yo ya a friend of mine organized a party which was to take place at a resto-bar named "Moe's" (to which I reply this isnt Springfield Illinois).
Not onoly are we there to have fun its also a Secret Santa exchange so everyone up to 30$ gets everyone else a gift, and we organized it so that everyone had a recommended list of what "everyone" wanted buuut we randomly choose names out of a hat who we were ot be a secret santa to.
So I arrive and a girl named blanca gives me her gift to me, so I think ok so we give the gifts right away so I walk up and give Jame shis present, he laughs and said "Blayne your supposed to wait!"
I sit down, I say hi to people, after a cursory look at the menu I go to the bank machine to withdraw 20$, I come back my friend dave asks if ppl want to contribute to buy a 120$ bottle of champaign or a 30$ bottle and I say nah I don't drink, im here to eat not to drink.
wiht the first round of drinks, James gives a toast thanking everyone for coming and other very nice sounding stuff that I no longer remember, and then my friend Iosef gives 2 toasts in a row, ending with "for tomorrow we shall die" and I'm like waaaait I didnt agree to that!
Some saleds come ppl start eating some food, and im sorta standing up gathering my courage to mke my own little toast and James and Joe go wait for the next round blayne so I sit back down relieved.
the drinks come, Joe makes another small toast and then goes ok and Blayne here also wants to make a toast.
So I get up breath deeply gatheirng my courage and speaketh:
quote: hello ladies and gents', I am glad to be here, for those who don't know me, although I highly doubt anyone here does not know me. I am Blayne Gordon Ellison Bradley, and I like to think of myself as the first, the first in a long line to come, a very long line to come if I have my way of things. I am of 19 years of age and participating in my third year at John Abbott and I do so hope to live a very long time to come.... Daaaave.. Jooeee.... And especially Beeennnn...... (laughter) And most importantly of all, I am glad to have all of you as my dear friends and I hope to have many more for a long time to come, and I thank you for being there for me, for accepting me, and most of all... to tolerating my ecc, ecc, eccy, eccetircies? (robin: Its Eccentricalities!) ah yes thank you, my eccentricilities which as we all know is just a side effect of my overwhelming genius. (laughter)
Jen: Humble is not your middle name is it?
Me: Of course not its Ellison. (laughter)
Robin: Ya, he already said his middle name was Ellison get with the program!'' (more laughter)
Me: So, yes, thank you all of you.
*sits down*
(applause)
After sitting down the food arrives I ordered a personal Italien "Chicago" pizza with sauga, pepperoni, and otehr stuff and there was much rejoicing.
Holden: "Hey anyone want me side dish"
Me: "What someones giving away food!" (im at the other sid eof the room)
robin: "Thats my blayne!"
After my pizza, I'm offered to taste what appears to be a combination of seafood onion rings and fried squid in a tasty dipping sauce which i enjoy veyr much, James and his new girlfriend robin are eating lamb chops, and appear to be unable to eat all of it so I ask if I can have some so after my pizza i get to have some salid and lamb chops, James and some other firend sof mine and his you know are praising me for my speech and suff and then I reach over and grab the ketchup and put it on the lamp, and James goes: "Blayne! You flaming retard dont put keptchup on Lamp chops!" and then hits me upide the head with the menu.
Later I sit back down in my sit (since I was sitting nearer him then) I notice a waiter go over to my italien trekky friend alex with a cup of a cler liquid, he points him over to me and the waiter passes me the glass, and says its for me.
I look at it think its water and chug it down.
Turns out it was Vodka... my expression made everyone laugh since i was like frozen from the fire going into my belly and my eyes were sorta watery.
Grr my days of not drinking alchohol are numbered
Joe asks if I want a cocktail, says it tasts betetr and its on him, I'm like why the hell not, they get me to chug down a cocktail, a something sour, and then James eggs me on to consume half a pint of beer.
James: "Blayne, your a good man."
Robin: "Don't ever change Blayne, we like you the way you are."
After that we talk a bit, I edge over to Dave, Chris and Alex and begin discussing all manner of things such as Starcraft, Dungeons and Dragons, Star Trek, eventually someone comes up behind me and starts scratching me head, so I ask chris:"Chris is the perosn ebhind me doing that male or female?"
Chris: "male"
Me: "damnit" (was hoping it was female)
After that some ppl leave, other exchang presents, my chinese friend Ben got knives, Pat got Dawn of War Dark crusade, i got a WoW time card (which ill be giving to my sister as a present since I dont pay for WoW she does), James I got him Paparoach and a movie whose name escapes me. Holden got an expansion to the wow boardgame and army men figures, Dave got a book about giving toasts, whats of people got all sorts of things and there was much rejoicing.
After some ppl leave and we all pay, I head along with everyone to the after party at Joe's house just down the street.
Some ppl start dirnking a little more, I try (unsuccessfully) to play the piano, about 4-5 of us notice Joe's kittens in one of the rooms they were soooo cute so we sat down, watched them and just talked.
James/Robin invites me to anothe rparty on new years, I raise the idea to my friend tyler of a star wars marathon, and he agrees so I have alot of things to look forward to.
Alex jokes about how I'm gonna get a huge hang over from my drinking, I tell him that depending on the size of the hang over ill kick him x amount of times in the gonads for getting me to drink.
At Joes I see his monster computer gaming rig thing so i go on, James tells me "Blayne unless you get off that computer ill label you anti social"
Robin: "(sarcastically) oh no anti social omg!"
Jmes: You know what happens to anti social ppl at parties?"
I promptly leave the computer chair ^-^
I call my mom, tell her I'm at Joes, I give the phone to Joe to give her directions and when she comes I go home.
Funny thing is, I wake up and no hang over. Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
This, by the way, is why you should game less and see people more often.
Posted by Dr Strangelove (Member # 8331) on :
Yeah dude, sounds like you had an awesome time. Go Blayne!
Posted by Youth ap Orem (Member # 5582) on :
Sounds like it was a blast, but the real question is... How much rested exp did you manage to get?
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
quote: "Don't ever change Blayne, we like you the way you are."
Yeah, what Robin said. I'm glad you weren't sick after all the booze. I'm pretty sure I would have been.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
i can admit i felt loosier but definately not plastered, I was quite coherent the entire time and rather elequent i can say.
But ya, no hang over? Why didnt I get a hang over I'm slighly dissapointed now.
Posted by Stray (Member # 4056) on :
Glad to hear you had such a nice time Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
I'm just waiting for MTV to pick up the pilot episode of "Blayne's Life."
It'll air in between "The Osbournes" and "The Simple Life" as a sort of palatte cleanser.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
While it sounds like it went okay for you, I, personally, would have been furious if I had told my friends, "nah I don't drink, im here to eat not to drink" and then later they give me a vodka without telling me what it is.
But glad it worked out okay for you.
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
quote:Originally posted by Blayne Bradley: But ya, no hang over? Why didnt I get a hang over I'm slighly dissapointed now.
I'm confused as to why you'd want a hang over in the first place.
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
Re Hangover: Trust me, you didn't miss anything.
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
Maybe he just wants to experience one, one of those rites of passage type of things.
I had a mini-hangover the day after my 21st birthday. I'm glad to have not repeated it since.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
quote:Originally posted by Blayne Bradley: But ya, no hang over? Why didnt I get a hang over I'm slighly dissapointed now.
Could be that you were really well hydrated; that can prevent or decrease hangovers. Could also be that you're just someone who tends not to get hangovers. I've actually never had one myself.
[Edit--glad that you had such a good time, by the way. It's nice to be out with a group like that, isn't it?]
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
I rarely get hangovers, especially for someone who binge-drank all through college. I think the keys in my case are -- drinking water, eating something beforehand, and getting a full night's sleep. The times when I do get hungover it's because I didn't do one of those three things.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
quote:yo ya a friend of mine organized a party which was to take place at a resto-bar named "Moe's" (to which I reply this isnt Springfield Illinois).
By the way, the Simpson's home town is not (necessarily) Springfield, Illinois. It's a running joke on the show that they don't name the state, based on their being a Springfield in 30+ states.
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
I thought there was a Springfield in every state? At least, that's how I always heard the trivia question worded.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Not according to wikipedia, and I didn't want to look it up further.
I bet there's a mailing entity "Springfield" in every state, but not a municipality. That would account for the two different statements. But I don't care enough to look.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
supposedly they give various hints throughout the show, Robins convinced its Massachusets absed on the reactions of ppl in tennesy when bart went there.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
It's not that they've given hints. It's that they've given explicitly contradictory hints. Based on the geography shown in the show (mountains, lakes, coastlines, etc.), there is no Springfield on Earth that could actually be the Springfield shown in the cartoon.
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
at Blayne
Posted by Earendil18 (Member # 3180) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lyrhawn: I'm just waiting for MTV to pick up the pilot episode of "Blayne's Life."
It'll air in between "The Osbournes" and "The Simple Life" as a sort of palatte cleanser.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
This thread title reminds omf a t-shirt design I saw that says "I'll show you how old I am on the dance floor at the Christmas party."
-pH
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
quote: After that we talk a bit, I edge over to Dave, Chris and Alex and begin discussing all manner of things such as Starcraft, Dungeons and Dragons, Star Trek, eventually someone comes up behind me and starts scratching me head, so I ask chris:"Chris is the perosn ebhind me doing that male or female?"
Chris: "male"
Me: "damnit" (was hoping it was female)
On so many levels this is painfully funny. Thanks for posting your story, it was worth it for this alone.
"All manner of things" Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
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