Creekside prowess, as this "Johhny 5" stays alive.
Friday, April 27, 2007
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
4 is lucky on 4/20
So the dude (pictured further down the page with his ace on 8) goes ahead and aces hole 4 today. Also of note, I had quad fours during a poker game later on. Gary Coleman was there, too.
Whoa dude.
Watch it man, there's a beverage here!
Whoa dude.
Watch it man, there's a beverage here!
Friday, April 20, 2007
Four Twenty
Yes, if your sextet gets literally lapped on a foursome's second round, you are moving quite slow, indeed. It must've been hard to stay upright as you looked for your lost drive on #7.
Yes, the stately drunk hag was there. "I don't want to be bit by your dog!", she protested, as though it was a scheduled event.
No, posting in your parked car with your tattoo-splattered roughneck friend doesn't make you look suspicious, so a mental note of your license plate wasn't taken.
The Ice Cream truck man would've banked a fortune this afternoon.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Catlike reflexes
A group had a lost disc on 9 the other day. After waiting for 5 minutes while they looked we called out and asked if we could throw in. They said go ahead. So Mr. Clean throws a rocket-like forehand and it's heading directly at one of the guys, who has gone back to looking at the ground.
FORE! !
He looks up a split second before speeding plastic connects with his man parts and with cat like reflexes leaps straight into the air, hurdling the disc. He indicated that he enjoyed the experience afterwards.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
"Spanish is a dead language"
So a couple of weeks ago we overheard this drunk guy ranting to his companion that, "Spanish is a dead language." Wow!
In fact...
In fact...
The Summer Institute for Linguistics (SIL) Ethnologue Survey (1999) lists the following as the top languages by population:
(number of native speakers in parentheses)
- Chinese* (937,132,000)
- Spanish (332,000,000)
- English (322,000,000)
- Bengali (189,000,000)
- Hindi/Urdu (182,000,000)
- Arabic* (174,950,000)
- Portuguese (170,000,000)
- Russian (170,000,000)
- Japanese (125,000,000)
- German (98,000,000)
- French* (79,572,000)
Good Karma at the Gulch
A happy one to offset skulls and semi-domestic violence. This happened a while back-
On hole 7 one day I found a disc stuck up in one of the first trees. I called the # and returned it to its rightful owner, who was glad to have it back. He proceeded to win the $ ace pool $ with the very same disc on doubles night! When I saw him after he gave me 5 bucks. :)
On hole 7 one day I found a disc stuck up in one of the first trees. I called the # and returned it to its rightful owner, who was glad to have it back. He proceeded to win the $ ace pool $ with the very same disc on doubles night! When I saw him after he gave me 5 bucks. :)
Homeless violent dude
What about that red-headed dude who's always threating his girlfriend? They camp out by the fence near the basket of #3.
The cops know about them, have cited them repeatedly for illegal camping, and then they walk away. That girl's going to wind up in the hospital (or worse) one of these days if nobody does anything.
Can golfers as a whole do anything? Most of the campers are really mellow and friendly, but people like (what's his name) and those skull-kickers are giving the park a bad rap.
The cops know about them, have cited them repeatedly for illegal camping, and then they walk away. That girl's going to wind up in the hospital (or worse) one of these days if nobody does anything.
Can golfers as a whole do anything? Most of the campers are really mellow and friendly, but people like (what's his name) and those skull-kickers are giving the park a bad rap.
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Ace on hole 8
I saw this guy throw a perfect backhand ace on hole 8 (short position). Very nice! It happened around the 1st of November, 2006, I think.
-Pizza Guy
Welcome to Cooper Gulch: The case of the muddy skull.
The week after I moved to Humboldt a partial human skull was found in the softball field. After playing a round and a half of golf with two buddies and leaving them at hole 3, I sent out the following email:
From: Pizza Guy
Subject: Nature's little frisbee
Date: January 30, 2006 10:56:46 AM PST
To: Long Arm
Hey Long Arm,
Did you guys check out that mysterious object on the way to hole #4 yesterday?
-Pizza Guy
From: Long Arm
Subject: re: Nature's little frisbee
Date: January 30, 2006 10:56:46 AM PST
To: Pizza Guy
On Jan 30, 2006, at 11:15 AM, Long Arm wrote:
We looked for it, but didn't see anything. We were looking near the fence/dugout area.....What was it?
Sorry I missed you at the course, but I saw a cool photo of a disc hung on a basket*.
-Long Arm
* my disc had somehow hit the outside edge of the basket and held on by the rim like a person clinging to the edge of a cliff!
From: Pizza Guy
Subject: ze: re: Nature's little frisbee
Date: January 30, 2006 10:56:46 AM PST
To: Long Arm
It looked to me like the top part of a human skull. I was hoping for a second opinion. Shawn reminded me that the course is on a graveyard...
Eerie, spooky stuff.
Yeah, that hanging disc was pretty far out! How was your game? Sorry I missed you, too.
-Pizza Guy
From: -Pizza Guy
Subject: re: mysterious object
Date: January 30, 2006 4:07:35 PM PST
To: -Long Arm
I just went over to Cooper to throw some discs and it was crawling with Sheriff's department, complete with shovels and rakes and dogs. Guess that mystery item really was a skull. Dang!!
-Pizza Guy
--
MORE ON THAT...
(note the keen forensic work)
From the North Coast Journal:
--
EUREKA SKULLDUGGERY: A person walking through the softball fields at Cooper Gulch recreational area in Eureka discovered part of a skull at 4:30 p.m. on Monday. EPD, Eureka Volunteer Patrol, a police dog and the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office divided the fields into three quadrants and combed the area searching for clues. Other bones were found, including some vertebrae, according to police. The Humboldt County Coroner's Office took possession of the remains Monday and a local anthropologist has also examined the bones. Coroner Frank Jager said Tuesday that from his preliminary examination, the skull appears to be that of a young Caucasian female, 25 to 35 years old or younger. Police recovered 75 percent of the skull, which, according to Jager, was "broken up pretty good." Jager also said that the bones appear to have been outdoors or buried in excess of one year, though they were not buried at Cooper's Gulch but placed there "by someone or something" more recently. An investigation is continuing.
AS IT TURNS OUT...
From the North Coast Journal:
--
Two plead guilty in Buhne Crypt vandalism case
Posted on Tuesday, June 06 @ 22:17:32 CDT
Topic: Vandalism
Vandalism6/6/2006
Eureka, California Eureka residents Marsha Markussen and Daniel Malin both entered guilty pleas to vandalizing a crypt and disturbing a corpse Monday afternoon. They are scheduled to be sentenced June 29.
Earlier this year, Markussen and Malin were charged with removing human remains from a place of interment and vandalizing and desecrating a tomb or gravestone.
The charges stemmed from an incident that occurred Jan. 24, when the Buhne Crypt in the cemetery in Myrtletown was vandalized.
On the weekend of Feb. 10, an informant came forward and told Eureka Police Department detectives that the skull found in Cooper Gulch Jan. 29 had been taken from the crypt.
The skull belonged to the remains of Kenneth Newett Jr., who served as Humboldt County District Attorney in 1914 and died in June of that year from complications from surgery.
At the time of his death, Newett, 49, had been married since 1910 to Sophie Buhne, one of Hans Buhne’s daughters, Jager said.
Markussen and Malin were conditioned on grants of felony probation, meaning they won’t have to go to prison at the outset. They will remain in custody until sentencing.
From: Pizza Guy
Subject: Nature's little frisbee
Date: January 30, 2006 10:56:46 AM PST
To: Long Arm
Hey Long Arm,
Did you guys check out that mysterious object on the way to hole #4 yesterday?
-Pizza Guy
From: Long Arm
Subject: re: Nature's little frisbee
Date: January 30, 2006 10:56:46 AM PST
To: Pizza Guy
On Jan 30, 2006, at 11:15 AM, Long Arm wrote:
We looked for it, but didn't see anything. We were looking near the fence/dugout area.....What was it?
Sorry I missed you at the course, but I saw a cool photo of a disc hung on a basket*.
-Long Arm
* my disc had somehow hit the outside edge of the basket and held on by the rim like a person clinging to the edge of a cliff!
From: Pizza Guy
Subject: ze: re: Nature's little frisbee
Date: January 30, 2006 10:56:46 AM PST
To: Long Arm
It looked to me like the top part of a human skull. I was hoping for a second opinion. Shawn reminded me that the course is on a graveyard...
Eerie, spooky stuff.
Yeah, that hanging disc was pretty far out! How was your game? Sorry I missed you, too.
-Pizza Guy
From: -Pizza Guy
Subject: re: mysterious object
Date: January 30, 2006 4:07:35 PM PST
To: -Long Arm
I just went over to Cooper to throw some discs and it was crawling with Sheriff's department, complete with shovels and rakes and dogs. Guess that mystery item really was a skull. Dang!!
-Pizza Guy
--
MORE ON THAT...
(note the keen forensic work)
From the North Coast Journal:
--
EUREKA SKULLDUGGERY: A person walking through the softball fields at Cooper Gulch recreational area in Eureka discovered part of a skull at 4:30 p.m. on Monday. EPD, Eureka Volunteer Patrol, a police dog and the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office divided the fields into three quadrants and combed the area searching for clues. Other bones were found, including some vertebrae, according to police. The Humboldt County Coroner's Office took possession of the remains Monday and a local anthropologist has also examined the bones. Coroner Frank Jager said Tuesday that from his preliminary examination, the skull appears to be that of a young Caucasian female, 25 to 35 years old or younger. Police recovered 75 percent of the skull, which, according to Jager, was "broken up pretty good." Jager also said that the bones appear to have been outdoors or buried in excess of one year, though they were not buried at Cooper's Gulch but placed there "by someone or something" more recently. An investigation is continuing.
AS IT TURNS OUT...
From the North Coast Journal:
--
Two plead guilty in Buhne Crypt vandalism case
Posted on Tuesday, June 06 @ 22:17:32 CDT
Topic: Vandalism
Vandalism6/6/2006
Eureka, California Eureka residents Marsha Markussen and Daniel Malin both entered guilty pleas to vandalizing a crypt and disturbing a corpse Monday afternoon. They are scheduled to be sentenced June 29.
Earlier this year, Markussen and Malin were charged with removing human remains from a place of interment and vandalizing and desecrating a tomb or gravestone.
The charges stemmed from an incident that occurred Jan. 24, when the Buhne Crypt in the cemetery in Myrtletown was vandalized.
On the weekend of Feb. 10, an informant came forward and told Eureka Police Department detectives that the skull found in Cooper Gulch Jan. 29 had been taken from the crypt.
The skull belonged to the remains of Kenneth Newett Jr., who served as Humboldt County District Attorney in 1914 and died in June of that year from complications from surgery.
At the time of his death, Newett, 49, had been married since 1910 to Sophie Buhne, one of Hans Buhne’s daughters, Jager said.
Markussen and Malin were conditioned on grants of felony probation, meaning they won’t have to go to prison at the outset. They will remain in custody until sentencing.
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