Conference 7.286::sports_91

    Interviewing the women who was to be in Married with children....
    
    REK
    
    On the island of St. Lucia........

    OK!

    I return for my high school reunion and meet the girl I dated my senior
    year and who has blossomed quite well and she asks me if I want
    to...wait, did that.

    I go to this dance bar and there's this famous, sexy actress there who
    takes a liking to me and...wait, did that.

    I meet this hot Cuban babe who is like a tigress in the sack...wait,
    did that.

    I go to the beach at St. Tropez, France and there are many beautiful,
    nude women all...wait, did that.

    After a meaningful relationship with aforementioned hot Cuban babe, she
    dumps me and I get even by dating her beautiful best friend who...wait,
    did that.

    I become a college professor and one of the most beautiful woman I have
    ever seen takes my class and we go dancing and then...wait, did that.

    Hell, 'Saw, I come to work to get away from it all! ;-)

    	--dan'l

re .2

	(in my best Charlie Brown voice)


			And all I got was a rock.....

    
    Dan'l you forgot the , "ya that's it's" and the "ya sure's" not
    to mention Morgan Fairchild!
    
    
    
    
    Steve

    I may be getting from it all if my band's debut album sells.  We're
    just a few signatures away from being signed to a label.

'Saw,

You mentioned the beach in the Bahamas ... Here's a story for you ...

Software Services' Excellence Awards were held at Cable Beach near Nassau 
in late summer 1986.   Cindy and I flew down there and had a most relaxing 
"get away from it" time ...

As soon as we arrived and got checked in, we both headed for the beach.  
Got down there and there was this big stack of chaise lounge chairs 
waiting.  We each took one and settled in with the oh-so-warm waves just 
barely lapping over our toes.  I'm talkin' *total* relaxation, dude ...

So, about 10 minutes later, this small island kid comes on by.  Right 
outta the movies.  You get the picture ... extremely black, very friendly, 
the great "hey mon" accent ... the whole thing.   

He says ... "Can I getchoo a dreenk, mon ???"   "Oh, yes!", we said, "Oh, 
please do.  Thank you very very much !!!"

Five minutes later, two of the frostiest, creamiest, coolest and hugest 
pina coladas you've ever seen were in our hands.    Pure bliss.

On the lasted night of the trip, they had the awards ceremony.  Geoffrey 
Holder (The "Uncola" Nut) was the emcee and they had limbo dancers and fire 
eaters and goombay drummers and a huge conga line and ...

But they showed this film during the awards and it was perfect just perfect.  
They showed this DEC software specialist going through hell like you 
described.  Phones ringing off the hook, manuals flying, programs stack 
dumping, pressure, pressure, pressure until finally the poor guy collapses 
in a heap and the screen goes blank ...

And he wakes up and he's still in his suit and tie but he's lying face down 
in the water and there are some "natives" in goombay costume looking over 
him.   His vision clears and he looks up at them and they're saying ...

"Is dat heem, mon ???"    "Ya, mon, dat's heem."   "Are you sure, mon ???"  
"Ya, mon, dat's da one.  Dat's heem."   "Ho-kay, man, let's bring heem in, 
mon."

And they pick the guy up underneath his arms and drag him off to the hotel 
in the distance.  The guy's wingtips are still dragging in the sand as the 
camera fades and the goombay drums started up again ...

We were all standing and cheering our fool heads off ...  It was most 
excellent, mon.   I'd kill for another trip to Da Bahamas, mon.

Bob Hunt 

    Bob -
    Sounds great.  Personally, I don't believe in those types of company
    trips - cuz not all employees at Digital are eligible for such awards
    and trips - but sounds most excellent...
    
    JD

    Saw -
    
    Well, if it was me, I'd just as soon strap the backpack on, get the 
    fishing gear, and hike on up into the mountains, totally away from
    civilization.  Area of choice would be the North Cascades, The Indian
    Peaks Wilderness in Colorado, teh Canadien Rockies, or the South West
    National Park in Tasmania.   
    
    Last time I went to the Indian Peaks area, I had the greatest
    backpacking trip ever.  Needed to get away from everything - so I went
    in alone.  Fished in a lake way up in the mountains - water so clear
    you could see the fish swimming for the line.  Got woke up one night
    when a bear (saw the tracks in the morning) was a-sniffing my tent.  
    
    The nexted few days, found a most excellent meadow, with a meadering
    stream.  At dusk, the elk - like 30 of 'em - would come down to the
    meadow and frolic in the stream.  Stayed there a couple of year - just
    me, some mule deer, elk, and various other critters.  Extremely
    relaxing.
    
    My other choice would be to go back to Australia - totally relaxed way
    of life - we looked at buying land in Tasmania - and still might...
    
    JD

I can think of lots of things to do to get away from it all ...

I can go to the library and get lost for hours reading old history books.  

Or, I could go see Antietam again.   Or maybe a battlefield I haven't seen 
yet like Bentonsville, Chickamauga, Shiloh, ...

Asheville, NC, is very nice.

Or a Grateful Dead concert ...

Or even just grab a frisbee and take our new pair of pups to a big open 
field and start teachin' 'em to be frisbee dogs ...

Nice topic, 'Saw.

Bob Hunt

P.S.   Dan'l is one legendary dude.   If you doubt any of his exploits just 
ask Soup or JaKe about his "horsey rides" at the Paper Doll Lounge and 
you'll silence all doubts.

 Jamaica, me  10 million dollars and the babes from Victoria Secrets...
\
mike

Bob, 

I wanna party wif you dude!

Seriously, all the things you mentioned in your second note are way
cool, and I could identify with the Bahamas thing.

We stayed right by where the cruise ships dock, and our hotel had
a private beach.  They also issued us free drink coupons for each
room.  All that got added to your room bill was the gratuity, which
turned out to be a pittance.  Not a problem, mon.

JD, I like you're stuff too, but at this point I'd just as soon the
natives pick me up and put me in the lounge chair...


Ahhhh....  well, one can still dream!


'Saw

PS  So Mike Heiser, will I be able to say, "I knew him when..."  ?

>PS  So Mike Heiser, will I be able to say, "I knew him when..."  ?
    
    ...he was a troublemaker in SPORTS!

    I can think of a couple of places.
    
    The sidelines of a rugby pitch on a warm spring day, with a close game
    in the background and good friends to discuss it with in the
    foreground.  A light breeze blowing, puffy white clouds in a clear blue
    sky, green grass...
    
    A canoe in the Boundary Waters region between Minnesota and Canada,
    with someone else to do the paddling, cooking, setting up the tent --
    all those logistical details.  :-)
    
    And someday, I want to take the Mississippi Queen from N'Awlns all the
    way to Minneysoda - preferably in the upper deck cabin.  
    
    A&W

    My fantasy for getting away from it all would be to be reincarnated as
    --dan'l.   Gotta get back to The Paper Doll, that's fer sure.
    
    My other fantasy involves a 55 gallon drum of Veinerschlider 50, a
    basket, 30 feet of rope, and the Swedish Bikini team.
    
    JaKe
    

    I'd rent a van and see America for a year. I'd just wander from place
    to place taking in America as I want to see it.

    
    	You mean drunk DD?  :*)
    
    	Claybone

    
     DAMN CLAYBONE !!
    
     You beat me to that one.....  Boy he set himself up didn't he ?
    
     Hey,  Wanna go have a beer ?
    
    Big Game

If I only had a week or so to get away form it all I'd go Helicopter skiing in
the Bugaboos in B.C.....

If had 3 or 4 months I'd like to drive a classic roadster like an MGA or a 
drophead XKE or a Lotus Elan cross country and camp in the National parks...

Of course with a mini-metzger on the way I'd probably have to get something
that would seat 3 like an Autin Healey 100 or even a Big Cat XJ Jaguar....

5 years ago I would have liked to have taken a motorcycle cross country but 
I've got more lives than my own to think about now...

I'd like to go to Australia during our summer and do some skiing there....

I'm not the type to sit on the beach and do nothing, I think I would go stir
crazy on a cruise although we are going to try and get on a cruise to Alaska 
within the next 3 years or so....


Metz

    Well, to get away from it for awhile, its going to happen soon when the
    Courtster, the sportster, will go with the ole man to the mecca
    
    commonly known as the meadowlands.. for now though, Give me the
    blue-green water, sand, and take back to 71 when i should have
    started cross country and gotten a a real  shot  at Alberto
    Salzar..  anyways, thats in the past, but nothing beats those winter
    track practices, running in the snow, Charlie Perry and myself
    
    my senior saying lets get out ahead of Salazar and then dieing in
    first  mile, as he flys by us.. ha.. what a feeling... 
    
Actually, a week hanging out at  Victoria  Secrets aand  watching them
    
    wimmens [tn]  shop  would be ideal... :)
    
    the money, oh yea, that too..
    
    

    My one day fantasy - to be the head statistician and official scorer at
    the Super Bowl, preferably with the Patriots there.
    
    I haven't really thought about a longer fantasy yet.
    
    John

    
    Oh, so we talking fantasy:
    
    Well, first I'd drive up to British Columbia and drop in on my old
    friend Doug Flutie.  We'd talk about how short he is, have a few brews
    (I'd have good stuff - he'd have some yuppie stuff) - we'd make n of
    Donald Trump, and Doug would admit that Brian Brennan was MVP of the
    Pass.
    
    I'd then take a flight to Chicago, where Michael and me would hang
    around with our tongues hanging out.    I'd bring a tape of the 84
    game, and have him tell me about Dean's strategy in attacking Dan
    Dakitch of IU.
    
    After that, I'd scoot down to French Lick and eat some Nestle's Crunch
    with Lawwy Biwd.  Old larry and I would swill cheap beer and do Johnny
    Most impersonations.  
    
    After French Lick, I'd fly to L.A. and visit Jmes Worthy.  We'd go out
    looking for wimmin - and do everything one-dimensionally.  I'd throw a
    $100 bill on the ground to see if I could get James to dive after it.
    
    I drop by Jimmy Swaggert's with a couple of 15-year old presents and
    leave 'em for him, Jim Baker, Tammy, Falwell and the rest to "Save".
    
    I'd of course, drop by Chapel Hill to discover if the locks on the Dean
    Dome really only work once in 31 tries.  I'd give the Deanster a real
    big Dr. Suess watch - so he'd never have to be embarrassed on national
    TV.
    
     I'd drop y Utah to check out a buffet with   Frank Layden.
    
     I'd do more, but I'd be tired by now.
    
    JD
    
    

    
    > and Doug would admit that Brian Brennan was MVP of the Pass.
      
    Gerard Phelan would be happy hear that.  What'd you do, get Dougie
    drunk?
    
    glenn