Well, since another one of the group has decided to destroy his life by taking that dreaded walk down the aisle, I felt it was appropriate to take a walk down memory lane.
You see, a few days ago I was required to go through some of the artifacts that I had acquired during my half-decade at Penn State. I was expecting to throw away a few papers and be on my way, but a funny thing happened. I managed to compress five of the best years of my life into 3 short hours.
It's amazing what emotions and memories can be extracted from something as simple as a photograph. So, without further delay, here are some of the hits (and misses) of my trip down memory lane.
Hits:
Playboy. Many pictures from back in the day. A photo of the infamous night when we all got to meet Playboy Playmate (and future Dancing with the Stars participant) Kelly Monaco. Without going into specifics, let's just say that some of us have aged differently than others.
School work. I was amazed at the level of work I did in college. I also don't know what prompted me to want to save so much of it. Was I really going to need an equation from Physics 202? A graph from Econ 304? Never. But I saved it anyway. Oh, and by the way, we Fucking Owned Physics. How do I know this? It was written on every class-sanctioned formula sheet that we had. I even managed to find some stuff from Math 220. The infamous (insert crazy German accent) "c'mon you are killers, you must zee two" class.
Photos. Here we took alot, but not enough. Mostly of freshman year. All the usual suspects. Pavlik, Rocco, Morgan "me piss on da door", etc. Brandi (the inflatable one, not the idiot-sounding girl from the Palace). (And no, she didn't have any working orifices). (Maybe the plural there should be orifii). Whatever. I'm babbling.
Artifacts. Some things were museum quality. I mean, items that can be directly traced back to the start of something great. Kind of like finding Bill Gates' first computer disk. Well, I found the side of the first case of beer I ever drank. Miller MGD. DWB and I got a 35 year old 8th year senior to get this for us. We proceeded to get drunk, and start a snowball fight. DWB was then unceremoniously clotheslined by the scrawniest tree branch in the history of man kind. The snowball fight moved indoors and violations and a trip to see Rocco "hey, guys" Infantino soon followed.
I also found the brochure that CWG defiled by altering "All females must be escorted at all times" to "All females must be butt-ass naked at all times" Ah, those we're the days.
Misses:
School work. I found the now-world famous "9" exam. And for those of you who aren't aware of the "9" exam, let's just say that the score wasn't out of 10.
Artwork. Legally, all I am allowed to say is that it involved St. Patty's Day, food-coloring, and an interesting, modern-day spin on a Rorschach test.
Entomology. Ray Combs. 'nuff said.
All-in-all, not a bad way to spend a Sunday afternoon.
Till next week.
~Kevin
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Although not related to this weeks posting, I felt that this comment was of interest. Has anyone seen the Michael J. Fox commercials campaigning for Democrats who support stem cell research? Well, it looks like either MJF is off his medication or Chad's odds of winning the Death Pool '06 have significantly increased.
The Chad
Hey, the other day on the radio, they were playing a game where you had to know how celebrities died. One of the celebs was Ray Combs. I was laughing my ass off thinking of the bathroom mascot.
Ok, I am totally in the dark with respect to the Ray Combs stuff. Can someone fill me in?
Kev...Thanks for the trip down memory lane..I often think about our PSU days.
Chad...Ray combs was a fly that died in our bathroom junior year. He died while he was stuck on the wall and after he died, he never fell and Miller and me decided not to take him down. Even after our fourth year when we moved to state college park, we put Ray Combs in a enveloped and Plastic Cemented him to our new bathroom wall. A few days before we moved out, we had a small memorial service for him and put him into his permanent resting place, the state college central sewer.
On a different note, I am not sure if I feel bad about this, but the PSU game was so boring today that I fell asleep for about 2 hours. I missed the last half of the second quarter and didn't wake up until midway throught he fourth!!! Boring game, but I'll take the win!!!
I thought the game was great. I was at work, and managed to get it on TV there. I got paid time and a half to watch it.
Kev, thanks for the text message updates on the game. I appreciated it. The commentary made the day go faster.
Chad, be careful what you say about Michael J Fox. If you say he's off his medication you're liable to cause a national outcry! Every news agency in the country is going to say you made fun of his disease and to vote republican cause democrats like you are hate people with diseases...........oh wait..........that's what happened when rush limbaugh said it looked like MJF was off his medication. Any hoo......your insensitivity towards people with parkinsons disease hurts me deeply and I hope your party loses cause of your hatred!
If Michael J Fox doesn't want to take his medication, Rush Limbaugh knows a fat drug addict who does.
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