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Pauly did. "Must have been against Montreal," he recalled. Those Kunuks would come down from Worcester for the game. They'd get a couple of beers in 'em, start gettin' cocky, and all hell would break loose...
...lime and glug-glug-glug! You ain't tasted nothin' better! Rien!. . . and Hurricanes ($2.95). . . Cay-john as Chop Suey, but dey just like dem ones at Pat O'Brien's in dey Vieux Carre, and you drink two o'those, you say, "Doucement!," start feelin' like a nutria gettin' whomped on dey head! And I tell you what - C'est vrai, babe! - Dey teach dat Scorpion Bowl how to sting! Put one o' dem in your shoe, you gon' holler...
...Someday: "There ain't a lot you can do in this town/ You drive down to the lake and then you turn back around." As Earle grew up, his own trips out of town got more frequent, the turnarounds longer. "I wasn't a bad kid, I wasn't gettin' in a lot of trouble," he remembers. "I just wanted to get away to walk the streets, mostly listening to all the songs I had in my head...
...place or in the wrong place that belongs to you, even if it's all dark and spooky like the river. Depends on how much you want yer freedom. Americans do some things pretty well, like playing games and making machines and movies, but what they do best is gettin' free. Of course freedom gits folks into a mess of trouble too, 'cause when everybody's free, they're free to fall on their faces, and if no one cares to pick 'em up, they're free to drown. I know that some important folks say different...
Well, Chuck, remember, I'm the Class of 1986 (I hope), and I'm number 29 in the Harvard Hockey program, and believe it or not, I'm going to get the same sheepskin as your gettin' because my pre-med defenseman Butch Cutone told me so, so there! But I really want to be on the next cover of Science Weekly, not Sports Illustrated...