What's your Buffett age?

Tiki Bar · Post by **Tiki Bar** » February 11, 2005 1:22 pm

Jahfin wrote:I'm a Jimmy Buffett fan.

I have 2 completely serious questions.

1. Isn't "Jimmy Buffett fan" also a label?
2. If this site were exactly the same, but called ParrotHeadNews.com, would you still participate here?

Rodney King · Post by **Rodney King** » February 11, 2005 1:26 pm

DonnaKayDunbar wrote:But we could all use a dose of getting along.

Word!

Gulfbreeze · Post by **Gulfbreeze** » February 11, 2005 1:37 pm

Rodney King wrote:
DonnaKayDunbar wrote:But we could all use a dose of getting along.
Word!

Wondering when you'd show up...

Sam · Post by **Sam** » February 11, 2005 1:38 pm

I started in the mid 70's and went to my first concert in Tucson, Az in sometime between 83-85.paid $8.00 to go see a minor league baseball game that he played immediately after the game. Not real sure when I became a parrothead or even if I am one after the way some holier than thous came out of the closet. That has nothing to with how I or anyone else feels about JB.

On this one I see Jahfin's point....I know many people that don't like the negativity of the stereotype that comes with the "parrothead" label. One only look around at what alot of media has said about JB Phans.

I dunno if it is still out there or not, but there was a site about "I hate Jimmy Buffett" or some such site. The guy that made that site really hated parrotheads and Jimmy Buffett. True that was his problem but I cannot tell you how many times I have heard people say they hate JB and parrotheads cause of the way they act or dress or whatever.... Again that is their problem.

I do agree that what makes a parrothead is on the inside DEFINITELY COMES FROM WITHIN and not the outside....and most parrotheads are supposedly noncomformist, and many are very successful people. Far from the beach and boat personae that people percieve them to be.

Jahfin repeatedly said that he is just a fan and that is why he is here. Why keep hounding him?
I dunno about all of his other postings elsewhere or throughout the board but in this particular case...I do feel he was right in what he had to say if those are what he beliefs and not want to be called or considered a parrothead if he so chooses and still be a fan.

I know several people that go to concerts, that never tailgate or put on the "parrothead uniform" if one will allow that term to be used. Just as someone said elsewhere about their apparel to a concert included none of the coconut bras,grass skirts, etc...Certainly there are the many wannabees that come around in full dress colors that do give parrotheads a bad name.

Most people consider parrotheads to be nothing but margarita drinking drunks that run around in flip flops, loud shirts, or beach apparel and to be no better than any bum on the streets.....they just don't get it. It is a stigma and generalizatiion that is often made and is spread around like wildfire....Like any other generalization the bad news or parts travel the fastest and are easiest to be believed. Is there much difference in being a fan and a parrothead? I suppose it is in who you ask...apparently there are those in here and elsewhere that quite clearly make issue of it.....

Not much in the open media about what it takes to form a PHC or the requirements to maintain a charter or all of the fundraising and community service and other work, they must do...yeah they certainly sound like noncomformist to me....

Not much in the media about all the fund raising things that JB has done...

All of you know it is true....for a long time I did not consider myself a parrothead....... I was as Jahfin was...I was listening to JB before the term was coined....why give him a hard time about not wanting the label?
Parrothead is a way of life or lifestyle within the person....that some know it is there, some just discover that it was always there and they never knew it. No one real event created it.

Is there any requirement to be here to attend "organized events" arranged by a majority of people that supposedly are nonconformists?

Is there any requirement that one must attend so many shows to be allowed to be here on this forum?

Is there any requirement for any number of people one must meet in real life to be here?

Is there anything that makes one more a JB fan more so than another?

Is that how you judge someone that comes in here and claims to be fan instead of a parrothead?

Again I cannot say anything about any of Jahfin's other postings anywhere else, in and on this board and forum. That is his business.

BTW who wanted to fight??? ...okies ..... Meet me outside the bar at 1700 hrs ( that's 5:00 PM) Where something loud and obnoxious and crank the JB on the boom box.....if I am not outside in 3 minutes, go ahead and start without me.

Rodney King · Post by **Rodney King** » February 11, 2005 1:39 pm

Gulfbreeze wrote:Wondering when you'd show up...

Sorry I is late. Defensive driving class went long today.

Gulfbreeze · Post by **Gulfbreeze** » February 11, 2005 1:45 pm

Rodney King wrote:
Gulfbreeze wrote:Wondering when you'd show up...
Sorry I is late. Defensive driving class went long today.

Well there's plenty of fires for you to put out up in here today....now get busy.

Tiki Bar · Post by **Tiki Bar** » February 11, 2005 1:45 pm

Sam,
Good points, and sig line too for that matter!

RIPH · Post by **RIPH** » February 11, 2005 1:47 pm

Hi everyone, I normally do not post much here, and this might get axed by the censors, but...what the hell....

Ole Jah p*** everyone off at COBO, left, then came here...

That's what brought him to BN!!!!

nycparrothead · Post by **nycparrothead** » February 11, 2005 1:53 pm

RIPH wrote:Hi everyone, I normally do not post much here, and this might get axed by the censors, but...what the hell....

Ole Jah p*** everyone off at COBO, left, then came here...

That's what brought him to BN!!!!

Yep.. That's what I had heard... And yet, he still hasn't learned a damn thing...

Ilph · Post by **Ilph** » February 11, 2005 1:53 pm

Rodney King wrote:
DonnaKayDunbar wrote:But we could all use a dose of getting along.
Word!

It's about time you got here, Rodney!

Ilph · Post by **Ilph** » February 11, 2005 1:54 pm

I like cheese. It goes well with wine.

Sam · Post by **Sam** » February 11, 2005 1:55 pm

Tiki Bar wrote:Sam,
Good points, and sig line too for that matter!

Tiki,
Thank you! HUUUUGGGGZZZZ!!!!
I tried my best.

Now can we go to the bar and indulge in many cold and wet adult libations and fire up the grills???

Tiki Bar · Post by **Tiki Bar** » February 11, 2005 2:04 pm

Sam wrote:Now can we go to the bar and indulge in many cold and wet adult libations and fire up the grills???

That's the best suggestion I've heard all day!

ph4ever · Post by **ph4ever** » February 11, 2005 2:08 pm

RIPH wrote:Hi everyone, I normally do not post much here, and this might get axed by the censors, but...what the hell....

Ole Jah p*** everyone off at COBO, left, then came here...

That's what brought him to BN!!!!

I heard he was banned for life

Jahfin · Post by **Jahfin** » February 11, 2005 2:09 pm

RIPH wrote:Hi everyone, I normally do not post much here, and this might get axed by the censors, but...what the hell....

Ole Jah p*** everyone off at COBO, left, then came here...

That's what brought him to BN!!!!

That's not at all true but believe that if it makes you feel better.

Thanks, Sam.

Tiki Bar · Post by **Tiki Bar** » February 11, 2005 2:13 pm

I still think these are valid questions.

Tiki Bar wrote:
Jahfin wrote:I'm a Jimmy Buffett fan.
I have 2 completely serious questions.

1. Isn't "Jimmy Buffett fan" also a label?
2. If this site were exactly the same, but called ParrotHeadNews.com, would you still participate here?

Sam · Post by **Sam** » February 11, 2005 2:14 pm

Tiki Bar wrote:
Sam wrote:Now can we go to the bar and indulge in many cold and wet adult libations and fire up the grills???
That's the best suggestion I've heard all day!

Okies Let's Make it So ...Number 1............. ENGAGE!

Sam · Post by **Sam** » February 11, 2005 2:19 pm

Jahfin wrote:
RIPH wrote:Hi everyone, I normally do not post much here, and this might get axed by the censors, but...what the hell....

Ole Jah p*** everyone off at COBO, left, then came here...

That's what brought him to BN!!!!
That's not at all true but believe that if it makes you feel better.

Thanks, Sam.

Jahfin,
You are welkies.
Let's be honest though ...you did upset some people at CoB,O.Obviously you have upset some people here as well... and for whatever reason or conditions..... That is neither here nor there and not germain to the issue at hand...

big hat carmen · Post by **big hat carmen** » February 11, 2005 2:24 pm

In counseling classes, we teach that there are 2 basic types of questions:

Information-seeking and challenging. Information-seeking questions are asked because of basic human curiosity, wanting to understand another person and look for common ground.

On this board, questions have been raised to an art form. I consider being asked questions by people on BN to be a compliment, showing interest in me as a person.

I can't answer for anyone else, but I am genuinely curious and like to talk, so I ask questions. And for the most part, they are answered and the beginning of a bond is formed between 2 people. That sounds like a positive situation to me.

Quiet and Shy · Post by **Quiet and Shy** » February 11, 2005 2:26 pm

RIPH wrote:Hi everyone, I normally do not post much here, and this might get axed by the censors, but...what the hell....

Ole Jah p*** everyone off at COBO, left, then came here...

That's what brought him to BN!!!!

Does it matter?? That sounds like "he punched me in 3rd grade."

Well said, Sam

BuffettNews.com

What's your Buffett age?

When did you become a Parrothead?