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