Subject: RE: Memories
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 14:07:37 -0500
From: "Sharpe, Thomas R." [SharpeT@missouri.edu]
To: "Margaret Baxter" [mbaxter@netexpress.net],
[Davidweisert@aol.com], [Neilapple@aol.com], "Bill & Kaye
Wessels" [cabin@starband.net], [WAStuber@aol.com], "Brian
Pavlon" [jpavlon@hotmail.com], "Bruce & Mary Hobin Dimler"
[brulydim@msn.com], "Chuck Teeter" [cmt1@attbi.com], "Craig
Thiersch" [C.L.THIERSCH@KUB.NL], "Danielle Vansickle Zimmerman"
[sdz1000@hotmail.com], [RENE812@aol.com], "Dave Peterson"
[dvpeterson98@yahoo.com], [Pasodfuego@aol.com], "David Byrkit"
[david.byrkit@itt.com], [DJACK61604@aol.com],
Okay, I've been watching these messages voyeauristically long enough. Time to
chime in.
WIRL reminds me of the DJ, Dick Vance. Do you remember "This is your radio
dadio, Dick Vance!"? He was fired after he was arrested for mouthing off
to a cop who caught him DUI.
As for Peggy Sue, well, this remains one of my favorite songs of all time. In
fact, I'm fond of telling people that the three finest pieces of music ever
written are Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Ave Maria, and....Peggy Sue! Chantilly
Lace was also wonderful. I live in Columbia Missouri now (moved here almost
three years ago), but I was in Oxford, Mississippi for 28 years (at Ole
Miss--Marty Horn got his law degree there, at least I'm pretty sure that is
correct) and during a short period of that span my ex-wife and I owned an
up-scale lingerie shop just off the square. Its name: Chantilly Lace. Back then
when I traveled and someone asked me what I did for a living, often I would
tell them I grew the only legal marijuana in the nation and I was the lingerie
czar of Oxford, Mississippi. That would usually be good for a two hour
conversation. Both were quite interesting experiences, although I only
supervised the person who ran the marijuana program.
More thoughts to come later. Some of my own, some stimulated by notes already
sent by others. All this is wonderful! New surprises almost every day now.
I look forward to seeing everyone next month!
Tom