Word for the Day, Monday, July 11, 2005

verbivores | 7/11/05 | xs

[xsmommy]

i was 2 weeks postpartum for my 20th and they didn't have a 20th last year for who knows what reason. i was PO'd! i wanted to go!

[Explorer89]

You wouldn't have heard of Silver Lake. I think pond would be a better description. It is somewhere in the woods behind the hospital. Just a spot in the woods, really, where people would take their booze to drink.

[martin_fierro]

I think I'm actually going to go to my 20th reunion this October. Haven't been back for any of the preceeding ones.

Prepare to have your mind blown.

I went to one of mine at BHCC and couldn't believe how fat & bald some of us had gotten.

I thought, "All the old cliches are true!"

[Explorer89]

Well, it had to be the Physics class, as nobody actually on a sports team would have had anything to do with me.

I missed my 10th reunion because it was on/around my due date for my #1 son.

[martin_fierro]

Silver Laks is sooo tiny that it doesn't even show up on a map (the central blank area here)

[Explorer89]

(Snorting thru nose!)

I actually have more than one (three, I think) BHCC stories!!!

[xsmommy]

i am dying to get a gander at those losers! i couldn't believe they didn't have a 30th, for heaven's sake!

[martin_fierro]

Speaking of maps, check out this free Google 3-d map app (download req'd).

[martin_fierro]

I actually have more than one (three, I think) BHCC stories!!!

Oh, do tell.

[xsmommy]

do continue to tell us stories, explorer!

[martin_fierro]

My more tellable Brackenridge Heights Country Club stories:

• The summer I worked there as a busboy, Elke Sommer was taken to lunch there by a bunch of local Allegheny-Ludlum chieftans. I got to pour her water.
• That same summer, I quietly rebelled and changed the sign announcing "Annual Fireworks Display" to "Anal Fireworks Display."

Yeah, I'm a freakin' rebel, I know.

[xsmommy]

i never set foot in the place, yunz were upscale ; )

[secret garden]

My favorite sign mix-up is one my sister showed us in the Weird NJ magazine(I know, it's redundant) she brought to Texas. Someone removed the first G from the ad outside for Black Angus Burgers.

[xsmommy]

uh oh.....ROR!

[martin_fierro]

Black Angus Burgers.

LOL!

We had one of those restaurants across from where we used to live, and someone pulled the same stunt with their neon sign.

It took 'em a couple of weeks to fix it. I laughed every time I passed by.

[secret garden]

The kids roar now every time they see an ad for those burgers. Backyard Burgers has no idea.

[Explorer89]

I remember the Elke Sommer stir. My neighbors belonged to BHCC and ran off trying to get a gander at her.

Their fireworks sucked. We used to be able to watch them from Hilltop Hose.

[xsmommy]

oh xskids wouldn't EVER let that go either!

[secret garden]

We are so immature. My sister also brought some "whistles" for my dad's 75th that sounded like people passing wind. If it wasn't for low class, she'd have no class at all. ;)

[Laura Earl]

Just lots of wind & rain. No damage.