D yngus Day 1996 was one that many will never forget, even those that were not in attendance. Once again, the King and Duke decided to have T-shirts made to honor the occasion. At this time, the USA show Duckman was at the height of it's popularity. The King and Duke were known to religiously watch this blessed show and decided to honor it by using one of Duckman's rants as the  T-shirt design.

A las, the kingdom was separated for this occasion as the Duke was off working in Texas, thus leaving the King to entertain the peasants. And what a job of entertaining he did. The timeline as it was relayed to the Duke via phone is as follows:

• 8:00 a.m. - The King begins the festivities.
• 4:00 p.m. - After a case of home brew, the King is officially declared "blotto."
• 6:00 p.m. - The King invents the "Tracking Maneuver." Basically, the King attached his hand to a peasant's derriere. No matter where she moved, the hand would follow...
• 7:00 p.m. - The King is seen "chugging" from a bottle of Rumpleminze schnapp's.
• 8:00 p.m. - The King invents what will later become known as Cheese-Fu by waving a piece of cheese at the aforementioned peasant's boyfriend and inquiring "What does he have that I don't have???"
• 12:00 a.m. - The King passes out in his bed. The peasants rejoice.
• 12:30 a.m. - The King awakens for some unknown reason and decides that the lights in the main room need to be off. He thus gets out of bed, storms out into the main room, overturns a garbage can, stands on the garbage can, removes the globe covering the light, and then removes the light bulb. Did I mention the King was sleeping sans clothes? Luckily, the Abbot of Dyngus was around to hand him a hand towel to cover himself, and catch all the falling objects from the sky.

T raditional picture of the deck outfitted for Dyngus Day. As you can see, the weather was not cooperating, so the King had to improvise. How does that go? Neither rain, nor sleet, ....

I give you fire on which to char flesh!! Let the festivities begin!!

L ook out, he's starting to get a little loopy!!

T his is the last known photo of the King taken on that fateful day (thank goodness). As you can see, he has had a rough day.