There’s no C in spelling at the Estate

There’s no C in spelling at the Estate

There’s no C in stupid or spelling

8/27/18

QIC: BAM

Pax: Litterbox, Wobegon, Swiss Miss (birthday boy), Huckleberry (site Q), Snooki, Barbie, Cheesesteak, Bill Nye, Burns (WB), Undertow (WD), Cobra, Touchmenot, Roosevelt, Hazer, BAM (QIC)

With public school starting back today, the Q drew on his deep and varied movie knowledge to help shape the appropriate theme.  That’s all well and good, but the Q’s fatal flaw was trying to pull off two theme’s in the same beatdown.  The second born out of a classic “joke” where the Dash Pax help countdown the days to Swiss Miss’ birthday as the appropriate way to deal with the vacuum of things to talk about after Shmedfest.  Since neither Swiss Miss or Shmedfest have a C in them, the Q triumphantly stated to the pax that there would be no exercises today with the letter C in them.  YHC may have stated with great confidence how few exercises actually have the letter C in them! Turns out, if you don’t know what the letter C looks like, that is a true statement.  If you actually passed kindergarten, you realize there are quite a few.

Cobra’s car was spotted sitting empty, but as 0530 was about to strike, no sighting of the former Nantan.  Oh wait, there he is with his faithful steed, Winston!  “I’m at Defcon 4! Where are y’all heading and I’ll catch up?” Was all that was heard.  The Q shouted back taking trail to Wake, but that would prove to vague to allow proper recon after necessary fertilizing.

• SSH
• IW
• Abe Vigoda
• Mt Climber (CRAP!) Change that to Peter Parker. (really? you couldn’t even get through the warm-o-rama?)
• Copperhead Squats (Double rat farts!) Q meant Tempo Squats
• Merkin

• BOMBS to the Quad – Thankfully for Hazer’s attendance to be able to answer the eternal question, “Was it over when the Germans Bombed Pearl Harbor?”  The only appropriate response is “Hell no!” Animal House being a classic “school” movie, Pax broke up the trip to the Quad by dropping a bomb
  • https://youtu.be/V8lT1o0sDwI
  • 5 Burpees at trail entrance
  • 10 Overhead Claps (Dammit!! Q means overhead arm swingy things where palms run into each other and make some form of noise) at small bridge
  • 15 Merkins at trail exit
  • 20 Big Boy Sit ups at library
  • 25 Squats at steps to quad
• Triple Lindy (3 Man Grinder)  The Triple Lindy is of course the dive made famous in the 1986 Rodney Dangerfield classic, Back to School.  (Hazer knew this as well)
  • https://youtu.be/rDMMYT3vkTk
  • Dips at Reynolda Hall & Lunges at Wait Chapel
  • CDD & Calf Raises (really? 2 exercises with C’ in them? What were you thinking? The Q clearly meant Downward Dog push ups and Ankle Raises)
  • Peter Parkers & Squat Jumps
• Thorton Melon, Rodney Dangerfield’s character, made his money by running a chain of plus-sized clothing stores called Tall & Fat. So, to break up the run back home pax did a Plus-sized relay race!
  • https://youtu.be/j6W2tXk6yBs
  • Divided up into 2 teams
  • 1 pax from each team ran from entrance to small bridge followed by 10 merkins (that’s the plus part)
  • Then yelled for next teammate to take off (because running back to tag your partners hand wouldn’t help us get home any faster)
• Industrious pax did a variety of exercises after their sprint.  Moseyed to end of trail and did more exercises on the wall.
• As pax moseyed back to parking lot, there was a green blinking light running around, Winston!! And Cobra was right behind.  He was there with us in spirit, and we’re assuming he didn’t fertilize for 45 minutes.

We often say, ‘Don’t Q what you can’t do.’  Historically that has meant don’t call exercises you’re not prepared to do yourself.  YHC took it to a new level – don’t come up with a theme you’re not bright enough to actually stick to!

The cooler mornings went away, so a robust sweat was broken by all pax!  Great effort!

Prayers: back to school transitions, Touchmenot’s brother returning from DOD service abroad

Announcements: lots of great opportunities to Q!

• Undertow is launching F3 Gears  – all biking abilities welcome!  watch the twitter for details
• GAS Groups – F3 version of small groups, will be kicking off again in September.  Hazer is coordinating.  These groups have been a real gift to chat with guys, dig deeper, share about life, outside of the gloom.  Reach out to Hazer if interested.