Hard Times #1 Interview, Aug 1984

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Grant: No, that was another band.
Ron:   I'm going to fuck everybody
       up and mix up quotes.
Greg:  Just remember that I'm the
       guy that said, "you have
       nothing to fear but fear
       itself."
Ron:   I've heard that before; you
       must be pretty famous.
Greg:  What kind of sport are those
       for?
Ron:   The boots? They're riding
       boots. I tried to get tham
       without the spikes.
Grant: It's the jacket I'm admiring.
Ron:   I painted it myself. I just
       did it the other night.
Grant: I meant before you messed it
       up. So how long have you
       studied finger painting?
Dianne:Why is the door open? It's
       freezing.
Grant: We're from Minnesota; it makes
       us feel at home.
Dianne:Are you guys into hockey? There
       is always ice up there.
Greg:  When I get up in the morning
       I have to make sure that
       there's no ice in the toilet.
Grant: You know what's really bad?
       If you lick the pump
       handle, your tounge gets
       stuck and you have totear
       all the skin off your tongue
       to extricate yourself.
Greg:  It's really hard to take a
       piss outside when it's
       thirty below.
Grant: You know what happens? Now
       this only happens to guys, but
       when you pee, you get this
       very long icicle.
J.C.:  Except for Grant's.
Grant: Yeah, mine's real little.
       Actually, I get two streams
       because when I was a young
       child I shoved a clothespin
       in my penis.


Dianne:And they never took it out?
J.C.:  Now he hangs his clothes in
       there.
Dianne:These are really good stories!
Grant: Do you remember the original
       Bozo the clown?
Ron:   Yeah, he's running for
       President.
Greg:  I thought he won.
Grant: But the original Bozo, the
       dead Bozo. I saw it on t.v..
       He jumped off a platform with
       a lit book of matches into a
       full tank of gasoline and
       committed suicide.
Ron:   Now you definately just made
       that up. There was a picture
       of him in the paper announcing
       his candidacy saying, "Let's
       get a real Bozo in the White-
       house."
Grant: Yeah, a vote for Bozo is a
       vote for Reagan; I definately
       wouldn't support Bozo because
       Walter Mondale lives next to
       my parents. The other day I
       was driving down I-94 and we
       encountered the Mondale
       motorcade.
Greg:  We followed the Mondale
       motorcade all the way from
       Minneapolis to St. Paul.
Ron:   In your Husker-Vana?
Grant: Like a chainsaw? I get it.
Ron:   That was the pun of my life.
       I'm glad somebody got it.
       (Husqvarna is a Swedish
       chainsaw and motorcycle manufac-
       turer) I thought it was pretty
       witty. Besides, when will I ever
       get the opportunity to use that
       pun again?
Greg:  I don't know. Probably in about
       five minutes.
Dianne:We're gonna walk outside and
       he's going to say that again.
Grant: You know why it's easy to
       catch elephants in Alabama?
       Cause the Tuskaloosa.
Ron:   We know so many bad pun jokes.
Dianne:What do you call a fat person
       who starts fires?---Arson Wells.
Grant: That's enough.
Dianne:What do you call a black
       woman who urinates while she
       sings?
Grant: Mom.
Dianne:No, but I can't top that
       punch line. That's the new
       punch line for that joke.
Grant: What do you get when you
       cross red wine with sliced
       prunes? Madra, Madria,
       diarrhea.
Dianne:You're just pushing these
       jokes too far.
Grant: I'd just like to stop a
       lot of rumours that've been
       going around about me and
       Ethel Kennedy.
Dianne:My mom mentioned that to me
       and I didn't believe it.
Ron:   I got into an argument with
       a guy in a bar about it and
       I said that Ethel would
       never do a thing like that.
Grant: Greg got his dick shot off
       in Nam and now he pees in a
       bag.
Greg:  Wanna see it?
Dianne:No, that's OK.
Voice from the bar: HEY GET OUT OF
       HERE. WE WANNA GO HOME!
Grant:  guess we better go.
( Walking out to the parking lot)
Ron:   Hey, that's my car you just
       slammed into with your
       Husker-Vana door!
Greg:  What did I say? He said it
       again, and he's still got the
       tape running too.


Dianne:He's so proud of that joke.
Greg:  Let me ask him a question.
       What's your favorite color?
Ron:   Do you guys know how to get
       out of here? We don't
Greg:  Wonderful interview. We'll
       have to do it again sometime.





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