I used to make my mother laugh by simply wiggling my nose like a rabbit... well, at least I did it up until the point where she started keeping me locked in a cage and feeding me nothing but carrots and lettuce!

I want to hear more about others.

My husband's name is Jonathon Winters and the minister that married us was named Dean Martin.

Elvis Presley
 

I was once asked by Elvis to watch a movie with him but my dad said no!

New people that we meet here in TV and friends up north wonder if we golf here in TV. The best answer we give is 'We own golf clubs !!!'

I had never heard of The Villages but had started considering moving to a 55 and over community. I usually read books about a topic as a first step when investigating anything. I read "Early Bird" by Rodney Rothman and then "Leisureville"; the latter convinced me to visit TV.

I have the best daughter in the world.

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KO, tog ti!

You clearly need a backward spell checker... what is 'eb'?

tsuJ a opyt.

I was fired from my job by President Reagan.

PLEASE, don't everyone start doing this!!!! My eyes are crossing. LOL

Were you an air traffic controller?

I've met a lot of famous people, none of whom would remember me, but my favorite experience was a picture taken with Dean Smith. I had it framed on my office wall. People would come in and asked if that was my father, or who is that distinguished man with you, and ocassionally.....how do you know Dean Smith??? That was the best!

There was a local kids afternoon TV show the Hartford, CT market called Ranger Andy in the mid 60's. At 12 years old was the astronomer guest on a regular basis, presenting various subjects such as red spot of Jupiter, the rings of Saturn and solar flares. One of my goals in TV is to re-kindle my interest in astronomy...as soon as we settle in.

My best friend, is the real life Felix Ungar.

His wife was washing a pot out and he said, "you call that clean". He then went to the sink and scrubbed the pot so hard, you could see through it.

You can have a meal on any of his floors and you won't get sick.

BTW - That makes me Oscar Madison by comparison. :D

I live in a lightkeeper's house that was built in the mid-1800's; before that I lived on a boat. I also lived in Morocco for awhile and for a very brief period of time was married to a man whose real name was Robin Arthur Hood.

I was on a boat that went to both the Arctic Circle and Antarctica.

The New York Mets won their first World Series on my 18th Birthday.

Around 1988 , I had dinner in Buffalo , NY with the then USSR " Commissar of Sports and Culture " and his Interpreter also from the USSR . [ Long story how it came to be ] .
About 10 days later an FBI Agent appeared at my office door . He had black and white glossy photos of me having dinner with these two guys .
Turned out the " Interpreter " was actually a very senior KGB Officer . The FBI could not figure out how the KGB guy got into the US . I related to the FBI Agent that the Commissar told me that the two had been " college buddies " and he brought his friend along to give him a vacation from his family !

I drew about 20 patients at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hospital in Reno, Nevada. These were working off photos by a talented photographer. I had been volunteering there for a year of Saturdays to see if I wanted to go into medicine. This was around 1977-1978.

When I left they had to hire a University of Nevada, Reno art student to come and draw the patients because new patients would want their pictures on the wall too.

This was on the intensive care unit so some of the patients I drew during that period died during that 1977-1978 period.

The oldest was from the Spanish-American War and must have been nearing 100. The youngest was a Vietnam War veteran who had played walrus with a pool stick and gotten bumped so that the stick went up his nose into his brain.

I still draw portraits once in a while but am very rusty.

I had had an art show while at Earl Wooster High School in Reno, Nevada in 1976 but the art teacher forced me to put up my drawing of a cactus with cactus spelled out under it. I had misspelled cactus with "cacutus" insisting that the "u" was silent. Nobody said much of anything except that my English teacher Mrs. Barbara Mitchell wanted a drawing of a model I had done--working off a magazine picture-- which she said looked like her recently deceased daughter Michelle Mitchell.

This drawing looked just like a married woman I worked with at Information Access Company (IAC) from 1984-1986. This company was in Belmont, CA about 20 miles south of San Francisco and about 7 miles north of Palo Alto.

I entered law school at the University of Minnesota in 1986 and there was a woman Mary Jane W., in the "C" group of about 50 law students who looked hauntingly like the drawing and like the woman I had worked with at Information Access Company. MJW also seemed smart, funny and kind. The U of MN woman though was much thinner and more elf like than the IAC marketing pro.

I became a little obsessed with this U of MN Law Student MJW but she always treated me nicely and with respect. I made a few passes - some very ungainly and immature-- but we went our separate ways in 1989.

In 1992, in San Francisco at the American Association of Law Libraries convention that summer I went looking for employment in a law library.

The woman from IAC --the married woman-- was pitching their product the Legal Resource Index to law librarians. As I said, she had been in the marketing department at IAC.

One of the law librarians, Suzanne T., from the University of Minnesota Law School approached this IAC woman and asked her what she was doing in San Francisco at a law library convention. She had mistaken these two blonde women-- the IAC marketing lady and the U of MN Law Grad. Michelle Mitchell had been a redhead but the drawing I did was all in pencil so it made her look like she could have been a blonde. Pretty much the whole U of MN Law School body, including Suzanne T., had known I had had a crush on this elfish blonde law student MJW.

I never mentioned the drawing though nor any resemblances until maybe 2002.

We three U of MN law school grads were all Class of 1989 but the Law Librarian Suzanne T., still employed at the U of MN Law Library had mistaken identities and the IAC woman then explained that I had had a crush on yet another blonde Sandy--single though when I was there- at IAC.

It is strange what affects a drawing done in youth can have.

I tried a few times to get the lady lawyer Mary Jane W., who graduated from the U of MN Law School to help with my access to practical information for survivors of crimes project 224 613, but she just would send it back "return to sender" or threaten me with stalking cease and desist orders for no reason so I just gave up. I thought threatening stalking charges was really extreme especially when all I did was write a few letters with copies of letters I had received from various authorities. There was not much of a personal nature in any of them. The picture I did in high school that looked like three women-- Michelle Mitchell, the IAC marketing woman, and Mary Jane W (Class of 1989, U of MN Law School) still haunted me back then and still haunts me now.

I have not seen this picture though since visiting the Mitchell home around May of 1976 to give them it and offer them my condolences for their murdered daughter (killed on 2-24 in 1976) and thank them for a small scholarship they gave me and another Earl Wooster High School student., John P. This Scholarhsip was a Memorial Scholarship in Michelle Mitchell's name. Michelle Mitchell had been murdered on the night of my birthday of 2-24 in 1976 near the University of Nevada, Reno campus. The case was re-opened a few months ago in 2014 as it looks like her murder is related to a series of slayings in the San Francisco Bay area in January-April of 1976 called the Gypsy Hill murders. http://gypsyhillmurders.com/

Am actress and a professional clown, writer and artist.

My father was Leonard and my mother was Elizabeth. I grew up in a house on the corner of Leonard Street and Elizabeth Street.

Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross, had lived in the house for several months while her own house was being built.

My borzoi were onstage with the Philadelphia Ballet in a production of Giselle. We got to hang out backstage with all the ballerinas and ballerinos.

Funny - I had a friend who married a lady named Chavelle, they lived on Malibu St.

We are living in our 40th house and no, my husband was not in the military. He was climbing the ladder with Montgomery Ward in it's hayday.

I never said I could type backwards!! Guess the fingers just did that one right!!:a20:

aHaHaH! knahT uoY!

At 10 friend of mine went out on frozen pond. I told him the ice was melting and it was too thin. He would not listen and fell through. He wanted me to come out and pull him out. I knew I would also fall through. So I ran for help. Man working on house got big limb and broke the Ice to him while I ran to the highway to flag down someone to call for ambulance. He survived.

Worked since I was 14 to last month. worked 36 hours week going to school for .60 hour. Now days that would be some type of child slave labor law. Getting along with my boring chatter I am Brain tumor survivor. Once beat a guy, that beat that guy that bet John Mac in Juniors in tennis.

My biggest accomplishment was getting my son through College so he could have better life than me. and that IMO is what's it all about. The rest of the stuff don't really matter.

Thank you all for sharing your stories.
This is probably the most interesting thread I've ever read!

I got married on July 20, 1969 - The first man also walked on the moon that day. I chose that date before NASA, however.

We've taken our motorcycle on a cruise ship and ridden many islands in the Caribbean
Debbie

Growing up, my parents had bread and other baked goods delivered daily by horse drawn delivery wagons like shown below. The two horses that were used to pull the wagon on our route were named Frank & Josephine. Guess what my parent's names were? Right if you said Frank & Josephine. (True Story)

I agree Barefoot :)

I come from and still live in the same R.I. hometown as pro golfer Billy Andrade and was his camp couselor when he attended the Y.M.C.A. day camp I worked at.

Those are great looking dogs. I hope that they meet the borzoi I have seen walking on Churchill Downs every so often. Have not seen this pooch in a few months.

VFW drawing done around 1977.
 

This is one of the drawings I did of the youngest VFW Hospital Reno patient I did around 1977. He did not like this one evidently as they would have kept it. I believe I had had to draw a few of him before he liked one. I was trying different mediums. This one was black ink. Most of my best art work I gave away like the drawings to patients at the VFW Hospital.

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I graduated Cum Lucky from college!!

I finished just short of that.


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Years ago Tom bought a Harley Davidson Softail. We rode this bike everywhere and I decided I wanted to learn to ride my own. Huge mistake as my sense of balance must be bad.

I took the class and passed. We bought a old small Honda for me to practice and a few days later I tipped it over and hurt my arm. A few months passed and thought I would try Toms bike without asking him. Yes, I tipped this one over too. The bike was on top of me and broke my foot and a lot of damage was done to the bike. Tom was furious with me and my wanna be HD riding days were over.

After this my friends started calling me Tippy and my last name is Clubb. So now you know how I got my screen name.