Irrelevant Six Degrees of Separation Stories

Sneakylong · 2016-12-22T21:51:30+00:00

This is admittedly a stupid thread, but what the hell. I recently posted in another thread that I played golf in a regular foursome for sometime with the Do...

Typhoon

Sneakylong

My work in is Haverhill...I wish a nuclear bomb would wipe it off the face of the earth.

mcavoy

Typhoon LOL! Don't hold back. Tell us how you really feel.

Sneakylong

Typhoon

Where in Haverhill? Haverhill (pronounced Haiv-rill) gets a bad rap IMO. Used to live on North Avenue near the 495 overpass and Haverhill Country Club which is about three tenths of a mile from Plaistow, New Hampshire. We worked at the old Western Electric / AT&T / Lucent plant on Rt.125 in North Andover for 23 years.

We liked Haverhill which actually has one of the largest land masses of any city or town in Massachusetts. In addition to it's large land mass it has that typical old mill city look to it in the downtown city area along the Merrimack River.

Played a lot of golf at Crystal Springs Golf Course in Haverhill which was a good working mans course (cheap). Also, played a lot at Far Corner and Bradford Golf Course. Liked Trull Brook in Tewksbury and there was a nice course in North Reading (Hill something was the name I believe). Nice Par 3 in Middleton also.

sdandrea1

SWMBO and I once drove 12 hours to a golf resort in the mountains north of Atlanta. Our first stop after checking in was to head to the original shop to get some tee times. I walked in and ran right into a fellow member of our club IN VA whom I had just played golf with the day before we left. Small world.

rsvman

I'm about three degrees from any famous actor out actress given that my brother knows Oprah.

Steve Young and my father are on a first name basis, so that makes me three degrees from a bunch of famous athletes.

rsvman

Meant actor or actress......danged autocorrect.

sdandrea1

I saw Rogue One this week, so I'm only one degree from Darth Vader......👽

Bigborgel

My wife and I,and our son's family vacationed at Lake Lure in North Carolina. At the Rumbling Bald resort, they have 2 courses there. As we walked into the pro shop, one of the members of my club at home was trying to get a game as a single. So he joined my son and I . Kinda spoiled my day, as he is an 8.

kenner

I had a nice chat with Mike Wallace in an airport waiting lounge in Detroit once. That's 2 degrees from major movers and shakers.

Also shared a smoking bench with Victor Bailey - not that famous, but he followed Jaco Pastorious as the bassist for Weather Report, whose leader, Joe Zawenal (sp?) wrote for and played with just about anyone and everyone in the jazz world.

I'm not an autograph seeker, but I try to shake hands with anyone I happen to run into, and that sometimes turns into a brief conversation.

Par4QC

Well, I didn't want to put this out there because we are basically sworn to secrecy, but I'm just a degree or 6 away from many, many (unnamed) famous people. I've worked for Holiday Inn a total of 20+ years.

NO.....that (unnamed)Dancing with the Stars/ESPN sidelines reporter was not filmed at our hotel. She had all of her self confidence when she left. oops, I mean if she was ever there, she would have.

A certain(unnamed) owner of the WWE actually retrieves his morning newspaper in the buff. Housekeepers have verified such by threatening a sexual harassment suit.
He also cusses at women.😐

Typhoon

Par4QC

So u were they guy that went into the rooms afterwards with the fluorescent light ....😄

Typhoon

Sneakylong

Exit 50...rt 97. Down behind the Ford dealersbip. Southbound side of 495.

You nailed it about downtown.

Crystal Spings is a 5 minute backroad ride away. They remodeled the course, built houses on it, tore down the beautiful old stone clubhouse and now the place is bankrupt.

I played it years ago as Crystal but not since the remodel. I drove over there in the spring but work sucking so bad I just never bothered going.

I know where u used to work. Drive that way when 495 is tied up who h is most every day.

mainuh

Had dinner with Artimus Pyle, 1st drummer / Skynard. That puts me one person away from Mick Jagger / Keith Richard..., so stupid, lol

Merry Christmas, rob

Sneakylong

Typhoon

When you tell people you live in Haverhill everyone assumes you live in the downtown city part near Haffners garage or something. But again, Haverhill I believe has the 3rd largest land mass of any city or town in MA. and there's a lot of farm land in Haverhill (or there was when we left in 2002). Used to go and pick apples at a nice farm in Haverhill.

Used to take Rt. 97 sometimes going to Salem N.H. and I remember there being more than one car dealership on 97. I think I remember where the Ford dealership is. Much of Rt. 97 was country like as I remember. Loved the proximity to N.H. and all that good stuff (cheaper booze, tax free etc.).

When we played Crystal Springs you'd sometimes see the owner out playing. He'd always have his dogs with him. It wasn't the best layout, but it was very reasonably priced. Sorry to hear it went under. Sign of the times I suppose.

Sneakylong

Mattyv

Marcus Allen (once close friend of OJ's) played at my home course once. Played in the group ahead of us. Warmed up on the range next to him. Sat one table over from him in the clubhouse restaurant after the round. So, I guess I have a certain degree of separation to OJ Simpson myself. Gives me the chills. Couldn't help but see in the Buffalo / Miami game yesterday that they still have OJ Simson's name along side all the other great Bills in the stadium.

accufitgolf

I have had both Eleanor Roosevelt and JFK both say Thank You John for a personal service I performed for each of them.

Now the rest of the story. When I was a teenager I worked at a major university in the Boston area as a waiter in the Faculty Club. I have refilled both their coffee cups and they each looked at me and said Thank You John........we wore name badges...........LOL

mainuh

Regardless of the "Thank Yous" - what cool encounters.
Two, towering figures of the 20th century.

rob

johnnydoom

Don't know if I've really met anyone of great fame or even have good degree's of separation. My wife and I were at a local golf course playing one day when a couple of young kids kept racing by on golf carts careening on and off the cart paths, crashing and tipping them often and being annoying. One of the course marshalls came by and I inquired about the kids. Apparently they were Laila Ali's (the boxing daughter of the legend) step children and were entertaining themselves while she was getting ready for a fight in town. Only other thing I can remember was having Rufus Thomas sit and talk with me at a football game in Memphis for about 10 minutes.

Par4QC

I'd assume being it's been 20+ yrs., I can tell the story of Kurt Cobain. They checked in early a.m. and were still 'partying'. I was on the elevator when Kurt and 1 of the others got on, drinks in hand. When the elevator took off, Kurt must have thought he was on a jet or something as he did have a helluva time staying upright. And I nearly got a taste of his drink as it flew past my head! I told him "if you think the takeoff was bad, wait til this thing lands!!" He nearly passed out.

In reality, I guess there's no separation there at all. Nor when Faith Hill nearly knocked me down passing in the lobby.😉

Provisional

This is great, no make that v interesting thread!
Never had near degrees contact with greats myself
but when I lived in Tuscaloosa, Nameth and Stabler drove by in NICE new cars and we lived in delapadated ? student married housing barracks behind fb team's practicing field , didn't get to meet the Bear though, sigh...
Oh wait, my wife worked for finance company and processed loan for Ozzy Newsome in the way back when we were all still pretty puppies