Meet Dicky!
Full Name: Richard Pettigue Shields.
Place Of Residence: Mechanicville, NY.
Place Of Work: Retired.
Marital Status: Single.
Turn-Ons: The Knuckleheads; Camp; Lake George; fine cigars; Costanzo's (bar); illegal gambling; Cookie.
Turn-Offs: Sobriety; those who weren't in the war; liberals; "the poor."
More Dicky facts: The oldest Paht-neh to date, and also the northernmost Paht-neh...blissfully whiles away his early retirement in Mechanicville, New York, drinking Budweiser and spinning tales of his dramatic exploits during "the war" (which, for Dicky, took place in Alaska)...his longtime "Good-Hearted Woman," Cookie, paid The Knuckleheads a princely sum for the pleasure of horrifying the masses at his surprise 60th birthday party in Mechanicville, and believe us folks, these upstate rubes were most definitely horrified...after the gig, along with his posse of townfolk, got The Knuckleheads so inebbriated they couldn't spell their own names (the normally taciturn Spence belligerently exhorted a drunken Ted Turner look-alike boasting of his dubious Kingston-Trio-like guitar prowess to "go grab a guit-steel and show me what you got")...refers to all male paht-nehs affectionately as "Lads!"...wears his Knuckleheads T-shirt every single day...for his fine cigars, wine, Northern Hospitality, and all-around good humor, The Knuckleheads salute Dicky! "Amends, amends!!"
