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Sam's stag party

We took Sam out for his "last single night" on Wednesday; we did OK for a quiet weekday evening!

We started off with some good old Antipodean park cricket (complete with rubbish bin as stumps), and then wandered down to the river for some "drunting". After a quick change, we went out to a Spanish restaurant for dinner, and then out to a club called The Fez for drinking, dancing and debauchery.

The pictures are here. Don't click if you're Zoe.

Sam's 10 Stag Party Challenges

The penalty for failing on the first two challenges is the Sculling of a Pint. Assuming the first two are successfully completed, there are three forfeits available of the final 7, where the groom may choose to Scull a Pint rather than accept the challenge!

  1. Score a hat-trick in backyard cricket. Not hard for a stylish and graceful pace bowler such as yourself!
    Achieved, by way of us charging every ball.
  2. Board (and optionally plunder) a punt full of woman (including the driver), or, if such is not available, two punts of mixed gender. Be photographed on all.
    Achieved (here and here: no punts full of women were found)
  3. Have your photo taken with a woman on some grass, next to a "Keep Off The Grass" sign.
    Half-mark; they take the Keep Off The Grass signs away at night. We took a photo on the grass anyway.
  4. Four Horsemen!
    Achieved: no Jim Beam or Johnny Walker, so we used Maker's Mark and Hennessey's.
  5. Collect three lipstick kisses from three different women.
    Achieved: plenty of people willing to kiss, but only one tube of lipstick found in the entire club!
  6. Because you're Never Allowed to See It Again, you (or one of your party) must successfully convince two women to make out with one another.
    Achieved, but not in a way we'd really want to remember...
  7. Marriage is a wonderful lifelong tradition; so find someone who has been married for 40 years and have them explain to you how it works. Be photographed with them.
    Achieved.
  8. Chat a lovely lady up till she gives you her phone number. This must be written on your back in permanent marker, and verified as being correct. (Bonus marks if said woman goes home with Cathy.)
    Everyone else seemed keener than Sam to help achieve this one; we eventually decided that only a barmaid would have a pen. She gave us a number on a piece of paper reasonably quickly, but we demanded it written on the back: after saying we'd only buy the Four Horsemen if she did, we succeeded!
  9. The "I'm getting married, and it's my FAVOURITE SONG EVER, please play it" challenge: Convince a club DJ to play "(Hit Me) Baby One More Time" (or suitable other Britney Spears song). In the event that clubs with Britney Spears are unavailable, convince someone in the club to loan you their skirt, and do a Britney Spears-style dance.
    Half-achieved: apparently they played part of "I'm A Slave 4 U", but the song sucks and we didn't recognise it because we were busy working on #6.
  10. Greig has asked that you "take one on your knees". Convince a bartender to pour you a shot straight from the bottle. If you are the bartender reading this list, please, it's a New Zealand tradition. Really!
    Achieved with style.

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