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Post by THEPAT24 on Mar 3, 2005 9:07:39 GMT -5
Well my former neighbor and sometime memisis Harvey has went tits up. He lived to the ripe old age of 80 despite our years of harrassment of him. I thought it would be fitting if we paid our own special tribute to him by posting our fond memories of torture of him.
Here's a little story to start everybody off:
Harvey was my Grandfather's(Skeeter) brother-in-law. At one point, over circumstances that I don't even entirely remember, he angered Skeeter. This led to a long family fued, remember I come by my twisted vengance seeking tendancies honestly. Harvey at one point during the fued yelled at Skeeter for acidently mowing into his yard as he avoided the water meter cover. Skeeter being the angry man that he was decided to punish Harvey, who was a lawn care freak. My Grandparents owned the lots on either side of Harvey's property and simply stopped mowing about a 2 inch strip on either property line. This made it look as if it were Harvey's doing. The Great Wall of Caryville stood for over a decade.
I know my friends have some Harvey memories, so let's hear a few.
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Post by BIGKEV on Mar 3, 2005 9:34:01 GMT -5
My fondest Harvy moment is a very tangical one. It stems from Davie Bales. Seems Dave was walking into Pats house, and Skeeter was cleaning a rifle as Harvey was giving the yard one of its three times a week mowing. Pat was not kidding about his taking the mowing seriusly, actualy in retrospect it seems qusi-religus.......
After Dave comes in the house he relates the story of Skeeter looking at the rilfe, looking up a Harvey and then back down at the rilfe. The look on his face weighing out the decsion to take Harvey down or not.
Also any story of Pat running naked threw harveys back yard will have me in stiches for days.
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Post by THEPAT24 on Mar 3, 2005 10:14:51 GMT -5
Another fond harvey memory is the time we caught a bluegill and put in in my pool. The effects of essentailly being in a gas chamber killed the fish pretty quickly. Grot chucked it out of the pool into Harvey's yard where he mowed over it during his Wednesday mow. I'm pretty sure that cost him some sanity when dish guts flew out of his lawn mower.
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Post by Whiskey on Mar 3, 2005 11:02:47 GMT -5
The bluegill incident was what I was going to relate. Very surreal experience.
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Post by THEPAT24 on Mar 3, 2005 12:05:26 GMT -5
I'm sure Harvey, much like all of the rest of us, saw Grot's dick on many occasions.
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Post by Highlord on Mar 3, 2005 20:08:34 GMT -5
His Wednesday mow? He mowed 5 days a week!
I always enjoyed angling all the Fireworks on the various 4ths of July we celebrated there so that they would go through "re-entry" over his yard.
He would then collect all the remnants that landed in his yard, and place them in the great wall, over time effectively creating "Hedgerows" like those that so many of his and Skeeter's generation came to curse in Northern France during WWII.
On a side note, I thought he died years ago.
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Post by Whiskey on Mar 4, 2005 8:53:26 GMT -5
I remember launching my last viable d-5 rocket motor from a crudely improvised launch rail from behind the pool. After three or four loops it landed promptly on Harvey's roof.
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Post by THEPAT24 on Mar 4, 2005 12:21:37 GMT -5
Well we buried Harvey today. I salute him as a good nemesis. Ironically I was one of the paulbearers.
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Post by Whiskey on Mar 4, 2005 13:55:14 GMT -5
Condolence cheeses?
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Post by THEPAT24 on Mar 4, 2005 14:29:28 GMT -5
The proble, with condolence cheese is the need to keep the gorganzola for one's self.
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Post by Whiskey on Mar 4, 2005 16:17:58 GMT -5
Agreed on that.
By the way Patrick, the correct usage is pallbearer, not paulbearer. You were not, repeat not, managing the Undertaker.
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Post by BIGKEV on Mar 4, 2005 16:24:05 GMT -5
In Mobile.......
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Post by Highlord on Mar 4, 2005 17:42:49 GMT -5
ALABAMA!!!
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Post by THEPAT24 on Mar 5, 2005 13:22:48 GMT -5
Better to be Paul Bearer than Sir Oliver Humperdink or Lord Alfred Hayes.
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