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4917 | dcaddy@m... | 1996‑08‑29 | My real bio |
When I was born in Chicago, Ill. on July 13, 1942, the doctor slapped my mother. Badda-BING! Thank you very much. Life was pretty much like any kid's until I discovered acting in a college production of "The Skin of Our Teeth" at Ripon College in Wisconsin. (I was thrown out of school my senior year.) I failed all my senior courses. I slept through the entire year, waking up only to eat pizza. I didn't want to be anything. Shortly thereafter I married my honor-student wife (to the obvious delight of her parents) and moved to California. My goal was to become an actor. I got a contract with Columbia for $150 a week. This was in 1965 when studios were still telling their contract players what kind of haircut ot get and what women they should have on their arms at the Oscars. I was cast as a bellhop in "Dead Heat on a Merry Go Round", so I acted like a bellhop. I was told I'd never make it in Hollywood because I didn't act like a movie star. They were determined to send me back to acting school until I learned how not to act like a bellhop. I did the usual starving artist bit until I tired of starving. Decided to become a carpenter. Hey, if it was good enough for the Son of God, it was good enough for me! I was totally self-taught, learned from books and the exercise of logic. It was wonderful. My first paying job was building a recording studio for Sergio Mendez in his backyard. I got bit parts in couple of big movies in the late seventies, but I made my living as a carpenter for almost eight years. It beat going to parties and introducing myself as an "out of work actor". I finally made it "big" as an actor, but I still feel like the carpenter I was all those years ago. I have a pretty hectic schedule these days, but I still make time for my woodworking. I've been able to afford a pretty nice place in Beverly Hills, complete with woodworking shop and all the p*wer tools a guy like Norm could want. But I still get the most pleasure from the simple sharpening of a chisel, or a plane blade...From hearing that sound of the blade cutting a wisp of wood... from the smell of wood molecules as they meet the air for the very first time. It's not really practical for me to go to garage sales and flea markets anymore. (You guys don't realize how good you have it.) But on the plus side, I own everything Lie-Neilsen ever made. No, I haven't won an Oscar yet, but if I ever do I'll probably just melt it down to make ornate little plumb bobs. If any of you ever figure out who I am, don't let it get out or I'll have to lose this psuedonym and come back as somebody else. Thanks for letting me hang out on the porch with you all. I'm learning a lot about the historical handtools. (A SPECIAL thanks to those of you who answer my "newbie" questions.) Darren C. Addy |
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4981 | williams@i... (Larry Williams) | 1996‑08‑30 | Re: My real bio |
Darren or whoever writes: |
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4987 | Doug Dawson <dawson@p...> | 1996‑08‑30 | Re: My real bio |
> Whatever you say, HF, but you'll always be Darren to us. ;) And FWIW, what led you to relocate to Nebraska? ;^b Doug Dawson dawson@p... |
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4984 | Ed Chambers <edgy@a...> | 1996‑08‑30 | Re: My real bio |
*snip* Whatever you say, HF, but you'll always be Darren to us. ;) Ed |
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4990 | "Gary & Sandra Ilmanen" <saga@s...> | 1996‑08‑31 | Re: My real bio |
On 30 Aug 96,David Gardner wrote: > Just say (tm) "Wow, I'm on a list with a star" Err, after that, it might be more accurate to say: Just say (tm) "Wow, I was once on a list with a star" -- Keypuncher: Gary "Snick" Ilmanen - Riverside, California, USA Other Email: snick@m... & snickmeister@g... My Website: http://www.liberty.com/home/saga Pithy Quote: Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. Disparate Quote: When a woman is reaching her sexual peak, her husband is discovering he has a favorite chair. |
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4991 | Mac Geek <john@g...> | 1996‑08‑31 | Re: My real bio |
Snick Wrote: >On 30 Aug 96,David Gardner wrote: >> Just say (tm) "Wow, I'm on a list with a star" >Err, after that, it might be more accurate to say: >Just say (tm) "Wow, I was once on a list with a star" Yeah, C'mon Guys, lets respect his right to privacy. WHOEVER he is, he went to an awefull lot of trouble to get here. Lets try and respect that. I worked security for lots of "famous" people back in CT ....... The most commony heards compliant from all of them was.. "do you know how dificult it is just to go to a pub on the corner and have a beer?" Whaday say we just welcome him as a fellow Sawdust Junkie, and leave it at that. Of course it is probly too late now, Hey Darren, C'mon back some day. We'll keep a Dunbar Windsor reserved for you and the beer cold ready. John, Another sleepless night on Pager Duty. |
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4999 | "Gary & Sandra Ilmanen" <saga@s...> | 1996‑08‑31 | Re: My real bio |
On 30 Aug 96,David Gardner wrote: > Just say (tm) "Wow, I'm on a list with a star" Hah! I guess you were totally sucked in, David! That was quite a good troll, Darren. You even had me going for a while. I guess I'm just as much a sucker as the next guy, and I deserve it more than most... after I tried to foist an imaginary joinery technique upon the group. If you missed it, see the Viking Files: http://www.liberty.com/home/saga/vikings.htm Incidently, in real life, I am really John Travolta, and I am writing this from my airplane while plugged into a cell-phone. Oops! Gotta go! Denver Center needs me to turn left heading 088 and decend and maintain flight level 280. -- Keypuncher: Gary "Snick" Ilmanen - Riverside, California, USA Other Email: snick@m... & snickmeister@g... My Website: http://www.liberty.com/home/saga Pithy Quote: Look out for #1. Don't step in #2 either. Disparate Quote: Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. |
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5000 | John Hunt <diveboat@n...> | 1996‑08‑31 | Re: My real bio |
Fellow Galoots, I would like to interject a little bit of healthy skepticism here. One of the boons (and banes) of the internet is the relative difficulty of ascertaining the source of any bit of e-mail, and thus the credibility of any of the info contained therein. I had a conversation with me dad, an attorney, about this subject a few months ago. He pointed out that in the legal system, any testimony is directly linked to the identity of the witness. With e-mail and usenet, it is virtually impossible to identify the source of any bit of info. Therefore, the only info that has any real merit is the info that can be independently verified. In the real world, we are a bunch of helpful folks with a shared interest. Most of the info we post up here is the best that we have, otherwise we wouldn't bother typing it in. So we get lulled into a sense of false security where we implicitly trust the truthfulness of what we read here. But every so often there are posts in which the identity of the author or the information in the post cannot be verified. These posts are neither here nor there. They are simply unverifiable assertions. It is especially difficult when the assertion is something that we want to believe in. Now Mr. HF is an enormously popular star. I know that I would like to believe that I am electronically rubbing elbows with him, and I think that goes for the rest of us, too. But Darren C. Addy could be posting with his caps lock ON proclaiming himself to be HF and it still wouldn't mean a damn thing. So there is no such thing as 'outing' him. Maybe he is, and maybe he isn't. I know what I am personally rooting for, but I also know at the very same time that I am deluding myself if I think that any definitive answer is forthcoming. -John- Just Say(tm) - No, *I* am HF!!!!! ;^) |
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5004 | Harrison Ford <dawson@p...> | 1996‑08‑31 | Re: My real bio |
John Hunt wrote, > Just Say(tm) - No, *I* am HF!!!!! ;^) Quite incorrect - you've all been had. Because Harrison Ford is ME. Man, I had you going. Harrison Ford dawson@p... ( - my dropbox. ) |
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5007 | ecoyle@p... (eric coyle) | 1996‑08‑31 | Re: My real bio |
> >Whaday say we just welcome him as a fellow Sawdust Junkie, and leave it at that. > >Of course it is probly too late now, > >Hey Darren, C'mon back some day. >We'll keep a Dunbar Windsor reserved for you and the beer cold ready. > >John, >Another sleepless night on Pager Duty. > Then there was the fellow who posted his Visa number listwide. The apparent lack of problems resulting from this error seems to demostrate that there is a high degree of respect/honesty amongst the galooti.... Eric |
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5011 | Steve Turadek <turadek@c...> | 1996‑08‑31 | Re: My real bio |
> >Do any other galoot out there have any suggestions as to how Hans Solo can >go under cover so he can share the joy of hunting in yard sales and flee >markets? > well, I was at Andy's a couple of weeks ago. there was some codger behind the counter (Andy was schmoozing in back in front of a truck load of bad doughnuts.) after the man took my money, I said: "I love you." he looked at me deadpan and said: "I know." I looked at him closely and thought I saw a hint of the edge of a latex mask. i've heard that HF sometimes does yardsales disguised as Julia Roberts. 415-267-7313(beep/Bay Area) 310-201-8615(beep/Westwood) |
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5016 | Stephen LaMantia <lamantia@u...> | 1996‑08‑31 | Re: My real bio |
On Sat, 31 Aug 1996, Chew-Bakka wrote: > Nope Not me! > > Never fooled me for a second.... eh Darren? > BTW, The next Cold One is on me, > Now get out of my chair! Guntermann!!! -- Steve |
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5013 | Chew-Bakka <Chewie@I...Planet.Hoth.com> | 1996‑08‑31 | Re: My real bio |
At 12:42 AM 8/30/96 -0400, you wrote: >When I was born in Chicago, Ill. on July 13, Nope Not me! Never fooled me for a second.... eh Darren? BTW, The next Cold One is on me, Now get out of my chair! John, "Acting is basically like carpentry - if you know your craft, you figure out the logic of a particular job and submit yourself to it. It all comes down to detail." Go figgure!?!?!? |
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5019 | "Gary & Sandra Ilmanen" <saga@s...> | 1996‑08‑31 | Re: My real bio |
Ahh, crap, wrong URL. They say the memory is the second thing to go... does anybody remember what the first was? Let me just start over!: Hah! I guess you were totally sucked in, David! That was quite a good troll, Darren. You even had me going for a while. I guess I'm just as much a sucker as the next guy, and I deserve it more than most... after I tried to foist an imaginary joinery technique upon the group. If you missed it, see the Viking Files at: http://www.liberty.com/home/saga/viking.htm (not .vikings.htm like I said before) Incidently, in real life, I am really John Travolta, and I am writing this from my airplane while plugged into a cell-phone. Oops! Gotta go! Denver Center needs me to turn left heading 088 and decend and maintain flight level 280. Now, ODEEN!!! YOUR TURN! "404 Not Found The requested URL /~Odeen/galoot_caps.htm was not found on this server." I hate the Internet. It has no intelligence. -- Keypuncher: Gary "Snick" Ilmanen - Riverside, California, USA Other Email: snick@m... & snickmeister@g... My Website: http://www.liberty.com/home/saga Pithy Quote: As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint. Disparate Quote: Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine. |
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5020 | Jeff Grothaus <jgrot@t...> | 1996‑08‑31 | Re: My real bio |
At 05:30 PM 8/31/96 EDT, you wrote: > >On Sat, 31 Aug 1996, Chew-Bakka wrote: > >> Nope Not me! >> >> Never fooled me for a second.... eh Darren? >> BTW, The next Cold One is on me, >> Now get out of my chair! > >Guntermann!!! > >-- Steve > > >---------------------------------------------------------------- >Private replies: |
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5026 | Patrick Olguin <odeen@c...> | 1996‑09‑01 | Re: My real bio |
At 09:08 PM 8/31/96 -0400, Snick wrote: >Now, ODEEN!!! YOUR TURN! > >"404 Not Found > >The requested URL /~Odeen/galoot_caps.htm was not found on this >server." Sicky, I love you, but you've got to learn cut-n-paste. My web page is on a real machine: Sun Sparc20, running Unix. Unix boxes support file suffixes greater than three characters. Tack on the letter 'l' to 'htm' :^) Paddy GM/ENB/Unix Geek |
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5106 | Ed Bell <ebell@p...> | 1996‑09‑03 | Re: My real bio |
Gary & Sandra Ilmanen wisely wrote: > > "404 Not Found > > The requested URL /~Odeen/galoot_caps.htm was not found on this > server." > > I hate the Internet. It has no intelligence. Pray that it never gets any. -- Ed Bell Cincinnati Bell Information Systems, Inc., E-Mail: |
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