I have a few comments about this page:
1) I am not Stump.
2) This page is under construction so any and all comments,
suggestions, Stumpisms, pictures, etc., will be accepted.
3) I am the only human being ever to receive the official blessing of
Stump and thus authorized to write the offical Stump web page.
Offically speaking,
stump (stůmp) noun
1. The part of a tree trunk left protruding from the ground after the tree has fallen or has been felled.
2. A part, as of a branch, limb, or tooth, remaining after the main part has been cut away, broken off, or worn down.
3. a. stumps. Informal. The legs. b. An artificial leg.
4. A short, thickset person.
5. A heavy footfall.
6. A place or an occasion used for political or campaign oratory: candidates out on the stump.
7. A short, pointed roll of leather or paper or wad of rubber for rubbing on a charcoal or pencil drawing to shade or soften it.
8. Sports. Any one of the three upright sticks in a cricket wicket.
verb, transitive
stumped, stumping, stumps
1. To reduce to a stump.
2. To clear stumps from: stump a field.
Excerpted from The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language.
For those of us that have met Stump, it is truly an honor and a pleasure. It is an experience not easily explained. In fact, the only way one begins to understand what Stump is or what it is to Stump, is through experience.
Once again this summer I hope to challenge in the Stump Invitational Golf Tournament. It was an great thrill for me personally to be invited to the Inagural Stump Invitational. I hope Stump invites all of you this year.
I have collected a few Stumpisms and a few Stump songs. I know that this can not begin to help those of you who do not know of Stump but I hope that this brings joy and happiness to those of you who have met him.
Stump is a legendary, some say mythical figure who was seen in and around Madison, Wisconsin in the early 1990's. He is now rumored to have been seen in and around the Appleton, Wisconsin area.