Lil’ Ear’s Fortified Breakfast
I just gotta tell you about Lil’ Ear.
Tim is his real name, but where I’m from, no one goes by their given name (As a matter of fact, I am BuelahMan because Lil Ear named me that many years ago). I used to hang out with Dog, LP, Skeeter, Elmo (or “Moaner”), Super, Hawk, etc. No one used their actual given name. I have been bequeathed many names, depending on my level of personal craziness/wildness (”Psycho Don” & “Honeybun Don” come to mind and deservedly so).
Anyway, Ear (Lil Ear’s shortened nickname when you weren’t in the presence of his uncle or cousins because one was the actual “Ear” then became “Big Ear” when the next “Ear” was born)…
I better start all over.
Many years ago in a land far, far away, there was this guy named Cale (but you never go by your actual given name, so someone named him “Ear”… he DID have very BIG ears in his old age, but that had nothing to do with the name).
So, early on Cale = Ear
Ear was fairly notorious around our parts for general craziness, pranks, and participating in a shindig or two. But Ear got married and had a son and named him Kerry (so a new “Ear” was brought into this world which promoted the original Ear to “Big Ear”).
Hence, now Cale = “Big Ear” & Kerry = “Ear”
Along comes Tim (Kerry’s younger cousin). Running out of “Ear’s”, they decided to call him “Lil’ Ear” and so the legend was born. He immediately earns his namesake of unmitigated craziness and previously unattained debaucherous “ear” behaviour.
(On a sidenote, there was born another younger cousin several years later who inherited “Littlest Ear, or “Stear” for short. As wondrous is the Stear legend, nothing can measure up to my buddy Lil’ Ear.)
Lil’ Ear Does Take a Bath (every now and again)
Because I enjoyed many great New Year’s Eve parties with him (and witnessed the legend first hand many times), I want to recognise “Lil’ Ear” as one of the all time greatest party animals to have ever lived (at least that I know personally).
I Luv ya, Man!
