At 11:41 PM 7/24/96 -0400, Bert Van Vliet wrote:

You got to meet George Lucas?! *ENVY!!!*   (The rest sounds cool too, but
meeting the creator of Star Wars far outweighs the rest IMO. -_^)

It was cool. I got a SW trilogy book signed by him! :D Did you know Hoth was 
originally gonna be a tropical world?

It was also ( in keeping with the spirit of the event ) highly weird. I
was introduced to him by the guy who fills in for Rush Limbaugh from time
to time - joy ^_^

Oh, one piece of advice: Do not make puns about nobel prizes when a person who
has actually won one is within earshot, especially when said person is

scheduled

to give a speech later that same night ;)

Oh really?  What happened? (Who was it by the way?)

*Searches for the program yearbook, gives up in frustration, remembers he left
it in Halifax...*

Well, he co-won a nobel prize in biology. Short story of the whole event: it
was called the 'American Academy of Achievment Salute to Excellence' <gag>,
and the Bank o' Montreal sent me last June 1 through to June 4. Why they picked 
me, I dunno... guess they needed someone from this end of the country so we
wouldn't feel left out 8)

Well, as for that indicent, I was joking with a guy from Alaska (The Canadian
contingent was sorta outnumbered 353:4 ^_^ ) about how "these nobel prizes
must be awfully easy to get, everyone here seems to have one. What, do you just
write away for them?"

It turned out we had been walking down the wrong path towards where the adult
guests were staying, but we simply turned around and walked back to the student
lodgings. I didn't think any more of it until this guy gets up and starts out
"I overheard this horrible thing today. One of the students was saying how
these 
nobel prizes..." ... well... you know what came next. I know he was joking, but 
I still turned beet red ^_^

									- MW