I have a couple of friends that use to belong at Elmcrest and one of them was an investor in Zach. Great investment in a very nice guy. Now Zach has two majors won along with other tournies. Doesn't live in CR anymore I am told but still lists it as his home when announced at PGA events. Good guy by all accounts.
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I have a couple of friends that use to belong at Elmcrest and one of them was an investor in Zach. Great investment in a very nice guy. Now Zach has two majors won along with other tournies. Doesn't live in CR anymore I am told but still lists it as his home when announced at PGA events. Good guy by all accounts.
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Met a lot of sports stars. I used to caddy at a country club as a kid and we'd get the athletics all the time. Nicest one was Bart Starr.
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Dick Cheney was some unemployed guy that spoke in my college political science class. This was after he was Ford's chief of staff and before he was in congress.
There are many others that I have spoken with for business. Will not breech confidentiality.
There are many others that I have spoken with for business. Will not breech confidentiality.
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Thanks. That would be a real scandal.
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I was cashier at a Wendy's down the street from the Cleveland Browns training camp. Several of the Browns would regularly come in for lunch, well after the lunch crowd had left. (Probably on purpose.)
I'm not a sports fan, so I didn't recognize many of them. Paul McDonald and Lyle Alzado were 2 who came in regularly, often together. They couldn't have been more different in size! If you didn't know that Paul McDonald was the quarterback, you'd never have thought he was a football player. He was just an average sized man. Lyle Alzado was HUGE!
They were always polite, just acted like average customers. Except they ordered more food than average, LOL.
At the time, one of the Wendy's managers was an ex-baseball player. I can't for my life remember his last name. First name was Bill. I'm guessing he was an Indians player, but maybe not. Again, if I'd been a sports fan, I might have recognized him. He was permanently sidelined with a knee injury, ending his major league career. Becoming a Wendy's manager was his Plan B. He was always nice, one of the best ones there.
When the Cleveland Browns came in when Bill was on duty, he tried to act like they were all buddies, because he had been a major league baseball player, you know. He'd fawn over them. They didn't buy it. I felt somewhat embarrassed for him.
I'm not a sports fan, so I didn't recognize many of them. Paul McDonald and Lyle Alzado were 2 who came in regularly, often together. They couldn't have been more different in size! If you didn't know that Paul McDonald was the quarterback, you'd never have thought he was a football player. He was just an average sized man. Lyle Alzado was HUGE!
They were always polite, just acted like average customers. Except they ordered more food than average, LOL.
At the time, one of the Wendy's managers was an ex-baseball player. I can't for my life remember his last name. First name was Bill. I'm guessing he was an Indians player, but maybe not. Again, if I'd been a sports fan, I might have recognized him. He was permanently sidelined with a knee injury, ending his major league career. Becoming a Wendy's manager was his Plan B. He was always nice, one of the best ones there.
When the Cleveland Browns came in when Bill was on duty, he tried to act like they were all buddies, because he had been a major league baseball player, you know. He'd fawn over them. They didn't buy it. I felt somewhat embarrassed for him.
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Nope, none that I'm aware of. I live in a very rural area and a fly over area so never met anyone that was famous.
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Amy Grant and Dennis DeYoung. For those that might ask, Dennis DeYoung is/was the creative force behind the rock band Styx. Additionally Craig Biggio of the Houston Astros and Dwight Howard formerly of the Houston Rockets...
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Driller from Mississippi who cut pulpwood on days off from offshore, and 4 other men who I worked with on that rig as a young "worm" breaking out in the oilfield on that rig..... killed in blowout in 1979 Gulf of Mexico, ODECO Ocean King...
Boy hood friend - decapitated in car wreck right after graduation....
Derrick Man - killed in 1978 when a Relief Valve blew up all over his head....DRT before he hit the ground..... the rest of story.... police knocked on door to tell young widow with kids that her husband was dead and to sign right here.....company $10K policy and release ......true story.......
Drilling Crew killed by H2S in West Texas.....early 80's....
14 year old kid....afew years later about 20 year old....101st Airborne Iraq.... killed in IED ~ one week before going home.....
Relatives going back as far as the Civil War on the Southern side.....WW 1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam.....even though I never met most of them in life, they are with me thru eternity.....
Lots more killed in the oil patch....and many Near Misses that would have been me - but by the Grace of God....
I can say that my life has been impacted by the chancse meetings of people and of family going back years and years.....
Here's to you all..... To my Great Grandfather who fought for the Stars and Bars....and many other kin...., WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam and the Sandbox....
Ms. Gamboolgals father....101st Airborne all the way thru from Toccoa, parachuting into Normandy, A Bridge Too Far, Hell's Highway, Bastogne...... thru the end of WW2, all battles, never wounded, had a pencil and his pack shot off of him, was on Eisenhowers honor guard at Nuremberg....gtook Nazi's to and from there cells to trial and to the Gallows........Mr. Beam had the utmost respect for the German Soldier as they were excellent .....soldiers and killers.....I miss him to this day..... Mr. Beam, Lower Right pic.....he was and always will be my father.
gah\\\\
Boy hood friend - decapitated in car wreck right after graduation....
Derrick Man - killed in 1978 when a Relief Valve blew up all over his head....DRT before he hit the ground..... the rest of story.... police knocked on door to tell young widow with kids that her husband was dead and to sign right here.....company $10K policy and release ......true story.......
Drilling Crew killed by H2S in West Texas.....early 80's....
14 year old kid....afew years later about 20 year old....101st Airborne Iraq.... killed in IED ~ one week before going home.....
Relatives going back as far as the Civil War on the Southern side.....WW 1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam.....even though I never met most of them in life, they are with me thru eternity.....
Lots more killed in the oil patch....and many Near Misses that would have been me - but by the Grace of God....
I can say that my life has been impacted by the chancse meetings of people and of family going back years and years.....
Here's to you all..... To my Great Grandfather who fought for the Stars and Bars....and many other kin...., WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam and the Sandbox....
Ms. Gamboolgals father....101st Airborne all the way thru from Toccoa, parachuting into Normandy, A Bridge Too Far, Hell's Highway, Bastogne...... thru the end of WW2, all battles, never wounded, had a pencil and his pack shot off of him, was on Eisenhowers honor guard at Nuremberg....gtook Nazi's to and from there cells to trial and to the Gallows........Mr. Beam had the utmost respect for the German Soldier as they were excellent .....soldiers and killers.....I miss him to this day..... Mr. Beam, Lower Right pic.....he was and always will be my father.
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Joe Montana and his father when I was a boy skiing in Jackson Hole. Although I never met Suge Night, I partied at his penthouse and used his box seats to see a lakers game once while he was in prison. Shhh. Don't tell suge. He was the guy who owns the Label that signed 2 Pac and Snoop Dogg, Death Row Records. I saw the Platinum record for "Doggystyle" hanging in the recording studio. All from a random walk down a random street in Hollyweird one night.
Oh, EDIT to add, I snagged Don Henley's autograph when I was at that lakers game. He was sitting in the MCA Records skybox right next to me, so I figured, why not. He reached around the glass and signed my napkin.
I am friends with a well known female Sci-Fi actress, but for her privacy I cannot disclose.
Oh, EDIT to add, I snagged Don Henley's autograph when I was at that lakers game. He was sitting in the MCA Records skybox right next to me, so I figured, why not. He reached around the glass and signed my napkin.
I am friends with a well known female Sci-Fi actress, but for her privacy I cannot disclose.
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When I was a young teen out running errands with my family, my grandmother spotted Paul Newman going into a local deli. (He was shooting a movie in the area). She dragged my mom and I into the deli and gushed praise upon him, like a little kid throwing up her jello. (My mom and I both wanted to die, given my grandma's boldness.) But Paul could not have been kinder and he shook my hand. He had these amazing blue eyes. A gentleman.
Never truly met someone famous, seen them in passing but never spoke, usually when they were on vacation and just trying to blend in.
At the end of the day, honestly almost everyone I know that dresses well is flat broke...as it is just for show... it costs a lot to prove your rich, it costs nothing to believe in yourself and know your rich.
At the end of the day, honestly almost everyone I know that dresses well is flat broke...as it is just for show... it costs a lot to prove your rich, it costs nothing to believe in yourself and know your rich.
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Being an introvert who likes privacy, I never bother to strike up a conversation with someone famous when I casually get close to them. Larry Holmes, Susan Lucci, Elizabeth Taylor, Bart Starr, Don Rickles, Celine Deion, Telly Savalas. And I had breakfast with George H. W. Bush and a 100 other people, so I didn’t bother to talk to him. I wish I would have.
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Spent way too many days and nights in airport VIP club rooms; met all kinds of people. Sat next to all kinds on planes as well.
Physically ran into Kareem one day as I was coming around a corner.
Neil Sedaka, Linda Evangelista, Cheech Marin, Rob Lowe, Robert Reich, Neil Diamond, Al Jarreau, Scott Baio, Bo Diddley (funny story), Linda Evans, Howard Cosell, a bunch more I can't remember.
We have a retired well known professional hockey player who lives a few houses up from us.
I'd tell you my Michael Jackson story but nobody would believe it; even DW thinks I made it up.
Physically ran into Kareem one day as I was coming around a corner.
Neil Sedaka, Linda Evangelista, Cheech Marin, Rob Lowe, Robert Reich, Neil Diamond, Al Jarreau, Scott Baio, Bo Diddley (funny story), Linda Evans, Howard Cosell, a bunch more I can't remember.
We have a retired well known professional hockey player who lives a few houses up from us.
I'd tell you my Michael Jackson story but nobody would believe it; even DW thinks I made it up.
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Smoked a Doobie with some random "freak" at a concert in 1974...
We were about 3 feet from center stage in the front row and while listening to the opening band I remarked that I hoped the next band ( Aerosmith ) would better. He assured me and my buddy that he had seen them before and that "they were pretty good". Then he said " Thanks! See-Ya!" and disappeared into the crowd.
Ten minutes later the next band was introduced. The spotlight hit the lead singer (Steven Tyler ) and as he took the stage, he pointed right at my buddy and I , shook his finger at us both, and flashed a big toothy grin as he launched into the first song.
We had no idea who we had been socializing with just a few minutes earlier...
The Universe is a Weird Place isn't it?
We were about 3 feet from center stage in the front row and while listening to the opening band I remarked that I hoped the next band ( Aerosmith ) would better. He assured me and my buddy that he had seen them before and that "they were pretty good". Then he said " Thanks! See-Ya!" and disappeared into the crowd.
Ten minutes later the next band was introduced. The spotlight hit the lead singer (Steven Tyler ) and as he took the stage, he pointed right at my buddy and I , shook his finger at us both, and flashed a big toothy grin as he launched into the first song.
We had no idea who we had been socializing with just a few minutes earlier...
The Universe is a Weird Place isn't it?
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WOW! I think there are famous people right here in their own way. Nice!
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On an acid trip in the early 70's I met god. Pretty smart entity.
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He appeared to take it well, considering. He was usually in a good humor, one of the most pleasant managers to work with.
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I've met Al Gore; the lead singer from Firefall; author Ian Bremmer; a World War II flying ace (My Dad); and when I was very small, the Captain of the first US submarine (the Nautilus) to go to the north pole.
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Another one: 1992. My husband and I were on our honeymoon in Niagara Falls. He wanted to take my picture next to the falls. While I stood against the railing, I noticed that right next to me was Anson Williams, who played Potsie Weber on Happy Days. Wow! He looked like he hadn't aged a day. He was recording his little girl dancing around. I said nothing, not wanting to intrude on his privacy.
My husband couldn't figure out why he was having such a hard time getting me to look straight ahead at the camera so he could get the shot. I told him about it later when we left the immediate area. If I'd have said something at the time, he would have gotten "Potsie" in the shot.
My husband couldn't figure out why he was having such a hard time getting me to look straight ahead at the camera so he could get the shot. I told him about it later when we left the immediate area. If I'd have said something at the time, he would have gotten "Potsie" in the shot.
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I knew Michael Jackson fairly well. We met many times and shared some excellent beers together.
(That's MJ the beer writer, not the singer.)
(That's MJ the beer writer, not the singer.)
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In college I worked at a gas station/convenience store just off the interstate. I once sold a carton of Pall Malls and an ice cream sandwich to Charles Kuralt.
Much later in life I was attending a conference in Vegas, where I urinated next to Teller (of Penn and Teller). Afterwards, I heard him talk for the first time when he was discussing a skydiving experience he had, with somebody else (the discussion, not the skydiving - or maybe I mean both).
Much later in life I was attending a conference in Vegas, where I urinated next to Teller (of Penn and Teller). Afterwards, I heard him talk for the first time when he was discussing a skydiving experience he had, with somebody else (the discussion, not the skydiving - or maybe I mean both).
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