Comments on: La Jolla Rough Water Drink Regulations – Albert Conforms

By: John Frager

John Frager — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:18:06 +0000

Photo of the gorilla throwing the girl off the boat. Boston Whaler owned and driven by Dan Mulvihill (cardioligist now). I was in the gorilla suit and the girl being tossed off the boat was my sister, Gina (Frager) Hixson. I’d guess that was 1977 or 1978.

By: Dennis Downie

Dennis Downie — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:55:36 +0000

Dan, it was not me

By: Dan Dameron

Dan Dameron — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:29:54 +0000

Hey Mark, I think the guy who you are thinking of was a guy in my class at LJHS (1968), tall guy, I think he played basketball….Dennis Something…Where you living now?

By: mark dameron

mark dameron — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:06:17 +0000

SOMEBODY told me his brother Jim, my brother Rick, Bill Decker, and maybe one other guy were ” hunting” in Carmel Valley,when an unfortunate bird landed nearby. They ALL opened up on the poor bastard (with .22 cal. semi-automatic rifles)… when the smoke cleared , all that was left of it was some blood, some feathers, and some goo. This resembled vomit. Thus the term “SHOT – BIRD”. It’s a good story, true or not.

By: Dennis Downie

Dennis Downie — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:23:08 +0000

I remember one Rough Drink, I drank a whole gallon of Red Mountain out on one of the boats. When the Drink ended I somehow swam to the Clam, climbed up the cliff and made it to my car. I had to take a leak so bad. With hundreds of people walking by my car I sat in the car and pissed into my plastic gallon water jug. What a relief ! The next thing I remembered was waking up in the sand @ Sea Lane that nite. I made it home, slept a few hrs and got up at 7 AM to go to 1st day of classes @ SDSU. Wow, I was so sick. Driving down the street with the car door open, I laid a continus wavy line of vomit half way to SDSU. I was late getting there so I had to park far off campus. Upon existing from parked car, I decided to rinse out that vomit taste from my mouth. I swallowed a small amount of water and then with a mouth full of water and the water jug above my face I suddenly remembered why the water looked a bit yellow !!!! Needless to say I vomited for thirty minutes straight. I neved drank to puking excess ever again.
By the way, where and who made up the phrase” to shoot bird” .

By: Ginny

Ginny — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:42:03 +0000

I remember still attending the Rough Water Drink in the early ’80s….boats, beer, water balloon launchers and all….when did it end? late ’80s???