'I'm A Gay Six!' and Houdini Fun!

Totally forgot about this incident. Came up in an IM conversation:

James says: So you saw Christina over there right? Isn't she hot enough to make you go str8 or what? Haha

Big Daddy says: eh - she's about a 7

James says: That's pretty good though....on the gay scale.

Big Daddy says: did i tell you about the NYC firefighter who got upset when i said he was just a 6?

James says: Haha. No. How'd that come about?

Big Daddy says: when we were in nyc - dave and i went to happy hour at this place by the hotel - we were hanging out and these 2 firefighter dudes [both str8] just got off work and were hanging out as well - he made some comment about my hair coz he was bald [he wanted hair long like mine was at the time]

Big Daddy says: drinks and hours later we were hanging out and the gay thing came up and one of em asked what i thought of them on a 1-10 scale - one was a 6 and one was 7 - the guy who was a 6 was kinda upset and goes 'man! i can't believe i am only a gay 6!


[From left to right: Gay Six, Gay Seven, Big Daddy]

James says: HA! That's funny.

James says: It's still in the top 50% though....

James says: Still, you can't question the gay taste.

Big Daddy says: he was actually more like 4 but i was being nice

James says: HA! Even funnier.

Big Daddy says: that was a funny night - the 7 dude was an ex marine and we somehow got on the conversation of hand to hand combat

Big Daddy says: he asked me to punch him in the stomach - then he said i was doing it wrong and proceeded to show how to punch properly without damaging your knuckles

Big Daddy says: well my dumb drunk self told him to punch me and he did - and it hurt like hell - had a huge black/green bruise for 3 weeks after that

James says: Okay Knoxville. Haha You know Houdini died that way, right?

Big Daddy says: being punched?

James says: Oh yeah. It was part of his act.

James says: But he got punched too hard and it caused internal bleeding.

James says: Houdini had a six pack before they even invented beer cans!

Big Daddy says: never heard that before [about houdini] - luckily it was just on my chest that he punched me

Big Daddy says: i think i am gonna blog this convo - that cool with you? i forgot about the nyc story

James says: Houdini died of peritonitis from a ruptured appendix at 1:26 pm on Halloween, October 31, 1926, at the age of 52. Houdini had sustained multiple blows to his abdomen from McGill University boxing student J. Gordon Whitehead in Montreal two weeks earlier. A long-standing part of Houdini's act was to ask a member of the audience to punch him in the abdomen in order to demonstrate the strength of his

James says: Yeah, go for it. Anything I say or do is bloggable. Haha.

Big Daddy says: figures houdini's work would kill him somehow

James says: Yeah, totally. He was cool though. Check this out:

James says: Houdini left a final sting for his spiritualist opponents: shortly before his death, he had made a pact with his wife, Bess Houdini, to contact her from the other side if possible and deliver a pre-arranged coded message. Every Halloween for the next 10 years, Bess held a séance to test the pact. In 1936, after a last unsuccessful seance on the roof of the Knickerbocker Hotel, she put out the cand

James says: she put out the candle that she had kept burning beside a photograph of Houdini since his death, later (1943) saying "ten years is long enough to wait for any man."

Big Daddy says: ten years is long enough to wait for any man. - thats funny

James says: Yeah, I like that little anecdote.

Big Daddy says: houdini was pretty stacked - found a pic for the post