O.K. I heard this one on the way into work this morning and thought it was fun.
What is your one moment of fame?
Mine was when I was living in Huntsville. The local A & W had a cruisin' night once a month and everyone brought their old cars out and people dressed up in their poodle skirts and leather jackets and all that. Grease was SOOOO the word! Anyway, my sister and I entered a twisting contest and won! We were on the local news. Woooohoooo! I was a star and I was spicey!
How 'bout y'all?
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Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you do criticize them you will be a mile away and have their shoes.
I got my picture full page in the yearbook my junior year of high school. That's probably the closest I came. I do a lot of radio interviews and spots for work, but I don't really consider that to be any sort of fame.
Aside from getting recognized for being an authentic version of someone for Halloween, the closest I ever got to any kind of recognition was being selected in the audience of a stunt show at Six Flags. We had to dress up, act like we were dancing at Bruce Wayne's manor (dancing as goofy as we possibly could) while motorcycles got alarmingly close. I was pointed out several times the rest of the day at the park in lines: "Hey! You were in the stunt show, that was great!"
I suppose my closest moment was getting in a national magazine.
When I was still in Lincoln, a bunch of us ham radio operators would get together once a month for a "transmitter hunt". Whoever won last month's hunt got to be the hider for the current month.
The hider would take a radio and go out and hide somewhere within the city limits of Lincoln (about a 15 mile circle). Every five minutes, the hider would transmit for two minutes. The rest of us would use direction finding equipment and it was a race to be the first one to find him. There was also a point system that involved time, mileage traveled, etc.
Anyway, one of the national ham radio magazines had a monthly article on transmitter hunting. The author of that article was in the area, so he hunted with us and did a story about our hunt. He picked me out as having the most elaborate setup and described my system and put in a couple photos too.
The thing he liked was that I had built my directional antenna, and the system I used to mount it to the roof of my truck and roatate it.
Those transmitter hunts were a blast. My wife even enjoyed that part of ham radio.
I toured with a break dancing gig in the summer of 1983. We went to several towns and cities within our 5 state region. I realize I was much more limber at eight...
Me and the Box Crew had it all for that three months. I wonder why break dancing didn't last...
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Sometimes, when i'm lonely... i crawl into a laundry basket and tickle my ears. But, Some times I don't...
Now that I think of it, when we went to MGM Studios, they did a thing where they picked people fromt he audience, dressed them up in costumes, and did a variety show. I was picked as one of the singers (we just lip synched). But, I can't remember the name of the group or the song. It's an oldies song, sung by a girl group, about Bill. That was fun.
