I just got the Holy Grail delivered to me [Archive]

bri

4/20/2006, 10:17 PM

Well, the Holy Grail if you collect Air Jordans, I suppose.

I bought a pair of black & red AJXIs off eBay on Monday, and spent the past couple of days resigning myself to the fact that I, most likely, bought "variants" (nicespeak for "fakes"). So, I get home from work tonight and find the box waiting for me. I bring it back to the 'puter room and open it up, taking out one shoe and going down the list of quick ways to spot fake Jordans. I check the tag inside the shoe...no perforations on the edges. Good so far.

So, I go to the bookmarks and pull up a couple of sites that have side-by-side comparisons of fakes vs. real XIs...and my new shoe keeps passing with flying colors. After I finally check everything on the list, it dawns on me...I just got a pair of authentic AJXI Retros...

I RULE at teh internet. :D

colleyvillesooner

4/20/2006, 10:20 PM

Something I never thought existed: A website to make sure the shoes you just bought off of Ebay aren't fake.

I love America :D

Stanley1

4/20/2006, 10:22 PM

If you love livin', you better change your signature tomorry. Or else. :mad: :D

KC//CRIMSON

4/20/2006, 10:22 PM

you talkin' bout these, home skillet?

http://www.jumpmankicks.com/shoegallery/aj1retro/aj1retro-8.jpg

C&CDean

4/20/2006, 10:23 PM

I bet the good ol' USPS delivered those shoes, no?

JohnnyMack

4/20/2006, 10:23 PM

This thread sucks.

Sincerely,

Dominique Wilkins

Stanley1

4/20/2006, 10:23 PM

Jordan sucks. I watched a retro game tonight, and the Celts burried him. Boo yea!!!!!

bri

4/20/2006, 10:26 PM

you talkin' bout these, home skillet?

http://www.jumpmankicks.com/shoegallery/aj1retro/aj1retro-8.jpg

Nope, although I wore a pair of the 1's back in junior high basketball. ****ed my coach off. :D

I bought these:
http://www.ephemeroi.com/stuff/2005/front/050302-sneakerfridge2.jpg

http://www.krazykickz.com/ProductImages/jordan/jordan11/Jordan-XI-black-red-main.gif

And yes, Dean, the USPS delivered my shoes in a prompt and timely manner. God bless 'em!

C&CDean

4/20/2006, 10:30 PM

Through rain, hail, sleet, stanky poon, and dark of night, us muh****ahs deliver, yo.

bri

4/20/2006, 10:32 PM

Don't forget the excellent accomodations! The USPS so totally PWNS UPS and FedEx.

C&CDean

4/20/2006, 10:35 PM

Ladies and gents, meet our new pitchman. Sir bri. Just your ordinary everyday pimp. Who knows good taste, service, quality, and the proper temperature for serving imported beer. My. Kinda. Guy.

JohnnyMack

4/20/2006, 10:35 PM

Our mailman at our office smells like he died about 3 weeks ago. Who do I complain to?

C&CDean

4/20/2006, 10:39 PM

Our mailman at our office smells like he died about 3 weeks ago. Who do I complain to?

How about somebody that gives a ****?

Tailwind

4/20/2006, 10:39 PM

Nice shoes! Congrats.

JohnnyMack

4/20/2006, 10:40 PM

How about somebody that gives a ****?

:bsmf:

stupid cracker

C&CDean

4/20/2006, 10:46 PM

bri

4/20/2006, 10:47 PM

Ladies and gents, meet our new pitchman. Sir bri. Just your ordinary everyday pimp. Who knows good taste, service, quality, and the proper temperature for serving imported beer. My. Kinda. Guy.

Heh.

I'm just gonna go ahead and put in a standing reservation for all the home games...:D

C&CDean

4/20/2006, 10:49 PM

Heh.

I'm just gonna go ahead and put in a standing reservation for all the home games...:D

Done and done. During the season, we offer breakfast for two with the room. Of course this assumes that you managed to score, and have a "partner" to eat breakfast with you. We do operate under the "don't ask, don't tell" credo....

JohnnyMack

4/20/2006, 10:52 PM

Yo JM,

I just saw your new location. I used to jump at a drop zone called St. Mere Eglise in North Carolina named after the French town that the 82nd Airborne jumped into in WWII. But who's the yainch in your avatar?

It's the stained glass window inside the church, Sainte-Mere-Eglise. It's a tribute to the 82nd.

http://www.dday-overlord.com/img/normatoday/pus/sainte_mere_eglise_vitrail_sainte_marie.jpg

When we went to France last fall we toured that Church (the one from The Longest Day) and the town. The dropped into town on the night of the 5th. It was the first town liberated on D-Day.

bri

4/20/2006, 10:54 PM

Done and done. During the season, we offer breakfast for two with the room. Of course this assumes that you managed to score, and have a "partner" to eat breakfast with you. We do operate under the "don't ask, don't tell" credo....

Mmmmm.....morning after breakfast. College girls won't stand a chance! :D

C&CDean

4/20/2006, 10:55 PM

Dude, you rock.

For a no-account liberal heathen that is. I know that window, and have seen it. It's the church where the Mickey Rooney character hung from the steeple while the Germans shot at him.

All the **** we've done for those **********s and they still hate us. Go figure.

C&CDean

4/20/2006, 10:57 PM

Mmmmm.....morning after breakfast. College girls won't stand a chance! :D

If by "college girls" you mean "50-something lonely divorcees" then I agree.

Tailwind

4/21/2006, 12:14 AM

If by "college girls" you mean "50-something lonely divorcees" then I agree.
Hey!:mad:

bri

4/21/2006, 08:03 AM

Jordan sucks. I watched a retro game tonight, and the Celts burried him. Boo yea!!!!!

"He's God disguised as Michael Jordan."
-Larry Legend, after MJ dropped 63 on the Celts in a playoff game...

:D

Okla-homey

4/21/2006, 08:21 AM

BlondeSoonerGirl

4/21/2006, 08:34 AM

Nice and shiny...

C&CDean

4/21/2006, 08:51 AM

Red Buttons dillweed.

You are correct sir. I remember it being one of those squeaky little dudes.

TexasLidig8r

4/21/2006, 08:58 AM

JohnnyMack

4/21/2006, 09:07 AM

TexasLidig8r

4/21/2006, 09:28 AM

That was the coolest day evar.

http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/6564/999456047070bg7kr.jpg

Doogie Howser????? :confused:

Beano's Fourth Chin

4/21/2006, 09:52 AM

That was the coolest day evar.

http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/6564/999456047070bg7kr.jpg

Too much Nike in this thread.

BTW, the AJXIs are the shoes that Jordan wore during perhaps the greatest NBA season ever:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3e/MikeJSlam.jpg

Freshly motivated by the playoff defeat, Jordan trained aggressively for the 1995-96 season. Strengthened by the addition of rebounder extraordinaire Dennis Rodman, the Bulls dominated the league, finishing 72-10: the best season record in NBA history. Jordan won the league's regular season and All-Star Game MVP awards. In the playoffs, the Bulls lost only three games in four series, defeating the Seattle Supersonics in the NBA Finals to win the championship. Jordan was named Finals MVP for the fourth time, surpassing Magic Johnson.

JohnnyMack

4/21/2006, 09:56 AM

Doogie Howser????? :confused:

Zip it Mr. Clean.

picasso

4/21/2006, 10:16 AM

JM reveals himself!

hey bri, back in the day I had a pair of those sweet blue Nikes that Kentucky wore, circa '85. I sported them at oSu basketball camp and was all the rage with the brothers.

BlondeSoonerGirl

4/21/2006, 11:27 AM

I knew boys liked shoes...

King Crimson

4/21/2006, 11:37 AM

I knew boys liked shoes...

this is like that scene in Dazed and Confused when girl asks seniors not to pick on/haze little brother wiley wiggins......

sooneron

4/21/2006, 02:22 PM

I had me a pair of these back in the day...

http://www.air-jordans.com/content/ximg/side04-04.gif

TexasLidig8r

4/21/2006, 02:29 PM

I knew boys liked shoes...

And we like you in shoes too little BSG.. especially. something like..

http://extremecostumes.com/bess.jpg

BlondeSoonerGirl

4/21/2006, 02:31 PM

I got a bunion just looking at that thing...

TexasLidig8r

4/21/2006, 02:44 PM

I got a bunion just looking at that thing...

From the predictable, lecherous department....

You don't wear them to walk in !

BeetDigger

4/21/2006, 02:49 PM

My. Kinda. Guy.

You have no idea how sad that post made Stanley.

C&CDean

4/21/2006, 03:15 PM

JM looks like a poor man's Picasso.

And I like JB's feet sans the hooker shoes. Nekkid, if you will. Maybe a little toenail polish and a tan line from wearing flip-flops.

TUSooner

4/21/2006, 03:27 PM

well Lord. you can go ahead and take me now..

A shoe thread.. started by Dudes.. for dudes. .and.. WITH Dean giving kudos to a person MORE like Frazier Crane than me.. our own Johnny Mack.

What's this world coming to??? :confused:

You little whippersnappers talkin about shoes... it's just GAY, I tell ya! [/ http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/3289/walterbrennan2ll.jpg]

C&CDean

4/21/2006, 03:33 PM

And you didn't hear me talking about the dang shoes.

BlondeSoonerGirl

4/21/2006, 03:33 PM

And I like JB's feet sans the hooker shoes. Nekkid, if you will. Maybe a little toenail polish and a tan line from wearing flip-flops.

You tawk purty, Big Poppa.

I always liked me a hillbilly that used the word 'sans'...faincy...:texan:

C&CDean

4/21/2006, 03:41 PM

You tawk purty, Big Poppa.

I always liked me a hillbilly that used the word 'sans'...faincy...:texan:

Well, it does rhyme with "glans."

JohnnyMack

4/21/2006, 03:43 PM

JM looks like a poor man's Picasso.

And I like JB's feet sans the hooker shoes. Nekkid, if you will. Maybe a little toenail polish and a tan line from wearing flip-flops.

I'm gettin' this sh*t from someone who looks like he could be Kojak and Odd-job's love child?

C&CDean

4/21/2006, 03:52 PM

I'm gettin' this sh*t from someone who looks like he could be Kojak and Odd-job's love child?

Yes?

Bald is fixable. Ugly is forever.

bri

4/21/2006, 06:26 PM

Lousy thread-jackers...

I'm wearing them right now, BTW...and I'm harder than college algebra. :D

C&CDean

4/21/2006, 06:51 PM

Lousy thread-jackers...

I'm wearing them right now, BTW...and I'm harder than college algebra. :D

Go on.....

bri

4/21/2006, 06:56 PM

...I put on my Jordans and wizard hat...

JohnnyMack

4/21/2006, 08:36 PM

Yes?

Bald is fixable. Ugly is forever.

You're so ugly, you went into a haunted house and came out with a job application.

sooneron

4/21/2006, 08:39 PM

Yes?

Bald is fixable. Ugly is forever.
So easy... must resist....

BlondeSoonerGirl

4/21/2006, 09:23 PM

If I could only find a way to ever-so-gently grab this thread and twist it ever so slightly into a Drunkytown thread...

Gently...

Slowly...

:les: #4 BEYONES!!!!

Sooner_Bob

4/21/2006, 09:24 PM

If I could only find a way to ever-so-gently grab this thread and twist it ever so slightly into a Drunkytown thread...

Gently...

Slowly...

:les: #4 BEYONES!!!!

quoted for posterity

:D

bri

4/21/2006, 09:28 PM

Et tu, Bootay?

Sooner_Bob

4/21/2006, 09:29 PM

The super bowl is gay? (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8393571746076269037)

(NSFW a few four letter words . . . )

BlondeSoonerGirl

4/21/2006, 09:30 PM

Et tu, Bootay?

Your shoes are teh awesome. Everyone knows it. Hell, I know it and I don't give a squirell turd about basketball.

But it's beer time, Mo.

I toast your shoes. With my whole heart...

*SLURP*!!!

Al Gore

4/21/2006, 09:32 PM

So Bri.....are these shoes old or new? Maybe I missed it???

Oldnslo

4/21/2006, 09:33 PM

teh awesome.
The bri-ism would be:

awexome

It's da shoos!

bri

4/21/2006, 09:40 PM

So Bri.....are these shoes old or new? Maybe I missed it???

never worn, new in the box.

BlondeSoonerGirl

4/21/2006, 09:40 PM

The bri-ism would be:

awexome

It's da shoos!

Dontchoo sass me, boy.

This is between me and his isms.

Waittaminnit...

BlondeSoonerGirl

4/21/2006, 10:01 PM

Whoo-boy...VK better hurry...I'm about to crack open my dolemite-transforming #5...

It's in the freezer and it's frockling perfect...icy..cold...and deelishus...

BeetDigger

4/21/2006, 10:01 PM

never worn, new in the box.

So you're saying that they function as sex aids too. Who would've known?

Al Gore

4/21/2006, 10:09 PM

never worn, new in the box.So....they are currently made???

bri

4/21/2006, 11:07 PM

So....they are currently made???

Nope, they're currently not in production. These were "deadstock", which basically means "I held on to part of my shipment so I can sell them later and make some dude giddy as a schoolgirl."

Scott D

4/21/2006, 11:08 PM

one day I'll break down and order some AJIII's

bri

4/21/2006, 11:15 PM

It's so cute...my XI's are laying on the floor where I kicked them off, next to my XII's. I should get out my XIII's and let them hang out with their brothers...

OUAndy1807

4/21/2006, 11:56 PM

Jordans peaked at VI. Everything after that was a poor substitute.

They were all I wanted for my birthday in 5th grade, and I got them the day before the 5th grade dance, so I thought I was the ****.

bri

4/21/2006, 11:58 PM

The VI is my favorite of the single-digit models (with the possible exception of the IX)...due in no small part to the fact that it's the model MJ wore the season the Bulls won their first title. :D

MamaMia

4/22/2006, 12:06 AM

My stars! Patent leather tennies. What will they think of next?

bri

4/22/2006, 12:12 AM

I greatly prefer the patent leather goodness of the XI to the "nubuck" hideousness of the XII. Blerg.

OUAndy1807

4/22/2006, 12:12 AM

ok, I'm buying some, but here is my dillema:

The V's were the first pair of shoes I can ever remember completely lusting over (I was in the 4th grade), they're lower cut (so they're more practical) and they're a lot more "retro" looking than the VI's.

I actually had a pair of VI's, they're more subtle, bu still totally sweet but they aren't as noticable.

I'm torn.