Jeepster47's crazy score!!

RRP

Jeepster47 said:

Just to add a bit more comeuppance we can't even get pictures of it outside.  Turns out when you assemble your table and egg inside you should measure to make sure you can get it outside later!

Look on the bright side - you always wanted a larger patio door and this way you can justify the $$,$$$ cost! 

ksmyrl

I've been following this with interest since yesterday. I wasn't sure how I felt about it. But now...nobody was hurt and I LOVE a great prank. Nice job, very funny. And nice egg. Also, we added French doors to our deck this summer. Love them. Sound like @jeepster47 may needing them as well. 

jls9595

I knew it!   well, I was about 90% sure

RRP

@jeepster47 - just for clarification - so you bought a second large plus the cart? Or did you put your existing egg in a new cart?

grege345

theyolksonyou said:

Jeepster47 said:

Just to add a bit more comeuppance we can't even get pictures of it outside.  Turns out when you assemble your table and egg inside you should measure to make sure you can get it outside later!

 

Karma is a **** lol

flyer_egger

cleaver and sorta sic     loved it lol

Jeepster47

RRP said:

@jeepster47 - just for clarification - so you bought a second large plus the cart? Or did you put your existing egg in a new cart?

@RRP ... a whole new "system" ... kind of the "odd couple" of eggs. 

Love my present large egg in a nest with the handler.  Stable and easy to move around.  PSWoo, a few firebricks and a cheap Weber grill rounds out the egg and makes it simple and handy to cook for two.  But, storage is severely limited as you can imagine.

Wanted a table, but didn't want to move the egg out of the nest.  To make a long story short, my dealer gave me a great deal on the Challenger Cart and a plain vanilla large egg ... no plate setter, no accessories, no lump.  Oh yes, it came in two boxes with no assembly included.  When he said he'd switch out ugly daisy for a Smokeware cap that sealed the deal.  Added the Kick Ash Basket before I left the store.  Then a visit to CGS for an R&B adjustable rig, a rig extender, and a sliding D grill completed the transformation.

So, I've got two large eggs, but two different cooking systems.  The initial thought was that a large would be good for sharing accessories, but that went by the wayside once the rationalization took hold.

Cookinbob

You had me, would take some stones to go collect the prize though  

Botch

Jeepster47 said:  So, I've got two large eggs, but two different cooking systems.  The initial thought was that a large would be good for sharing accessories, but that went by the wayside once the rationalization took hold.

 
That is very interesting.  I hope, by midsummer or so, you can post a detailed story about what you like/hate about each setup, that'd be useful to us all.  

RRP

Jeepster47 said:

RRP said:

@jeepster47 - just for clarification - so you bought a second large plus the cart? Or did you put your existing egg in a new cart?

@RRP ... a whole new "system" ... kind of the "odd couple" of eggs. 

Love my present large egg in a nest with the handler.  Stable and easy to move around.  PSWoo, a few firebricks and a cheap Weber grill rounds out the egg and makes it simple and handy to cook for two.  But, storage is severely limited as you can imagine.

Wanted a table, but didn't want to move the egg out of the nest.  To make a long story short, my dealer gave me a great deal on the Challenger Cart and a plain vanilla large egg ... no plate setter, no accessories, no lump.  Oh yes, it came in two boxes with no assembly included.  When he said he'd switch out ugly daisy for a Smokeware cap that sealed the deal.  Added the Kick Ash Basket before I left the store.  Then a visit to CGS for an R&B adjustable rig, a rig extender, and a sliding D grill completed the transformation.

So, I've got two large eggs, but two different cooking systems.  The initial thought was that a large would be good for sharing accessories, but that went by the wayside once the rationalization took hold.

Sounds good! Cool that you have two very versatile configurations plus the mere fact of double the fire power than before! Is Mrs Jeepster still shaking her head in disbelief? LOL

Jeepster47

RRP said:

... Is Mrs Jeepster still shaking her head in disbelief? LOL

She's the one who talked me into the first egg.  Since she's found the cooking duties greatly reduced, I think I can get away with almost anything egg related.

RRP

Jeepster47 said:

She's the one who talked me into the first egg.  Since she's found the cooking duties greatly reduced, I think I can get away with almost anything egg related.

THAT is precisely how I ended up with four eggs. We bought the first one together and the next 3 were surprise gifts to me! My wife is one of BGE's best salespeople convincing other women of the benefits to be had getting the husband hooked!

logchief

Well it was a fun read, @Ozzie_Isaac maybe you should consider short stories as a sideline.

RiverDoc

Thank you, I really needed a good laugh tonight . This was great!

minniemoh

I worked a trade show all weekend so I was absent from the antics of the forum for a few days. This whole thread turned into a really funny read. The best part about reading it was finding out about the indoor assembly!

Like @Jeepster47, I have different set-ups for my L eggs and they are mostly different tools. I hope you enjoy your new cooking toys as much as I enjoyed this thread. 

Zmokin

ksmyrl said:

I've been following this with interest since yesterday. I wasn't sure how I felt about it. But now...nobody was hurt and I LOVE a great prank. Nice job, very funny. And nice egg. Also, we added French doors to our deck this summer. Love them. Sound like @jeepster47 may needing them as well. 

Not everyone loves a good prank, in fact effing with someone's mind can be downright evil.  I remember one time, it was April 1st, and someone played a good act and convinced a co-worker that his house was on fire.  Dude was justifiably pissed when he found out it wasn't true.  He could have wrecked his car driving home hoping to discover his family had made it out safely.  Why the idiot playing the prank didn't let the cat out of the bag when the guy raced out of the building is beyond me.  I'm surprised the guy didn't beat the holy crap out of his so-called friend, but I believe the friendship did not survive the prank.  I know I would want to choke the living crap out of anyone that effed with my mind like that.

Ozzie_Isaac

@Zmokin I agree some pranks go way beyond funny to straight mean.

Hopefully nobody went racing to Iowa to beat us to the egg

Ozzie_Isaac

In high-school all my friends were always punking each other.  The meanest one (and perhaps funniest) was when some friends put a live rattlesnake in my truck.

They were at least kind enough to put it in a gift wrapped bag.  When I went to pick it up the bag started the tell-tale rattle!!

johnkitchens

Ozzie_Isaac said:

In high-school all my friends were always punking each other.  The meanest one (and perhaps funniest) was when some friends put a live rattlesnake in my truck.

They were at least kind enough to put it in a gift wrapped bag.  When I went to pick it up the bag started the tell-tale rattle!!

Someone would have died that day. 

Ozzie_Isaac

johnkitchens said:

Someone would have died that day. 

Someone did.  The rattlesnake died.  I got even though.  There was a house party that night.  I broke into my friends car and wrapped the snake around the steering column.  I put the head between the spokes on the steering wheel staring at the driver.  I put the tail out on the shift lever.

When my buddy went to leave that night he jumped in his car, grabbed at the shift lever and got a handful of rattlesnake tail instead.

He screamed like a little girl and fell out of his car onto the ground with the snake landing on him.  He tried to crawl backwards down the driveway at about a million miles an hour.

I knew what was coming so I told everyone to watch my buddy leave, it would be funny.  We were all on the front deck watching him.  Everyone had a real good laugh.  He didn't talk to me for a week or so!

johnkitchens

@Ozzie_Isaac you guys were brutal.  

Ozzie_Isaac

Growing up in Tucson things that bite, sting, or stab you are a part of everyday life.

We also grew up in Steve Irwin's (Crocodile Hunter) heyday, so we had good examples on TV for safe fun activities

gmbbs

You guys ought to know that that "free" egg does not have a warranty, and is therfore worthless. I'd pass.

Wait, what, it's not real???

RRP

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Growing up in Tucson things that bite, sting, or stab you are a part of everyday life.

We also grew up in Steve Irwin's (Crocodile Hunter) heyday, so we had good examples on TV for safe fun activities

And here all this time I believed you had been abandoned in the AZ desert as a baby by @Jeepster47, then adopted by an "alpha she wolf" who taught  you to foliage and live off the land all those years. I even told friends that i know a guy who made shrimp scampi using scorpion tails he pulled off with his teeth and then cooked in a hub cap he found on the highway.  WOW, the fable of @Ozzie_Isaac just goes on and on!

Ozzie_Isaac

@RRP thats all true except the she-wolf.  It was actually a she-coyote.  And it wasn't a hubcap it was actually the skull of a badger I killed barehanded at the age of 5.

Jeepster47

@RRP ... psst, ask him about all the trips to the emergency room ... got bitten by a scorpion, tried to drop kick a cacti ... I'm sure there were more, but they slip my mind right now.  So when he spins a yarn about dancing with danger, it's more like a stumble into catastrophe.

Ozzie_Isaac

Jeepster47 said:...trips to the emergency room ... bitten by a scorpion.... drop kick ... dancing with danger....

By emergency room he means the medicine healers hut in the middle of the barren sun backed sands of Tucson.  The one I had to crawl to with a finger dangling by a few bits of muscle and covered in spines from a prickly pear.  Injuries received while fighting off a javelina trying to kill my only friend ... a small mouse named Samson.

RRP

Jeepster47 said:

@RRP ... psst, ask him about all the trips to the emergency room ... got bitten by a scorpion, tried to drop kick a cacti ... I'm sure there were more, but they slip my mind right now.  So when he spins a yarn about dancing with danger, it's more like a stumble into catastrophe.

LMAO!!! for two engineers with a humor bone in them that is a gem! Most of you engineer guys will ask what time it is, but to prove our reply you REALLY want us to build a clock instead! Looks like there is a chip off the old block after all!

Botch

Ozzie_Isaac said:

In high-school all my friends were always punking each other.  The meanest one (and perhaps funniest) was when some friends put a live rattlesnake in my truck.

They were at least kind enough to put it in a gift wrapped bag.  When I went to pick it up the bag started the tell-tale rattle!!

 
Reminds me of a prank I loved pulling in high school.  Take a small frame of some sort (I used a "tree" from a plastic model car kit), stretch a rubber band across it, then tie a clothes button to the center of the rubber band.  Twist the button over and over, then slip the assembly into a plain white envelope; set onto a prominent surface.  By carefully figuring out how tightly to twist the button, the weight of the envelope (face-up) will keep the button from unwinding.
Until someone picks it up, and it sounds like an angry rattler in the envelope!  I got beat up a couple times, but it was so worth it!  

Jeepster47

Ozzie_Isaac said:

... while fighting off a javelina ...

Oh yes, I remember your "fight" with a javelina ... seems like it was more a "flight" from javelina.

We were hiking up the wash behind our house where we saw a lot of javelina tracks.  Somehow they got around us and made there way into our backyard.  When we came home and climbed out of the wash, we found ourselves right in the middle of the pack.  I turned to Ozzie to say something and all I saw were the cheeks of his a$$ heading over the next rise.

In his defense, he was only 12 years old, it was the first month we were in Tucson, and it was the first time he'd seen a javelina.