Some FFN Summit Day One Highlights

[Hell Puppy]

After resolving GonZo's pee pee problem.....

Next stop was ground transportation. Now I'm a top level member of any rental car agency you can name, in this case Avis Preferred. I'm used to shoooting across the street, getting in a car and leaving.

In Memphis, they put you on a bus, drive you halfway to Nashville and then make you stand in line regardless of your status. I'll be checking to see if Hertz in Memphis is any better next trip.

No worries though, just glad GonZo got to piss or that bus would've been damp.

So they put us in a sky blue Ford Taurus since Avis doesn't have a luxury class in Memphis. GonZo said a silent prayer as he know what I do to rental cars. And we set out for some BBQ.

We were on a quest for best BBQ, we did our homework and if we didn't find it, I've gotta know what is better in Memphis. We ate at Jim Neely's:



Note the camera....I think that's in case the corner kids decide to decorate his mural. This is a bit of an iffy neighborhood, but some damned fine Q.

Kathi called it dead on....she said we would be elbow deep in BBQ about that time. She knows us well, we had literally rolled up our shirt sleeves for this one.

They put the food in front of us and after being on a late flight and only having had pretzels and biscoff cookies, most of the food had disappeared before it occurred to either of us we shoulda taken a pic.

We had a combo with chopped pig and ribs. The ribs were perfectly tender and would pull right off the bone with ease. Great sauce....sweet but spicy and a good balance of both.

Highly recommend this place.

[gonzo]

Mohammed Ali / Sonny Liston apparently eats there pretty frequently.
I think its for the "zipper ribs" -(tm) Rodney Walston.

We offered to send them a poster sized pic of my avatar to hang on the wall but they still were wondering what a fat white boy was doing wearing a purple enyce shirt.

If any of yall go there to eat just tell the waitress you are an FFN.
She will indeed remember...

"I got five dollars!"

[Hell Puppy]

Originally Posted by gonzo

We offered to send them a poster sized pic of my avatar to hang on the wall but they still were wondering what a fat white boy was doing wearing a purple enyce shirt.

Funny you should mention the shirt, and we shoulda got a pic of that too....

But here's an example of just how loud and ugly that shirt is....

We light out of Walgreens, and I'm giving GonZo a lesson on how to get all up on a Taurus. I tried to get it to do a burn out at a couple of lights, but that just was not happening.

I figured we were going to get to the hotel about the same time as Happy Peekers. But what I didn't know was apparently Deeprub drives like old people fuck (slow and sloppy). And I've been doing about 90 across northern Mississippi.

Shortly before we get to Tunica, we blow by another vehicle which blows it's horn at us. I back off and move back and sure enough it's them. The glow of that damned shirt GonZo was earing had gotten their attention.

[Hell Puppy]

This is getting long, so this is last chapter for tonight I think....

Anyhow, got to Gold Strike along with HappyPeekers and Deeprub about the same time. This was actually first time I had managed to cross paths with them face to face.

Nice to meet yall!!!

If you haven't had the pleasure, they're two of the nicest folks you'll ever meet in the business.

I got checked in, the puppy suite was on the top floor with a view of the river:




The rest of the crew showed up later, we spent most of the remainder of the afternoon and evening drinking, eating, drinking, gambling, drinking, etc. Here's a view of the Gold Strike from outside....pardon the blur, but I'd been drinking, taking pics, drinking....

[Hell Puppy]

That's enough for tonight, tomorrow we'll talk a bit about Esmerelda and Sonya....

[gonzo]

Originally Posted by Hell Puppy

That's enough for tonight, tomorrow we'll talk a bit about Esmerelda and Sonya....

Dont forget Clive!

[Hell Puppy]

Originally Posted by gonzo

Dont forget Clive!

Clive is your's.

Unless you want Les Schillinger, Vern's younger brother...

[Hell Puppy]

Next stop!

Would you believe Walgreens?

To save hassle with the wonderful members of the TSA we decided we'd just buy all necessary liquids at a drug store en route to the hotel. Eckerds and CVS dont do Memphis apparently. But we found Walgreens.

It's at this point I should mention that Memphis has a nasty habit of putting the signs for stuff right at the turn. The town can be a bit of a bear to navigate if you dont know it. And this Walgreens is in the projects.

Peekers didn't think to warn us about that one til after we were at the hotel. Fortunately, I'm part coondog when it comes to finding my way around and the natives didn't quite know what to make of 2 big white boys covered in BBQ sauce.

Now you'd think a simple trip to Walgreens would be uneventful. Not the way this day was going.

No, it turns out that in the Sunday paper they had some ginormous sale on generic toilet paper at Walgreens. I get the impression that all that BBQ creates some sort of intestinal issues in memphis because I swear to god we had to stand in line behind 6 people all with buggies FULL of asswipe paper.

Peekers called just as we were checking out and they were about 10 minutes ahead of us. I'm sure she thought we were full of shit ourselves with the comments about the toilet paper, but we weren't And the girl at the register was cracking up just listening to the phone conversation.

I shoulda got a picture of the buggies full of toilet paper but again who thinks to carry a camera into Walgreens?

I guess I'm gonna start.

[gonzo]

To all our Memphis readers...axe body shots are on sale for a low low price of $1.99! Perfect as an air freshener after youve used a buggy of asswipe from eating some fine Que at Jim Neely's.