College Avenue Secondary School - Cascade Yearbook (Woodstock, Ontario Canada)

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page 138 Peace continued from p. I start thinking that I must walk kinda funny too because at this time I weigh over two hundred pounds. My liberal attitude thing never did work out. Along with being able to cut people up he had a pool table in his basement which he let us use whenever his parents went out because they didn't want him to bring kids home. And whenever his parents went away for the week- end we would go over to his place and stay over night. It was always a thrill because Loon was such a laugh. For example, once we made hamburgs while staying there. Loon usually did the cooking and we usually did the dishes. Anyhow, .Loon rolled up the meat into balls and started to bounce them off his bodyp showing off I guess. This, of, course, we found humourous except for Hat fl won't go into how he got his namej who refused to eat the finished hamburgs because he didn't like Loon's bods fbodyi. Another incident which was sorta funny was the time Loon's dog vomi- ted on the rug while we were play- ing cards. Loon was getting some food to fill his bods when the dog let out a belch like he had iust dranka gallon of beer. Loon calm- ly glanced at us and gave us the news, The dog burped. An instant later he announced, The dog barfed, which made us convulse ourselves becauseof the way he had said it. I ended up helping Loon carry out the victimized rug which looked like someone had neatly placed a pork sausage in the middle of it. I stayed over at Loon's house so often that I decided to use it as an excuse. Once I wanted to sleep over at this chick's house because her parents had left her alone for a week so I told my mother that I was spending the night over at Loon's. Naturally my mother fell for this and everything was fine until my mother phoned Loon's house the next morning, because my French teacher wanted to speak to me. fMy mother wouldtnever phone up to find me unless she had a good reason because she trusts me., But this time she hada valid excuse. This is where Loan saved my life. Loon knew what was going on. Loon's mother didn't. Loon's mother answered the phone and Loon, being inquisitive, asked her who it was. She said it was my mother. Loon promptly yelled, Don't say any- thing, and took the receiver from his mother and began to rap with mine. He told her I was over at Hat's. Everything worked out so well that I even saw my French teacher. Another thing about Loon was that he wasalmost irresistable to chicks. He was forever going outand making out with them. We attributed this to the fact that he had SUPER CONFIDENCE. He was the kind of guy who could say, Haven't I met you somewhere before? to a girl he didn't know and actually make it work. He was the leading authority on women as well as the make-out king of our gang. He was the guy we would go to if we want- ed to know ifa certain girl was putting on a show or not. He usually knew because he had usually been there. Although he was and probably still is one of the greatest lovers of the twentieth century he had the type of personality that made other guys want to slap his silly face. Being able to provoke people was his specialty. I remember in intra- mural basketball he was playing the guard position once and he was bringing the ball up. Pivoting with the ball at center as if to pass, he threw the ball into the stomach of the man who was guarding him. Loon recovered the ball and this further aggravated the guy because it was funny and we laughed. He never even got a foul for it. Boy! what sportsmanship. At the end of the game Loon and the other guy started rapping off at each other but because the other guy was physically bigger, Loon shied away from a fight by sheer wit and dero- gatory comment. Loon could always talk a good fight. Although he used this trick more than once it never got him engaged in physical contact except once when Captain walked down the court and kicked him and walked away. This was also funny. No matter what Loon did it was usually funny. Loon slapped a kid across the head because he was bugging Hat's little brother. This happened in the stands at a football game. Everyone saw the brave deed. Loon became the defender of good and a protector against evil. What a hero! Besides being o lover and a hero, Loon was a loser at cards. He rarely came out ahead. But he could afford it because he worked at a gas station pumping gas. From this iob he financed a motor bike which he probably still can't drive. He was always getting into small minor accidents with his bike and bigger minor accidents with cars but he alwayg came outalive to tell great storiesof these misadventures. We used to kid him a lot about tell- ing stories because he constantly -rapped off about Stratford and The Festival and Leo Cicero, the actor. He could put things in his own Loonish words to make the dullest subject seem interesting. Who else could talk about Mr. Blake, a principal of our high school, for more than five minutes and not put everybody to sleep? He could probably even do iustice to this short story. Maybe I shouldwrite a book about him. Maybe after rereading this short story I will change my mind. He has become a legend within his own time in my eyes. This leaves me with only one question. If he was and is so great how come he is such a loon? , l imit It , 'Y 'iJ'iIr ' -'. U. 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He added that we, the American people must do everything to protect the freedom of our demo- cratic brothers throughout the world .

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