As (un)official social chair of WSO, I welcome you to the Galway Hooker Midtown on 36th between 5th and Madison this coming Monday. Festivities will begin at 6 although I'm out when the market closes and can definitely head down there to pregame with others before the slew of everyone else shows up.. happy hour lasts until 7:00, $4 drafts and bottles as well.
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I'm down like a clown Charlie Braahhh...down like a clown Charlie Breeeeahh...down like a clown Charlie Brown.
Wonder if you'll be saying that next time, champ. :)
Thought about you guys when I was boozing in Dublin last month:
that better be a big fucking pint for 4 pounds lol
Shit, dude. €4 for a pint is a fucking bargain these days. Try €8 a pint in my neighborhood here in Paris. That's right, girls. $11 USD at today's exchange rate for a pint of beer over here.
I'll be there probably right before 7.
cool, 6pm is too early for me, but i'll stop by at some point.
also, yeah 4 euro for a pint would be cheap (was in Rome last week).
so americans are cheap alcoholics eh lol
update: got happy hour extended until 8 PM
Sounds good, this is 'social networking'
extension till 8 = edge.
Will be there.
Anyone know how to change your username on this?
Send Patrick a PM.
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...have fun guys. If any of you bring a camera, feel free to upload photos to the Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/wallstreetoasis
Interesting. I'd come if I didn't have a paper due Tuesday that I will likely have to spend Monday night writing.
Indeed it is impossible to, I dunno, write a paper beforehand!
What he said ^^^ procrastinator!
or over the weekend lol
Monty coming?
hes in texas so no lol
I'll be slaving at the office. have fun!
Oh no. When there will be another one? I've been trying to attend one of these happy hours
prolly a week or so before halloween
shameless bumping
Can I come? I work at Big 4 as an auditor, but I am really interested to break into finance in the future. I really want to meet people since I am moving to the city in the near future.
lol just fyi there are no restrictions or things holding anyone back for this event, come if youre an undergrad or grad or go to university of phoenix or devry MBA i dont care just dont hump every persons leg for a job :P
I so wish I could come to this one, but I did nothing this weekend, so I'm slaving away at a paper as we speak and will be doing so the entire night. And I will be studying for 2 Tuesday exams tomorrow.
And guys, go to 244 West 48th Street. Best/cheapest Thai Restaurant you will ever find.
Oh really? How interesting...
Is that sarcasm?
Put up some pics from tonight guys.
Lol I wish the photos in the facebook group were tagged with userids...
It was mentioned on top anyway.
^ link?
James, no fucking trips for Thai Food today. No fucking trips for it at all!
someone please bring pretty girls so the photos look better on the wso facebook page :-)
nope come in person and reveal yourself then you can know whois who :)
I looked at the pics...not a bad looking crowd, I was expecting a more dorky looking bunch. Where was it though ? The Guinness room, is that in NY ?
lol no, Galway Hooker. wherre it always is. guinness room is the private room in the back, billards rooms are on the bottom
Hmmm, looking unlikely I'll make this tonight. Next time...
Should be able to say Wall Street Oasis at the door or just ask for Nick (me), ill have a blue shirt on and prolly be near the back prior to the 'start'
So the plan is to get trashed and go streaking through Bryant Park.
Just got Columbia interview invite so might get slightly trashed lol
we had our first unconscious monkey. milestones have been reached lol
Pics or it didn't happen.
qft
Tonight was good!
anyone take photos? I hope whichever monkey bit the dust is ok....
Oh, it happened all right... It happened...
Bear Fights. Drunken Russians. Someone pulled a Midas.
For the record, I officially retire from being the dominant force for any sort of “Bomb” Drink, be it a Car bomb, Jaegerbomb, Cherry Bomb or whatever else you can come up with. I retire on top and with that I plan to move onto bigger and better things with drinking. Instead of drinking them, I will be moving on to cocktail crafting. It’s always been a passion of mine and I look forward to the new endeavor.
That said… I’m going on record about the WSO Happy Hour. So many stories to tell and so little time to tell them all. For those of you in attendance, it was great meeting you all, especially you Flake. I showed up around 7 and it was already somewhat packed in the back room at Galloway Hooker. There were a whole bunch of wallflowers, who I hopefully will start see posting more on WSO across all areas. There were a few folks from ops, a couple of traders and a few bankers in the mix. It was nice socializing with fellow WSOers.
While talking to In The Flesh, the subject of drinking came up. We ended up discussing a most deadly a drink, the Bear Fight. If you haven’t had a Bear Fight, be warned, it is a deadly beast. So, Flake comes up and starts asking me about the Bear Fight. If you haven’t met Flake, he looks like a shorter, more heavyset, Russian version of IlliniProgramer and drinks a whole lot more than the Dutchman. No disrespect to IP and his admitted status as a lightweight, but I think even he could have drank Flake under the table. That’s saying something! So I bring up the subject of the Bear Fight, a drink truly so heinous, it feels like a polar bear and a black bear are fighting in your stomach, and Flake wants in. In consummate fashion, I try to argue my way out of it; however Flake will have none of this. I pull every trick out of my book, from the giant X to a hell no, to the classy “Fuck Off, I ain’t doing it”, but have no avail. At this point, Flake was set on drinking with me, Gekko and Short. He ordered 4 Bear Fights, oh how I cringe at the thought, for the four of us. As In The Flesh will attest, I tried valiantly to get out of it, but when push came to shove, I did it. In true competitive fashion, the four of us tried to see who was fastest. Naturally, I won, hence the retirement. For the record, doing a Car Bomb followed by a Jaegerbomb is not fun and it definitely can fuck up your night.
Clearly, that’s what happened to flake. This was as 8PM. About 5 minutes later, it hit Flake like a ton of bricks. Scratch that… it hit him like a fully loaded Mack Truck with a Triple Cargo attachment hurdling down the Jersey Turnpike at 100 Miles per Hour. He was gone!
Flash forward about 45 minutes and Flake disappears. We don’t think much of it until someone points out that he’s in the next room puking his brains out. And that’s what did it for the rest of the night… people talking while Flake was puking. And puke he did. I think he left some serious stains on the carpet, but he was gone. As people were checking on him throughout, we decided at about 9:30 to end the night. Someone suggested Thai Food, which was immediately vetoed! Again, I reiterate, “NO FUCKING THAI FOOD”. We definitely had more than enough time to actually get it. If you guys remember the Monty in NYC Happy Hour, we didn’t want a repeat of it. However, we were left with a drunken Flake (and UFOInsider, Short, will either of you post the Midas Shot) passed out on the couch in the room next door puking. So, we have the lot of us (Gekko, Short, In The Flesh, UFOInsider, and a few others whose names I am blanking on right now) looking after Flake before the bartender comes in, telling us we need to get his drunken ass out. So, ITF and I carry the drunkard to the curb and throw him in a cab. A short ride later, we get him to where he would crash in the City (still in the clothing he wore that night) and he stumbled to the toilet for where he still lays. Don't worry, he's in good care.
I just don't want to be him in the morning.
And for the record, Flake, next time when someone tells you that doing a Bear Fight is a bad idea... just fucking listen.
Patrick, yeah he's okay. We made sure he ended up ok. I'll PM you more details...
Frieds, thanks for the recap. priceless.
A Posse Ad Esse, what can I say? I've got the gift to write prose when I really want to.
Sounds like a fun night, sucks i missed it, but in my defense, my GMAT date is pretty close and it was a Monday.
How many people showed up finally ? It didn't seem like there was going to be big turnout judging by this thread.
Damn, sounds like an epic shitshow. Sorry I missed it.
P.S. I love that someone losing his shit and puking his guts out is now referred to as the "Midas Shot".
Dayum. Especially given his avatar, I always imagined a drunk Flake would look something more like the following:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/KE80h3sQtWw
Sorry to hear he was puking his brains out! lol
patrick sent you a couple photos i think we had like 15-20 people which isnt bad for a monday night!
Indeed. Hope he's doing okay. Great times!
Oh and Frieds, you left out one very important detail, that as you and I were carrying him out of the bar, we're apologizing to the other bargoers, "We're very sorry about this, he's a Red Sox fan, we apologize, it's just something that happens..."
hahaha that's fucking hilarious
Actually fought a Russian Bears fan last night. Didn't pull a Midas though. Loved the story, great work.
Midas Shots come from different propulsion mechanism, start crack whore fights.
The bear attack was very intense and sudden, Midas. It left some of us so dazed as to stumble around wondering what happened. Some of us didn't make it, and as Frieds said, only the strong survive...we lost a lot of good men out there.
Next milestone is having a monkey thrown out of a bar. Any takers?
The last thing I remember was me talking to Frieds. After that I'm waking up in a random apartment somewhere in mid-town at 4am. Still in my work clothes. One $100 cab ride later, I was finally in my own bed. In the middle of it all, I'm having flashbacks of shorttheword sitting on the other couch on his laptop, undoubtedly watching porn as I'm passed out.
Frieds why did you let me do that? FYI: I was pre-gaming the WSO happy hour on Stone Street, so when I came to the bar I was already a few drinks in.
I'm still drunk.
Flake,
Props on the first impression brochacho.
Also
A new classic by shortheworld...Fun night, guys, and glad to hear you got home, Flake.
Flake, good to hear you're ok...happy everyone had fun. STW sent me a couple of photos and I'll get them up on the WSO Facebook Group today.
thanks
Hope it's not the pictures I've seen.
Also, thanks to everyone who dragged my drunk ass around last night and didn't leave me to die. It was a fun night, I'm a little surprised my shirt didn't come off.
I don't think you even had the coordination to stand up straight, let alone do that. :)
From what I read, I'm surprised you didn't shit yourself.
Yeah... I totally forgot about that one. I think being dragged out the bar in the first place covered in puke is bad enough to overlook that fact.
Flake,
Two things... 1) I warned against it. You kept insisting and even bought the round. 2) You chose to act despite my warning and constant refusal to participate. I have no tortuous liability with respect to your stupidity to engage in it, particularly after drinking.
Frieds, at that point all I heard was "This is going to be fucking epic".
The Flake School of Tavern Seduction:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/B2v-AkSj260
hahaha, the pic of Flake with his head buried in a toilet is on the WSO Facebook page, hilarious !!!
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