12.15.2005

TOP SECRET SKUNK: You gotta love this.

Also, this will be fun: Laurel, Mom...where do you think his nickname comes from? What do you think it means?

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Very interesting story. Maybe he is called skunk because he had a white stripe down his back, in other words he was a coward, or perhaps he just never took a shower and gave off a very bad odor. I will try to come up with some other choices, but these come off the top of my head.:)

L. said...

Comes from when he was in the band and living the band life. He never showered and he smelled bad all the time...either that or he would "toot" a lot on the band bus and the roadies didn't like it.
L.

Scott Hess said...

Well, I don't know this for sure. But given that the guy was in a band called The Doobie Brothers ("doobie" being slang for a pot cigarette, aka a "joint") I'm guessing the name comes from his ability to score the potent weed, also known as the "skunk" weed.

Just a guess.

Anonymous said...

Scott, I'm a hundred percent with you...I would bet that this questions could predict with close to 100% certainty whether or not a particular person had ever "lived the lifestyle," so to speak.

Anonymous said...

Wow, that's amazing, I never knew that "doobie" was slang for a pot cigarette. So, it's true, you can teach an old dog. And, Scott, I can't believe that Bart would think that just because you talk like one and walk like one that you might be one.

L. said...

I'm with you Roma. Enough with the explanation of "pot."
L.

Anonymous said...

Just for the record, I'm not necessarily saying that anyone did or did not choose to inhale...just that for a certain partion of my generation the first thought that jumped to mind was "of course it means..."

L. said...

I don't know about others, but when we are getting high, stoned, whacked, or off our faces on marijuana in our house, we never call it skunk weed. We may call it pot, grass, weed, Mary Jane, Hashish, cannibis, joint, reefer, doobie, blunt, hemp, herb, bud, dope, homegrown, ganja, hash, gangstar, kif, chronic, or Acapulco Gold...but never skunk weed.
L.

Casey said...

I'm willing to bet that Laurel googled some of those. No way did gangstar or kif come from her vocab.

We used to bust out the Maui Wowee on Lochmoor! Yea! Woohoo!