Punxsutawney Phil's Cousin
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Pudding Hill Pete:
bq.
Pudding Hill Pete Weighs In On Pressing Issues
"What did ya bring me to warm my belly?" That was how I was greeted after trudging up Pudding Hill in Lyndon for my annual interview with the region's resident curmudgeon, Pudding Hill Pete.
bq. I handed over a bottle of Pomme de Vie Apple Brandy from Flag Hill Farm in Vershire I had chosen as my beverage of choice to loosen up the old critter and get him talking. It worked and what follows is a sanitized version of what was said. This being a family newspaper and all, I took out most of the profanity and crude remarks that punctuate Pete's normal conversations.
bq. As we sat around the woodstove in Pete's cozy burrow far below the snow-covered hill, he peered at me over his half glasses and asked, "Do those folks at The Caledonian actually pay you to write those columns?"
bq. I said yes.
bq. "What is the matter with them? Why, you don't know crap about crap. I could do a better job any day of the week," he retorted.
And his famous cousin:
bq. "Did you see the picture in the papers last year with my cousin Punxsutawney Phil bein' manhandled by them so-called handlers in top hats? Gobbler's Knob sure has a bunch of weird people.
bq. "Hrumph, Phil thinks he is so much better'n the rest of us cause he gets on television every year.
Heh...
Posted by DaveH at February 4, 2005 12:14 PM