Welcome to Bucky's Page!
(Figure One - Bucky. File Photo, 2001)
This is Bucky the Beaver's homepage, and it wouldn't be a proper homepage of Bucky's if it didn't explain how an ordinary cosmopolitan beaver rose to super stardom and became the spokse-beaver for Judinkle_land, the incredible startup internet destination that's taken its viewers by storm.
Bucky was born April 20, 1996, in Hot Springs, Montana, in the Cabinet Mountain Range. He performed as a street entertainer at the ripe young age of 3 months. He loved Hot Springs like a close grandmother, but he felt that he would only learn to appreciate the world and his humble home (a pile of sticks in a river), if he experienced the world around him. Like all people looking for the meaning of life, he went to Northern California. While there, he went to college, and played baseball. He was so good, he played at Beaver University for only one year before setting off to achieve the impossible: crack the Majors. He broke in and was an immediate success, gaining national attention.
(Figures 2 and 3 - A rare Bucky Beaver BLB card, front and back.)
NOTE: The walk is not an official BLB stat, but he walked 50 times in 1997, and 100 times in 1998. Walk stats from Bucky's alma mater, Beaver University, are not available.
As mentioned above, he retired in 1998, saying he wished to enter showbiz. He at first set out to do what he said he would, but then began to wonder, "What's the point?" When writing about those times later, he said, "That was an important point in my life. They said I had baseball potential, but I gave it up. I was at a crossroad, and I didn't know which path to take. So I visited Redwood National Park, an experience which changed my life immensely.¹"
"The trees were so big",
said Bucky. "It made me think about my potential. I mean, what beaver wouldn't
If he was standing next to a huge tree?¹"
He found his way to San Francisco, and as he was meandering about the dark,
foggy streets of a San Francisco night, he got hungry. He looked around for a
few hours, and then found a door with a sign that said, "Beaver Friendly
Establishment". He rung the bell, a young version of Judinkle_land's webmaster
came out, and the rest is history. "I find it ironic," the beloved bucktooth was
quoted to say later, "that I was always taught as (a rather pudgy young beaver)
not to think with my stomach... And yet, had I not been hungry, I never would've
rung the bell at Twenty-One Twenty Funston... Or as we now fondly refer to it,
Judinkle Manor... And then I would've just been another Hot Springs beaver... I
probably would've just founded a startup lumber company like my grandfathers,
but I feel that as it turned out, I'm making people happy... And no pine, cedar,
or even redwood is worth that...²"
Sources
1) Me on Myself, Bucky the Beaver, Wooden House Publishing, Copyright ©1998
2) Into the Depths of Bucky, Horatio P. Brown-Noser, Second Chance Printing Place, Copyrighted in Taiwan ©1997
Bucky is available for hire for Bar Mitzvahs.
(Figure 4 - Bucky
at Redwood Natl.
Park)