Bardic Legends, Tall Tales, Embarrassments, and Oddities!
The Floyd Story! (A Bardic Legend)
The Legend of Squeaky Spider
Jezzer's "No-No" spot
The Floyd Story (A Bardic Legend)
One dark, Bardic night...
If you come to Bardic, it's almost mandatory that you know who "Floyd" is. We were having a neverending story last June, and one of the names was "Floyd", and one of the animals "Moose". Thus, was Floyd the lost moose born. (He now graces our mainpage, and a picture of him hangs in the CUPS office to this day). Floyd, as the story progressed, as crossing the Pacific Ocean trying to find other Moose in Canada. He was set upon by Dudley Doright of the RCMP, aboard a giant vessel whose smokestacks spurted incense. (The Censorship). Floyd battled the Censorship all the way to a tropical island near Alaska (!), where there grew a giant Peach tree, with a sign saying "Take One". Floyd threw a Peach, clogging the somkestack, and sinking the Censorship. Thus, the moral of the story became (In one of the worst puns EVER at Bardic), "Free Peach will always destroy Censorships!". After this one, which had EVERYONE rolling about in agony, Floyd became a sort of second mascot to Bardic, and is invoked at least once every meeting.
The Legend of Squeaky Spider
Bardic's Official Mascot.
It was Samhain Fair, 1997. Before my time, in other words. But from this event of dubious success, came a particualr decoration that stuck with the CUPS office, and became synonymous with us all. Squeaky Spider, a giant rubber tarantula, now resides in the office, and is constantly squeaked, thrown, juggled, and worshipped (Not necessarily in that order) by all members of the Bardic Guild. I believe it was Laurie who came up with the CUPS National Anthem as a result of Squeaky Spider - (A blatent rip-off of Sesame Street's "Rubber Duckie") - "Squeaky Spider, you're the one....You make Samhain so much fun.....Etc...."
Yes, folks, we are just that odd.
Jezzer's "No-No" spot
So, here we are trying to get the tape player going for last week's meeting, and finally pushing "Record", what's the first thing the tape picks up? Jezzer, to Laurie, crying out that she had touched his "No-No Spot". I tell you, things like this are going to make us lose our pristine image. What are we, Pagans or something?
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