All of this was much to the chagrin of Big Jake O’Hurley the owner of the Hungry Bar Casino, thirty miles north of Spuzzum in Boston Bar.
The casino also housed Rusty’s Reach Pub which had their own human appendage drink The Pinky Plaster. Made using the shot off little finger of Seldom Seen Slim from an aborted robbery at the Boston Bar Gold Depository in 1912.
While a pleasant enough libation it never did obtain the caché of the Spuzzum Spinner.
While Big Jake and his pit boss Growler McDuff knew that a source for a more appealing appendage was obtainable from Steve Walker, who drove the HOT Wagon through British Columbia, his arguments of legal refusal frustrated their efforts.
Big Jake and Growler determined that their only course of action was to arrange for the theft of Stumpy’s donation … more
Further complications arise from Steve’s wife Kimberly and her disapproval of his employment. She does not feel that this is the best parental atmosphere for raising their daughter Stephanie. Steve confides his frustration to his hospital mentor, Dr. Arthur Nicholson. A retired hospital administrator who has volunteered his time as patient moral officer, Dr. Funny Bones.
With the theft of Stumpy’s toe, our heroes Hank and Howie are now beset with the problem of how to create, get, steal or devise a replacement for their lost appendage. Mis-adventure after mis-adventure besets our heros as they and the town slip further and further into economic and social despair.
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Kimberley
Joan
Gramma Taylor
Shorty
Wilbur
Granpa Taylor
Hungry Bar Casino
Rusty’s Reach Pub
Dr Funny Bones
Stephanie
Will someone be the next to volunteer a replacement?
Their problems are only solved when an unexpected turn of events beyond their control brings to Hank and Howie a very surprising and happy Christmas present, two human toes in a jar of vodka.
But who made the supreme sacrifice to make this a Merry Christmas in Spuzzum??!!
"Shorty" Herman Richler part-time employee at the Boot, Joan Webster, Hank’s wife, Wilbur Crantz Doc Winslow's funeral driver, Grampa Richard Taylor, Grandma Joyce Taylor or somebody else???
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Christmas in Spuzzum Canada
The garnish for the Spinner was involuntarily donated by Stumpy Brown in 1908. Stumpy had been prospecting up the Fraser canyon and returning to Spuzzum along the Canadian Pacific Railroad line when his mule Clarence took off in a run past him.
Stumpy quickly gave chase not noticing the train barrowing down on them. After years of dynamiting, Stumpy was a deaf as a post but not Clarence. There was not much left of Stumpy after the crash but his boot and the resultant garnish were found wedged into a tree.
Thus, when the Coquihalla highway opened Hank and Howie devised the name of their new establishment as the Busted Boot Pub and created their famous concoction The Spuzzum Spinner with the aid of Stumpy’s donation. Success and fame immediately followed … more
Howie
Hank
Busted Boot Pub
The Spuzzum Spinner
about Life, Death,
and Lost Body Parts … more
© 2014 Magnesium Entertainment - david@robertsonroductions.ca
A Canadian comedy play about life, death, and lost body parts
Spuzzum is smaller than a village located in the beautiful British Columbia Fraser canyon on the Trans-Canada Highway #1.
Desperation and economic hardship has set when the B.C. government put in the new Coquihalla super highway in 1986 that now by-passes Highway #1 along the Fraser canyon.
Yet Spuzzum has managed to survive these hard times by catering to the local and international tourist industry with a unique attraction at the Busted Boot Pub.
Hank Webster and Howie Mantell have created a legendary alcoholic beverage called The Spuzzum Spinner. A real human toe is immersed in swarthy mixture of liqueurs and hard liquor and the task is to drink it in one gulp and thus becoming "Spuzzed in Spuzzum" … more
