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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Drunk I Saw Jimmy Buffet's Flip Flop

Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 9:47 AM

So I was in historic, beautiful New Orleans last week which was OHHHHHHH-KAY and fun from what I remember (which admittedly isn't a lot, thanks to an eventual onset of alcohol poisoning). However! A definite highlight was laying bloodshot eyes on this: JIMMY BUFFET'S HAT AND FLIP FLOP!!

Spotted this in a Parrot Head bar on Bourbon Street named "Tropical Island" or something like that. Again, don't remember much about any of it. Thankfully I had enough forethought to snap a few more pics which you can see after the jump.

Here's a shot of Bourbon Street on a WEDNESDAY NIGHT at around 3 am. (Jesus, just imagine it during Mardi Gras!) On street level, it's like a never-ending scene from The Walking Dead.

Here's one of the many awesome (and VERY loud) brass bands you'll see playing on downtown street corners throughout the night—this one was taken around 2 am. Can you just imagine this happening in the Pearl?

Unsurprisingly, the people of New Orleans LOVE ME—so much so in fact, they fashioned a giant replica of my head to use in their next parade. Note to head sculptors: I had that mole removed.

Here's the main contributor to my poisoning: a little drink entitled "VOODOO JUICE." In case you want to make it at home, here's the recipe: In a soccer ball-sized goblet, add one (1) package of Tropical Punch Kool-Aid, with at least twenty-seven (27) varieties of booze (whatever you happen to have on hand). Stir, drink at least three (3) in one sitting, and call for a gurney."

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um, humpy, i hate to break it to you, but those are not very big drinks. we had those exact glasses at a restaurant i worked at for years, and they're surprisingly small - the glass is really thick, for one thing. that drink is probably only about 10-12 ounces of liquid. hardly soccer-ball-sized.

Posted by AmyC on July 26, 2011 at 9:57 AM

I have a glass like that too. It holds about a pint.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on July 26, 2011 at 10:10 AM

You look far more sane than I would have guessed.

Posted by Sachi

on July 26, 2011 at 10:35 AM

Who the heck is Jimmy Buffet? A Jimmy Buffett tribute artist of some sort? I can't believe they spelled his name wrong on 2 different displays!

Posted by Lalock on July 26, 2011 at 10:37 AM

@4, that's Jimmy, King of the Buffet. He can eat forty pounds of prime rib in a sitting, and still have room for three jello parfaits.

It's sad to me that New Orleans's economy is built on nothing more than pouring terrible liquor into party-hardy white people. Oh, and that drink has maybe two ounces of liquor in it, tops. Maybe only one. It's mostly ice. Don't fall off your stool.

Posted by Fnarf