Sunday, April 05, 2009

 

Atwood, the mischievous Pika!


Someone sent me this link to the William and Mary alumni magazine, which said nice things about my book. What I found really compelling, though, was the first thing discussed, a children's book about "Atwood the mischievous Pika."

When I was at W & M, IPLawguy, TallTenor and I were in Theta Delt, the slightly debauched fraternity which was next door to the somewhat formal and uptight Pi Kappa Alpha (Pika). Intriguingly, many of those guys had names like "Atwood," but they sure as heck were not very mischievous. From what I could tell, they spent a lot of time getting their bow ties done right, discussing the Von Bulow affair, and drinking things that contained fine English gin. But mischievous? That was, er, kind of our territory...

Comments:
Uh, don't you think "a work of legal and historical significance" is a little over the top?
 
... not that I've read the book. I can't figure out how to make Amazon work.
 
What's wrong with fine ENglish gin?
 
Er, nothing... and there's nothing wrong with being named "Atwood." It's just not so mischievous.
 
Fine English gin is great for those who have the money to afford such a thing. At the Bar at our Fraternity House (which I stocked for a couple years), we didn't waste our valuable dues proceeds on expensive liquor! Aristocrat Gin, Vodka and Bourbon were PERFECT for what we needed. (Unless of course somone with a military ID could get down to the PX at Fort Eustis and get us some of that Military Special liquor -- the kind with the gray and white labels)
 
OK, I just read the link...

Since when are Pikas rabbits?!!??

Everyone knows Pikas are Worms.
 
Wow, your bar was high-brow. We weren't quite as advanced in Oxford, OH. We favored grain alcohol and Hawaiian punch mixed in the ever so sanitary trash can.

Now I enjoy that fine English Gin with a few blue cheese stuffed olives.
 
Are we talking about Beefeater's? That was my mother's Gin of choice.

Now they have all of these other ones something Blue a blue bottle? or is it green? Tanqueray? Who knows. Tanquerey is the green one and there is like a blue one too right?

My mom drank Beefeater's Gin Martinis on the rocks with an anchovy olive. They tasted like Nail Polish Remover on ice.

I like Gin & Tonic, Manhattans or anything that is frozen and glows int he dark. I hate beer.

Hey Osler do you THINK that MAYBE you could find SOME OTHER PICTURE of your fraternity days BESIDES the guy throwing the keg on the green wagon or the guy in the big yellow hat????? Those of us who have been around for a while have seen these pictures many times.

I mean, you WERE in undergrad like FOUR YEARS, right??? You were not some wunderkind who started when they were 12 or something, and then got through in 18 weeks, right?
 
I just don't have many photos, Tyd-- those are from IPLawGuy! I was kind of a hairball at the time.
 
The blue-bottled gin is Bombay Sapphire. It's good . . . when I have it like twice a year.
 
Christine,

If you're still looking - we had plenty of grain punch ourselves back in the day. Perhaps a discussion of our Harry Buffalo party would be in order.
 
IPLawguy -
Finally we have something in common (other than knowing Osler).
 
Pika as uptight?

Whoa. Complete 180 from how they were at BU.

However, being "in the same family as rabbits" would explain something 'bout those fellas...hahaha.
 
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