GM's thread about nothing (18 Viewers)

[jplvr]

1. You people were way too prolific today for me to catch up. Who's doing today's summary?2. I was letting one of my paralegals use our vacation house for free for five nights in March. Now she can't go, and someone else we work with, with whom I'm spoken maybe 3-4 times, told her that he would be interested in staying there in her stead. So he e-mailed me and asked about it--I sent him all kinds of info to which his only response was to ask what kind of discount I'd give him. After thinking about it a while, and again I barely know the guy, I offered to let him stay there for half-price. He then asked me if I could take 70% off instead.Moral of the story: people suck.

Cheap bastage.

 

[jplvr]

Does anyone have that video of the old men dancing? I'm not digging back through the thread.

Here's more:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=l3rbv_QbAU4

 

[mr. furley]

my advice to GMTAN: steer clear of the State of the Union thread

#### there are a lot of dumb people in there

it's like a who's who of the worst posters in this forum

 

[jplvr]

MY LINK

So awesome.

FBG Staff party in 15 years?

When was this cornhole? Which one is Tanner?

Oooo...too late. Better luck next time.

BOOMSearched for "which one is Tanner"

 

[-fish-]

Still at the airport. May be in a relationship with the bartender. Also establishing conditions for marriage with my paralegal,

 

[Sheriff Bart]

1. You people were way too prolific today for me to catch up. Who's doing today's summary?

2. I was letting one of my paralegals use our vacation house for free for five nights in March. Now she can't go, and someone else we work with, with whom I'm spoken maybe 3-4 times, told her that he would be interested in staying there in her stead. So he e-mailed me and asked about it--I sent him all kinds of info to which his only response was to ask what kind of discount I'd give him. After thinking about it a while, and again I barely know the guy, I offered to let him stay there for half-price. He then asked me if I could take 70% off instead.

Moral of the story: people suck.

Yeah, please see my post on free furniture.

 

[shuke]

Actually we had more than that. We also had PBS and at least one UHF channel that showed wrasslin', Creature Feature movies, etc.

You mean like, Megashark vs. Giant Octopus and Dinocroc vs. Supergator?Sweet.

It was the late 60's early 70's and we hadn't discovered those things yet. More old school than that, lots of B&W. Story of my life - born too late for free love and too early for cool creature movies.

How about Sammy Terry??

Nope. Just the generic Creature Feature. I guess it was sold to independent stations so they had some content. No cool hosts or anything. But we did get Kung Fu Theater with it.

We had Dr.Shock with our Horror Theatrehttp://www.maskdr.com/DrShock/clips.html

In Dayton, we had

A used car salesman with white makeup? Dumb.

 

[shuke]

Holy crap that was excruciatingly long with no payoff.

 

[Kubes]

Now the proud leaser of a Honda Civic.

 

[krista4]

1. You people were way too prolific today for me to catch up. Who's doing today's summary?

2. I was letting one of my paralegals use our vacation house for free for five nights in March. Now she can't go, and someone else we work with, with whom I'm spoken maybe 3-4 times, told her that he would be interested in staying there in her stead. So he e-mailed me and asked about it--I sent him all kinds of info to which his only response was to ask what kind of discount I'd give him. After thinking about it a while, and again I barely know the guy, I offered to let him stay there for half-price. He then asked me if I could take 70% off instead.

Moral of the story: people suck.

Yeah, please see my post on free furniture.

I missed this. Cliff's notes?By the way, my response was to send the guy some recommendations for area hostels. A subtler form of saying go eff yourself, ya cheap bastage.

 

[Sheriff Bart]

The new house has a bathroom right outside the master bedroom. Yes, we have one in the bedroom too and the logistics of having two toilets so close as seemed weird and confusing to me.

Anyhow, I didn't make home from work until 8 and was greeted with screaming kids and a pissed off wife. I was tired but fine up to that point but that wore on me really fast. We got the boys to bed and I hit the sheets around 9:30. My wife knows me pretty well and it had been a few days since lovemaking and I had GM's story still fresh in my mind. So things started happening when I start getting a headache. I considered bailing but I had my eyes on the prize. Things start getting more intense and now my stomach hurts really bad. My wife asks me if I going to kiss her or just treat her like a whore. I didn't want to tell her about my internal problems because I still had work to do. So despite awful things going on inside me, I somehow manage to finish my job. Five seconds later, still with full wood, I'm running to the master bath and being puking my guts out. My wife standing behind me in her birthday suit was not amused. I haven't been physically ill in a long time and forgot just bad it was. She gets me back to bed and a few minutes later I realize that the other end of my digestive track is aborting. So I run to the hall bathroom and recreate the bathroom scene from Dumb & Dumber. It was like this every twenty minutes from 10 last night until 6 this morning. I also forgot how bad dry heaving was. All I have in my system now is a Vicodin. I think I'm going to die. On the plus side, I lost 7 pounds overnight.

Woz<

 

[jplvr]

Now the proud leaser of a Honda Civic.

Gratz. Can't wait to see your upgrades.

 

[Sheriff Bart]

1. You people were way too prolific today for me to catch up. Who's doing today's summary?

2. I was letting one of my paralegals use our vacation house for free for five nights in March. Now she can't go, and someone else we work with, with whom I'm spoken maybe 3-4 times, told her that he would be interested in staying there in her stead. So he e-mailed me and asked about it--I sent him all kinds of info to which his only response was to ask what kind of discount I'd give him. After thinking about it a while, and again I barely know the guy, I offered to let him stay there for half-price. He then asked me if I could take 70% off instead.

Moral of the story: people suck.

Yeah, please see my post on free furniture.

I missed this. Cliff's notes?

By the way, my response was to send the guy some recommendations for area hostels. A subtler form of saying go eff yourself, ya cheap bastage.

Link

 

[Kubes]

Now the proud leaser of a Honda Civic.

Gratz. Can't wait to see your upgrades.

Awesome.Unfortunately this one is currently spoiler free.

 

[bentley]

The new house has a bathroom right outside the master bedroom. Yes, we have one in the bedroom too and the logistics of having two toilets so close as seemed weird and confusing to me.

Our house has a setup like this. The hall bath is less than six feet from the entrance to the master bathroom. I've set up shop in there and never use the master. It keeps me from having to hear Angrywife complain about magazines being left around on the floor or any mysterious bowl stains.

 

[HighBeams]

Well hell, K4 missed my TimDraft joke.

 

[Guster]

I've met Zooks and Guster.

WINNER

 

[krista4]

1. You people were way too prolific today for me to catch up. Who's doing today's summary?

2. I was letting one of my paralegals use our vacation house for free for five nights in March. Now she can't go, and someone else we work with, with whom I'm spoken maybe 3-4 times, told her that he would be interested in staying there in her stead. So he e-mailed me and asked about it--I sent him all kinds of info to which his only response was to ask what kind of discount I'd give him. After thinking about it a while, and again I barely know the guy, I offered to let him stay there for half-price. He then asked me if I could take 70% off instead.

Moral of the story: people suck.

Yeah, please see my post on free furniture.

I missed this. Cliff's notes?

By the way, my response was to send the guy some recommendations for area hostels. A subtler form of saying go eff yourself, ya cheap bastage.

Link

Oh good god.

Well hell, K4 missed my TimDraft joke.

:( Sorry. I'm really not feeling well tonight and am therefore dumb.

 

[Sheriff Bart]

The new house has a bathroom right outside the master bedroom. Yes, we have one in the bedroom too and the logistics of having two toilets so close as seemed weird and confusing to me.

Our house has a setup like this. The hall bath is less than six feet from the entrance to the master bathroom. I've set up shop in there and never use the master. It keeps me from having to hear Angrywife complain about magazines being left around on the floor or any mysterious bowl stains.

I can truly see the genius in the set up now. The smell emanating from my bowels is what I imagine the sewers below a slaughter house must smell like. Plus I got some pretty good exercise running between them.

 

[bakes]

That was just the intro - the movies were worse. I saw at least a dozen of those movies years later with two robots and a guy stuck in space riffing on them.

 

[Mr.Pack]

I want to give a shout out to St. Louis Bob for the text and offer of a care package.

Made me feel good.

OK, that sounded gay, but he's a good guy. I know he's on a forced vacation, but still wanted to give him a shout out.

 

[cosjobs]

Cos, did we ever coax some folks down from Seattle for this weekend? Rover? Drifter? Pigskin? Ninja? Brit? !? You know who I want to party with? The guy up in Seattle who is a zoo keeper. Valence or some such? That guy would be fun to party with.Wonder if any Portland people would be up for a cornhole.....Tommyboy? Um....I think that's it.

I could possibly do Saturday night/Sunday. I might be buying a new truck this weekend though

You don't want mine? Orig sticker was over $40K, so it should be high end enough for you.

I'm getting a vendor discount in a new f-150.

if its not 15K under invoice walk away. And I am not talking in comparison to mine I'm talking in comparison of other new trucks.

 

[HighBeams]

Well hell, K4 missed my TimDraft joke.

:( Sorry. I'm really not feeling well tonight and am therefore dumb.

All good, I'm well aware of the dumb things you can do.

 

[bakes]

I want to give a shout out to St. Louis Bob for the text and offer of a care package.Made me feel good.OK, that sounded gay, but he's a good guy. I know he's on a forced vacation, but still wanted to give him a shout out.

And condolences Pack - sorry about your loss.

 

[cosjobs]

Well hell, K4 missed my TimDraft joke.

:( Sorry. I'm really not feeling well tonight and am therefore dumb.

All good, I'm well aware of the dumb things you can do.

sounds more aggressive than passive

 

[HighBeams]

Well hell, K4 missed my TimDraft joke.

:( Sorry. I'm really not feeling well tonight and am therefore dumb.

All good, I'm well aware of the dumb things you can do.

sounds more aggressive than passive

I'm willing to bet Krista will see that as me taking a shot at myself.

 

[commisholio]

Cos, did we ever coax some folks down from Seattle for this weekend? Rover? Drifter? Pigskin? Ninja? Brit? !? You know who I want to party with? The guy up in Seattle who is a zoo keeper. Valence or some such? That guy would be fun to party with.Wonder if any Portland people would be up for a cornhole.....Tommyboy? Um....I think that's it.

-fish- was the only one who sounded very excited about it, but he's out of town til Sat., I think and I kind of doubt he'll sober up long enough to make the drive.I mentioned it to Brit, P, Ninja and Drifter when I first made the plans, And you're right, I forgot Valens or whoever was up there. We should try and track him down.

valence moved to san diego to work at the world famous san diego zoo, so he's probably out

 

[cosjobs]

Cos, did we ever coax some folks down from Seattle for this weekend? Rover? Drifter? Pigskin? Ninja? Brit? !? You know who I want to party with? The guy up in Seattle who is a zoo keeper. Valence or some such? That guy would be fun to party with.Wonder if any Portland people would be up for a cornhole.....Tommyboy? Um....I think that's it.

-fish- was the only one who sounded very excited about it, but he's out of town til Sat., I think and I kind of doubt he'll sober up long enough to make the drive.I mentioned it to Brit, P, Ninja and Drifter when I first made the plans, And you're right, I forgot Valens or whoever was up there. We should try and track him down.

valence moved to san diego to work at the world famous san diego zoo, so he's probably out

amtrak down?

 

[Crazy Canuck]

1. You people were way too prolific today for me to catch up. Who's doing today's summary?

2. I was letting one of my paralegals use our vacation house for free for five nights in March. Now she can't go, and someone else we work with, with whom I'm spoken maybe 3-4 times, told her that he would be interested in staying there in her stead. So he e-mailed me and asked about it--I sent him all kinds of info to which his only response was to ask what kind of discount I'd give him. After thinking about it a while, and again I barely know the guy, I offered to let him stay there for half-price. He then asked me if I could take 70% off instead.

Moral of the story: people suck.

So I guess this means if I use the place I shouldn't ask for 100% off, full travel expenses, and an open account for hookers and blow?

 

[Crazy Canuck]

1. You people were way too prolific today for me to catch up. Who's doing today's summary?

2. I was letting one of my paralegals use our vacation house for free for five nights in March. Now she can't go, and someone else we work with, with whom I'm spoken maybe 3-4 times, told her that he would be interested in staying there in her stead. So he e-mailed me and asked about it--I sent him all kinds of info to which his only response was to ask what kind of discount I'd give him. After thinking about it a while, and again I barely know the guy, I offered to let him stay there for half-price. He then asked me if I could take 70% off instead.

Moral of the story: people suck.

Yeah, please see my post on free furniture.

I missed this. Cliff's notes?By the way, my response was to send the guy some recommendations for area hostels. A subtler form of saying go eff yourself, ya cheap bastage.

 

[proninja]

1. You people were way too prolific today for me to catch up. Who's doing today's summary?2. I was letting one of my paralegals use our vacation house for free for five nights in March. Now she can't go, and someone else we work with, with whom I'm spoken maybe 3-4 times, told her that he would be interested in staying there in her stead. So he e-mailed me and asked about it--I sent him all kinds of info to which his only response was to ask what kind of discount I'd give him. After thinking about it a while, and again I barely know the guy, I offered to let him stay there for half-price. He then asked me if I could take 70% off instead.Moral of the story: people suck.

"hey, so it turns out that my property manager booked that week not 10 minutes ago"edit: I like your response better

 

[jplvr]

I'm about to post a thread I might not ever read.

 

[Reg Lllama of Brixton]

My wife asks me if I going to kiss her or just treat her like a whore.

I'm so stupid I wouldn't have been able to resist with "treat you like a whore".

 

[Phil McGraw]

It sounds like Aunt Bee is getting tailpiped in your office.

 

[NCCommish]

We are babysitting our 18-month-old nephew this morning. We arrived to find him engrossed in a cartoon. Great. I take him in the kitchen briefly and my husband changes the TV to ESPN. I tell him to please change it back, and that his world (getting to watch what he wants, when he wants, etc.) is going to be rocked if we have kids. I ran to the store for about 20 minutes just now. I came back to find that he had rolled the kid's high chair into the living room, right in front of the TV, and plopped the kid in it so as to limit all that toddling around. I can't decide whether to be super impressed or frightened for our potential children.

My dad watched what he wanted when he wanted and used me as the remote control. I got in trouble if I spun the channel changer knob to fast.

And you only had 3 channels, but THAT'S THE WAY IT WAS AND YOU LIKE IT?

Actually we had more than that. We also had PBS and at least one UHF channel that showed wrasslin', Creature Feature movies, etc.

And around 1am, the TV went to snow as all the channels went off the air for the night.

Not before they played a pretty low-budget version of the Star Spangled Banner or Taps or some such....what a strange tradition.

Yeah the Taps thing always bothered me. It was like we were burying the country or something.

 

[NCCommish]

my advice to GMTAN: steer clear of the State of the Union thread#### there are a lot of dumb people in thereit's like a who's who of the worst posters in this forum

Glad I skipped it then

 

[Idiot Boxer]

my advice to GMTAN: steer clear of the State of the Union thread#### there are a lot of dumb people in thereit's like a who's who of the worst posters in this forum

Glad I skipped it then

Based on Furley's assessment, I was sure you were there.HEEEEEEYYYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[Merlin]

I'll be in Reno and Tahoe next week if anyone happens to be in the area.

I'll be inhaling second hand smoke at the Sands on the 4th and 5th. Shoot me a PM if yer still gonna be around then.

 

[Homer J Simpson]

1. You people were way too prolific today for me to catch up. Who's doing today's summary?

2. I was letting one of my paralegals use our vacation house for free for five nights in March. Now she can't go, and someone else we work with, with whom I'm spoken maybe 3-4 times, told her that he would be interested in staying there in her stead. So he e-mailed me and asked about it--I sent him all kinds of info to which his only response was to ask what kind of discount I'd give him. After thinking about it a while, and again I barely know the guy, I offered to let him stay there for half-price. He then asked me if I could take 70% off instead.

Moral of the story: people suck.

So I guess this means if I use the place I shouldn't ask for 100% off, full travel expenses, and an open account for hookers and blow?

Srsly. I was going to offer those same terms, but if Krista is gonna be a jerk about it, I'm not even gonna bother. Jeez.

 

[Tiger Fan]

Now the proud leaser of a Honda Civic.

oof.Why lease? And why lease a civic?

 

[Crazy Canuck]

1. You people were way too prolific today for me to catch up. Who's doing today's summary?

2. I was letting one of my paralegals use our vacation house for free for five nights in March. Now she can't go, and someone else we work with, with whom I'm spoken maybe 3-4 times, told her that he would be interested in staying there in her stead. So he e-mailed me and asked about it--I sent him all kinds of info to which his only response was to ask what kind of discount I'd give him. After thinking about it a while, and again I barely know the guy, I offered to let him stay there for half-price. He then asked me if I could take 70% off instead.

Moral of the story: people suck.

So I guess this means if I use the place I shouldn't ask for 100% off, full travel expenses, and an open account for hookers and blow?

Srsly. I was going to offer those same terms, but if Krista is gonna be a jerk about it, I'm not even gonna bother. Jeez.

Preach on brother. The greed of the one percent is out of control.

 

[cosjobs]

We are babysitting our 18-month-old nephew this morning. We arrived to find him engrossed in a cartoon. Great. I take him in the kitchen briefly and my husband changes the TV to ESPN. I tell him to please change it back, and that his world (getting to watch what he wants, when he wants, etc.) is going to be rocked if we have kids.

I ran to the store for about 20 minutes just now. I came back to find that he had rolled the kid's high chair into the living room, right in front of the TV, and plopped the kid in it so as to limit all that toddling around. I can't decide whether to be super impressed or frightened for our potential children.

My dad watched what he wanted when he wanted and used me as the remote control. I got in trouble if I spun the channel changer knob to fast.

And you only had 3 channels, but THAT'S THE WAY IT WAS AND YOU LIKE IT?

Actually we had more than that. We also had PBS and at least one UHF channel that showed wrasslin', Creature Feature movies, etc.

And around 1am, the TV went to snow as all the channels went off the air for the night.

Not before they played a pretty low-budget version of the Star Spangled Banner or Taps or some such....what a strange tradition.

Yeah the Taps thing always bothered me. It was like we were burying the country or something.

Taps was traditionally played at the end of the day or for "lights out" at military installations.

 

[NCCommish]

We are babysitting our 18-month-old nephew this morning. We arrived to find him engrossed in a cartoon. Great. I take him in the kitchen briefly and my husband changes the TV to ESPN. I tell him to please change it back, and that his world (getting to watch what he wants, when he wants, etc.) is going to be rocked if we have kids.

I ran to the store for about 20 minutes just now. I came back to find that he had rolled the kid's high chair into the living room, right in front of the TV, and plopped the kid in it so as to limit all that toddling around. I can't decide whether to be super impressed or frightened for our potential children.

My dad watched what he wanted when he wanted and used me as the remote control. I got in trouble if I spun the channel changer knob to fast.

And you only had 3 channels, but THAT'S THE WAY IT WAS AND YOU LIKE IT?

Actually we had more than that. We also had PBS and at least one UHF channel that showed wrasslin', Creature Feature movies, etc.

And around 1am, the TV went to snow as all the channels went off the air for the night.

Not before they played a pretty low-budget version of the Star Spangled Banner or Taps or some such....what a strange tradition.

Yeah the Taps thing always bothered me. It was like we were burying the country or something.

Taps was traditionally played at the end of the day or for "lights out" at military installations.

Yeah I got that once I went in the military but as youngster the only time I had heard it was at funerals.

 

[cosjobs]

We are babysitting our 18-month-old nephew this morning. We arrived to find him engrossed in a cartoon. Great. I take him in the kitchen briefly and my husband changes the TV to ESPN. I tell him to please change it back, and that his world (getting to watch what he wants, when he wants, etc.) is going to be rocked if we have kids.

I ran to the store for about 20 minutes just now. I came back to find that he had rolled the kid's high chair into the living room, right in front of the TV, and plopped the kid in it so as to limit all that toddling around. I can't decide whether to be super impressed or frightened for our potential children.

My dad watched what he wanted when he wanted and used me as the remote control. I got in trouble if I spun the channel changer knob to fast.

And you only had 3 channels, but THAT'S THE WAY IT WAS AND YOU LIKE IT?

Actually we had more than that. We also had PBS and at least one UHF channel that showed wrasslin', Creature Feature movies, etc.

And around 1am, the TV went to snow as all the channels went off the air for the night.

Not before they played a pretty low-budget version of the Star Spangled Banner or Taps or some such....what a strange tradition.

Yeah the Taps thing always bothered me. It was like we were burying the country or something.

Taps was traditionally played at the end of the day or for "lights out" at military installations.

Yeah I got that once I went in the military but as youngster the only time I had heard it was at funerals.

Sounds like maybe you were up past your bedtime.Little pitchers have big ears.

 

[Homer J Simpson]

1. You people were way too prolific today for me to catch up. Who's doing today's summary?

2. I was letting one of my paralegals use our vacation house for free for five nights in March. Now she can't go, and someone else we work with, with whom I'm spoken maybe 3-4 times, told her that he would be interested in staying there in her stead. So he e-mailed me and asked about it--I sent him all kinds of info to which his only response was to ask what kind of discount I'd give him. After thinking about it a while, and again I barely know the guy, I offered to let him stay there for half-price. He then asked me if I could take 70% off instead.

Moral of the story: people suck.

So I guess this means if I use the place I shouldn't ask for 100% off, full travel expenses, and an open account for hookers and blow?

Srsly. I was going to offer those same terms, but if Krista is gonna be a jerk about it, I'm not even gonna bother. Jeez.

Preach on brother. The greed of the one percent is out of control.

Occupy Krista!!!!

 

[Idiot Boxer]

1. You people were way too prolific today for me to catch up. Who's doing today's summary?

2. I was letting one of my paralegals use our vacation house for free for five nights in March. Now she can't go, and someone else we work with, with whom I'm spoken maybe 3-4 times, told her that he would be interested in staying there in her stead. So he e-mailed me and asked about it--I sent him all kinds of info to which his only response was to ask what kind of discount I'd give him. After thinking about it a while, and again I barely know the guy, I offered to let him stay there for half-price. He then asked me if I could take 70% off instead.

Moral of the story: people suck.

So I guess this means if I use the place I shouldn't ask for 100% off, full travel expenses, and an open account for hookers and blow?

Srsly. I was going to offer those same terms, but if Krista is gonna be a jerk about it, I'm not even gonna bother. Jeez.

Preach on brother. The greed of the one percent is out of control.

Occupy Krista!!!!

IN!I mean. Um...

I'm pitching a tent...

Er...

Nevermind.

 

[Crazy Canuck]

 

[Stoneys]

My cornhole list1.2.3.:(I'm holding out hope for the Upstate NY Cornhole Zooks and I discussed once. We could have it at some crappy casino like Turning Stone. He could grab Thorn, and meet me and Bakes and maybe Homer for a night serious drinking and shenanigans. I know it won't happen, but a man can dream.

you should try for steve tasker and bakes. good beer peeps

Yea, I still have some family up Tasker's way. Next time I head up there we should meet at Duff's or the Anchor Bar. I haven't been to either in ages and miss me some Buffalo wings and beer.

Buffalo is only a couple hours from me...interesting.

How far are you from Pittsburgh? I'm going to be there for St. Patie's Day weekend to see Rollins.

Less than an hour. hboy:

I'm just south of Pittsburgh

 

[Homer J Simpson]

Dear Nighttime Homer,

We really need to discuss your recent activities. There is obviously nothing wrong with having a few drinks and hanging out with your friends. But when you down most of a bottle of vodka and hook up with a bartender you have no business messing around with, it reflects poorly on me. Also, I would occasionally enjoy waking up without feeling like I got hit by a truck.

And one more thing...when you're done making crock pot chicken, please put the lube away.

Thanks buddy!

Yours in Christ,

Daytime Homer

 

[NCCommish]

We are babysitting our 18-month-old nephew this morning. We arrived to find him engrossed in a cartoon. Great. I take him in the kitchen briefly and my husband changes the TV to ESPN. I tell him to please change it back, and that his world (getting to watch what he wants, when he wants, etc.) is going to be rocked if we have kids.

I ran to the store for about 20 minutes just now. I came back to find that he had rolled the kid's high chair into the living room, right in front of the TV, and plopped the kid in it so as to limit all that toddling around. I can't decide whether to be super impressed or frightened for our potential children.

My dad watched what he wanted when he wanted and used me as the remote control. I got in trouble if I spun the channel changer knob to fast.

And you only had 3 channels, but THAT'S THE WAY IT WAS AND YOU LIKE IT?

Actually we had more than that. We also had PBS and at least one UHF channel that showed wrasslin', Creature Feature movies, etc.

And around 1am, the TV went to snow as all the channels went off the air for the night.

Not before they played a pretty low-budget version of the Star Spangled Banner or Taps or some such....what a strange tradition.

Yeah the Taps thing always bothered me. It was like we were burying the country or something.

Taps was traditionally played at the end of the day or for "lights out" at military installations.

Yeah I got that once I went in the military but as youngster the only time I had heard it was at funerals.

Sounds like maybe you were up past your bedtime.Little pitchers have big ears.

Perhaps a wee bit past.