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AoS-Fest II : The Return of the Green Monkey

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Day 1: Friday October 1st

Friday night....back to the hotel....game over.

The Green Monkey: Once at the bar, and particularly after the tray of highball glass sized Jager shots, things get hazy and it's all a blur of general conversation topics (horses, cars, the "rules" for the drinking contest, and the Reconstruction all come to mind), whipping the collective ass of all comers at foosball, refusing to play pool (or maybe I played, but if I did, it was against my will), slappings (apparently slapping your pals while drunk is quite the high time in Birmingham, but I'm not familiar with that game, so when Little John unexpectedly slapped me, I shoved him and was pretty worked up about it), and scrotum display through the window to the nerds (AC, Gusto, SMN, not sure who else) inside Sbarro. AC and Gusto tried to take spontaneous piggyback rides from one another on the walk home. Somehow Gusto managed to get hurt when all 85 pounds (20 of which is body hair) of AC jumped on him. There was a girl sitting on the sidewalk, alternately crying and puking into a sidewalk grate. We pestered and photographed her.
AlvaCollector: I did not break Gusto's hand but that strawberry on his face...that was all me.
Amorone: I do wish I had video of AC jumping on the unsuspecting and staggering Gutso's back for a piggy back ride upon which Gusto collapsed like a house of cards. Gusto's knees just buckled immediately. Too funny.....anyways, we were ALL half-lit by this point and were heading our way...slowly...back to the hotel. A few were hungry, so we hit a Sabaro's pizza place on the way back. That took a while...with this group of drunks, it is about like herding cats. Once back underway, we almost immediately ran into some girl on the sidewalk....one was puking and crying while the other just said "oh she's ok.....she's ok....". Of course, this was another opportunity to kill some time with harmless harassment...like taking pictures of the drunk girl! haha
Zodiac13: Room Service at the hotel ends at 10 p.m....and no amount of harrasment seemed to wanna get them to re-open the kitchen.

Very late meal
(Gusto, Ac, and SMN)

Bob Burnquist eating pizza!
(no, just Jeff mugging for a photo)

Amorone pictured taking pictures
The Green Monkey: Gusto behaves a lot like a dog. He sticks his head out the car window to yell at passersby (on the way to the park Saturday, every male we passed got a wolf whistle), he runs off when you least expect it, he tries to fuck every female he encounters (and some of the males), and he pees everywhere. He even peed in the hotel hallway, five feet from our door (guess which door he was in front of, Chris (Amorone)...). I managed to show my displeasure effectively enough that he pinched off and tottered into our room to use the toilet for the remainder of the leak. For every anecdote or description of an activity, etc., during all of the "out on the town" stuff, please assume that Gusto both urinated in a place where he wasn't exactly free from the watchful eye of the law, and that he also disappeared for a spell, unless otherwise noted.
AlvaCollector: Jumping on Gusto and TGM's beds after they pass out is now my favorite thing to do.
ShackleMeNot: We hung out at the bar for a bit and eventually decided that we were all too drunk to keep drinking and called it a night. Headed back to the hotel, I think we bought some beer to take with us, and just sat around good old 1108 for awhile, taking pictures of Steve and Gusto's hairy ass contest. Needless to say, that was going a bit too far. I ended up falling asleep around 5am, took some of Jeff's Excedrin or whatever he had, and avoided a hangover.
Amorone: ...and for the record, late in the evenning of Friday (or early hours Saturday morning...3am-ish), when the homo-erotic photography session began featuring Gusto and TGM comparing asses while SMN clicked off pics, I got the hell out of there.....

Herding Cats
(Lil' Jon, Jay and Green Monkey)

Drunk Girls on Second Avenue!

ShackleMeNot takes advantage
of Green Monkey
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