Perth! Perth! Get off the Earth! - is a nice chant. People like it...especially if you're from Smiths Falls. My sons love it. They ask me to chant it whenever they play the evil ones in sports.
As a teen, French and the lads had a love hate relationship with Perth. We had discretionary hatred. The boys of Perth were all bastards, in our opinion, but man we dug the girls. Our basketball teams would play them often. The bus would get loaded up with three teams and we'd head off to Perth for a few games. Somehow French would always tag along. No one seemed to find it weird that French, who only ever wrestled in high-school, would be on the team bus. Sweaty didn't even have to sneak him on.
He'd disappear while the games were being played and he'd wander off and meet some pretty little Perth girl. Once, after a game, we were all loading the bus, and around the corner we see French fighting two guys as this mini-skirted blonde looked on. He put them both down and with his nasty wrestling tricks; gave her a big ol'kiss and ran to the bus. Some of the Perth basketball players saw the end of this and came running. A little brawl erupted as the guys on the bus piled back out. The coaches broke it up quickly. We always said that it was a short little scrap because we were tired after the big game.
French sure kept that rivalry hot. It was fun to play Perth the rest of that season...lots of elbows.
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Traditions of teenage tribal warfare amongst rural communities -- know it, love it! Nice reminder, thanks.
Ah Perth. Love that place. Ollie - these are great stories, man. You NEED to make a story out of them and publish it. People would dig it. I will help you.
mdog
Love that highschool rivalry stuff Ollie.
i have to ask. You speak of Perth and Smith Falls. Is McDonalds Corners close by?
~robert
Good stuff OO. Wish I could have recorded that and put it on youtube.
Country lads were always the most effective at throwin' the haymakers.
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