Fiesta Follies: Lupo & Wolfie vs. Carnies, Kids, and Idiot Parents

[Dasota]

There are many words on CS for awesome.

Lupo. Gravekeeper. Jester.

I could go on.

We are like Eskimos that have a million and one different words for snow. Only our word is awesome

[xx_wolfie_xx]

and? if that had been me and my brother/friends, mom would have went all morphin on our asses. being kids has jack to do with it; being a parent has EVERYTHING to do with it.

lupo, you must go to sa during christmas; the riverwalk is absolutley gorgeous at that time (and a touch romantic).

Stop giving away my plans before I've made them :P

[lupo pazzesco]

Stop giving away my plans before I've made them :P

D'aaawww.



Yay, RIVER!!!!

[BaristaTrav]

Funny.. yea, I'm over Fiesta. Drive by that carnival every day..

[wolfie]

Here's one more for ya.

I have roots in Italian culture

Lupo = wolf in Italian.



Let that boggle your mind...

Really? And here I always thought you were Latina.
Silly me.

Actually, Italian is Latino/Latina - although the term is most often used to refer to Hispanics, from the name it can justifiably be used to refer to anyone from a country whose language is derived from Latin, and Italians have the best claim to that. After all, which group used Latin in the first place, and what modern country encompasses the city where their empire was based?

[Primer]

Re: carnival games

I don't do it any more, but I used to watch very closely when the carny would "demonstrate" how to win. I would then go on to win on my first try. But yes, several are rigged in that the darts are blunt, the BB gun barrels are slightly bent and their sights are off, the basketball hoops are waaay undersized, etc. All the games are still possible to win, but very difficult.

[Ironclad Alibi]

I once knew a guy that worked in a carnival booth many decades ago. He admitted he cheated, but in favor of the player. He ran a bean bag toss game. The player paid a dime (told you it was long ago) to toss a bean bag through a hoop. If it landed on his square under the hoop he won a pack of cigarettes. On slow days, my friend would entice someone to play, and nudge the bean bag into the guy's square, proclaiming loudly that they had a winner. Since crowds love winners, it would get other people's attention and they would start playing, up to 10 players per game. He explained that cigarettes cost 25 cents a pack, and with 3 or more players he made a profit on each game.

[Mytical]

About the barking (Barkers are the ones that actually call out things to get peoples attention. Common tactics are trying to insult 'manhood', buttering somebody up, etc). I actually did a stint as a 'Barker'. Only I got in trouble for it, some places frown on it now. Or it could be just that the more seasoned people were jealous because I had a LOT more people playing my games. For some reason in that role my shyness vanished.

As an experienced 'Barker' I can tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt the following.

The games ARE rigged. It is possible to win, but you have to be extremely lucky or skilled..or both.

The prizes, even if you win, generally are worth less then what you pay to play the game. So even if there is a winner EVERY TIME, the prizes cost less then what you pay for playing a single game..so the person running the booth would make a profit.

The better the prizes, the more the game is rigged. In the booths where the above rule does not apply..you are going to be handicapped a LOT more then you think. A WHOLE lot more.

[LadyAndreca]

There's a reason why we never try the carnival-style games when we go to the boardwalk. The prizes are stupid anyways. We just hit the arcades and turn in our tokens, and save until we can actually get something we like. We have quite the collection of dragon figurines from the past few summers--I'm fairly lucky at video blackjack and poker, and Matt's good with quarter drops and skeeball.

Though I'm reminded of the scene in Despicable Me where Gru blew up the carnival stand to get the unicorn plushie...

[ZedOmega]

Heh, I wish I would've know you two would be in my neck of the woods sooner. I could've at least lent you the Corrective Bat for your stay here. I do share your annoyance at the Fiesta crowd. At the very least, the worst that would've happened would have been that the three of us ended up in the same holding cell.

[lupo pazzesco]

Heh, I wish I would've know you two would be in my neck of the woods sooner. I could've at least lent you the Corrective Bat for your stay here. I do share your annoyance at the Fiesta crowd. At the very least, the worst that would've happened would have been that the three of us ended up in the same holding cell.

You live in SA??

Sweet!

Wolfie lives out there, I'm in Houston. Next time I'm visiting him, we'll have to get you, BaristaTrav and MaggietheCat and her hubs all together. That should prove...interesting



But alas, I'm back in Houston, back at work, and wolfie's coming to see me Memorial Day weekend, and we don't have as many fellow Houstonian CSers, I don't think...

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Hey, TRAILERPARKMEDIC!! SLIPKNOTPSYCHO!!

Call me, we can has plans. kthxbai.

[fireheart]

*feels lonely out in the middle of nowhere*

Actually it's all good cause Nyoibo and I has plans next weekend involving chainmail, fights, speakeasies of the medieval sort and having people wonder what a 12th century(?) knight is doing chatting with a Viking

[lupo pazzesco]

Actually it's all good cause Nyoibo and I has plans next weekend involving chainmail, fights, speakeasies of the medieval sort and having people wonder what a 12th century(?) knight is doing chatting with a Viking

...

I SO want pictures of this.

Seriously.

[xx_wolfie_xx]

i have massaged a viking's butt in thanks for an awesome omlette before

[ZedOmega]

i have massaged a viking's butt in thanks for an awesome omlette before

...wait, what?