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Archive
| Story Title | Story Date | Story Description | Story Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steven Farber: Oh, pioneers! | February 9, 2015 | Stories about trail-blazers, hell-raisers, and folks at the forefront. Got a story on this theme? Email us at info@stoopstorytelling.com. | |
| Melody Simmons: Oh, pioneers! | February 9, 2015 | Stories about trail-blazers, hell-raisers, and folks at the forefront. Got a story on this theme? Email us at info@stoopstorytelling.com. | |
| Marshai Allen: Oh, pioneers! | February 9, 2015 | Stories about trail-blazers, hell-raisers, and folks at the forefront. Got a story on this theme? Email us at info@stoopstorytelling.com. | |
| Liz McAlister: Oh, pioneers! | February 9, 2015 | Stories about trail-blazers, hell-raisers, and folks at the forefront. Got a story on this theme? Email us at info@stoopstorytelling.com. | |
| Josh Riley: Oh, pioneers! | February 9, 2015 | Stories about trail-blazers, hell-raisers, and folks at the forefront. Got a story on this theme? Email us at info@stoopstorytelling.com. | |
| Jo Kellum: Oh, pioneers! | February 9, 2015 | Stories about trail-blazers, hell-raisers, and folks at the forefront. Got a story on this theme? Email us at info@stoopstorytelling.com. | |
| Dr. Marc Maurer: Oh, pioneers! | February 9, 2015 | Stories about trail-blazers, hell-raisers, and folks at the forefront. Got a story on this theme? Email us at info@stoopstorytelling.com. | |
| Deray McKesson: Oh, pioneers! | February 9, 2015 | Stories about trail-blazers, hell-raisers, and folks at the forefront. Got a story on this theme? Email us at info@stoopstorytelling.com. | |
| Bobbi MacDonald: Oh, pioneers! | February 9, 2015 | Stories about trail-blazers, hell-raisers, and folks at the forefront. Got a story on this theme? Email us at info@stoopstorytelling.com. | |
| Tim Devlin: Neighbors | January 8, 2015 | Join us for an all-audience show about the joys, challenges, and just plain weirdness of living near other people. Alex McSay Story about playing bingo with his neighbors in a penthouse apt. building | |
| Tavish Forsyth: Neighbors | January 8, 2015 | Join us for an all-audience show about the joys, challenges, and just plain weirdness of living near other people. Alex McSay Story about his neighbor getting stopped by the cops and saying “you’ll never get me coppers!” | |
| Ryan T. Shields: Neighbors | January 8, 2015 | Join us for an all-audience show about the joys, challenges, and just plain weirdness of living near other people. Alex McSay Trying to help a woman with a walker out of a pool, he accidently grabs her breast | breasts, crimes, embarassing, Florida, pool, sex offenders, walker |
| Rebecca Lewis: Neighbors | January 8, 2015 | Join us for an all-audience show about the joys, challenges, and just plain weirdness of living near other people. Alex McSay Story about being in jail twice before she turned 21, even though she was a debutante. There was a wedding her first day in jail. | not likeable |
| Michael Sanow: Neighbors | January 8, 2015 | Join us for an all-audience show about the joys, challenges, and just plain weirdness of living near other people. Alex McSay Older man. Story about living next to Catholic neighbors in Rochester, NY. While he was a newspaper boy he was attacked by their dog, Heidi. | |
| Melissa Ivester: Neighbors | January 8, 2015 | Join us for an all-audience show about the joys, challenges, and just plain weirdness of living near other people. Alex McSay Meandering story about being a neglected child in a christian house | |
| Matt Manning: Neighbors | January 8, 2015 | Join us for an all-audience show about the joys, challenges, and just plain weirdness of living near other people. Alex McSay While living in farmhouse a bat landed on his back while sleeping | |
| Kim Le: Neighbors | January 8, 2015 | Join us for an all-audience show about the joys, challenges, and just plain weirdness of living near other people. Alex McSay While living in South Korea, she experienced issues with the trash collection schedule | |
| Kevin Kacin: Neighbors | January 8, 2015 | Join us for an all-audience show about the joys, challenges, and just plain weirdness of living near other people. Alex McSay While moving into his new house he gets approached by a thug who needs to be driven to the hospital because he knocked out the biggest drug dealer in CT | |
| J. Gavin Heck: Neighbors | January 8, 2015 | Join us for an all-audience show about the joys, challenges, and just plain weirdness of living near other people. Alex McSay Cannot figure out what he is saying | |
| Eric Leikus: Neighbors | January 8, 2015 | Join us for an all-audience show about the joys, challenges, and just plain weirdness of living near other people. Alex McSay Story about living in Upper Fells Point. Neighbor dies and his family leaves all of his belongings on the street. One of the items is a board which was a | collage, Fells Point, lamination, mosaic, porn, pre-internet |
| DC Buster: Neighbors | January 8, 2015 | Join us for an all-audience show about the joys, challenges, and just plain weirdness of living near other people. Alex McSay Playing cowboys and Indians as a kid in the neighborhood | Cowboys, guns, Indians, theme music |
| Dave Reichley: Neighbors | January 8, 2015 | Join us for an all-audience show about the joys, challenges, and just plain weirdness of living near other people. Alex McSay Rents a house on a family farm. The kids come to him to help birth a cow. | birth, cow, farm, hooves, in over head, rope, rural |
| Ari Jacobson: Neighbors | January 8, 2015 | Join us for an all-audience show about the joys, challenges, and just plain weirdness of living near other people. Alex McSay Dressed as a red Teletubbie for Halloween college party. Went into an alley to pee. Police car came up to him. Cop made him go into his house to prove | alley, college, cops, Halloween, handcuffs, lease, pee, Teletubbie |
| Nancy Murray: Holidrama! Part Deux | December 15, 2014 | Part Deux | |
| Mark Illuminate: Holidrama! Part Deux | December 15, 2014 | Part Deux | |
| Story Title | Story Date | Story Description | Story Keywords | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Darren Goins (RIP): O Little Town of Baltimore | December 20, 2010 | |||
| Darren Goins (RIP): What Makes Your Smile | July 1, 2010 | |||
| Darryl: Transportation | Bike advocacy | |||
| Daryl Clagett: CRUSHES | July 23, 2014 | |||
| Dave Hightoner: Stoop at Loyola | March 1, 2017 | Lighting dry grass on fire with sparklers | ||
| Dave Hightower: Catastrophe! | November 6, 2019 | story about breaking down and using AAA strategically with friends | AAA, breakdown, eggs, ex girlfriends, road trip | |
| Dave Hightower: Into the Wild | May 30, 2018 | Story about walking naked with his friends in the woods at night | dark, duck sex, holding hands, naked, night, walking, weed, woods | |
| Dave Manogian: Hair! | April 24, 2014 | Armenian dude with vignettes about hair. Standup-y | ||
| Dave Minges: Cool. Cruel. High School | June 5, 2010 | Prank resulted in going home early and finding out her mother was having an affair | high school | |
| Dave Mingus: O Little Town of Baltimore | December 20, 2010 | |||
| Dave Reichley: My Secret Weapon | November 8, 2012 | |||
| Dave Reichley: Neighbors | January 8, 2015 | Rents a house on a family farm. The kids come to him to help birth a cow. | birth, cow, farm, hooves, in over head, rope, rural | |
| Dave Reichley: Office Space | November 13, 2014 | |||
| Dave Wurzel: What I Did for Love | February 15, 2007 | Story about a father’s true love for his daughter. | divorce, fathers and daughters, roman numerals, sacrifice | |
| Dave Zang: Good Sport | June 11, 2014 | |||
| Davey L: Night Life | November 3, 2021 | Went to Boy Scout festival in England. A girl touched his knee, which allegedly gave him an 8th of an orgasim | ||
| David Alima: Workin’ It | May 3, 2018 | A man gets a job after college in a Kung Fu movie store and kills a rat to please his boss | 9/11, ice cream, job, killing, Kung Fu, movies, patience, Rat, samari sword | |
| David Chamberlin: Under the Influence | October 10, 2011 | |||
| David Cohen: Lies! | March 12, 2015 | Bad story about how his child lied about changing her contacts | ||
| David Cohen: Summer Camp Stories | March 10, 2016 | Went to boyscout camp and didn’t poop for 10 days to avoid the outhouse | ||
| David Ettin: My Big Idea | April 9, 2012 | open marriage | ||
| David Ettlin | December 11, 2025 | |||
| David Ettlin: Funny AF | April 12, 2023 | |||
| David Ettlin: Guilty | November 21, 2013 | |||
| David Ettlin: Holidays from Hell, Part Deux | December 10, 2007 | funny story, actually. being Jewish during Christma | ||


Ari Jacobson: Friends and Frenemies
Story Date: March 9, 2017
Gerstrung, friend won 1 million dollar lottery...Read More

