Email 'Discussion' About Fire at 15 Webster Avenue on Feb. 4, 2012
Jeff Reed
Your own roving reporter stumbled across a major conflagration at 15 Webster Avenue tonight. In an apparent attempt to get homeless girls to come to their fraternity, the boys/ dateless homos from Alpha Chi set fire to the sorority next door . The heat generated by the fire has not been seen at that house since Mongo tried to juggle two Carnival dates in 1976 or since TK used Sweet Mary for batting practice in the living room. Fortunately, 5 fire trucks were able to save the house from total immolation and the monument to our many imagined conquests remains standing.
In actuality, apparently a light bulb fixture shorted and caused lots of smoke and maybe some flames. There might be some water damage from (over) zealous fire fighters. 5 fire trucks did answer the call.
Chuck McCann
Dan Sheedy
I remember
walking down Webster Ave towards HPF one weekend evening. A line of police
cars, Campus po, Hanover po, NH staties, VT staties, Norwich, was heading to and
from the HPF end of the row. It was like a parade or procession. When I
got to HPF, I quickly learned that a match of strip ping-pong was being played
between Chuck McCann and Ted Stone and their respective dates. The police went
down Webster, cruised the picture window in the pong room, and turned around in
the Aquinas House driveway before heading the opposite way on Webster. Later it
was learned that the main frame computer at Kiewit had disappeared during the
same hours as the ping-pong match. The police CB raido was so clogged with
talk of the naked Ping-pong match that info on the crime could not be relayed to
the officers on duty. No connection between the two events was ever proven but
it was noted that Thomas Crown had checked into the Hanover Inn that weekend.
Jeff Reed
Dan Sheedy
Of course, it
is a true story!!! At least, most of it.
Just rewatched
original Thomas Crown affair (McQueen) and found it enjoyable. Recognized
some of the Boston locations from my time there. Doesn't it make you feel
good to know that guyly guys like Thomas Crown, Harrison Ford's character in
Working Girl are more likely to be Dartmouth grads? I know it never fails
to please me although I don't have any reasons to question the guy-ness of other
school grads.
Ted Moynihan
Chuck, I think you've been deceived. That coffee table is part of the permanent collection of the Hood Museum, though not often seen by the public. And when Ceeps prepared the footings for the first pour of concrete he made sure that a certain trophy cup was placed in the honorary position for future archeologists to find and debate.
Ceeps, was the smoking light fixture one that Dave the Plumber installed, or was it some of Sheedy's work?
Jeff Reed
Could have been
Chuck when he was working for Dave Da Plumber. The plot thickens!
Dan Sheedy
Ted, I
never touched electrical. That was you and Chuck who started knocking down
walls the old-fashioned way (with sledgehammers) when I was in Florida (after
visiting Lex and Davey but not their future wives in Texas). When I came
back and saw what you had done I started knocking down walls, the new-fashioned
way, with heads.
Just like an
engineer. Why clean the kitchen, just renovate it!
Gary Mayo
I can’t speak
to the electrical conflagration, but I did assist Mongo one year with a surplus
Carnival date…..but it was 1979 or 1980………I had to bring her all the way back to
Laconia (where I was living), and return her the next morning so she could go
home to New York
Mongo is still
honing those skills today, I suspect!
Ted Moynihan
Yes, honing is probably the correct verb to describe it. Mongo has started an electrical fire in many a girl's box....
Jeff Reed
So I got the
year wrong. Could have been any number of years! I'm surprised Steve has not
responded with "I never touched those girls!".
Steve McAllister
What? Mongo
touch girls? (Who is Steve?) Mongo never deny touching (or using ropes
or feathers or other implements of pleasure)!! TK make many denials.
But not Mongo.
What, two
carnival dates? Not so! One of them self-dinged herself, "I can't make it that
weekend." But then she changed her mind on Friday afternoon and showed up to
surprise me. Well, it did surprise me.
Besides what is
two carnival dates compared with having two dates in the house at one time?
That was tricky. And only one of them hated me forever.