| WHY I BECAME A PILAM - Tony Storch 9/25/99 2:19am |
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As I grew up, I knew/realized/watched/sensed that my Dad's friends were different from other people (Nosebowl, BMF, Not 4 Years But A Lifetime, "Steiner is going to coach Nosebowl?") in that the same kids (Rossin, Sheldon, Ginsburg, Graff, Gutman) kept showing up in my life. It's not that I minded going to Gainesville, Miami, Sarasota, Pensacola, or Orlando...it's just that the same kids were there...and I wondered what was up with that. What was/is so special that my Dad schlepps our family around the state ("Lamnin isn't REALLY an *****"...
GO MOKE...) to grow up with these people? I was doomed to be a Gator and I was doomed to be a PiLam and for that I thank the Infinite. There is NOWHERE else that you could pledge the WORST constructed house in the history of Western Civilization (save some tenement in Watts or that apartment building in Taipei) and be with the best human beings north of Antarctia. In 1979 I THOUGHT I was snubbed by PiLam. The APES were quite accommodating (forgive me for thinking that).. I was like "OK...these ppl care @ me...a STORCH". I told Fernando I was going to pledge AEPi... (unintelligible reply). Next day, Keith Procter comes by... "Hey...BMF...". I was hooked...again--- to be continued |