Eric Pops in For a Visit
An old friend, good old Eric, popped in with another friend Lorne for a visit. You all remember Lorne from one of my earlier posts. Well, I’ve known Eric even longer than Lorne-we go back to the age of 6 and our Blessed Sacrament gradeschool days. Eric is another one of my camping buddies and a lot of our recent get-together was remembering some of our favorite camping stories.
Eric is still a very interesting person. Great storyteller and very familiar with old Norse writings. As a matter of fact, he was the one who introduced me to The Lord of the Rings! Lives in Toronto now and is a self-taught computer Man for the school board there.
Nice to see you again Eric! I’ve put a picture up from our little bull session. Sitting between Eric & Lorne made me wonder if I would feel the same sitting between Yul Brenner & Telle Savalas. All I know is that if Eric & Lorne ever put their heads together, they would make a perfect ass of themselves!
yeah sure, that makes me left buttock to Lorne’s right and ol’ Tony as the ‘Master Sphincter’ in between. This is of course a completely apt analogy. If we ever had a suitably innocent, naive, unitiated new acquaintance whose sense of humour (ribbing) we wanted put to the test; Tony was the best at ’squeezing out’ the maximum value from a story that was, how else to say it, complete crap. Our job was to try and keep a straight face (matching Tony’s sober delivery) while he would lay it on with a trowel. That’s Tony’s ‘kavorka’ for you, the silver tongue that delivers the gilded dung. I’d warn the ladies but I can see from the pictures that they enjoy it too much.
Comment by Eric — November 27, 2007 @ 8:41 pm
oh … and thanks for saying such nice things about me. You’re a swell guy Tony.
(???…hmmmm, do you think he’s doing it again?)
Comment by Eric — November 27, 2007 @ 8:48 pm
Once again Eric, the memories come flooding back. Nothing like pulling the wool over you know what. ‘’The silver tongue that delivers the gilded dung'’-I like that.
By the way, the ladies do enjoy that silver tongue and no, I wasn’t doing it again.
Comment by pinkquack — November 27, 2007 @ 10:17 pm
WOW! Eric hasn’t changed a bit - Still just as handsome as ever, and a poet too!
Glad you told us that was Lorne - I wouldn’t have recognized him at all!
Great Pic, Tony - definitely one to keep!
Comment by Tree — November 30, 2007 @ 3:43 am