let’s play a game
January 26, 2010We’ll call it “OC-isms”.
Add a comment to this post with something Chris said (either once, or all the time) that was just quintessential OC. Afterwards, we’ll have a list of “OC-isms” that we can add to Shane’s book.
Help me, help Shane, to remember his dad.
I’ll start with the first one that popped into my head:
“T-L-E-O”
I’ve spoken before about his tendancy to speak in song lyrics. After a while he started using Acronyms. I don’t know if it’s because he got lazy or because he was trying to stump me. He never did. Stump me. It would sometimes take me a while, but I knew him well enough to know his repertoire! I miss our “cheesiness”. I miss being able to be myself. I miss OC.
(TLEO = They Love Each Other from the Grateful Dead)
Jay Grimes: "Give that man a Punch cigar" - an old LT commercial that was aired during a radio broadcast of a Giants game. We were listening on the radio because we were working out in the yard putting up a portion of the fence. In typical Chris fashion, this line was reitterated numerous times!
Jim Rueb: "El Spanisho Booko" - What OC wrote on the cover of his 9th grade Spanish Notebook !
john rueb III: im only drinking for medicinal purposes....and hey val...this is my last one.
Jim Rueb: I can't believe that Tracey mentioned Rowdy Roddy Piper........Chris used to run around saying the following Piper phrases....."Don't throw rocks at a man who has a machine gun" and "Just when you think you know all the answers, I change the questions" !! Chris' favorite Piper wrestling move was the EYE GOUGE !!
Jim Rueb: "Hey Mike, when are you taking me to Villagaros"? - OC would hound Mike Hussey with that phrase every time Mike walked onto the loading dock at Intercounty Appliance. The restaurant was a fancy Italian place on "The Right Side Of The Tracks" as OC would say, in Smithtown NY. The real name was Villagios....but OC loved changing the names of people, places and things !!
Aunt Trae: Chris used to let me be "Superfly Jimmy Snooka" and jump off his dresser full force on him. He would then put me in the full nelson or boston crab or some other WWF wrestling move.....Rowdy Rodey Piper or something
Dan Richards: J. Rueb, you forgot Dickey-Boy, The Four Horsemen, Double LL, R-squared.
Kristina: I so wish I had been priveledged enough to have know Chris although when I read all the beautiful posts from you and all your friends and family there are times I think I did know him :) I do wish I had my own story to share with you. xoxoxo
Jim Rueb: "D'CHICO" !!!!!!!!!!!!! OC tortured these twin brothers by yelling out "D'CHICO" and then hiding whenever he saw them in High School. OC expanded the D'CHICO shout to Rangers Games after High School, as we constantly saw them at games. These brothers still DO NOT KNOW to this day that Chris was the one calling their name all of these years !! Here's a D"CHICO shout out for you buddy !!!!!!!
Jim Rueb: "The mouth of the North and the South". OC talking about Noel Staley, the rolls on the back of his neck looked like a mouth(gross).
Aunt Tate: "Hows those fighting owls at the owls nest?".....
Jim Rueb: "Hey Jimbo....did you see that blast" ? This was OC after laying down a perfect bunt single against Burrs Lane Jr. High School in 9th grade Baseball. He was jumping up and down on first base like he had won the World Series !!
Jim Rueb: "Hey Jim...who the heck is going to beat us" ?? After Jim Schoenfield pauses for a second....OC tells him, "That's RIGHT JIM, no one is going to beat us" !! That was OC in Washington DC telling NHL announcer Jim Schoenfield that the Rangers were going to win the Stanley Cup in 1994 !!
Jim Rueb: "Truck.....No Truck - Ring.....No Ring - MVP - Wanna Be " = OC yelling at Martin Brodeur of the NJ Devils in early 1995, comparing him to the Rangers Mike Richter after Richter won the MVP Award of the 1994 All Star Game and received a new truck, and the Rangers won the Stanley Cup !!
Evan Mattingly: I didnt ever get to meet the man of mystery but from all the tales I have heard, I think we would have been close friends. He is a lot like me and seemed to have the same fun love for life that makes you just want to be around him. Good comments from all. I love to hear about the man I never knew, but wish I did.
Aunt Trae: My mom called me "Baby Cakes".......my brother called me "Baby Snakes" in that high strange voice he liked to use .....
Jim Rueb: Not fair.....I've told you every story(lol) !! How about OC riddles....he used to say "How come a bird can fly but a fly can't bird"? "Why do you park in a driveway but drive on a parkway"? Just put my stuff in the Shane needs to be over 18 in order to read that Chapter(lol) !! XOXO
Kristin O'Connor: No stumper for me, Jim! The leak has to do with a bag (or bottle; really, who can recall all the details!!) of urine while my (sophisticated) husband was riding in the backseat of your brother's car! Those are the kinds of stories that Shane could wait to hear!!! But then again, most OC/Jim stories fall into that category! xoxo
Jim Rueb: " Ice Cold PBR's in a rusty can" - OC wanting to have a Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. "Hey Ma, do you have any cold spaghetti"? OC would always enter my house and say those words to my Mom. "Hey kid, what's your story"? OC must have said that phrase 100 times to my son James. "Let the Fat Guy sing" !! An OC classic....as he ran up to front of the Westbury Music Fair Theater and yelled those words while the band Kansas was on stage. The guitar player was HUGE and OC waited until the place was quiet between songs. "I got gas"....OC said those words to a seventy year old waitress who asked him what he wanted to eat at a Philadelphia hotel restaurant. "Hey is that Montell Williams"? Oc said this beauty very loudly in that same restaurant when a big, bald black man walked by. And here is my stumper Kristin...."Hey Johnny, roll down the window it sprung a leak" !! Can you guess what was going on with that phrase? GOD bless you OC, truly the greatest friend that a guy could ever ask for.
susan buesing: " I'm alright, you alright." "This is my last beer, I'm quiting drinking tommorow."
Jennifer: "It feels like a bird slept in my mouth." ~the morning after your wedding