Favorite Stories

Flounder and "un-Fishbowl Etiquette"...
Email:jerrylaux@hotmail.com
Story: Let me be brief. Wait...better yet, let me be blunt. One of my favorite stories that hasn't been killed off by Buddy Lite has to be my fraternity's strategic
methodoligy of removing people from the "Fishbowl". The key is the sacred chain of command. You must have Generals as well as Privates. Anyways, long story short, we would send in the underclassmen to sit around the table loaded with cigars a blazing and be abnoxious like only a 21yr old can do. After about 30 - 78 minutes
the occupants get pissed off enough to either relinquish the sacred shire or just get the
hell out!!! That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Laters

Nelson Jacobus, the Piano Man...
Email: njacobus@yahoo.com
Story: One of my favorite college memories was Senior Week 1996. Six of us
went to Harry's for a 6 Long Island night (back when they came in tall glasses).
About midnight, it is just the die hard seniors and Piano Man came on the juke box. The entire bar stops everything and sings the whole song at the top of their lungs. What a way to remember Purdue: good friends, good music, and a great bar.
Thanks!

Chris Myszak and traveling to Memphis?...
Email: cgmyszak@yahoo.com
Story: A bunch of us went out that night. We got the fish bowl upstairs and
everyone started buying rounds of shots. Sure this happens all the time.
However, the next morning at 5:30am a friend and I were still up from the night.
We decided to flip a coin..heads-go to Memphis, TX..tale-stay at Purdue. It was heads. 15 min later we're on our way to Memphis. 4hrs later...we sober up and realized..."We're going to Memphis. Another guy that was out with us that night, happend to pass out in some bushes by a church. He said he woke up the next morning, heard the birds chirping, and saw a can of dip and half eaten hot dog lying next to him. Harry's Chocolate Shop - Thanks for giving us random nights of laughter

Ox & The Mother He Met...
Email: oxgt@yahoo.com
Story: I just got in from the Shop and had a way cool time. I met all these mom's
(it was mom's weekend) and one of them, Jan, wants me to marry her daughter!
She says its "cosmically alighned" or something. I dont know, maybe
she's hara christnia or something. I gave her my number to pass along anyway.
God bless Harry's. I love that place! ~oxrox

Erin's Extended Stay...
Story: I am sure many have had the same thing happen to them...but here
goes. It was a sunny Friday afternoon, one of the first after the infamous year
PU closed for the day due to the weather. My boyfriend and I were walking
home to Waterfront and decided to stop in for lunch and a Long Island (go
figure!). It was around 12:00 noon. At 10:00 pm, we were still in the
same corner booth, drinking our 6th or 7th Long Island. Harry's has
always been able to suck you in and keep you til closing!

Liana's Story...
Email: vrnica@hotmail.com
Story: i'm so glad you are on the web! I brag to all of my friends about
the best college bar and now I can show all of them! I love coming back
to visit and drinking it up at Harry's!

Sonja (Gunning) Nickels & Dad...
Email: sonja.nickels@burkettdesign.com
Story: Homecoming 1990 - I waited 1 1/2 hours to get in. Once in, I was
having a blast with all of my friends. After quite a few beers, I was
standing on one of the benches with my arms around 2 guys dancing. All of
a sudden, I hear someone say, "Sonja". I look up and there stands my
father!!! He caught me in the act! Ugh! They were driving through town
and stopped by and tracked me down! He asked me to come outside to say hi
to my step-mother. My response? "But I waited 1 1/2 hours to get in!"
The doorman ended up letting me go out and he said he'd let me right back
in. After a small conversation with my step-mother I came back to the
door and said, "Remember me?" The doorman looked at me and said, "I've
never seen you before in my life!" Then he laughed and let me in.

Cold Day in January...
Story: So I go to Harry's the night of the Superbowl to have a couple of
pitchers and watch the game. Is that really possible? To just have a few
pitchers... I have found that difficult sometimes. Especially when you
show up and there is a group of 25 guys there who want nothing more than
to wake up the next day and not even remember they were there in the first
place. So I grab my buddy and we roll. 3 1/2 hours later our other friend has to come and get us. The boys had decided to buy round, after round, after round, after round...after round...of shots to celebrate this magnificent event they call the Superbowl. By the middle of the 4th quarter we had accumulated over 300 plastic shot glasses stacked to the ceiling of Harry's. I am not proud to say I was there on that cold day in January, but I am pleased to say I was there to witness it and have the balance to stand up on the table and wobble that big worm toward the heavens with a glaze over my face along with a smile. Wow...

John Causa's "After Harry's" Experience....
Email: johncausa@hotmail.com
Story: This may offend some readers: In the Spring of 2000, there was a
lot of boozing to be done. Graduation around the corner and jobs being
offered. It was a usual Tuesday for the gang and I: beer, shots, and a
lot of laughs. The day was great, but the best was the story after we
left. After many drinks, one of my buddies apparently was going to pass
gas, but ended up going poopy in his pants. That little trooper sat an
entire hour in his own fecies continuing to drink. We had no idea(hard to
believe, but true). We were all wondering why he was just sitting there.
What a surprise that was, and a story to razz him forever. What a proud
day for us "Great Indoorsmen"!!

Sprinkle & Ferris...
Email: msprinkle@yahoo.com
Story: I have a couple favorite memories of Harry's. One was just after I
turned 21 and was sitting in the Fishbowl with my fraternity brothers and
Piano Man come on the jukebox. This was the start of me enjoying coming to
Harry's. When I hear that song, I still think of that night in the Fishbowl. The other
one had to be when I was a Homecoming King Candidate and Ferris let me be a guest bartender the week of the game. That was a blast!! Thanks Ferris!!!

Steve Records & "Ghostbusters"...
Email: srecords@nalco.com
Story: Like most Purdue students, Friday afternoons were always spent at
Harry's. Each and every Friday my roommates and I would get drunk and
play the song "Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker Jr. The bartender that was
always there hated that song and would continually skip to the next song
when it started playing. We would always bitch about it everytime that it
happened. To make amends one day, he sent our table shots of Jaegermeister.
That was the worst thing he could have done. From that moment on, every Friday
afternoon the rest of the year, we would play Ghostbusters and he would
end up giving us shots of Jaeger when he would skip the song. We must
have gotten a hundred free shots just from that song.

Paul Cruse & "Then We'll Go"...
Email:p_cruse@hotmail.com
Story: A few years ago, 3 buddies (one, Chuck, a fellow alum) and I came
up for a mid-week Purdue b-ball game vs Penn State. The other 2 guys had
never been to a Purdue game, much less Purdue. Of course Chuck and I had
to take them to our favorite watering hole, ON THE PLANET, Harry's! I
think we started drinking pitchers of Bass Ale about an hour before game
time. Well game time came; "let's finish this pitcher, then we'll go". Half-time approached; "Hey, you guys ready to go? No, let's finish this pitcher, then we'll go". Seems using the tix in our pockets had little value compared to the fun we had standing at the south end of the bar for 3+ hours (and we didn't get those tix for free). Also got to know our newest, bestest, now former bartender, Chris Paramatches (sp?). So we watched Gene's ball club win the game. We were still there when the after game crowd came in. We were still there when they went home. Around 1am we finally got up the motivation to leave, only because we drank the Bass keg dry! Everytime I go to Harry's something funny, crazy, or mind-blowing happens. Hope it never stops! GOing UGLY EARLY - Paul

Tim & "Love" at Harry's...
Email: tim@bryles.com
Story: I met my wife at Harry's on Nov 15, 1997. We are still married.