Original Jake Agenda:

Here we have the original agenda for Jake #1. As you can imagine back in 1992 we didn't have the new fangled e-mail systems we have today so we had to (get this) mail them. No, seriously we actually made copies and put stamps & addresses on them...

.......I am pausing for effect.......

Anyway - this is a great piece of history because it gives us the actual schedule of events... Well actually it really doesn't give us the schedule of events. It kinda just tells us where we are meeting for breakfast with no indication of what happens next. Still a nice bit of history and you gotta love the "JAKE" copied onto the paper as well.


Here's the updated agenda after some slight modifications. Dancer (who sent out the first one) had to go buy more stamps and re-send the agenda to everyone involved. This new agenda was more extensive albeit still sketchy and vague. One of the changes was to bring our golf clubs with us, excellent. Breakfast changed from Bickford's to HoJo's - also excellent. For my money though, the best line is "IF YOU DO NOT ATTEND, THE WRATH OF JAKE WILL FOLLOW YOU...... (not to mention you're a weak gutless fag)". Even with that, Cool Chief rolled the dice and risked it all by pulling a "no show".

2000 Americans

I think it's good that the Iraqi's came out in large numbers to vote and there was minimal violence. The plan to get us the hell out of there needs to begin to be implemented asap in my opinion. Ramp up the training of the Iraqi's so we can leave. Oh, and the next time we find out someone has plans to do America or American's harm we drop big bombs on them from far away. This bullshit of fighting on the ground with these scumbags and not using our firepower because we don't want to "upset" the muslim community is well, bullshit. Oh and Saddam should have been killed in the spider hole to avoid the carnival that's going to happen with his trial. If the international tribunal does not put this POS (that means Piece Of Shit) to death it will be the biggest joke since jokes were invented... or something.

Scum House:

As the bio on "who is jake" says, Jake was born in a place called "scum house" where Dancer and various family members (mostly brothers as I recall) lived for an unspecified amount of time. It was a happy place in a "hockey lockeroom" sort of way. It was a place for cards, hanging out and oh, I guess there were 1 or 2 parties there as well. Dancer and his kin were not the only ones taking up residence there however. It was speculated that a racoon burrowed his way into one of the eaves of the house. His scratching could be heard during the many card games. Good times. One time I asked one of Dancer's brothers "hey is there anything to munch on?" He said, "um yeah, I think we have a banana and maybe some mayonaise in there." Good times indeed.

The picture above is scum house back in it's hey day (late 80's early 90's) and the one below is present day scum house. My guess is some respectable people purchased the place and fixed it up to look nice... Sons-a-bitches...

yeah that's a bogey:

(left to right) Cool Chief, Squirrel, Chag (me), Doc, Heff, Lt. Stalkfleet & finally Mashie on the end. Dancer must've taken the photo.

Here we are during Jake Day in 1994 (we think) this is close to the end of the golfing portion of our day. Par 3 158 yards slightly uphill with a big-ass bunker in front (you can see it between me & Doc). Nothing really more to say except this is a cool picture mostly because no one knew it was being taken. Oh and for the record I hit my 6 iron over the green chipped on and 2 putted for bogey. I was a bogey machine back then.

Why, what do you call it?:

I'd like to get this on the record and settle it once and for all. In the town I grew up in we had a name for sneaking up behind a car after a sizeable snowfall, grabbing the bumper of the car and letting it pull you for little while down the street. Yeah, this is what we did for fun, what of it? Anyway, in my town we called it 'mushin'. Good name right? This is what I'm sayin'. Well a few of the Jake Boys (specifically Stubby & Mashie) are from the next town over, a rival town yo. They call it, and get this... 'ski patrolling'. I can barely type it without laughing my ass off it's so queer. The thing about it is, I know these guys and they just HAVE TO think it's queer too but they can't bring themselves to admit it because of some silly town pride thing. Other towns in the area have other names for it like skitchn', bumper jumpin', hookin' etc. but mushin' is unquestionably the best. Wouldn't y'all agree?

Cool Chief joins the fold:

One of the absolute tragedy’s of Jake Day is that Cool Chief pictured above (2nd from the right) just didn’t make the first Jake Day. I’m not clear on the reason but suffice to say the man’s not a founding member because of it and let me tell you people, this will haunt him for the rest of his natural life. “Chiefy” was and is an integral member of our group of friends but he just happened to “mail it in” on this day of days. This picture was taken on Jake Day but no one is sure of the year. We’re kinda guessing ’94. Hail to the Chief y’all!

Others in the picture (starting at left) Heff, Mashie (wearing my jacket), Lt. Stalkfleet & Dancer at the far right.