I posted a link to the world's greatest foosball table down in the Giddy Up! section yesterday. When a table offers custom players based off technology that creates 3d men out of pictures you send in, has backlighting under the game floor, bubble levels and etched rules and maintainence tips, it is all the more deserving of the afore mentioned title, world's greatest foosball table.
So my bro Shiloh decided that he wanted to buy one. Actually, he thought it would be too expensive, and since I am filthy rich with no conscious of where or how I spend my money, I was really the one wanting one. Shiloh did take the initiative to ping the kind folk of Eleven Forty to inquire about cost. He figured that if the price wasn't listed, then if you had to ask, it was likely way out of your league. Nay, I say. Remember, I'm filthy rich!
This morning Shiloh got a response:
From: Gordon J Gunn
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 10:47 AM
To: Shiloh
Subject: RE: The Opus
Dear Shiloh,
The Eleven Forty Company would like to thank you for your enquiry regarding The Opus.
Given the highly bespoke nature of the product, the price is £40,000. This equates roughly to $73,000.
Should you wish to discuss the Opus further we would be delighted to hear from you.
Kind regards,
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gordon J. gunn
director
E L E V E N F O R T Y C O.
Sweet! Only a cool $73,000 for a Futon Foosball Table. If anyone else wants to, we could order them together to hopefully save on shipping.
YSBL says,
check your mail - i just sent you a check for $146,000. I just want to have a spare lying around in case one breaks.
Posted @ June 15, 2005Noah says,
YSBL - Got it. I'll combine it, then snail mail the cash over to Europe. Or maybe I'll send out a mass email to the internets asking if anyone headed that way could carry the cash for us?
Posted @ June 15, 2005hink says,
I thought about it, but all of the sudden, I flashed back to a day when I was a network engineer, floating somewhere between the middle class and the poverty line. I think it was last wednesday; I had sushi.
Then I wondered if I could ever let my good friend Root play on it -- that jackass is always spilling his beer on the pitch.
Nah, I am saving my money for the real score: 5000 chainmail ipod covers.
Posted @ June 15, 2005Red C. says,
"order them together to hopefully save on shipping" - limh!
Posted @ June 15, 2005YSBL says,
For that price they should deliver it to you in a private helicopter. Like the kind they escape Jurassic Park in. AND you get to keep the helicopter. and the velociraptors.
Posted @ June 15, 2005Caleb HaGEN says,
I think this whole thing is funny. Particularly because I too inquired about the table through email. However, I didn't receive an email in return. Perhaps I should have included my resumé, attached a recent pay stub, or included a photo of my backfuton. If I know Shiloh (and I like to think that I do) he most likely included one of these items. Well chances are, it wasn't a picture of my backfuton ... since there is no way he has that in a digital format. That kind of stuff is locked up in some photo album from the early 80's that holds photos from when my mom would take pictures of me naked to prove that i had chicken pox or something.
By the way, I think that "hink" is hilarious. I'm not sure who that it is, but I've been very happy since that individual started posting on this here futon.
Posted @ June 15, 2005Motherfoos-ton says,
Is motherfuton.com an abbrev. for mother-foosball-futon.com? As in motherfooston? As in mfft.com? As in msft.com? HEY!!! What the Futon. Are you affilitated with MSFT? I'm outa here! You've already ruining my computer/internet life. Now you want my futon too! Das Boot! Caballero!
Posted @ June 15, 2005Noah says,
Steve Caballero?! He was my second favorite out of the entire Bones Brigade !
Posted @ June 15, 2005hink says,
Crtl-P! Ctrl-P!
Thanks for the kind words, Caleb. Das Foot has become one of my very favorite places to stop on my rounds, and its good to hear I'm not (yet) considered a problem.
Lord knows, if the film – nay, cinematic masterpiece that was P.C.U. taught me anything, it's to never find myself being that guy.
Posted @ June 15, 2005Noah says,
hink - P.C.U. Classic.
Posted @ June 15, 2005hink says,
Bones Brigade, you say? I am afraid the first skate video I ever saw was the Plan B video - you know, the one where Danny Way jumps off a 2nd-floor roof onto a trampoline, and the impact sent his legs into his chest, knocking him unconcious? Those were the days.
Some stills.
I sure hope I'm not the only one who remembers that.
Posted @ June 16, 2005Bruce says,
Bones Brigade, Noah? I seem to recall something about a blue plastic skateboard and the Pointer Sisters' "Jump" on a boom box...
Posted @ June 16, 2005