Tailgunner Dick left a comment the other day about John Kerry that,
while possibly apocryphal, still has me laughing.
About 9 years ago, Querrie &
Tuhrayza cut in front of a line of diners waiting for a table, and when
some guy objected Querrie said
"Do you know who I am?"
The guy looked for a moment, then
said "Aren't you that gigolo from Massachusetts?"
Still
my all-time favorite squelch though is this about Howard Cosell.
Howard was
taking the Amtrak back to New York after doing Monday Night Football in
Philadelphia. As he entered the very crowded bar car he was coat
grabbed by a man;
"Howard? Howard Cohen? (Cosell's original surname)
The guy looked vaguely familiar, but Cosell couldn't place him.
Tom Smith,
offered the man. Remember? From NYU?
Howard remembered and shook the man;s hand.
"My god Howard, you look good. So, what the hell have you been
doing since school?"
And
there's this, possibly apocryphal anecdote from when Barack Obama was
running for the Senate in 1992. He was approached by a man on
Chicago's Halsted Street who seemed to know him? The man sidled
up to him and whispered "I need two
dime bags."
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