Warning - Comedy, The Unknown Stone
Date: January 2, 2005 00:14
With all the 'who is or was a Stone' Debate I had to pass this little bit of Canadian humour. I'm watching the Red Green Show Special recap show...Hindsite is 20/20. I believe this show is in syndication so you may have seen it, if not check out the web site. One thing we Canucks love to do is make fun of ourselves and this show is truly Canadian sterotyping at it's best ( if you live in the wilds).
So one of the regular characters...Hap Shaughnessy is a compulsive lier/story teller, here is how the web site describes his charachter:
He runs the local ferry boat. That much is true. Everything else he says is far from true . But he says it with such aplomb, and he can calmly answer any question, any nitpicker, any naysayer, that he should really be in politics. But then he was, "I used to be King of England..." Spy. Astronaut. Inventor. President. Race car driver. Brain surgeon. No matter what you've done, he's done it better, bigger, and with more beautiful women. He knows his stories sound amazing, "If I hadn't seen me kill that rhino with that spoon, I wouldn't have believed it could be done." He doesn't tell tall tales, these are...
Anyway....the bit they show of Hap is the time he states he was once a Rolling Stone, While Red is trying to question his story, what did you play...tamborine, hell no says Hap I played Guitar, of course REd takes the tack that OK you jammed with the Stones...OH no says Hap I played lead guitar, evidently a little known fact was that he had covered for Keith during a 5 month period in rehab...very hush hush. Far fetched you say, I don't know, he did kill a rino with a spoon.