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Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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08-09-2010, 12:36 PM
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Wow! What interesting people! It reminds me of my favorite saying:
Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things
you didn’t do than by the things you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. |
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#47
08-09-2010, 12:42 PM
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Many years ago I played a lot of tennis. I had the opportunity at a business event to play a set of doubles against the great Rod Laver. Well, when you play a lot of tennis, you develop some instinctual responses to certain shots. So, when Mr. Laver's partner served me wide, I did what I instinctually did at that time, and hit the ball hard down the line...... and passed Mr. Laver. He just looked at me and shook his finger at me and smiled. For the rest of the set, any time he hit the ball my way, it was never hit really hard (not nearly as hard as he could have hit it, thank God!), but it was always just out of my reach. Mr. Laver later in that day was kind enough to spend 15 minutes with me one on one helping me with my backhand. After a while, he said "Davis, you're getting worse not better. Buy me a beer!" So we went into the Pub and had a Fosters. By the way, later that afternoon he played a round of golf and shot par. What an athlete, and a very, very nice man. Today's his 73rd birthday. I also had a chance to play doubles at a different event with Gabbie Sabbatini against Gigi Fernadez and Bud Collins. We were playing on a grass court and Mr. Collins played barefoot! Now you might think from all this that I'm a pretty good player, but that is not the case. In fact I haven't played in a number of years. But I am looking forward to learning Pickle Ball when we get to TV hopefully early next year.
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#49
08-09-2010, 04:59 PM
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#50
08-09-2010, 05:21 PM
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08-09-2010, 07:19 PM
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08-09-2010, 08:15 PM
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#54
08-09-2010, 08:26 PM
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I was All-Conference and All-District in three sports in high school, Basketball, Baseball, and Track and coached all three at the high school level as well as football.
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08-09-2010, 09:39 PM
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Jodie's got your cadillac Aint no use in feeling blue Jodie's got your girlfriend too. |
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#56
08-09-2010, 10:32 PM
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Good thread. Love the stories.
As a teenager, appeared on American Bandstand when it was taped in Philadelphia. Of course, met Dick Clark. As an adult (50) competed in Nebraska in the National Rollerskating Competition. Didn't win, but didn't matter, I got to wear that pretty little dress!!!
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#57
08-09-2010, 11:02 PM
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In Vietnam, I had the honor of being in a unit led Captain Mark "Zippo" Smith. A feared legend, the North Vietnamese had a hefty bounty on his head. He was later captured and spent a gruesome time as a POW.
In the 1990's he was part of an elite group financed by Ross Perot to perform clandestine missions in North Vietnam to look for suspected American POW's. A few years ago, after learning how to use a computer, I was fortunate to link up with him again. His e-mails are a treasure. His opinions on the service and politics are amazing. (I will not tell you what he thought of fellow POW McCain.) |
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#58
08-10-2010, 01:49 AM
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In April 1989 (?) ...
...attended the 300th anniversary celebrations for the Royal Welsh Fusiliers at Powis Castle in Wales. The Queen of England was also there. It was her birthday. Went with a re-enactment group of men who portray 18th century RWF while doing Revolutionary War re-enactments here in the States.
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#59
08-10-2010, 03:33 AM
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I went on a camel trek in the Sahara desert 4 years ago.
Last year on July 5th I met Jimmy Buffett in London!! : )
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#60
08-10-2010, 07:53 AM
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But the clown story is this: In about 1975, McDonald's Corporation wanted to experiment with "McDonald's Family Night At The Circus." The idea was to promote McDonald's on every opening night of Ringling Brothers Circus. So they signed a deal with the circus to give it a try in conjunction with the company's 20th anniversary. I was hired by McDonald's to be the "ring master" (ring announcer) for the first event. I welcomed everybody ( 6 or 8 thousand people) to McDonald' Family night at the circus, then introduced "EVERYBODY'S FAVORITE CLOWN.....................RONALD McDONALD." At that point, Ronald ran out to center ring with a birthday cake with 20 sparklers on it. The sparklers were suppose to be lit, but they weren't. So, I said to Ronald, "why aren't the candles lit." He said something, I don't remember what it was, but it was only a couple of words. That's when the **** hit the fan. It seems that Ringling Brothers Clowns are "Non Speaking Clowns" and they have (or had) a union to that effect. The union had agreed to allow Ronald to appear at the circus under the condition that he "DID NOT SPEAK." Well, good old Jan fixed that in a hurry. I thought nothing of my conversation with Ronald until the next Monday when I got a call from McDonald's main office with instructions to appear before the top brass. When I got into the meeting, I think it was somewhere in Illinois, I sat down in front of a bunch of ****ed off people. The first thing they said to me was, "Where in your script did it say you were suppose to ask Ronald about ******** sparklers.?" The only thing I said was, "Ahhhhhh" before they told me to "shut up." That's when they told me about the grievance and that the circus has decided to "NOT" work with them on "McDonald's Family Night at The Circus." It was explained to me, in a rather forthright manner, that when one works for McDonald's, one does exactly what one is told and nothing more. I was then allowed to slink out of the conference room.  I sure am glad I had a day job.
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