chuckv97 - Posted - 11/18/2021:  13:42:32

a New England accent is very, very strange.



He regales me with

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OM45GE - Posted - 11/19/2021:  02:53:04

dropped R’s and wicked odd colloquialisms.



He also thinks

Edited by - OM45GE on 11/19/2021 02:53:29

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 11/19/2021:  06:28:49

he lost his caw keys in a cone field.

It’s

chuckv97 - Posted - 11/19/2021:  07:53:09

beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

My artificial tree

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 11/19/2021:  10:11:01

has been standing in my living room since 1983.

I wonder

OM45GE - Posted - 11/19/2021:  10:48:31

if the cobwebs really do look like snow on it or if that’s just my imagination.

I would ask

chuckv97 - Posted - 11/19/2021:  12:35:36

Santa at the mall for a blowup doll, but he’s usually loaded.

Last year he

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 11/19/2021:  14:00:16

reeked of rotgut wickey and Lucky Strike cigarettes.



His elfish assistant, Holly Hooters

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OM45GE - Posted - 11/19/2021:  18:44:10

was filing her six inch nails and yakking on her mobile phone.

She was whining about

chuckv97 - Posted - 11/19/2021:  20:24:37

Santa groping her after hours.

She tried phoning Mrs. Claus

OM45GE - Posted - 11/20/2021:  03:57:12

who said she was well aware of who’s been naughty and who’s been nice.

That clearly upset Holly

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 11/20/2021:  04:57:51

-‘s off-again, on-again boyfriend Rock Troy, who decided to take action.

Clearly

OM45GE - Posted - 11/20/2021:  05:55:14

he has his own ideas about “action” because he headed to Grim Jim’s and ordered a double boilermaker.

It wasn’t his first

chuckv97 - Posted - 11/20/2021:  06:59:49

rodeo, so he got roaring drunk and ended up sleeping in a dumpster.

Next morning

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 11/20/2021:  10:20:38

he woke up to discover Hollie’s friend “Bad Santa” passed out next to him from too much bad booze.

Well,

OM45GE - Posted - 11/20/2021:  11:18:28

you know how these things go, the two of them decided to move In together.

Soon they were

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 11/20/2021:  15:14:33

best buddies and Holly Hooters was nowhere to be found.

Back in the day

 

OM45GE - Posted - 11/20/2021:  17:12:21

is an expression that always makes me wonder, “What day?”

They need to be more specific because

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 11/21/2021:  06:05:28

It can be very confusing, especially when used intergenerationally.

Banjo players

chuckv97 - Posted - 11/21/2021:  08:43:13

often lose track of time.

Why just last week,, err, month, err

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 11/21/2021:  09:50:45

maybe it was this morning, well, guess it doesn’t matter, but we do loose track of time, and even sometimes forget things.



Have I mentioned.

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KyBanjo - Posted - 11/21/2021:  11:34:10

how hard this task has truly been on the crew.

Lately is has

chuckv97 - Posted - 11/21/2021:  11:41:50

led to possible mutiny.

We’ll have to beach at Sandusky, Ohio

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 11/21/2021:  14:01:35

and take the crew to Shore House Tavern to chill out for an evening.

After that

OM45GE - Posted - 11/22/2021:  02:58:42

we’re going to my place to binge watch Three Stooges films.

My favorite

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 11/22/2021:  06:18:50

Stooge is Curly.

He

chuckv97 - Posted - 11/22/2021:  07:09:53

often said “soitenly “.

Moe gave him

OM45GE - Posted - 11/22/2021:  11:14:18

his choice of two fingers.

Curly was

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 11/22/2021:  13:36:47

also a generic nickname given to follicly challenged individuals.

Nicknames

OM45GE - Posted - 11/22/2021:  17:16:03

can be creative and amusing.

However, they can

chuckv97 - Posted - 11/22/2021:  19:14:00

be used as psychological weapons.



Johnny “Chief” Bucyk

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OM45GE - Posted - 11/23/2021:  03:34:37

was neither a chief nor a Native American.

He was, however, a hell of a

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 11/23/2021:  08:00:40

goal scoring left winger for the Boston Bruins.

Winter sports

chuckv97 - Posted - 11/23/2021:  08:02:37

demand cold weather leading to frozen mustaches.

Movember is

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 11/23/2021:  08:22:54

mustache growing month in observance of of men’s health issues.

I’m doing my share

OM45GE - Posted - 11/23/2021:  09:56:51

by getting plenty of exercise by jumping to conclusions.

I’m also doing a lot of

chuckv97 - Posted - 11/23/2021:  10:12:20

soul searching with my cobbler friend Wocjek.

He buys soles

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 11/23/2021:  16:22:57

, stores them in a location he's sure to remember, and then we search for them the a few days later when he needs them.



His memory

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OM45GE - Posted - 11/23/2021:  17:00:25

was never all that good but it’s definitely gotten worse since the incident.

That was

chuckv97 - Posted - 11/23/2021:  17:05:59

a night to forget, I’ll say.

He took a long drive on a short pier in his old VW bug

OM45GE - Posted - 11/24/2021:  03:22:49

which he quickly discovered did not float as well as the ones in the advertisements.

In fact, it sank

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 11/24/2021:  07:59:03

faster than a hot knife cuts through wet puppy poop!

After that

chuckv97 - Posted - 11/24/2021:  08:06:37

his mind was like Swiss cheese, whatever that means.

His sawbones

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 11/24/2021:  08:54:28

saw his Swiss cheese brain x-ray and asked him if he was a Green Bay Packers fan.

That

OM45GE - Posted - 11/24/2021:  09:24:32

turned out to be a hot topic as Wocjek was lactose intolerant.

Just a nibble of cheese and

chuckv97 - Posted - 11/24/2021:  09:28:52

he would flail away on the ground like a wounded parakeet.

His ex-wife thinks he’s dead

OM45GE - Posted - 11/24/2021:  09:36:41

and starts celebrating her good fortune.

First she called

KyBanjo - Posted - 11/24/2021:  13:29:02

several of her best friends but only one showed up.

Turns out that she

chuckv97 - Posted - 11/24/2021:  13:47:38

was persona non grata in the Latin quarter.

She used to boo Jesus Alou