More like six bits.
jh
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Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 7:04 PM
Subject: Re: Famous Amos


> To show you how little I know about famous people  at the Spirit of the
City
> dinner one year I sat down with my glass of wine at a table of  some
nicely
> dressed people to talk about the Stone mason program at the Cathedral
St,John.
> Well we all got talking story ; laughing  with carry on  and then parted
when
> the MC got up and after a brief mono introduced  Billy Joel and Christie
> Brinkly the very people I was talking to ;  duh....and that ain't all
>
> A year later at the same event I sat at a table in tux talking with an
> elegant black man of I guess late 60's . He were talking Harlem ; the old
days and
> on and on then the lights got dim and he excused himself  because "he had
to go
> do his thing"
> next thing I know this guy gets up and sings "Stormy Weather"  turns out
it
> was Cab Calloway(now deceased).....and that aint all
>
> Working on a elegant pre war across from central park I needed access to
> certain apartments
>  I went into one apartment and there was a secretary (female body guard)
also
> a woman and a baby in the bed room ; I had to go through the bed room to
get
> at my rig   Again we talked story about kid s and hows the job going ;I
guess
> foe 15 mins or so .when I got down from the rig ; the architect and
building
> super was there ;seems I supposed to tell them first if I was going to
Maddonas
> apartment......
>
> What I gained  for being a dunderhead was that all these people
immediately
> know if they are "recognized "and it must be a breath of fresh air to be
> treated  well normal
> thats my two cent anyway Michael.
>
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>
>

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