Best 'Back In The Day...' Story...

Hammer · 2nd June 2007, 9:58pm

I'm probably going to regret this, but this forum needs someone other then Gary starting threads

What's your best 'back in the day story' from when you where a QM Member/Board Member?

I think mine involve President's Dinners, and as such should not be repeated to preserve the dignity of all involved

I have had many, many good nights just spent chilling with the Board and Hacks, and I wouldn't trade those times for anything. Even if I am a crap hack. Laura Kane for President

MarkMono · 2nd June 2007, 10:01pm

I stole an organ from the building.

And a throne.

Or was that the G.U?

endless psych · 2nd June 2007, 10:07pm

Back in the day at one of the many hazy drunken nights at Rev I found myself on the dancefloor with a cigarette in hand. I had recently purchased a mobile phone - a Nokia brick P.O.S if I recall correctly which promptly rang so I took it out of my pocket and made to answer it before remembering I was located on a busy dancefloor and as such attampting conversation on a portable telecommunications device would be unadvisable and perhaps somewhat rude. I put the phone back in my pocket and continued dancing.

A matter of minutes later one of my fellow Rev patrons remarked

"Keir you're on fire"

Which I took to be a complement on my frankly fantastic and utterly original drunken flailing. I proceded to attempt an ill advised Saturday night fever era Travolta impression in a earnest attempt to garner more praise.

"Keir, you're ON FIRE"

Another of my fellow partons remarked and worriedly (although at the time I must admit I mistook trepidation for admiration) glanced at the first patron. I continued obliviously flailing in a disco style in a bid to win more plaudits.

Seconds later the aforementioned patrons had wrestled my hoody of me and to my shock and incredulity started stamping on it on the ground. I protested (as only someone whose had too, too much jack daniels can) and they raised the hoody up in front of me so it obscured my view of them. Or rather it would have if not for the rather large cigarette burn which had somehow managed to destroy one of the garments pockets.

Opps...

Hammer · 2nd June 2007, 10:09pm

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Opps...

Legend. I'm sure Kano, Toast or Kev has told me that story before.

*Aileen* · 3rd June 2007, 6:01am

Though I technically am an alumni I feel somewhat like I'm cheating as my "back in the day" story happened last year.

You all know the story but I enjoy telling it so here goes....

As the best friend/semi-are-they-aren't-they-girlfriend/fellow poo appreciator of 2005-2006's QMU President Jamie McHale, I was kindly asked to make a speech about him at the President's Dinner. An invitation I happily accepted and spent MONTHS preparing for! (or like....a week) Anyway, given the general topic of almost all conversations between myself and Jamie, he was quite rightly rather apprehensive about what I was going to say in my speech, as his parents would both be at the dinner. Though I intended to say many a thing that would embarass him slightly I had also made a point at the start of the speech to assure him that I wouldn't say anything too embarassing in front of his parents.

By the end of the meal my nerves were building slightly so I rushed off to the bathroom with Jamie's girlfriend at the time who I somehow ended up discussing bodily functions with. I regaled her with a story of how my flatmate had had the shits so bad one time that I could hear her groaning in the bathroom from the kitchen and that once she had recovered and emptied her bowels she came back into the kitchen and for no conceivable reason whatsoever pulled up her pyjama bottoms to show me her camel toe! Having finished entertaining Gillian with this story I left the toilet cubicle only to discover that Jamie's mother of all people had been in the cubicle next to me and heard THE WHOLE THING!

Needless to say my speech had to be altered slightly to admit my massive faux pas! And as a consequence also included the phrase "camel toe".

And that my friends was pretty much the highlight of my entire life!!!

**djtoast** · 3rd June 2007, 1:10pm

My favourite story involves a former member of the QM staff. He left many years ago but I'll omit the name to protect the innocent anyway.

Although he was a nice guy, he had the unfortunate habit of dozing off on the job, but though the board had been trying to get him sacked for it for a while, they'd never managed to make it stick. But he had an idea it was coming at some point, so he'd been kinda looking about for a new job for a while.

Consequently, he'd asked the stewarding agency that the QM used back then for a few shifts. They agreed, and his first job for them was doing security at a gig at the Barrowlands.

He turned up at the QM the following day with bruises all over his face, and we all figured, rough break for someone in their first shift as a steward, but, y'know, it's a hazzard of the job.

We found out later that he'd actually been posted backstage, well away from any trouble, and was sitting on a chair outside a dressing room or something, when he simply fall asleep, and tumbled off his chair and down the staircase next to him. Apparently someone saw him wake up at the bottom of the stairs, confused at how he'd got there and why his face hurt

He didn't last much longer at the QM; I hope he found something that suits his slumbersome ways.

irishprincess · 3rd June 2007, 2:48pm

much like hammer, a number of mine revolve around president's dinners so won't be posted to protect the innocent - and, more importantly, the guilty. ..
northern services aka qm hacks on tour was a total blast. carlsberg and tennents bank rolled the bar and we drank ourselves into a pit and back out of it. ashley noth's room was very popular, chuck climbed arthur's seat in the early hours of the morning, we tried to get the catering manager to stand for rector on a platform of free lap dances for all, created tony's bitches and laughed heartily when one of the guu twat's nearly got lifted for fighting with a lamppost.

nicol · 5th June 2007, 12:27am

Back in the day.... the day of my friend's 21st birthday, in fact (we'll refer to him as "Dave" to preserve anonymity) we unfortunately had a 9am maths lecture, but decided not to let it get in the way of a party. so between six of us others we bought cake, sweeties, party bags, straws, and a rather awesome teenage mutant hero turtles set of paper plates and plastic cups, and upon finishing said lecture, repaired to Jim's at precisely 11.01am.
Anyway, as the only ones in the bar, we bought a pitcher, and the bar staff seemed a little confused that we refused glasses, but not so much as when two of us ordered vodka and coke and handed over a turtles cup each.
I'm fairly sure that will be the only day that sees me drinking aftershock at noon from a plastic cartoon cup, from whence we went to a tutorial carrying balloons and offered our tutor some cake, then giggled the whole way through an hour of complex analysis.

irishprincess · 5th June 2007, 7:21pm

i've been reminded of another classic and possibly my finest hour - comic relief 2001 and me as campaigns convenor running around like a headless chicken.

a legendary quiz from jez and neil, including auctioning off some random's shoes and one of the union bike's getting her knockers out in jims bar. raised a bit of cash i'll admit but not as much as me fully clothed kissing my female friend on stage after all the stand ups. smug? why yes i was. there's a roll of film from that still kicking around somewhere.

lirazel · 6th June 2007, 2:10am

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there's a roll of film from that still kicking around somewhere.

ahahahah
are we going to get into incriminating photos that involve the jez n neil crowd?

cos, y'know...

i don't think the shop assistant at snappy snaps was ever the same.

irishprincess · 6th June 2007, 11:06am

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ahahahah
are we going to get into incriminating photos that involve the jez n neil crowd?

cos, y'know...

i don't think the shop assistant at snappy snaps was ever the same.

at least i wasn't the one wearing a false beard! bloody freshers week i tell ye - it's like a collective insanity.

soothing ointments are what's called for!

lirazel · 8th June 2007, 12:36am

well some folks don't get things and perhaps they never can
but it's not our fault if they can't enjoy a night for everyone
our friends for a day if not for life
but they can't understand
they just stood and stared and pointed and gurned
not once giving a hand

and they both stuck out like a pair of sticky out things
and they both stuck out like a pair of sticky out things
and they both stuck out like a pair of sticky out things

penguins in the sand
they were penguins in the sand

lirazel · 8th June 2007, 1:25am

baby i know deep down
that i could kick
seven shades of shit
right out of you

lirazel · 8th June 2007, 10:26am

the above posts are actually a sparkling and witty tale of recording the unplugged album in the subcity studios.

it may look like i was drunk posting while singing along to the album. but that's just an illusion. sparkling and witty tale.

irishprincess · 8th June 2007, 11:32am

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Originally Posted by lirazel

baby i know deep down
that i could kick
seven shades of shit
right out of you

but baby yes i know that i could not bear, having been the one to hurt you
so if you're looking for some kinder words, go home running to her bed
come to me, taste my vitriol, come to me, taste my vitriol.

first impressions, don't mess with 'em. oh, and always smack your bitch up in the kitchen.

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