THE BEAVER PRESS
August 28, 2006

BEAVER TESTICLE SPREAD

As the bible sayeth: "Put nuts onto others, as you would have nuts put onto you."

Up and coming Canuck scrumhalf extraordinnaire Lanny found the age old art of bagging to be a fickle mistress within the space of just weeks recently.

Lanny is seen here in his bagging debut amusing the crowd with the difficult "inverted hotdog" maneuver while Welsh urine drinker Arwel pretends to be asleep.

Just weeks later a three hour bus trip back from the Hat and Hotdog's defenses came crashing down and a set of old, old balls on his head was his reward.

In a startling coincidence, the training session after this incident saw Hotdog sporting a freshly shaven head.

It is unclear at this time whether Hotdog's new do was the result of an attempt to get rid of the crabs now infesting his hair or whether he was so impressed with the smooth feel of the close-cropped sack placed on his head that he decided to emulate it.

The Beaver will continue to investigate this peculiar case of Stockholm Syndrome.

RED HOT FAVOURITE DISQUALIFIED FROM OGILVY TROPHY

AFTER a near faultless campaign a brain snap in final two minutes of the season has cost Jamie Irvine the inaugural Coling Ogilvy Friend of Referees Award.

With an insurmountable lead on the competition Irvine looked to have the award sewn up heading into the season finale.

As he has all season Irvine played a magnificent match in his last for 2006.

Not content to take an easy yellow card with his "blatant punch in full view of the referee" calling card Irvine set about making the referee hate him with some fine verbal insubordination and an extended fight and seemingly had both hands on the cup.

With seconds left and the Canucks pressing the Rams' line Irvine believed he had wrapped it up when he began tap dancing on a Ram who had sealed the ball in the ruck, thereby giving the referee a chance to reverse a certain Canuck penalty in favour of the Rams and seemingly wrapping up the title.

Little did Irvine know that a rucking penalty is not a real penalty because rucking is fun and a core part of real, non-gay (read North American) rugby and therefore an illegal penalty in the Ogilvy award, disqualifying Irvine from the competition.

The disqualification handed the trophy to coach Guy Beavers who used his God-given English whinging powers to upset officials and direct resentment towards his team from officials both on and off the field.

Beavers stepped it up a notch in his final match when running out of officials and players to yell at he berated his substitutions for poor water distribution.