HIP!DaleWisely wrote:DaleWisely wrote:Tommy wrote:Just twenty seven minutes? More pratice.
Unfiltered Camels.
And with that, Ladies and Gentlemen, your servant Dale makes post #3000.
3000 Undisputed Posts
3000 Undisputed Posts
From the Whistle Forum:
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Giles: "We few, we happy few."
Spike: "We band of buggered."
Spike: "We band of buggered."
Congratulations Dale on a new milestone. But ya know, I have always wondered how did a guy from Alabamba with a burgeoning interest in tin whistles, hook up with a guy from Montreal now Ottawa, Ontario Canada to start such a fabulous web community? Inquiring minds would like to know the story.
MarkB
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Everybody has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film.
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Someone asked about the rich story. rich & I spent 30 days together in adjacent jail cells in Flagstaff, Arizona in 1983. This was before the days of the web, of course. The Internet, in its current form, was merely a gleam in Al Gore's eye. Even then, rich was a visionary. On the back of an envelope which had contained a letter from my mother, using an ink he made from scraping shoe polish off his shoes, he sketched the rudimentary diagram of the system that would eventually become the World Wide Web. I encouraged him to patent the idea. He blew off this suggestion. In turn, I shared with him the idea I had for a combination shortwave radio/yogurt maker. He blew off my idea.
When we were released, I went back to school, working as a janitor in women's dormitory at a college in San Diego. The night of our release, rich robbed a 7-Eleven in Flagstaff and went to jail for another 30 days. His attorney ultimately got him off because he wasn't properly Mirandized. Subsequently, rich designed a portable electronic device called the Auto-Mirandizer. The idea was that a police officer would carry this helmet-looking device around and slap it over the head of an arrested person. The suspect would not only hear the legally-correct Miranda rights, but would be forced to view an instructional film-clip about their rights on the flip-down viewing screen. This idea was never patented either and, so far as I know, has not been manufactured. In the meantime, I cleaned bathrooms at the dorm in San Diego. For reasons I can’t get into, while doing that job, I lived and worked under the name “Margaret O’Connor.” Not some kind of drag thing. Long story. But, it turns out that there’s a woman named Margaret O’Conner in the San Diego area wanted for kiting checks and miscellaneous public indecency charges in Arkansas. So, I get arrested for HER BEEF! You’d think a little thing like, oh I don’t know, MY BEING A DIFFERENT GENDER would have helped the authorities avoid this costly mistake.
Costly because I sued for false imprisonment and was awarded $435,000. Bailed rich out from Flagstaff and got him his first job in Canada. Later he became a computer specialist. Among other things, he was a contractor for Microsoft and invented that little animated paper-clip guy. In spite of that, when I started getting investors lined up to put together 3Fish Productions and Chiff & Fipple (The comedienne Phyllis Diller was an early investor, as was Oliver North), I remembered rich, tracked him down, and hired him to run the C&F server facilities in Canada.
One last thing. He hooked me up with another computer whiz named Clyde, who now runs the Asian C&F satellite relay bureau. So, back then, I’m interviewing Clyde for the job of running the Asian Bureau. I was impressed by some hardships in his life that he had overcome to get educated. He told me his mother had legal problems all his life and I asked him what kind and he said, get this, kiting checks and miscellaneous public indecency charges in Arkansas. That’s right, that young man, Clyde, was Clyde O’Conner, son of Margaret O’Conner.
What, I ask you, were the chances?
When we were released, I went back to school, working as a janitor in women's dormitory at a college in San Diego. The night of our release, rich robbed a 7-Eleven in Flagstaff and went to jail for another 30 days. His attorney ultimately got him off because he wasn't properly Mirandized. Subsequently, rich designed a portable electronic device called the Auto-Mirandizer. The idea was that a police officer would carry this helmet-looking device around and slap it over the head of an arrested person. The suspect would not only hear the legally-correct Miranda rights, but would be forced to view an instructional film-clip about their rights on the flip-down viewing screen. This idea was never patented either and, so far as I know, has not been manufactured. In the meantime, I cleaned bathrooms at the dorm in San Diego. For reasons I can’t get into, while doing that job, I lived and worked under the name “Margaret O’Connor.” Not some kind of drag thing. Long story. But, it turns out that there’s a woman named Margaret O’Conner in the San Diego area wanted for kiting checks and miscellaneous public indecency charges in Arkansas. So, I get arrested for HER BEEF! You’d think a little thing like, oh I don’t know, MY BEING A DIFFERENT GENDER would have helped the authorities avoid this costly mistake.
Costly because I sued for false imprisonment and was awarded $435,000. Bailed rich out from Flagstaff and got him his first job in Canada. Later he became a computer specialist. Among other things, he was a contractor for Microsoft and invented that little animated paper-clip guy. In spite of that, when I started getting investors lined up to put together 3Fish Productions and Chiff & Fipple (The comedienne Phyllis Diller was an early investor, as was Oliver North), I remembered rich, tracked him down, and hired him to run the C&F server facilities in Canada.
One last thing. He hooked me up with another computer whiz named Clyde, who now runs the Asian C&F satellite relay bureau. So, back then, I’m interviewing Clyde for the job of running the Asian Bureau. I was impressed by some hardships in his life that he had overcome to get educated. He told me his mother had legal problems all his life and I asked him what kind and he said, get this, kiting checks and miscellaneous public indecency charges in Arkansas. That’s right, that young man, Clyde, was Clyde O’Conner, son of Margaret O’Conner.
What, I ask you, were the chances?
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Dale, I stand in awe. You may have one of the most creative, weirdest minds ever known.
Susan
(edited to correct the spelling of my name. Yes, my name.)
Susan
(edited to correct the spelling of my name. Yes, my name.)
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