Dermot
is a guy I met while in engineering school. He has spent a lot of years welding and building things, and probably has more practical engineering knowledge than all of the professors there combined. Unfortunately he became frustrated with the classes and stopped, but I kept in contact with him.

He stands a few inches taller than I am and is built like Sean Connery in his prime. A former professional boxer, his nose is slightly crooked and he moves with amazing speed and grace and is perhaps the strongest man I've met. He's also one of the calmest, most easygoing people I know- I have never seen him get angry, and would not want to be there when he does.

He tells stories on himself in his lilting Irish accent of his days as a boxer when he used to go everywhere wearing nothing more than boxing shorts with his head shaved except for two small patches on his forehead which he varnished into a pair of horns.

One day he and a friend were in France and went to the Rodin museum. They had gotten a couple of bottles of cheap wine and taken them back into the garden where they necked them in the sunlight before going into the museum itself.

There in the museum he saw a life size marble statue of a nude woman lying down and was instantly captivated. Her curves were smooth and flowing in flawless white, and he lay down with her and began kissing her and caressing her. She was so beautiful that he couldn't resist making love to her right then and there.

The sight of a large muscular mostly naked man with horns getting intimate with a statue was enough to clear out the museum, including the guards.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Sat 29 Sep 2012, 7:54, 2 replies)

It's France.
They were probably just giving him some privacy.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Sun 30 Sep 2012, 13:44, closed)

The funny thing is
that he laughingly tells this story on himself now with a bemused air about him, clearly looking back on his younger self and shaking his head.

I miss hanging out with him.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Sun 30 Sep 2012, 18:03, closed)