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Harvey · Post by **Harvey** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 8:52 pm

samuraisumo wrote: So Harvey, can you tell us your favorite memory with Al and the Boys?

One night after a concert the whole band and I went bowling. Al, Bermuda, and I were one team, and Jim, Steve, and Ruben were on the other team. We won!

And I bowled a 198, my highest game ever!

Bruce the Duck wrote: Um.....you guys DO realize that this isn't really Harvey the Wonder Hamster (who is a fictional character).....don't you? :blin:

Bruce, is that really you? Long time no speak. We haven't talked since the, um... incident. How's the new gig as Shirley MacLaine working out anyway?

Kevbo1987 wrote: Welcome, Harvey!!! It's great to have you here! My question for you is, when have you been the most scared? Was it when that chef tried to cook you?

Exactly. Varna the Squirmese Cook, I don't know how Al was ever friends with him. It still gives me goosebumps thinking about it.

Post by **Elvis** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 11:04 pm

Harvey @ Jan 22 2005, 01:52 PM wrote: Jim, Steve, and Ruben were on the other team. We won! And I bowled a 198, my highest game ever!

What was Rubén's score?

Dave

WeirdMichaelFreddyJasonfan · Sat Jan 22, 2005 11:09 pm

Harvey have you ever pulled any pranks on Al?

Sat Jan 22, 2005 11:31 pm

Harvey @ Jan 22 2005, 06:52 PM wrote:
Exactly. Varna the Squirmese Cook, I don't know how Al was ever friends with him. It still gives me goosebumps thinking about it.

Al makes friends with some really strange people, as some of us can testify personally.

Harvey, did you give Bela any useful advice before she made her stage debut at OC this past summer? She seemed very nonchalant about it all.

Harvey · Post by **Harvey** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 3:09 am

Elvis wrote: What was Rubén's score?

Ruben isn't the best bowler in the world, let's just say that. I've never seen him bowl anything more than a 90 or so.

WeirdMichaelFreddyJasonfan wrote: Harvey have you ever pulled any pranks on Al?

I'm a bad hamster! On April Fools Day, 1999, when Al woke up, I told him that Zomba had called. They misplaced the master tapes for the originals on Running with Scissors and he had to re-record them all. He started to panic and was about to call Zomba but he saw that I couldn't keep a straight face and realized that he got pranked!

Orthography Enthusiast wrote: Harvey, did you give Bela any useful advice before she made her stage debut at OC this past summer? She seemed very nonchalant about it all.

Bela, Ruben, and I had to share a dressing room, so I did give her a few tips; the most important of which is something that I still sometimes have trouble with: the audience paid to see Al. You shouldn't upstage him. That means a few proposed stunts got vetoed over the years, but it is Al's show I guess.

Sun Jan 23, 2005 4:46 am

Well, in the case of OC, the audience DIDN'T pay to see Al. So I guess he was good for nothing.

Actually, he was great for nothing, but that would spoil the joke.

Insert Coin(s) to Continue · Sun Jan 23, 2005 5:39 am

Besides being a stunt hamster, what all can you do better than Al?

Post by **scottidog** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 8:44 am

So Harvey... is it all about the Pentiums for you? Or are you a Mac guy?

Post by **samuraisumo** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 10:29 am

Thanks for the answer, Harvey. So have you met Al's new wife and child yet? Are they adorable? (as in Nina?)

Sun Jan 23, 2005 11:53 am

It will be very interesting to see how a hamster evaluates human adorability. FWIW, I figure they both must be adorable, since Al adores them.