My day with Arnold (long, pictures)

[JihadOnTheRiver]

This is purely a brag post about my dad. I know its pretty personal and maybe a bit wierd to share with OOT, but I have to show these pictures off, so I'll explain the situation first.

My dad has worked for Arnold as the Chief Deputy Director of the Finance Department since he first got elected. It was a cool job, but its been his dream to have the Director position for quite a while now. He finally got the call and he got sworn in last tuesday. Being the Director of Cali's Finance Department is a pretty big deal, and its very strange to think of my father, who is rooted in the Blue Collar world, as the guy that's in charge of Cali's $. This is budget season, so he's got this huge press conference on the 10th, and I'm sure it will be surreal to see him on TV, although recently he was plastered in the LA Times, SF Chronicle and some others.

Anyways, he brought the family to his swearing in and I got a couple really cool pictures and a story that I will tell for the rest of my life. I've been lifting a lot lately and its visible. When my dad introduced me to the Governor, Arnold shook my hand, took a step back, got this wierd look on his face while looking me up and down and said, I swear to God, "wow, you're looking very pumped up!" Unreal. The [censored] Terminator told me I looked pumped up. It felt like it was a Hanz & Franz skit. My GF is going to hear this story 5000 times in the course of our lives, and it really doesn't help my already large ego.

Anyways, I finally opened up a Photobucket account. Hope these links work. I'm the taller of the two sons. And yes, that's the sword from Conan the Barbarian. My brother has a picture of the Governor holding it while handing it to me, but I haven't got that one online yet.

Oh, I think the best part of the whole thing was hearing the Governor talk about my dad for like 5 minutes. He was saying some pretty heavy stuff. Actually said that his first budget would have been a disaster without my dad and that my dad has probably been his biggest asset during his Governorship. My dad has been to my graduation from the Academy and subsequent commissioning, flew to Texas to celebrate my getting selected for jets, was there for my winging ceremony, and brought my brother to the front steps of West Point. It was unbelievable for us to be able to see this happen in his life and return his enthusiasm and pride in us. Pretty amazing stuff. Brag over. Pictures:

-Jihad
Terrible picture of me, but the whole family and Him. (http://photobucket.com/albums/c277/Tom_Genest/Arnold/?action=view&current=020_18.jpg)
I heart Uncle Ronnie (http://photobucket.com/albums/c277/Tom_Genest/Arnold/?action=view&current=010_8.jpg)
The Sword (http://photobucket.com/albums/c277/Tom_Genest/Arnold/?action=view&current=024_22.jpg)
I have no idea what my mom is doing here (http://photobucket.com/albums/c277/Tom_Genest/Arnold/?action=view&current=021_19.jpg)
The Governor suggested we take this picture. Seriously. (http://photobucket.com/albums/c277/Tom_Genest/Arnold/?action=view&current=026_24.jpg)
My dad. (http://photobucket.com/albums/c277/Tom_Genest/Arnold/?action=view&current=015_13.jpg)

Jihad-

Congrats to your Dad, and it sounds like you had a great day!

But, please...please...please tell me you were able to walk out with the Conan sword!

[samjjones]

Awesome. I probably love Arnold a little too much for a married 30 year old man. I would be geeking out big-time if I ever had a chance to meet him.

Also, Arnold was just like "go ahead...take the sword off the wall"? By Crom!

[RacersEdge]

Sweet, I'm part Austrian and a big AS fan. It makes me want to move to Cali.

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Awesome. I probably love Arnold a little too much for a single 23 year old man. I would be geeking out big-time if I ever had a chance to meet him. He is def my hero, if there is one.

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[diebitter]

Yeah, Arnie is great.

I used to do lotsa weights, and the books he did were good, solid advice. And cos I was into it, I read about the other stuff he did, like have sessions with mentally and physically handicapped kids, and he'd tell of what he'd get out of it, and what they'd get out of it. I've held him in the highest esteem for 20+ years.

[Eurotrash]

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When my dad introduced me to the Governor, Arnold shook my hand, took a step back, got this wierd look on his face while looking me up and down and said, I swear to God, "wow, you're looking very pumped up!" Unreal. The [censored] Terminator told me I looked pumped up. It felt like it was a Hanz & Franz skit.

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this was certainly my favorite part. That had to be sweet as all hell.


great story and pictures. were I in your situation, though, I don't think I'd be able to restrain myself from blurting out random Predator quotes

[JihadOnTheRiver]

No, my brother asked the setup question "is that the real sword, blah blah blah." And he very quickly just picked it up out of the case its in and handed it to my brother. Here's the case its in:

Case. (http://photobucket.com/albums/c277/Tom_Genest/Arnold/?action=view&current=008_6.jpg)

In fact, here's all the pictures. My names on the account, but I guess if you really wanted you could just figure out my dad's name from the papers, so oh well:

Album (http://photobucket.com/albums/c277/Tom_Genest/Arnold/)

[sublime]

whos cock is your mom rubbing in pic one?

edit: guess its your dads. all is good

[JihadOnTheRiver]

Euro,

Yeah, that quote will be told many times. My grandkid will come in and be like "yo grampa, I just benched 400, I'm so yoked." And I'll just say "you little pecker, I used to bench 400 easy, and THE TERMINATOR SAID I WAS [censored] PUMPED UP!" Lol, I'm gonna average once a day with that story for the next 4 years.

-Jihad

[masse75]

Stop making this stuff up. The pictures were obviously taken in 1994.

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[JihadOnTheRiver]

Yeah I haven't used that camera in like 2 years. I was looking through the pictures and like, WTF, '94? Oh wells.

[Popinjay]

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whos cock is your mom rubbing in pic one?

edit: guess its your dads. all is good

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lol, and the expression on Dad's face is priceless. I bet this is how Mom gets good pictures out of Dad and she got caught on the second camera.

[istewart]

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why is there a cock in your mom's pants in pic one?

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FYP

[4 High]

LOL@bragging about meeting this hack job.

[IHateKeithSmart]

Nice story, congrats to pops.

[JihadOnTheRiver]

Careful there guy that nobody likes.

[sublime]

I read about the other stuff he did,

like sexually harass women and have extramarital affairs and shoot steroids in his ass.

[mrkilla]

So pop helped pull the Cali budget fromt eh crapper huh? Congrats. Does the Govenator know your online name is Jihad...I don't know how well that would blow over...

[daryn]

hey man,

cool.


by the way i might have actually attended your graduation at the academy. did you graduate with dan?

[dblgutshot]

I remember the thread looking for questions to ask him, so....anything interesting?

[JihadOnTheRiver]

Please go to the Political forum with that nonsense. It amazes me that there are people out there that fail to comprehend the magnitude of the mans genious and the wonderful things he has done for so many people world wide. Including signing off on Tookie.

[RacersEdge]

lol, the symbolism with your brother and the picture of the indian/mexican is hilarious with the position of the sword.

"The immigrants have been terminated."

[sublime]

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Please go to the Political forum with that nonsense. It amazes me that there are people out there that fail to comprehend the magnitude of the mans genious and the wonderful things he has done for so many people world wide. Including signing off on Tookie.

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what i posted has nothign to do with politics

[astroglide]

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My dad has worked for Arnold as the Chief Deputy Director of the Finance Department since he first got elected. It was a cool job, but its been his dream to have the Director position for quite a while now. He finally got the call and he got sworn in last tuesday.

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thanks for the details and pictures.

i hate to split the money, but i could use some extra hands incase things get ugly. who wants to go in with me on this silver platter opportunity to kidnap jihad and hold him for ransom?

[chuddo]

arnold is a stud despite being a shite politician. you are a cracker.

[sublime]

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arnold is a stud despite being a shite politician. you are a cracker.

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see i hold nothing against the guy for loving pussy and not being able to control his cock, but when people start looking at these guys as ghandi i find it hilarious.

[chuddo]

sublime,

i think we are saying the same thing? i was quick replying.

i was calling jihad a cracker for his pictures. primarily the one in front of the reagan.

[JihadOnTheRiver]

Please elaborate your slander. Why for I am the "cracker"? What are you implying? Skin tone? Dork-factor? WTF?

[diebitter]

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Please elaborate your slander. Why for I am the "cracker"? What are you implying? Skin tone? Dork-factor? WTF?

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Slander is when it's spoken.
Libel is when it's in print or lettered representation.



IGMC (I'll get me coat...)

[JihadOnTheRiver]

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[diebitter]

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How libellous!

[JihadOnTheRiver]

Yes but I didnt know him at the time. I met him in flight school.

[scott8]

Jihad,

Cool pics man.

-Calda

[spsurfin_Michael]

Simply fantasic. You should be very proud of your father--He has my full support.

[TimM]

Someone needs to fix the date on their camera.

LOL love the first picture... and Congrats to your dad

[Maulik]

Jihad,

sounds like a fun day.

[Maulik]

TT,

If you ever get to this, shouldn't Arnold be showing some collar w/ his suit?

[Luv2DriveTT]

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TT,

If you ever get to this, shouldn't Arnold be showing some collar w/ his suit?

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good point. I don't like the Governor's choice in shirts. Where is his cuffs? The color sits funny, someone tell the man he should be wearing spread collar shirts. His tailor should be shot.

PS for Jihad:
1) takes a lot of balls to share this with OOT, impressive. Any concern about how it might affect you father?
2) Is your father the guy that was chosen after William Buffet turned the Governor down? If so, he is a bit of a legend in Republican circles I hear.
Not that I should know about Republicans or anything, my bookkeeper listens to that AM radio right wing wacko shite and sometimes I happen to hear a bit.
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[Johnnyj580]

Do you seriously bench 400? If so, congrats man. I've seen (I recollect) 3 guys being able to bench 500 at my gym and I've been going there 5 years now.

[ChipWrecked]

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Does the Govenator know your online name is Jihad...I don't know how well that would blow over...

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He knows. So does Uncle Sam.

[bwana devil]

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Sweet, I'm part Austrian and a big AS fan. It makes me want to move to Cali.

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wasnt there a (weak) movement to revoke arnold's austrian citizenship because of his stance on the death pentalty? isnt the general consesus that austria is ashamed of him?

bwana

[bwana devil]

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Please go to the Political forum with that nonsense. It amazes me that there are people out there that fail to comprehend the magnitude of the mans genious and the wonderful things he has done for so many people world wide. Including signing off on Tookie.

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surprisingly, you make a post about a politician in OOT and if people dont praise your republican you scream foul. you may have posted this in the wrong forum unless you just wanted this to turn into some circle jerk on what a great governor arnold supposedly is.

bwana

Wow after looking at the pics again, your mom looks exactly like my middle school math teacher.

[JihadOnTheRiver]

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Sweet, I'm part Austrian and a big AS fan. It makes me want to move to Cali.

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wasnt there a (weak) movement to revoke arnold's austrian citizenship because of his stance on the death pentalty? isnt the general consesus that austria is ashamed of him?

bwana

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That's somewhat true I guess. Basically, when all the publicity about The Tookie Monster got around, the city back there that adopted him threatened to remove his name from a stadium built in his honor. Arnold had his team of lawyers fly to Austria last month and forced the town to remove his name and likeness from all things they had of him in the city (and that was quite a few things). The city offered to revoke their threat of taking his name off the building, Arnold refused and his name is now no longer associated with the city in any way.

[jdl22]

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"wow, you're looking very pumped up!"

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It is pretty cool he said this, but I get annoyed when he says this. Unless I'm wrong, this isn't actually an Arnold line. Isn't it from Hanz and Franz on SNL doing a parody of him? He's always got big lines in movies "hasta la vista baby" "you're one ugly motherf%$#@&" etc. He says these lines often as well, but I don't think pump (you) up is actually his line.

[JihadOnTheRiver]

I don't believe it was supposed to be a quote, just a comment. Later on in the day he asked my dad how much I benched and weighed, he actually got both w/n 5 pounds each. He also commented about my shoulders which are way bigger than the rest of my body should allow. Those two comments led me to believe that it was just him still being naturally interested in bodybuilding and lifting. Sorry if that was confusing.

He does play the crowd on occassion. My dad has told me several times where he cut up a very serious meeting/situation with some random appropriate movie quote of his. In fact I forgot how, but Dad has heard him rip the whole Conan quote off.

-Jihad

[imitation]

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Yeah, Arnie is great.

I used to do lotsa weights, and the books he did were good, solid advice.

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Arnie is cool his books are [censored] awful. Some of the worst advice around really.

[JihadOnTheRiver]

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Yeah, Arnie is great.

I used to do lotsa weights, and the books he did were good, solid advice.

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Arnie is cool his books are [censored] awful. Some of the worst advice around really.

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Please understand when The Bible was written. It was pretty cutting edge advice in the time frame. It has provided many, MANY, professional bodybuilders with a basic frame of referrence and starting point of their knowledge of working out. Either way, I got my copy signed so its awesome. I'm awesome.

[diebitter]

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Yeah, Arnie is great.

I used to do lotsa weights, and the books he did were good, solid advice.

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Arnie is cool his books are [censored] awful. Some of the worst advice around really.

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The basics in the Bible are still solid, I'm sure. And the other books I've read of his are typically cut-downs from the Bible. Maybe you've read others.

It's packed away, and I'm saying this from memory, but it runs through all the basic exercise moves still used today, instructs on warm-up and warm-down, goes through the patterns of reps/sets still used today, so what's to be awful?

What, you think solid weight-training advice is trumped by 7-minute abs and sht like that? Or you need some inspirational horse crap to get them weights moving?

[Martin]

Translated the Socialist party and Green party are ashamed of him.
On a recent radio show the majority of Austrians who phoned in said that although they did not support the death penalty they still supported Arnold and the fact that he was upholding a court decision.

[paigowmaster]

OJ DID IT!

[samjjones]

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arnold is a stud despite being a shite politician. you are a cracker.

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see i hold nothing against the guy for loving pussy and not being able to control his cock, but when people start looking at these guys as ghandi i find it hilarious.

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Hey, just remember, "eating's not cheating"...

[jaydub]

diebitter and Jihad,

The primary issue with the book is that it recommends way too many sets and movements for the non enhanced athlete. This is of course an understandable problem because Arnold, like ALL competitive bodybuilders was far from a natural.

Outside of that problem, and especially considering the time of release, the book is phenomenal. The vast coverage and pictures make it worth buying even today.

J

[diebitter]

Yeah, possibly, can't remember his suggested routines, so I'll concede. I'm pretty sure I used to do something like a full routine from this book though, even as beginner/intermediate level, so it wasn' THAT hard.

The actual movements described, rep/set structures (assuming 3 or possibly 4 sets, each heavier and less reps than the last), warm-up/warm-down advice is still solid though, huh?

And still make this book worthwhile (as you rightly say).

[jaydub]

diebitter,

Absolutely, considering the time of release and the way the concepts were all put in one place, it was a great book and the advice can still be beneficial.

If you get a chance to dust off your old copy, take a look through the workouts, especially the intermediate and advanced ones.

J