Independence Day 2006
(July 3rd - July 5th-ish)

Independence Day Eve

I found out King Schulte was coming to my place from Sunday July 2nd though Wednesday July 5th and I knew I was in for a good time (my liver had different feelings about the visit).  No pictures to speak of on Sunday night, had to kind of take it easy since I had to work at 8 on Monday.  Monday night was another story though. 

King, Joe, Brennan, The Andy and I began celebrating our independence around 7 or so with some nice drinking games... 

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Nice drinking game soon turned into mean drinking games and a bunch of drunks...

Video: King's sick nun chuck skills  (not really sure why he went of here but I'm guessing all that beer didn't help...)

It's ok Schulte calmed everyone with yet another great session of King Karaoke...

Video: King's "Zabel" Song

Video: King's "Cubbies Suck"

After karaoke it was time to eat cherry bombs (you take maraschino cherries, drain the juice and fill the jar back up with vodka...they taste like hell) and Joe starting to piss off The Andy.

Video: Joe and The Andy's Cherry Time

Video: Joe vs. The Andy (inside)

Video: Joe vs. Brennan (then The Andy again)

But it didn't last, it was UFC matches with pins and choke outs for the rest of the night...


 

Fighters

Winner
Joe v. The Andy 1 Joe by tap
Joe v. Brennan Brennan by pin
Joe v. The Andy 2 The Andy by tap out
Joe v. The Andy 3 Pride fight, no official winner
Joe v. Tom 1 Tom by pin
Joe v. Tom 2 Joe by tap out
Joe v. Tom 3 Tom by tap out

Independence Day
So after staying up kicking each other's asses until about 1:30 AM we got up and played slugger  around 8:30 and followed that up with some 3-on-3 basketball (it's Thursday and I'm still sore).  We get back home to relax a bit before the party at my house, turns out we drank too much of the party's beer so we had to run and get yet another keg before the party started at 4. About an hour after brats and hot dogs it was flippy cup time.  What better way to celebrate your country's independence than 20-year-olds and 50-year-olds playing flippy cup in harmony?

Black Team

  Gold Team
Name Approx. Age   Name Approx. Age
HawkeyeTom 23 vs. The Andy 22
Willie 54 vs. Joe 22
Hirl 54 vs. King Schulte 22
Brennan 22 vs. Big John 27
Bulkoff 23 vs. Moose (HawkeyeTom's dad) 54

We decide that it's only logical to play first to 7, win by 2. 

Series 1: Gold trounced Black 7-0 in a clean sweep to victory.  The Black team had a couple over 50 that were having trouble getting their feet wet while the 54 year old for the Gold team turn out to be a fucking prodigy to the game of flippy cup.

Series 2: Gold started out strong and was up 3-0 before Black started to figure out how to dominate (and big John began to suck major ass).  The lead changed hands at least 4 time in the series (the details are fuzzy) but Black pulled out a strong victory of 11-9 in the end.

Series 3: Didn't happen because the guys over 50 were fucking wasted and were having trouble speaking clearly (and getting bitched at by their wives).

(I can't account for the entire night...there were some fireworks, I didn't hit the house with anything this year, etc.)

The party starts to disperse before King, The Andy, Brennan and I talk Moose into another round of flippy cup 2-on-2 this time.  Unfortunately this is where the wife attempts to talk him out of it...clearly he's wasted but is thirsty for more. 
 

Video: Pre flippy cup arrangements

Video: Flippy cup - Moose-King vs. The Andy-Joe

After the flippy cup was over it was up to Joe to eat bugs to entertain us...

Video: Joe eating bugs for no apparent reason