Lucky Number Seven

The Seventh Annual High and Holy Meeting of Men is right around the corner.

March 4-6
or
March 11-13

State your preferences.

Christmas Roll Call

Let's call roll and see when and who will be in the Nashville area for Christmas.

Thought'd be nice if we all could get together for dinner or something over the holidays now that some of us are scattered hither and yon.

Stacys- Coming in on Dec 21 and can stay indefinitely through New Years.

(Picture updated-- Admin powers)

Nunley's Only State Championship

The only State Championship Hendersonville will ever win.  C-Town will go ahead and give this one to you.  I bet it was your 13 tumbles that won it for you.

Commandos dominate Lions 28-10

Obviously, #51 is preoccupied with baby diapers to start trash talking about this week's game so I'll do it for him.

sad times for the makers of shrubberies

Men,

I have a new job. If you are in the market for a new bank, come see me. I now work for Suntrust, and I am in the Hillsboro Village branch. Andrew, Suntrust does not have a location in Louisiana, so keep your dirty creole money where it is. I still haven't met your daughter.

Also, we have a contract on a house. You can view it here.

This mother of a yard is big enough to host the next Manlympics.

Lastly, U2 is playing in Nashville in July. Hope to see you all there.

I miss you all.

So Andrew your wife is Pregnant!

What? I found out on facebook. I guess you can't please everyone. But in honor of your sucess I will post this link....http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/10/zach-galifianakis-gets-two-ferned-awkward-awesome-video/

Enjoy and congrats! Men I miss you all and I repent from my lack of checking the blog.

UNtil THen,

My Tonsillectomy Pictures

If you like gross pictures, I'll be posting my my tonsillectomy progress pics here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/newanalog/Tonsillectomy#

It may not be as good as any boils that got lanced at Edna's, but it's pretty cool.

Big K

Happy Birthday, Kevin. Let the good times roll. People say that a lot down here.

Eat Kong A$$ Billy Mitchell

Steve Wiebe retakes the world record in Kong!!!

Happy B-day to my role model, the Big B!  You get Trebuchet font!

Job Hunt

I am now a full time job hunter so if anyone hears of sustainability jobs in our many locations throughout the country let me know.

TTU Lockdown

Someone was seen in the bathroom with bullets in Johnson Hall. Jackie Matson quelled the situation with a piece of chalk and his fists.

Story

Mystery revealed

Men,
I apologize for the delay in writing this.

On Saturday morning at 9:00, I left on one of the most ridiculous trips I have ever been on.

But before I get into that, I feel I explain a little bit first. We go to church with a gentleman we will call S. S is wealthy. S has never been married. S is also retired.

So for fun, he goes to casinos all over the place, and has been doing so for some time. He goes so much, that he has acquired a certain status with multiple casinos. These statuses allow him certain amenities. This trip showcases a few of those amenities.

About 2 months ago, S had an idea to bring a few friends with him to the casino, and the casino thought that was a swell idea. S said, i want to bring my banker and some of his friends, and they became bigger fans of this idea. He had been promised a limo to pick him up and drive him home in the past, so he cashed that in for this trip. Imagine their disappointment when S's banker and his friends turn out to be me and 4 friends under the age of 30. I imagine they were hoping for 6 "whale's" like S, but instead it was one "whale" and 5 "minnows". On to the trip....

At 9:00, we had this pick us up in Nashville. This would be our ride to and from the casino, round trip. (Its worth pointing out that every bill or tab we had along the way, the casino picked up.)



Instead of heading straight to the casino at 11:00, S and the Casino had arranged for us to play 9 holes of golf at a course nearby. all golf expenses, including lunch and range balls were on the casino's tab. Not only that, we had a host there to play with us who was a former PGA professional for 15 years on the west coast, giving us free lessons. Landon, this guy was money. Had a Bob Murphy-esque swing, but each shot was so pure it was sickening. Finally, the casino decided to send the General Manager of the casino out to play with us as well. Imagine his surprise when he sees the "whales" S has brought into town.

After golf, we head to the hotel and they set us up with our rooms. S has his usual suite, pictured below. It is sick.






We had 2 other rooms, that were nice as well, just not suites. Again, the hotel comped all of these rooms.

We clean up and head down to the casino. S is an all-star. Everyone knows his name, and welcomes him back. We gamble for an hour or so before dinner. We have all been comped buffet dinner, which was awesome. Casino food is actually pretty good. and they had everything imaginable.

We gamble for the rest of the night. Half of us end up winning, the other half lose what we came with. I was in the losing half. Aaron, there was only 2/5/no limit poker available, so there was no 3/6. I was bummed about that.

We had free breakfast on Sunday morning at one of their restaurants. S had comp money left over, so he got 4 pies to go with the rest of the free money. Then our bus brought us back to Nashville.

The moral of this story? Casino's have so much money, they can waste it on low-spending players such as myself. As long as you know the right people.

I like his intensity

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HE'S BACK!

Billy "USA" Mitchell has taken the crown again. He broke the record for Donkey Kong Jr. while he was at it. Is there anything the man can't do, besides cutting his mullet? He obviously can't do that.

Dublin Desperado

It was sunny afternoon in Dublin. Earlier that day a “friend”, Mowens, had dropped us off in a rough part of town after touring the Guinness Storehouse. We had no idea where we were but Mowens had to get the rental car back to Wexford so he left us near where he thought was a post office. We had to mail souvenirs back to the states because our backpacks were out of room. The post office we were near didn’t mail packages so we trekked down ghetto streets with Irish hooligans eyeing our Osprey packs. At the next post office there were no boxes. Pissed, we walked out the door and our fears that we were in an area that we didn’t belong were confirmed when some random woman said, “you guys probably shouldn’t be walking around here, this isn’t the best part of town.” Soon our badass takedown of a villain preying on an uptown cougar would prove there was no part of town we didn’t belong.

We were searching for a luggage store so Phillip could get all his Bushmills, Old Middleton, and Jameson whiskey back across the Atlantic since no one would ship it. Luckily, his hands were free to bash goon head since he had dropped all of the liquor off at the hostel (we had to sneak it past all of the Czech and Swedish girls who were ready to partay). We were having a hard time finding the luggage store so we asked someone for help. We followed her directions and as we approached the next intersection (see picture) a lanky guy with bug eyes came sprinting around the corner. By sprinting I mean that the woman wearing high heels and yelling, “stop him, he stole my purse!” was actually gaining ground on him before they got to the road. We were within about 30 yards from the purse snatcher but he was so slow that I turned to Philip and nonchalantly said, “I think that guy took that woman’s purse. Yeah, he did. He is holding in his hand under his jacket,” to which Phillip responded, “should we stop him?” Answering his own question, the hero of this story squatted down into a 3 point stance ready to spear this thug through his ribcage. When he finally arrived he saw his deathblow coming and juked Phillip. It turned out that while he runs a 9 second 40 he could move laterally like Chris Johnson. I closed up the strong side gap while Phillip moved in, stopped the thief, and took the purse. About that time two ninja leprechauns appeared out of nowhere, gave each other a high five, shouted “lets get him!” and showed their teeth. One put the shifty canine-like crook in a chokehold while the other grabbed his legs. Then, his buddy came up and said, “don’t hurt him, he’s a crackhead.” The leprechauns responded, “Where da gold at?” The ninja leprechaun let him go, not out of sympathy (ninja leprechauns don’t have feelings) but because the crackhead bit him. He shimmied away and scaled a fence.

At some point the woman got her purse back. She thanked the hero who walked away proudly yet unscathed. Well, except for the awful smell of the Dublin desperado that lingered on throughout the night. As the marshal and his sidekick walked away I looked down and the wind blowed something green along the sidewalk like a prairie dog. How it got to Ireland I don’t know. It was a five dollar bill.

Well...obviously we have a rapist in Lincoln Park

Go to 56 seconds in for the good part

Yesterday

Suddenly,
I'm not half the man I used to be,
There's a shadow hanging over me,
Oh, yesterday came suddenly.

What shadow hangs over me making me feel like half a man? The shadow of Lippy the Hippy. Yesterday, this forsaken blog didn't mention the day of his birth but today we will celebrate. He is THE HOLDER OF THE DUKE and THE SULTAN OF GOLF SWAT. HIS SINUS CAVITIES SO LARGE THAT HE SNEEZES TORNADOES. May he pose as his trivia character, Juan, and bask in the sunshine of our love.

Happy Birth(yester)day Justin.

Cummins Falls

Look at this story here. Never would have expected to see the falls, but pretty cool that it is on the list.

Who ended up buying this land?

He's looking more like Gandalf these days

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Yes

WOM VII

We need these

Lost Censored

Oh, You Want Another Kick in the Nuts?

Here you go!

Here's Your Kick in the Nuts

Best 9 minutes you'll spend this week. Automatic Manlympic win for whomever can learn and execute this by next WOM.

Rack em

This blog needs a kick in the nuts

Cummins Falls Auction?

Are we rich yet? If we are we need to meet in Cookeville on Saturday. According to the site below Cummins Mill Falls is going to be auctioned off this weekend. Who am I kidding? The Fijis will buy it. There are 1000s of them and they go there every weekend.

http://www.national-auction.com/auction_detail.php?id=129764

Baby Nunley

I want to let all know that the Nunley's are having a baby! We are so excited and would covet your prayers. Here are the top 5 things I think our baby will do for sure (in no order):

1. Be the Sensei of all Babies

2. Be awesome at video games

3. Be born knowing I had 13 tackles!

4. They will hate camping (remembering the Misery of their father's camping trip)

5. Crave Chick-fil-a Sauce immediately

Give us some feed back.

Frisbee Assassin Today

This Ain't No Hula!

The movie has a name - "Hard Ticket to Hawaii". More goodness

I bet they know Mike Danton

Happy St. Patty's Day

It's time to bring back a youtube classic.  Hope everyone can enjoy a nice cold green beer today.

New King of Kong

http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged-in/plastic-surgeon-is-new-donkey-kong-champ/1392840

Go suck on it Billy Mitchell!!!

Your American flag ties and crappy hot sauce can't save you now!!!

WOM VI

Discussion

In an effort to shake up the games next year, I have joined the Art of Manliness Community, and started a discussion on what Manly games and tests of strength could be included in next years games. The more sets of eyes we can get on this, I figure, the better the games can be. Just letting you all know.

I went through and look at the pictures of previous weekends, and Kevin, you have really gotten husky.

Just a little Taste!

I thought you all could use a little motivation! This is me at a waterfall a ran to in my lumberjack out fit! I then cut down 13 trees in honor of my 13 tackles in the State Championship game. Get ready! Plus I couldn't figure out how to put this picture in my comments!

Directions

From Nashville: (from Memphis)

-Take I-40 towards Memphis. (Take I-40 towards Nashville)
-Before (After) crossing the Tennessee River, get off at Exit #137
-Stay to your left (right) and go 5.4 miles
-(Follow “Driftwood” signs)
-Take a right and go 2.1 miles
-Take a left and cross over a bridge
-Take the first right turn (about 50 yards after bridge) and go 2.9 miles
-At the “Y” in the road, go right
-Go just a few yards and take a left.
-Follow this road and you will go up a steep hill. Cabin is on the right at the top of a hill. It is gray-blue with a detached garage.

Man Olympics 6

Here are the games:

Best Mustache

Completion of 30 Days

Log Toss

Rock Toss

Horse Shoes

Quiz Bowl

Skeet Shooting

Blow Dart Contest

Bows 'N' Tows

Pissing Contest

Relay

Best Gift as Voted by Men

Eating Contest (1 hour)

Teams for Horse Shoes (All Random):

Aaron and Kevin

Justin and Seth

Landon and Brandon

Andrew and Ross

Relay Teams (Random):

Brandon, Seth, Kevin, and Ross

Landon, Justin, Aaron, and Andrew

1st Round of Quiz Bowl:

Landon, Seth, Justin, and Brandon (All versus each other)

Andrew, Aaron, Ross, and Kevin (All versus each other)

Order that you will compete:

1. Adam

2. Seth

3. Ross

4. Kevin

5. B

6. Andrew

7. Justin

8. Aaron

9. Landon

*Remember there will be random drug tests.

Good Luck!

Sincerely,

Your Man Olympics President - Adam

Meals

Picking up from the last 2 comments on the previous post here. If we rotate one meal forward, the meals would be as follows:

Justin, Landon and Seth - Saturday Breakfast
Adam, B, and Kev - Saturday Dinner
Andrew, Ross and Aaron - Sunday Breakfast

If this is incorrect, please let me know, but I think this is right based on last year's meals. Either way, the breakfasts are basically the same, so dinner is the only change.

Happy Valentines day!

Shaming and Rides

EDIT: I put up a poll for the shirts -->

Men, I have given up on the previous post's questions being answered. Adam, don't worry about emailing me, you have failed. I hope you deduct points from yourself for jeopardizing our t-shirt for this year. So, help me if I have to bedazzle a 10-pack of Hanes Beefy T's, we will have a shirt.

RIDES: Use this post's comments to figure them out.

When you've done that, go here http://www.badassoftheweek.com/list.html and get inspired for WOMVI.

Man's Weekend VI

Being the Man Olympics games official, I have some things that must be discussed and voted on:

1. Lets make sure me get the winners of the Man Olmpics Right. Who won and what year and did they get a trophy or not. Is this correct: 1st year JDL won, 2nd year no games, 3rd year Landon (who created the Duke), 4th year JDL, 5th year NUMNUTS
2. Kevin will you make the T-shirts? Bobby head printed them last year and I can get the design of last year to you. I think we should just replace the face and I think we should replace it with Teddy Roosevelt. Kevin you get bonus points for doing the T-shirt. You can also do a new one if you want.
3. THE Games: (ones with asterisk beside them are definitely going to be done, the rest should be critiqued and voted on)

• Greatest Mustache *
• Completion of 30 days to a better man *
• Log Toss *
• Rock Toss *
• Eating contest of a certain food, just for 1 hour
• Guns
• Quiz Event *
• Design T-shirt for next year (this could be something you bring to Man's Weekend)
• Wall Sits or Bow n Tows
• Bow and Arrows or throwing stars/axes (we would find something to throw at targets)
• Pissing Contest *
• Bonus for jumping in the river
• Creative Rap/Song for WOM
• Hold Breath Underwater in the Tub
• Biggest Pile of body hair created at the weekend.
• Relay *
• Best Belch (you only have one chance)
• Most Manly Story from 2009

4. Brandon will be bringing a pipe collection for us all to smoke.

5. Justin, Andrew, and Landon prepare for worship Sunday morning.

6. I also thing we should have the manly gift exchange! $20 dollar limit - We will vote on the most manly gift which will factor in to the winner of the Duke.

Let the thoughts begin and decision be made

News...

I have it on good authority that there will be 9 people at WOM this year.

Good day, sirs.

Thoughts about Man's Weekend...

Seth and I were blasting our pecs today and talking about the gathering of manliness. Here's a few thoughts I had:
- Regarding meals, can different groups prepare different meals? Like if you did Saturday dinner, you have to do something different this time.
- Adam, I know the games are yours this year, had an idea of having an eating contest or tracking our weights to see who could lose or gain the most weight.
- I think I am going to camp out under the stars this year. If anyone would like to join me, I have room in the tent, as well as access to a second tent.
- Are guns back in this year? I assume so.
- What time will everyone be heading down to Paris?
- Do we have a film picked out this year?

In 30 days, I will be gathered with 8 other manly and burly men, and hopefully some of you will have a moustache. My heart is full to bursting, just like my bladder.

I quote this often

Katie has started playing Tetris on her iPod before bed, and I quote this almost every night.

Taking the Influence of Edna West

As most of you know, since the beginning of my family medicine residency I have wanted to do an extra year of training in sports medicine. In November I went on 10 interviews across the country at different programs and was very impressed by them all. Jenny and I spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out where we wanted to go.

Today was match day and we found out that we got our first choice and will be moving to Los Angeles in late June. Starting July 1st, I will be a fellow on the sports medicine staff and helping to take care of the UCLA athletes. I will be on the sidelines of home football games in the Rose Bowl and I will have a few teams that will call me their team doc.

We are both quite excited about this adventure in our life next year but it is a little crazy too. I hope some of you all will come out to visit! It's going to be a little warmer to visit then Columbia, Mo. Anyone want to come to Cali learn to surf???

Happy Birthday Landon

You're only 29, but this gives almost a year to learn this, so here's a sample, and a link to the tab. Get to it.


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