Would you like fries with your bay to breakers?
May 4th, 2007 by some dudeIt’s that time of the year again, kids! The fantastic Bay to Breakers “race” across the beautiful city of San Francisco. And holy shmoley it’s only two weeks away. The usual spiel: get those McMaster-Carr orders in, find some shopping carts, start making costumes, start getting ready.
In case you haven’t heard already, our theme this year is:
Fast Food Nation
Be a fast food mascot or anything related to fast food chains and the like. Ronald McDonald, Hamburglar, Grimmace, all those other McDonalds characters, Wendy, Dave Thomas, Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun (a multi-person costume perhaps, with the Voltron effect??!), the Arby’s oven mitt, Creepy (BK) King, Dan Cortese, milkshakes, soda, high fructose corn syrup, CORN (Big Bird?), fry girls … you get the idea.
Who wants to build carts? You do! You do! Who has ideas for carts? I’m thinking one of them (or both) needs big Golden Arches spinning up high on a PVC pipe so we can find our carts in the crowd. Turning one of them into a drive through has been brought up. One of them could also be a “soda” fountain a la lots-of-tubes-coming-out-of-big-buckets style. Old Man and Luke have graciously donated their garage(?) for cart-building. Well, now they have. I don’t know…call them or something…I live 3000 miles away, so don’t call me.
Discuss.
May 4th, 2007 at 8:44 am
i’m claiming wendy… of course.
May 4th, 2007 at 8:46 am
oh, and as far as cart building goes: i also donate my back yard/house/basement. and i already have one shopping cart that we sadly didn’t get to use for the UI.
i was thinking a drive up window type of cart so that we may dispense drinks and crappy $.99 menu items….
May 4th, 2007 at 9:42 am
I’m got dibs on the Hamburglar.
May 4th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
Dibs on Mayor McCheese
May 5th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
I say duplicate costumes are a-ok. I think I’ll be an In-n-Out guy…in a drive thru window.
We should fill a cart with dollar menu items. We might have to split up to fast food joints in the morning to buy out their inventories.
May 9th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Keri, you’re a bit late on the Hamburglar — I called that back on Halloween, when we first dreamed up the Fast Food Nation idea. I actually already purchased my costume. Of course, we can have two…
May 9th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
Old Man, you should put your cow costume from last year back on (complete with kamikaze teats), and add a tiara… you can be a Dairy Queen. a lot of people might not get it, but there’d be teats, so it’s ok…
May 10th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
Ditto to Old Man’s Cow costume. He should also have a Bunghole dispenser, which could shat out Snicker bars or maybe even a Mud Slide shot Yo!
May 10th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
I’ll be the Chic-fil-a cow like the one in this picture http://media.urbandictionary.com/image/l…