Grand Marshall Scooter Pie's
Motto
"NEVER A DULL MOMENT"

Yes, for the 4th straight year, the Boardwaddle will be lead by a dashing Tri-State male Alumni. This year's selection is a little more dashing than others. His last Boardwaddle appearance was made distinctive by his hauling his person face down into the dirt at the olympic events held in conjunction with the ceremony marking the installation of the reigning Grand Marshall Melvin. We liked that.

The designation is to honor the past Boardwaddle accomplishments of the Grand Marshall and his slave. In this case the honoree had some darn big paws to waddle in. Under prior management, tidy sums were raised for the homeless hounds most every year.....and Caruso even managed to snare a picture in the New York Times in 1999. That was the first BW and the first big press coverage of the event. The herculean duties of the last two years have rested in the slender young paws of Mr. Scooter ll Gallagher, of Pennsylvania, now Grand Marshall 2 B Scooter Pie.

GM2B Scooter Puppy, as fey affectionately called him, was adopted by Drool boss Nancy immediately following the passing of the noble Caruso. He directed that she get to work paying back Foster Coordinator Suzanne for finding him a great home with Wannabe Queen Happy the Bulldawg.

Not withstanding the many unprintable ways in which Nancy considered paying back Suzanne for placing Scooter Puppy in her house, he compelled her to continue her efforts to help the poor hounds of Tri-State by raising astronomical amounts of pledges and doing tons of work doing it. She has also been known to handcraft sculptures to pawction. We don't even begin to address what Caruso and Scooter Pie have gotten their slave to do for other rescues or bassets in general.

In 2003 Scooter Pie forced his slave to make over a hundred clay pins to blow away all past records in the pledge. He assisted this effort by attempting to re-craft most of the pins by eating parts of the unbaked clay. In 2004 he compelled her to break her previous record by hawking credit cards and publishing a cook book bearing his name and likeness. In Chew it Up a Notch, Scooter Pie carefully taste tested and prepared a multiplicity of dishes designed to tempt the palates of his friends. Scooter Pie placed second in 2004, having driven the bar incredibly high, he brought even more pledges than the year before. Besides, he has a darn funny pawsonality and will look good in the convertible. Rumors that the milliner to the Grand Marshall's has been asked to craft an ensemble featuring restraints are exaggerated. We kinda look forward to watching her try and keep him in the car.

Culling the list of candidates for this august pawsition is arduous in that many fine houndies work to help our homeless friends of Tri-State Basset Rescue. It is also hard, because year after year there are houndies that rise to the Grand Marshall level and choosing is very difficult for me, er, my committee. We love our short list and love even more that their humans make this a very hard choice......because so many hounds do so much to help the poor woofs.

GM2B Scooter Pie was gracious in his acceptance of his year of service. In part he wrote, " Please consider this my formal acceptance" ...unless of course, we have a convention. I will then give my formal acceptance of the nomination at that time, under very tight security, of course. I do not eat cars anymore and I'm very good at soliciting pets. The she-slave also says I will have to curb my amorous tendencies. Will I be the only basset in the car? If not, the she-slave says no humping the bassets-in-waiting.

I am honored to be nominated and I will do my best to represent Tri-State in Scooter-Pie fashion!"

GMs Maxwell, Melvin and I look forward to Boardwaddling with Grand Marshall 2B Scooter Pie...please join us April 15/16, 2005 in Ocean City, NJ.

doG help us all,

Cakie, Basset Hostess
Boardwaddle 2005