Snippeting the Obvious
Posted June 28th, 2006 by Nathan DeGraaf
Me: I don't think?
Dan: I know.
Me: You didn't let me finish.
Dan: I know.
Random Guy: I'll bet I could beat you in a race.
Me: What brought that up?
Random Guy: Nothing. I just really want to run, but it's no fun if you don't have someone to race.
Me: You understand that we're in a bar right now? And that we're all drinking, and that no one here is interested in racing you?
Steve: I'll race your ass, dude. You are so dead.
Christie: What are those idiots doing?
Me: Forty yard dash.
Christie: Why?
Me: They wanted to race.
Christie: Why?
Me: Who do I look like? Fucking Freud?
Christie: Men: the ones that aren't dicks are just plain stupid.
Me: It pisses me off that you guys won't let me in the "We Ain't Right Club."
Dan: I'm telling you, dude. You gotta straighten up.
Me: But everyone else has to do more outlandish shit to get in. Why should I have to temper my act to get in the "We Ain't Right Club?"
Dan: 'Cause it's not called the "We're Majorly Fucked Up Club." That's why.
Me: This guy named Tucker Max called me out on his website. He basically said that I'm selling myself short.
Royce: I see. And who the hell is he?
Me: He's this writer who writes about drinking and fucking and having crazy times.
Royce: I wasn't aware that you had a brother.
Me: I think I drink too much.
Sean: My car is white.
Me: What's that got to do with anything?
Sean: Oh, my bad. I thought it was "state the obvious time" again.
Tony: Only eleven weeks until preseason football.
Me: Not that you're counting or anything.
Tony: Mr. Nate, apparently, you ain't listening. I just told you that I am, in fact and without a doubt, counting.
Me: You're not funny.
Me: Why do soldiers puke in their helmets?
Tony: It keeps the camp clean.
Me: But doesn't it suck to get dried puke on your head?
Tony: Not as bad as it sucks getting your head smashed in by pissed off military personnel.
Me: I'm glad I never joined the military.
Tony: Nate, I think the whole country is happy about that one.
Dan: I know.
Me: You didn't let me finish.
Dan: I know.
Random Guy: I'll bet I could beat you in a race.
Me: What brought that up?
Random Guy: Nothing. I just really want to run, but it's no fun if you don't have someone to race.
Me: You understand that we're in a bar right now? And that we're all drinking, and that no one here is interested in racing you?
Steve: I'll race your ass, dude. You are so dead.
Christie: What are those idiots doing?
Me: Forty yard dash.
Christie: Why?
Me: They wanted to race.
Christie: Why?
Me: Who do I look like? Fucking Freud?
Christie: Men: the ones that aren't dicks are just plain stupid.
Me: It pisses me off that you guys won't let me in the "We Ain't Right Club."
Dan: I'm telling you, dude. You gotta straighten up.
Me: But everyone else has to do more outlandish shit to get in. Why should I have to temper my act to get in the "We Ain't Right Club?"
Dan: 'Cause it's not called the "We're Majorly Fucked Up Club." That's why.
Me: This guy named Tucker Max called me out on his website. He basically said that I'm selling myself short.
Royce: I see. And who the hell is he?
Me: He's this writer who writes about drinking and fucking and having crazy times.
Royce: I wasn't aware that you had a brother.
Me: I think I drink too much.
Sean: My car is white.
Me: What's that got to do with anything?
Sean: Oh, my bad. I thought it was "state the obvious time" again.
Tony: Only eleven weeks until preseason football.
Me: Not that you're counting or anything.
Tony: Mr. Nate, apparently, you ain't listening. I just told you that I am, in fact and without a doubt, counting.
Me: You're not funny.
Me: Why do soldiers puke in their helmets?
Tony: It keeps the camp clean.
Me: But doesn't it suck to get dried puke on your head?
Tony: Not as bad as it sucks getting your head smashed in by pissed off military personnel.
Me: I'm glad I never joined the military.
Tony: Nate, I think the whole country is happy about that one.
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14 Comments
I like. =)
No no no, Nate, you've got it all wrong. We don't puke in our helmets, we order the Pvt to give up his helmet so we can puke. But we're nice about it, we give it back when we're done.
And people say I don't know what it means to be a good NCO.
always love the snippets dude.
in what story or website post did Tucker call yuo out on by the way?
Dave, thanks for setting the record straight.
Sarah and Jackson, thanks.
Tucker just put a conversation we had via email up in the forum part of his site.
http://messageboard.tuckermax.com/showthread.php?t=9810&highlight=degraaf
For the e-mail thread between Tucker Max and Nate. Tucker's site is fucking hilarious, but he doesn't crank out several pieces every week, so I prefer PIC.
nate check out this
http://www.jambands.com/Features/content_2006_06_23.06.phtml
larry j
Wow. Tucker is an asswipe. I liked how you handled it though.
Wow. Just read your pissing match with Tucker, then tried to read on. Unreadable. I'd rather interview a stuttering, stammering alzheimer's patient that read his site. Keep on writing Nate, and fuck the critics.
By the way, Jenny Macarthy, Playmate of The Year 1994, I think, has 3 NY Times best-sellers. I think Rush "Pillhead" Limbaugh and Jerry Springer have had them as well. It's not such a great honor.
Tucker is the only writer to ever make me laugh out loud. You come in second. And my boyfriend is surely your younger brother. Though he prefers abstract poetry to sex stories. I love you guys... in a friendly way of course.
It didn't take much for me to burn out on Tucker. He's funny, but his writing sucks outside of the simple retelling of stories. That and the stories quickly become unreadable since he's such an insufferable ass. And not the good kind of ass, the sort with intelligence, wit, or redeeming character, but the kind of obnoxious twit you can't help but hope karma's got something truely nasty and ironic in store for.
Your writing, even here with deadlines, low standards, and little insentive to produce quality material, beats the hell out of his. I can't wait for your book, I wish I could afford two copies to help you outsell him.
Nate, I have been reading you and Tucker for a while now, and I must say, your writing is funnier. Also, I listen to XM Radio, especially the Opie and Anthony show, and Tucker was on air with them last week; they called him out, made fun of him, and generally ragged on him...the display on my xm screen even read "Tucker Max Lying"...he got fed up to the point of storming out of the studio...very amusing to listen to, because as a reader of his stories, I do know that they are probably 75% bullshit, and he got called out, and like a bully on the playground who gets punched in the nose, he ran away crying.
Tucker Max is overrated. Good writer - bullshit stories.
Nate,
Tucker Max is nothing but lies. Your writing is so much better, and so much more real. I can actually tell you LIVED your stories. Tucker makes his life up on the fly. Keep up the good work. It's only a matter of time before Tucker's "empire" crumbles under the weight of his own ego.
hahaha, I can atest to a tale or two of Nates RL adventures....but I wont =P
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