Anybody Seen Mosquito?

 

Anybody Seen Mosquito?

This is a total non-sequiter line we used to say to each other for no reason. It comes from one of the great Hog's Hoedowns that were new years eve parties at Bill Hogan's parents house. Dave and Mae Hogan often left Bowman ave for out of town trips on the eve and Bill took the opportunity to turn the normally spotless house into a party zone for a bunch of drunken kids. Many stories and lines came out of the hoedowns and this was kind of a throw away. It was a year when some younger revelers managed to wheedle their way into the action uninvited. Some of the old veteranos were sitting in the front room smoking cigs when an inebriated teenage kid stumbled into the room and blurted out the question "anybody seen mosquito?" The aforementioned mosquito was actually the younger brother of the brilliant and future big time lawyer Richard Moskitis who was a friend of Ed Carroll. The group of younger fellas like Ed and Greg were included with the older hoedowners as annointed Gaters who qualified to party with the big dogs. So, when the raw drunken kid posed the question about mosquito he was answered/dismissed by a brusque response of "no man!" The older hippies had answered with just that curt reply and the poor lad slunk from the room continuing his search for mosquito who later was found drunk-sleeping on the back patio.