Subject: bigfoot
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Tue Feb 08 2000 - 05:00:06 EST
Here in Europe we're not surprised by what Americans
wear on their feet - whether soccer shoes or cowboy boots -
so much as by the awesome size of those babies. As Fats
pointed out long, long ago, those pedal extremities's just
too big.
When Matt turned up at Davy Byrne's last year he undoubtedly
drew a certain attention by resting his hand-chased, silver-spurred
boots up on the bar, but it was more the wonderful length -
& above all the massive weight - of the feet themselves that
drew so many admiring (if covert) glances. When I asked him
tactfully to put them back on the ground this caused rather
greater disruption with patrons being forced to divert round
them, or clamber over them - & several waiters floored along
with their trayfuls of drink.
When, some time later, we clumped out into Anne Street I was
just too late in spotting a couple of American tourists coming
walking down towards us from the direction of the Green.
You can imagine my feelings as I was forced to watch the inevitable
entanglement of US leather in the same way that some helpless
observers must have witnessed the engagement of the British
& French fleets off Cape Trafalgar. The Gardai Siochana
took some time to restore the flow of traffic.
In these parts, we simply don't have room for these extravagances.
Lucy will confirm that her own feet - like those of her friends -
measure no more than six inches from dainty heel to little piggies.
And mine are even smaller.
Scottie B.
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