mo·nop·o·ly
According to Reference.com, it can be defined as:
“exclusive control of a particular market that is marked by the power to control prices and exclude competition and that especially is developed willfully rather than as the result of superior products or skill”.
Accurate. Succinct. Understandable. All-in-all, a good definition. Its only failing is citing Ticketmaster as an example, where a $75 concert ticket comes out at the end as $95.30. “Convenience fee”. Right.
At least I consider them to be completely worth it.
i almost got in a fistfight with a 50 year old man at a Yes concert. he was throwing popcorn at the back of my head because i was standing up. but that was only because *everyone else in my section* was standing up. apparently, this dumbshit thought that he could take us all down, one handful at a time.
Comment by mdpdb — 9/1/2004 @ 8:06 am
I’m sorry Michael, but the thought of you starting a concert-wide brawl at a Yes concert is just too funny - sucks that this jerk totally ruined the experience for you though. I wonder if he was ever successful in taking people down with handfuls of popcorn before? A kind of “Redenbacker-fu”, if you will.
You know, it never fails to amaze me what kinds of people you can find in your average Yes concert - diverse age range, racial backgrounds, sanity levels… The last concert I went to, a friend & I were totally amazed by two guys in particular who we refer to as “Rain Man” and “Crack Boy”. Much to my displeasure, Crack Boy sat/stood in the seat in front of me. Unlike your experience, he *was the only one in our section* who chose to stand. But he would occasionally sit down for five seconds, then stand back up again. Every once and a while he would shoot up the “horns” hand sign (you know, index finger & pinkie finger up) and do some air guitar. Then he would meander over to the white hippie-wannabe “dance” zone right in front of the mixing board (we were actually seated right across the aisle from it). Then he would come back. Repeat ad infinitum.
Rain Man, however, was seated in some section way behind us and would basically just walk up the aisle and stand either right next to us (I had the aisle seat) or somewhere in our vicinity. Then he would walk back. He would return - going up a little further. Then fall back. Again, repeat ad infinitum.
Comment by Brian — 9/2/2004 @ 7:56 am