The Grogheads Friday Night Video Thread

[Toonces]

My keyboard is running out of batteries and so I must simply leave you all with this:

[Toonces]

Heh.  I apparently have a lot of Depeche Mode in my favorites list:

[Toonces]

One last one for ye olde drunken Toonces.

So back in 1991 I watched this contest on ESPN while I was living in New Jersey.  Yes, I grew up there.

Tom Carroll (in the video) is probably my favorite surfer besides Kelly Slater.  I actually owned one of Carroll's boards when I was out here my first tour, but I sold it before I left.  I'd be mad about that except all of my boards were stolen on a subsequent move, so in the end it didn't even matter.

Now then, in this video, Tom is riding a pink board with his trademark swoosh on it.  At or about 1:15 you see him take a wave and, in slow motion, you can see icon Derek Ho do a full-on arm grab to save his board as he bails from taking the wave while Tom takes it and crushes it for a perfect 10.

At the end, about 1:50, you see Tom take his unprecedented 6th wave of the heat and, off camera, he snaps his board.  Not pictured in the video, a very young Kelly Slater waits in the wings with a back up board, which Tom fails to take advantage of as he's essentially won at this point.  Tom goes on to win not only the contest, but notoriety as a balls-up surfer for his "snap" into the vertical face of a 12' Pipe bomb breaking in about 3 feet of coral-infested water, and his broken board becomes a fixture at the Haleiwa Quiksilver store, which I shall proceed to show you at some point. 

And of course, his board caddy Kelly Slater just goes on to be the best surfer in the world...

Ok, I'm done for tonight.

[Huw the Poo]

Christ you lot listen to some weird stuff.  Have some THERION!

[MetalDog]

You like chick rock?  How about some of this?

or maybe some of this?

[BanzaiCat]

[Huw the Poo]

MetalDog, with a handle like that I'd have expected something a bit more hardcore!  Paramore are OK at what they do I guess, but it really isn't my thing.  Evanescence just suck. :P

When I think chick rock, I think more like this:

:)

[GDS_Starfury]

I realize that Toonces is a typical drunk pilot but the rest of ya know we have a music forum for this.

[Huw the Poo]

I assume he started this thread here to stop the weekend gaming thread from morphing into a music video thread.  You big baby.

[GDS_Starfury]

Toonces needs to stick to Coors light.

[JudgeDredd]

Cool - I love 80's

Here's my chic rock from the 80's

[JudgeDredd]

By the way for the record that song is FULL of moral issues - but great song  O0

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Why is this in the computer gaming section?

I know booze is involved here somehow.

[JudgeDredd]

Don't know - don't care. Thread was started, I jumped in  ^-^

And yep - booze IS involved!  ;D

[Huw the Poo]

Why is this in the computer gaming section?

I know booze is involved here somehow.

That isn't silent disapproval! :P

Don't know - don't care. Thread was started, I jumped in  ^-^

And yep - booze IS involved!  ;D

Already Judge?  It's 17:20!  :o