It’s the season to resurrect all kinds of interesting crap:
— Santa sightings during the previous holiday season included one as Ellie’s on Main was closing who was a woman, true to the large size of the Santa suit, but still decidedly female, and a Plaid Santa that could rival Billy Bob Thorton’s Bad Santa movie character (and there is a look-alike of the actor around the Hudson downtown).
— One other holiday sighting that went way too far: The Village Inn in North Hudson for a long time had a two-foot-high ceramic version of Brett Favre standing next to its door, but (an apparently disgruntled Viking fan) lopped off the head and took it along home, leaving a headless Favre for a while around the time of last year’s Halloween. I guess that’s not as bad, though, as the guy who busted up a local bar’s washroom and mirrors a few seasons back when watching his Vikings lose a lead.
— This year’s Burger Battle will soon be in the books for naming the establishment with the best hamburger on the menu, and the Agave Kitchen points out on its omnipresent sign that it is the title contender. I wonder if that made bartender Andrea dance again heartily with the WWF belt loaded down with a huge metal buckle. It hangs on the wall upstairs in the Bullpen Cantina, and she’d have to get up on a chair and get it down.
— The Bullpen Cantina is where a guy had a little too much encouragement and decided to have some further fun. He spontaneously did a headstand in the relatively narrow aisle between tables, and was even able to hold it successfully for a few seconds before asked to take a more reasonable stance.
— Last year after a road trip to Lambeau, a woman said her buddies were leaving the stands to go elsewhere, but that she was REALLY thirsty and needed something before they departed. Buying a $5 water wasn’t the ticket, but a bystander heard of her plight, waved her down and said she could buy his “coke” for the same rate. This made three other bystanders suspicious and wonder if they should call the cops. I wonder if Dr. Pepper has this problem? (Or Dr. Feelgood). Ask Jess and Missy of Guv’s Place, who were near the front of a Motley Crue concert, just prior to football season, and were sprayed by water by none other than Nikki Sixx, who they said was outstanding. But then there was the singer for the other oldster rock band of the night, KISS, who they said just drooled.
— Last year right before Rich of Raley’s Pizza fame shut down his indoor-outdoor stand at Dick’s Bar for the winter season, two guys from Norway blew off his food, then apologized profusely and later hugged him. Then they planned to go off to Ellie’s to look for some women they’d seen, and were told “In America, it’s not all right to follow girls.” More apologies and hugs followed. Then before they left completely, they noted, “You know listening to OUR national anthem never gets old.”