Wikipedia is worth every penny you pay for it.Weetabix wrote:I'd read before that it was shot off at Normandy. Wikipedia (I know, but it supports the account I heard) agrees.Aesop wrote:Met Engineer Scotty from Star Trek at my school sports banquet, because I played football with his sons. (He was missing a finger - left ring - from a childhood snowsledding accident, and wore a rubber prosthetic finger on camera so it wouldn't freak people out.)
The paragraph smells of purulent cheese. I call Bucket of BS on the entire retchworthy steaming pile. Lieutenants of artillery don't take out snipers, or lead their men on charges through the enemy lines. They make sure the friggin' guns are sited correctly, hours after the front line of battle is miles away.
), years prior to that, hung out with the same con-chair, a mutual friend, Harlan, Peter David, and Neil Gaiman after a con, shot the shit with Bob Asprin, argued politics with Brin, Brad Torgersen occasionally shows up in comments on things I post to Facebook, had supper with PTerry at a Discworld convention thanks to a friend of mine going nuts at the charity auction... long story short (Too late!), if they're active in writing sci-fi, I'm a step or two from them.