Thread: Best Gaper qoute of the weekend?

Kinda NSR, but a gear head gaper....

At the gas station, I run inside to ask for the air to be turned on. They have one of those deals where the clerk hits the button inside, and then you have to push the button outside to activate the little compressor. I hurry up and pull my Jeep over just in time to get cut off by this little two door BMW. I hop out and tell they guy "hey, I just had the clerk turn on the air, so...." He replies, "Oh, nice." And proceeds to walk up and snag the air hose. Given that it was about 6 outside, I get back in my Jeep and wait it out. Then it occurs to me that the guy never activates the compressor. He walks around to all four super low profile tires and....fills them up? HA. I got out as he was filling the last tire and I could actually hear the air coming out of his tire

He doesn't hand me the hose, he just drops it on the ground and takes off.... I hope he is enjoying his almost empty tires somewhere

DropCliffs - I heard a very similar comment the other day, in addition to this gem (heard at the top of 9 from a 40ish man in his Bogner fartbag): "Yeah, the view is nice, but they don't hand out cookies at the top of the lift, so I'd have to take this place down a notch."

Besides being a mystifying comment in and of itself, it also made me wonder where they do hand out cookies at the top of the lift?

This past weekend @ Magic mountain VT. For the record I have no affiliation with the mountain other than know management & sometimes offer pics up for the website.


Me: “Let me take your picture, I take the pic of the day for the Magic website”

Alice Cooper: “Really?”

Me: “yeah, I’ll put you on the internet”

AC “Internet? Great, hold on, let me take my hat off” (takes hat off & shakes hair wildly)

http://www.magicmtn.com/back/pics/image_117.jpg

Originally Posted by Switters

DropCliffs - I heard a very similar comment the other day, in addition to this gem (heard at the top of 9 from a 40ish man in his Bogner fartbag): "Yeah, the view is nice, but they don't hand out cookies at the top of the lift, so I'd have to take this place down a notch."

Besides being a mystifying comment in and of itself, it also made me wonder where they do hand out cookies at the top of the lift?

At the end of the day, they handed out free cookies at the bottom of the Beaver Creek lifts. Pretty much the main reason I went riding there.

Originally Posted by blockp

Glad they're getting out there

At least you have a good attitude. Just because you all post on the tetongravity forums doesn't make you any better than the Gaper that is out there for the first time.

I bet you all have been in a position at some point in your life where you were a newb, gaper, jong, etc.

Yes, the shit they say can and is funny, but rather than hold them out as some sort of charactitures of themselves, embrace that perhaps that they are not as all knowing or awesome as you.

Just sayin'.

Originally Posted by 2nd mate

Not this weekend but this quote will irritate me for a long time.
I quit basketball my sr. year in HS to ski. so i join the (very casual)ski team having never raced before.
This turd in a speed suit on the way up a 600 ft slalom run on my first race day looks me up and down and asks "do you ski for bishop fenwick?" as it is written on my bib.
I say "yeah" looking at my bib and seeing the name and number on it.
Then i say "looks like we will be racing agianst each other?"
he then says while shaking his head, "No spyder gear? You obviously dont take your racing that seriously!"
me -silence
circa 95-96

Was this Bishop Fenwick in MA? I was a MA high school "racer" in that same period and can think of a half dozen guys that could've been. Dudes show up for a 200 yard "race" in full gear, getting leg rubdowns in the starting house while half my team was off in the woods getting lit

Originally Posted by Rontele

At least you have a good attitude. Just because you all post on the tetongravity forums doesn't make you any better than the Gaper that is out there for the first time..... embrace that perhaps that they are not as all knowing or awesome as you.

Got that right!
Been here since waaaaaay before the skiing article.

To his credit however he did have duct tape covering a hole in his camo pants, and duct tape = Core.

You know what else is 'core? Making fun of people who aren't as core as yourself. That right there is the epitome of 'core.

Originally Posted by JimmyCarter

Was this Bishop Fenwick in MA? I was a MA high school "racer" in that same period and can think of a half dozen guys that could've been. Dudes show up for a 200 yard "race" in full gear, getting leg rubdowns in the starting house while half my team was off in the woods getting lit

Same one. Perhaps we once met in said woods?
"Bradford now with glade skiing"

How about all the people who thought the snow was great this weekend in Tahoe? (It wasn't)

Originally Posted by cmsummit

You'll notice that he didn't ask me if I lived in Breck. Most people that ask you if you live "here", are asking if you live in the area. I guess I consider Alma, Silverthorne, Keystone, or Frisco in the area and "here". Out of all the gapers that have asked me this, that was the first time I've gotten that response. I guess I could expect the same from you.

You were riding a chair lift at Breckenridge - so "here" would mean Breckenridge.

I guess it's a regional thing. I'm from Twisp, not Winthrop which is 8 miles North.

I live in Anaheim, not LA. When in any other city in the area, including LA, if someone asks me if I live "here" - I say, "No, I live in Anaheim"

So yes, I'd be the gaper who would think- "so you don't live here" although I would say "oh", .......but I'd think it.

^^Do you have a funny quote, or are you going to fight with Chad about the semantics of "here" all day?^^

We need to make a sticker for the maggots to put on their skis.

Something like:

Q: "What are those?"
A: "These are skis....stop asking me about them."


If I hear, "What are those...waterskis?!" one more fucking time I am gonna punch someone....

Did you cut a snowboard in half?

(Riding on Eric Pollard Pros)

Other day I saw MONOMAN in a fartbag. Seeing him ski,wow,

Originally Posted by encore

^^Do you have a funny quote, or are you going to fight with Chad about the semantics of "here" all day?^^

I think I'll just fight.

I contributed to all the dozen or so other "gaper quote" threads that have appeared over the years.

Originally Posted by Bill.H

I think I'll just fight.

I contributed to all the dozen or so other "gaper quote" threads that have appeared over the years.

With a join date of 9/07?

That has to be pretty unimpossible.

Are those water skis Phish?

Sorry couldn't resist mang.

What I love are the gaper locals. The ones that have been in town for a couple months and think they're the shit.

They ask "Where ya from."
You say "I live in Denver."
They say something like "Oh sorry.."

The fact that you have skied ever line on the mountain means nothing or the fact that you've skied every mountain in the range that the ski area is in means nothing either.

But they are local

Originally Posted by Nick Pappagiorgio

With a join date of 9/07?

That has to be pretty unimpossible.

Original join date 12/99 - changed to Bullet 10/03, Changed Bill.H. 9/07.

Pay attention sweetpea.

I like it when gapers still use the words "fat-boys" and "parabolics" when describing skis, as if they were some weird new innovation! And no these are not my powder skis. I ski these every day... even on hardpack!

Originally Posted by KillingCokes

Are those water skis Phish?

Sorry couldn't resist mang.

What I love are the gaper locals. The ones that have been in town for a couple months and think they're the shit.

They ask "Where ya from."
You say "I live in Denver."
They say something like "Oh sorry.."

The fact that you have skied ever line on the mountain means nothing or the fact that you've skied every mountain in the range that the ski area is in means nothing either.

But they are local

the one uper. Oh we have a 2nd house in blah,blah........

Originally Posted by KillingCokes

They ask "Where ya from."
You say "I live in Denver."
They say something like "Oh sorry.."

I wouldn't hold it against a Texan if they said that to you. Or me, for that matter.

Says the man from Albaquerque

Originally Posted by Bill.H

I think I'll just fight.

I contributed to all the dozen or so other "gaper quote" threads that have appeared over the years.

eh billy. nick meant impressed. unimpossible is not a word,ok.

Originally Posted by DropCliffsNotBombs

I like it when gapers still use the words "fat-boys" and "parabolics" when describing skis, as if they were some weird new innovation! And no these are not my powder skis. I ski these every day... even on hardpack!

Then there's the [pointing at skis] "Wishful thinking for a day like today, huh?"