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By: Words For My Enjoyment » Blog Archive » Today’s Prognosis on Doorbell Ditch

Tue, 08 Aug 2006 15:53:25 +0000

[...] And while advanced technology has completely taken all the fun out of crank calling (Star-69, anyone?), anonymous electronic correspondence (I.P. tracking, perhaps?), random late night anonymous alley beatings (DNA and C.S.I.-esque investigative techniques, eh?), and calling shotgun (advanced shotgun calling GPS devices now call shotgun for you) — at least doorbell ditch still remains as fun as it ever was. [...]

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Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:44:45 +0000

[...] Or the fact that I Can’t Stop Calling Shotgun [...]

By: Words For My Enjoyment » Blog Archive » Ten Rules for Making Rules

Words For My Enjoyment » Blog Archive » Ten Rules for Making Rules — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 17:08:56 +0000

[...] So too, do everyday actions like calling shotgun, sharing a movie-theater armrest and choosing a urinal in a public bathroom. In fact, rules are the cornerstone of what we do, how we do it, why we do it and when we do it. Without rules, society would just be a chaotic place, with chaoticness and chaos and a bunch of crazy chaotic crazies. [...]

By: benny

benny — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 20:03:47 +0000

My college buddies and I used a modified “no-repeat” Shotgun rule, i.e. if you call shotgun twice, the second call effectively cancels the first call, and anybody can call it again. It led to the common trick of when somebody alertly called Shotgun!, we would pretend to not hear them and just keep walking to the car, and then, when they repeated the call (louder and more demanding), somebody would jump in with a replacement call.

By: monkeyinabox

monkeyinabox — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 17:46:39 +0000

Scott. I’m taller than you so even you goto the back seat! DO I say Shotgun? Never! If someone denies me it, they get the death stare and their seat kicked for the whole ride.

By: Scott Mercer

Scott Mercer — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:52:52 +0000

I am 6′ 5″ tall. No matter who calls shotgun, (and truthfully, it certainly was more of a problem in college, which I left 15 years ago, than it is now), I usually DEMAND shotgun on the basis of being unable to fit in the back seat. And I usually get it, unless the other person is as tall as I am. Which doesn’t happen too often. Most of the time shotgun is automatically offered to me due to my height, in spite of the grumblings of six footers forced sit on the back seat hump. Sometimes I do offer to give up shotgun “on the ride back,” which quiets the grumbling usually.

By: yatesy

yatesy — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 06:39:24 +0000

I had sort of stopped calling shotgun for awhile, and then I started managing a band. YOU try and not play along. But then again, we also play the circle game. Guys are so much fun I swear. Try making fart jokes or talking about sex with most girls, and they squick out. Guys hi five you!

Example. I had to prove myself to the guys at this bar I work at by hanging out and outdrinking almost all of them. Around 7:30 in the morning, we were sitting in the front part of the bar playing that game “who’ve you hooked up with from the bar that no one knows about”. I sat quietly until they came to me. I had 6 sets of drunken, red rimmed, sweaty eyes on me. Someone named someone I had indeed hooked up with, but I smiled slyly. “No. The last person I hooked up with was Mark”. Mark was standing right behind the guy who questioned me and immediately put his arms up. “I was waiting for you to say something!” he yelled. 5 jaws on the floor. I thought they were going to make fun of me, but instead they all came at me giving me fist punches and hi fives, telling me “I won!”. From then on, the combo of the Mark thing and drinking until 9:30, going home, napping then coming back at 3:30 for my band’s show that next nite and getting just as loaded cemeted me in thier mind as one of them. And it’s so cool!

Try that hanging out with girls. Don’t get me wrong, I’m still a chick and all, but the boys are much more fun.

SHOTGUN!

By: Karl

Karl — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 17:00:05 +0000

I think Shotgun is very much a guy thing. I’ve been on driving excursions where everyone else but me is a woman…and not once has a female called “Shotgun!” It’s a genetic defect, I think. I mean, how can anyone NOT want Shotgun?

By: Michaeltjarvis

Michaeltjarvis — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 08:29:03 +0000

My apologies, it is The Lost Blogs with Lincoln on the cover.
MTJ

By: Michaeltjarvis

Michaeltjarvis — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 08:27:51 +0000

Paul:
How about an explanation regarding the origin of the the term shotgun for a car seat. It has got to be the Old West, no? I mean they literally rode shotgun or is this so obvious I should just shut up. Oh by the way, I still consider blogging the CB radio of this century but yours is funny and the “If they had Blogs” deal looks funny.
All the best
MTJ