> On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 09:20:38 -0500, Mike Wallace <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >Morning Kids....
> >
> >  Had a great time yesterday with all you denizens of the deep! It was
> >  great to meet some more of you folks and attach the faces to the names.
>
> Fer sho!   I ALMOST attached the wrong name to Mike's face even though
> I had met him in person and had HIS PICTURE of 7 years ago (in the
> Hotlanta NEDfest on my mini-NEDfest board for this NEDfest) which
> looks exactly like him NOW (he hasn't changed or grown old a bit like
> some of us who shall remain nameless).

Except for the "Oak Ridge Boys" we were all oldern' dirt! :-)

I was impressed at well they both did with eatin' the Vegimite!


>
> So how could that have happened?
>
> Well, I had talked to David Hale only minutes ago who said he had a
> late start and probably wouldn't get here till  11:30 am, and that
> Mike Wallace would even be later (they had planned to drive up
> together, in separate car, since they are both from Huntsville, AL).

It was a time warp. ;-)

>
>
> >  Certainly wish a few more of ya'll could have been there with us. You
> >  can rest assured you were talked about. :-)
>
> Yup, especially those who pix appeared in pix of NEDfests and mini-NEDfests
> before this one.  Here are a few good ones by various attendees of this
> festive occasion, but even death threats would NOT make me reveal WHO
> the wrong-guessers (having seen Sue (my wife) in person here AND having
> seen those mini-NEDfest pix on my cork board) were:
>
> Andy was mistaken to be Bjorn.
> Sue was mistaken (by more than one) to be Andy's Tart!  :-)))
> Given the above, it would be anticlimatic to say that not many
> were able to identity Huw or Kat, other than Viv.

I got Andy right, but missed on his very lovely Tart. Hope he knows how lucky he
is. :-)

Huw and Bjorn will probably kick my butt if we ever meet as I thought that Huw
was Bjorn. Wonder which of them will kick the hardest. ;-)

Got Sue right but had not met Kat so missed on her...


>
> There were other correct and incorrect guesses (looking at the
> piz), but nobody miss-guessed Strike though.  :-)

Duh!  ;-)


>
>
> >We really should do these things more often.....
>
> Definitely!
>
>
> On the subject of pix for THIS mini-NEDfest:
>
> Al Kirkland the official photog already had his digital pix downloaded
> onto a CD ROM.  But he came up with this great idea that since Mike
> Wallace, David Hale, and Harold Pritchett all had taken many pix with
> THEIR digital cameras on various aspects of this mini-NEDfest, that
> each of them (including Harold) could select some of their best shots
> (enhanced by photoshop or not), and send THEIR collection to Al, and
> then Al could merge them together for a COMPOSITE of "pix from the
> Choo-Choo-mini-NEDfest" by Al, Mike, David, and Harold on a single
> CD ROM, which can be easily distributed to the participants of this
> NEDfest.
>
> Mike, David, and Harold ... please let Al know what you think and/or
> how you can send him your selection to him.  Thanks in advance to all
> you photogs!

That's a good idea, although almost none of those I took at the Aquarium worked.
I posted them on community.webshots.com/user/mwallace61. Al, take a look at
them there and let me know if you want any of them.


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Mike Wallace
Huntsville,Ala