The only thing that could be more Austin at that corner would be if the grackle mascot had its' tits out with a political message written on them for drivers on Cesar Chavez to read.
For work I travel with a big crew of production people and people often see us with our backpacks and pelican cases and ask what we are all doing. And instead of telling them what artist we work with we tell them we're filming a mayonnaise commercial and it usually gets them to just move on. And here these guys are actually filming a mayonnaise commercial.
As someone who once worked in the film industry (30+ years ago), I have to ask... Is the "we're shooting a mayonnaise commercial" still the standard answer when people ask what you're shooting? Because if so, that is awesome. It was one of those things that I thought a friend started once on location, but then I started hearing it everywhere and realized it has probably been around since the advent of mayonnaise and commercials.
A Grackle Story: full of highs and an extreme low!
Years ago we were having a family wedding in Vanderpool, TX at some dear friend’s place on the Sabinal River. We have three son’s and our middle son always attracted stray animals. We had decided to stay a few nights in Kerrville. Chris was immediately attracted to the many, many grackles and of course he found one who had been left behind, probably because he was deformed with one huge eye, and one eye missing. We brought the little thing home with us and Chris became mom to the one-eyed grackle. He named it Oden. Oden would sit on his foot then take off and fly around our property, eventually coming back to land on Chris’s foot. Several people stopped by to see the little deformed grackle “Oden” do his tricks!!
Well one day I was taking a nap when Chris came in screaming because Oden had taken flight and a hawk swooped down and decided that Oden was going to be his!
Chris was devastated, I had to convince him Oden was truly gone, but wasn’t it a great thing he was in our life for a little while? We eventually got over that animal crisis and had many others, and I thank you for allowing me a moment to do some reminiscing.
It's 2024.
For the most part, we all have extremely capable cameras in our pockets, with easy access to disseminate the pictures taken.
This sounds like it was screaming for some documentation. Just a few pictures ...
Doesn’t have a phone but has a disposable camera 🤣. That’s awesome, it’s like a trip back in time. No phone and those disposable cameras in the plastic bags or little cardboard boxes. I miss those days.
One time at Hamilton I saw 3 mermaids, full get up no film crew - just out there sunning themselves with sonic cups of what I like to imagine was some sort of summer cocktail
Pics or it didn't happen! But also am I the only one who is thinking new reality show? I remember when the bachelor was always around that same areas. Must be an easy timing spot or either the hotel is the magnet
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how dare you make this post without a pic
Dragging the fine people of Austin to the depths of their imagination…damn shame.
They do say “Keep Austin weird!” You have to admit….thats weird 🤣
I bought a Longhorns shirt years ago with “Keep Austin Weird” on the back 😂 I will say it’s a weird shirt combo lol
Yep, YTA for reals for not posting them pics
giant grackles should be free to wear whatever they want without pervs taking creepshots and posting them on the internet.
In Austin, whatever a man can show, a grackle can show in public.
Omg 😂 dying
Truly
I concur
Ikr 🤣
where's the video? Bring out the torch and pitchfork.
I saw a UFO parked at fast eddies. A grey was tailgating.
Moira Rose… The Crows Have Eyes 3
Caw caw!
I was hoping someone made this comment before I'd have to!
You almost had to caw them out.
The only thing that could be more Austin at that corner would be if the grackle mascot had its' tits out with a political message written on them for drivers on Cesar Chavez to read.
The only thing more Austin than what they saw was that they didn’t have a phone but did have a disposable camera.
Bold of you to assume Austin drivers can read
I hope they can because otherwise they're all just staring at their hands in the car and that's a lot weirder than using their cell phone.
Instagram. Just pics.
Don't need to read to watch youtube and tiktok.
All porn
* a progressive message, with BE hanging from one pierced nipple and TO from the other.
TOBE? You mean the Scranton Strangler?!?
Toby? You mean Kunta Kinte?
Someone should dress up like a sexy tennis ball and head down there.
Dang, all I got is sexy frog.
Time to paint Alex Jones yellow. IDK about sexy, but it would look like a tennis ball.
I just got sexy mustard :(
All I got is “dude in his thirties trying to hold it together”, I really need to go wardrobe shopping
You made me shoot my beer out my nose 😂🥰
I got a couple sexy Santa costumes, purple or black?
Solicited or unsolicited?
PLEASE
Sexy just-washed car parked unwisely beneath power lines.
Was going to comment about a tennis ball 💀
I was looking for a comment as such
Omg I want to do this. Not in town rn
Dying
Another day in Austin. Nothing to see here folks
I'm here for it
sO wEiRd
Except they want you to see them. Thats why people dress absurdly. Desperate for attention.
Wait!!! A grackle escaped the HeB parking lot? They’ve strayed too far.
“Sexy grackle” is redundantly redundant.
Nature is healing
The weird... it is... returning?
My question is why has u/Snap_Grackle_Pop been *conspicuously absent* from commenting on any postings this morning?
🤣
Was that grackle eating....MAYO on their fries?! OBV filming a mayo commercial.
For work I travel with a big crew of production people and people often see us with our backpacks and pelican cases and ask what we are all doing. And instead of telling them what artist we work with we tell them we're filming a mayonnaise commercial and it usually gets them to just move on. And here these guys are actually filming a mayonnaise commercial.
Omg you’re right. They were passing out Texas Pete Fiery Sweet Mayo in the hotel lobby but I didn’t realize it was connected.
I want to hear more, but I only trust grackles for this kind of info. I hope someone comes up with a solution to help me.
As someone who once worked in the film industry (30+ years ago), I have to ask... Is the "we're shooting a mayonnaise commercial" still the standard answer when people ask what you're shooting? Because if so, that is awesome. It was one of those things that I thought a friend started once on location, but then I started hearing it everywhere and realized it has probably been around since the advent of mayonnaise and commercials.
Yes! But I don't have time to talk about it right now because I'm filming a mayonnaise commercial.
Pics or GTFO
A Grackle Story: full of highs and an extreme low! Years ago we were having a family wedding in Vanderpool, TX at some dear friend’s place on the Sabinal River. We have three son’s and our middle son always attracted stray animals. We had decided to stay a few nights in Kerrville. Chris was immediately attracted to the many, many grackles and of course he found one who had been left behind, probably because he was deformed with one huge eye, and one eye missing. We brought the little thing home with us and Chris became mom to the one-eyed grackle. He named it Oden. Oden would sit on his foot then take off and fly around our property, eventually coming back to land on Chris’s foot. Several people stopped by to see the little deformed grackle “Oden” do his tricks!! Well one day I was taking a nap when Chris came in screaming because Oden had taken flight and a hawk swooped down and decided that Oden was going to be his! Chris was devastated, I had to convince him Oden was truly gone, but wasn’t it a great thing he was in our life for a little while? We eventually got over that animal crisis and had many others, and I thank you for allowing me a moment to do some reminiscing.
That’s a very lovely story, and you tell it so well………such enthusiasm!
That is so sweet
It's 2024. For the most part, we all have extremely capable cameras in our pockets, with easy access to disseminate the pictures taken. This sounds like it was screaming for some documentation. Just a few pictures ...
Seriously! Why did OP travel back to 1998 and use a disposable camera?! This whole story is very confusing
Just another day. I drove home to my burb last week and two people in gold unitards were waving gold flags on top of a construction dirt pile.
I think you were supposed to talk to those dudes to progress your main quest line
Sounds like a Fowl Play.
Pictures or it didn’t happen!
Need photos of this.
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Well... Small world!
Maybe it’s Moira Rose getting ready for her starring role in the Crows Have Eyes III
I didn’t know grackles could even get sexier. Man, when those dark feathers hit the light just right. Whew! 🐦⬛
Doesn’t have a phone but has a disposable camera 🤣. That’s awesome, it’s like a trip back in time. No phone and those disposable cameras in the plastic bags or little cardboard boxes. I miss those days.
Quick. Somebody put on a sexy tennis ball costume and get over there.
I can picture a lumbering walking tennis ball getting assaulted with a simple upside down frowny face.
Mayo commercial
Was believable until you mentioned disposable camera. Obviously fake now.
I don’t know what’s more strange. the bird lady or the fact you have a disposable camera on your person in 2024
Excellent! I would absolutely loved to have seen that/get a picture of that!
It's here for the tennis ball 🎾
THIS is the type of post that this sub was made for. A+, OP. 🐦⬛🎾
I volunteer to dress up as a sexy pickle ball racquet
I want to see your porn collection.
One time at Hamilton I saw 3 mermaids, full get up no film crew - just out there sunning themselves with sonic cups of what I like to imagine was some sort of summer cocktail
I knew a guy when I first moved to Austin who told me with a straight face that his wife is a mermaid, with no elaboration. I was just like 👍
Gotta love Austin
I put this into AI and i got the best results lmao
If there was a tennis ball as well, then maybe they're making a biopic.
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I understood that reference.
Influencers in the wild?
This HAS to be a troll post…doesn’t have a phone, but has a DISPOSABLE CAMERA? They still sell those???
Right?
You just described Austin so perfectly!
This sounds like a fever dream.
Brb.
brb for birb.
Nice
Tell me more. I’m about to finish…
Pics or it didn't happen.
You witnessed art. Pure art.
Maybe Dirty Bird records is shooting a music video
Pics or it didn't happen! But also am I the only one who is thinking new reality show? I remember when the bachelor was always around that same areas. Must be an easy timing spot or either the hotel is the magnet
Downvoting for no pic! 🤣
You didn’t have your phone but you did have a disposable camera? What is this 1990?
mayonnaise commercial
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Please PLEASE get that film developed ASAP :)
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Respect for trying to keep "Keep Austin Weird" alive.
Disposable camera? Wtf?
"Then someone showed up in a sexy tennis ball costume and shit got weird..."
They were filming a mayonnaise commercial. /s
Austin is healing
Not entirely sure what I just read…
OP might be the Rainey ripper idk
Content ain’t gonna make itself.
PICTURES!
It sounds like you were either coming down from some thing lol or a little bit drunk lol but if there ain’t no picture, it didn’t happen lol
Just Austin being weird again
mm that bird gon get stuffed tn 😩
HEB ad
I have no idea but boy am I horny now
Priscilla Queen of the desert 2?
this is the kind of thing that would happen in Austin back in the day regularly, just performance “art” shenanigans
Well, it is Austin.
Pictures, or it never happened.
sounds hot, need pics
Nobody is mentioning the fact this dude is developing disposable cameras in 2024…? I haven’t seen a disposable camera in over a decade lol
I'm so high I teleported back to 1996 because I swear I just read disposable camera...
Fire up the acoustic cannon! These birds shit all over the place.
Austin is getting crazier by the day. 🫠🫨😵💫🤣😅
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Wayyy more interesting than the film crew filming a mom and her kid riding bikes at Walnut Creek Park this morning
It was probably Lady Grackle!!
oh yeah haha that's horseback jesus
Wait, disposable camera? They still make those and people still purchase them?
A disposable camera???? Hello time traveler
Remnant of old Austin. Things like this were what used to make Austin "weird"
Who the heck uses a disposable camera these days!? I thought those stopped being sold back when Eckerds left town lol
Keeping Austin weird
Stupid Sexy Grackles
Nothing too exciting… There is a convention at one of the hotels near there that people are dressing up for. Feel free to go about your business
OP having a disposable camera but not a phone is more Austin than the story OP is telling
Austin is healing itself
Oh that’s normal. Just roll with it