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The story aka "Strippers, Sammy. Actual strippers."

They had broken from the con for the night (I'm afraid I don't know which con it was, just that it was in Australia) and Misha was telling Rob and Julie [edit: [info]indehed reminds me that Julie's then fiance, now husband, was also part of the group - my apologies for forgetting] about this bar he'd found in town that they just HAD to go to. So he drags them to this bar, but it's well after 1am at this point and, naturally enough, the bar's closed. Misha is adamant they are going to have a drink out though and eventually they find another bar.

Except it's not a bar, it's a strip club. It takes them a while to realise from looking outside because, as Rob explained, strip clubs in Australia are not the same as the ones in America because there are no obvious pictures of scantily clad women on the outside.

Once they realised it was a strip club, Rob was saying he was the 'prude' (direct quote :p) of the group, trailing behind and saying things like 'Um... you guys? This is... You know this is a strip club, right? It's... Are you sure we should...?' (he did a quick impression of himself here that was adorable and very much like Chuck ♥ Misha, of course, brushed his complaints aside and they went in anyway, got a drink and proceeded to watch the girls do their thing around the stages and poles and whatever. Rob mentioned that it didn't feel too sleezy because Julie [edit: and fiance] was there with them.

What was amazing to Rob, however, was the way Misha was acting, being completely cool about the whole thing and trying to have serious conversations with the girls while they danced, asking about what they did outside of stripping and stuff (he did a brief impression of Misha here, which was also adorable :p). And if that wasn't enough, he explained that Misha actually managed to talk one of the girls out of her clothes! Which was especially impressive because the place was supposed to be limited to topless reveals, only Misha kept asking the girl attending them how much it would take to get her to strip completely, all charming and shameless, and actually went to change some of his coins to dollars for her - because the place didn't take the coins they had, they discovered part way through - and eventually the girl did do a full-frontal strip for them!

Wow, right? Only that's not all! While they were there (it's unclear whether this was before or after the full strip) Misha decided he really needed to tweet the experience to his minions and he got Julie and Rob in on this and they spent quite a long time thinking up the best tweet for him to use. Misha eventually came up with - 'Fun fact: The weird thing about Australian strippers is they spin around the pole in the opposite direction.' Which Rob thought was hilarious. I had only a vague memory of this tweet at the time and asked if anyone else there remembered it (we were pretty much all minions :p) and nearly the whole table confirmed that they'd read it and we all expressed delight at having the full story.

А Миша еще тот нахал, однако