The rainy weather had me thinking about some of the stranger combinations of friends I used to run with way back when. The oddest combo was probably back in the 80s when I had a brief fling with this guy and then started dating his best friend. We all became good friends and became this odd trio that used to hang out together all the time and go everywhere together--concerts, weird road trips, etc. Strange mix of fun and sexual tension--got to admit I got a kick out of going places with these two tall good-looking guys! LOL We even briefly flirted with the idea of a threesome--although the dudes chickened out! What was one of the more strange combo of friends you kicked it with?

in the 90s i hung out with the jim rose circus a few times. they were on the x files and simpsons and other tv shows. they all taught me a number of tricks and i knew how pretty much all the show was done. there were a few hangers on who were into things like scarification and branding and all sorts of stuff, and the bus driver invited me to accompany him to germany as part of the tour bus for a band called boyzone who were pretty new at the time, but popular with young girls, so although the band were crap we were going just for the girls. the band later become one of the most successful pop bands in the uk

we had some cool times back then. i remember one time we were playing with chainsaws backstage and running around stoned with chainsaws (with the chains removed) and hitting eath other with them, and i ran into the corridor and ran down and found myself in the background of live tv with mark lamar doing an interview for bbc2, turning round in horror

there was a guy called lifto who used to lift weights with his penis, and i remember one time being in bed with this girl and few others in the room and someone was playing the chords on the guitar whilst he hit/strummed with his cock, and the thing was that there was nothing unusual about it, that was just another evening

i still remember the final night when i shook hands to say goodbye to jim at about 7am in the morning after a lock in at the bar we frequented, as he told me one of his best tricks

they even gave me my own nickname which was the jokester, as i always had new great jokes they hadn't heard before

unique said:

What a great story! You actually got to live the stereotypical childhood fantasy of "running away" with the circus and living the life of a "circus freak!" Awesome! Did you ever, Jokester, get to put into practice any of the--shall I say--"tricks" you were shown?

So, I guess nobody else has any great stories about a combo of friends they used to run with back in the day? Don't believe it for a moment... You just don't want to share the stories...

I have very different circles of friends and I don't let them overlap. I occasionally get shit from some friends for it, because I have these bizarre groups of friends, as they put it, that I never introduce to one another.

So I guess that's why I don't really have stories like this.

FauxReal said:

I'm not asking about names, dates, or places--just an interesting story. Is that why people are shy about posting? I'm asking about maybe an odd experience that happened long ago...but I see if you are still friends, that could present a problem. Something to ponder on...

poetcorner61 said:

i didn't run away with them, they came to my town a few years in a row and the first year were staying in the flat above my local bar so they were there every night and my and my mate became close friends with them, and the following year they moved venue to just down from the same bar. most of the tricks were not of the type that you could really show anyone or want to

unique said:

I know you didn't run away--I was poking fun at an old childhood fantasy that a lot of people had at one time. I think it is a great story and thanks for sharing. I'm wondering if my post is of the wrong sort--people don't seem to want to respond! But your story was great--thanks for sharing!

Mike, Doc, Snake, Ann, Nora, Me and whoever else hit the clubs with us. Too long a story to tell

yroseoft said:

No, it ain't! Give us the clean, abbreviated version! Sounds too interesting!

poetcorner61 said:

No, tell the dirty, detailed version.

Not really a combo of friends, but just a semi-funny story:

My friend and I decided to go to the beach bar in Queens -- right by the East River. It's all sandy and I think there are volleyball nets or something. At any rate, we went on a Sunday, in the late afternoon and I hadn't eaten anything beforehand. Well they only serve beach food at the beach bar -- hotdogs and burgers and I don't eat meat so I'm drinking Coronas on an empty stomach. (Not good.)

We end up socializing with these two firefighters and wait for it....one of them was named Blaise (pronounced Blaze) - I kid you not. So they are buying us drinks and then we decide to leave and go to some other bar, so we hop in Blaise's Jag (so that's how NYFD rolls?) and go to some other bar in LIC. So we're there and Blaise's friend is annoying me so we decide to leave. As we're walking to the subway the drinking-beers-on-an-empty-stomach catches up with me and I'm puking in a trash can on Broadway in Queens; while laughing because the entire scene is so ridiculous, and saying, "This is the last time I go slumming in Queens! I was so hung over the next day (which is pretty unusual for me); I'm was drinking Gatorade at my desk, feeling like ass. I actually threw up a couple times at work.

I was always in the "advanced" classes at school, but always hung out with the "cool" kids who were in the "regular" classes.

My parents sent me to high school in La Jolla with the rich white kids. I was the only black guy (though they refused to believe me ) in all of my classes and got along great with the nerds, then still hung out with the other bused in blacks and mexicans, along with the cool, weed smoking white kids. There were a couple of nerds who eventually ended up in the cool clique because of me and I always bounced around from clique to clique at parties.

Friends from every walk of life is the way to go!!!