THE ROCKHOPPER

I looked at Bob's birthday song video with the penguins again and it brought back memories.  There's a one or two second shot of a Rockhopper Penguin.

John L. stopped combing his hair when he was about 12 and he always walked around town with these little tufts sticking out on each side like Dagwood Bumstad.

Katherine didn't see Dagwood.  She saw a Rockhopper Penguin.  She started calling John L. "The Rockhopper" which, absolutely, drove John L. up the wall.

As soon as we realized it drove John L. up the wall we all started calling him "The Rockhopper".  He was called "The Rockhopper" until the day he died.  That wasn't what killed him but it came close to killing him.