Tales Of Idiocy

Since it was just Vinnie Antonelli's birthday, I figured he should be the subject of this week's all true episode Tales Of Idiocy. First, watch this YouTube clip - it's about 2:41 - then I'll give you the back story.

And now, the story behind the significance of this song.

When my friends and I were in college, Badger's parents had a kickass beach house in Sea Isle City, New Jersey. Like every good college student, we went down the shore almost every weekend to drink ourselves into C+ averages. On one particular day, Badger, Fish, Vinnie, and I arrived early Friday afternoon with a car full of really cheap vodka - it was the only liquor we drank back then - and beer.

We started the "festivities" early with a few drinking games.

Our favorite drinking game was "Up and down the river," where we bet drinks as to whether the middle card would be high or low. If you won, you gave out the drinks (up to a maximum of five), if you lost, you had to drink the equivalent of your bet. Suffice to say, it was not Vinnie's day. Almost immediately, Vinnie was smashed, and he didn't even unpack yet. Being his best friends, we would never take advantage of such a situation, right? Wrong. Survival of the fittest, baby. We picked on the drunk until he couldn't remember his name.

We weren't at the house for a full hour, when Vinnie "excused himself" to the bathroom. We were obviously concerned, because if he died, his body stench would ruin our weekend. Badger walked over to the bathroom, only to hear the sounds of retching. Giggling, badger walked out to us and said, "Vinnie is puking already!" Luckily, he had just the thing. He walked over to the stereo, put in his Dead Milkmen cassette - someone explain to Tyler what a cassette is - and played The Puking Song. Soon, the retching sounds were overcome by three a-holes laughing hysterically.

Since that dark day, whenever we hear this musical gem, we think of Vinnie.