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Bolingbrook, IL 10/07/05

Attendance 29  E-Report by The Flea

I had a problem getting off of the couch last Friday, with the Wolves game on one channel and the Yankee - LA game on another.  I finally got my butt moving, motivated by a cold Strohs in the parking lot. I arrived just in time to see one of the funniest locker room scenes in Duffer history. There have been many belly laughs in the 35 years of locker room antics, but most them are verbal.  I was trying to think of non verbal laughs and I came up with 4 of the funniest and everyone of them involves Harvey. 
The first one took place at the Saints Spectrum where we had our beer in the locker room.  Someone in the back called for a Strohs and Brinks fired a beautiful spiral

Harvey found a better place to sit when he dropped his drawers last Friday. (See the story)

that was intercepted by Harvey's bushy head!  That hair saved his life that night. 
The second thigh slapper took place when Harvey showed up with a giant fishing tackle box that was filled with every cosmetic product you could imagine.  There were combs, brushes, hair sprays, deodorants, lotions, colognes, pre shave and after shave lotions.  Harvey took a lot of ribbing and we never saw that box again.  Then there was the time that Harvey blew the main fuse in the Peoria Civic Center with his 220 watt heavy duty hair drier.
We got a lot of non verbal laughs from those events, but nothing could compare to the event that I witnessed when I walked in last Friday.  Fruit Cake had both of his sons playing and he usually keeps them right by his side in the locker room.  I don't know why Mini Cup Cake left his usual secure seat, but he was sitting across the room, next to Harvey.  After the game, Harvey stripped and started to head for the shower.  He tried to step over his bag and lost his balance and fell backwards and landed on John's lap.  The sight of our oldest Duffer, buck naked,  sitting on our youngest, most religious,  SOD (Son of  a Duffer) was the funniest thing I had ever seen.  The description of this event brought roars of laughter at the bar a few hours later from guys that missed the event.  It is a good thing that John is a fast dresser, He was fully dressed, when Harvey made his crash landing. 
Welcome to Robert Granato.  Rich Storm accepted his membership dues for the 2005 season.  Rob II (Cousin of Brinks) and his son Rob IV played as guests several times and thought, "Shoot, We can do that!"

Meaningful Reds edge out the Whites 3-2!

Hi Beak,
Hitman was playing for the Reds (if memory serves me right). He got two, Beerrnuts got one. Klinger and Donny were the only goal scorers for the whites.
As for the meaningless side, Tweedy (red) got 1, Tommy got 1 (red), Bill Conti (red) got 2. Don't recall who scored for the whites. Take care,
Perry

I only received one report, so the news is a little slim.  Thanks to Perry, we have the Red version. Read the 1999 news below if you are like Uncle Bob.  He always needed a 2 page Duffer News to help his excretory system function properly.

I heard that Art played a fine Duffer game, the king would be proud.

 

 

(The following was taken from an April 1999 Duffer News)

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Harvey, who victimized Stump 3 times during the Peoria week end, continued his hot scoring on Friday night with two more goals. A check on Stump's Biorhythms didn't shed any light on the plethora of Harvey goals. Harvey's Biorhythms indicate that his physical cycle will peak on April 16. Stump knew it was going to be a long night when Thor's first period shot was tipped in by Stump's own defender for an early 1-0 meaningful lead.  (I wonder who that defender was?) Johnny Z added a pair of meaningless goals to give the Blues and Thor's friend, Tom the goalie, a comfortable lead. When Harvey scored from an impossible angle, it looked like the meaningless contest was over. Then Papa Joe scored for the Whites to cut the lead in half. When Thor informed the rookie goalie that they were only up 1 goal, Tom the goalie was puzzled because he thought he had a 3 goal lead. After he had the Duffer scoring system explained to him, he started to choke. Harvey took the pressure off with his second goal of the night and his 5th goal in 8 days!

Who is Tom the Goalie? I didn't know Thor had any goalie friends.

 
http://www.geocities.com/glopatka/4-16-99.html
 
 

   

This is at the 1996 New Year's Eve Party. That little guy is Jeff Lopatka. He was able to keep up with the Duffers way back then!

You can tell this is old by the goalie pads.  This is in the Peoria locker room.  Don Granato gave us the Columbus Chill's practice ice way back in April 1999.

4 years ago 

These pictures first appeared in the October 13, 2000 Duffer News.

Go To 10/13/00  The King's Gang

 

 

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