The Susquehanna Flotilla: Another Entry into the Big Book of Guys Being Dudes
In another example of guys being dudes, a group of friends out of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania started a tradition in 2018 of building a raft and floating down the Susquehanna…
In another example of guys being dudes, a group of friends out of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania started a tradition in 2018 of building a raft and floating down the Susquehanna River. What began as a small raft of a couple of wooden pallets on top of barrels has grown each year since its inception. This year's edition of the raft has 3 stories to it!
The guys say they came prepared with a travel grill, coolers, plenty of food, car games, and books to pass the time. Check out the story + video from the ABC affiliate in that Pennsylvania area.
My friends and I did something that was in the same ballpark as this when we were in grade school. Instead of guys being dudes, we'll call it boys being dudes, because we were young. Growing up one of our group's houses backed up to some "woods". Wood gets quotation marks because that word is doing a lot of work in this story. The "woods" were really a line of trees that separated the neighborhood from the other neighborhoods, but as a kid, things are always way bigger. There was a creek in these trees and we decided that we should make a floating fort... a real bunch of brainiacs we were.
Let's just say the floating fort by 8th graders didn't make it very far in production, but it led us to an even better use of our growing guys being dude's DNA. Along the edge of the creek was a large tree. At about 6 feet up the trunk it split into 2 large trunks that whet skyward. Our group of friends found a ton of branches, someone may have brought some 2x4s or larger for different parts. We had about an 8-foot roof over our heads made of large branches. Someone found a carpet and laid it on top of the roof so you were actually covered from any rain. There was a makeshift ladder nailed into the stump to get onto the roof. Once on the roof, you could climb another makeshift ladder to, what any good fort should have, the lookout balcony.
This went on to become our drinking spot for many years. We made so many great memories at that place. Avoided the police, met some new people, and just had a great place to hang out as a kid. I'm happy to add that chapter to the giant history book of guys being dudes.
11 Great ‘This Is Spinal Tap’ Quotes That Aren’t “These go to 11!”
The iconic cult classic This is Spinal Tap was released in theaters 35 years ago today (March 2.) It is easily one of the most quotable, funniest films of all time to the point where even the biggest rock stars can own up to its painfully true moments.
Obviously, the most popular line from the film is, "These go to 11," but there are so many other golden nuggets in this brilliant mockumentary. In honor of the anniversary of the film’s theatrical release, here are 11 other quotes from This is Spinal Tap that aren't "These go to 11!"
(Note: This list is numbered, not ranked. Ranking each line would be like asking us which Spinal Tap drummer was our favorite. It’s simply too hard of a question to answer.)
1. “Here lies David St. Hubbins…and why not”
2. “You don’t do heavy metal in Dubly, you know.”
3. “I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem may have been that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf.”
4. “Well, this piece is called ‘Lick My Love Pump.’”
5. “It’s such a fine line between stupid, and uh…clever”
6. “This miniature bread…”
7. “The review you had on ‘Shark Sandwich,’ which was merely a two-word review, just said ‘Sh-t sandwich.’”
8. “He was the patron saint of quality footwear.” – David St. Hubbins on the origin of his last name.
9. “We're very lucky in the band in that we have two visionaries, David and Nigel, they're like poets, like Shelley and Byron. They're two distinct types of visionaries, it's like fire and ice, basically. I feel my role in the band is to be somewhere in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water.”
10. “None more black”
11. “Well, so what? What's wrong with bein' sexy?” “Sex-IST!”
Erica Banas is rock/classic rock news blogger that loves the smell of old vinyl in the morning.
