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This just in:
"ToMarket Inc. had just completed setting up at an unmarked downtown storefront at 210 First Ave. S. Then during heavy rain Tuesday night and Wednesday morning a roof drain got plugged up, and water leaked in through the air conditioning system and sewer vents, destroying nearly everything.
“We were ready to go and that isn’t going to happen now for a couple of weeks,” said Mark Teckenburg, vice president of the marketing company.
ToMarket sells and markets a sweatshirt that has cuffs that can be unfolded, creating a fingerless glove with a thumb hole. A Canadian man currently living in Israel is the patent holder, Teckenburg said. In the future, they hope to add more products to their marketing list."
An article from the J-town Sun, once again providing detailed reports of important things. I guess this story is not a worthless piece of contrived reporting, but it was just too funny not include here. This type of garment, made by Canadian Israelites, has already been developed on a shirt that I have made by Adidas (also a Canadian company?). I guess they didn't patent it. Anyway, this answers the question, "What ever happened to Mark Teckenburg?" a former classmate of B.O.R.T. (I think?).
"ToMarket Inc. had just completed setting up at an unmarked downtown storefront at 210 First Ave. S. Then during heavy rain Tuesday night and Wednesday morning a roof drain got plugged up, and water leaked in through the air conditioning system and sewer vents, destroying nearly everything.
“We were ready to go and that isn’t going to happen now for a couple of weeks,” said Mark Teckenburg, vice president of the marketing company.
ToMarket sells and markets a sweatshirt that has cuffs that can be unfolded, creating a fingerless glove with a thumb hole. A Canadian man currently living in Israel is the patent holder, Teckenburg said. In the future, they hope to add more products to their marketing list."
An article from the J-town Sun, once again providing detailed reports of important things. I guess this story is not a worthless piece of contrived reporting, but it was just too funny not include here. This type of garment, made by Canadian Israelites, has already been developed on a shirt that I have made by Adidas (also a Canadian company?). I guess they didn't patent it. Anyway, this answers the question, "What ever happened to Mark Teckenburg?" a former classmate of B.O.R.T. (I think?).
posted by fiestawizard at 6:44 PM
2 Comments:
Yeah, I remember seeing, oh, about 10,000 kids wearing this style of long-sleeve shirt for the past 15 years.
I think I'm going to patent something that kids do a lot, too: wearing baseball caps backwards.
I have considered your question for a week now, fiestawizard, and considered it carefully indeed. Teckenburg... Teck, we used to call him.
He was a victim of circumstance. His dad was on the school board, in order to get Teck the top advantages of the school system. First, he got into TAG (talented and gifted) based solely on a device he invented called "The Bunny Maker." It involved cotton balls and scotch tape, inside a Keds shoebox with Teck's dad's pants buttons hot-glued on.
Teck went on to get 2 girls pregnant, both of them younger than him; this was his senior year of high school.
Later, he said he'd pay for their abortions, but by then he was away at college.
I lost touch with him after that, and of course we were never really in touch at all. He was a jock, played 3rd goalie on the Hillcrest Shenanigans soccer co-ed soccer squad. I was a nerd, making pipe bombs in the garage. But we talked in gym class sometimes, as we both enjoyed playing the outfield along the 3rd base line.
Actually, fiestawizard, you know what? It's Ben Mecklenburg you're thinking of. Never mind. My mind... it has some holes.
Ahh, yes, you are correct, and that rings bells for me. Not of the Shenanigans soccer club or engaging in a little "shooting of the breeze" along the right field no-fly zone.
Ben Teckenburg was always used as an example of what dehydration can do to a person. The story's been told multiple times, about that one day when old Benny forgot to drink lots of water during football, got into a ferocious collision that made him either blow snot bubbles or weep blood out of the eye, then froze up like Lock-Jaw just after a heavy rain. Welp, that's all.
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