Feelgood story of the day

In this world filled with fear and uncertainty, it's nice to know there are still goals to be set and titles to be upheld... here is one such story taken from the PGroove message boards:

"Here is a story about a man, a man named, 30 Funnel Steve...thats me.

It all began about two months ago, in a small party house in madburry new hampshire. I had come up from mass. with my buddy rob to party with his cousin kevin (k-funk to be correct) and all his buddies from UNH. Now when you take alot of people and all of them bringing 30 racks of beer over something special is bound to happen.

I have to say there were probably 24 cars all parked around this house and the party was bump'n. Beer pong, music blarring and oh ya then there was the funnel. For whatever reason I decided I'm going to see how many funnels I could do in one night. So I'm running back and forth from the fridge and grabbing two beers at a time and counting off the funnels one by one. Now unfortunetly i dont know exactly how many funnels I did but it seems when i got to number 22 I started to count backwards... rediculous haha. I'm guessing the final number was somewhere in the 30's. Hence the name.

After the party was over and the sun was up, people said they could hear a growl outside near rob's van. It was actually me passed out in the van snoring. Now to my surprise I wake up feeling pretty good, well rested, and no hang over. Pretty much drank myself sober. Now this is where it gets crazy.

My friend Jess's friend "Biggie" from maine hears about my 30 funnel night and challenges me to a funnel off. So I accept the challenge and we decide to throw down at this years moe.down. Now only a few days before we left I'm thinking, wait a minute, 30 funnel steve thats a...a great platform for running for mayor of moe.down. anyway we'll get back to the election later, back to the challenge.

So I wasn't messin around with this challenge, we made it legit. We had some rules...
1. You have from dusk till dawn to do 30 funnels
2. You are allowed to boot and rally (puke)
3. You have to have your own funnel and 30 rack
4. The winner is the person who funnels the most beers in that amount of time.

Ya there were some other rules but basically its just about gett'n poo-tanked and having fun with it. So before I left for the moe.down this year I went to the hardware store and bought a little metal funnel and some gold spray paint and started to construct the 30 funnel trophy. now all i brought with me to the festival was a piece of broken railing and that golden funnel. On Saturday i just walked up and down shakedown street and people gave me some duct tape and we taped a PBR can to the bottom to make the base. Then I tied some hemp string to it so i could just carry it on my back like a back pack. I also had one of the artist on shakedown do some cool art work on it. Never the less this thing was sooo ghetto but so perfect at the same time. Then there was the campain...

On sunday I dressed up in a black dress shirt, a black tux vest, black slacks and borrowed a red white and blue striped tie from my friend ali.The icing on the cake though was the red stripe brimmed hat...so money. So I just walk around all day telling people that I'm running for mayor and everyone's eating it up. and then the election....

If you dont know what i mean they have an election at every moe.down and choose a mayor. last year it was a 11 year old drummer named matt.There were a few contestants this year, some people even had buisness cards, i went strictly word of mouth. Just before the last set moe starts off the election and the crowd always decides. To get the bands attention i was about 4 rows deep and i had a funnel in my hand that i snuck in and it was ready to go. I finally get rob (the bassist) attention and he adds me to the ballot. Then i walk the funnel down to the front and offer it to rob, he declines and then i just do it for him and the crowd goes ape poo. They end up electing this guy beer song gary, some 80 year old hippie dude so i quickly whip out the trophy and hold it proudly in the air and rob sees it and i pass it up stage. Moe just looked in amazement at this trophy and end up keeping it right on stage. rob even said "This thing is sweet, I think I'll throw it up on my wall."

So after this whole extravaganza the rest of the night was rediculous. I mean I walked up to every site i could with my funnel and gave funnels away, people were just loving it and i was loving it too. Someone even had a 5 foot funnel and I mean what the hell I'm 30 funnel steve right? So I did it and it was full too.

And thats the story up until now, I'm sure there will be a part 2 coming up soon. Both Biggie and I decided that at every moe.down we will be doing this 30 funnel challenge so if you want in start training now because no joke, its intense as hell. But what I took from this experience is this, there are few times in life where you feel apart of something and the more we can get something like this going the better life will be...well shit something like that.

Thanks for reading, enjoy your day. peace.
~bostonsteve~