When the Toronto Blue Jays won the world series Derek Harvie was living in Toronto.  Derek was going to the University of Toronto at the time.  Derek found this door in the back of the indoor pool inside the Sky dome Hotel.  I guess he just walked into the hotel, walked through the athletic room with a pool in it, opened a door at the back of that room.  On the other side of that door was the world series.  You would go through that door and enter a smoking area for The Sky dome.  And that was all there was to it... he was in.  Derek watched every Toronto game of the world series that year for free.  He sat behind the dugout for the winning home run.  He was there...  Nobody told him he couldn't be.

Lately I have been going to movies.  I don't pay to go to movies anymore and Phil and Derek and Glenn, they don't either.  All you have to do when you go to a movie is read the signs and time it right.  You wait till they have a couple of people to deal with at the front door.  At the perfect moment you just walk right past the guy taking tickets... Walk 25 percent faster than normal... but don't run.  And don't make eye contact with anybody.  Once you pass him keep walking, and the further you get from him the faster you should be walking.  The goal is to get out of any employees eyesight as quickly as possible.  You should go to the nearest place to hide, best place being the theatre.  99.9 percent of the time if you get into the theatre, and you pulled off the entrance properly, then your in.  Once you've gotten past the ticket guy, Most of the time he is embarrassed that you got past him and doesn't say anything... The other 49.9 percent of the time he just doesn't notice.

If he does yell from behind you... pretend that you are deaf and keep walking.  Make him physically chase you, don't stop if you hear him yell keep going to the theatre.  NEVER MAKE EYE CONTACT WITH ANYONE AND DO IT FAST...  The whole thing should take less than ten seconds.  If you do get caught and have to give an explanation... tell them that you thought you paid for the movie after the show... Then try to tell them that you didn't know... because you have never been to a movie before.  Tell them you were raised in a part of Europe where they don't have movie theatres, but everyone still has Canadian accents.

We go to a lot of movies now... Even when they are sold out.  We just make sure that we get the empty seats before the people who bought tickets finish buying the popcorn.

We go to movies when they are sold out.

This is called razzing.  Often we try to razz our way in to things.  Phil, and Derek, and I have always taken a lot of pride razzing our way into things.  Sometimes we try to talk our way in to things as well.  Usually you can convince somebody to let you in to an event if you think hard enough about how to convince them.  For instance, if somebody wanted to get into a studio audience, of a major Canadian talk show, to see Tom Green's parents... But the tickets were sold out... If that person had expert knowledge on the plight, and history of "the parents"... Then that person may be an ideal audience member.  That person could always try to convince the producers of the show that they know their stuff.  They might use examples, or explain that they could ask provocative and informed questions during the show.  If that didn't work they would find another way.... and so on, and so on....

The people that got in to the sold out show would be considered the best razzers... The ones who couldn't get in would be considered attempted razzers who failed on this one occasion.... The people who never attempted would not be considered razzers.

There is nothing wrong with not being a razzer.

I hope to see some of you at The Camilla Scott Show on Thursday... After the show let's all go razz our way in to a movie with my parents...

Later
Tom