Kup. by the time you got off the starting line, i already had lunch, caught a carp, and had a lime ricky.I still have that bathing suit and it fits well.How about you?
Foot....I spotted you at least 2 seconds off the line and still beat you at the finish. In those days they called me Mark Spitz. If you indeed still have that bathing suit...and "ahem" it fits you well ?...then it must have been measured with a William's Men Shop ruler, and I think everyone would like to see you model it at the reunion.
Robin I think it was taken around ' 70 or ' 71. We were both working at Camp Ta-Go-La at the time and came back to the colony on our day off. Our families were still at Makowskys all summer. Is that right Rob?
Does anyone remember playing torpedo or submarine. Someone would dive off board and defender dived off side and tried to tag sub before getting to ladder?This big slow guy on land could really hold his breath underwater
You guys actually wore bathing suits when you went into the pool at night? You're kidding right?
I don't ever remember the water being such a dark shade of green?
Oh well, I guess that must be the longterm effect of the water always being just a little bit warmer when my little turkey Stevie Kiv went into the pool.
Larrie, Laurie, Jackie, Roy, Bruce & Lenny, didn't you find it a bit strange back then, that Stevie could stay in the pool nonstop for hours upon hours without ever getting out.
Oops, sorry Stevie, your secret is out?
Me bad! As old Flip Wilson once said, "The Devil made me do it."
You are too funny ! Actually Steve was in the pool longer because he was probably contemplating his next Arts & Crafts project & then he let nature take its own course...right Bobby ?
Mitch, 45 years of zinging little Stevie Turkey with my one liners matches my entire 45 record collection that we all used to listen to at my bungalow.
Do you think Hy will be mad when he now finds out we weren't exactly doing arts & crafts?
Mitch, were you there when Hy, Stevie Neufeld, and I got into our famous flour throwing juvenile tantrum in front of all of you at the camp house; or have you forgotten?
Hy was telling me we had to do arts & crafts and I told him what he could do with that idea.
So many wonderful memories.
Many years ago, I decided to give Stevie every single 45 record I owned. I really did.
By doing so, the deal was it entitled me to a lifetime contract to zing him (with love) forever.
In any event, haven't you ever noticed that Stevie was always one fry short of a Happy Meal anyway?
Oh I forgot, strange as it may now seem, McDonald's wasn't around back then.
I look forward to seeing you and the rest of the gang soon.
Zeke, thanks to Judy, just called and we spent 40 wonderful minutes on the phone reminiscing. She recited every batting average I ever taught her, that is, when we were alone together. The conversation got so hot and heavy that she promised if we have Color War at the reunion, this time, she would actually let me win.
Do you know how I felt all those summers, when all of you loyal campers, including my turkey Kiv, would turn to me and say, "Oh Shit Bobby, Hy put Zeke on the other team and we can't win because of the parade and her creative genius!"
And out we would go to win every sporting event, including but not limited to, the scavenger hunt with Hy's dumb clues. If memory serves me correctly, one of you found the prize on the very first clue and Hy called it a "Do Over?"
On the eve of the parade, it didn't matter if we were up 1,000,000 to zip, I laughed with Hy as I knew he would always give the parade to Zeke; thus her team would win the Color War.
One summer I asked him, "Hy, why do I have to be humiliated every year? You're going to let Zeke win even if I bring in the damn Rose Bowl committee with their floats to help me?
And do you know what Hy said grinning his "Cheshire Cat" grin from ear to ear?
"Bobby, you have little Stevie Kiviat. He is the lifetime recipient of the Makowsky's Arts & Crafts award on your team. How can you lose with a creative talent like that?"
One summer after Hy announced the winner to color war the generals actually buried a hatchet in front of the camphouse. After we were dismissed I waited for all to leave and returned to dig it up... . It was gone.
Remember how the gym would Rock when the results came in. Whoa!!
Speaking about scavenger hunts and Hy's clues....your posting reminded me of one...it was the last one in one of our hunts...Hy gave us a Shakespearian clue that read...." To be or not to be that is the question " Do any of you out there remember where the clue was ? I do, so don't worry.... Let's see if any of you remember...
Knowadays Color War would turn into lot's of tasty lawsuits, nice world we live in . My last year I remember we did a rope burn and my Boy Scout and pyromanic skills really came through. I was actually holding a huge branch till the rope burned. Is it too late to sue? I also remember Stecker heaving when I caught up and passed him eating pies to end an apache relay one year
Do you guys know I've always had great empathy for the Minnesota Viking and Buffalo Bill fans. Do you know why?
Each year at Color War, despite destroying all teams during the games (regular season), I was the losing General in every Color War.
Why you ask? Let me count the ways.
Jackie Silverman - more intertested in girls than working on the parade.
Lenny S. - ditto
Mitch - ditto
Larry Brown - ditto
Laurie S. - ditto, not to mention working on his back hand at the tennis court.
Roy - ditto
Jeffrey K - ditto
Flash AKA David Zeke - why do you think they called him The Flash? So lets just say, ditto.
And as for the rest of you: ditto, ditto, and more ditto's. Thanks for nothing guys.
After the sporting events and games were completed, you all ran like rats deserting a sinking ship.
Except for my CIT, the lifetime achievement winner of the Makowsky's Arts & Crafts award. Thats right, Stevie Kiviat.
Steve's ability to train you to do arts & crafts was well, awful. You never listened anyway.
As a matter of fact, Steve couldn't teach/train a mouse to eat cheese. And when I did ask Stevie for help what did he tell me?
"Bobby I can't swim. Hey I'm a CIT. If one of the campers falls in the pool as far as I'm concerned he can drown. If the schmuck is counting on me to save him, all I can say is: Good Luck.
Bobby, I failed blockbuidling, paper mache, and coloring in kindergarden."
And now it can be said this is the reason why we lost Color War every year!
Bobby... You have got to take this on the road ! I'm "lmao" at the computer
The thing is.... you are right about almost everything you said...
David Ezeckowitz, however was called "Flash" because he used to walk around the colony with a flashlight all the time... Am I right ?
By the way, those Minnesota Vikings of yester-year were lead by one of my all-time favorite QB's....Fran "the scram" Tarkenton, who was the only reason my old NY Giants teams were even remotely successful. When he left for Minnesota, my Giants went into a long period without making the playoffs while the Vikings went on to 4 Super Bowls.
Color war update. It was important to have either your best friend or bungalow neigbor on other team, so if you got caught out after curfew you got a free pass if together
HBO might be the "only" network that would air your comments...lol Can't we all see Bobby in the back of one of those taxi cab confessions ? He would wax poetic about Zeke & Kiv...and lament about color war...
The rope burn was definitely one of my favorites. The adrenalin rush from the frenzy to feed the fire was intense. Sweat , splinters and blisters.
All the wood was layed out hours before . Your Basic teepee fire pcs. ready to assemble . A little kindling and favorable winds. Everyone would be screaming . When that rope caught fire all hell broke loose.
Susie this is the real me. And I have 100% recall back to when I was five. I remember you, your brother and your parents too.
Susie, I can't believe you could think I could make this stuff up? What's next are you going to say the Cropsy Maniac, Snipes, and UFO's aren't real either?
Haven't my Senior Boys already written on this BLOG that everything I say is absolutely true? Tell her guys.
Did you ever notice that Vernon and the Cropsey Maniac were never seen at the same time sort of like Superman and Clark Kent. But yes Susie,I've always had a warped look at life. I never get too high, nor ever despaired too low. I always try to be the voice of reason, especially when any of my campers are upset. And as Mitch's fellow camper The Hulk once said, "You wouldn't like to see us when we're angry."
I don't believe in just black and white, but rather all shades of gray. I say, if you can't learn to laugh then you can't enjoy life. Need proof?
A perfect example is beloved camper Lenny S. To others, he will forever be etched in stone(d)as Nathan Detroit. In all honesty, he played the role better than Ol Blue Eyes himself, Frank Sinatra. Am I right Guys & Dolls?
His brother Laurie, was a great kid, even if he loved tennis, and always followed the rules. Lenny, on the other hand, was a bit like his counselor in that not all rules suited him? Right Lenny?
So one day, Hy gets pissed off and forces Lenny to stand out in the ACID rain. Yes, it was cruel and inhuman punishment. We tried, or Lenny likes to think so, to rush the camphouse, but weren't able to get across the alligator infested moat or the barbed wire Hy had set up on the perimeter.
Lenny, AKA "Mr. Tough Guy", accepted his punishment like a man. He was becoming deathly ill but refused to cave in. Fellow camper, Douglas Day Stewart, saw Lenny standing there just freezing his butt off in the rain and stole the scene when he cast Richard Gere doing the same thing in "An Officer & Gentlemen." Ah but Susie, there's even more you may not know?
That day, wet and starving, Lenny being well, Lenny, wandered in the Desert for what felt like 40 days & 40 nights until in a drunken stupor, oops I wasn't supposed to say that, he came upon the Makowsky garbage dump.
All his fellow campers were with me. We were nice and dry, high fiving, and laughing it up in the Rumpus Room. Lenny who?
Laurie, Roy, Mitch and the others were listening to 45's and eating candy Jackie Silverman charged to Alan Bell's account at the General Store. Alan kept wondering why all his little campers, who actually were all taller than him, were thanking him, right Mitch? As luck would have it, Stevie "Lifetime Arts & Crafts Award" Kiviat was hunting varmints Down At The Boondocks.
Susie, "Down at the Dumps" just doesn't work in this story. Well anyway, Lenny was so hungry from Hy's Stalig 17 torture methods, that he actually barbequed one of the varmints with some marshmallows. Rumor has it, that's where life turned for him.
All of a sudden Lenny started glowing - A Pale Shade Of White. Well, maybe it was green, but with all the ACID RAIN, I get the Color Wars songs mixed up? Anyway, Lenny becomes a genius overnight. He worked for Hy, went on strike, led a revolution of his fellow counselors and took his money and went off to school. Lenny could do no wrong.
He graduated from college at the top of his class, went to medical school becoming a neurologist. Of course Lenny couldn't actually spell what he became, but that doesn't really matter. Today, thanks to Hy, he's CEO of his own company he founded with an MD and a Ph.D.
You see Susie, there's more. That wet freezing night, Lenny discovered a miracle drug behind the camphouse. He turned to his Uncle Jeb S. and saw this thing just oozing out of the ground like Texas Gold rolling down the hill to THAT big rock down by the lake. Didn't you all notice that the frogs disappeared? Uncle Jeb went on to star with Vernon in the Beverly Hillbilly's.
Lenny snuck a sample of that ooze and today he's CEO of his own biotech company, I kid you not. Now Susie, do you actually think I can make stuff like this up?
Okay boys and girls, with today being March 4th, in honor of our beloved Head Counselor, "Shark Bite" Hy, let's play...
Scavenger Hunt 2006 - Ozer style.
Here's your clue?
Why is today a good day to go forward?
First prize is five throws at at Stevie in CANS UP. I'm bad but yes, there really is an answer!
Hey Judy... The color war teams & years were painted & listed on the sides of the cubbie holes. Maybe my uncle or cousin could get in there to give you the complete list??? I'll give em a call and see if I can get it.
Jackie if memory serves me correctly didn't you play Curly in Oklahoma? And you wore a red curchiff around your neck. I think Stevie played the horse pulling you around when you sang The Surrey with the Fringe On Top?
I just finished having lunch with Gary & Roy Herbst, Lori Streeter, Nona Kupfer, & Larry Brown. This actually was good because it gave us an idea as to what we can expect when we all see each other again. The time just flew, the memories are tremendous and we all had a fantastic time. My only complaint is that it was way too short.
Oh, by the way....not only do we need name tags...but a photo of us the way we were would be beneficial as well.
39 Comments:
At 2/28/2006 10:13 PM ,
LARRY said...
Kup. by the time you got off the starting line, i already had lunch, caught a carp, and had a lime ricky.I still have that bathing suit and it fits well.How about you?
At 2/28/2006 11:37 PM ,
robin said...
when was the picture taken?
At 2/28/2006 11:55 PM ,
Mitch said...
Foot....I spotted you at least 2 seconds off the line and still beat you at the finish. In those days they called me Mark Spitz. If you indeed still have that bathing suit...and "ahem" it fits you well ?...then it must have been measured with a William's Men Shop ruler, and I think everyone would like to see you model it at the reunion.
At 3/01/2006 12:02 AM ,
Mitch said...
Robin
I think it was taken around ' 70 or ' 71. We were both working at Camp Ta-Go-La at the time and came back to the colony on our day off. Our families were still at Makowskys all summer. Is that right Rob?
At 3/01/2006 3:23 PM ,
augie said...
Does anyone remember playing torpedo or submarine. Someone would dive off board and defender dived off side and tried to tag sub before getting to ladder?This big slow guy on land could really hold his breath underwater
At 3/01/2006 7:27 PM ,
LARRY said...
CARYN, I WILL BRING THAT BATHING SUIT ONLY IF YOU BRING YOUR BIKINI AND MODEL FOR ALL OF US.
At 3/01/2006 10:37 PM ,
Rob said...
Caryn , Lets take up a collection and get Larry a new bathing suit.
Mitch were more like Spritzer not Spitzer...Your medal was a giant chai.
I believe this is 72-73 , Mitch was wearing a New paltz T-shirt in the other photo I have. Ellen went there from 72-75.
At 3/01/2006 10:54 PM ,
Rob said...
Larry you had a moustache and lambchop sideburns.
At 3/02/2006 11:23 AM ,
Bob Hutt said...
You guys actually wore bathing suits when you went into the pool at night? You're kidding right?
I don't ever remember the water being such a dark shade of green?
Oh well, I guess that must be the longterm effect of the water always being just a little bit warmer when my little turkey Stevie Kiv went into the pool.
Larrie, Laurie, Jackie, Roy, Bruce & Lenny, didn't you find it a bit strange back then, that Stevie could stay in the pool nonstop for hours upon hours without ever getting out.
Oops, sorry Stevie, your secret is out?
Me bad! As old Flip Wilson once said, "The Devil made me do it."
LOL
At 3/02/2006 12:24 PM ,
Mitch said...
Hutt
You are too funny ! Actually Steve was in the pool longer because he was probably contemplating his next Arts & Crafts project & then he let nature take its own course...right Bobby ?
At 3/02/2006 12:30 PM ,
Mitch said...
Steve... I wonder....How long have you been taking Bobby's heat? It must be at least 45 years by now...
At 3/02/2006 2:24 PM ,
Bob Hutt said...
Mitch, 45 years of zinging little Stevie Turkey with my one liners matches my entire 45 record collection that we all used to listen to at my bungalow.
Do you think Hy will be mad when he now finds out we weren't exactly doing arts & crafts?
Mitch, were you there when Hy, Stevie Neufeld, and I got into our famous flour throwing juvenile tantrum in front of all of you at the camp house; or have you forgotten?
Hy was telling me we had to do arts & crafts and I told him what he could do with that idea.
So many wonderful memories.
Many years ago, I decided to give Stevie every single 45 record I owned. I really did.
By doing so, the deal was it entitled me to a lifetime contract to zing him (with love) forever.
In any event, haven't you ever noticed that Stevie was always one fry short of a Happy Meal anyway?
Oh I forgot, strange as it may now seem, McDonald's wasn't around back then.
I look forward to seeing you and the rest of the gang soon.
Regards,
Bob-by (for Judy as she can't ever call me Bob)
At 3/02/2006 8:27 PM ,
steve kiv said...
You guys should be faster now without all of that hair!
By the way, it took me FIVE years to pass the deep water test and I only passed it because Gary Hutt
took pity on me!
At 3/02/2006 9:08 PM ,
Bob Hutt said...
Zeke, thanks to Judy, just called and we spent 40 wonderful minutes on the phone reminiscing. She recited every batting average I ever taught her, that is, when we were alone together. The conversation got so hot and heavy that she promised if we have Color War at the reunion, this time, she would actually let me win.
Do you know how I felt all those summers, when all of you loyal campers, including my turkey Kiv, would turn to me and say, "Oh Shit Bobby, Hy put Zeke on the other team and we can't win because of the parade and her creative genius!"
And out we would go to win every sporting event, including but not limited to, the scavenger hunt with Hy's dumb clues. If memory serves me correctly, one of you found the prize on the very first clue and Hy called it a "Do Over?"
On the eve of the parade, it didn't matter if we were up 1,000,000 to zip, I laughed with Hy as I knew he would always give the parade to Zeke; thus her team would win the Color War.
One summer I asked him, "Hy, why do I have to be humiliated every year? You're going to let Zeke win even if I bring in the damn Rose Bowl committee with their floats to help me?
And do you know what Hy said grinning his "Cheshire Cat" grin from ear to ear?
"Bobby, you have little Stevie Kiviat. He is the lifetime recipient of the Makowsky's Arts & Crafts award on your team. How can you lose with a creative talent like that?"
Thanks Stevie!
At 3/02/2006 9:36 PM ,
Rob said...
One summer after Hy announced the winner to color war the generals actually buried a hatchet in front of the camphouse. After we were dismissed I waited for all to leave and returned to dig it up... . It was gone.
Remember how the gym would Rock when the results came in. Whoa!!
At 3/03/2006 9:50 AM ,
Mitch said...
Bob
Speaking about scavenger hunts and Hy's clues....your posting reminded me of one...it was the last one in one of our hunts...Hy gave us a Shakespearian clue that read...." To be or not to be that is the question " Do any of you out there remember where the clue was ? I do, so don't worry.... Let's see if any of you remember...
At 3/03/2006 11:22 AM ,
augie said...
Knowadays Color War would turn into lot's of tasty lawsuits, nice world we live in . My last year I remember we did a rope burn and my Boy Scout and pyromanic skills really came through. I was actually holding a huge branch till the rope burned. Is it too late to sue? I also remember Stecker heaving when I caught up and passed him eating pies to end an apache relay one year
At 3/03/2006 11:24 AM ,
augie said...
2B or Not 2B sounds like the back of my cousins Kramer bungalow when mine was 2A
At 3/03/2006 12:11 PM ,
Mitch said...
Augie
Not bad....
2B was Hy's bungalow at the time of the scavenger hunt
At 3/03/2006 1:10 PM ,
Bob Hutt said...
Color War was fixed I tell you. We need CSI, or at the very least Cold Case to do a DNA test on Hy? I'll even settle for Law & Order.
Too funny!
At 3/03/2006 1:53 PM ,
Bob Hutt said...
Do you guys know I've always had great empathy for the Minnesota Viking and Buffalo Bill fans. Do you know why?
Each year at Color War, despite destroying all teams during the games (regular season), I was the losing General in every Color War.
Why you ask? Let me count the ways.
Jackie Silverman - more intertested in girls than working on the parade.
Lenny S. - ditto
Mitch - ditto
Larry Brown - ditto
Laurie S. - ditto, not to mention working on his back hand at the tennis court.
Roy - ditto
Jeffrey K - ditto
Flash AKA David Zeke - why do you think they called him The Flash? So lets just say, ditto.
And as for the rest of you: ditto, ditto, and more ditto's. Thanks for nothing guys.
After the sporting events and games were completed, you all ran like rats deserting a sinking ship.
Except for my CIT, the lifetime achievement winner of the Makowsky's Arts & Crafts award. Thats right, Stevie Kiviat.
Steve's ability to train you to do arts & crafts was well, awful. You never listened anyway.
As a matter of fact, Steve couldn't teach/train a mouse to eat cheese. And when I did ask Stevie for help what did he tell me?
"Bobby I can't swim. Hey I'm a CIT. If one of the campers falls in the pool as far as I'm concerned he can drown. If the schmuck is counting on me to save him, all I can say is: Good Luck.
Bobby, I failed blockbuidling, paper mache, and coloring in kindergarden."
And now it can be said this is the reason why we lost Color War every year!
The truth is out there!
LOL
At 3/03/2006 2:24 PM ,
Mitch said...
Bobby...
You have got to take this on the road ! I'm "lmao" at the computer
The thing is.... you are right about almost everything you said...
David Ezeckowitz, however was called "Flash" because he used to walk around the colony with a flashlight all the time... Am I right ?
By the way, those Minnesota Vikings of yester-year were lead by one of my all-time favorite QB's....Fran "the scram" Tarkenton, who was the only reason my old NY Giants teams were even remotely successful. When he left for Minnesota, my Giants went into a long period without making the playoffs while the Vikings went on to 4 Super Bowls.
At 3/03/2006 2:27 PM ,
Mitch said...
Steve
It's too bad there never was a contest for fishing during color war....You might have been able to help break Hutt's losing streak !
LOL
At 3/03/2006 3:04 PM ,
augie said...
Color war update. It was important to have either your best friend or bungalow neigbor on other team, so if you got caught out after curfew you got a free pass if together
At 3/03/2006 3:14 PM ,
Mitch said...
Shari...
His name is Alan Bell
At 3/03/2006 3:42 PM ,
Bob Hutt said...
Yes, definitely that is my co-counsleor Alan Bell, whom by the way Bruce, was hot for Leslie Talsky, not me. I only had eyes for Phyllis.
Hey this is turning into a reality show of its own. Perhaps, the major networks ABC, CBS, FOX, or NBC want to buy the rights to our story?
You definitely don't want this on HBO at midnight with all my recollections about all of you, now do you?
LOL.
At 3/03/2006 3:59 PM ,
Bob Hutt said...
Mitch writes...
"David Ezeckowitz, however was called "Flash" because he used to walk around the colony with a flashlight all the time... Am I right ?"
Yes, Mitch you are correct.
At 3/03/2006 6:05 PM ,
Mitch said...
Bobby
HBO might be the "only" network that would air your comments...lol
Can't we all see Bobby in the back of one of those taxi cab confessions ?
He would wax poetic about Zeke & Kiv...and lament about color war...
At 3/03/2006 10:38 PM ,
Rob said...
The rope burn was definitely one of my favorites. The adrenalin rush from the frenzy to feed the fire was intense. Sweat , splinters and blisters.
All the wood was layed out hours before . Your Basic teepee fire pcs. ready to assemble . A little kindling and favorable winds. Everyone would be screaming . When that rope caught fire all hell broke loose.
At 3/04/2006 7:35 AM ,
Mitch said...
Judy...
You never cease to amaze me...
At 3/04/2006 11:02 AM ,
Rob said...
Hey Judy , I can't believe you remember all those names
Do you and Steve recall what you had for dinner last night ? ha
At 3/04/2006 11:49 AM ,
Bob Hutt said...
Susie this is the real me. And I have 100% recall back to when I was five. I remember you, your brother and your parents too.
Susie, I can't believe you could think I could make this stuff up? What's next are you going to say the Cropsy Maniac, Snipes, and UFO's aren't real either?
Haven't my Senior Boys already written on this BLOG that everything I say is absolutely true? Tell her guys.
Did you ever notice that Vernon and the Cropsey Maniac were never seen at the same time sort of like Superman and Clark Kent. But yes Susie,I've always had a warped look at life. I never get too high, nor ever despaired too low. I always try to be the voice of reason, especially when any of my campers are upset. And as Mitch's fellow camper The Hulk once said, "You wouldn't like to see us when we're angry."
I don't believe in just black and white, but rather all shades of gray. I say, if you can't learn to laugh then you can't enjoy life. Need proof?
A perfect example is beloved camper Lenny S. To others, he will forever be etched in stone(d)as Nathan Detroit. In all honesty, he played the role better than Ol Blue Eyes himself, Frank Sinatra. Am I right Guys & Dolls?
His brother Laurie, was a great kid, even if he loved tennis, and always followed the rules. Lenny, on the other hand, was a bit like his counselor in that not all rules suited him? Right Lenny?
So one day, Hy gets pissed off and forces Lenny to stand out in the ACID rain. Yes, it was cruel and inhuman punishment. We tried, or Lenny likes to think so, to rush the camphouse, but weren't able to get across the alligator infested moat or the barbed wire Hy had set up on the perimeter.
Lenny, AKA "Mr. Tough Guy", accepted his punishment like a man. He was becoming deathly ill but refused to cave in. Fellow camper, Douglas Day Stewart, saw Lenny standing there just freezing his butt off in the rain and stole the scene when he cast Richard Gere doing the same thing in "An Officer & Gentlemen." Ah but Susie, there's even more you may not know?
That day, wet and starving, Lenny being well, Lenny, wandered in the Desert for what felt like 40 days & 40 nights until in a drunken stupor, oops I wasn't supposed to say that, he came upon the Makowsky garbage dump.
All his fellow campers were with me. We were nice and dry, high fiving, and laughing it up in the Rumpus Room. Lenny who?
Laurie, Roy, Mitch and the others were listening to 45's and eating candy Jackie Silverman charged to Alan Bell's account at the General Store. Alan kept wondering why all his little campers, who actually were all taller than him, were thanking him, right Mitch? As luck would have it, Stevie "Lifetime Arts & Crafts Award" Kiviat was hunting varmints Down At The Boondocks.
Susie, "Down at the Dumps" just doesn't work in this story. Well anyway, Lenny was so hungry from Hy's Stalig 17 torture methods, that he actually barbequed one of the varmints with some marshmallows. Rumor has it, that's where life turned for him.
All of a sudden Lenny started glowing - A Pale Shade Of White. Well, maybe it was green, but with all the ACID RAIN, I get the Color Wars songs mixed up? Anyway, Lenny becomes a genius overnight. He worked for Hy, went on strike, led a revolution of his fellow counselors and took his money and went off to school. Lenny could do no wrong.
He graduated from college at the top of his class, went to medical school becoming a neurologist. Of course Lenny couldn't actually spell what he became, but that doesn't really matter. Today, thanks to Hy, he's CEO of his own company he founded with an MD and a Ph.D.
You see Susie, there's more. That wet freezing night, Lenny discovered a miracle drug behind the camphouse. He turned to his Uncle Jeb S. and saw this thing just oozing out of the ground like Texas Gold rolling down the hill to THAT big rock down by the lake. Didn't you all notice that the frogs disappeared? Uncle Jeb went on to star with Vernon in the Beverly Hillbilly's.
Lenny snuck a sample of that ooze and today he's CEO of his own biotech company, I kid you not. Now Susie, do you actually think I can make stuff like this up?
Okay boys and girls, with today being March 4th, in honor of our beloved Head Counselor, "Shark Bite" Hy, let's play...
Scavenger Hunt 2006 - Ozer style.
Here's your clue?
Why is today a good day to go forward?
First prize is five throws at at Stevie in CANS UP. I'm bad but yes, there really is an answer!
At 3/04/2006 1:43 PM ,
glenn said...
Because yesterday is behind us. But obviously not too far behind as evidenced by the recollections of my fellow Makowskians!
At 3/04/2006 10:45 PM ,
Rob said...
Glenn ? Glenn who. Is that really you or are you teasing us? Identify yourself please : name , camp rank and bungalow number. LOL
At 3/05/2006 1:12 PM ,
glenn said...
Son to Wolf and Sondra. Brother to Mitchell and Heidi. Husband to Bonnie and father to Nicole (age 20).
Bugalow number? I don't think I knew it then. Besides, far too many rock concerts in the late 70s to have any clue whatsoever.
At 3/05/2006 6:34 PM ,
Ira L said...
Hey Judy... The color war teams & years were painted & listed on the sides of the cubbie holes. Maybe my uncle or cousin could get in there to give you the complete list???
I'll give em a call and see if I can get it.
At 3/09/2006 12:50 PM ,
Rob said...
Jack , your fingers must hurt after that comment. I'd rather hear you sing something from Oklahoma. I know you remember some of those.
At 3/09/2006 3:03 PM ,
Bob Hutt said...
Jackie if memory serves me correctly didn't you play Curly in Oklahoma? And you wore a red curchiff around your neck. I think Stevie played the horse pulling you around when you sang The Surrey with the Fringe On Top?
At 3/09/2006 4:23 PM ,
Mitch said...
I just finished having lunch with Gary & Roy Herbst, Lori Streeter, Nona Kupfer, & Larry Brown. This actually was good because it gave us an idea as to what we can expect when we all see each other again. The time just flew, the memories are tremendous and we all had a fantastic time. My only complaint is that it was way too short.
Oh, by the way....not only do we need name tags...but a photo of us the way we were would be beneficial as well.
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