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Ärende: Re: My first convention (and I met JMS!!!)
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Wesley Struebing wrote:
> On 27 Feb 2007 16:28:22 -0800, "crawf" <crawf@optonline.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Feb 25, 1:07 pm, "AmysVoice" <amysvo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Feb 24, 2:20 am, "Jeffrey O. Gustafson" <PsicopJe...@hotmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> "Mr. Straczynski, fwupda gobble duh gaga bwubuduh.  Uhm gqyu zujk blu-
>>>> bluhhh Big Fan.  Duhhhm.  Ok."
>>> LOL!!! I feel your pain Jeff..... I met Robert Redford once, and
>>> wasn't anywhere near that articulate! >^_^<
>> I used to work in a camera store with the occassional celeb customer.
>> Paul Newman was probably the most easygoing.  He came in to pick up a
>> bunch of enlargements from a trip to Africa and while I was writing up
>> his order told him, "You're paying everybody's salary this week!"  He
>> looked at the total and joked, "Jesus Christ!  I'm gonna have to get
>> another job!" :-)
>>
>> I was hanging out at one of the B5 parties at a Ohio con years ago and
>> JMS showed up.  They were raffling off some B5 stuff to help cover
>> expenses and one item was something autographed by Joe.  I told him,
>> "Hey Joe, if you buy a raffle ticket, you could win your own
>> signature."  He gave me one of his patented "why do *I* get all the
>> wiseasses" looks, but IIRC, when he drew the ticket, he first claimed
>> it was his own name... :-)
>>
>> The Significant Otherunit and I kept the light on for Joe to stop by
>> here in Milford, CT but as usual we got passed over... :-)  We both
>> had the weekend off, and NYC is certainly close enough for a daytrip,
>> but we try to stay close to home these days with our beloved shadow
>> dog being old and sick.  :-(
>>
>> Perhaps some other time...
>>
>> Larry Crawford
>>
> Most likely very few others here will remember the series, but when I
> was but a sprite, my buddy and I were at O'Hare when it was still OK
> to go topside to watch the planes take off and land.  My dad
> (obviously) accompanied us, and as we were coming back through the
> terminal, we saw someone who looked VERY familiar.  I nudged Herb and
> whispered, "Isn't that ROBERT HORTON!?".  He said,Yeah, go over and
> find out."  "Oh, no!  Not ME!"
> 
> So while we were wrangling, my dad went over and said, "Mr. Robert
> Horton?  I have two kids here who would like to meet you."  It WAS he,
> and we got to shake his hand (a bit of a limp handshake), and both of
> us thought we'd die!  I think we mumbled something about begin glad to
> meet him and we thought he was great, but I'm not sure.
> 
> I mean, WOW!  He was a BIG star, and we got to MEET him!
> 
> (now, name that series.  Ward Bond was also the star...)

Wagon Train of course.
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