“You know what a shit barometer is, Bubs? It measures the shit pressure in the air. We’d better haul in the jib before it gets covered in shit.”ĩ. “We’re sailing into a shit typhoon Randy. When he told everyone I was drinking again, he crossed the g****** shit line.”Ĩ. “You don’t cross my shit line, I don’t cross your shit line. “I’m sober enough to know what I’m doing, and drunk enough to really enjoy it.”Ħ. “I’m mowing the air Rand, I’m mowing the air!”ĥ. You might be able to fool the FBI, but you can’t fool the FB-Me.”Ĥ. “After you have one sippy-poo, you gotta have two sippy-poos.”ģ. I’ll get out of the way and let Jim Lahey-and the liquor-do the talking. Though he was so very different from his most famous character, Jim Lahey will continue live on in so many of our minds, especially when we’re having a drink. So to commemorate Dunsworth’s passing, I wanted to remember him in that way. But Dunsworth was so damn committed to his character-you might be shocked to learn Dunsworth was an avid figure in the Nova Scotia theater community-that he so very often had you rolling on the floor pissing your pants. If isolated, we’re not sure if Lahey’s quotes were all that funny. We swear the things that somehow came out of the man’s mouth shouldn’t be said by any other man. We respect the family's wishes for privacy at this timeīut like the German writer, Lahey was a poet. We're in shock and heartbroken by the sudden loss of our dear friend John Dunsworth. ![]() He was like Kafka’s vision of Metamorphosis, but drunk. We don’t know if he so much consumed liquor or just transformed into it like he was some alcoholic Animorph. This, we assume, is why he drank.įew things make us laugh harder than the sight of Jim Lahey, Sunnyvale Trailer Park Supervisor, drinking liquor. Played by the Canadian actor John Dunsworth who passed away this week at 71, Lahey evolved into a totemic figure, a symbol of being broken and knowing you’ll always be broken like all the things around you, but still trying to fix it anyways. As a character, Jim Lahey was real in the way myths are real.
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