Dixie Chicks in Austin, TX. Photo by Ron Baker. Image via Wikipedia
Being new to this “tagging” I actually replied to AmyOops email with a question about what all of this was. Then I checked her blog later and found out what the fuss was about.
It seems I have been “tagged” with the 7 things meme and I have to post seven things you don’t know about me, or risk being banished to some far corner of the net where dial-up is the fastest access you can get, and the only pages you can see are all from yahooligans. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone, especially myself. So here goes:
- I performed for many years in an improvisational/sketch comedy group called the Guava Bomblets.
- I started getting gray hair in eighth grade
- My first car was a 1963 Volkswagen Beetle. My dad traded a golf cart for it.
- I have been published in Reader’s Digest.
- In college I was part of a group that opened for The Pointer Sisters.
- The Dixie Chicks opened for the Guava Bomblets one New Year’s Eve
- I have taken something over 16 Defensive Driving Classes. I get birthday greetings every year from Defensive Driving dot com.
Now according to the rules as I understand them. I can ask Dad the Dude, Mike at LiveLife365, Eve at That’s Funny Because, CoC at That Guy Over There, Mike at Plain Ol’ Mike, Kathy at The Junk Drawer, and DebD at Debbie Does Drivel, to also expose seven secrets about their wasted youth and sordid (though interesting) lives.
Next on Using Humor we discuss mining your past for humor material. Hmmm. where did I get that idea?
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on Nov 11th, 2008 at 4:59 am
Oooo! I’m so jealous you were published in Reader’s Digest! What kind of piece got in?
Sorry about your gray hair! 8th grade? That’s brutal!
on Nov 11th, 2008 at 9:19 am
Kathy,
It might be more correct to say Reader’s Digest accepted someting from me for submission. It was a quote from Sylvia Porter’s Money Book, something like, “Where there’s a will there’s a way, and where there isn’t a will, there are relatives.”
And I found my first gray hairs in eighth grade, they were easy to find when I was senior. Some days it makes me look distinguished and other days it make me look extinguished.
on Nov 11th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
So which had better pick up? The golf cart or the Beetle?
on Nov 11th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Jim,
Funny you should mention that. As you know VDubs are known for their off-the-line performance, but neither of the vehicles had very good brakes at the time of the trade, so going was never as exciting as stopping.
on Nov 14th, 2008 at 1:49 am
Well you did a great job for your first tag. Congratulations.
on Nov 14th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
i’m happy to meet somebody who is a good writer… i like your post.
congrats1
on Nov 16th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Dan, Thanks for the comments. . . on my site. . . .
I’ve enjoyed your writing. . .
and
um. I worked for Reader’s Digest for 25 years, 5 months and 1 day until August 22nd of this year.
Small world.
on Nov 16th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Grandy,
I appreciate your stopping by. Functional Schmunctional is a lot of fun!
Grace,
I have always been told a person has to be willing to be a bad writer before they can become a good writer… maybe I’m starting to cross over every once in awhile.
Koe,
You can really turn a phrase on your blog. I enjoy it very much.
Dan
on Nov 17th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Dan – thanks. . . I’ll keep trying for as long as people keep reading. It’s a thrill.