I ran over to our Hy-Vee store yesterday morning to pick up a few things. One of our local television reporters was there talking to people about the parking issues at the state fair last year and interviewed me. I don't know how many other people she interviewed. Part of my interview was aired on the 6 and 10 o'clock news. So if you want to see what yours truly looks like, click on either of the following links (it was aired on two different televisions stations):
KHAS-TV link:
http://www.nbcneb.com/home/headlines/New-Safety-Precautions-Added-to-State-Fair-319074581.html
KOLN/KGIN-TV link:
http://www.1011now.com/centralnebraska/home/headlines/New-Safety-Precautions-Added-to-State-Fair-319074581.html
The stories are, if not identical, very similar.
Virginia
I think the first thing you should do, is hire an agent.
Just be careful if Bill Cosby offers to help you with your career.
Cool
A year ago my neighbors Son was on TV - they could not figure out a way to save the video - they could only save the link -
Hope there's no rain this time -
SA
You seem like a very nice lady.
If it wasn't for the microphone head in the picture it would have seemed that you were standing in the parking lot talking to no one. :)
gene
Quote from: sofadoc on July 29, 2015, 08:19:09 am
I think the first thing you should do, is hire an agent.
Just be careful if Bill Cosby offers to help you with your career.
I promise to run screaming in the opposite direction should Mr. Cosby offer advice. Man, that dude may be the biggest hypocrite yet. All of those tirades directed towards young black men not being responsible fathers/spouses/yada, yada, yada. Then come to find out he's drugged and seduced young women for decades. What a chump. I really loved his "Why Is There Air" album from the 60's. When he had his Fat Albert & friends cartoon show in the 70's, he lost me. Did not like the Jello commercials and absolutely detested his show (The Cosby Show"????) in the 90's with Phyllis Rasheed and all of the kids. Too much emphasis on precocious children. I've always been turned off by shows with a bunch of kids. Ugh.
Gene, too funny about the microphone head. Hadn't even realized that but it almost does look like I'm talking to myself. That would be nothing new though.
Towards the end of last year's fair, they finally started bringing in loads of gravel and dumping it in those huge ruts in the roads/parking areas and that helped greatly. If they start doing that early this year, should we have tons of rain again, there shouldn't be any problems.
Less than a month away from the Fair now. I love walking the midway (once is usually enough each year) and then spend hours in the quilt exhibit as a "white glove volunteer". We wear aprons and white gloves and if anyone wants to look more closely at a a quilt or the backing, we are the only ones who are supposed to be touching the quilts. The quilts are always gorgeous and I enjoy talking to people about them/showing the different quilts off/etc.
Virginia
Over 15 years ago, I turned on the TV at my shop and saw that the national network TV crews were doing a live report at the court house just around the corner from my shop.
It was some racism story. We had a lot of mysterious fires at local black churches. Anyway, I immediately ran around the corner, and began acting like an idiot in the background behind the reporters.
Everybody in town saw it. They all had a good laugh. But NOBODY got it on tape. This was before the days of I-phones and youtube.
BTW, it turned out that the church fires were not racially motivated. Just good old fashioned insurance fraud.
So none of the national camera crews got feed on that? I'm forever seeing people flash the peace sign, jump up and down, wave like they've just seen their long-lost BFF, etc in the background of one story or another.
That's too funny that everyone in town saw it but no one got their camera out.
30+ years ago when Bob & I got married, it was on the side yard of our property. Or, as I told people at the time, the marriage will take place on the East Lawn of The White House. We had 2 dogs and my in-laws had 2 dogs. MIL was supposed to take all 4 dogs to their Motel room before the ceremony started. In her infinite wisdom, she decided that "Your dogs (and ours) want to see you get married." So we had 4 very rowdy little dogs under feet all afternoon. While we were saying our vows, I burst out laughing, because one of my MIL's two dogs had squatted right behind Pastor and peed. Guess we knew what she thought of the marriage. We had 3 people taking pictures and nobody got a shot of Snooky behind the Pastor "taking care of business".
Virginia
Quote... Mr. Cosby offer advice. Man, that dude may be the biggest hypocrite yet.
I'd put Lance Armstrong right up there with a tie to Mr. Cosby. I recently watched the most recent documentary on this guy. Over the years when someone would tell the truth about him he went after them personally. He ruined many peoples' lives to preserve his lie. Hopefully he will spend most of his remaining years fighting law suits.
In terms of drugs in sports, our doped up guy beat your doped up guy. So what? But Armstrong made a lot of money hurting people to conceal his lies. And do you think the US Postal Service had no idea of the drug use? This may be where criminal charges might come from.
gene
Quote from: Virgs Sew n Sew on July 30, 2015, 04:25:24 am
So none of the national camera crews got feed on that? I'm forever seeing people flash the peace sign, jump up and down, wave like they've just seen their long-lost BFF, etc in the background of one story or another.
That's too funny that everyone in town saw it but no one got their camera out.
No, I mean that everyone in town saw it on live national TV, but nobody was taping the program. And this was in the days just before everybody carried a built-in video camera on their phone. By the time the story was repeated on the evening newscasts, my "performance" had been edited out.
It seems like nowadays, the more that a famous person in the news vehemently denies an accusation, the more you can rest assured that the accusation isn't even the half of it.
Armstrong is an interesting case. There was just so much smoke, seemed like there had to be fire. And yes, there was as it turned out in the end.
His ex-wife knew he was doping, the singer from Missouri that was his ex-girlfriend (can't think of her name -- first big single was "All I Wanna Do"), if I remember correctly, she admitted to knowing about his doping). Thought that had to do with their break-up but could be wrong.
Then you go to baseball, seemed like everyone was doping. Football we have deflategate. Sports is not what it used to be. Rarely watch any athletics anymore.
Too bad no one got that taped for you sofadoc. That would be just way too much fun to look at again and again and again!
Virginia
Cheryl Crowe (Lance's ex).
With a few exceptions (such as Lance) I normally don't think less of cheating athletes. All athletes cheat. Some get caught, the rest don't. If they don't cheat, their career will be a short one.
Quote from: sofadoc on July 30, 2015, 08:29:28 am
Cheryl Crowe (Lance's ex).
With a few exceptions (such as Lance) I normally don't think less of cheating athletes. All athletes cheat. Some get caught, the rest don't. If they don't cheat, their career will be a short one.
That's a sad reflection on athletics. Unfortunately, there is probably a great deal of truth in that. In baseball, you can go back to "Say it ain't so Joe" which was what the White Socks???
College athletics is ripe with cheating, at least in Football. I suspect all the Major college sports are full of cheaters cheating.
I suspect that it goes on at the HS level but don't know that for sure. To me, it destroys the whole concept of "sporting contests".
Virginia
Thanks to me (again), we're getting way off the topic of Virginia moving to Hollywood. I just hope she doesn't forget all us "little people".
Quote from: Virgs Sew n Sew on July 30, 2015, 10:37:39 am
College athletics is ripe with cheating, at least in Football. I suspect all the Major college sports are full of cheaters cheating.
I suspect that it goes on at the HS level but don't know that for sure. To me, it destroys the whole concept of "sporting contests".
But when you think about it. If everyone is cheating, doesn't that level the playing field? Nobody is really gaining a competitive edge.
A pro athlete has on average an 8-10 year window of opportunity to earn millions of dollars. Then that window closes forever. So is it worth the risk of bringing shame and disgrace to your reputation in order to make the most of that opportunity. Most would say yes.
I don't know about everyone else but to me it goes completely against the concept of "good sportsmanship" that I learned about. And no, it is not done evenly across the board. If you have big money donors, you can afford to "pay" under the table more than a small school or one who doesn't get as much TV revenue so the playing fields are not even. That is why :cough cough: the SEC has a much stronger conference -- they have big money donors, better recruiting, more money from TV revenue, etc.
Having said all that, I promise to remember all of you little people when I make it big in Hollywood. If my career tanks, I'll just take up upholstery again. ; )
Virginia
It's been a very busy week so haven't taken the time to hunt and peck [then back space and spell check LOL] many responses.
VIRG; You were very composed,relaxed, and spoke very well in that interview. You have obviously done public speaking at some point in your careers. Dennis may have started the Hollywierd idea as a lark---but if your back doesn't smarten up this time---something in the media/entertainment realm would certainly be an option. Your a natural. snicker If it gets bad enough you can even do like Ozzy Osborne's wife did and interview your guests from the comfort of a big soft bed.
I'm not a vain man---but it is kinda cool seeing yourself in the press isn't it. I was in some local papers and home town cable interviews back when I was mean and green. My turn to be the information officer, even though I was an NCO. I also had a couple of articles published in a little fishing magazine out of Winnipeg when I was in Kenora and actually had time to go fishing. My 15 minutes of fame I guess----unless I go postal and shoot my boss. Then I'll be big news LOL!!!! (relax, he ain't worth the bullet , I'm just venting from a bad day)
BILL COSBY; Didn't mind his show---wasn't a Fat Albert guy----but his comedy record (or did my blood brother have it on 8 track) back in the 70's was hilarious ! Darrel has been dead since '83 and I still remember "Noah talks to God" and the one where the two boys get scared crossing the dark bridge from down town.
DOPING; Ben Johnson had better be in Belize after what he did to our country in the Olympics all those years ago. He was a national hero for being the fastest man on earth despite how little we help our amateur athletes. Then they take back the gold because he is the fastest bill bottle in Canada. I'll duct tape some antlers on him come fall if he's around and see if he can maintain 2731 f.p.s for 3 miles. I know my .303 can do 2730. Again just sayin' ! I'm too out of shape to walk 2 1/2 miles to get my horns back LOL!
cool Virginia. I once was on the local news. in new Hampshire one year early winter I came ashore from a ride on a semi frozen lake and a news crew was doing a spot on how safe or lack of the ice was , I got all tounge tied not like you :)
After reading the praises of Darren and Mike, I must confess what happened the last time a microphone was shoved into my face.
Bob & I still lived in KS. Bob's pride & joy was an 8 month old Corvette. Had it detailed twice a week whether it needed it or not. I woke up at 4 AM to what I thought was either thunder or a gun shot. As long as I was up, I decided to go into the bathroom. When I left the bathroom, I decided that maybe what I heard was someone hitting my van which we parked along the street sine we only had a one car garage. Van looked fine but when I came back through the living room, I smelled burnt rubber badly. Didn't think twice about it and crawled back into bed. Bob woke up and asked me what was up. I recited my story and he decided he would take a bathroom break. We had a long walk on front porch. We had a 160 pound St Bernard in those days who loved sleeping on the porch so we left the storm door open. Bob walked out on that porch and as he did, he saw a kid peering up over the hill on the cross break and then turn tail and run. Like me, the van looked ok, so he came back to bed. At that point, the St Bernard jumped up in bed, all wigged out (not his normal behavior). So, we spent the rest of the night with Guenther in bed with us. We went into work at 7 so our alarm went off at 5. I got up and threw the dogs out and they started barking like crazy. I ran out to quiet them down and as I got back into the house, the phone started ringing. I figured it was a PO'd neighbor but it was the dispatcher asking us to respond to the patrol car in the street. When I walked out on the exterior front porch, I saw hunks of our garage door everywhere along with 2 patrol cars. I immediately knew that Bob's cherry vet was no longer so cherry.
What had happened, as we pieced it together, was that a 16 year old had gotten drunk with a buddy and decided to take his older brothers 74 chevelle ( a tank) for a joy ride. Our basement garage was at the cross section of a street dead ending. He ran the stop sign at a speed in excess of 50 mph, according to police estimates, and hit the garage door which splintered like crazy. Hit the 'vet and slammed it into the foundation of the house (unfinished basement at that time). The 'vet was flattened both front and rear. Then the kid, slammed into reverse and backed out of the garage and took off like a bat out of hell. To me that was the funny part. I could hardly drive the 'vet into that garage as we had a very narrow drive with a rock wall on either side. Not enough room to open a car door to get out in the drive and this kid backs a tank out of the driveway without getting so much as a scratch on the sides of his car. The front and the vinyl top didn't look so good. He high-tailed it home, took multiple cold showers and drank a ton of coffee and then went to the police station and turned himself in. As luck would have it, we both had not only the same insurance company but the same agent. That was your basic lose-lose situation but that's a story for another time.
The local ABC affiliate from Kansas City picked up the story from scanner traffic and called us to see if we had any objections to a reporter heading our way. I thought Bob was pretty cool when they interviewed me but the section where I was interviewed did not do me any justice. I was more than a bit tongue-tied and to this day, I feel that I come across as more than a bit mentally challenged. We were on both the 5 and 6 news casts. I'm sure we would have been on the 10 pm as well but Saddam Hussein decided to invade Kuwait that day so they ran with that story instead at 10. A friend made us a VHS tape of the interviews as we didn't even have a VCR in those days as our car payment was astronomical. I still have the tape. When we want a good laugh, we pull out the tape and watch it. We're both skinny as a rail and our hair has no gray in it. Ah, to be young again. ; )
Virginia