surrey was never any rougher or tougher than anywhere else. I lived in East Van, eh--even just off Hastings in a cheap hotel. Now, that's rough and tough--but nothing very funny about it.
maestro
5 years ago
Hmm. While I guess you guys
Hmm.
While I guess you guys are passing the joint around...you were able to type rather lucidly.
Truman:
Lesson #1 : don't ask others whether thou art funny or not...subscribe to the English school of dry subtle humour. I can't see from here if you have a rubber chicken.
Saying/ threatening "admit it" is from the Saddam Hussein school of comedy.
North Surrey High alumni eh? They sure built a nice quasi- shopping mall to replace the old one.
1963 Grad..were you in Dallas that year?...man you are dating yourself...that means you must be at least over 30...I thought all the hippies were all freeze -dried by the age of 30.
PS Just cuz one went to unifircity doesn't mean one attended classes or graduated...
Finally Truman, Watch out for low flying planes...
I'm "serious" !
Truman Green
5 years ago
I knew you were gonna...oh never mind.
That was excellent, Maestro. Thanks for the good yuks. You've now got your humour grade up to C-.
Kidding! Top grades actually.
Low flying planes, eh. I never thought of that. I figured the men in black might be coming over the roof of my tool shed, but guess what...the roof is built to collapse so spies and such fall into a vat of used 1985 Honda 10/30 oil. I've also got my tenent's uh...waste water draining in there.
Should be good!
Stupid me, they're probably reading this.
Trailer Parks, gotta love em.
Skookum1
5 years ago
Skookumchuck and Skookum...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skookumchuck
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skookum
The worst I can think of with "Skookum+chuk" is that you thought you were making a Ukrainian joke.
And no, I wasn't insulted; I was just amused that you thought you were being insulting, or (now) that I was insulted. Stop presuming so much, Truman. And learn to laugh at being from Surrey. Everyone else does (about people from Surrey....).
Joking about Surrey is like joking about Brooklyn or Joisy. Surrey, in the meantime, spends a whole lot of money trying to convince people it's a real city, not a sprawling suburb full of....well, I'll leave you to fill the rest of that in from your stock of insecurities.
maestro
5 years ago
Trailer Park Boys fans: here's your BIG chance!
TPB challenge:
NOTE: EVERYONE WELCOME TO CONTRIBUTE TO THIS
Script / Homework:
How to save Bubbles shed (and the Kitties)from a 9/11 attack.
PLOT:
Quebec/Newfie Hooch Terrorist loses his Canadian Tire compass while Hi-jacking a one -person ultralight plane(???).
Julian had Jack Layton drop by to discuss Climate Change . Lahey is drunk(again) and insists Layton is Paul Newman and wants his autograph or will kidnap him like they did that guy from rock group Rush(?) in another TPB episode. Randy will assist.
Ricky trips and sets their 100th grow-opp attempt this year (it's only January) on fire...sending up smoke which gets the ultra-light Quebec Newfie terrorist increasingly stoned (.....who now also in epiphany mode against Quebec separating from Canada ) while flying the ultralight and is headed for Bubbles shed.
To be Continued...please feel free to contribute...TRUE TPB fans shouldn't have a problem.
(cc)
northyorker
5 years ago
Talk about reading something into nothing!
I can't believe there are people who actually read so much into this show they'd denounce it as an example of the failures of socialism!? Welcome to plantet BC I guess. I love TPB because they're such a breath of fresh air instead of mindlessly re-gurgitated sitcoms where their greatest innovation you ever see is adapting the same script, but this time to a black family. Woo hoo. Or reality TV. Does anyone still find that stuff entertaining. American Idol? Force me to watch that crap and I think I'll consider taking up heroin. Ever notice how almost everyone on tv is either rich and or white? And if they're not white they have to be rich, of course, so as not to insult anyone's aesthetic sensibilities. Boring! I think it's the constant bombardment of media images that you have to be earning six figures to be considered acceptably human which is pounded into our brains every day via the airwaves that's responsible for the screwed up society we live in and high rates of depression. I've never lived in a trailer park and I'm not a criminal, but I can relate a lot more to these guys than I can to the people on the Cosby Show and the cast of Friends. Show me someone who's only concern is to not offend and I'll show you a boring person.
PS to Truman: Not everything you don't like is socialistic. Stop being brainwashed. McCarthy is dead. It's not the 1950's anymore.
doggone
5 years ago
Methane
Truman Green:
Sorry, I've been visiting me Mither and she don't take to these new fangled gadgets.
You are certainly welcome to use anything I write in anything you write. I'm honoured, in fact sort of "puffed up" by the notion.
I'm also somewhat at a loss as to the "Fart Powered generator. Where did I mention that? It seems possible, but I am playing catch up here