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Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only daily column thinking that it's been a tough week for celebrities. Farrah Fawcett, Billy Mays and the Gloved One, all biting the bullet in the span of just a few days. Must be some kind of weird conjunction of stars and planets and what-not.
Anyhow, we here at the SU Corporate Suites always mourn the passing of our country's glitterati, and we're sure the tabloid press will cover all this stuff in excruciating detail so that we don't have to.
MILLIONS OF SUMMIT
UP READERS: “Wait a minute. Farrah Fawcett we know. Nice hair. And the Gloved One, yes, we're familiar with MJ. We were around in the '70s. And '80s. And '90s. We're sure he's just moon walking somewhere on a higher plane. But Billy Mays — who dat?”
SUMMIT UP: C'mon people! We just wrote about the big guy a few weeks ago. He's the fella with the loud voice who used to sell all sorts of cleaning products and other diverse household items. He was a veritable giant in the arcane field of infomercials, and we're sure that he (although maybe not his voice) will be missed. All we know is, we always had to turn down the TV volume several notches whenever he came on during one of our late-night channel surfing sessions.
MSUR: “OK, we know who you mean. The guy with really black hair and super-nice beard. We always looked at the beard and wondered if it was real. What happened?”
SU: We're not really sure. We didn't read all the blurbs very closely, but we recommend picking up the next few issues of People mag, where it'll all be laid out for you.
We need to move on. Seems we have a photo here of Big Tim Holmes, a longtime local who celebrated the big 5-0 last week with a group of his closest friends by hosting
quite the shindig down at Green Mountain Reservoir. One of our roving Summit Up correspondents was lucky enough to be invited and we can say that these folks know how to party. We're talking live guitar music (thanks to Justin), awesome food (including a fine organic carrot cake made by Tim's wife, Jan), fresh-brewed coffee, campfires, boating ... What can we say? Tim is just a great guy and he proved by spending his birthday bash towing a bunch of pesky rugrats around the lake on a tube behind his boat.
Whew! We're thinking we might have misplaced, or at least dangled, a modifier somewhere in that last sentence, but we're on a roll, so we'll just keep going. Somewhere on this page you should see a picture of Tim doing something acrobatic with a piece of cake, so if you see him around the county, give him a slap on the back and a hearty congrats for reaching that half-century milestone.
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We out, painting our toenails red, white and blue.
Anyhow, we here at the SU Corporate Suites always mourn the passing of our country's glitterati, and we're sure the tabloid press will cover all this stuff in excruciating detail so that we don't have to.
MILLIONS OF SUMMIT
UP READERS: “Wait a minute. Farrah Fawcett we know. Nice hair. And the Gloved One, yes, we're familiar with MJ. We were around in the '70s. And '80s. And '90s. We're sure he's just moon walking somewhere on a higher plane. But Billy Mays — who dat?”
SUMMIT UP: C'mon people! We just wrote about the big guy a few weeks ago. He's the fella with the loud voice who used to sell all sorts of cleaning products and other diverse household items. He was a veritable giant in the arcane field of infomercials, and we're sure that he (although maybe not his voice) will be missed. All we know is, we always had to turn down the TV volume several notches whenever he came on during one of our late-night channel surfing sessions.
MSUR: “OK, we know who you mean. The guy with really black hair and super-nice beard. We always looked at the beard and wondered if it was real. What happened?”
SU: We're not really sure. We didn't read all the blurbs very closely, but we recommend picking up the next few issues of People mag, where it'll all be laid out for you.
We need to move on. Seems we have a photo here of Big Tim Holmes, a longtime local who celebrated the big 5-0 last week with a group of his closest friends by hosting
quite the shindig down at Green Mountain Reservoir. One of our roving Summit Up correspondents was lucky enough to be invited and we can say that these folks know how to party. We're talking live guitar music (thanks to Justin), awesome food (including a fine organic carrot cake made by Tim's wife, Jan), fresh-brewed coffee, campfires, boating ... What can we say? Tim is just a great guy and he proved by spending his birthday bash towing a bunch of pesky rugrats around the lake on a tube behind his boat.
Whew! We're thinking we might have misplaced, or at least dangled, a modifier somewhere in that last sentence, but we're on a roll, so we'll just keep going. Somewhere on this page you should see a picture of Tim doing something acrobatic with a piece of cake, so if you see him around the county, give him a slap on the back and a hearty congrats for reaching that half-century milestone.
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We out, painting our toenails red, white and blue.
