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OT: "Otis Smith is one smart dude" 

Post#1 » by Devin 1L » Wed Aug 6, 2008 3:01 am

Otis Smith is one smart dude. Here's Gilbert Arenas: "My basement used to be my weight room but I'm converting it to a shark tank. I cut a whole wall out down there and replaced it with a 10,000 gallon shark tank. That's going to be my aggressive tank, only filled with bullhead sharks. If anybody knows what a bullhead shark is, it's the No. 1 killing shark in America. It can go in salt water and it can go in fresh water. I'm going to have a salt water tank so I can have my eels and my stingrays too. I'm going to have three bullheads in there. I originally wanted six, but the guy who has to clean it once a week said that he's not going to get in the tank with six of them, he'll get in with three. Once they get big enough, I'll have to get rid of them. The guy who cleans the tank actually goes and catches the sharks himself, because you know, these sharks you can't just go buy, they're illegal. Ever since Jaws there's been something about fish and sharks that I've always liked. Also when I saw Cribs and Ice T had a shark tank in the back of his place, I was like, "Oh man! That's what it is!! I've been trying to plan this shark tank for the last seven years of my career I've been talked out of it by my mentor, Otis Smith. He first talked me out of it when I was a rookie and I was going to spend my whole paycheck on a fish tank. I was like "Man, I want a fish tank, that's all I want to leave with, if I don't get another dime I can know I got a fish tank, and Otis shut that down.


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Re: OT: "Otis Smith is one smart dude" 

Post#2 » by FFBlitzace » Wed Aug 6, 2008 3:03 am

Spending your whole paycheck on a fish tank is NOT creative financing.
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Re: OT: "Otis Smith is one smart dude" 

Post#3 » by glennathan » Wed Aug 6, 2008 8:50 am

Otis may be Smart but I cannot say the same for Gilbert. $1,000,000 on a fish tank? That is a waste of money. Why not just take the cash and put it through a paper shredder. Oh well. just my opinion.
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Re: OT: "Otis Smith is one smart dude" 

Post#4 » by aleZ » Wed Aug 6, 2008 8:55 am

glennathan wrote: Why not just take the cash and put it through a paper shredder. Oh well. just my opinion.


I agree, these guys use dollar bills as toilet paper, no wonder a lot of athletes get broke faster than a ferrari goes from 60 to 100 mph.
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Re: OT: "Otis Smith is one smart dude" 

Post#5 » by MagicHolland » Wed Aug 6, 2008 10:19 am

Or he could just sign a contract for a million less so you can have better teammates :P
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Re: OT: "Otis Smith is one smart dude" 

Post#6 » by Optimus_Steel » Wed Aug 6, 2008 11:21 am

FFBlitzace wrote:Spending your whole paycheck on a fish tank is NOT creative financing.


LOL.

This idea by Gilbert does sound real stupid. Not saying he shouldnt get a fish tank, they are pretty cool but 10,000 gallons? 6 bull sharks? Yea he had to "settle" for 3 but thats ridiculous. He is gonna regret it after a month. He said he thought about it alot but just because you thought about it often does not make it a good idea.
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Re: OT: "Otis Smith is one smart dude" 

Post#7 » by craig01 » Wed Aug 6, 2008 1:06 pm

Funny.
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Re: OT: "Otis Smith is one smart dude" 

Post#8 » by surflawyer » Wed Aug 6, 2008 2:06 pm

Ill sell him one for 1/2 the price and it comes with 3 bedrooms and 2 baths..... its called a condo on Cocoa Beach. It has the largest shark tank in the world ..... its in the back yard.
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Re: OT: "Otis Smith is one smart dude" 

Post#9 » by RickB-Orlando » Wed Aug 6, 2008 2:50 pm

I can see it now: Gilbert comes home from a road trip slightly tipsy following a long chartered flight back from a west coast road trip, wanders into his house, falls into the shark tank and becomes fish food.

At that point Otis is quoted as saying "I told him so."
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Re: OT: "Otis Smith is one smart dude" 

Post#10 » by SS_MagicMark » Wed Aug 6, 2008 3:21 pm

But do the sharks have lasers on their heads?
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Re: OT: "Otis Smith is one smart dude" 

Post#11 » by EasternMagic » Wed Aug 6, 2008 4:02 pm

SS_MagicMark wrote:But do the sharks have lasers on their heads?

lol
i think it sounds cool that be awesome to have a shark tank and its not like its hurting his income... but it kinda sucks that he has to get rid of them as soon as they are big
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Re: OT: "Otis Smith is one smart dude" 

Post#12 » by macdalejax » Wed Aug 6, 2008 4:06 pm

Sharks with frickin' laser beams on their head are cool
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Re: OT: "Otis Smith is one smart dude" 

Post#13 » by DiplomaticMagic » Wed Aug 6, 2008 10:42 pm

A million dollars I'm sure is nothing for Agent 0. I personally think having your own shark tank in your house is awesome.
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Re: OT: "Otis Smith is one smart dude" 

Post#14 » by damo[23] » Wed Aug 6, 2008 10:47 pm

Oddly enough I dont think its a stupid idea, its just rediculously expensive, and also the fact he's admitting its illegal is really quite bad.

Personally I wouldnt mind having something like that, though.
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Post#15 » by ivDT » Wed Aug 6, 2008 11:46 pm

well, it's certainly a creative way to destroy murder evidence.
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Post#16 » by RickB-Orlando » Thu Aug 7, 2008 12:18 am

ivDT wrote:well, it's certainly a creative way to destroy murder evidence.


If only Jayson Williams had thought of this...
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Re: OT: "Otis Smith is one smart dude" 

Post#17 » by UKMagic » Thu Aug 7, 2008 12:53 am

Meh, this is passe. Diener keeps a T-Rex in his basement and it cleans his house when he's on a road trip.
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Re: OT: "Otis Smith is one smart dude" 

Post#18 » by damo[23] » Thu Aug 7, 2008 1:30 am

ivDT wrote:well, it's certainly a creative way to destroy murder evidence.


Till they arrest you for having illegal fish, then cut said fish up and find the evidence. I better call the fuzz and give them a heads up ....
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Re: OT: "Otis Smith is one smart dude" 

Post#19 » by SS_MagicMark » Thu Aug 7, 2008 1:38 am

Wait until just before we play them.
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Re: OT: "Otis Smith is one smart dude" 

Post#20 » by Bensational » Thu Aug 7, 2008 2:21 am

i want to know how Otis shut the idea down....

"i like your basement the way it is"

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