Conference back40::soapbox

    Morgan Fairchild, I'd like to go to bed with her again.

I don't think being infants together in a hospital
nursery counts as "going to bed together", but I
may be mistaken.

    
    i watch 'er'....which one is the physiotheripist???
    
    
    i have actually encountered a number of famous people...but the only
    ones i actually talked to were the lead singer and the manager of 'the
    spin doctors'...in a burger king on the mass pike at 2:00 in the
    morning.
    
    but, you can add to my list of sightings:
     williard scott (on an airplane from florida to mass)
     angie dickenson (in the airport)
     susan warnick (local news lady) (also in the airport)
     2 other news people who's name currently escape me... (airport)
     the drummer of david lee roth's band (got his piccie somewhere) (in a
       hotel lobby in worcester)
     yasmine bleethe (was on 'one life to live' but is the new chic with 
       long brown hair and big blue eyes on 'bay watch') (at quincy market)
     ricky paull (yasmine's boyfriend, who is also a soap actor) (at q.m)
     one of the singers from the group 'the cover girls' (got her autograph 
      since i was in in the second row and she sat in front of me after her
      group was done)
     rich camarillo (former new england patriot) (at my high school when he
      and a bunch of others came to play basketball with our team)
    
    and i know there are a few more...
     

<---  Time for new contacts...

       I could've sworn raq wrote that she saw Willard Scott
       *from* an airplane.

    Linda Carter, I'd like to go to bed with her again.

    
    Played against Joe Theisman and Drew Pierson in high school....
    
    Intercepted a Theisman pass...
    
    Sacked Pierson a few times...

    
    GLENN....go to topic 46!
    

    >Morgan Fairchild, I'd like to go to bed with her again.
    
    >Linda Carter, I'd like to go to bed with her again.
    
    
    ...AGAIN?
             

	SCRWAM!!!! Joanne, please, I had coke in my mouth!!!

    re: .9
    
    I wanted to before.

    
    For a pro in action...

    Jim Bakker gave me a ride in his Lincoln Continental.

    Had lunch with Jack & Joanne Kemp as guests of Al Hunt and Judy Woodruff
    @ Vail.  Ross Perot was at the next table and came by to say "Hi y'all
    doon?!"  Actually had lunch every day that week as guests of the 
    Hunt/Woodruff duo.  
    
    Saw Ross in the mens room shortly after greeting all the folks in same.  
    
    Was rescued by Chet and Nat of Boston News anchor fame on Nantucket. 
    Our dinghy engine died and they towed us to safety.  
    
    Brian

	I went to an after work party once and all of the Babes were there!

    
    
    that should have read "twice" glen...
    
    
    

 Met Colonel Sanders once..he and my Dad were talking a business deal for
 my Dad's company.



 Gave Albert King a cigarette and bought him a ginger ale.


 Played pinball with Nick Gravenites in SF years ago.


 Jim

| <<< Note 261.19 by GAVEL::JANDROW "brain cramp" >>>



| that should have read "twice" glen...


	Terrie wasn't one for the 1st one, You missed the 3rd one. So ONE is
coorect... :-)

    
    Shook Johnny Bench's hand after a Bob Hope show in Vietnam in '70.
    
    My brother took a leak in the stall next to Daniel Ellsberg at UMass.
    
    Paul
    

	This is the NAME dropping topic, NOT the LEAK dropping topic! :-)

    	My wife and I were on Dr. James Dobson's Focus On The Family radio 
    	show as guest speakers representing Marriage Encounter.

    Never met Colonel Sanders, but I did meet his wife and daughter. The
    Colonel had a niece that lived in my town and we met them in Montreal
    at Expo '66. Spent the day with them. The old gal was a real pi~~er!
    
    

    Expo '67
    
    NNTTMHA

    66 ... 67     heck, I'm lucky to get the right decade.
    
    ;^)
    
    

    
    glen...
    
    terrie wasn't around during the first one, to my knowledge...so, at
    that time, we were all present...
    
    

    Re: .7
    
    I walked into a men's room and asked the guy at the urinal, "Aren't you
    Drew Pierson?"  He said, "No, but I will be in a second."
    
    -- Jim

    
    Chitchatted with David Packard (yep, the P in HP) - very courtly
    and down-to-earth individual.
    
    on same flight with  Al Haig out of Wash. National - didn't
    impress me before (the Reagan assassination attempt) and
    certainly didn't impress me then.
    
    would having an impromptu talk in parking lot (in Framingham) with 
    Bob Palmer count?
    
    
    
    

 I used to mow the lawn of the folks whose daughter was married to a guy who 
 was the bass player in Big Brother and the Holding Company..

 


 Jim

I've spoken to Steve Martin and Ed Bradley on a nude beach.

/john

    Mel Brooks & his wife (pagefaulting, gorgeous woman who played Mrs.
    Robinson in "The Graduate) at Caneel Bay -- Ah, her name's Anne
    Bancroft; plus Alan Alda & wife, plus other hollywood types there --
    the fella who played "Nels" on the '50s show "I Remember Mama".  Tony
    Bennett (in an elevator in Philly, 1970).  Various judges & WH Counsels
    during Watergate, '73-74.  CongressCritter who was running the House
    Assassination Investigations Committee, late '70s.  Several Nobelists
    in Biology & Physics, but I guess that doesn't count.  CongressCritters
    Kennedy, Drinan, Frank, Kerry, Brooke.  Cokie Boggs before she married
    Steve Roberts.  Mass. AG and future MassGov Scott Harshbarger. 
    Dukakis.  President-elect JFK.  
    
    As soon as I post this I'll remember what the Nels guy's name is.  I'm
    sure of it!!
    

    
    
    	Never met anyone famous....can't say I care to either....:)
    
    
    

    Does this count?
    
    Many, many years ago while working on the Apollo project, I "dated" a
    lady who said she had "dated" one of the original Mercury Astronauts,
    Scott Carpenter I think it was.
    
    -- Jim

    HTH.
    
    |-{:-)
    

    In a previous life, I was one of King Solomon's wives.
    
    Deirdre

    Shulamith?  Is that *YOU*??  SHALOM!!! 
    
      X:-)
    
      ^
      |
    Crown
    

    omigawd!
    
    Don't worry! I won't tell anybody about....
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!
    
    {gasp}
    
    BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

    So tell me, Shulamith, now that you're reincarnated as a fella, are you
    still able to ... em... errr... as many times during an... uhmmmm... as
    you claimed to be able to, as a woman, with me, now that you're a
    fella, as I saith?
    
    Best to answer true, else I may propose that a rather deep cleavage be
    visited upon you, as some minor novelist once wrote about one of my
    judgmental escapades wiv a nipper what wuz in dispute between two
    putative mommas.
    
    

    Oh Sollie, you're still a pervert after all these centuries!

    I don't suppose you root for Temple do you? In the NCAA I mean.

    Assuming you mistyped, well of COURSE I root for Temple, but against BAAL.
    
    Whoops, I forgot, the only things that "root" are pigs, which are
    unKosher and hence an abomination before the Lord, and I make a routine
    practice of chopping in two anyone who would dare to bring one to
    Temple.
    
    Bye, pal!!  
    
    PS, I always loved Naomi more.
    

    Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Maybelle Carter. Got backstage at a
    concert.
    
    Hank Aaron, Duke Snider, Mickey Mantle, Eddie Mathews, Don Larsen,
    Dick Radatz, Warren Spahn and Johnny Sain at various baseball shows.
    
    Jackie Gleason, Pat Paulsen, Jean Shephard (the writer), Andy Wyeth,
    Louise Nevelson, Zero Mostel, General Westmoreland.
    
    Waylon Jennings, Webb Pierce, the Wilburn Brothers, Lester Flatt and 
    Loretta Lynn of C&W "stars". 
    
    The bowler, Earl Anthony. The first "millionaire" bowler.
    
    People I would love to meet: Sir Edmund Hillary, Jonas Salk and the 
    Apollo 11 astronauts.
    
    

    jfk jr. at a party 16 years ago, jimmy carter, walter mondale, tip
    o'neill and cardinal law, also a long time ago.
    
    bob copeland, chuck kramer and susan wornik (local news celebs), at a 
    liqour store i worked at on the cape.
    
    when i was in the 6th grade in maine, stephen king was my english
    teacher, (he was still writing as bachman at the time, so no one had
    really heard of him yet).
    
    noel paul stuki (sp) of peter, paul and mary at a fund-raiser.
    
    

Re; 47

> noel paul stuki (sp) of peter, paul and mary at a fund-raiser.
I believe the spelling is "Stookey".

Myself, I have never really met anyone famous execept I used to work
for Noel Paul Stookey in high school..

    

    
    my boyfriend met reggie lewis a couple of years ago.  he has a picture
    of him and the former celtic in his sports collection.
    

| <<< Note 261.33 by COVERT::COVERT "John R. Covert" >>>

| I've spoken to Steve Martin and Ed Bradley on a nude beach.

	That's when they made that movie, ATTACK OF THE 50' HAIRBALL  

	Between you and Steve Martin, there should have been enough hair for
that! :-)


Glen

The tall (6'7") Massachusetts teacher who was held hostage after the
storming of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran was my seventh grade teacher.

I rode on a plane with Arthur Fiedler. He acted like nobility in the
presence of peasants.

Talked on C.B. radio with Johnny Cash on I-40 in Tennessee - passed his
stretch limo and saw him.

Chatted with Elvis (yes, that Elvis) in his driveway on a Sunday morning
in 1963.

Chatted with Paul Newman in the pits at Laguna Seca.

Talked at length with Pat Schroeder, trying to get J. Lynn Helms fired
as head of the FAA. (Helms resigned.)

    President John Kennedy at the U.N.
    
    President Bill Clinton Penn Station, N.Y. (still have the U.S. Flag
    that he gave me.)

	Met Barney Frank in the gym lockerroom once. He had a heart attack
(mild one) about 10 minutes later.... :(

    Used to deliver paper to Bob Cummings (Used to be on Love American
    Style alot).  Met Rex Trailor on a few occasions!

Orson Wells was my second cousin. Our gene pool obviously didn't overlap 
much, though, especially in the weight and brains catagories.

    .56
    
    > Orson Wells was my second cousin.
    
    you're right.  you clearly didn't get much of orson wellEs' brains.  :-)

    
    While working in a camera store, I once served Geddy Lee, who had
    brought in his step-father's Russian camera to be repaired.
    
    "aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhHHHHHHH SALESmen!"
    

              <<< Note 261.57 by SMURF::BINDER "gustam vitare" >>>

>    > Orson Wells was my second cousin.
    
>    you're right.  you clearly didn't get much of orson wellEs' brains.  :-)

Well, that'll teach me to never trust oral history and phonetics.

Well Rodney John Diridon is my first cousin.

But probably only DougO knows who he is.

/john rodney covert

    Deb, i think they meant "go to be with XXXX again..." in real life
    while i'm awake... :-)
    
        - Lance Armstrong - Davis Phinney - Phil Anderson - Gagioli -
    
        - 'Becca Twigg 
    
        - Dalton Jones (my age is showing)
    
          
    Chip

    
    
    I went to a cast party for Pirates of Penzance (Sp???)
    in New York, with a friend who had a small part in the
    show, and ended up going drinking with Rex Smith after
    the party.
    
    He's such a cutie....
    
    
    Terrie
    

>	Met Barney Frank in the gym lockerroom once. He had a heart attack
>(mild one) about 10 minutes later.... :(

What did you do to him to cause a heart attack?

/scott

	Well, I had just come out of the showers...... :-)

             <<< Note 261.60 by COVERT::COVERT "John R. Covert" >>>

       ||  Well Rodney John Diridon is my first cousin.

       ||  But probably only DougO knows who he is.
    
    You mean "Rapid Transit Ron"????  
    
    -jer
    
    

    That's the one.  The conductors on my commuter train are grumbling
    about calling the San Jose Cahill Street Station "Diridon" as it was
    just rechristened.  
    
    DougO

    Well, as long as someone brought up that they knew one of the Teheran
    USA hostages, one of my close roomies at Haaahhhvaaahhd has been an
    Iranophile all his life -- meaning he was fascinated by Persian
    literature, history, music, cuisine... culture.  This was the early
    '60s and he thought the USA had done major crimes against Iran by
    installing and propping up the Shah.  He ended up marrying an Iranian
    woman he'd known since high school, joining some arm of the Foreign
    Service, I'm sure helping to mitigate the iron fist of the Shah... and
    for his trouble was imprisoned by the militants for all those months.
    
    Upon his release, he went back into the obscurity of the Foreign
    Service, and I haven't seen much of 'im since...
    

>    You mean "Rapid Transit Ron"????  

Rod, not Ron.

My Aunt Rhoda named him after my father, John Rodney Middleton Covert.

/john

    Flew to Memphis in '81 with the Celtics on board.
    
    Met country/pop singer BJ Thomas.
    
    Shook hands with Carlton Fisk and Carl Yastzemski on the field at 
    Fenway Park to receive a trophy with my Babe Ruth teammates.
    
    Shook hands with George Bush, then president and running for
    re-election, in Portsmouth NH during the '92 campaign.
    
    My wife broke up with then-boyfriend John Tudor to date me :^).
    
    Played ball against Ron Darling, Rich Gedman and Ronnie Perry.
    
    Literally bumped into John Laraquette outside the Four Seasons hotel in
    Boston.
    
    Had a quick chat with Peter Wolf and Ric Ocasek at Spit in Boston back
    in '82.
    
    Mark.

    
    
    
    Had singer Meechelle (sp) (real high voice) grab my tail while I was 
    working as a building engineer some 3 years ago while I was in her 
    room to do some repairs.
    
    
    Mike
    

    Kissed by Susan Day on my 21st birthday way back when...one of my more
    memorable kisses.

    oooo, i almost forgot. met Captn' Lou Albano in S.C. airport back
    in '88. he was siitn' there with a guy with a  3 piece suit -
    sans the safety pin in his cheek.
    
    Chip

Classy Freddy Blassie sat across the aisle from me at the world premiere
of "My Breakfast With Blassie" at the Thalia Theatre on 95th Street in NYC.

I went to school with the somewhat famous classical violinist Mark Kaplan.

I used to carpool with a guy whose wife's first husband won the Nobel Prize
in economics.

My brother went to school with Tony Trischka, famous banjoist, and Ben Burtt,
who won two Oscars for sound effects, one of which was for Star Wars.

 >> Classy Freddy Blassie sat across the aisle from me at the world
 >> premiere of"My Breakfast With Blassie" at the Thalia Theatre on 95th Street in NYC.
    
    I'll wrap you with my cain...you pencil-necked geek!! :-)

    
    Tracy Lords is my sister, hey she's ok, just trying to make a buck.
    So give her a break.
    
    Pat, does this help????
    
    Mark

>>    Tracy Lords is my sister, hey she's ok, just trying to make a buck.
>>    So give her a break.
    
>>    Pat, does this help????
    
    Mark,

		WhyIotta.....    :-)

    I'm sorry but Traci Lords is by no means ugly. You don't become a mega
    porn star by being ugly, nor do you crank out feature films and get
    guest shots on a highly rated network program by being ugly.

    Glenn

>                             nor do you ........................... get
>    guest shots on a highly rated network program by being ugly.

Wasn't that Warren Christopher on ABC News last night?

    
    
    well, glenn, she does have one hell of a body, so my guess is that it
    makes up for the rest of her...
    
    

    .Wasn't that Warren Christopher on ABC News last night?
    
     Yeah, but he didn't get on _because_ he's ugly, he got on because no
    one's ever seen a corpse speak before. 

    ahh yes, Freddie Balssie... he used to show up with a file and
    file his teeth. one of his trademarks was biting opponents on
    the forehead - or so i've heard :-)
    
    Chip

    Well, I saw her face on the cover of one of her recently released
    videos (not porn) and her face looked fine to me. Could it be that
    they're making her look bad on purpose, sort of an ugly duckling ploy?

    Denise Crosby was in the aforementioned film.

    Glenn

  Who the heck is Traci Lords?

  Some relation to Jack? Or was that Lord?

  George

    Go to your local movie risky and they'll show you.

    .83
    If you really don`t know, traci was a porno star in the 70`s-8-`s who
    was only 15 years old when she started. She posed for Playboy and when
    asked how old she was she said she had turned 18 the day before. All
    the videos in the market place of her had to be pulled because of the
    child pornography laws. The distributers just recently lost (I think)
    their appeal at the U.S.S.C.
    
    She has been trying for the last several years to lead a clean life and
    I think she is married and has a daughter and is about 25 years old.

Didn't Traci Lords play the part of the Post Mistress in The Tommyknockers?

    I can't say that I've followed Traci's lustrious career.

Traci Lords

Filmography...

 1. Bandit: Bandit's Silver Angel (TV) 1994 [Angel] 
 2. Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II 1994 [Norma] 
 3. Serial Mom 1994 [Carl's Date] 
 4. "Tommyknockers, The" (mini) 1993 [Nancy] 
 5. Desperate Crimes 1993 [Laura] 
 6. Ice 1993 [Ellen] 
 7. Intent to Kill (1993) 1993 [Vickie] 
 8. Laser Moon 1992 
 9. Murder in High Places (TV) 1991 [Diane] 
 10. Raw Nerve 1991 [Gina Clayton] 
 11. Shock 'Em Dead 1991 [Lindsay Roberts] 
 12. Time to Die, A (1991) 1991 
 13. Cry-Baby 1990 [Wanda] 
 14. Fast Food 1989 [Dixie Love] 
 15. Hollywood Boulevard II 1989 
 16. Not of This Earth (1988) 1988 [Nadine] 

| <<< Note 261.71 by MAIL2::CRANE >>>


| Kissed by Susan Day on my 21st birthday way back when...one of my more
| memorable kisses.


	Was it sooooo long ago that she still had the braces on her teeth???

    well now let me think.....what was your question....oh ya, no her
    braces were off.

    Chatted with and was kissed by Ken Hodge (former Boston Bruin) while we
    were both volunteering at the Mass. Special Olympics more years ago
    than I care to admit (I was a teenager).  During the same event I met
    Joseph P. Kennedy III who was a student somewhere at the time.
    
    Since I used to do volunteer driving for Virginia Slims Tennis when
    they held a tournament in Worcester, MA, I have met and talked with: 
    Chris Evert, her mother, and then-fiancee Andy Mill; Gabriella
    Sabatini; Aranxa (?) Sanchez Vicario, her mother, and dog; Mary-Jo
    Fernandez, her father and brother; Virginia Wade; Pam Shriver and her
    ever-present ice-pack; Bud Collins; Wendy Turnbull; Jo Durie; and
    Martina Navratilova.
    
    At the US Open (tennis) one year, I had occassion to at least say, "How
    are you?" to:  Johnny Carson, Jimmy Connors, Alan King, Rosie Casals,
    Billie Jean King.
    
    At the Australian Open (when it was still in Kooyong):  Stefan Edberg,
    Mats Vilander, Helena Sukova.

What did you say to the dog?

    Hi Billy-Jean!

    I had the pleasure to watch one of the WFNX djs go sailing one nice
    blustery pring day after a long night of partying.  Mr. DJ repainted
    the side of the boat with the contents of his stomach several times
    that day.  Fortunately for me I was not able to walk too well and had
    to stay below or else I could have ended up down wind and down stream
    from him.  Rather funny to watch actually.  
    
    Brian

    
    
    I had Evelyn Anthony as legal council for my divorce.
    (A very good friend was related to her, and got her to 
    take my case pro bono)
    
    
    Terrie
    

Who is Evelyn Anthony?  Earl's wife?

Bob

    Chatted with Paul Newman as I worked communications at turn 12 at
    Road Atlanta (he was watching friend, the late Jim Fitzgerald during
    qualifying).
    
    Jim Brown (ex Cleveland Browns) at LAX.
    
    Late Richard Boone at gas station on Wilshire Blvd; kinda strange
    seeing a guy pump gas for his Rolls :-)  He just grinned when he
    saw the perplexed look on my face.
    
    Boom Boom Geoffrion at Atlanta Flames game (he was coach at the time);
    quite the hockey player at one time, quite the character always :-)
    

    
    
    Evelyn Anthony is one of the biggest and best attourney's in 
    all of Massachusetts.  (She proved that to me....and my ex.) :*)
    
    
    
    Terrie
    

Not major fame here, but I worked with and am friends with John Harrigton's 
(owner of the Red Sox) daughter.

	I know a snarf!

    
    OH YEAH!!!!!!  
    
    i work with roselee modano...she is the aunt of that pretty darn good
    (and not to mention rather cute) hockey player, mike modano of the
    dallas stars.  you might remember that he was the one who got a
    concussion last season and when the ambulance drivers were putting him
    in the ambulance, they dropped him...
    
    

    >                     you might remember that he was the one who got a
    >concussion last season and when the ambulance drivers were putting him
    >in the ambulance, they dropped him...
    
    Well, in the fine tradition of Soapbox tangentialism, here is
    a story I read about 10 years ago. I no longer have the original
    text of the story, but I should be able to suitably paraphrase.
    
    There was a guy who had a Harley. He loved his Harley dearly,
    so much so, that he never let it sit out in the rain. Problem
    was, this poor gent didn't have a garage. So, instead, he
    would park his Harley on the front porch. Each night, he would
    install a plywood ramp so that he could drive his Harley up
    the stairs and onto the porch. One time, he got a little bit
    tipsy, and thus drove his Harley with a tad too much vigor,
    not only up the ramp, but through the front door. This resulted
    in our hero breaking his leg.
    
    The paramedics were called to take him to the hospital. While
    he was away, his wife decided to clean up the mess of gas
    and oil in her living room. Her modus operandi was to wring
    the rags she used to soak up the petroleum products into
    the family commode.
    
    Unfortunately, her husband was a smoker. When he returned
    home from the hospital and nature made its call, our hero
    proceeded into the bathroom with cigarettes in hand. Once
    sufficiently seated in the family library, our hero tossed
    the butt of his cigarette into the water below him.
    
    
		    POOOOOOOOOOOF!
    
    The paramedics were once again summoned, this time to aid
    our hero with regard to second and third degree burns over
    a large portion of his ample derrier.
    
    To add to the day's indignity, the paramedics found his
    new predicament so humerous, that they could not contain
    their laughter, and they dropped the stretcher, adding a
    broken arm to the festivities.
    
    And _you_ thought you were having a bad day.
    
    -b

>       <<< Note 261.102 by MPGS::MARKEY "Ban assault tuna sandwiches" >>>

    Well, in the fine tradition of Soapbox tangentialism, here is
>    a story I read about 10 years ago. I no longer have the original
>    text of the story, but I should be able to suitably paraphrase.
    
      PSSST!!   FREE CLUE!!

    Does the term _URBAN LEGEND_ have a place in your vocabulary?

Amos

    >PSSST!!   FREE CLUE!!

    >Does the term _URBAN LEGEND_ have a place in your vocabulary?
    
    Hmm. Yes, well it always did sound far fetched. It was just that
    Raq mentioned dropping someone on a stretcher and it made me
    think of it. I take it you've heard this story too... oh well,
    it _is_ Friday after all! :-)
    
    -b

When I was in high school, I worked at the Cumberland
Farms in "downtown" Topsfield.  Dr. Murray Feingold
(WBZ TV and radio personality), being a local resident,
used to stop there for (horror!) junk food fixes.

Dr. Timothy Johnson lived up the street from us.

These days, my parents are known to socialize with
General George S. Patton, Jr. and his wife.  Yes,
the son of *that* General Patton, and with a war
career of his own (Vietnam).  He's a gentleman farmer
these days and has named portions of his property
after his soldiers who died in 'Nam.

Those who grew up in the Boston area may remember
the clown called Willie Whistle.  He was also a
family friend (out of costume).  A nice man, whose
other job was as a VP at Channel 38.

    	Swam with Bob Maynard in the annual "Swim For Life", American
    	Heart Association's swim-a-thon, in the Boston College pool.

re .102-.104:

The usual version of that story is of a woman who sprays a cockroach in
the toilet with bug spray, then her husband comes home and nature calls..
A newspaper was fooled by the legend and printed it as fact..

    
    I was at a party some years ago being mashed by some dolt in a 70's
    style blue tuxedo with a frill down the front.  Turned out to be one
    Mark Snyder who had a weekly radio program for singles 8^p. He was 
    extremely offended when I admitted I had no clue who he was 8^).
                           

>    	Swam with Bob Maynard in the annual "Swim For Life", American
>    	Heart Association's swim-a-thon, in the Boston College pool.

Er, Dave Maynard, perhaps?

    	Er, yes, it was Dave.   Boy, I guess that's what you would call
    	really dropping someone's name!

    oh yeah, i used to work with a guy who's aunt was proposed to by
    Primo Carnerra... beat that one!
    
    Chip

    Who`s Primo Carnerra??

    Former pugilist, ah do bleev.
    

    yup... was a huge italian guy from the '40's era. was a touted
    contender, but ended up a heavy bag... :-)
    
    Chip

    I'm Chip Girouard's brother-in-law...
    
    						:^)

    great Tom... why don't just tattoo "club me to death" on your
    forehead. it will have the same results... :-)
    
    hey wait a minute, we can be mutally supportive... hey, a friend in
    the 'box, a friend in the 'box!!!
    
    Chip

    
    
    
    
    Yup, I hope you weren't expecting that to get you points. :')

Slight digression - I once saw a life cast of Primo Carnerra's clenched
fist.  It was the size of a normal adult human head. For a head, average;
for a fist, massive.

Art

    RE: .116
    
       >hey wait a minute, we can be mutally supportive... hey, a friend in
       >the 'box, a friend in the 'box!!!
      
    Hey, go back and read the title to my reply .115. You're on your own
    kid!
    
    						;^)

    oh, so it's the relationship as usual, eh?  :-)
    
    don't be afraid of these people... they're all barkers :-)
    
    Chip

It's been confirmed by an independent source (my mom) that
I hail from the same little town as widely-respected moderator
Diane Desmaisons.

(BTW, Di, my mom remembers your dad from his fight against
 that sewage dumping site.  And we're pretty sure he never
 arrested anyone in the Auman family.)

>>I hail from the same little town as widely-respected moderator
>>Diane Desmaisons.

	Two errors here - "widely-respected"....NOT!!  and it's
	DesMaisons.  Merci beaucoup.  ;>

>>And we're pretty sure he never
 arrested anyone in the Auman family.)

	An oversight, I'm sure, Jojo.  ;>
	Btw, my sister remembers Jan vaguely.

Sorry, Di...  that's what I get for rarely seeing
names in upper/lower case!  (But I still regard
you highly.     ;^)	)

Ask your sister if she was working at Busy B's the
summer that one of "the girls" got mono, so her
mother filled in while she was recovering.  The
crazy woman made kerchiefs and uniforms for everyone,
even sewed some new curtains for the place.  That nut
would be my mom.

(Unfortunately, it looks like our other common thread
is that your dad and my sis are buried not too far from
each other in the the town cemetery.	:/

       Had the opportune to meet:
    
    Earl Klugh - jazz guitarist, after a jazz concert.  Extremely modest 
                 and friendly.
    
    Pete Fountain - jazz clarinetist, after a concert.  Sent me boxes of
                    reeds and an autographed photo of his bald self with
                    the phrase, 'All the Best on the Clarinet' (my
                    performance instrument).

    Richard Burton (semi-swoon!) -- back stage in San Fran after performance 
    of "Camelot".  I was there to interview the production manager and one 
    of the lesser players for my college paper.  As an avid theater major 
    and mega-fan, it was most thrilling.  
    
    The one I regret missing was also college-paper related - as the Arts
    Page editor, I ran a series of features on the people who make shows 
    "work" - backstagers, musicians, road staff, bit players, etc.  I wound
    up with strep throat on this particular weekend, and missed meeting 
    Peter, Paul and Mary when we interviewed the staff at the Concord 
    Pavillion in Northern Calif.  Waaaaah!
    
    James Taylor - ran into him (physically!) in the grocery store in
    Newton MA when I was about 14 or 15.  Needless to say, I was struck
    dumb, as was the friend who was with me.  We were so shocked, we didn't
    even act like fans & ask for an autograph.  We just stood there and
    stared, stupidly allowing our chins to drag on the floor.
    
    M.
    

    I met Lawrence Welk and his father! :-)  

    
    >Sent me boxes of reeds
    
    Broken in, one hopes 8^).
    

I arranged for the blues singer Son House to perform at my "alternative high
school graduation."

Mz_Deb -



	Agagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagag!

ptui. blech.

    
    Hey, well, otherwise, what's the use 8^)?  If they work for Pete...

Did you ever look at the back of a reed after it had been in use
for an hour or so?

    
    Ever have somebody open his trombone spit valve when you were sitting
    under it?

    No, but I did get clarinet drool on the girl in front of me in the high
    school band and she was _not_ ammused.
    
    I was also doing a rehearsal for a performance of Gustav Mahler's 8th
    symphony as part of the All Saints Episcopal Boys Chorus, and they had
    us stuffed on the alter next to the Boston Symphony orchestra. I was
    one of the taller boys, so I was at the end (they went for the XxxxX
    effect). This put me right next to an extremely zealous violinist. I
    turned just a little to the right and... poke. Right in the family
    jewels with his bow! Ouch!
    
    -b

When I was in school, there were two clarinetists in the band who were
"an item", they used to soften each others' reeds before each performance.

    
    Now _that's_ love 8^).

I "rescued" Analee (Thorndike, of Analee dolls fame) and her husband when
their boat ran out of gas on Lake Winnipesaukee. 

Did you know that the dolls all look like her?

Art

    
    
    poor woman... 
    
    
    :> ;>
    
    
    

    went to high school (actually a private prep establishment with a
    2-year postgrad program for academy crammers) with jake scott, miami
    dolphins free safety during the '70s.  jake wore number 13, which will
    prolly be retired now that marino has inhabited it.
    
    jake and me, we got through trig together.  he was a running back then,
    before he went off to jawja tech or wherever.  i was not with him when
    he chose to practice his broken-field running on the dormitory porch
    roof one night in the wee dark hours.

    Seeing the mention of Fernwood 2 Night over in the Old T.V. Shows topic
    reminded me that I met Fred Willard (I think that's his name, the Ed
    McMahon-like side kick on Fernwood...). The Commodores were on the same
    plane and we exchanged business cards. A couple years earlier in the
    same airport, I met Little Richard.
    
    -b

    PS. the airport was LAX...

 no metal detectors?

    
    
      I lived in the neighboring school district from Jim Kelly (of the
    buffalo Bills), the East Brady Bulldogs (Jims high school) and the 
    Karns City Gremlins (mine) Are HUGE rivals. its been many moons ago but
    this fued got really bad after a most unfortunate accident on a
    saturday night game when east brady safety Carl Stimack speared Cris
    Andressi one of our running backs, well Carl broke a vertebrea in his
    neck paralizing him from the neck down. 
       Our team had NOTHING to do with this accident but we were blamed for
    it even though on the films it showed the illegal spear that Carl did.
    but anyways Jim hasnt changed at all since those day's. he does ALOT
    for charity work but he needs to work on his personality. 
     
        Also my Mom moved to East Brady in 1987, Jim kelly's parents still
    live there, My mom is a Paramedic, she has taken Jims mom to the
    hospital a few times. (her health isnt too good). 
    
                                                         Lee
    

I shared a...um...smoke...with John Hammond in the john at Paul's Mall in 
Boston. He's the one who got me to go to BSM.

Had a beer with Jimi Hendrix in Tuscon. He's the one who got me to 
appreciate alternative states of consciousness. (Actually, that's not true, 
but it sounds nice.)

Both encounters were many, many moons ago (lest you think I had a beer with 
Jimi AND Elvis).

    In 1983 I formed CompSync Incorporated, a company which was in the
    business of designing and building custom music synthesizer systems,
    as well as writing software for high-end studio systems (Fairlight,
    Synclavier, WaveFrame, PPG, etc.)
    
    My largest client, and one of the venture capitalists for my
    company, was Peter Gabriel, the former singer of Genesis (now
    a solo artist). My association with Gabriel continues to this
    day. I have his private phone number at his cottage in Box,
    Wiltshire and am one of the few people who knows the very
    very silly name he makes hotel reservations under. I have
    traveled quite a bit with Gabriel.
    
    Through Gabriel, I've met all the members of his band in the
    last 13 years. Through some of those band members, I've met
    other people. Due to the efforts of Tony Levin and P.G.'s cousin
    Stephen Paine (credited on the Security album), I met and had
    breakfast with Robert Fripp in London, and have met all the
    other members of the "Discipline" King Crimson lineup. I
    also met Kate Bush, David Lanois, Pat Methany, Roger Taylor,
    Steve Levine (the real "brains" behind the band Culture Club),
    David Geffen and Yossou N'Dour through my association with
    Gabriel.
    
    In 1985, I had breakfast in Boston with Frank Zappa. We
    were discussing synthesizer business.
    
    A couple years ago, I did a project for DEC with Charlie
    Farren of the group Farrenheit who, at the time, was also
    a DEC employee. Charlie and I became friends, and we've
    since worked on a couple of projects together. My association
    with Charlie, and his drummer John Muzzy, has led to meeting
    Benjamin Orr ("The Cars") and Brad Delp ("Boston").
    
    In a previous life in radio broadcasting, I interviewed
    Elliot Easton of "The Cars".
    
    My father used to make his living as a performer and session
    musician, and the list of people I've met through him is downright
    staggering.
    
    -b

    
    Are you sure you wanted to share all that?  Buck might be lurking 8^).

    Well, I'll take my chances. I think Buck and I have managed to smooth a
    few feathers off-line. Good thing too, I'd rather be able to list one
    of the best guitarists I've ever known as a friend...
    
    -b

    
    Too bad, I enjoy a good fight 8^).

    
    .144, Brian:
    
    Whew!  Finally got all that off your chest, eh?  Good!
    
    Now, tell us about the nurse you dated...     ;^)
    
    jc
    

    My geometry teacher in high school was a college room mate with ZZ Top!

    <<< Note 261.149 by MKOTS3::JMARTIN "I lied; I hate the fat dinosaur" >>>

    >My geometry teacher in high school was a college room mate with ZZ Top!
    
    The whole band?
    
    BTW, you know that "everyone is connected to everyone else by a few as
    five people" thing?  Does this mean I'm connected to Peter Gabriel, or
    do Notes files count as a connection?
    
    Jim
    

    He was roommates with the two bearded guys!

    
    That's right, Jim.  Two degrees (or is that only one degree?) of 
    separation between you and Peter Gabriel.  If you have anything you 
    need to tell Peter, just tell Brian and he'll pass it along!  :^)
    

    Okay, I think Peter Gabriel is great!  Please pass it on!  But I am
    curious about one thing:  what's his favorite color?
    

    What's his favorite color? You want me to make a long distance call
    from Massachusetts to Box Wiltshire, get the guy outta the studio
    where he's feverishly working on a CD-ROM project, and ask him what
    his favorite color is? :-)
    
    I think it's blue. No its pink. No its brown. Check that. It's
    definitely yellow. Or maybe purple. :-)
    
    -b

    you wanna know about peter gabriel?  buy the cd-rom called Xplora 1:
    the Secret World of Peter Gabriel.  reputed not to be too bad.

    .144
    Yea, but do you know Boutros Boutros???

> And no, I didn't bother him for an autograph.

So he didn't have to sign for the bicycles?

Young's Bicycle Shop....  if you worked there any summer
between 1967 and the present, you may also have waited on
me or my parents.

    
    
    Many years ago, I met Antoinette Giancana at a family gathering.
    It wasn't till several years later that I found out who she was.... 
    or more approprately, who her father was.
    
    
    
    Terrie
    

    
    <-- name looks familiar, but who????
    
    

    
    
    She's the daughter of Sam Giancana....very very big Maffia member.
    
    
    Terrie
    

 That was Terrie...remember her? ;-)

    
    
    RE: .163
    
    Come on, I have only been gone for 2 1/2 days!  :*)
    

    
    This past Monday my trivia team was soundly defeated by Paul
    Quarrington's team.  Paul wrote the novel `Whale Music', which
    was recently made into a movie starring Maury Chakin (whose name
    you probably don't recognize, but whose face you would...he was
    Kevin Costner's crazy frontier commander in `Dances with Wolves',
    and was one of the trial witnesses in `My Cousin Vinnie').
    
    Paul also wrote the screenplay for `Camilla', starring Bridget Fonda
    and Jessica Tandy.
    

    It occurred to me that I once started a biznizz deal between Prime
    Computer & Apple's Steve Jobs.  When he approached me (at the NYC
    announcement of the Apple LaserWriter, Adobe PostScript, & Aldus
    PageMaker) my first flustered reaction wuz to ask him for his
    autograph.  He wasn't amused...  but we hit it off OK after that...
    

	My brush with greatness involves a session player in L.A. named
	Louis Conti (or is it Santos - I can't remember) - he is a 	
	percussionist and also the brother-in-law to one of my best
	friends.  Has wild stories to tell about going on tour with
	Madonna - once was enough and he would never do it again. Too
	much drugs and sex and weirdness.  He followed that tour up with
	one Steve Winwood and was amazed by the contrast - even brought the
	wife and kids along to a number of dates.  While in L.A., I also
	met Sissy Spacek in a clothing store in Westwood (I think it
	was called Chassons or something like that).  Closer to home, I
	am good friends with an actor named David Mucci who you probably
	haven't heard of yet... but hopefully will someday.  Dave has
	done a lot of stage work in Toronto - Les Miserables (where he
	understudied the role of Jean Valjean and played a number of
	other roles), played the Big Bopper in "Buddy" (which got taken
	to broadway - the cast was on Geraldo's show and Geraldo kept
	calling him David Moochi, instead of Musi - you'd think the host
	would at least learn how to say his guests names!) and is currently
	the 3rd lead in "Crazy for You".  He got down to the final three
	for "Beauty and the Beast" but it went to somebody else.  If you
	saw the Clint Eastwood movie "Forgiven", Dave also played the
	bad guy who slashed the hooker.  Although he wasn't in the movie
	much, he had a memorable death scene which you might remember - 
	got shot while in the outhouse.  And... for those of you who 
	remember really cheesy movies, he was the bad guy in "Prom Night" 
	(with Jamie Lee Curtis) - I think the character's name was Lou.
	They filmed the prom scenes at a local high school and if I scan
	the people on the edge of the dance floor, I can see a lot of
	goofy friends!

    
    re back a few: Sam "Sudden" Giancana was a big Mafia boss out of
    Chicago, who fell out of favor with Tony "Big Tuna" Accardo, and
    was henced dispatched accordingly. I believe it was either in his Oak
    Park home or a restaraunt, either way he's still dead. She made a 
    TV movie and wrote a book about her life as his daughter. I believe
    she was also a Playboy bunny for awhile.
    
    Mark

    Chatted with Sting (the wrestler, not the singer!) at MacDonald's
    yesterday.  We were both keeping an eye on our little ones as they
    crawled around the playset there.  Nice guy, huge arms.
    
    Dan

A friend of mine works in a pathology lab that did testing on some of the
O.J. Simpson evidence.

    
    As I approached the back door of my apartment building this evening,
    who should I see but none other than Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly, in 
    the neighbourhood to shoot their `Cagney And Lacey' movie.
    
    They appear to have consumed a few too many doughnuts.
    

I was going to ask if they had the gallon-sized bottle of Geritol
in tow.

    .171 more like donut shops!

    
    
    they are doing another movie???  they did one about a month or so
    ago...
    
    
    the only name dropping i can do lately is while watching the credits
    for 'shawshank redemption' (which i liked) i saw i the name of a good
    friend's best friend...and knowing it was him and not just a 'same-name' 
    thing...
    
    

        Speaking of "Shawshank Redemption", I've hugged tl_Raquel!!
        
        ;*)
            

    Mom played roulette next to Travis Tritt and his fille d'heure last
    night.

       Levesque's mother.

Fille d'heure?  Take it to the French cooking topic.

    
    
    ...as in his woman of the hour...
    
    and andy, if your who is in regards to travis twitt, he is some country
    singing dude..
    
    

    
    
    Ahhh.... country.... {shudder}...

    
    Tritt.  Travit Tritt!  Not Twitt 8^).

    
    Oh the fun Elmer Fudd (or Bob Cousy) could have with his name...
    
    -b

No doubt she was confusing him with Conway Twitty.

    
    Trivet Twitt?
    

    
    
    Just found out that my name was dropped at the place of business where
    my wife is a manager.  As she so aptly said, "what makes the person
    think that this would be a positive thing".
    
    
    Mike 

    <-----
    
    Oooohhhhhh, cold shot ! ! !
    
    She does get a three pointer though.
    
    :-)
    Dan

     
     John Tuduor(sp?)        Distant cousin(pitcher for the Cardnals or use
                                           to be)
     Ted Kennedy             Work related
    
     Adam Oates              Bruins  (ex-girlfriend dated for a while)
    
     

   J. Geils (Boston rock band leader) was in my (parent's) house, in my
   living room when I was about 17.  This was just after their popularity
   had crested. I even got to shake his hand, oooh ahhh.

   Bob Weir's mother lived two streets down.  One of the Kennedys "summered"
   at a house in that same neighborhood, right on the Acton/Concord line off
   of 2A.  I never actually met either of these two.

   There, my brush with fame.

   -- Sam

	Barney Frank. I just got out of the shower at the gym, and was naked.
Later that day while he was working out in the gym, he had a heart attack. 


Glen

>I just got out of the shower at the gym, and was naked.
    
    Who would have guessed?

    My dad knows Dick Phelps.  

    .190
    
    My parse-o-meter is on the fritz again.  Or perhaps I fail to see why
    "and was naked" was added.  <puzzled look>

    
    Maybe the shock of seeing Glen naked is what gave Barney Frank a heart
    attack?
     

  maybe Glen was just emphasizing that he wasn't exactly in meeting-famous-
  people mode? 

    Let's see....
    
    I used to be Bob Cummings paperboy.  He was doing a show at the Chateau
    DeVille in Framingham for four months.  He used to do cameos on Love
    American Style, That Girl, and other 60's shows.
    
    I used to cut KC Jones lawn and went to school with his son Kipper. 
    This was back in fourth grade and I didn't really understand KC's
    noteriety.  
    
    

 I used to mow the lawn of the parents of a woman married to Peter Albin
 of Big Brother and the Holding Company.


 I once had a delightful conversation (and got her autograph!) with 
 the most wonderful female vocalist of all time, Tish Hinojosa.




 Jim

	Gee.... if I caused his heart attack, I don't know if that is
flattering or not. :-)

seeing Barney Frank naked must be along the same lines as a
tooth extraction.

    > I used to be Bob Cummings paperboy.  He was doing a show at the Chateau
    > DeVille in Framingham for four months.  He used to do cameos on Love
    > American Style, That Girl, and other 60's shows.
    
    Bob Cummings was also lucky enough to mess around with Julie Newmar
    (aka the best-known of the 1960's Catwomen on "Batman") in the
    early 60's sitcom "My Living Doll", in which Newmar played a
    robot made to look like (what else?) a beautiful woman.  Cummings
    also had two or three other sitcoms in the 50's and 60's ("Love That
    Bob", "The Bob Cummings Show", etc.), and was known for light comedy
    roles in movies in the 1940's and 1950's.  He was pretty well known
    and popular in his day, which was, uh, before my time of course.
    
    Chris

	Barney had clothes on. *I* was naked.

 
 Anne B. Davis (Alice of Brady Bunch fame) played Bob Cummings' secretary
 on one of his shows, which also featured him driving/flying an aerocar.



 Jim

    
    	Of course, Glen's already told us his Barney Frank story.
    
    	It must be rerun season.
    
    

    Yep... for the proof, see 261.54

    He thought it was the pants dropping topic, and was surprised that
    Glenn hadn't picked up on it yet.

    I refuse to pick up his pants.

cool..... 

    
>    Bob Cummings was also lucky enough to mess around with Julie Newmar
>    (aka the best-known of the 1960's Catwomen on "Batman") in the
    
    I believe between the Catwomen and Mrs. Peel on the Avengers I became
    addicted to women in black cloths at very early age!
    
    Greg
    

    <- You should check out Iran.
    

    
    my old next door neighbor was Charles Oakley.

    We all knew Mz_Deb before she made it big as a thesbian. with rouge.

   .211  now if you had said Berry, i would have been impressed.

	why? cuz he lived next to a cemetery?

>     <<< Note 261.214 by MKOTS3::JOLLIMORE "quick beat of an icy heart" >>>

	is Mark _that_ young? 

	well, i don't know really.
	
	but, oakley has been dead for almost 25 years.
	

    
    	Diane, who's Berry Oakley?
    

 I'm not Diane and I know the answer, but since you asked Diane,
 I'll let her respond,




 Jim

    > who's Berry Oakley?
    
    Annie Oakley's long lost brother!

>    	Diane, who's Berry Oakley?

  he were the bass player for the Allman Bros., back in the
  Duane days.
    

 and if I'm not mistaken, died almost 1 year to the day later than Duane,
 *and* in just about the same spot.




 Jim

	Jim-Bob, you're always right.
	
	which ABB album was dedicated to oakley?
	
	bonus: what non-ABB album was dedicated to oakly?
	
	

    Brothers and Sisters?

	Yes. Oakly died during recording, 11/72.

    
    when di said she would have been impressed if mark had said berry
    instead, i thought she meant charles "chuck" berry...  
    
    :>
    
    

    
    	moi aussi!
    
    

    <- G'day sport.

  .221  yeah, that was pretty amazing, not to mention tragic.
	what a waste.

    
    	RE: .225./.226
    
    	Yeah, so did I.  "Who's Berry Oakley" was supposed to be funny,
    	not a serious question.
    

    > 261.224 by MKOTS3::JOLLIMORE
    
    >  Yes. Oakly died during recording,
    
    Fell right over during the chorus. Yes he did. Fell right over.
    Banged up his banjo something fierce. 
    Made a mess out of his instrument too.