Friday, January 13, 2012

That ship has...now, what's the best way to say it..oh, I know, sailed

I once saw Bachman Turner Overdive in concert...not what I expected...they were all out of shape (not that it really matters), but they actually looked kind of slovenly. I remember Randy Bachman was wearing overalls and looked a bit like Haystacks Calhoun (a wrestler from the "golden days" of wrestling...well, at least the wrestling I remember watching on Saturdays before Creature Double Feature would come on).

That, by the way, is Haystacks Calhoun....not Creature Double Feature

Sort of like the time I saw Foghat. Not knowing any better I wanted to see this guy...

...but this was the Foghat I saw....

Well, not quite that bad..but I couldn't find an image of the red one piece jumpsuit that the guy from Foghat was wearing. Really...it was red...and it was a jumpsuit....and it was one piece. It actually looked like a character that Will Ferrell would have done in a sketch, only this predated Will Ferrell by about fifteen years, and it was real. Can anyone say Spinal Tap?

This blog was supposed to be about me missing out on another great business opportunity (hence the title). I usually put a video in the blogs of mine...and though I really wanted to post Maria Muldaur doing Midnight at the Oasis, it didn't fit the theme, which is the point of those clips in the first place. I'll find another time to post that one. So then I landed on BTO doing Taking Care of Business, but now I don't feel like that one either.

Anyway this business opportunity wasn't like some of the others that I had thought of but didn't follow through on...thankfully. None of those would have worked. This one would have.
Some of the others were in the vein of...

  • My shipping/mailing company I was going to call Big Man's Package
  • The lumber store that was only going to be open from 5 - 11 AM called Morning Wood
  • Or the hardware store that just sold nails, but I wanted it to be first in the yellow pages so I called it Anails
  • or the tow truck business, which I thought would be clever to have a camel on the side of the truck...sort of like if you're stranded in the desert all you'd need is a camel to get you out. I thought Camel Tows had a better ring to it than other people
  • the well digging company I called boring deep holes
  • or the specialty shop that I was going to open with my friends Mike and Scott that we'd only open for a few days a month. We were going to call it the PMS store
Then there was always Scratch Pete's Fresh Nuts, but Bob still doesn't want to put up the damn sign

So, I can't come up with a business clip...but I can come up with something that aligns with the title of this sorry blog...

...so I'd like to know where you got the notion