Top 5 moment of all time
So I finished up early today with the Space People (12th Space Warning Squadron) and the Air Traffic Controllers and came back to my room to find “Family Guy: Road to the North Pole” on AFN. Which I am essentially watching from the North Pole. Dude, can’t top that. Go ahead, bring it!
Category: Politics
There I was, in the Congo.
20 on the left, 20 on the right.
They all wanted a piece of the “Thumb”
All I had was a canteen, an old Playboy and my pocket knife.
I lived to tell the tale.
Underway on the boat double feature: Das Boot and Run Silent, Run Deep. I wish I could make it up.
@2 It’s a long way to Tipperary…
Well, can’t say I have much to say in the way of a story…
I did got to the dentist’s once, and they played “Monty Python’s Holy Grail” from the beginning. Anyone familiar with the movie will know why the beginning was particularly funny in that situation.
I got up Today,looked back and wasn’t still lying in the bed. Joe
I went to the Beatles’ concert in Chicago at the International Amphitheater in 1966. I sat up in the balcony at stage left, and waved at Paul McCartney. He looked up and saw me and waved back.
Then I went to a David Bowie concert in 1985 at the Rosemont Horizon (Allstate Arena) and sat in the balcony, stage left. I wore red shoes, too, so that I could dance to that song. The spotlight was playing on the audience and Bowie was watching where it went. When it hit me, I waved at him and he waved back.
I also went to a Star Trek Con and sat next to Mark Lenard (Spock’s father) and talked about writing stories with him. I also got my picture taken with Q, Scotty, and LT Uhura.
*Waves* at Ex-PH2
@PH2: Dang, that’s really cool. Have yet to meet anyone really famous in person aside from Rush Limbaugh and Joe Walsh.
I watched the movie “Tora, Tora, Tora” at the Navy Lodge on Ford Island, Pearl Harbor.
Hangin’ the hose next to JJ Cale in a pub in Houston….
Just because it is one of the funniest ‘famous people’ stories I’ve ever heard…
Husband is a huge country music fan. HUGE. We were at a hotel near where Willie Nelson was playing. After dinner, husband comes back from the bathroom with the goofiest look on his face. His words –
“I just met Willie Nelson and he thanked me for not trying to or asking to shake his hand. He was using the urinal next to me.”
@11 – similar story out of El Paso – years back, was widely told that some folks eating at the Cattleman’s steak house east of town saw Donald and Keifer Sutherland eating dinner… while excited to recognize them, they decided not to bother them. After the Sutherlands left, wheir waiter informed them that their tab had been paid – and they received both of the actor’s autographs on a note thanking them for being considerate. Don;t know if it was urban legend or not, but was widely told in the late ’90s.