BARANGUS! I lived with five guys and one woman senior year. The Gresge had the room across from hers and he was obsessed with her. He showed us how his closet was right next to her bed and he could sit in there and listen to her and any one of the numerous boys she brought home with her. One day, she forgot to lock her door in the morning and his subsequent search turned up a mongo vibrator and a huge drum of lube. Sometimes he would report on her in the morning before class. "Yup. She took it up the ass again last night." He showed how he'd worked out a pattern to her lovemaking. "Yeah, she always starts by sucking the guy off, then, if he can get it up again she has him fuck her ass while she's on her back and she plays with her clit until she comes. If the guy can't get it up again, she has him use her vibrator. Man." Ralph had problems with women, to say the least. It was he who got me the job delivering pizzas in town and one day, he was in heaven because an Ithaca College freshman co-ed that he'd brought a pizza to had "gotten on her knees and worked it like a champ." Of course, we didn't believe him, but he *did* start shaving regularly that week and was making daily trips over to IC. A week later, (God knows *what* he'd done to her), the girl became a lesbian and hasn't dated a guy since. He was a very comfortable guy, and wasn't really into doing his wash. In the morning he'd come downstairs in a robe, throw a pig(a huge rack of pre-cooked, packaged barbecue ribs) into the microwave, disappear into the basement, and come up fully dressed. He never took his clothes out of the dryer. If he had no ribs for breakfast, he'd drink some barbecue sauce or ketchup and begin his day. Once, we were driving from Ithaca to T-burg(Trumansburg) and we passed a bar that looked like something straight out of Urban Cowboy. It was called 'Barangus' and there was a huge set of animal horns above the name. The parking lot was filled with pickup trucks and I dared him to go in and buy a beer. He never backed off from a stupid dare and so he pulled his Trans Am into the lot and we both got out. As we'd expected there were old farm tools hanging on the walls, along with many bear and other traps, animal heads, and old guns. We sidled up up the bar and Ralph said "Two Lites." The others at the bar quieted down and looked over. Without cowboy boots we might as well have been naked. "And two shots of Jack." The moment passed and we sat down at a table near the back exit, where we'd parked the car. "You ready to bolt, Ralph?" I said. "Oh yeah." Ralph was a big, husky guy but he could run when being chased. We did our shots and I said, loud enough, "You know what Barangus *means*, don't you?" We both slid our chairs back and leaned forward a little. "What?" "It's the sound gay cowboys make when they come." And then we were gone. --BaRANGus!