Friday, June 3, 2011

Bag Of Hammers: A Convoluted History

Okay, this is gonna look bad. I have two kids, a full time job, an ant-infested house and a cat that would rather piss on the dining room floor than use a litter that hasn't been cleaned in 12 hours... what I'm trying to say is that I shouldn't have time to plot the lineage of the Bag Of Hammers, in Excel, back to 2006 using old email lists. But that is what I did. Because I care. And also because I'm lame.

Behold (click to enlarge):

So, yeah. Let me know if anything looks off (i.e. if you were not recruited by whom I thought you were). FYI, "XXX" is the name of the Ultimate team circa-2000ish that eventually spawned the Hammers you now know and love (assumption) - think of XXX as the caterpillar to our butterfly, the Thrashers to our Jets, the "Mork & Mindy" to our "Happy Days".

(/Lame)

PS: there are some great names in there... Van Zutphen. Sawatzky. Knopp. Gallop. MacDonald. etc.

5 comments:

T-Rex said...

Dude, that's so awesome/creepy/waste-of-time-ish it makes my heart sing.

I now feel like Halifax should offer a historical tour of Bag of Hammers-related sites (eg bars we've frequented en masse, locations house parties we've attended en masse, places we've individually vomited / done naughty things in our younger days (hey, sex sells)...)

/Goosebumps.

muiseam said...

Awesome and creepy - that's my MO!

muiseam said...

...but in all seriousness - it comes up every year, and the spreadsheet took ~30 minutes.

Anyone keen with Google maps can place pushpins at Cousins family restaurant, Cruddick's parents' backyard, JJ's, TUNS T-room, and anywhere along the walk from the Grawood to my old Apt on Quinn St to indicate places where I have drunkenly vomited in Halifax.

Unknown said...

frig, this is awesome.
based on this spreadsheet, aaron is single-handedly responsible for the greatest number of recruits/current players. sneaky muise, very sneaky...we already know how awesome you are, you don't have to try to be so covert with this spreadsheet...
aimée

T-Rex said...

From my May 18 email to the team:

Aaron Muise, long-time Hammer, maker of many sprints and the man who would be Rabbit (in the zone, anyway), Aaron's slowly taking control of the team as multiple additions over the years have been through him. The rest of you should know you're being molded in his image - he is king, we are but pawns.