Drag Queen Bingo

Every month the Gamma Phi Beta gals from our pledge class who live in the KC area get together for our own rendition of the formal dinner we had every Wednesday during college.  Only our dinners take place at local restaurants, we aren't served by houseboys, there's rarely any singing of the blessing, and we don't have a house mom breathing down our necks about proper dinner etiquette.  Sometimes we pass the salt without passing the pepper too.  I know, we're such rebels.

Since it's summer we decided that we needed to have an extra-fun Wednesday Night Dinner.  We headed to the Crossroads for a fun night at Hamburger Mary's.  Luckily, Wednesday nights are also Bingo Night.  Sweet.

I was oh-so-excited when I checked out their extensive menu and found that not only were there 2 vegetarian burger options, but you could also choose your burger then choose the style.  So you weren't just stuck with a plain ol' veggie burger like at most restaurants.  You could choose the veggie burger then do a Honolulu Burger, a Meaty Mushroom Burger, or any of their delicious choices. 

The choices overwhelmed me, but thanks to Allie I wound up with a Fireball Burger (with a black bean patty, of course).  Blackened seasoning, hot sauce, jalapenos, ranch dressing... oh my!

Fireball Burger.

I am not exaggerating when I say that this was the best burger I've ever had... veggie or not.  It was amazing.  The fries were amazing.  I was a one happy camper. 

Munch munch munch.

Other happy campers.

Big Ass Burgers.

After a bit the place started to get more crowded as the Bingo enthusiasts poured in.  A gal came around to pass out Bingo cheat sheets. 

Why would we need Bingo cheat sheets?

Crazy Dirty Bingo.

Because this wasn't just ordinary Bingo.  This was crazy dirty Mary-style Bingo.  We played games like Hard-on Bingo, Three-way Bingo, and 4 Prostitutes running from a Pimp Bingo.  So the cheat-sheet was necessary.

Excited for Bingo!

The real deal!

Gamma Phis love Bingo!

Soon we were introduced to our hostess with the mostess, Miss Melinda Ryder.

Miss Ryder

She danced a little number then got right down to calling Bingo.  She used lots of dirty words, told dirty jokes, and was kind of just plain dirty.  We were horrified when right in the middle of the first round a family of four, with two young girls, came in for dinner and sat down at a booth right behind us. 

Horror.

They jumped up and disappeared after Miss Melinda sing-songed, "He's a wiener, he's a wiener!  Hit him in his hard-on!" to the first winner.  We were all quite relieved not to be a part of innocence lost that night.

He's a wiener!

LP is serious about Bingo!

Our Melinda was the first winner from our table.  Yea Melinda!!!

Melinda & Melinda.

After you win you have to run around the restaurant while everyone chucks their crumpled up loser Bingo cards at you.

She's a wiener!

Such a good sport.

Oh, AND, all the proceeds go to help a local charity.  So not only is it dirty and fun, but you can feel good about yourself for being such a great and charitable person.

After 5 rounds we had half-time.  This was mainly so Miss Melinda could do an outfit change.  Then she came back out and did another number.

Get it girl!

 Seriously, the girl has got moves!!!

Front & Center!

After Miss Melinda performed, her friend Jaeonce performed a little "Single Ladies" dance number.  She might be my favorite.

All the single ladies!

When I first walked into the restaurant, she was standing at the front and I thought she was a statue.  Then she moved and I kind of made an audible gasp that Kaitlin said she could hear from the table.  Oops.  So she and I didn't get off the the best start.  I don't know if it would have helped if I'd explained that I wasn't startled by her being a she-man, but that I was startled by her not being a statue.  Honest mistake!

The second half proved to be quite successful for our table.  Ellen won a round of Mile High Bingo.

She chose as her prize a bunch of children's books.  I'm sure she'll enjoy reading her children to sleep with the books she won at drag-queen Bingo.

Everyone's a wiener!

Next Lindsey won the very last round!  Hooray!

Wiener!

Checking her balls.

We all pretended that those were pink carnations.

There's also a raffle where half the money raised goes to the winner and half goes to the charity.

Raffle tickets!

FYI: when you play a raffle like this, it is customary to give the winnings back to the charity.  Good to know... I might have been the a-hole flaunting my winnings and looking like a real jack.

We didn't win the raffle, but Miss Melinda did agree to take a picture with us!

We ♥ Drag Queen Bingo!!!

This will undoubtedly go down as the greatest Wednesday Night Dinner of all time.  So. Much. Fun.

If you are looking for a fabulous time and amazing food, check out Hamburger Mary's!  They have tons of events too.  We'll definitely be hitting up Drag Queen Brunch one of these Sundays.  Maybe we'll even invite our house-mom to help us brush up on table manners.

♥Happy Friday♥

Out & About

I was banned from taking pictures during the game last night and I'm actually really glad.  What a heart-breaker.  I knew Pullen's last game would be emotional, but man.  That was rough.  Regardless, I'm proud as ever to be a Wildcat.

We were already downtown, so after the game we decided to drown our sorrows at the Quaff.  Lord knows how we ended up there.  But it turned out to be a good time, despite the night's previous disappointments.

Not quite ready to smile.

The Quaff has all kinds of business advertisements on their tables.  This, by far, was our favorite:

I thought my email address was havegunswillrent@yahoo.com

We played super fun games that I haven't played in a really long time.  Like quarters... which is actually a pretty sick game when you think about it. 

Bacteria.

Not that I don't have lots of fun with Kait and Katy, but tonight we added another Kate to our group. 

It's the Kate Club!

This Kate is kinda mean.  I really like her.

Kaitlin showed off her mad basketball skills on Pop-A-Shot.  Someone asked if she played in college. 

Show-Off.

We did have a little bit of celebrating to do... it was the birthday of our tattoos!  Congratulations Crescent Moons!  You're 8 years old today!!!

Happy Birthday CM!

Katy didn't join the Crescent Club until late, so her CM is just a baby.

Hey there little CM.

Somehow I still got all kinds of dirty looks for taking pictures.  Hello.  This is what I do.  Plus, what do you think Kait and Chris are talking about?  Looks serious.

"Ahhh yes... that's a very good point."

After a nice little dance party and people watching session* at the Quaff we decided to call it a night.  The walk back to the car was a lot longer than I anticipated so I amused myself with the camera. 

Drew hates me.

I tried really really hard to get some jump shots in.  It is tricky.  I don't think I know how to work a camera properly.

Jump. Jump.

So close.

Katy really stuck that landing.  I give it a 10!

Aaaand... I made Drew take some pics while we posed.  He was real pleased with me last night.  Let me tell you. 

Cheese.

There's a reason I don't go out downtown and it is this: We didn't even stay out that late and all I wanted was a damn sandwich from Jimmy John's.  It was closed.  Closed.  Boo.  I was not happy.

*The people watching is flipping awesome at the Quaff.  I think that's why they charge a $1 cover.

Say No to Skank

How come girls always dress up all skanky on Halloween?  I'm not a fan.  What am I a fan of?  Biggest Loser!!! 

Meg and I watch every week and text each other... usually about how we're eating pasta or baking cookies.  So we decided to pay homage to our favorite show for Halloween this year... in the form of Blue Team VS Black Team.

Blue Team.

Black Team.

Blue Team loves each other!

Drew needed a little assistance.

Ghetto Booty.

Me likey.

Me likey very much.

Game face.

I swear I'm wearing pants.  Maybe I should take back what I said about skanky costumes.

Subway sandwiches and Britta water.

Blue VS Black.

No hands!

"Last Chance Workout!!!"

Cheeseballs!!!

Jello Shots.

Mmmm... cheeseballs!

How many can you fit in your mouth?

Hostess: Captain Jack Sparrow.

OMG.  Meg brought pumpkin flavored beer!!!

Dance Party!!!

He loves me.

We had way too much fun.

Twink.

Umm... I found a chopstick in my stuffing.  Kinda weird.

Tele-tubby karate man.

You motor-boating son of a B.

We don't need no stinking patches.

If you want my body and you think I'm sexy...

I never saw that movie...

Kait wants in on the Biggest Loser action.

MEGGY!!!

Dance dance like its the last last night of your life life.

Karate chop!

Oh no.

Love.

Showing off her Strongs.

You are not the Biggest Loser.

We had way too much fun.  Like way too much.  We did a lot of dancing and played drinking games that haven't been played since college.  There is definitely some serious video from the night and if I can figure out how, I'll post it for your enjoyment.