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re: Do You Know Anyone Who is a Habitual Name Dropper?
Posted on 4/9/16 at 9:56 pm to OweO
Posted on 4/9/16 at 9:56 pm to OweO
Not really. But me and Barry Switzer were talking about this with Jerry Jones and I was telling them about how Bo Pelini was bad about doing just this same thing. And Les Miles agreed. I was thinking about it later when I was playing in a foursome with Houston Nutt and then again when I met Oscar De la Hoya at the Beau Rivage. I was thinking, "I could really drop some names if I wanted. Especially since my mom used to work in a derm office frequented by Bill and Hillary, Mary Steenberger and even Brooks Robinson."
But then I decided that would be rather pompous and I decided not to mention my connections.
But then I decided that would be rather pompous and I decided not to mention my connections.
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Posted on 4/9/16 at 9:58 pm to OweO
Mike Detillier
Posted on 4/9/16 at 10:05 pm to SmackoverHawg
Yes Scott Alexander
Posted on 4/9/16 at 10:35 pm to TommyDaTiger
Yes. Friend of mine who lives in London. Has opportunities to meet a lot of celebrities in his work.
If it wasn't pathetic it would be funny
If it wasn't pathetic it would be funny
Posted on 4/9/16 at 10:36 pm to OweO
If I ever want gum I just call my friend Bob Sacamano. He gets it straight from china.
This post was edited on 4/9/16 at 10:47 pm
Posted on 4/9/16 at 10:44 pm to OweO
Mike Detillier and James Carville and I were JUST talking about this.
frick name droppers.
frick name droppers.
Posted on 4/9/16 at 11:05 pm to auggie
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I know a guy like that always dropping those names,I always thought he was bullshite. Then I needed a drummer for a demo session one time,and he said he could hook me up.
Mark Herndon, The Drummer for Alabama,showed up for my demo session. Lesson learned for me.
We had a guy that worked collections for a company I used to work for in the late 80's. He used to tell us all of these crazy stories from when he worked as a PI. Nobody in the office believed him. It was actually so bad we'd joke with each other about how it was when "We" were PI's.
While he was there we had a situation where the company didn't inform all of the employees about having a recording devise that could record all of our phones. They were recording a lot of peoples' personal calls and our sales managers were recording each others calls and even the general manager's calls.
One morning while I was in the office working, the FBI, along with the Dallas County DA, some Dallas County Sheriffs and Dallas Police officers came in our office from four different entries. Some were carrying bolt cutters. It was the 80's so everyone in the office assumed they were there to bust someone with drugs in their car. Instead they took all of our managers in our conference room and posted two Dallas cops at the door.
They then came out and talked with everyone individually about what had been going on with our phones. They filed charges for illegally recording phone conversations against the company, the owners and all of the managers individually. The company actual ended up pleading guilty, paying an $80K+ fine. They worked a deal to do that and have the charges against the owners and managers dropped. All of that was in the paper.
Anyway, the collections guy who none of us believed had worked as a PI had gone to someone (DA, sheriffs, police?) and alerted the them to whatever was going on. He had actually been the person that the managers were giving recording instructions to. He had access to everything they were doing. He took a series of the cassette recordings to the authorities over a period of time.
He wasn't there but one day after that. After he was gone we all figured some, if not all, of what he'd told us may have been true.
Posted on 4/10/16 at 12:56 am to chinese58
This American Life had a piece about a guy who was a super of a condo building and told the residents crazy stories about stuff he did when in some sort of South American secret police, crazy stuff about murders,etc. they made fun of him behind his back, but found out years later it was all true.
Posted on 4/10/16 at 12:58 am to chinese58
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guy who none of us believed
Goes to show you never know who you're talking to on here, best to take this place with a grain of salt & have fun while breath is still in your lungs
Posted on 4/10/16 at 1:06 am to Bunk Moreland
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but I know at least ten one uppers.
I knew a guy like that in the Army. No matter where you'd been, what you'd done, or whom you'd fricked, he had done it longer, better and for less money.
In fact one time in the chow line I said to my buddy "watch this", then I literally just blurt out "deep sea fishing" and the dude starts into his many deep sea fishing exploits.
Posted on 4/10/16 at 1:21 am to OweO
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Long story short, I was talking with this dude who is a habitual name dropper. He will talk about something and say something like "If I ever need that I can just call _______". If you talk about getting a speeding ticket, whatever you talk about getting a ticket he will say "I will give ______ a call if I ever get one there".
Saw this guy today and he was talking about going someone and he said "if I ever want to go there I can just give ______ a call" and just for the hell of it I asked him "oh how do you know _________?" his response was "he graduated high school with my mom". I had to keep myself from laughing.
Maybe he is a good friend to these people and they are willing to help him out whenever he needs help?
Posted on 4/10/16 at 1:22 am to soccerfüt
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Mike Detillier
Never heard of him so step your game up please
Posted on 4/10/16 at 8:10 am to OweO
You were hanging out with ST weren't you
Posted on 4/10/16 at 9:41 am to Bunk Moreland
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but I know at least ten one uppers.
Pffftt... I know at least 20
Posted on 4/10/16 at 9:50 am to fouldeliverer
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This post was edited on 4/10/16 at 9:53 am
Posted on 4/10/16 at 9:52 am to fouldeliverer
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Mike Detillier
You ain't lying!
His segments are nothing but. I wish he would take calls.
I once had to figure that he played in the NFL and coached or something. Then I find out he's been a journalist for 30 years!
I will give him props. He's one of those guys who overhears conversations and does interviews and somehow spins them as his own rhetoric.
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