PULP NON-FICTION

By Your Athletic Supporter, Jack Strap

Yours truly may be on HHI I/R, but HHI & its eccentric cast of characters plays on. To continue to keep those who don't show (but may one day) informed, below I have posted Swoop's Report from last week including his feature "Best Exchange of the Day" and now I bring you PULP NON-FICTION Starring Magnum as Samuel L. Jackson & Lipper as John Travolta. This tale is brought to you by the power of copying & pasting from emails and started with this one you all got from Magnum:
Subject: USED Vs. LOVED

While a man was polishing his new car, his 4 yr old son picked up stone
and scratched lines on the side of the car. In anger, the man
took the child's hand and hit it many times; not realizing he was using
a wrench.

At the hospital, the child lost all his fingers due to multiple
fractures. When the child saw his father.....with painful eyes he asked,
'Dad when
will my fingers grow back?' The man was so hurt and speechless;
he went back to his car and kicked it a lot of times.

Devastated by his own actions.......sitting in front of that car he
looked at the scratches; the child had written 'LOVE YOU DAD'.

The next day that man committed suicide. . .
Anger and Love have no limits; choose the latter to have a beautiful,
lovely life.....

Things are to be used and people are to be loved,
But the problem in today's world is that, People are used and things are
loved...

During this year, let's be careful to keep this
thought in mind: Things are to be used, but People are to be
loved ... Be yourself....This is the only day we HAVE.

Have a nice day and Best regards
Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they
become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits they become character; Watch your
character; it becomes your destiny.

To which Lip responded:
I wasn't having a great day to begin with but this story is f**d up. A 4 yr old loses his fingers? I avoid current horror flicks (SAW 1,2,3 etc.) because of this kind of stuff. The moral of the story could have been complete without losing his fingers. OK. I have ranted now I feel better.

Magnum then retorted:
Come on Lip, the parable was used to illustrate a lack or a need to change the manner in which we view or react to things. It demonstrates a societal acceptance of certain behaviors, that are contrary to demonstrating love, respect, and kindness to those people we love the most. The content was not to be taken in its literal sense but in the message it delivered about love... Something I like to show all my HHI brothers every Saturday morning!

Regarding which Lip fired back:
I am way too concrete of a person and the condition of the world says it is only a parable when somebody does something nice or is saved from some disaster or it's on the Hallmark channel. Missing fingers is the stuff of 60 Minutes, feuding sects and sick realty shows. And you call this love? I may need counseling because of you.

Magnum then witty bantered:
Come on...you don't think I actually believe all that psycho babble I was spuing do you???? I was just getting all philosophical on your ass!! I felt like I was Samuel L Jackson and you were John Travolta we were sitting at the diner having breakfast in PULP FICTION!!
John "Lip" Travolta's LOL final scene Comeback:
Oh, I got it right the first time, make no mistake. You are the Zen master and I, your student, am here to soak up all the wisdom you so beneficently share with me. The only original thought I am left with after basking in the radiance of your karma is "I am so unworthy but if you say so, it is so".
(Plus I wrote all that and the only spell check correction was to capitalize the Z in Zen. I know this too I owe to you).

Hope you enjoyed PULP NON-FICTION as much as I did.

SWEATING LIKE PIGS

By Your Cancer Survivor, Swoop

We had really close games. The humidity was really high in the gym so we all were SWEATING LIKE PIGS. Marsh and Shot were Captains.
Team Marsh: Magnum, Swoop, and the two Bowers boys
Team Shot: Quick, Bankin, Iron and Mighty.
Late arriving: Pat's Steaks

Team Shot won game one and Team Marsh won game two, both were really close. Team Shot picked up Pat for game three but Team Marsh won the DC anyway. Then Team Marsh got Pat for the Iron Man game and won again. Scott is moving to Pittsburgh, so he will be playing more often. This was the last week for the Bowers clan, but they have promised return visits. The boys played really well in their farewell game.

Best Exchange of the Day...
Scott to Magnum: "I wish my legs were as big as your arms"
Magnum to Scott: "So does your wife"

TO TWEET OR NOT TO TWEET

By Your Athletic Supporter, Jack Strap

Last night I was out with the MPC* Dinner Group and asked Freebs Frebel to explain Twitter to me because I thought Blogging was maybe behind the times, so now Jack Strap has to decide TO TWEET OR NOT TO TWEET?
* MPC (for those who don't know their HHI History) stands for Morton Powder Coatings which created (for those who believe in Creationism) the Flying Hills Basketball League which in Darwin's Evolution (for those who believe in that theory) terms was made up of the Apes that ultimately evolved into Man and Hills Hoops Inc. The F.H. League included future HHIers like Muggsy Raihl, Hey Suess Sammel, Energizer Boni (more on him below), Lender Bender-over, Johnny Be Pretty Good, GM Coach Tim Yanu, Bank'in Bowers, Yours Truly, and Dickhead Joe Schlamowitz.

Before I decide TO TWEET OR NOT TO TWEET for today's Grace games, note that yesterday was Energizer Boni's Birthday. I won't say how old he is, but after we sung him a rousing rendition of Happy Birthday to You, a lady from the Beverly Hills (Not Elly May Clampett nor Granny) came up & kissed Boni on the cheek & asked him if he was 41. That could have been a good TWEET.

So I've decided for each & everyone of you to let me know if I should TWEET OR NOT TWEET as consider that each of today's paragraphs could have been a TWEET that I sent you real time as it was happening last night & this morning.

Today's HHI Captains were selected because they were all wearing red including Pat Steaks (Back from Daddy Day Care), Magnum (Back with another Tatt), and Quick (Back in Black) & they in turn selected these Twittering TWEET Teams:
* Pat Daddies = Cap Daddy Pat, Car-Marsh-mellow, DJ Jazzy Jones, Pitt Band Paul Bowers (PB2), and Who Killed Kenny
* Mag Tatties = Cap Tatt-Mag-doo, Swoop, Mighty Kerr, Pistol Pete, and Floor Burn Phil
* Quick AC/DC = Cap Angus Quick, X-Smoker Bob, Bank'in Bowers, Diggetty Doug Bales, and Your Athletic Supporter
* 16th Man Rover = Prince Ali Fabulous-He Ali A-Bowers
So just think if I had TWEETED this to you real-time from Grace--how much better off your life would be?

TO TWEET OR NOT TO TWEET Round 1 of the "TWEET 16" Tournament? Game 1 saw Mag Tatties' Pistol Pete finding his "TWEET" spot in the corner for 3 buckets including the game-winner over Quick AC/DC. Next Pat Daddies took the court & schooled Mag Tatties in the "fundamentals" with Pat's having the "da fun" and Mag's going "mental". The 1st round ended with Pat Daddies shamelessly stealing AC/DC's song "Shoot to Thrill" which they did for their 2nd straight victory. Now I could have TWEETED that game-by-game or after Round 1 was over depending on your TWEET preference, or NOT TO TWEET if you like?

The TWEET 16's Finale Round started with a bang as AC/DC's TNT "it's dynamite" blew up after "Push Came to Shove" (which was recommended by Pat & was my 2nd choice for today's Headline) amongst Pistol & Jack Strap & Swoop which I'm going to say (& I can because I'm the Blogger/TWEETERER) was like a hockey fight that turned the tide leading to Quick AC/DC's 1st win over Mag Tatties or anyone else. Next Pat Daddies frustrated Mag Tatties with some nice fast-break passing with Pitt Band Paul Bowers (PB2) finishing a couple nicely, although I would be remiss if I didn't mention that little bro' Price Ali A-Bowers blocked his shot twice. But the top Bowers House Bragging Rights (BHBR) will go to PB2 whose Pat Daddies team clinched the Daily Championship with that win & then finished undefeated by sending Quick's AC/DC to the "Highway to Hell".

So all of the above could have been handled with a bunch of TWEETS OR NOT if I didn't have my reading glasses which I would need to TWEET on that little screen with those little keys, which seems like a lot of trouble to go through for you sitting at home when you could have just shown up like the TWEET 16 did this AM. That settles it, I've decided that the BLOG still Rules over the TWEET as it allows me as Holiday Bill Ruth (a.k.a. B4R=Q) once said to report with a "Theme (e.g. TO TWEET OR NOT TO TWEET) held together with chicken wire & duct tape".

So forget the Twittering TWEET which is like Suffering Succotash & I'll just tell you now (rather than a few hours ago) that that (the dreaded double "that") just left the Iron Man Finale (IMF) where I decided "if you can't beat'em, join'em", so I put on my sweaty white shirt, joined Pat Daddies, and even set the IMF-winning pick freeing PB2 to finish the Finale with a driving lay-up which I decided NOT TO TWEET.