THE HEAP HUNTERS

Exclamations and Expressions

  • “It Needs It”

    definition: statement made when a task is needed to be done, like mow the lawn

    example 1: (while assessing whether the conceptual process (lawn mowing) needs to take place) Mary Antonini (elderly client): “It doesn’t %$#@%#’ need it!” Dave Mennig: (in a slight mumble) “yeah it needs it.”

    example 2: Bass: “Hey Mop, can I have a ride to NEPA this weekend?” Mop: “Well….. I gotta take my girlfriend to Allentown…..and then we were gonna go out to dinner……how bad does it need it?” Bass: “Well it doesn’t neeeed it….but it would like to have it.”

    What did it

  • “Yo that’s game, no one beats the Evans’!”

    definition: Beyond arrogant exclamation following a victory by an Evans over a basketball opponent, largemouth bass, whitetail deer, or anyone/anything at all.

  • “Children’s Children’s Heaps”

    definition: the reason for catch and release

  • “Stuck in the milfoil… with you”

    definition: 1. song parody sung while fishing milfoil 2. actually having a Heap “stu” in the milfoil, with you

  • “…a vote of no confidence”

    definition: angler finally changes the menu after fishing ineffectively with a questionable presentation

    example: Moppa: “Nothing says summertime – like red shad. Unfortunately it’s a rancid wooly bug…it gets a vote of no confidence.”

  • “The cosmos is on fire!”

    definition: The recognition of positive and/or negative minute nuances of human life, and their affects on Heap activity

    example: Evans: “Dude, the cosmos is on fire! 3 girls totally just checked me out in a row…unprecedented! And a full moon! We gotta get out on the water!”

  • “Key on Boat Noise”

    definition: angler is oblivious to how much noise he and/or his poopsie unit is actually making inamungst the work

  • Dwight Gooden

    definition: a good un’

  • “Over-slay my welcome”

    definition: angler’s respectful fear of imposing on a family’s private lake access
    (see Ress Family, Funder, 1993-Present, Ms. Sayre (RIP) Beaver Lake 1993-2006)

    example: Baker: “I think I should still just do the front half of the trip…I don’t wanna over-slay my welcome.”

  • “Don’t forget” (…to flick blades)

    definition: advice from a certain elite pro on a certain technique in a certain upper-section of a certain private lake
    (somehow it got reduced to just “Don’t Forget”)

  • “Ketchup and Mustard”

    definition: exclaimed when co-angler struggles to reel in slack after hook-set

  • “Thanks for Playin’”

    definition: statement made to a chip or unmentionable prior to release