WITH PHILIPPE BURNEY REWIND - MAY 3, 2002

Yeah that's right.  The winner of the poll on our website shows that Philippe's 20 Questions were the most memorable so he has been chosen to do a one time only 20 Quesitons rewind.  This will be nothing less than fantastic.  We pulled out all the stops in this interview and this certainly will be something that we will never EVER forget!

At long last, and after final edit by Leah, here you go.


1.  Alright.  In your original interivew you proudly admitted that you like making babies.  Is it true that the Burney family may have 5 or 6 members one day?

Well..........that all depends on how long the lovely Leah is willing to put
up with me.  Samantha is really starting to act allot like me.  And now I
understand why Leah tells me I'm a nut ball.  Three are definitely in the
works, we are making sure we are getting enough practice to
insure......shall we say.....a successful season when the time comes.

2.  What does a typical day in the life of Philippe Burney consist of?......does playing with your childrens barbies when no one's looking fit in there?

Barbie's are out of the question.  I start the day by changing Diapers (my
own first of course).  I then find my purple moomoo to change into and make
breakfast for everyone.  Then it's off to the shower.  This is followed by a
decision of which parachute pants to wear to work, where I spend the day
wishing I could be the webmaster of Peatage.com.  Then home for dinner and a
walk with the kids.  Finally I put Samantha and Cee Cee to bed and crawl
into my crib for relaxation and hope that mom is feeling frisky.

3.  Tell us a raunchy story from your college years.

Too raunchy for public TV.  Just ask Leah what she remembers about the
closet in the 3rd floor study room of our dorm.

I will tell a kind of funny one.  One night Leah and I got in an argument
and I downed a pint and a half of 100 Proof Southern Comfort.  I then tried
to walk (stumble) to the Frat house.  I was so drunk, apparently the entire
dorm watched me get stuck between two parked cars in the parking lot for
over 20 minutes.  I then proceeded to the bushes where I puked for about 15
minutes and then promptly passed out in my own puke pile.  My illustrious
friends hauled me back to my room, where I puked some more.  They stripped
me and threw me in my loft, where they promptly proceeded to cover me in
shaving cream and permanent marker.  They were, shall we say, very thorough
in covering my entire anatomy.

4.  On a scale of 1 to 10. 1 being a Skeeter Barnes and 10 being a Philippe Burney,
rate the following ball players:

Former Detroit Tiger all-star Skeeter Barnes=1
Bill Marken=8
Tim Orow with his cats=9
Tim Orow wihout his cats=7 (I like cats)
Matt Marken=2
The Brothers of Destruction (Jason and Damian)=4.5+4.5
The Sisters of Destruction (Samantha and Celeste!)=5+5
Former Peetage 1.000 batting average star Mike Mies=7 (only because he is a
former Peatage star, not current)

5.  You and Randy Dell are the same age.  Athough, you're much much older than the Krimm boys (The Brothers of Destruction).  So would you mind if we called you and Randy the Grandfathers of destruction?

Here's a better idea, how about the Masters of Disaster (after all we play
for Peatage)

6.  Are you sure you didn't earn the nickname "The Flipper" because of your tendancy to flip the bird repeatedly?

Well............It did get shortened to Flip.  And "Flip it" does rhyme with
"zip it", so why don't you just do that !!

7.  Finish these sentences: 

The craziest thing I did in college was Down a pint of Southern Comfort 100 proof (my drink of choice at the time, in case you haven't figured that out yet)in about 30 seconds.
One time my college roommate hit his girlfriend, so I beat his ass up and down the hallway for 2 hours.
My favorite wrestler was JIMMY THE SUPERFLY SNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKA
I really weighed 293lbs because I ate so many Peatage Pies
Carl can bench 293lbs because Casey will beat his ass if he doesn't
So good lookin, it turns me on, night all night keeps me up til dawn, the girls all call me WAY COOL FLIPPEEEEEEEEEEE
Leah's favorite thing about our website is she laughs when she reads it
If I could have another wish I would wish for a winning season (or Matt
and Casey to come out of the closet and get married already)

(Note to Phil:  By the way, we both have girlfriends at the current time, imagine that!)

8.  So, those are some pretty "big ass" pictures of yours.  Nads has been thinking about slimming down for the upcoming season.  So tell us your secret to weight loss.  Also why didn't you give us any good picutres of Leah?

Surgery and lots of Mountain Dew.
She's too self conscious.

9.  LIGHTNING ROUND!: Which does Philippe Burney prefer:

Paper or plastic=Plastic (because it is slickery)
Coke or pepsi= Coke
Sleeping in boxers or sleeping in the nude= NUDE (Just like Joey)
Firehouse or Ratt= Too close to call (I've worn out 1 copy of each CD in the last year)
Roth or Hagar= Roth DEFINATELY
Mary-Kate or Ashly=  WHO ?????
Barney and friends or those brain washing teletubbies= Tubbies baby !!!!!
Trojans or Lifestyle= Neither !!! :-)
Boys, girls, or monkeys= Yes
Hot sophomores or hot quesadillas= Hot Sophomores (I may be married, but I'm not dead)
Hanging the toilet paper so the paper rolls over or under= Over

10.  Question 10 in your first interview was "Your wife, let's just say is very attractive.  So tell us, how did a guy like YOU ended up with HER?"  I think this may have just been the question and answer to put you over the top in our 20Q poll.  So since you're such a good sport, think of some exciting, freaky, or off the wall question YOURSELF and answer it here so our 20Q creator isn't blamed with the filthyness.

I'm going to avoid Raunchy and got to off the wall.

What is the significance of the "Grey Ghost"?

The Grey Ghost is the name of my 1978 Mercury Cougar, four door I had in
high school and college. It was almost as long as a Limo. I bought it for
$400.00 when I was 16 and spent two years fixing all the rust.  To give you
an Idea, you could check the timing without opening the hood.  It was all
rusted out.  My first memory was driving into the hood on the east side of
Detroit to buy a new hood.  My best friend and I bought a 12 pack and left.
After 3 hours we found this mangy dump and managed to secure a hood of the
same color.  Unfortunately it didn't fit in the trunk, and not having any
rope we laid it on the roof, grabbed it with our hands, and drove 25 the
whole way home ( this made perfect sense to the two idiots, who were now 2
twelve packs into the trip, driving the car).  We spent 2 years sanding and
bondoing before we took it to Earl Shibe for a $99.00 paint job.  This is
where the ghostly gray was applied, and the nickname was born.  Over the
years we figured out that you could comfortably fit 8 people and 5 cases of
beer into it at one time.  It was driven up the hill at Hines Dr between 6
and 7 mile just about every Friday and Saturday night, and we all got
plastered to the tunes on the Hi Fi Stereo I got from Radio Schack.  You
would often find us blowing down the Detroit highways at speeds in excess of
100MPH and completely plastered.  I was once rear ended by another car doing
about 40 when I was at a complete stop.  In fear I got out thinking the Grey
Ghost would be put to sleep because I could see the other car was nearly
totaled.  In a true test of American Engineering, it had one small dent in
the bumper, and a cracked tail light.  The other cars front end tore off as
the tow truck tried to haul it away.  It was one solid car.  Once when we
cleaned it out my senior year in high school, we got $37.00 in empties out
of the back seat and trunk.  It never let me down, and (three engines and
two transmissions later) I sold it my Senior year in College (1991) for
$500.00 to an acquaintance at home.  Believe it or not, the last time I saw
it was 5 years ago.  The only thing that had changed was a little rust and a
rail road tie for a bumper.  It is rumored to still be alive today.  You'll
have to excuse me now, that was quite a trip down memory lane, and I think I
have something stuck in my eye. 

11.  Has Philippe Burney ever:

Rock and rolled all night and partied every other day= MANY times, In my
memoir's, this is the title of the High School days
Wrestled a midget in or out of the ring= No
Secretly wanted to join Backseat Rhythm= No(just wanted to do it)
Shoplifted= Yes
Thought about how lucky he really is to be chosen # 1 to do another interivew= Yes
Looked at Carl and said "Why not me"= Often
Just wanted to dance= dance, dance

12.  If you're so French then why aren't you as big as Andre the Giant?

I was, I made up in width what he had on me in height.

13.  If you were stuck in an elevator and could have 2 teammates with you,
who would they be and why ? (Assuming that your first two picks Casey and Carl are unavailable)

The brother of Destruction, the name says it all.

14.  Tell us something about yourself, (besides getting choked up when you hear the Puff the magic Dragon song which is now on your profile), that the team doesn't already know. 

I am related to the oompa loompas from the Wizard of Oz, and I secretly want
to be a Teletubby in my next life. 

15.  Has Leah done anything wild and crazy in her lifetime besides marry you?

She snuck away to Daytona Beach for Spring Break 1988 with an un named
accomplice and the Gray Ghost.  We listened to old (Roth) Van Halen and
Whitesnake the whole way there.  We packed six cases of Weidemann's Beer in
the the back seat and spent the week partying with each other and a bunch of
my Fraternity brothers.  She got so drunk the last night she was too hung
over to help drive back the next day.  She had spent the night partying and
having a bon fire with the camp site next to us.  Her grand total driving
time was under 60 minutes combined for the round trip.

Another is that one night we were driving out to the beach on my Motorcycle
(that I had been forbidden to own) to watch the sunset.  A completely stoned
office supply delivery guy hit us at 45MPH.  The joint he was smoking at the
time was still burning in the ash tray when the cops got there.

16.  What do you remember about the following years:

1984= The year I, shall we say, discovered sex.
1986= The year I mastered sex.
1989= The year I gave a whole new meaning to the word sex, and crashed my motorcycle with Leah on the back.
1991= Drank, got drunk, fell down, got engaged on Valentine's day.
July 21st, 1998= I have no idea....must have been drinking. 
2002= I became #1 in the Peatage Family.
2015= WHAT....You are pregnant AGAIN !!!!!??????

17.  In your first interview you were asked "If you could be Carl for a day, what would you do with yourself and to others?", and you responded with "With all those women he surrounds himself with, I don't feel I can go into that on a family oriented web page."  Your job for question 17 IS to go into detail on that on our PG-13 web page!

Since my wife is now an avid visitor of Peatage.com, I take the 5th and
refuse to answer on the grounds that I will get killed if I do.

18.  Word association. Mention the first thing that comes to you when you
hear:

Baby poop= Fling it !!
Randy Dell= Another guy who wants to go someplace that serves BEER after the
games
Casey and Matt know where you live= Thank god I have assault rifles
Best season ever=This one coming up
Hot sophomores down the hall=Backseat Rhythm
Tim Orow forming a Ted Nugent tribute band called Cat Scratch Fever= HMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!
Mike O'Neils chair= Fit for a king

19.  Team member Matt Marken is a fellow lover of the 80's.  The music, movies, clothes, and attitude was over the top.  Tell us a life changing experience that happened to you during the decade in which you were 11-21 years old.

On entry to college I signed up for the Freshman/Sophomore Tug of War.  This
resulted in one of the saddest days of my life.  Two weeks after I joined
they made me shave my mullet into a crew cut.  It was just one of the nails
in the coffin that houses the 80's, a sad end to an era.

20.  This is the end of your rewind Philippe.  You've let us know that we are sincerely more fun to play with than any team you've been on.  You've given us the privledge of being closer to your family.  You've given us some wild pictures of yourself as well as let us enjoy another interview with you.  This is the one and only 20 Questions rewind.  I don't think there's a dry eye in the house.  Tell us how you feel about being # 1 in the Peetage family?

I'm Veclempt, talk amongst yourselves.  Let's kick ass and have a Great Season, after all, Randy and I will be able to drink beer after the games now.


What more could we ask for.  This is why Philippe is # 1 !!!!!!  Thanks for a great rewind Philippe!