Dan Becomes a Man!!

[eminemdrdre00]

I just gotta say this is probably one of my favorite segments in the show. What other manly things do you think Dan has left to do?

[xibalba]

Getting him laid on camera, skydiving, bungee jumping, getting him high? :D

[nobodysleeps]

Getting him laid on camera, skydiving, bungee jumping, getting him high? :D

Sure, if doing retarded things constitutes becoming a man.

[tokenuser]

You got a problem with any of the things on that list??

Except for the getting laid (well, the "on camera" part), and getting him high.

And if you have ever been parachuting the adrenaline rush is the biggest high you are ever likely to get (in fact it was is great, that it took two hours after I crashed and broke my pelvis and fractured my vertebrae to go into shock :D ). Nature provides the best drugs some times.

[senoj1]

skydiving would be awesome..it could also be the intro and they could reinact the convo in point break between keanu and swayze

[nobodysleeps]

I have to admit, Dan, going bungee jumping and or sky diving would be funny to watch.

[matteekay]

Tattoos? Piercings? Donkey show?

[xibalba]

Take him to a house of bondage get stuff done to him that can be filmed like Spanked by a couple ladies, chained up and whipped. Stuff like that. :D

[mikeyj10]

How about some of these:

Driving to someplace you have never been before without getting directions or stopping at a gas station.

cutting down a tree.

playing video games and ignoring anything you girlfriend/wife says.

Deep sea fishing on a ship where the captain is kind of creepy.

Oh and finally, getting drunk and providing commentary on stories featured on a social content website.

[mushroom]

Tattoos? Piercings? Donkey show?

Have you seen this:
"Manly Stuff That Is No Longer Manly" (http://www.bspcn.com/2007/05/29/manly-stuff-that-is-no-longer-manly/)

[k4ng]

cutting down a tree.


That would be amazing.

[gm_wil]

how about changing oil in a car, splitting a chunk of wood, changing a flat, wearing a toolbelt, using a nail gun, doing a doughnut in a car, shooting a gun, skinning an animal, baiting a hook, cleaning a fish, welding, etc....fixing something with duct tape...hahaha...pissing on a truck tire...throwing a baseball or football...

Edit - shooting a bow

can you tell I'm from rural wisconsin?

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[conedude13]

In order for any self respecting man to officially be called a man needs this (http://officialmangear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=14&zenid=b1732d3349958ece23be67d9da661c15). Nothing less than that, or a kick ass full beard, will suffice. :p

[phillip-litt]

This is by far my favorite segment of the show. I hope Dan never becomes a man so that we can continue to be entertained.

How about field dressing a wound?

[tokenuser]

Catch, gut, and cook a fish ... over an open fire ... that he started without matches ...

[magunwarrior]

Catch, gut, and cook a fish ... over an open fire ... that he started without matches ...

Dan Vs Wild

I crack myself up.

[phillip-litt]

Yes! Dan should have to face the great outdoors sans any "luxuries" such as T.P., matches, etc. And whoever is recording him, can eat in front of him and gets to live in a tiki hut.

[gm_wil]

...live in a tiki hut.

Lala...

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[cybogoblin]

Most of the things mentioned so can be achieved by just about anyone, male or female. For something only men are truly capable of, try peeing while standing up.

Or for something a little less mentally disturbing, medieval sword fighting (with or without armour and shield). Think of it as a lightsabre duel without the lasers.

[xibalba]

Get Dan arrested.

[nobodysleeps]

Mod a console. Or anything to do with soldering.

[matteekay]

Have you seen this:
"Manly Stuff That Is No Longer Manly" (http://www.bspcn.com/2007/05/29/manly-stuff-that-is-no-longer-manly/)

You're the second person to quote that article in a tattoo-related thread. I love that people use the arguments of some guy no one's EVER heard of like they're gospel in deciding what's cool or manly. I'll buy it when he takes a survey of every man on the planet, and at least 51% of them say it's not manly.

In the mean time, I'm going to write an artical called "Tattoos, Piercings, and Motorcycles ARE Manly", and then start referencing myself.

[ward]

-Hunting.
-Barbeque.

[senoj1]

Camping needs to be the next step on Dan's manly hood.

[MaxTheSilent]

I'm hoping for another episode of 'Dan Gets Duped'.

[rabidbadger]

I just gotta say this is probably one of my favorite segments in the show. What other manly things do you think Dan has left to do?


Me?


:D :rolleyes: :p :eek:

/fantasy

[rabidbadger]

Dan Vs Wild

I crack myself up.

Me too, funny... :)

[gm_wil]

Me too, funny... :)

When Dan read this thread...he probably turned to one of them saying, "Oh shit dude, what have we done?"

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[magunwarrior]

Like in the Man Vs Wild spots...

"Does Dan Trachtenberg really have to do this?

No.

But it's funny as hell."

[biggoron318]

Make him cut down a tree with a herring, but only after bringing forth a shubbery.........

[satori]

Play the "Dan becomes a Man" music, then get him to talk about the gay bar he went to inadvertantly when he went to Israel last year.... no joke. :D

[divadawg9234]

Play the "Dan becomes a Man" music, then get him to talk about the gay bar he went to inadvertantly when he went to Israel last year.... no joke. :D
HAHA! DO IT! DO IT!!!

[stopikingonme]

Play the "Dan becomes a Man" music, then get him to talk about the gay bar he went to inadvertantly when he went to Israel last year.... no joke. :D

That reminds me of the time my wife and I went into a gay bar in Portland here, to use the ATM machine. She was all dolled up with knee high boots and leather skirt. When I came back from the ATM she was waiting at the door with about 4 gay guys saying," Wow you look really good!! Oh my God look at you, you look just like a girl!!!"

The best part was she didn't quite get the fact they thought she was a man in drag until a block and a half later. I died laughing. The best part is she has no masculine features whatsover, she's all hot girl, which is prolly what had them poor boys so confused...<sigh> good times

[friedostrich]

cutting down a tree.

Indeed, what a thrilling 3 hour segment that would be...

[toolegit2kwit]

It is so hard to think of one that isn't just plane sadistic or gross but here goes.

he could pull a school bus 100 yards with his wang, open a beer with his eye socket, or shave with a straight razor.

[gm_wil]

It is so hard to think of one that isn't just plane sadistic or gross but here goes.

he could pull a school bus 100 yards with his wang, open a beer with his eye socket, or shave with a straight razor.

...or break out of that prison?

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[eminemdrdre00]

how about eating sun flower seeds properly?

[mikeyj10]

Indeed, what a thrilling 3 hour segment that would be...

Or you know they could ****en edit it into a 2 minute bit too. I'm sure computers might be able to do that now.

[ebisch]

They could always go on a field trip to say, Somalia and have Dan kill a drugged up Somali gunman with his bare hands.
Or fight Steven Segall.

[puddlefish]

Paintballing?

He's probably done that already though...

[grizwald]

>>>> Beer Bong

[denmmurray]

The straight razor thing could work...they should take him to one of those old timey barber shops where they give you a shave, and put the hot towel on the face, all that stuff...

[gm_wil]

The straight razor thing could work...they should take him to one of those old timey barber shops where they give you a shave, and put the hot towel on the face, all that stuff...

...awesome...

...I just saw him wince and then reach up to his neck with a ketchup packet like in Dumb & Dumber...

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[chevmalfet]

The straight razor thing could work...they should take him to one of those old timey barber shops where they give you a shave, and put the hot towel on the face, all that stuff...

Good call. I've never done it myself but I hear that getting a proper barber shave is actually quite soothing, an enjoyable experience. I can't help but think barbers would be happy for the exposure for the old timey barber experience as well.

[c_strac]

Go to the track and bet on a horse.

[toolegit2kwit]

Go to the track and bet on a horse.

better yet fix a horse.

[denmmurray]

Good call. I've never done it myself but I hear that getting a proper barber shave is actually quite soothing, an enjoyable experience. I can't help but think barbers would be happy for the exposure for the old timey barber experience as well.

It's nice...you sit there smoking a cigar, watching a football game, and just relaxing. It's a little bit like a man's version of going to a day spa...except not gay.

[tokenuser]

The straight razor thing could work...they should take him to one of those old timey barber shops where they give you a shave, and put the hot towel on the face, all that stuff...Long post (sorry), but this reminds me of one of my favourite poems ...

It was the man from Ironbark who struck the Sydney town,
He wandered over street and park, he wandered up and down.
He loitered here, he loitered there, till he was like to drop,
Until at last in sheer despair he sought a barber's shop.
"'Ere! shave my beard and whiskers off, I'll be a man of mark,
I'll go and do the Sydney toff up home in Ironbark."

The barber man was small and flash, as barbers mostly are,
He wore a strike-your-fancy sash, he smoked a huge cigar;
He was a humorist of note and keen at repartee,
He laid the odds and kept a "tote", whatever that may be,
And when he saw our friend arrive, he whispered, "Here's a lark!
Just watch me catch him all alive, this man from Ironbark."

There were some gilded youths that sat along the barber's wall.
Their eyes were dull, their heads were flat, they had no brains at all;
To them the barber passed the wink, his dexter eyelid shut,
"I'll make this bloomin' yokel think his bloomin' throat is cut."
And as he soaped and rubbed it in he made a rude remark:
"I s'pose the flats is pretty green up there in Ironbark."

A grunt was all reply he got; he shaved the bushman's chin,
Then made the water boiling hot and dipped the razor in.
He raised his hand, his brow grew black, he paused awhile to gloat,
Then slashed the red-hot razor-back across his victim's throat:
Upon the newly-shaven skin it made a livid mark -
No doubt it fairly took him in - the man from Ironbark.

He fetched a wild up-country yell might wake the dead to hear,
And though his throat, he knew full well, was cut from ear to ear,
He struggled gamely to his feet, and faced the murd'rous foe:
"You've done for me! you dog, I'm beat! one hit before I go!
I only wish I had a knife, you blessed murdering shark!
But you'll remember all your life the man from Ironbark."

He lifted up his hairy paw, with one tremendous clout
He landed on the barber's jaw, and knocked the barber out.
He set to work with nail and tooth, he made the place a wreck;
He grabbed the nearest gilded youth, and tried to break his neck.
And all the while his throat he held to save his vital spark,
And "Murder! Bloody murder!" yelled the man from Ironbark.

A peeler man who heard the din came in to see the show;
He tried to run the bushman in, but he refused to go.
And when at last the barber spoke, and said "'Twas all in fun—
'Twas just a little harmless joke, a trifle overdone."
"A joke!" he cried, "By George, that's fine; a lively sort of lark;
I'd like to catch that murdering swine some night in Ironbark."

And now while round the shearing floor the list'ning shearers gape,
He tells the story o'er and o'er, and brags of his escape.
"Them barber chaps what keeps a tote, By George, I've had enough,
One tried to cut my bloomin' throat, but thank the Lord it's tough."
And whether he's believed or no, there's one thing to remark,
That flowing beards are all the go way up in Ironbark.


"The Man From Ironbark" was written by an Australian poet (AB "Banjo" Patterson) back in 1892. "Their eyes were dull, their heads were flat, they had no brains at all" often ends up in my signature line :)

[magunwarrior]

I remember reading that when it was in your sig, great poem :)

[harkon]

Whoo first post! I just want to say that 'Dan becomes a man' is my favourite segment too. That barber shave thing sounds rad, and as a bonus actually doable.

Keep up the quest for manliness Dan!

[eminemdrdre00]

haha great suggestions everyone!

[oliviakay]

I think itd be funny if he did something simple like opening a jar for a girl..you know something that men are known for. or fixing plumbing or something

[iccanui]

Meeting chics on camera through like a secret camera and mic thing would be awesome. Also i like bungie jumping, but lets up the antie and go for sky diving. Its something i plan to do real soon myself.

Oh wow i would totally LOVE for dan to do a man vs wild thing. I mean even if its fake and he is just in the woods behind the house or something, i would just die laughing.

[oliviakay]

ooh good call. maybe building a fire with his bare hands. something camping/fishing related

[iccanui]

I think itd be funny if he did something simple like opening a jar for a girl..you know something that men are known for. or fixing plumbing or something


Just fyi, thats kinda dated and sexist. :)

I mean unless your gonna get pregnant and take your shoes off and cook him dinner while he does it. Then its on even ground ;)


/duck

Just teasing Kay.

[iccanui]

ooh good call. maybe building a fire with his bare hands. something camping/fishing related

Perfect you totally refined it for me.

Camping with nothing but a flint and a camera and knife. hehe. I would totally do it.

[oliviakay]

Perfect you totally refined it for me.

Camping with nothing but a flint and a camera and knife. hehe. I would totally do it.


agreed.
and i'm pretty sure youd like me barefoot in the kitchen ;) lawl

[iccanui]

That depends.

Got a Mac ? ;)


Yea im a huge geek lol.

Anyway back to work, great ideas all !

[civperc]

Being an avid cigar dude, I really enjoyed that segment in the backyard, was great haha!

[leroyjenkinsftw]

He should wrestle a bear...thats my only suggestion that I have but I know its not going to happen...oh wait it can! Computer Generated FTW?

[oliviakay]

That depends.

Got a Mac ? ;)


Yea im a huge geek lol.

Anyway back to work, great ideas all !

yes. yes i do. macbook pro.

[sado]

Get an Assault Rifle...oh wait he's in Cali...nm. Get a Desert Eagle? No, I don't think he could handle one of those, although that would be kind of amusing to watch him fire one.

[tokenuser]

Get an Assault Rifle...oh wait he's in Cali...nm. Get a Desert Eagle? No, I don't think he could handle one of those, although that would be kind of amusing to watch him fire one.Nevermind being in SoCal ... its a short drive to Nevada, and then he can do something like this (http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/sun/2006/apr/01/566678585.html).

[sado]

Better idea could be to goto Frontsight at that point since you are talking about them going to Nevada. It would be a cool idea for a segment to see him doing the Frontsight training. For those who dont know what Frontsight is see their website -

http://www.frontsight.com/

They also do that Frontsight challenge program on Versus which is pretty cool to watch. I am sure TRS/Revision 3 could work something out with them to be able to do it for free in exchange for featuring it.

[iccanui]

yes. yes i do. macbook pro.


Wow you got more power under the hood then me. I got a black macbook. Ok im offically in love .. purrr ;)



So i was thinking about dan while i was working ( that sounded .. ) and i started cracking up at the possibilities. I can imagine him out in the woods in the middle of the night and suddenly it goes into a blair witch skit where he starts crying into the camera with snot coming out of his nose while there is noise all around. So he tries to be a man and goes out of the tent and look and he walks around a bit and then out of now where .... jeff and alex dressed as cobra commander and destro jump out of the woods and chase him around for a while. Dont know where to go from there yet, but that would be a hilarious scene.

[tokenuser]

Frontsight would be cool, but we don't want to see Dan become a firearms expert, we just want to see hi shoot shit up :)

I went to a local computer show at a location adjacent to an indoor firing range once. For a coupl eof buck, you could buy time firing slug (BB) guns at gear (if you were under 18 without a license) or shotguns and rifles (if you were over 18 or had a license) at old computer gear.

I got the virgin shot at a monitor with a shotgun ... and just wish it hadn't been inthe days pre-camera phone and cheap camcoders. Watching the CRT explode like on a movie set was awesome.

[sado]

Frontsight would be cool, but we don't want to see Dan become a firearms expert, we just want to see hi shoot shit up :)

Ehhhh why not? It would be funny to see Dan doing the grueling stuff that Frontsight makes you do. It might turn out to be the funniest thing anyone has ever seen.

As for my first time, it wasn't nearly as cool as yours...or maybe it was you decide. Gramps took me out to the woods and we shot his old Thompson and 1911 at jugs of water and random coke bottle targets ;). Then again this is before this place got built up the way it looks today.

[tokenuser]

As for my first time, it wasn't nearly as cool as yours...or maybe it was you decide. Gramps took me out to the woods and we shot his old Thompson and 1911 at jugs of water and random coke bottle targets ;). Then again this is before this place got built up the way it looks today.My "first time" was similar to yours. My Grandfather had a Winchester rifle. We were taking pot shots at beer cans. I was great at the "lift, acquire target, shoot" idea, but terrible if I had to wait - then the gun sight would wave all over the place.

My reference to the virgin monitor was because I was the first one to get a shot at it. They had "new" gear out to be blasted to pieces every 15-20 minutes, and I just happened to get lucky with a monitor.

[samureye]

Why was this thread reported?

[tokenuser]

I suspect Sado hit "Report" instea of reply. Nothing more to see here.

[gm_wil]

Cover himself in mud and fight a predator holding a spear tipped with grenade powder...

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[iccanui]

haha awesome, i love it,

[mebe]

yall got some weird viewers
tho im prob no better

[heyseuss]

Cover himself in mud and fight a predator holding a spear tipped with grenade powder...

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is it friday already ?

[killmaster]

ahh, cahones

[sado]

I was very tired...sorry =|

[MaxTheSilent]

Is Dan still a non-drinker?

If so there would be nothing more manly then taking him out and getting him plastered.

[tokenuser]

Is Dan still a non-drinker?

If so there would be nothing more manly then taking him out and getting him plastered.... which would go hand in hand with the "taking Dan to Vega so he can shoot off automatic weapons" episode. Because NOTHING says manliness more than guns and booze.

[harryaka]

Battle Royale!

[bundydb]

Is Dan still a non-drinker?

If so there would be nothing more manly then taking him out and getting him plastered.

At a strip club!