i'll see what i can find, marcia! (if you go back through this topic, however, you'll find a nice wolfie picture *grin*)

OK. but as I was scribbling one of double pictures I hunted for you, saw all of the guys and Terry's whole life flashed before my monitor...but no Wolfie. Will check again. You're a pretty neat lady and seeing you would help me know you a little better. Thanks!

Wow, I found you at 35.8 and I am wondering if you can type at all with those claws!

*grin*

Our Lovely Autumn Moore

WooWoo Autumn! Great to put a face with the name (and witty remarks!) Certainly babe topic worthy!!

Thank you, Marcia!! Stacey, now imagine my hair a few inches shorter and a light auburn shade. And while you're at it, deduct 10 pounds! (hell, make it 20!)

And I'll deduct some age, too. Had you all guessed wrong. Didn't you know I love to be proven wrong in such delightful ways?

Now, as to the rest of you hiding behind your monitors, email me your pictures and I shall do the same for you. Alexander, we are most curious to see the head encasing that brilliant mind, and Wolf, no more hiding. Anyone else??? My email works... marci@aloha.net

*anxiously awaiting*

*frowning* have no great pics to send, really, i don't! besides, well, you'll think i'm fishing for complements, but am so painfully shy and not much to look at *blush* autumn: your pic is great. the first shot made me look twice because the way the light is on your dress, it looked very risque *smile*

oh WOlfie *hug* we already love you... we just wanted a visual to go with (no pressure though... I can live a bit longer with the images in my head... a week or two...) *smile*

Wolfie, Dear...Mine is up there and I am older than anyone here by at least 20 years. If that is not enough to frighten anyone out of posting a picture, I do not know what is. I am not pretty, beautiful, build like a brick whatever and there has been no drool shed over me that I am aware of. It is just me. I hope my picture did not offend, and the postings after William put it up were nice enough to convince me I had done the right thing. Enough said.

you guys are silly *big hugs*

wow

LOL, Wolf, they ran that picture of me in the local paper (it was taken at my 15 year class reunion) and I got a lot of phone calls on that dress!! My mother said, "Who do think you are, Cher??" I am so sick of telling people in the supermarket, "It was the lighting!! The lighting was funny!"

Sheesh, why didn't I think to post my Cher picture?! Oh well...(resuming my paper bag wearing while I watch other people drool...)

DAVID the geologist is absolutely GORGEOUS!

Thank you! I think so, too. He is also very nice *smiling proudly and modestly*

God! It didn't look that big and grainy when I sent it. But even at that, it more than does me justice!

Marcia, Still can't find Riette's pic although I'm sure she's gorgeous. I love her posts. By the way, that's a great picture of you in your element. You and Ray are the backbone of the Vulcan Boosters.

Thank you - Ree's photo location is on its way to you. Email...

And yes, Marcia, Kristin and Riette are both babes as well. Funny, there are two babes in both pics. In Riette's case, the other babe is a bit more literal.

Hey John! Nice pic!

wow, watcha do, john? put your face on the scanner? and how'd you manage that without squishing your nose? see, because this may be the only way you get a pic of this wolfie! all joking aside, nice pic mr chips! ree is gorgeous so ignore what she says about herself. we all love her dearly!

my nose is squished....normally, it's the size of Jimmy Durante's!

Looks like the dot matrix self-photos on county fair T-shirts

(No, your nose is NOT...stop telling the ladies things liket that...you have someone who know all about you here, remember?!) If you think that pix looks like dot matrix, try shrinking it with MGI Photo Suite. You turn into modern art! That is why your photo used so much room. I used two different photo programs and neither one could handle resizing this particular photo. Most curious!

didja try the height and width tags in the command line? (it does look like a t-shirt from the booth in the mall!)

(head on keyboard)....No I did not...and I should have!!! Sorry, If it takes up too much space I will scribble it and redo it. What do you think? (Actually after doing the resizing in much the same way on my porgrams, I think the result would not have been acceptable.)

Nice to see you, John! Love the Hawaiian shirt!

Nice to see you, John! Love the Hawaiian shirt! (although I guess over there you just call them "shirts")

Actually, we all call them Aloha Shirts, and on Fridays everyone dresses Hawaiian and it is called Aloha Friday. Very nice, indeed.

doesn't it seem a bit, um, redundant? that would be like us wearing our bdu's and calling it casual day *grin*

Yup...but with flowers in the hair and Hawaiian music instead of elevator music, and beautifully tailored dresses and shirts, it is most attractive. At least the men do not have to wear a necktie. BDU....Blue Dress Uniform? Black Dress Uniform? Necktie for everyone!!!

Battle Dress Uniforms...

Thank you...The Marine did not know what it was. I was guessing. I guess that includes the 60-pound backpack or however much they are required to carry into battle?

*grin* actually, i wear the bdu all the time, it's the maintenance background in me. we have casual friday's but it's for the civilians in the squadron. if we wear civi's (you know, real clothes), it's because there's some other function going on.

Are there such things as fatigues anymore, or are they called something else?

BDU: Basic Duty Uniform

That makes more sense. Thanks Ray...glad to see you here again, and as you see, he is back and promises to return later...*smile*

fatigues were fazed out several years ago. i'm not sure if the army still wears them. i think we've all moved into battle dress.

army's BDUs too, wolfie. is BDU = Battle Dress Uniform?

yes indeedy!

How little a civilian knows. This one would like to imagine how you dress for the day of duty. Helmet, weapon, provisions and everything you will need including your trenching tool...just to go to the motor pool or whatever your assignment is?! Battle uniform sounds like you will be under fire and are dressed and outfitted for that eventuality. Is it like that really?

depends on where you are. the cops dress that way. the battle dress uniform is considered the working uniform and the blue uniform is the dress uniform.

Ah yes, the Dress Blue Uniform. Donning that is like Superman in the phone booth. In both cases when you emerge all attired in your uniforms I will follow you anywhere. Have not seen a dress one I would not follow (with, perhaps, the excetption of those blue tights and cape ...)

Put Colin Firth in a Royal Navy officer's uni and you'd follow him, too. But, of course, Colin doesn't need the uniform--or in his line of work, costume. I remember women going gaga over Tom Selleck in his U.S. naval officer dress whites on "Magnum." But then, women generally go gaga over him, anyway.

I met Tom when he played Volleyball in the Haili Tournament the first year he was in Magnum. He was adorable, and very personable. He is a true Babe - one who thinks he is not! I was accosted by every female thereafter for not getting his autograph. Sorry, but I do not use friendships to do that sort of thing, and he was there as a VB player for Outrigger Masters. They won!!! CF looks good in or out of anything he choses to wear...I have pictures both ways *B I G grin* He will be in a new series filmed for ITN (or is it ITV in Britain?!) and he will be in tight breeches again...*sigh*

Tom is a nice guy. I used to play softball with him on the old Columbia Inn Round Tablers team in Honolulu. He could hit the thing out of sight. Being around Tom was likely the only time Joe Moore (another Round Tabler and Hawaii's numero-uno TV news anchor, for the uninitiated) found women ignoring him!

Joe Moore, our most excellent News Anchor has aged well...*another sigh* My list could go on and on - but no one would know the local hunks if I mentioned them, so it would not be fair. Local boy who made good is Monday Night Football's noisy play-by-play guy, but I am not even going to mention him in the same category as Joe, and neither am I gonna mention another local boy made good, Larry Beal (Aku's son) from ESPN. Bleah!

Hawaii has kinda co-opted Al Michaels. Despite the fact that he was only here for two years...and said some rather unpleasant things about a certain ethnic group on MNF once. Larry Beil was born and raised in Honolulu. You may or may not know it, Marcia, but Larry is Ted Sax's illegitimate son (Larry hates Ted).

maybe i should move to hawaii and meet some of these folks. of course, i'm not a groupie or anything but i did chase after 38 special when they were leaving a local club after a mini concert. the older band members were much cooler than the new. the new ones were like, and you're here for what? the older ones were like, cool, thanks for coming. my first concert ever...*sigh*

Oh yes, NOT Aku's...huh! Ted, the neo-more-Catholic-then-the-Pope convert...that is right. Now I remember...I know that there is no love lost with Larry (has he changed his name spelling again?!) Wolfie, only in Hawaii do we know this much about so many people. It is a v e r y tiny state, is it not, John!

perhaps, one day, i'll vacation there with the family. would love to see the flora and fauna of the state....

I would love to be your guide. I know about anything you need to know, but son't drive, so I could be navigator =)

It is a very tiny state. Larry and I had classes together at Manoa in 1982 before he got into TV and I was working overnights at KQMQ-FM. Then when I was doing mornings at KPOI, he was already at KGMB and also did our morning sports report (on the phone), His half-sister, Jan (Sax) Sage, was our production director. She was one of the best impressionists (vocal, not painting), I've ever heard. I don't remember Larry ever spelling his name any other way than Beil. He'd love to come back to Hawaii, bu openings are rare and he could only make half the money he makes at ESPN. His wife hates Bristol, Connecticut. I get an occasional e-mail from Larry (maybe twice a year). He's asked me not to send him jokes....he barely has time to keep up with biz related stuff. Wolfie, I can drive and have a big car. Marcia can still navigate!

This is true. John drives an Land Yacht. I have maps and all sorts of visual aids...but bring your asbestos boots...I'm gonna get you on that hot lava!!! Interesting about Jan Sax - what is she doing now? Had not heard her name forever! I guess you are right about Larry and his last name...the more I look at it...*smile* Good to chat with you here, John!

Jan left her husband Billy Sage and went to New York. Haven't heard much since, except that she was trying her hand at stand-up comedy. That's a tough row to hoe. I know; I've tried it.

I don't recall meeting you, John. But now I know how you look AND speak! Do you live in Hawaii too?

Until he awakens and starts his day, allow me to introduce you. He is a fellow Hilo-ite and I have known him for more years than either of us is willing to admit. You heard him! That is fantastic...!

Riette, I've lived in Hilo for the last 12 years, Hawaii for 24 of the last 26 (left a year-and-a-half for Los Angeles and came back). I know how you look also (you're a Babe) and you mentioned a Boer accent, so I can only surmise that you're from South Africa. Thank you Marcia, for speaking for me, now I'm on my way to meet my freshmen for the first time this school year.

Not South Africa, but Namibia, the country just north of it.. And I'm 'alf Boer, half english - nasty combination! What made you go to Los Angeles?? And I presume you and Marcia know each other quite well?

That would be the case, yes. (Ree, I am 1/2 English and they are still discussing what the other half might be, but most likely German and Scots Irish which means I am at war with myself!) I have inflicted my friendship upon John for more years than either of us will admit to...*smile* John, Good luck with the new kiddies. I know they will only benefit from your expertise and sharp intellect. Giv'um!!!

*lol* marcia! that's what i say about my kids (french and german)!!

Does this mean la belle Wolfie is French, despite her Teutonic first name?

nope. monsieur is french and polish, i'm 1/2 german and the other?? (irish, indian, spanish...)

I went to L.A. in 1978 to pursue a couple of writing jobs (radio and TV) and some stand-up comedy. I made what was--for me--a lot of money in the short time I was there, but also got screwed up in the head and did some things I'm not proud of. I came back with my tail between my legs in 1980 and have never lamented my lot in life--$$ or no $$--since! I met Marcia shortly after moving to Hilo (from Honolulu) in the late 80s.

...zen 'e does not pronounce "Wolf" like that...'e says "Vulf"? I did not know there were french wolves, but then, there are lots of things I do not know. However, I am a willing and eager learner. And, sometimes I fall right into the vat while I am learning. Tie a rope around me first! BTW, that bloodline makes your children all-Americans, for sure!

Only that long, John? You do not remember my son, then? (you slipped your post under mine, but I think they can follow the conversation ok...)

Yes...I may have seen you before then because I called Hawaii Loa games for two years before moving to Hilo in September 1987 (I've closed down more bars than I care to think of and one university to boot). I have never met David, but I did see the picture of the handsome young chap and read the women's drool comments concerning him. I also never met your ex, even though I got my degree from UH-Hilo. I did hear from a couple of sources (maybe you, for one) that he said some rather kind things about my peech when I graduated in 1994.

That was speech, not "peech." Don't want anyone getting the wrong idea about either me or your ex!

He said it was the best speech he had ever heard at Commencement. And yours was the Valedictory speech, too, I might add. No wonder when I emailed David (Iki) about my happiness of having you post at Spring, he said he had heard of you but did not know you. Sheesh...Moms get all confused sometimes...*grin* I thought sure you knew Frank. But, he did not teach in the field you pursued, so that is logical. You did know which of the many professors hanging around there he was? Ah....right about the Hawaii Loa games.

*LOL* John...that is Yapp Software shorthand. Nothing you can do about it, but it does make for interesting wording at times.

I do know Frank by sight although we've never spoken. I have a "peech" impediment!

Well, he certainly knows who you are. "peech imspediment", Indeed!!! (It is more than a little weird and a lot of fun that there is someone on Spring who not only knows me, but knows my family.)

I was going to say, who the hell is Marcia's ex to be lamenting YOUR peech, John? And something about the NERVE some people have! But now I won't...

*LOL!* My peech isn't worth lamenting.

wait! who's frank and how come i've read all the posts but have no idea what's going on?? (work has me so busy it's hard to grasp stuff i'm told *grin* doncha just hate that?)

Wolfie, Dear...we were committing the most serious infraction to be done on posts - talking about things just we knew about. Frank is my ex. David is my son...the other people are local big frogs in a small pond. We should abandon the subject before you know far more about me than you ever wanted to know...and Honolulu, and John...and all the rest. Mea culpa...so sorry!

puhleeeeze! i want to know all about the islands and the people who live on it! (david's your son, yup, that i knew *grin*)

When I read your previous post, I about fell apart laughing. It was so undestated...hang around John and me and you will know more than just about anyone else besides us about the islands and their denizens.

*rubbing paws together with glee*

too bad school had to start. It is taking John away from posting. I shall encourage him this afternoon (HST) when he gets online. (salivating at the thought!)

Marcia, is Hilo pronounced "High Low" or "Hee Low"?

HEE low

Thanks! The girls & I toured the US Geo Survey in Reston, VA while on vacation and saw a video on Mauna Loa. Afterwards I told them I knew someone who lived in Hawaii and liked studying geology but was unsure how to say the name of your city.

Interesting! And if you's like to see what it looks like tomorrow (dark now) this has live cameras http://mloserv.mlo.hawaii.gov/current.htm

well, glad i've never said "hilo" outloud!! *grin* i'm glad someone finally asked!!

I think it is only Americans who would have problems with Hawaiian words. They use European vowel sounds. (...and how could someone find fault with you if you did not know...!)

okay lemme try this... (now I gotta run to a browser and check it out!)

damn!

ummm... do I have a bad address or what?? Help Marcia!

Did you stub a toe while running to the browser?

*laugh* no... just my pride... trying to post a picture... can you help?

stacey - can help you - now!!! email!

I'm just the typical useless male...don't know where the site is...the omniscient Marcia must be around