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crazy or stupid?... an nameless elderley-ish person well-known for constantly jetting over to USA & UK, teaching gilding, using Gail's sea-sponge to wipe down a crook panel with lacquer thinner to clean it up after a panel marbellising effect that didn't work. Mum then comes along to do her class on faux effects, and the first step is to dab the sea-sponge onto some paint then pat it onto her chest/singlet to spread it out a bit, and out comes all this lacquer thinned paint straight through...ouch!
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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"The Pimpdillac" at Mass Mayhem this year. That was just too funny!
Friday night hanging in the hotel room with Chris Elliott and Alan Ackerson at FKAB last summer. Sleep? Hell, who needs sleep!!!
"The One Shot Barrel" at last year's Panel Picnic...watching Mike Z finish the bullet holes and then whacking dents into it so it looked "really real".
Any funny story told by Bill Riedel....
Rapid
PS: Bruce, We oughtta do a karoke duet sometime.. ..now that would be funny!
-------------------- Ray Rheaume Rapidfire Design 543 Brushwood Road North Haverhill, NH 03774 rapidfiredesign@hotmail.com 603-787-6803
I like my paint shaken, not stirred. Posts: 5648 | From: North Haverhill, New Hampshire | Registered: Apr 2003
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The entertainment value alone would be worth the price of admission.
Some more memories...
Doug Downey hitting a 300+ yd drive off the tee of a 200 yd par 3 at the FKAB Open. We never did hear that bal come down... I wonder if it is in orbit?
Winning that panel saw at the Mazeppa Winter Muster...
Those monster breakfasts at FKAB by Andre Tardiff and at Dixie by John Smith.
Keep 'em coming!
-------------------- Bruce Bowers
DrCAS Custom Lettering and Design Saint Cloud, Minnesota
"Things work out best for the people who make the best of the way things work out." - Art Linkletter Posts: 6454 | From: Saint Cloud, Minnesota | Registered: Jun 1999
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Flying into Minneapolis airport in the evening to see nothin but snow below on my way to Mazeppa, and being told the plane has to fly around a couple of times before it can land. I was thinking to myself what the hell did I do this for? I could see as we were flying low, how if someone broke down out in the middle of nowhere they would be in a very bad situation. I have never been out this way, so it was new to me. After waiting and wondering if I was "really" going to get picked up. But they did pick me up and drive was a trip. The great part of it was I felt like a VIP when Mike's brother greeted me and showed me around the shop. Then I heard Mike say Hey Cisssssco!! I felt at home, when he said you hungry, want a beer? I have never seen beer out in a fridge. It was stacked outside in the snow. I thought that was so cooool!
And yeah I remember burning the floor with that wild and crazy chick Cheryl in Long Beach at the Blues club, we was slamming that night. I had lot of fun dancing away. When we got back to the Conclave I was doing interviews with my tape recorder. Some of the people were also a bit buzzed so I got some good converstations out of em. but like she said the next day was a bruiser. So when is the next Letterhead meet?
-------------------- aka:Cisco the "Traveling Millennium Sign Artist" http://www.franciscovargas.com Fresno, CA 93703 559 252-0935 "to live life, is to love life, a sign of no life, is a sign of no love"...Cisco 12'98 Posts: 3576 | From: Fresno, Ca, the great USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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Being one of the 23k dancers, and dancing on top of Ore's bar with Denise, Colleen and Lori at Mazeppa 1. Love Shack baby!
Being one of the instigators of the imfamous water fights at Vinton. Janis Masters, Kathy Durham and I were buying up all kinds of "water amo" at the local 5 & dime. hehehe Too much fun. It started with a few squirt guns and worked up to water balloons and full blown super blast water-soakers!
The round table at FKAB!
Denise Carson, Jeff Lang, Doc Welty and I were waking people up in their tents at the Vinton meet with our Alien balloon. We had a balloon with an alien head drawn on it, which we back lit with a flashlight, and put thru peoples tent flaps making an eeery alien humming sound. Oh geeez, ... yup, that was us.
Lots more I can mention, but not sure how much more I want to confess to.
Nettie
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Hey Bruce: Speaking of that long driving golfer, how about him running out of gas with his Suburban on the freeway between the hotel and Pierre's shop with me as the passenger!
-------------------- Mario G. Lafreniere (Fergie) J&N Signs Winter did show up! Posts: 1257 | From: Chapleau, Ontario | Registered: Jun 1999
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Painting the space ship in Mars at 11pm at night only to be questioned by the Mayor, who was half in the bag in that dry town while carrying a rather risque arrangement of vegetables in a take out container over to the Chief of Police who was over at the panel area also a bit in the bag.
In the words of Rob Larkham, " you can't rent movies this funny "
-------------------- Bob Rochon Creative Signworks Millbury, MA 508-865-7330
"Life is Like an Echo, what you put out, comes back to you." Posts: 5149 | From: Millbury, Mass. U.S. | Registered: Nov 1998
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Mike.....you got my shoes too!! They STILL have pink paint on them!!
Christelle's here for Mother's day...I'll remind her!
Another one was..at the Cracker Barrel for breakfast, Georgia , Dixie Meet....in line to pay our meal tickets with the, then single, Bruce Bowers....I look at him, he's all flushed, eyes all glazed over...he says to me "I just l o v e Dana....."
And then the Letterwed I attended for those same two later in Buffalo, N.Y.
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I took 1 look at Herbie Estes' beard at the 2nd Kenlake meet and decided it might make a good striping brush. So I oiled it up and we put a panel on the floor and palleted out some paint in Herbie's whiskers. Alan Johnson got on 1 side, I got on the other and Herbie's brother, Steve, got on the back. We picked herbie up and preceded to negotiate some kind of a line on that panel. I have to admit -- that was the heaviest brush I've ever used.
-------------------- Bill Diaz Diaz Sign Art Pontiac IL www.diazsignart.com Posts: 2109 | From: Pontiac, IL | Registered: Dec 2001
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