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		It's seven miles to Carbondale, I got half a package of gummi bears and a razor scooter, it's dark outside, and I'm wearing spiderman pajamas. Hit it (news.yahoo.com)		74
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Rev.K		2010-09-10 11:06:38 AM

Quality headline, subby!! +1

jchic		2010-09-10 11:09:18 AM

Rev.K: Quality headline, subby!! +1

Indeed.

R.A.Danny		2010-09-10 11:13:10 AM

I'm waiting for my 3 year old to pull a stunt like that. We keep the house alarm on to keep him inside, not bad guys outside.

He feigns sleep until we are in bed then sets upon his evil plans.

IndyMBA		2010-09-10 11:15:44 AM

jchic: Rev.K: Quality headline, subby!! +1

Indeed.

Thirded

mitchcumstein1		2010-09-10 12:15:45 PM

I love Carbondale. Do they still have the big Halloween parties at SIU?

DigitalSorceress		2010-09-10 01:01:57 PM

Was he riding the scooter or just using it to carry his big brass balls around?

/Inquiring minds want to know

Alpha Sierra Foxtrot		2010-09-10 04:18:12 PM

Great. Now I can't get "Here Comes the Hotstepper" out of my head.

/na nananana nananana nanana nanana

yert		2010-09-10 04:20:19 PM

Halloween was given the boot in late 80's. PKs is still there.

old 13 is one hilly mother of a road to do on a razor. New 13 not so bad.

Purdue_Pete		2010-09-10 04:20:59 PM

This kid is awesome.

funk_soul_bubby		2010-09-10 04:21:42 PM

There ain't much else to do in Little Egypt.

Rickenbacker		2010-09-10 04:21:53 PM

yert: Halloween was given the boot in late 80's. PKs is still there.

old 13 is one hilly mother of a road to do on a razor. New 13 not so bad.

Was just coming to say something similar. I pictured this kid hanging on for dear life, doing 60 downhill.

DWitchiewoman		2010-09-10 04:23:21 PM

Headline made me giggle!!

Uncle Pim		2010-09-10 04:23:30 PM

Animal House was hilarious!

Good job, subby!

Stitch Jones		2010-09-10 04:24:31 PM

Ahh Southern Illinois, the bunghole of the midwest. Although I would totally ride a razor scooter 7 miles from some 17th street ribs....

/mmm ribs...

Cervidanti		2010-09-10 04:28:09 PM

surprised they didn't give the kid to the state. Didn't some couple just recently get their kid taken away because he left the yard during the day? They didn't treat it as an unknowingly missing child, they treated it like abuse.

AllUpInYa		2010-09-10 04:30:06 PM

Late-night booty call?

/no, that's just wrong ...

bluorangefyre		2010-09-10 04:30:44 PM

IndyMBA: jchic: Rev.K: Quality headline, subby!! +1

Indeed.

Thirded

DENIED! I'm sorry, but it just doesn't have the same ring to it.

Nah just kidding, its OK.

pukingtrader		2010-09-10 04:37:09 PM

Does anybody know if Carbondale still has the big Halloween bash?

In the 70's they stopped selling liquor in glass bottles a couple of weeks ahead of the weekend. We used to drive down every year. I remember people passing out on random people's front lawns, billowing clouds of pot smoke. It made Mardi Gras look tame.

Good times.

emt92339		2010-09-10 04:37:17 PM

Subby, you glorious bastard....good job !!!

SoxSweepAgain		2010-09-10 04:37:48 PM

Dang, here I am in Carbondale, COLORADO.

/Leaves disappointed.

zekeburger		2010-09-10 04:39:15 PM

Did he get yams at the gas station?

djaguar1		2010-09-10 04:39:46 PM

Stitch Jones: Although I would totally ride a razor scooter 7 miles from some 17th street ribs....

/mmm ribs...

God 17th street is so GOOD. The pulled pork is the best. God, why did I have to graduate and move back to chicago!

Saluki222		2010-09-10 04:41:32 PM

I am getting a kick out of these replies.

/Not obscure.

aninconvenienterection		2010-09-10 04:44:06 PM

R.A.Danny: I'm waiting for my 3 year old to pull a stunt like that. We keep the house alarm on to keep him inside, not bad guys outside.

He feigns sleep until we are in bed then sets upon his evil plans.

This must be why when we were kids my siblings and I all thought that alligators liked to sleep under our beds at night. I wonder who gave us that idea....

zfarkingman		2010-09-10 04:46:11 PM

our drummer wanted to name the band "the last gas station in carbondale" i dont get it. but whatever.

Buttbone McGillicutty		2010-09-10 04:47:00 PM

Did the cops have SCMODS?Rickenbacker: yert: Halloween was given the boot in late 80's. PKs is still there.

old 13 is one hilly mother of a road to do on a razor. New 13 not so bad.

Was just coming to say something similar. I pictured this kid hanging on for dear life, doing 60 downhill.

It's got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas.

/SCMODS

mark12A		2010-09-10 04:49:02 PM

Animal House was hilarious!

Good job, subby!

Nice. 8/10

Feldspar Q. Walrustitty		2010-09-10 04:49:26 PM

Was he going to meet Twiggy?

jricks3		2010-09-10 04:50:07 PM

I LIVE in Murphy, so I'm getting a kick out of these comments.

ds_4815		2010-09-10 04:54:35 PM

AllUpInYa: Late-night booty call?

/no, that's just wrong ...

He was going to give his girlfriend the Miss Piggy.

hockeychick		2010-09-10 04:59:28 PM

Stitch Jones: Ahh Southern Illinois, the bunghole of the midwest. Although I would totally ride a razor scooter 7 miles from some 17th street ribs....

/mmm ribs...

If Carbondale is the bunghole then JoDaviess county is the armpit. Farking inbreds.

R.A.Danny		2010-09-10 05:02:30 PM

aninconvenienterection: R.A.Danny: I'm waiting for my 3 year old to pull a stunt like that. We keep the house alarm on to keep him inside, not bad guys outside.

He feigns sleep until we are in bed then sets upon his evil plans.

This must be why when we were kids my siblings and I all thought that alligators liked to sleep under our beds at night. I wonder who gave us that idea....

I told him it was sharks. He tried to sneak a knife into bed with him that night.

Sometimes I wish he wasn't so balls out and smart, but I'm having too much fun to complain.

doodledo		2010-09-10 05:02:58 PM

This is the kind of stunt my younger brother would have pulled when we were kids.

My dad would have spanked the daylights out of him for it. Well earned, too.

Uzzah		2010-09-10 05:13:17 PM

Mini Ditka		2010-09-10 05:19:38 PM

Great headline!!

Captain Steroid		2010-09-10 05:20:09 PM

Give the boy a prize!
chicagobbq4u.com

jimmychitwood		2010-09-10 05:21:51 PM

Uncle Pim: Animal House was hilarious!

Good job, subby!

MMMMM Blues Brothers?

R.A.Danny		2010-09-10 05:24:13 PM

jimmychitwood: Uncle Pim: Animal House was hilarious!

Good job, subby!

MMMMM Blues Brothers?

Dat is da joke

fark the casbah		2010-09-10 05:29:29 PM

R.A.Danny: jimmychitwood: Uncle Pim: Animal House was hilarious!

Good job, subby!

MMMMM Blues Brothers?

Dat is da joke

No, I'm pretty sure it was Grease.

\is the word, is the word, is the word...

trippdogg		2010-09-10 05:30:39 PM

I blame the parents - if they had chained him to the post properly this never would have happened.

dobedobeDUE		2010-09-10 05:32:14 PM

As one of the assistant managers at Merlins back in the late 70's I thought Halloween was insane. However being able to sell liquor unitl 5 a.m. during Kappa Carnival was COMPLETELY off the rails. Kappa Alpha Psi until the day you die.

100 Watt Walrus		2010-09-10 05:40:18 PM

Smitty...

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rolandog		2010-09-10 05:50:14 PM

Probably was on a mission from God.

Bill Shakespeare		2010-09-10 05:52:10 PM

I was going to make the comment that he was going to PK's but I got beat to it.

Do they still have $0.25 Strohs night? Mmmmmm...Strohs.....

I was pissed they didn't have it anywhere the last time I was in Chicago. But then again I WAS hanging out on Rush and its environs.

Had a damn fine martini at Gibson's. "cold as my ex-wife's heart."

I can confirm that Carbondale was still having annual riots on Halloween as late as the early 90s. SIUC switched the week-long Thanksgiving break to Halloween and started closing the dorms in 92 or 93 I believe.

(I was waxing nostalgic about Boobies Beer-garden just this weekend.)

Uncle Pim		2010-09-10 05:53:36 PM

jimmychitwood: Uncle Pim: Animal House was hilarious!

Good job, subby!

MMMMM Blues Brothers?

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PumpUpDaFark		2010-09-10 05:57:28 PM

Speaking of PK's...

Tawl Paul (new window)

He's a C'dale landmark.

Darth_Lukecash		2010-09-10 06:05:11 PM

I am an SIUC Alumni- My years were 86-92 (Six years of my life...wasted ;))

Holloween was very mellow my first year...but by 92 two major things had happened. The long time President died my first year. The president that got hired was from the biology department and was determined to make SIUC a "science" university.

And one of the first thing he rallied against was Halloween. It was ruining the schools image. And he wasn't too far from wrong actually... most of the trouble were caused by outsiders and the "Yuppie/Preppie" attitude that was present in my era. People were getting into fights, climbing phone poles and falling off...and then I think there was a confrontation between the police and jerks who were "fighting for their right to party" That was in 91, I think.

SIUC closed down during halloween for a few years I think.

gregoire4		2010-09-10 06:09:25 PM

State County Municipal Offender Data Systems

Fix the cigarette lighter.

craxyd		2010-09-10 06:14:20 PM

Saracuda		2010-09-10 06:16:04 PM

SoxSweepAgain: Dang, here I am in Carbondale, COLORADO.

/Leaves disappointed.

I'm down the road a ways from you and wondered why I hadn't heard of this until Fark...

/Delta, CO

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