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Grand
Marshall Scooter Pie
Motto
"NEVER A DULL MOMENT"
One
of the truly pleasant duties of being Boardwaddle
Hostess is the announcement of the Grand Marshall
2B.
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. |
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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
GM 2001 |
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