Monkey Business

Monkey Business

Eleven luckless pedestrians issued forth into the gloom to attack what would turn out to be twin Weinkes.  And questions.  Many questions.  The first of which was, “Where’s Deep Dish?”

We passed time waiting on Deep Dish by coveting Stone Cold’s Jeep, the hot crazy girlfriend of automobiles:

“If I had a Jeep, would I look as cool as he thinks he looks?”

Probably not.  And you’d have to put sunscreen on the top of your head.  Some more than others.

Deep Dish arrived Just In Time and, making up for his brush with tardiness, tip-toed through the disclaimer, believing (erroneously) that veteran Pax are no less susceptible to biliousness, wooziness, and in rare cases, even unibrow. But such as situation befell a hypo-granola’d Pax just two days ago.  A sober reminder for all Site Qs:  keep a granola bar in your shorts at all times.

Such was the discussion as Deep Dish led the Mosey to the lot closest to 51, the one where a man sat alone in a green car, where the sun burns not just your rods but also your cones.  The same one where passing cars can see you do 50 seconds of Tai Chi.  And so we did.  Then we gathered abreast–openly defiant– and raised many calves in the direction of Day Zero.  Because of the solemnity of the moment, we did them OYO.

Did some running to and fro with various exercises sprinkled in:  merkins, CDD’s, flutters and dollies.  Then off to the playground for fun on the swing sets.  Three rounds of Toes to Bar, Pull Ups and Donkey Kicks.

Stone Cold demos a new exercise that he saw on Art of Manliness: the swing-aided pistol.  We only did 10 each leg but I can feel them.  Good stuff.

Then off to the hotbox for running to and fro with exercises sprinkled in.  Not your parking lot variety of running and exercises.  This was running and exercises with 80’s Hairbands and  trivia / arcane knowledge.

Question 1:  Name the four members of the Monkees.

I am not sure that 10 men correctly named one Monkee and, further, I am not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. Regardless 20 burpees was the reward/punishment for someone saying “joey something.”

Then some step ups and running, all while ruminating on the next question.

Question 2:  Name 7 countries that start with the letter A.

Hops showed some depth here (Azerbaijan).  Mouth did not (Angina).  We managed to get seven, then did CDDs (feet on table) and more running.

Question 3:  What’s the atomic weight of Hydrogen?  [Ed. note: was going to ask about Oxygen but couldn’t remember if it was 8 or 16….If you can’t Q it don’t do it..  Turns out it’s 16.]

More running, mixed with heels to heaven.  Then more running.

Question 4:  Name 7 of the 9 Supreme Court Justices.  An asterisk on this one.  I was leaning toward Mouth and “Angina” over Hops and “Kagan”.  Mouth let me down on that one.

Other bonus questions:

• What was the name of the no smell scotch in Seinfled?
• Who sings “Where the Down Boys Go” (a better question would have been, “what is a down boy”)?
• What was the name of Gary Hart’s mistress?
• What was the name of Gary Hart’s boat.  The answer eluded us….

Into the volleyball court for suicides to finish up.

COT

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