Boy Winch

Stop press!

My sources have revealed that this very morning a Winch-child was born unto the world, and lo, they hath layed him in a manger, and hath named him...

...well actually, they haven't named him anything just yet. At the time of going to press he was just being referred to as "Boy", "Baby", "Squirmy" or just "Hey, you".

Nice one Matt. You only had 9 months to think about it. Personally I like Tom as a boys name, or Tomasina for girls, but hey, I guess you could pick something else if you have to.

How about some of the other famous people born today? Well, there's The Edge for starters. That's pretty cool, but a little tough to carry off in Elementary School.
No? What about Emiliano, after the famous Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata? He don't need no steenkin' badges. OK, then it has to be Dino (De Laurentiis), famed producer of Serpico, Death Wish and Three Days of the Condor.

Don't like any of those? Well my last offers are Millhouse, after Nixon, who resigned on this day in 1974; Krishnadeva Reya, Emporer of the Vijayanagara Empire, crowned this day 1509; or Spiro (Agnew), who denied taking kickbacks on Aug 8, 1973.

So, tons to choose from Matt. Failing that, maybe our trusty readers could post their suggestions in the comments below.

New Fixture Added

In an effort to line up some live rugby before the start of the season, we've added a warm up game against Amoskeag for the 19th. The format will be pretty loose with plenty of chance for subs, to make sure everyone gets some playing time.

See you at practice on Tuesday!

Paartay(s)!

If you're the kind of guy or gal who likes to spend their weekends drinking and making a fool of yourself, then this weekend was custom built for you.

Saturday promises not one, but two opportunities to get your drunk on, and the only hard part might be deciding where to get kicked out of first. Here's the deets:

Firstly the Ed-meister commands your presence at a PRFC Social at the Pier in O.O.B., with 3pm being the appointed hour. Apparently $20 get's you a bracelet (...and $30 gets you a reach around [rim shot!]), and with that bracelet you are admitted to all of the...ahem, "entertainment". A quick check on the Pier's website, and it looks like you can expect to see big names "Yo! Adrian" and "Pushboxx" at the Pier Patio Pub, "Heidi Jo Hanson" at Hooligan's Landing, "Joyeoke" on the Sunset Deck and "DJ Huss" at Big Kahuna's.

Your cup truely runeth over! Ed also promises some amount of free beer and "alcoholic folly" until the money runs out. Presumably aroung 3:30.

Well, if you can tear yourself away from all that public disorder, Liz Adams of the women's team tells me she's having a party and you're all invited.

Yes, that's right, all of you. Every last one of you who's ever visited this site. She's got a full keg of Miller Lite and half a keg of Shipyard Export, so I figure that's about a thimble-full of beer for each of you.

But wait, Liz didn't tell me where she lives, so maybe you won't all be making it after all. A quick check on whowhere.com tells me there are several Liz Adamses to choose from, so have fun with that.

Anyway, Liz writes that she is turning "officially 25" and presumably she was unoficially 25 before that and just received her certificate of "twenty-fiveiness", or was just plain old officially 24. I can't tell. She didn't say.

Either way, she's very excited about it, and would love to share some of that. "WOOHOO!!" she writes, just like that, in all caps, as if to demonstrate here level of excitement. Sounds like fun, and it all starts at 5pm and will be "going well in to the evening!!!" With that many exclamation points, how can you resist?

Woooweee! It's Practice!

Doesn't it seem like only yesterday that we were yelling and screaming at each other in the sweltering heat of Attitash? And it seems like only a few days before that when we were freezing our nuts off in Newport. I'm sure for many of you the memories are all too vivid, and have yet to be turned in to fond recollections by forgetfulness or the passing of time.

You:"Remember that time we went to Syracuse?"

Me:"Ugh, don't remind me"

Well gird your loins fellas, 'cos the craziness is about to kick off all over again. Next week we'll begin the process of getting in mental and physical shape for the Fall season by re-instating Tuesday / Thursday practices at Fox Street from 6pm to 8pm. The intent is to devote Tuesdays primarily to fitness and Thursdays to skills, so if you're forced to choose between the two, keep your own particular shortcomings in mind. Of course, if you want my opinion (and that of the rest of your teammates, who talk about you behind your back), you definitely need to be at both.

We plan to have Barbara Lisa reprise her role as Fitness Coach, so those of you with a hard-on for her particular brand of sadism should form an orderly queue, and plan on throwing up at least once. Talk to those guys who worked out with her in the Winter, and they'll tell you that she does a body good.

Of course, no amount of flogging by Barb one night a week is going to get you in the kind of shape you really need to be in, so put down the hot dog, step away from the grill, and go dust of your gym shorts tubby. Honestly, look at yourself.

Temple Expansion

You may of noticed in the comments that Jimmy Temple has added another baby to his collection, and it would be remiss of me not to give him a mention.

Yeah, only Jim says it was in February, and now, it's like, July, and he doesn't tell me what day, so I can't look up all the fun facts in my Bumper Book of Knowledge (Junior Edition). Curses!

He does say that he's called Hunter James, and presumably that's his name rather than his occupation.

Wait a minute...

Hunter J. Temple...Hunter S. Thompson...was this by accident or design? Hmmm...someone's a big fan of the gonzo journo style me-thinks. Well, "buy the ticket, take the ride" as the man himself would have said, and let's hope the ending is a lot happier.

Mahalo Hunter.

Fear and Loathing In...[insert your comment here.]

Trojans, right cancelled eh.

No doubt too many of their players are oot and aboot or they ran out of Loonies, so the Trojans from St. John have had to cancel their planned tour of Portland. So, no games that weekend.

Darn...it was probably going to be 100 degrees anyway.

So that's another weekend in the hammock then. But fair warning, Fall team training is right around the corner. August 8th to be precise, and like prodigal sons, we'll be returning to Fox Street, after our many months in the wilderness.

Stay tuned for more details.