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Post by Trixie on Aug 4, 2008 11:05:26 GMT -4
Dan, this may be a silly question, but how do Trongs keep your shirt and tie clean?
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Post by dan on Aug 4, 2008 22:56:37 GMT -4
Good question... I see you listened to the interview : )
Trongs don't actually keep your shirt & tie clean, but they keep your fingers clean. If you're like me, you avoid getting your fingers messy when you are wearing nice clothes because you are afraid that you will accidently touch your shirt.
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Post by dan on Sept 3, 2008 13:28:23 GMT -4
Well, it's that time again. We are holding a Trongs event at Dempsey's Bar and Grill on September 23rd starting at 7:00pm. There will be a Trongs wing eating contest (Pete, you have to defend your title), and auditions to become the next Trongs girl.
If nothing else, it's a good excuse to get everyone together for a few drinks.
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Post by Nethyr on Sept 3, 2008 13:32:49 GMT -4
7pm on a Tuesday eh? You suck for the timing but I'll see what I can do. As for the "next Trongs girl" thing, 1) Was there a first one? 2) Am I eligible to audition?
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Post by Hex on Sept 3, 2008 17:56:16 GMT -4
The Contest: What is it? Fastest to eat x number of wings? or Cleanest bone? or Most wings eaten in 3 minutes?
Dan: How did the Buffalo Wing festival work out?
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Post by dan on Sept 3, 2008 18:11:11 GMT -4
The contest is the first person to eat six wings, sip a beer, and dial a phone number to "call in the win" without getting sauce on their hands, phone, or glass.
The Wing Festival was interesting. The die hard Buffalo locals wanted nothing to do with trongs... and they were rude about it too.
The tourists were a different story... they loved the trongs and we got a lot of positive feedback from them. We ended up selling a little over 4,000 trongs, so overall it was a success.
To make it a perfect weekend, we sold a pair of trongs to Chris Burke (Corky from "Life Goes On").
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Post by Paco_Guerrera on Sept 3, 2008 18:32:37 GMT -4
You sold trongs to corky? hahahahahaha
Elaborate on some of the rudeness you were shown. Pull no punches. What did the yokels do and say to you?
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Post by dan on Sept 3, 2008 23:22:57 GMT -4
Okay, let me start by saying that I don't expect EVERYONE to love trongs and use them all the time. I get it that some people don't mind getting their fingers messy when they eat wings. There are many people out there, like myself, who won't eat wings because they don't like getting sticky. This is the great thing about a free market... if something is useful to you, you buy it... if it isn't, you don't. However, there is no need to get angry at (and personally attack) the person who invented something that you don't like. I was told that trongs are "un-American" by a few of them... un-American... really?? I thought that living in America was exactly why I am able to turn my idea into an actual product and try to sell it. You can't do that in Russia, right? Others said, "God gave me hands to eat wings." I guess you don't drive a car since god gave you feet. Then there were the ones who said, "I've used my fingers to eat wings my whole life, so why would I use trongs now." You small minded !! You used pay phones most of your life too, so I guess a cell phone is out of the question for you. One chick who was with her boyfriend actually said, "trongs are for pussys," so Joe (my brother's friend who was there) said "well then how many would you like to buy for your boyfriend?" The good news is that we sold trongs to over 5% of the people who showed up for the festival (4,000 trongs sold and 78,000 people there). I'd be very happy to have even 1% of the wing eating world using trongs. The feedback from those people was so positive it more than made up for the few assholes that we had to deal with.
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Post by Nethyr on Sept 4, 2008 7:05:14 GMT -4
So how many of these witty responses did you think of after and kick yourself for not being able to come up with them on the spot? Congrats on a good convention result! By the way we had our own little Trongs party at Croxley's RVC last night. I know we got at least one good shot of some girls with Trongs. I'll pass it along ASAP.
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Post by fullermj on Sept 4, 2008 9:49:03 GMT -4
I hear you, Dan.
I went to school in the greater Buffalo area (well, 90 minutes away, but the greater Buffalo area is pretty expansive) and they are a weird bunch. They love their $hitty sports teams who have a proud track record of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, and have a lot of pride in their little city that is basically built over hundreds of toxic waste dumps.
don't take it personally, it's a buffalo thing. I applaud your aggressive marketing, and tell those ballbags that by their rationale they shouldn't be using forks, knives, or plates because God gave them hands.
awesome.
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Post by Hex on Sept 4, 2008 12:47:08 GMT -4
Okay, let me start by saying that I don't expect EVERYONE to love trongs and use them all the time. I get it that some people don't mind getting their fingers messy when they eat wings. There are many people out there, like myself, who won't eat wings because they don't like getting sticky. This is the great thing about a free market... if something is useful to you, you buy it... if it isn't, you don't. However, there is no need to get angry at (and personally attack) the person who invented something that you don't like. I was told that trongs are "un-American" by a few of them... un-American... really?? I thought that living in America was exactly why I am able to turn my idea into an actual product and try to sell it. You can't do that in Russia, right? Others said, "God gave me hands to eat wings." I guess you don't drive a car since god gave you feet. Then there were the ones who said, "I've used my fingers to eat wings my whole life, so why would I use trongs now." You small minded !! You used pay phones most of your life too, so I guess a cell phone is out of the question for you. One chick who was with her boyfriend actually said, "trongs are for pussys," so Joe (my brother's friend who was there) said "well then how many would you like to buy for your boyfriend?" The good news is that we sold trongs to over 5% of the people who showed up for the festival (4,000 trongs sold and 78,000 people there). I'd be very happy to have even 1% of the wing eating world using trongs. The feedback from those people was so positive it more than made up for the few assholes that we had to deal with. This is the best post I have read in a long time. Awesomely funny. I believe the "God gave me hands to eat wings." was originally a Rob Eaton quote. In fact, I think we've all thought that from time to time. I am craving good wings right now. Joe's quote was awesome. Was there any discussion with Corky about a possible endorsement for your product? I think Geico's line of "So easy a caveman can do it," would work well in that case, provided you change "caveman" to.............
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Post by Paco_Guerrera on Sept 4, 2008 14:01:10 GMT -4
What word Tom? Was it Retard? Was RETARD the word you were looking for there? RETARD RETARD RETARD!
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Post by fullermj on Sept 4, 2008 14:21:26 GMT -4
I've seen Rob Eaton eat wings. He definitely used his hands.
Then wiped his hands on a "wing towel", that was washed exactly ZERO times during the fall of 1996.
god damned devil towel. NASTy
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Post by Nethyr on Sept 4, 2008 15:30:31 GMT -4
I thought we agreed to never speak about the owel-tay.
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Post by Hex on Sept 4, 2008 16:28:50 GMT -4
What word Tom? Was it Retard? Was RETARD the word you were looking for there? RETARD RETARD RETARD! Wow, you have hate in your heart. I was thinking more along the lines of "differently abled person." Maybe we could have gone with "inspiration to the community of mentally disabled people." Wow, Jim. I'm disappointed in you. In fact, you sicken me.
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