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Comic Book Guy in conversation

 
 
Ria
00:08 / 03.08.04
I phone up the owner of a local independent record store to ask him if he can special order a record, meaning a new CD.

he informs me that they stopped making records in 1989 meaning that "they" stopped making vinyl records in 1989.

"okay you meant vinyl," I say. "why the sarcasm."

and on and on.

I actually worked for him once, moving from his old location to the new. he knows me as a customer, when I feel masochist. I found him good to work for, but, oh, the constant wit which constantly backfires. the pedantry.

tall fatbeard with a mix of gray and ginger hair. testifying that the stereotype exists. he specializes in jazz, doo wop and old-time rock'n'roll and most of the time works with the same two men who have worked with him for as long as I remember.
 
 
w1rebaby
01:33 / 03.08.04
"oh, you don't sell any records? What a shame, I guess that means I won't be buying anything from you then" *click*

Of course, he'd probably take that as a victory of some sort.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
07:03 / 03.08.04
Reminds me of the old Not The Nine O'Clock News sketch...

"I'd like to buy a gramophone, please"... etc...


with the classic exchange:

"What's the difference between that and a gramophone?"
"30 years and a plastic cover to you, Grandad."
 
 
Brigade du jour
11:32 / 05.08.04
Stoatie, that rings such a loud bell, but I can't picture the sketch in my poor head. Which actors were they? Sounds like the 'Grandad' remark might have been a bit of proto-Blackadder Atkinsonian smugness.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
13:19 / 05.08.04
IIRC, Atkinson was the old man, Mel Smith the cunty salesman.
 
 
w1rebaby
15:37 / 05.08.04
no, I think it was the other way round
 
 
Brigade du jour
17:58 / 05.08.04
I just went on Google to settle this argument and Euan Ferguson on Guardian Unlimited says it was Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones that did the sketch, but he's not sure which was which.

Look, I'm at my mum & dad's flat and there's not much to do out here, okay?
 
 
Jack Denfeld
20:14 / 05.08.04
Don't they still make records? Vinyl records? I'm sure they still do, and a lot of my friends collect them.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
21:19 / 05.08.04
Fair enough - the man's a fool, but what can you do ?

Short of putting sugar in his petrol tank, blowing his shop up, or whatever you'd like - possibly, arguably, doing your shopping somewhere else - this just seems like something you ought to take up personally with the guy in question. I hate to sound like an elitist or a snob, though I dare say I'm both, but on a scale of one to ten in terms of being interesting, this, as a thread... Is a little depressing, to be honest. Insofar as you're hopefully talking to people you've never met, never will, but might nevertheless in some sense connect to, like-minded characters all round the big blue marble, etc.
 
 
morrisonr
21:34 / 06.08.04
They still make 'em and i still buy 'em. Always will.
 
 
Ria
21:58 / 07.08.04
Thanx for the kind words, Dave!
 
  
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