Mighty Mooseknuckles.

So I'm sitting on the couch watching the Jimmy Fallon Late Night Show, looking for a little peace and quiet before I take my meds and drift off to sleep, when Mike busts into the house with the news.
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Mooseknuckles won in a squeaker....  14 to 2.  The hapless other hockey team was so bad that Mike didn't remember their name.   I heard that the team was so bad that even Dave Bruett scored.
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Could be a big season for the Mooseknuckles as they plot their course through a hazy, beer soaked season, culminating in a April drinking tournament in Montreal.
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I'll be keeping you Peeps appraised of the season highlights.

Maria Rowen said...

Tigers and moose(s) and tunas oh my...a veritable wild kingdon in the land of Nanepashmet...

Turning Away Business

A nice cold snap outside this morning.   I have to head down to Foxboro for a day long customer meeting so I won't have the ability to keep the Morso Woodstoves stoked up this morning.  Too bad, because today would be the day to burn a ton of scrap from the Nanepashemet Boatbuilding activities.
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Speaking of boatbuilding, I had to turn down a dory order this week because of the amount of business in Nanepashemet Telecom. I recommended that the prospect check out Lowell Boatworks in Amesbury for a wooden dory.
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Even though the boatbuilding work is infinitely more fulfilling and enjoyable, it is also fairly unprofitable unless you gear up industrial processes or charge an ungodly sum for the hand work.
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So the boatbuilding orders will have to wait until the Telecom business makes me enough money to retire.  Which won't be too many years from now if the current business trends maintain.

Tuna Lips said...

Ise can sentimentize with yer predicamint. The sun don't often set on a day that ain't seen my charms beguilify the local wenchery. Thems hungerin and thirstin for ole TL knows no satiety. Just like they profeseed in the old testament. I am that golden calf. Its an allergy, you know, something that means somethin' else, for the women folk needin' to be pleasured. Yet they is only one TL. Those left ajar should turn to the good book and take solace in readin about them that is almighty. I can only annoints so many. The rest we turns away, unless they got a sheriff and a warrant.

Maria Rowen said...

I don't know a whole lot about boatbuilding ...but thinking about asking Santa for a little dinghy to do some fishing in 2010...'cause it just might be a good year for fiddlin' with some blue fins...

Tis the Season.

After my highly successful sales lunch this afternoon, I cruised over to Costco to pick up some wholesale discount Christmas presents.
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I always overspend there, but maybe it works out in the long run.  After all... I won't need another bottle of Listerine for the next six months.  And I still have that huge bottle of Tums antacids that I bought last year.  Plus I ran into SuperPeep. Brian Butler and showed him the special gift that I bought for Katelyn.
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Tis the Season to be Jolly....

Tiger the Duck.

ok
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I don't want this blog to be "ALL Tiger, ALL the time".
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But some of this stuff just screams to be said.
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Like him asking us to be understanding with him as he tries to patch things up on his $22M yacht.   Sure, that will get a lot of understanding and pity.  He has to get out there, make a statement that he has a problem, and start swinging his golf clubs.
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Spill your guts Tiger.  Your efforts to gain privacy are having the complete opposite effect.
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Believe me, most people will forgive you for having sex with beautiful women.... as long as you pledge future fidelity to your wife and admit your mistakes and weaknesses.
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Everybody has a bump in the road.  You have your money because you are the world's best golfer, not the world's best guy.  Right now, you're a sitting Duck.

James Morrison said...


Next comes the tale of performance enhancing drugs. Guy got pretty buff following the knee surgery. Mickelelson lost his boobs as well. Lump him in there.

Burn the whole sh*thaus down!

Stick a Fork in It.

Usually, the Telecom business gets really heated up at the end of the year, as carriers strive to meet their build plans, thus gaining executive bonuses.   This year seems different and I am definitely sensing a winding down. Which is fine with me.. 
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Anytime this year ends will suit me well.
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Even though business was good and next year is looking very promising, all the other stuff that hit us this year... people dying, careers lost, marriages ending.... makes me more than willing to put this year in the archives.
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I'll bet that Tiger feels the same way.
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Don't get me wrong.  A Mountain of a Man like me never lets anything get him down.   And I truly believe that all happens for the best in a cosmic sense.
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But I'm still anxious to stick a fork in this year.

Maria Rowen said...

...and surely you'll buy your pint cup...and surely I'll buy mine...let's raise the cup and say goodbye to two thousand and nine...Slainte Mohr!

Pleasant Surprizes

Last night, before we went to the Blue Ox restaurant in downtown Lynn, we had cocktails at Maria Rowen's Swampscott apartment with Lisa and Harvey Rowe and Lou Panakio.
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It was a nice gesture by the Tuna Lips Antagonist, Maria, but I didn't expect her to pull out all the stops.   Which she did when she had a bottle of Lagavulin Single Malt Scotch Whiskey ready and waiting on her kitchen counter.
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That is pure class.
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So was the dinner at the Blue Ox.   I was expecting a pub food menu and atmosphere, but it had the taste and the feel of a high end Boston location.  Hats off to owner, Charlie Gaeta and his partners.
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Although I was a little disappointed that I didn't run into some old Lynn guys, we did see some Marblehead people that I hadn't seen in a long time, including Chris D'Orio, one of my all time favorites.
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But the surprizes didn't stop last night.
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When we returned from our Fresh Ayer trip this morning, Tommy O'Shea dropped by with a bottle of J&B and a bottle of Dewar's White Label that he had in the house.   Tommy isn't a scotch drinker, but he can hold his own with anyone if Coors Light is in the mix.  To be sure, these are blended scotches, and not Lagavulin, but it's the thought that counts.... not the Scotch.
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Maybe I should buy him a six pack of Coors.

Tuna Lips said...

sound o things we oughts ta give you a merry honika greetin'.

Giving It Up.

So Tiger Woods has left the tour in order to try to patch up his life after all the infidelity and stuff.  Who would have thought that golf had that kind of side effect???
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Golf does have all sorts of sexual double entendres running through it..... .what with Putters, Drivers, Woods, Holes, Ball Washers and such.
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It's probably a good idea for me to quit golf now too.
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I don't want to get all promiscuous and start screwing around with beautiful women every chance I get.
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So it's official. I just can't risk playing and have all that happen to me.
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I'm quitting golf too.   For the time being.

POTW Week 50

Do you ever start to feel really upbeat and psyched up for no particular reason?
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That's how I've felt for the last couple of days and I'm not quite sure why. 
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Maybe it's because we have been meeting our business committments and looking at a very positive start to the new year.
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Maybe it's because I have the best grandkids in the world.
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Maybe it's because my new Bluegrass Banjo that Joanne bought for me is even cooler than I anticipated.
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Still not quite sure.   But it's damn better than being down and depressed for no particular reason.

ANNOUNCING.....

Nanepashemet Peeps of the Week for the Fiftieth Week of 2009

William Bulger

Jai Singh Khalsa

Al  Lane

Katelyn Nestor

Alex Watts

Bucky Sides

Maybe it has something to do with my new meds.

Photo Shoot

So one of out survey engineering contractors forgot to label the access utility poles for 12 cell sites that we are running fiber to this week.   What is a Mountain of a Man like me to do??? Get into my truck and drive around Masshusetts taking photos of utility pole id's???
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That's exactly what I did..... all day today.
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Being a Mountain of a Man means that you are not afraid to take on menial jobs to get the project on track.
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Not afraid to do it, but danm pissed that I had to do it.

Side Effects

Changed my meds today.   That dry hacking cough that was aggravating Joanne so much wasn't due to a cold or flu virus, but had it's source as a side effect of the high blood pressure pills that I was taking.
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So, even though my blood pressure is under control, I have to move to a new med that will abate this side effect.
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I still take a pill for gout everyday.   Never want the "toothache in a toe" to reappear.  That was freaking agony.
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Thank God that Lagavulin doesn't have any side effects.

A Considered Decision

So the Massachusetts Dems have their Senatorial Candidate, Martha Coakley.  Somehow, I don't think she is in a cakewalk for the seat with Scott Brown, the Republican nominee.
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No.... I haven't decided to throw the highly coveted Nanepashemet endorsement to either candidate yet.  I'll be patient and watch each closely before I move to tip the scales.
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It's not easy bearing the responsibility of determining our next United States Senator.  So I can't be impulsive.  Appreciate if you would back off while I deliberate.  Believe me, you will be the first to know when I convey the cherished Nanepashemet Nod.

Tuna Lips said...

Ise agree. Round the Peachstone mobile court, weez have a group that reglarly convivifies around the boob tube to watch the latest adult entertainers on the STD playin' machine that Clem Grottlesnot found in the Kmart loadin area. Be discriminators, taste wise, wees plan to tally up some score cards, based on key categories like fluidity, hang time, and degradatin behavins', an award to the most meritaining actress-type, our "Tiger Rod" award. Nanapeshmet Nod being the model. Time to hang my Tijuana Christmas lights. Draws a crowd, them illumified bared assed senorita in santy hats. Zonin' board always in a huff, no good bah humbug types.

Tuna Lips said...

Its like that Sixtel and Eggbert fellers. "Tuna Lips and Shoo Fly give 'Hairy Twatter' two Rods Up!"

Book Signing

I'm thinking of starting a policy of not publishing any comments that are sent by "Anonymous".  If you don't have the balls to sign your name, you don't deserve to be published in a high class blog like this one.  I don't even care if you come up with a fictitious name, I just will can you if you decide to call yourself  "Anonymous". 
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It pisses me off.... ok????  And I don't get pissed off that easy.
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Anyway...
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I took the time to attend the book signing of William Bulger's James Michael Curley book tonight at the Boston Public Library.  Mr. Bulger looked very sharp and robust... like he could easily take on the phonies at the Boston Globe or the Mitt Romney gang tomorrow morning.   He signed a couple of books that I will give out for Christmas presents.  In one, he wished  the recipient a  "Merry Christmas"  in Greek.
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I think that's why he aggravated the Liberal Elite so much.  They wanted to finger him as a thug from South Boston, but there aren't too many thugs who can understand Greek and Latin fluently.  He outsmarted them because he was smarter than them.
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Maybe guys like Billy Bulger and Tommy McGee are a dying breed.   They were all about helping people and getting stuff done without kissing up to pseudo intellectuals in the media.   Dukakis ran for President and ran the Massachusetts economy into the ground and Bulger and McGee were left to steady the ship with virtually no recognition.
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It's sad to see guys like this fade into the background.. But then again, the Boston Globe seems to be on its last legs too.

Jill Phillips said...

I told Katelyn to tell you to come over for our dinner party, I live a few blocks from the public library:(