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by John Cole|  October 2, 20103:02 am| 34 Comments

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Just thought I would say that homecoming is a hit, and I am snot hanging, knee-crawling drunk, hanging out with people I have not seen in twenty years, and having a shitload of fun.

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  1. 1.

    Yutsano

    October 2, 2010 at 3:07 am

    Please, for the love of all that is holy, whatever you do, do NOT puke on Tunch plz! Oh and cover it up if things look like they’re heading that direction. Kthxbai!

  2. 2.

    SRW1

    October 2, 2010 at 3:08 am

    Admirable typing and punctuation for such a state of affairs.

  3. 3.

    Yutsano

    October 2, 2010 at 3:18 am

    @SRW1: Tunch is typing for him.

  4. 4.

    asiangrrlMN

    October 2, 2010 at 3:19 am

    Glad you’re having fun, Cole. I second Yutsy’s plea, and TUNCHIE!

  5. 5.

    MTmofo

    October 2, 2010 at 3:32 am

    And the Titanic sailed through the night. The night watch was on alert. /snark

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    Dee Loralei

    October 2, 2010 at 3:41 am

    Tuck Fexas.

    That is all.

  7. 7.

    TVL

    October 2, 2010 at 3:41 am

    I agree, don’t puke on Tunch. Just draw dicks on him with a magic marker.

  8. 8.

    Ripley

    October 2, 2010 at 3:44 am

    Me, also, too. The ties that bind and all that rot.

    To all of ya, an old toast I heard once:

    Love, Money
    Happiness and Health
    And enough time to enjoy them all

    Skol!

  9. 9.

    cay

    October 2, 2010 at 3:45 am

    Tunch will be drawing dicks on JC!

  10. 10.

    Yutsano

    October 2, 2010 at 3:47 am

    @cay: This result seems much more likely.

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    Mark S.

    October 2, 2010 at 4:05 am

    How bad could this be?

  12. 12.

    Yutsano

    October 2, 2010 at 4:14 am

    @Mark S.: Dear God. Has he ALWAYS had that thing on his lip?

  13. 13.

    asiangrrlMN

    October 2, 2010 at 4:19 am

    @Mark S.: MST3K bad.

  14. 14.

    Mark S.

    October 2, 2010 at 4:22 am

    @Yutsano:

    Huh?

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Hey, it’s better than this piece of shit I was watching earlier.

  15. 15.

    Mark S.

    October 2, 2010 at 4:26 am

    I thought the guy playing Reese Witherspoon’s dad looked familiar. It’s CSI guy!

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    JWL

    October 2, 2010 at 6:11 am

    And the best part is how great you’ll feel when you wake up tomorrow afternoon behind the couch with eyebrows shaved and vulgar lipstick messages scrawled all over your vomit covered body…

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    Rosalita

    October 2, 2010 at 7:32 am

    well done Cole. and your post was lucid and typo free… got bloody mary’s for the hair of the dog?

  18. 18.

    Rosalita

    October 2, 2010 at 7:32 am

    duplicate post. note to self, have coffee before typing

  19. 19.

    Maude

    October 2, 2010 at 8:14 am

    How does anyone type while drunk? I can’t type at the best of times.

  20. 20.

    cmorenc

    October 2, 2010 at 8:18 am

    John:

    Just remember that tales of evenings ending with worshiping the porcelain god twenty years ago are lots cuter than freshly reliving the experience.

  21. 21.

    Michael D.

    October 2, 2010 at 8:31 am

    I am snot hanging, knee-crawling drunk

    When you’re out looking for a job in the future and your prospective employer searches on “John Cole”, remember this post.

  22. 22.

    Carrie

    October 2, 2010 at 8:56 am

    This will not end well.
    A bacon sandwich with a glass of tomato juice should help settle your queasy stomach. Oh, and a dash of cayenne.

    Let’s just hope the critters let you sleep in a little this morning.

  23. 23.

    Jamey

    October 2, 2010 at 8:58 am

    snot hanging, knee-crawling drunk, hanging out with people I have not seen in twenty years, and having a shitload of fun

    So, in essence, it’s like any other day, except that you’re having fun…

    /I keed.

  24. 24.

    SRW1

    October 2, 2010 at 9:21 am

    @Yutsano:

    I’d pay to see that dictation!

  25. 25.

    Mrs. Polly

    October 2, 2010 at 10:12 am

    Oh, Mr. Cole.

    Too late for this hangover, but you’re about to be deeply grateful for a kinder universe:

    Peppermint oil. Not ingested, but mixed, one part peppermint, to two parts rubbing alchohol, kept in a small bottle, by your bed of pain. Shake well, and, just as in that annoying commercial, APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD.

    Use Q-tips, or tissue, or accept that you won’t be able to touch tender tissue with your fingers for about 20 minutes, while that delicious coolness brightens your brain cells. It’s like a cool cloth that won’t fall off! And it works as well as/in conjunction with any of your headache pills.

    A bit dabbed just inside the nostrils will also do wonders for a stuffed nose, and it also is good for insect bites.

    Plus, as heiress to the Polly Peppermint wells, I will become an even more diabolically rich latté-sipping fauxgressive!

  26. 26.

    The Tim Channel

    October 2, 2010 at 10:52 am

    I am snot hanging, knee-crawling drunk, hanging out with people I have not seen in twenty years

    So your posting is going to be rather light for awhile?

    Enjoy.

  27. 27.

    General Stuck

    October 2, 2010 at 11:31 am

    @Mrs. Polly:

    Or, he could have some hair of the dog that bit him

  28. 28.

    Mrs. Polly

    October 2, 2010 at 11:41 am

    General Sir, he could! I believe I may have some hair of the dog that bit him myself.

  29. 29.

    Mrs. Polly

    October 2, 2010 at 11:41 am

    Though hair of the cat might be more effective. Who has a recipe for Tunch Roundhouse Punch?

  30. 30.

    kwAwk

    October 2, 2010 at 12:17 pm

    What no pictures? You’re slipping Cole…

    Now we’ll have to make fun of our own friends and families….

  31. 31.

    asiangrrlMN

    October 2, 2010 at 12:41 pm

    @Mark S.: Ugh. Yeah, just ugh. I think Yutsy was referring to the fantabulous mustache of Selleck’s that he still sports to this day.

  32. 32.

    Daddy-O

    October 2, 2010 at 1:24 pm

    It’s already the Morning After, but I have to add this, John Cole: Isn’t seeing old friends for the first time in years going into the Time Machine a BLAST?

    Seeing old friends…there’s nothing like it in the world. I’m VERY glad it was such a great success for you!

  33. 33.

    Jason T.

    October 2, 2010 at 2:36 pm

    Well, I’ll be a monkey’s uncle. Apparently I had a brush with greatness! I was in your fair village last night … my lovely and talented SO is an alumna.

    We were at a reception at the art gallery. At first I was trying to sound semi-intellectual, but somewhere after the third glass of red wine, I was just trying to sound semi-sober.

  34. 34.

    Glenndacious Greenwaldian (formerly tim)

    October 2, 2010 at 6:34 pm

    I am snot hanging, knee-crawling drunk

    This differs from any other day…how?

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