What are you infamous for?

“The troll version of the question. Please discuss.”

“Don't try to carry a burning mattress to the bathroom.”

“Oops, sorry:-(

That is what you are infamous for.”

“I am infamous for making innocuous statements and having them twisted into being vicious attacks on other tters and society in general.

The only thing mean about me is my ferocious Chihuahua. Don't mess with her, especially if I'm holding her. She will protect me to her death, grrrrrr!”

“Hold out your arms and I'll show you.



8)”

“Wife and I spent the night at my inlaws on the road to a canoe trip in Sylvania Wilderness.

In my sleep I knocked a pillow off the bed. It fell against a night light (with a bare bulb). It started smoldering about 4:30am when we finally discovered it. So here I am carrying this smoldering pillow down a flight of stairs to get it outside in my skivies and trying to put it out. Woke up most of the house, naturally.

Next visit, there were no open bulb night lights in the house. lol”

“Ultra, is that statement directed at me? I'm not sure I understand what you mean, but if you are being mean, don't bother to explain, lol:)”

“Not directed at you and not being mean, just funny. Ha Ha laugh.”

“the pink thingee”

“Now I'm really lost with lizs checking in with the pink thingee. I know she has some pink thingee, but I'm not sure what it is!!!”

“This is what I get for leaving tt for awhile. Will I ever catch up to what's going on? The saga continues.....”

“fighting with dead turkeys and losing”

“its a crash! bang! thang!”

“peeing on myself, naked karaoke”

“Ya know I really don't know. It'd be far more accurate if I let others answer for me.”

“Wicked good farts”

“bacon ring!”

“being me? Like Nigal I don't know!”

“having a drill seargent fall in my fox hole on top of me.”

“

'nuf said”

“Nice legs?”

“name says it all. I hike too fast.”

“My poetry.”

“Well, bacpac - I guess I did invite trolling type responses, though not bashing attempts. But, we do throw verbal elbows at each other back and forth - so I can't exactly cry foul.

While it is true that the fire is probably what I am most known for, and it is true that at 5:30 AM I did a few dumb things in response to the fire - including trying to move the mattress. Nonetheless, this wasn't pivotal to the problem as someone who picked up on the first Boston Globe story alleged - and it was not how I got burned. When I was headed to the ambulance I said something about it being stupid to move the mattress, and that's how that got into the first story. The other, more detailed, news story that came out - was written and published while I was in a coma, based on the eye-witness reports of other people who were in the house at the time.

The fire was already spreading in the bedroom when I moved the mattress and it spread from the the bedroom on its own across the house and filled the 2nd floor with smoke and the smoke was the biggest danger. I've already posted about what I thought were my key mistakes and I'm happy to own them, because maybe someone can learn from mine.

My key lessons:

1) Keep sounding the alarm, loud as you can.
2) Safety for people first before anything else, especially in old houses which can burn very fast.
3) Drill everyone for fire and emergency procedures at home.
4) Keep fire extinguishers handy in multiple locations.
5) Don't let kids have candles in their room, even at 17.”

“ped you do NOT OWE anyone any thing!
bacpac is an @ss and he has admitted to it more then once

you are best known for Petes Ribs!
yummy

when are we going to get together and eat some of Petes ribs?”

“yea, just ignore him, ped. you really don't have to explain yourself to anyone, we think you're a hero either way.

back on the thread topic, i'm known for bring firewater/aftershock on trips i guess. or having a bum knee more recently... : (”

“Mapes - anytime you and Tree come out here, we should do a Barbecue tour, or do take out from Petes and a couple of top competitors.”

“It is true though Mapes, that I am prolly the only TT'er to do an interstate ribs delivery for another TT'er.”

“ohh i smell and taste test of boston?

your on!!
maybe over the summer?”

“how many states was it?”

“TT taste test Boston Yahoo. Down East Bar-B-Q!
Would be great...

How many states? I drove from Boston passed through Conn, and NY on my way to NJ to deliver the stuff at Campmor.”

“MA, Ct, NY, NJ
you did good for 4 states”

“Next time we up the ante, Ped. We will try four states that are a little bigger. I think you should start in Ohio. Work your way into Pa. It's a long ride, so get mentally prepared. Then, you have to tackle Jersey. It's the width, so feel lucky you don't have to drive the length of the Turnpike. It's really boring. Then you can ease into Staten Island. Pull that off effectively and there's nothing stopping us! The west coast next! Arizona to Washington...”

“ped, for a minute I thought you were kidding and YOU were the barbeque, you know with the fire and everything. I know, bad joke:)”

“Maybe you are onto something here. He may be quite tasty!”

“tree, well that is a question only his wife can answer, lol:)”

“well put! can't follow that up!”

“i think there was a while ped thought he was gonna be the bar b q. glad you survived, mate, if only to be a thorn in bacpacs side”

“LOL several times here.

Actually Lips, I've made that bad joke myself more often than I want to admit.”

“ped, how can you not? At least your entitled to make the joke and I'm not, but I know you have a sense of humor:)”

“I am not sure what point you are trying to make. I am not aware of a subsequent article. If the fact that you tried to carry a flaming mattress through your house from a bedroom to the bathroom was not a factor in your infamous burn story, this is the first I have heard of it.”

“bbw, shut the crap up you insensitive bleep.

Ped, there are few people with the pelotas and bravery under life threatening conditions to do what you did. I will always take my hat off in your presence.”

“I'm probably most infamouse for moving to a new state every few months.”

“Shut up? Why? I want to know what happened.”

“Well, it's pretty clear what bacpac is infamous for. LOL!”

“Yeah, trying to get the truth can be a full time job.”

“Trouble is, bbw, you couldn't give a rat's patoot how you get to the truth. Somehow I get the idear you'd punch your own mom in the kisser just to see if her teeth are real.”

“I don't know why you would say that.”

“All of a sudden you seem real sensitive.”

“Sensitive to what? The truth?”