artdoggy
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posted on August 28, 2000 10:46:40 PM new
This is not the first time I have had this happen. I just had an auction close and the buyer's name is Wayne Newton and the shipping address is Las Vegas. I want to ask the buyer if he is the real Wayne Newton. But obviously is going to be the real Wayne Newton if his name is Wayne Newton. But I want to know if he is Wayne Newton the singer. Would it be wrong of me to ask? What if he is the real Wayne Newton and he won't tell me, then I really can't know for sure either way. I know it may sound strange but I have always found Wayne Newton very sexy. I use to dream he would ride into my bedroon on a unicorn and take me ballroom dancing in a foreign country. I know I make wonderful jewelry but now I may be attracting super stars. I want to knowif they really are who they say they are. Any suggestions on now to approach this subject?
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Rawbunzel
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posted on August 28, 2000 10:49:26 PM new
I thought ol' Wayne was living in Branson, Missouri now?My sister used to train his arabian horses when she lived in Nevada. Said he was a really nice person.
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artdoggy
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posted on August 28, 2000 10:53:47 PM new
Yes he is in Branson but I think he also keeps a place in vegas.
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blueyes29
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posted on August 28, 2000 10:58:45 PM new
I don't know if this Wayne Newton is THE Wayne Newton, but surely the Wayne Newton who won the auction really is Wayne Newton. I did, however, get a chuckle from reading the original post! Thanks for the giggle... And good luck on finding out if the Wayne Newton who won your acution is the singer! I'd bet he'd respond if he knew you dreamed about him...on the other hand...I had a really wild fantasy dream about Bobby Fischer once. Now, THAT'S weird!
[ edited by blueyes29 on Aug 28, 2000 11:01 PM ]
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Rawbunzel
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posted on August 28, 2000 10:58:47 PM new
Probably does still have the Nevada place as well.
It must be fun to be getting famous customers! Has it happened more than once before?
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artdoggy
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posted on August 28, 2000 11:04:05 PM new
Yes, I had a guy name R.Redford from Utah. I have had several sales in Beverly hills. I wish someone would discover me and make me wonderfully rich and famous. Maybe it will happen, I can always hope.
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sparkz
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posted on August 28, 2000 11:12:48 PM new
I just had an auction close and it turned out that the buyer was a famous author. His tag line on his e-mail referred to his last two best sellers. The closing bid was a good price, and I sent him an EOA e-mail. I wish now I had offered the item for an autographed copy of one of his books. It'll teach me to send EOA's before I've had a second cup of coffee.
The light at the end of the tunnel will turn out to be an oncoming train.
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krs
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posted on August 28, 2000 11:21:32 PM new
Michael Jackson bought a rifle from me, but he was a doctor. Said that people always mistook him for Michael Jackson at work, particularly when he had on one white glove.
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sparkz
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posted on August 28, 2000 11:25:33 PM new
Artdoggy
Invite him over.
The light at the end of the tunnel will turn out to be an oncoming train.
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dave_michmerhuizen
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posted on August 29, 2000 12:14:55 AM new
artdoggy - while you're at it, if you try, you might be able to cobble together a prosthetic horn for a white horse.
They ballroom dance in Canada. Go for it.
ebay: [email protected]
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shop4shoes
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posted on August 29, 2000 12:35:16 AM new
I have had quite a few famous (and infamous) people buy shoes from me.
Sometimes I am not paying attention and an employee will point out that the purchaser is famous. Normally when this happens though the address is c/o a movie studio or recording studio. Once I even got some nasty calls from a star's assistant telling me to put a rush on the order. She kept issuing dire threats about ruining our rep if everything wasn't okay. I don't watch much television and I had no idea as to who the BIG star was.
Two of my employees said they saw my shoes in a music video one of my customers starred in.
I also get lots of porn stars and well known ladies in the adult entertainment industry that by my shoes. They are some of my best and nicest customers. They are also some of the funniest. One used to snap photos of shoes that she wanted and email them to me in hopes that I would have something similar. She would also attach a list of her mortal enemies that I wasn't supposed to sell shoes to. The list is pretty long.
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artdoggy
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posted on August 29, 2000 01:04:15 AM new
Oh GOd that was so hilarious about the horn for his horse and the list of mortal enemies on porn star shoes. I'm howeling!!! Invite him over? Don't you think Ebay probably has a rule against dating your or their customers? The Ebay police could bust through the door and ruin my Unicorn fantasy. I'll pass on Canada for the ballroom dancing. I have to stay consistant with my shipping policies.
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enchanted
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posted on August 29, 2000 05:07:17 AM new
i'm howeling too
I propose artdoggy for poster of the year award
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kathyg
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posted on August 29, 2000 06:11:58 AM new
Wayne Newton is definitely in Las Vegas. He has begun a big contract to appear at the Stardust 40 weeks a year. I'm curious - how's his feedback ?
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HartCottageQuilts
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posted on August 29, 2000 06:14:06 AM new
Geesh. I thought he died 20 years ago!
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RB
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posted on August 29, 2000 06:15:23 AM new
I have been trading tapes with "Rick Nelson" for years - talk about eerie
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amalgamated2000
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posted on August 29, 2000 06:43:28 AM new
I wondered just how many "Wayne Newtons" there might be in Vegas, so I did did a search at Switchboard for "Wayne Newton" in Las Vegas. No results. So there might be others, but if there are, there aren't many, and they all have unlisted phone numbers.
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rigdon625aolcom
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posted on August 29, 2000 06:46:40 AM new
I sold a jacket to "Jimmy Dean" in Nashville, TN, but I never asked if he was THE Jimmy Dean
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avaloncourt
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posted on August 29, 2000 07:00:05 AM new
I'm not surprised that all of the Wayne Newton phone numbers in Las Vegas would be unlisted. I don't imagine that Wayne Newton the garbage man likes being called at 2 in the morning asking if he's Wayne Newton when he has to be on the job at 4 in the morning banging garbage cans and waking everyone else up.
Terry Bradshaw lives in my town. The problem is that this person is mildly mentally retarded and drinks way too much. He's in the police arrest lists 1 to 2 times a month.
Now, here's a true celebrity story. A police officer in a city about 35 miles south of me pulled over a suspected drunk driver late at night on a Friday in the summer of last year. When he went up to the car he discovered it was Rodney King. The real, now very famous Rodney King. Talk about messing up a cop's day. You have to wonder if he was continuously looking for video cameras. Anyhow, he did arrest Mr King for DUI that night. It got covered in all of the newpapers in the region.
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northwoodsguy
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posted on August 29, 2000 07:00:06 AM new
Last Christmas, I sold an antique crystal vase to a guy in Los Angeles named Michael Richards. I was wondering, is this the same guy who played "Kramer" on Seinfeld?
I didn't ask....I figured, there must be a
zillion guys in L.A. with that name.
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DoctorBeetle
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posted on August 29, 2000 07:42:38 AM new
If he successfully completes the transaction make sure you tell him Danke Schoen (sp?).
Dr. Beetle
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mzalez
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posted on August 29, 2000 07:56:40 AM new
Love this thread!
I had a customer named Ronald McDonald!
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sonsie
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posted on August 29, 2000 08:04:56 AM new
Not on ebay, of course...but I once sold two Burmese kittens to Kareem Abdul Jabbar, and he came to my apartment personally to pick them out. Unfortunately, I really, really needed the money so I had to cash the check he signed!
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shamrock41
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posted on August 29, 2000 08:07:57 AM new
HI! I have had Bob Denver (Gilligan) from Gilligan's Island buy two of my items. The checks came from a Foundation and were signed by him. Apparently, they were for a museum of some sort. I also had the grandson of one of the Gabor sisters buy a Ava Gabor item. That is the closest I have come on my items. Oh I had Jimmy Dean's nephew buy a couple of my items too. He identified himself as his nephew that was building up a collection and was adding items that he had never seen before. By the way, Jimmy Dean has been dead for a very long time LOL, so I don't think he is buying at this time.
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Shoshanah
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posted on August 29, 2000 08:11:54 AM new
Are you sure it was not his sister "Figgy"?
Never could tell if newton was male of female...How is the poodle, rosetta, today?
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Shosh
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/rifkah/
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SilkMoth
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posted on August 29, 2000 08:12:07 AM new
If Jimmy Dean has been dead for a very long time, then who is advertising all that sausage on TV?
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not SilkMoth anywhere but here
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shamrock41
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posted on August 29, 2000 08:28:25 AM new
SilkMoth - ROFL, I was thinking of James Dean and said Jimmy Dean. He's still alive for all I know.
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richel
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posted on August 29, 2000 09:08:18 AM new
i went to college with steve martin and drew carey (as well as drew's twin drake!) when i handled credit cards, i once talked to fred sanford, john lennon, james taylor, and john kennedy. (shhh--no one has to know these weren't the "real" people if you don't tell!)
 uh huh. that's what i thought!
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waspstar
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posted on August 29, 2000 09:20:48 AM new
There is a grocery store manager named Robert Redford in the Salt Lake City area... I'll bet that gets interesting: "Robert Redford to the front for check approval."
That same grocery store chain has a store manager in Seattle named John Lennon.
I went to college with a guy named Ronald Reagan. During the summer, he had a job driving a Frito-Lays truck.
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janusaries
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posted on August 29, 2000 09:34:04 AM new
I went to high school with Elizabeth Taylor. Her mother was a big fan of the famous one and deliberately gave her daughter the same name.
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