Cheshyr said
Comedy vs. Tragedy Story Time (for my FLV)

I remembered a funny moment.

I hope anyone else that recalls this can perhaps fill in whatever blanks I may leave out.  Because I recall the flow of conversation making it an almost perfect joke...

Thinkin' it was some time in the late evening of Day 1 or the afternoon of Day 2.

I believe we were commenting on why Juggalos might not want to roll around in the grass because of the increased risk of ticks this year... Someone else pointed out that there was poison ivy on the other side of us where some other ninjas had chosen to post up...

MAYBE there was a talk about the showers (which none of us had checked out yet)...

Somebody else mentioned putting a bunch of poison ivy into a baby pool and advertising it to Juggalo Passerbys as a "Free Poison Ivy Bath"...

I THINK I said how about adding water and charging a $1 or something... and someone ELSE said, "Fuck that, if you filled a kiddie pool with poison ivy and water and sold it as a bath for $5... it wouldn't take too long for some Juggalo to come along and be like, "Five dollars! That's a fuckin' BARGAIN!"

And yet another person said, "Yeah and when you left it to go to a show or something, you'd come back to find some fat fuck lounging in it like, "What's up?"...

omg... I wish I could recall it correctly because it's just a hilarious visual for a sketch 'er some shit.

 

Now, what made me think of this anecdote in the first place..? Heh.

Well what happened was...

Reveal Spoiler

This last Monday, I decided to go do some yard work and trim off all the wild growth along our greenwire garden fencing we use to keep the dogs in the backyard. I just gotten my first full-on hedgetrimmer (of the powered variety) and made easy work of it in a few hours, tossing the tumbleweed-like collections of vines and foliage over the fence from our neighbors property n'shit... After, I went back in and chopped it all up finer so I could run the mulching mower over it as I did the rest of the backyard.

Who would care, right? Big deal.

Well maybe about a little less than 24hrs later, after waking up the next day and going about it... My legs started getting itchy on a whole 'nother level. Wondered and acted like I must have gotten bit up while working outside. That was until the blisters. Then the blisters started leaking. Like, as if my fuckin' skin was DROOLING for no reason.

Turns out... all those vines... is some OTHER kind of poison ivy and even though I've lived in this house for a while and haven't encountered this shit before... In reality, we're SURROUNDED by this shit! We thought they were regular vines trying to grow along the house and fences but... apparently I had just spent a few sweaty hours ALL UP IN IT full bloom!!!

As usual, I always get the super hyper version of everything that happens to me. Good or bad. The bad stuff I don't like so much.

Then my dumb ass spread that shit all around with the mower!

I'm fucked up right now, ya'll. And this shit SPREADS! Like fuckin' time released in the almost exact order you touch that shit.

Started with the legs, moved up to include my arms, got some on my neck. And today... (again, I did this shit back on Monday) Under me left eye looks like I paid Mike Tyson to elbow me in my face as he walked by.

This shit is the fuckin' STD of the plant world! (or maybe STDs are the poison ivy of the... nm).

I now gotta retrace all my steps since then so I can either wash or destroy anything I've come into contact with cuz this ivy oil shit can still have an effect FIVE YEARS after...! For now, I look like fuckin' Quasimodo if he were a maple tree that hit with buckshot leakin' sap at a rate I could bottle! FUCKING GROSS! (and it itches)... an' it'll be like this for no less than a week up to THREE!

Seriously, you wanna talk about biological warfare?! Just get some of that 'urushiol' shit that causes this, spray it on some mafkas, wait a day or two and they will be clawing themselves into bloody bits as they ooze from every cut..! Without knowing WHY they were doing it.... shooo... just kill me...

After all that, even though it's a funny thought... I'd NEVER evar inflict this shit on someone as a joke. But I'd use it to fuck up someone else if they made me. Wartime psychological botanicals.

 

So yeah, if you're ever at The Gathering and somebody offers you a $5 poison ivy bath... no matter how much free soap, shampoo or towels are included in that offer, SAY NO!

"If the leaves are THREE, then LET IT BE!"

'~'=  

So the moral of this story is.... Your superhero name is  "Poison Ivy"?

FuckHerRightInThePussy said

So the moral of this story is.... Your superhero name is  "Poison Ivy"?  

No.

I'd be "Bizarro Poison Ivy".

Rather than being a buxom, pin-up worthy, leggy redhead with a fetish for cucumbers...

I'm the squat, chubby juggalo with a penchant for thick redheads with boobs bigger than mine and the ability to kick my ass (full consent of course, ladies)...

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As is my lot... shit got worse.

There was another short conversation amongst the few, as to what we thought each other's "power animals" were...

Mine's the fictional Marvel Comics character, "Longshot".

Just chiming in to say that I was the one who said $5 is a good deal to jump in poison ivy. I only remember that since I said it :P

Remember those folks that camped in the swamp next to the village? 

The better Lo in me says we could have been hospitable... Invite them to our village, get a head shot from the sexy blond or share conversation and what not...

Or even introduced ourselves. 

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Split1open said
Remember those folks that camped in the swamp next to the village? 

The better Lo in me says we could have been hospitable... Invite them to our village, get a head shot from the sexy blond or share conversation and what not...

Or even introduced ourselves. 

... ... ...  

Just for you man, the sign is what caught my attention. Thats funny shit!

The mrs. family all good when you got back? Didn't get too much crap did you? Ill vouch for ya.

Split1open said
Remember those folks that camped in the swamp next to the village? 

The better Lo in me says we could have been hospitable... Invite them to our village, get a head shot from the sexy blond or share conversation and what not...

Or even introduced ourselves. 

... ... ...  

Yeah every time she changed all out in the open or with tent open in my mind I was like "you know I can see you right?" Than another voice said "it's the gathering she knows just soak it in take the sights in you never get in the real world."

Bonesaw Wizardstick said

They asked us for cardboard one time  

 Yes and for a lighter at point too.

Drunkalo said

Just for you man, the sign is what caught my attention. Thats funny shit!

So how about i was going thru my shit the day after and figured i cropped this picture all wrong. I was too stoked about the sign, thats funny stuff. 

Mr. Kreeper, my pleasure man. Glad you got everything straightened out.

Mr. @cheshyr

Dude, you have no reason to explain anything nor feel any kind of way about it. I just said it looked very well planned out and it all seemed to work. Mandy and I are learners and planners also. For our first it was a tent and a cooler, you seen what that turned into. 

As for turning up the juice i cant say much yet on our end. We have to sink some money into the house, have an anniversary, and holidays to get thru before we start buying anything. Right now we can speculate on some things but not all will happen right away. OMD started a thread on it. https://faygoluvers.net/v5/forum/general-discussion/official-gathering-2019-thread/

For one that id really like to pull off is a small uhaul trailer. I owe a lot of thanks to the boys that helped drag shit up and down the hills and next year i wanna do whatever i have to so we only need one trip and not inconvenience anyone else. It will also help lock up valuables while nobody is at camp. 

Im gonna print out notes for starting the generator. We brought it but its for the community. Yall need it its there.

We had a coffee pot but no coffee grounds. Im def bringing coffee grounds next year, prob some milk and sugar also.

Were going to have more bodies. Which means more help with making things happen as well as covering more wants and needs, which i feel should be no problem at all. I believe this year went pretty fucking flawless for the amount of bodies we had.

I would like to keep certain things out of main view so keep taking notes and once we start the group PM's we can all start spitballing and im hoping itll roll quickly. 

Edit: update: 1 bottle of Woop Woop wine, gonna take my time with it.

Drunkalo....

People would of been more inclined to use the generator if they knew how to use it...atleast that's my excuse for not touching it.