My uncle currently lives in Singapore but recently has been in Indonesia & Madagascar where he studies Lemurs and other tarsiers. Get a load of the name dropping?
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Doesn't he sound so "ho hum" about his life?!? I mean come on on dude... Harrison Ford & George Lucas?!? Don't try and pull that "my life is such a drag doing the same old stuff day after day" crud with me. Try living my life where the biggest name I can claim to know is Andy Griffith's best friend's daughter's cousin in law. 
Quote:| we are fine. i had a nice, but short meeting with jane goodall, over the weekend. then yesterday i got email from russ mittermeier, president of conservation, international, that he had shown my tarsier proposal to harrison ford and finally got him to agree to show it to george lucas . . . after it's been honed and polished. so, russ asked me to get going on that. he also asked me to pop over to the philippines on short notice, at his expense, to go looking at tarsiers there. unfortunately, he wants to do it the 12th, and i teach at 8 am on the 13th, and then again on the 15th. at first i begged off, but then i asked him for the exact times, and told him that if i could get back on a red-eye in time to teach my class i would do it. i've been meaning to get a first-hand look at philippine tarsiers, anyway. |
Andrea! That is really cool, Elaine. My sister is a name dropper too, but in a snotty way. I've met a couple of governors, a load of other politicians and I embarassed the heck out of Jim Varney once (Earnest). 
