Mark's K. Rowe Memories...

I've been haunted by visions of K. Rowe the last couple of weeks and need to exorcise them. So here are some random memories!

• One of the highlights of my young life had to be Shayne Keddy skipping school (outrageous!) to get tickets to go see the WWF at the Oshawa Civic Center. We spat on "Iron" Mike Sharpe and Brutus Beefcake gently manhandled Jeff Turnham when he approached him in the crowd afterwards.
• I remember in grade five or six Craig McGibbon cracking me up with joke versions of pop songs. He sang 'Solid as a Rock' with 'Solid... solid as a tomato?'. And 'Sexy and Seventeen' became 'Sexy and...four?!'. Funny stuff (at least to an immature ten year old).
• Just to clarify my 'petition against the Lord's Prayer' in grade 6--what it was actually against was the Lord's Prayer being read out by a primitive Stephen Hawking computer voice. Though I wasn't and am not exactly religious, something about this struck me as being wrong, so I thought I'd do something about it (I'm sure it wasn't just me). Hence the petition. No big deal, but the truly story worthy part is when Mr. Batten misinterpretted it as being a petition against him personally, and came and did some red faced screaming at our class about how he wouldn't be stabbed in the back. I thought he was going to murder me. Strange stuff. As for my petition against Nathan... who wouldn't sign a petition against Nathan? In fact I'm thinking of starting up a new one right now. Who's with me? Some K. Rowe trivia: Nathan and I (I believe) went to the same school from 1978 -1996. K. Rowe K-8, through Henry Street and McGill. Other than the occasional document signing to the contrary, we were pretty good friends all of that time.
• Was it Suzanne, Sandra and myself who got perfect spelling all through grade 2? That was the year of the Terry Fox run too, which is one of the few early events I remember clearly.
• Does anyone else remember at the grade 8 graduation dance all getting in a big circle and singing along with 'We Built This City On Rock and Roll?'

Just some random things that have been bouncing around in my head the last week or so. One thing that should be said though, is that along with all of these happy childhood memories is the fact that quite a few of us (including me) could be evil bastards, and seemed to have no problem with joining in on picking on people, excluding them, and just generally being part of deciding who was cool or not. So if anyone is reading this who we weren't exactly nice to and have been looking for some form of closure for 20 years... I apologize!

Anyways, I'm off to work out my all time K. Rowe Top 5 List. Good night!

Cheers,
Mark.