I saw a guy the other day who was the spitting image of Nahm - I mean a dead
ringer, but mebbe 30# or so thinner. I had to ask if he'd heard the
comparison before. He said not only does he hear it all the time, but some
years ago he even traveled to DC to enter a Norm look-alike contest, and
came in first in a field of 360 entrants. He won a huge Norm poster and
$1000 worth of power tools. Coincidentally, he's a general contractor
himself and also teaches at the high school down the road from me (I didn't
ask if he taught shop).

On 5/2/2010 4:28 PM, Buddy Matlosz wrote:
I saw a guy the other day who was the spitting image of Nahm - I mean a
dead ringer, but mebbe 30# or so thinner.

Heh! A few years back, I had a salt & pepper beard.
Combined with my wire frame glasses and detached grin, I
rather resembled Norm to some degree.

At a home show I noticed a woman staring at me bug-eyed from
across a woodworking demonstration. I just smiled amiably.



--Winston -- Now growing and tinting sideburns for Elvis contest

In article ,
says...
On 5/2/2010 4:28 PM, Buddy Matlosz wrote:
I saw a guy the other day who was the spitting image of Nahm - I mean a
dead ringer, but mebbe 30# or so thinner.

Heh! A few years back, I had a salt & pepper beard.
Combined with my wire frame glasses and detached grin, I
rather resembled Norm to some degree.

At a home show I noticed a woman staring at me bug-eyed from
across a woodworking demonstration. I just smiled amiably.



--Winston -- Now growing and tinting sideburns for Elvis contest

Last week, I was driving down a side street near my office and got
temporarily stuck because a lawn-care truck (with a big flat trailer
for the mowers) was parked on the other side and just after it there
was a minivan parked on my side and there was a white dual-cab
pickup approaching in the opposite direction. There wasn't room to
pass between the two parked vehicles, so I stopped behind the minivan
to let the pickup go first. The driver scowled at me as he went by.
(I think he thought I could have done a better job pulling over, which
was true, but there was room enough.) Anyway, I could swear it was
Tommy Silva. Which isn't really unlikely, since this was in Lexington
Mass, about a mile from where Google Maps says his construction
company is located.

--
John

"Winston" wrote in message
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On 5/2/2010 4:28 PM, Buddy Matlosz wrote:
I saw a guy the other day who was the spitting image of Nahm - I mean a
dead ringer, but mebbe 30# or so thinner.

Heh! A few years back, I had a salt & pepper beard.
Combined with my wire frame glasses and detached grin, I
rather resembled Norm to some degree.

At a home show I noticed a woman staring at me bug-eyed from
across a woodworking demonstration. I just smiled amiably.



--Winston -- Now growing and tinting sideburns for Elvis contest

People stop me all the time thinking I'm Tom Selleck We're spitting images
of each other. If you really look close, you can see that Tom is a bit
taller though. And he has more hair (lots more). And he has a smaller
waist line. And he is a bit younger. Other than that, you can't tell us
apart unless you get close, but from a quarter mile or so, we look almost
identical. Almost.

On 5/3/2010 1:37 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

"Winston" wrote in message
...

(...)

--Winston -- Now growing and tinting sideburns for Elvis contest

People stop me all the time thinking I'm Tom Selleck We're spitting
images of each other. If you really look close, you can see that Tom is
a bit taller though. And he has more hair (lots more). And he has a
smaller waist line. And he is a bit younger. Other than that, you can't
tell us apart unless you get close, but from a quarter mile or so, we
look almost identical. Almost.

Thanks, Ed. I needed that.



--Winston

On Mon, 03 May 2010 08:33:33 -0700, Winston
wrote the following:

On 5/2/2010 4:28 PM, Buddy Matlosz wrote:
I saw a guy the other day who was the spitting image of Nahm - I mean a
dead ringer, but mebbe 30# or so thinner.

Heh! A few years back, I had a salt & pepper beard.
Combined with my wire frame glasses and detached grin, I
rather resembled Norm to some degree.

At a home show I noticed a woman staring at me bug-eyed from
across a woodworking demonstration. I just smiled amiably.

....and asked her "Wanna see what's under all this plaid, baby?"

--
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
-- Raymond Lindquist

On 5/3/2010 7:54 PM, Larry Jaques wrote:
On Mon, 03 May 2010 08:33:33 -0700,
wrote the following:

(...)

At a home show I noticed a woman staring at me bug-eyed from
across a woodworking demonstration. I just smiled amiably.

...and asked her "Wanna see what's under all this plaid, baby?"

All the best lines are in retrospect. :P

In a couple years you'll have something witty. Hang in there.





--Winston