A BAR SCENE
A crowded singles bar in an urban setting. Bobby sits at a bar in a red tube dress, drinking a cosmo and swirling the straw around in his hand.
Another! Now! Bobby: BARTENDER! Another Screaming Orgasm over here.
Bartender: You’re really pouring it on.
Bobby: Fuck it, I’m drunk. And put another one on that old guy’s tab over there. He’s not even paying attention.
Mr. Blank, at the opposite end of the bar watching tv: Love ya, babe!
Bobby: Kiss my ass, limpdick. See? He didn’t even hear it. Limpdick!
Mr. Blank: (Blows kiss, winks.)
Bobby: Fuck. (downs shot)
(A stiff, tweedy middle aged man fiddling with his cell phone approaches the bar and the empty seat next to Bobby.)
Bill Martin, Michigan AD: Good evening, madam. Mind if i sit…
Bobby: Go right fucking ahead. ANOTHER! (taps empty shot glass)
Martin: Bartender, a Latour ‘64, if you’ve got it?
Bartender: (Stares, pauses, continues.) We have wine coolers.
Martin: Ooh! That sounds quite refreshing. I’ll try one.
(Turns to Bobby)
The weather has been delightful this year. Perfect for some late fall sailing, don’t you think?
Bobby: Sailing? Who the hell are you, Captain Ron? Who the hell sails anymore? They invented motors for a reason, asshole: speed. I’d rather run my jumbles over a cheese grater than get bored to tears watching a bunch of preppie assholes unwinding old laundry in the wind.
Martin: My, you’re quite adamant in your views. And such…language! Do you always speak like this to strange men?
Bobby: I do whatever with strange men, as long as they’ve got the luchini, fuck-o. (Adjusts bra strap.) Especially when they start waltzing up to me and blabbing about yachts and messing around with their cell phones.
Martin: Well, I…I’m sorry, but these things are so hard to figure out. And it gets stuck on this ingenious little game called Breakout. You see, the ball bounces like this…
Bobby: Cut to the chase, Dorky McPreppiepants. Daylight’s burning, and I gotta ditch Mr. Phantomstache yesterday. Hey, Limpdick!
Mr. Blank: (Smiles, points, winks.)
Bobby: You really wouldn’t believe the gullibility. I would feel for him, if I had a soul. BARTENDER!!!
Bill Martin: Well, you see, I arrived unaccompanied tonight to this establishment. And I endeavor to leave with some company, though I’m stunned at the lack of character in this place. My first choice went…well…somewhat unsuccessfully.
(Across the bar, Les Miles sits on a stool. He is wearing a pair of hot pants, a tied-off bandana bra, and is in the process of getting a tattoo that reads “MIKE.” A man in a tiger costume glowers at him with dead, angry mascot eyes.)
Miles: Tell your boy Carr to kiss my fucking ass, Martin! Hold this tiger! (Extends middle finger.)
Bobby: I like the broad’s style.
Martin: Yes, she gave me this prominent ocular indigo halo you can see here with heel of her hand in a tussle we had over some media relations. Anyway, I was wondering if I might have the pleasure of perhaps, if you’re willing and interested, of course, of giving me your phone…
(A large man in a cowboy hat roars into the bar. He begins throwing cash in every direction from a large sack he has slung around his back. He smells of wealth and bacon. Bar patrons scatter on the floor for dollars.)
Arkansas: WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! SOOOOOOOOOOOIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! AHHHHHMMM LOOOKIN FOR SOME PRIME SOW AND CAIN’T BEEE DENAAAAAAAAHHHD!!!!
Bobby: That is the sexiest thing I’ve ever seen. Gimme.
Arkansas: Let’s boogie, baby! Off with them drawers! IT’S RUTTIN’ TAAAAAAHHHME!!!
Martin: Excuse me, but I–
(Arkansas and Bobby begin copulating at the bar without shame, inches from Martin.)

Blank: Love ya babe!
Bobby: I’ve never been so satisfied. Ever. I’ll be yours forever. You’re huge.
Arkansas: WHOOOOOO WEEEEEEEE!!!! YOU’RE GONNA BE MY REGULAR SATURDAY NIGHT THING, BABAAAAAY!
Mr. Blank: Baby!!! How could you, honeybun?
Bobby: He’s a real man, not like you! Just watch him! He grows out his mustache ALL THE WAY!!!
Martin: This is just all…so…vulgar. Don’t any of you have any class anymore? Any of you? Do you know how hard this is for me, to try and do this with some sort of decorum, to find some esteem without wallowing in this whore-trough you call a bar? You should all be…be…
Bobby: (in between simulated groans) Ashamed?
Martin: YES! Some perspective, at last! Ashamed is precisely the word for it all! Ashamed!
Bobby: Sounds a lot like that guy Notre Dame. He left the bar years ago.
Arkansas: YEAAAAHHHH!!! I’M ON MAH TOES FOR THE FINISH, WOMAN!









1
Bobby Decatur says:
Why am I being so mercilessly targeted?
December 12th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
2
Techie says:
Promise me you were drunk when you wrote that.
December 12th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
3
TIGERinATL says:
He smells of wealth and bacon.
Funny, I know a business aquaintance in Arkansas who is JUST LIKE THAT.
December 12th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
4
Etch Westgrin says:
I smell sex and candy.
December 12th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
5
TIGERinATL says:
Orson, surely there’s an underworked ATL based improv troope which would be willing act these little skits out for you. Imagine the youtube hits.
December 12th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
6
Eirishis says:
As Mr. Blank and I share the inability to grow full ’staches, this sadly sounds like every singles bar experience I’ve ever had. Dammit all to hell.
December 12th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
7
Doug says:
In my head, Arkansas is played by Rich Texan from “The Simpsons.”
December 12th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
8
Signal to Noise says:
Please tell me the man in the cowboy hat repping Arkansas is Jerry Jones. It’s the only way that I think this could somehow be improved.
Good thing there were no photoshop representations of either Petrino or Miles in their…um….bar fashion choices.
December 12th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
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rjsplow says:
i’m trying to figure out what made me throw up a little bit of this morning’s breakfast in my mouth… the mental picture of petrino in a red tube dress or miles in hot pants and a bandana bra…
December 12th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
10
TIGERinATL says:
#9 – I think it was Petrino *engaged* with the mustachioed cowboy.
December 12th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
11
lendale terry says:
Atlanta you have just been Sabanized!!! (and I think the Hogs have too, so sad)
December 12th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
12
Bobby Decatur says:
This is by far the greatest place on all the internets.
Well, outside of youporn.com, obviously.
December 12th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
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The Conscience of a Nation says:
So Bobby is wearing a tube dress, but stops to adjust his bra strap, which means that he’s wearing a regular bra with a strapless dress. Priceless.
December 12th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
14
TIGERinATL says:
Arthur really does need to man-up the stache or just lose it all together.
December 12th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
15
TIGERinATL says:
And I know Orson set the scene in a crowded urban singles bar, but the dialog evokes the image of a half empty airport bar with working girls there to serve business travelers. I picture Elizabeth Shue (sp?) hitting on R.Lee Earmy in Leaving Las Vegas.
December 12th, 2007 at 12:41 pm
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Bobby Decatur says:
It’s only when situations like these arise that I remember at all that we field a pro football team in Atlanta. Don’t they play downtown at The Omni?
December 12th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
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tzubear says:
“Bobby: That is the sexiest thing I’ve ever seen. Gimme. ”
great line
December 12th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
18
wooderson says:
So, UM still doesn’t have a coach. Who would’ve thought that would happen. I’d like to thank UM for making ND look downright competent.
December 12th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
19
TIGERinATL says:
Off Topic:
Just heard that the ACC championship game is moving to Charlotte for the next two years, then will go to Tampa.
When will the ACC realize that as long as they allow little basketball schools to succeed they’ll never sell out a championship game no matter where it is?
December 12th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
20
TideDruid says:
Picture Arthur Blank as Robert Goulet and it becomes 100x funnier.
December 12th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
21
yoyofutbawl says:
3
Wealth & Bacon? More like “Wealth & Chikin Shit”.
December 12th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
22
Ulysses S. McGill says:
Wealth/Bacon is a fragrance on sale at Wal-Mart for $15. It is next to the Brut and Wealth/BearBryant.
December 12th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
23
DC Trojan says:
# 20; “you win again, Petrino, you always do…”
December 12th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
24
Mr. Wrong says:
Man, I hope Bill Cowher sashays in and sits down next to Arthur.
December 12th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
25
Doug says:
By the way, is there any way I can get a whore-trough installed in my apartment? Will Home Depot sell me one of those?
December 12th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
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KAHog says:
Great writing. Will the rest be published in some sort of memoir? Phenomenal, almost as great as Bobby himself. Suck it Nutter…
December 12th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
27
Will (the other one) says:
I think smelling of Wealth & Bacon could score a menage at Hole in the Wall…it’s even better than Sex Panther cologne.
I’m faring better not picturing Miles in hot pants than I did in that stupid “Don’t think about a purple elephant” game.
December 12th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
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the croominator says:
20, I’m picturing Wil Ferrell as Robert Goulet as Arthur Blank, and laughing my damn ass off.
December 12th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
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TIGERinATL says:
#27
From what I hear, the Glory Hole is easy pickins.
December 12th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
30
Kate says:
http://i18.tinypic.com/7wp40li.jpg
I wish I actually had Photoshop.
December 12th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
31
Eric says:
#7 and #15. R. Lee Earmy playing a live action Rich Texan makes it even funnier!
Great work, Orson.
December 12th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
32
HFS says:
So, UM still doesn’t have a coach. Who would’ve thought that would happen. I’d like to thank UM for making ND look downright competent.
Well, if they are following the Bama/Arky model for a coaching search, they should be on a pretty good track to land Bill Belichick.
December 12th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
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Will (the other one) says:
It’s work at Twisted Taco in Midtown as well.
And lord knows that dump Moondogs in Buckhead.
And I always picture Fat Tony’s godfather, Don Vittorio from the Simpsons as Blank (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homie_the_Clown)
December 12th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
34
4Real says:
wow…this has to be the dumbest shit I’ve read on EDSBS….and I’ve been reading for a WHILE.
December 12th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
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Ainge's packed suitcase says:
#32 wouldn’t the bama/arky model involve a less successful nfl coach say, Wayne Fontes or currently Herm Edwards or Mike Shannahan?
December 12th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
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panhandler says:
Big Jim Slade wears Wealth & Bacon cologne.
December 12th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
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Because They Can says:
Wow, these are some great (though distubing) visuals. So we’ve got Lee Earmy (as Rich Texan) and Will Ferrell (as Robert Goulet) so far. I need the rest of the cast now, down to the bartender and extras. I imagine Danny Trejo and Ron Howard’s brother will be in there somewhere…
December 12th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
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Edsall is God says:
off topic 19 -
The ACC game would work in Charlotte, even with the basketball schools. I’m headed down to the UConn bowl game and Wake has already sold like 15,000 tickets. The game is supposed to be a sell-out and it’s way closer to Va. Tech and even Clemson than Florida. And who gives a shit about FSU and Miami anymore?
December 12th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
39
Tim says:
#13: Then what’s the technical term for the back strap in a strapless bra?
I’d really like to know, because I’m gay like that.
December 12th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
40
HFS says:
#35: For me, the bigger the coaching search screw-up, the better the NFL coach. Michigan is in Jon Gruden territory right now, but with no signs of letting up.
December 12th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
41
marcillac says:
I can’t recall with absolute certainty but I’m not sure ‘64 was a particularly good year in Pauillac. Certainly ‘61 was one of the great vintages of the century but 70 and perhaps 66 or maybe even 62 might be prefrable to 64.
December 12th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
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marcillac says:
Of course, Alabama I believe won or at least claims an MNC in all of those years although there was apparantely some discussion and concern respecting 66.
December 12th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
43
Billy in Baton Rouge says:
Wealth and Bacon
Orson, do I smell a tshirt idea?
December 12th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
44
TIGERinATL says:
#38 – Edsall, I really think you are a really refreshing (and a little dilusional) exception to the average UCONN/B College/ACC fan. On the other hand, I have a brother in law at Wake law school and they have really taken to the football success.
#37
Les Miles has to be plaed by Micky Rourke
Dennis Leary as Bobby Petrino
Collin Quinn as the bartender
Ron Howard’s brother is in the Tiger suit.
John Stewart as Bill Martin
December 12th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
45
NewAZTiger says:
#30: http://www.gimp.org
December 12th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
46
NewAZTiger says:
#36: Bra-vo.
December 12th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
47
Out of Conference says:
I’ve got Ernest Borgnine as the bartender and Ricky bobby’s dad in drag as the Les Miles character.
December 12th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
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Tebow_for_Heisman says:
@ NewAZTiger
That photo is priceless. I hope the title catches on.
December 12th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
49
hunglikehussain says:
Why am I always in the “afterglow/cuddletime” section of these posts!
Dammit! I want foreplay!
December 12th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
50
Doug says:
#8: It looks like the Arkansas guy in the cowboy hat really WAS Jerry Jones.
http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/sports/falcons/stories/2007/12/12/broyles_1213.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab
December 12th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
51
Sabanite says:
Let us not limit the failed NFL coaching club to just Bama and Arkansas… remember Spurrier was 12-20 with the ‘Skins…
December 12th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
52
MJ says:
Thanks for that. I’m a Michigan fan, and that’s the first time I’ve smiled in a week and half.
December 12th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
53
TIGERinATL says:
Yep. Everyone’s looking for the next Pete Carroll, but they are forgetting one thing: Carroll took the Pats to the playoffs two out of his three years as HC and one time made it to the AFC CG. That and he thinks you all are angles, as opposed to Spurrier who thinks you all are buffoons, Saban who thinks you are a lazy sack of shit, and Petrino who thinks you will believe anything he says.
December 12th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
54
John says:
Tampa Bay actually has the ACC Championship game in 2008 and 2009, Charlotte has it in 2010 and 2011. A convention in 2008 interfered with Charlotte hosting the game and they wanted to host it in back-to-back years.
December 12th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
55
DC Trojan says:
To take an apocrphyal quote from an early Roman bishop, “non Angelum, sed angelorum.”
December 12th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
56
DC Trojan says:
need to type faster – # 55 refers to #53.
December 12th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
57
HFS says:
Let’s be clear: the bama/Arky model is a specific way of getting an NFL coach: totally screw it up for weeks on end in a national embarrassment, and then luck into landing a big name NFL coach dying to get out of a contract.
There are plenty of other ways to land a current (or former) NFL coach, with or without college ties.
December 12th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
58
TIGERinATL says:
DC – Please translate for a protestant.
December 12th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
59
NativeSon says:
Orson, if you’re in Orlando for the game, I will personally hunt you down (following the smell of wealth and bacon, of course) and shake your hand. You have successfully penned the sequel to Lloyd and His Bucket of Kittens. I so enjoy this site. *sniff* Huzzah!
December 12th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
60
Edsall is God says:
TigerinATL – What’s the fun of being a fan and not being a little delusional? This was actually the first year that some of the delusional thoughts actually came true (beating USF, pounding Rutgers, Big East co-champs). All we missed out on was the BCS bid.
I’ve noticed that Big East fans have really started to turn the corner, i.e. becoming delusional, insulting each other and morphing into a baby SEC or Big XII. We’re not the fair-weather ACC fans or the “too good to be here” Big Ten fans.
December 12th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
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NDTom says:
Re: 53
Pete Carroll was not a good NFL coach. He inherited a team that just went to the Super Bowl under Parcells and made them worse every year until they didn’t even make the playoffs.
/Pats Fan
December 12th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
62
TIGERinATL says:
Yes Edsall,
ACC fans are fair weather. They may sit down and watch their team play football on TV if they don’t have a wine tasting or something to go to that Saturday. But GO to a game? Forget about it. They need to save that gas moeny to pay the thousands it takes for basketball season tickets. Flat out un-American if you ask me.
December 12th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
63
Steve says:
Where is Chan Gailey in this bar? Is he sitting in the corner dressed like a prudish librarian, sobbing that his date never showed up?
December 12th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
64
The Conscience of a Nation says:
Tim at #39: The technical term is the band. Thus the two parts of a bra size: 36C, for example, means that the band size is 36 and the cup size is C.
4Real at #34: Just admit ithis post turned you on. This is EDSBS, hon, you can let your freak flag fly.
December 12th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
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DevilGrad says:
Re #13 & #64: Reminds me of Jeff Foxworthy’s best “you might be a redneck” line: “If your prom dress is strapless but your bra isn’t . . . .”
December 12th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
66
Tim says:
Thanks for the titty tech.
December 12th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
67
hunglikehussain says:
#66
Now that was snark-alicious!
Just here for the humor.
December 12th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
68
rusty says:
TigerinATL, “not angels, but Anglicans.” Englishmen entering Rome were at first confused for angels by the local clergy, IIRC.
December 12th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
69
blazin says:
Les Miles has to be played by Bruce Willis
Nathan Lane as Bobby Petrino
Ted Danson as the bartender
Adam West as Bill Martin
December 12th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
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yoyofutbawl says:
Edsall-
The whole lower level at BOA is sold out. The Flat Tire/Muffler Bowl has always sold 55-60,000+. This will be no exception.
Welcome to CLT, be sure to make it to Del Frisco’s one night.
December 12th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
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Tim says:
#67: Actually, I asked the original question, so I wasn’t trying to be snarky. Just thought it was a fun way to put it!
December 12th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
72
marcillac says:
Bill Martin asking for Latour (my Sec Reg prof used to say better never than late but I’ll transgress the admonition here) – ABSOLUTELY PERFECT ORSON
The boring stolidity of the house that Bo Built could not be captured with greater perfection. No wonder they are disinclined to go for the more adventures Burgundian flavors of the Hat. Not much space for that sort of thing in tthe Michigan cellar or the one in Bill Martin’s yacht for that matter. .
Several cases of the ‘61, ‘82, ‘90, ‘00, and 05′ to you Sir (no need not drink the stuff – sell it and buy TCOAN some rubies, emeralds, saphires and the like.)
December 12th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
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The Conscience of a Nation says:
Marcillac-
Fuck the rocks, I want the juice.
December 12th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
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DC Trojan says:
TigerinATL @ 55, I was just being an ass because you typed something about Pete Carroll and angles – and I was reminded of a story that an early Roman bishop saw “angle” slaves (Anglii) in a Roman slave market and was moved by their blond hair / blue eyes to remark, not Angles, but Angels.
Rusty @ 68 – I thought it was the other way around and of older provenance, obviously, but I may well be wrong… depends on whether they were Angles pre-British invasion (plausible) or post-British invasion (less plausible).
December 12th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
75
marcillac says:
TCOAN
2 or 3 cases of each and you can sell some, drink the rest and compare the color of your rubies to the booze.
December 12th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
76
the croominator says:
No, no, no…
Willem Dafoe from “Boondock Saints” as Bobby Petrino.
Tony Randall (wait, is he dead?) as Bill Martin.
Seth MacFarlane doing Brian Griffin’s voice as Les Miles.
December 12th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
77
MiseanAUFan says:
+1, 20.
December 12th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
78
MiseanAUFan says:
“Seth MacFarlane doing Brian Griffin’s voice as Les Miles.”
I was thinking more Seth Green doing Chris’ voice at a lower octave for Les Miles.
“TAFFY!, TAFFY!” (claps hand repeatedly)
December 12th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
79
MiseanAUFan says:
hands*
December 12th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
80
Mo Claretts' cellmate says:
“WHOOOOOO WEEEEEEEE!!!! YOU’RE GONNA BE MY REGULAR SATURDAY NIGHT THING, BABAAAAAY!”
A “Roadhouse” reference?
Cultural literacy, thy name is Orson.
December 13th, 2007 at 1:22 am
81
bevo says:
Oh! Ma! Gawd!
This coaching search in 1 act represents the single funniest piece on this site ever.
Strong words, I know.
December 13th, 2007 at 8:25 pm