THE HOO-GA-BACK-A, THE WOOLLY MAMMOTH

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OCTOBER 26, 2014 KELLY MOEUR

Kelly Moeur
Kelly,

Thank you for these 1958/59 masterpieces

I am very glad to have this first attempt at litrachoor on my part.

In those days, I thought that scientists knew the language of cavemen. The word for Wooly Mammoth was
Hoo-Ga-Back-A.  I think there was an animated cartoon with the cavemen chanting this and I thought it was a scientific fact.

David Hasselhoff's version of "Hooked on a Feeling" has this chant through it everywhere. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NGbv8IxCYY

Wikipedia says he might have got it from the song "Running Bear." Remember the joke in elementary school? "Do you like Running Bare?" Har har. I think you may have told me that joke.

Steve painted a picture of a Hoo Ga Back A in second grade back when we both believed the word was linguistic historical fact. We called this his picture of a Hoo Ga Back A. Scroll to the bottom to see this fine oil painting:

http://tomhascallcole.com/art.html

The bank robbery story is the promising beginning of a fine detective tale. I regret there isn't more.

Billy Eichenberger's effort was probably inspired by James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:

 "Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo..."

Anyway, here's my new archive on the web for the story:

tomhascallcole.com/mammoth.html

Yours,

Tom


FROM KELLY:
Brent resent your essay and asked me to forward it to you.

Not to take a way from your fine essay, but I am especially to the conclusion to the, so far anonymous "The Bank Robber".  The opening paragraph got my blood pumping.
km　I HAD NO IDEA THE TEACHER TYPED MY WHO GA BACK A STORY UP IN 1958! HERE IT IS. KELLY SENT IT TO ME!




HERE'S STEVE'S PAINTING OF A HOO-GA-BACKA"


WHO-GA-BACK-A


Steve's Cavemen Mammoth Oil Painting 4_18_2024.jpeg

Today at Steve's I took a picture of his Caveman oil painting perhaps 1959? I was glad. I was afraid it had been thrown out. A bit is missing, but an old picture I took preserves it for posterity. The colors in the two fodoes are really different, ain't they? In second grade I wrote something that fits the picture. The teacher typed it up. A who ga backa is a mammoth. That's caveman language.
Kelly Moeur

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6/6/13, 9:00 AM
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Kelly, Thanks very much for coming by last night. It was very kind of you to come. Yours, Tom

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6/7/13, 1:06 PM
Kelly

We enjoyed the evening.  Expect to see us again.
 
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7/18/13, 9:46 AM
Kelly

I just discovered this message feature in Facebook.  (I am more of a voyeur than a user).  I got Sally's book yesterday, not at Amazon, but at Changing Hands, like a real man.  I read about half and will probably finish it today.
 
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Ah, thanks, Kelly, my most excellent friend. I'll tell Sally that you got the book. She'll be glad to have had a sale at groping hands.

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I forgot to mention the bonus feature.  It was signed.
 
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7/18/13, 10:31 AM
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Well, that was a very good idea of hers. People who might not have purchased will thumb through the book and decide to buy it because of its added value with the author's signature.

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9/10/19, 7:54 AM
Kelly

Tom, I've been asked to get you to the Tempe High Reunion.  A planning meeting was held last night, and you, Steve, Jan, and John Hudnall were missing from the confirmation list.  Remember, it will be the Social Event of the Season.
 
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9/11/19, 9:43 AM
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I made plans to be out of town before I knew the date of the reunion. I really don't know anybody except maybe you and nobody really knows me. I went ten years ago to the Daley Park party and I remember seeing Richard Carbajal and that was about all I remember. I saw Jan too, but I see him a lot anyhow. I see Sid and

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Boyer too.

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9/11/19, 1:30 PM
Kelly

Boyer for sure.  Grady was asking about him .  Please let him know.   Brent and Greg Campbell will be there too.
 
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5/20/20, 6:38 PM
Kelly

Tom,  I wanted to thank you for spending $10 for that map of Tempe. You may or may not know, but our house was the first completed on Broadmor Dr. We were so new that we didn't have in house phone service.  The phone company put a phone booth in our front yard, and calls were made and received from there.  Out going cost a dime, of course.  That lasted about 6 months, until a couple of other houses were completed, and utilities were hooked up.  I was only 5, but I remember it well.
 
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5/20/20, 7:13 PM
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I'm sure the cottonwoods meant a lot to you too. In 1958 I wrote a story in Broadmor school and you sent me the type-out pages a few years ago. I don't know if I sent you this link but I wrote up the story in a memoir of mine. It's CHAPTER TWELVE HERE:
THE GRASS ON THE HILL GROWS GREEN.pdf

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8:34pm
Tom

Hey Kelly!
8:35pm
Kelly
'Tis I, the Whizzer!
8:35pm
Tom

Matter-eater Lad!

Do you remember Loogy Lad?

I remember matter eater lad and I remember you sold me the Origin of Ultra Boy for 35 cents and I was in BIG trouble with my mom as she got wind of how much I had spent. 

8:37pm
Kelly
I barely remember Ultra Boy. Let me check wikipedia
8:38pm
Tom

Well, he was a lot like superboy, but Kryptonite didn't bother him.
8:38pm
Kelly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_Boy
8:39pm
Tom

You invented Loogy Lad. You said he could turn anything into a loogy.
8:39pm
Kelly
I was thinking that was made up, but I didn't realize that I was that clever.
8:39pm
Tom

I think that picture is the very issue you sold me.

Steve got your email, so I listed you as a facebook friend. Is that why we can chat?
8:41pm
Kelly
I guess so. I just got the invite clicked on it and there you were. I have never seen this feature before.
8:41pm
Tom

Well, I'm giving up my other web pages of which I have several. Facebook is good enough for me.
8:41pm
Kelly
Are you guys going to the reunion?
8:42pm
Tom

Not if there's a prayer.
8:42pm
Kelly
Steve is leading us.
I'm calling on Allah to let us bring glass bottles to Daley Park.
8:43pm
Tom

Well, one of the Buffs on the web refers to allah sometimes in her post and she will be unhappy when the prayer ends with a reference to "our Lord Jesus" as they did in the first reunion. I'm very serious about this.
8:44pm
Kelly
I don't mind if they invoke our Lord Jesus, if I get a new refrigerator out of it.
I will be unhappy if they even pray.
8:45pm
Tom

Well, I'm going to email John Ditsworth and see if this is going to happen again. If it is I just can't be there.
8:46pm
Kelly
I've got a CD of Hare Krishna music (produced by George Harrison) I might ask that they play that.
8:47pm
Tom

Well, it's going to be MCed and It's going to happen again. I know I must sound really severe and serious, but it's so offensive that I am going to ask John Ditsworth if we, the class of 69, are all going to be led in prayer by some inconsiderate, clueless, religious individual who will start listing our dead classmates in the prayer as part of his cover. If so, I will not attend. It's just too offensive and inappropriate. 

John Wood was spinning in his grave last time. I just can't sit there and put up with that. My sisters had their reunions and couldn't believe what went on in ours. Everytime I think about the last two reunions, the memory of being led in prayer just turns my stomach. I have no respect for anyone who is so thick, selfish, and uncaring that they would get up and do that.
8:47pm
Kelly
You should make the Daley Park Scene. Brent is coming, and Greg Campbell will be there. And if we have to pray, we can pray that the bums don't steal our food.
8:48pm
Tom

Greg campbell's old hacienda is across the street.

Brent is on facebook too, I think.
8:48pm
Kelly
His parents are still there.
8:49pm
Tom

Have you heard from Doug Yount
8:49pm
Kelly
He is, but I don't think he really uses it. I'm registered, but I only look at it.
8:49pm
Tom

My posts are getting livelier all the time in Facebook.
8:49pm
Kelly
Doug does not show up very often. He was here in April, and had a little BBQ at his parents. That was his first visit in 10 years.
Jorge comes into town every couple of years. He is still as looney as ever.
8:50pm
Tom

So Jim Yount is still with us? I remember he was my dentist and when he retired I heard he wanted to practice guitar! I've always wonder if he did.

Jorge is a loon, but I like him.

I think Sid died, right?

Sid Rundle.
8:51pm
Kelly
He is quite good. He also makes jewelry and enters chili contests. He is interesting.
Some sort of seizure. His brain just basically shorted out.
8:52pm
Tom

Well, that could happen to any of us.

In 1989, Jay Whaley stayed at my house for the reunion.

Harry Mitchell was there. I'm friends with him on facebook too.
8:53pm
Kelly
We (Brent, Greg and I) are going to both nights. Truthfully, I think the novelty will wear off after the first couple of hours on Friday.
I saw Jay at that reunion.
8:54pm
Tom

I suppose I'll be there at Daley Park. I haven't talked to Jan in ages!

I wonder if he'll come. Well, I could call him.
8:55pm
Kelly
I used to see him at Broadmor and McKemy, his son was my daughters age, but I haven't seen him since then which was at least 6 years ago.
8:56pm
Tom

How old would Jesse be? 18 or 19.
8:56pm
Kelly
have you been watching the Tempe High website? At first I thought it was pretty silly, but I must admit I got into looking at the pictures and reading the messages.
Our daughter just turned 21. So I guess the same.
8:57pm
Tom

I have looked a little. I was sad to hear that Louie Franco died and apparently Steve Ethington would put down his gun when the police told him to.

wouldn't

A lot of people are dying. Paul Cherry, Kent Schafer, ...
8:58pm
Kelly
I saw that.
Do you remember Paul Cherry's webbed toes?
8:58pm
Tom

I think I do!

I remember he had been hit by a baseball in the teeth and they were messed up.

Oh, and Scott Cooper.
8:59pm
Kelly
That sounds unpleasant.
Quite a number really.
8:59pm
Tom

I'm fifty-eight! How long have I got??
9:03pm
Tom

Well, Kelly. I think the campfire's burning a little low now and it's time we lassoed a star and rounded up a dream or two.
9:04pm
Kelly
I see that you are a rider in the sky kind of guy.
I enjoy them as well. And I also am off to bed. Early day tomorrow. We'll see you on Friday.
9:04pm
Tom

Are you kidding? It took me TEN YEARS to get the fan club people to let me join. Look at my facebook page.

I've got all their pictures.

Okay, man. See you then, Saddle Pal.


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