Special Guest Speaker

“Today, the school my kids go to had their Awards Ceremony. They ended up having a special guest speaker to help hand out the Citizenship Awards.

It was Billy Dee Williams, who's filming a movie in town right now.

My wife just phoned me to let me know. We're gonna have to watch "The Empire Strikes Back" tonight so the kids will be able to get an idea of who he is.”

“Cool!!

What's in Huntsville to film? LOL”

“lol...funny that no one knows in the family who Billy is...but I guess that is how much life changes, he is a whole different generation. Hey that had to be cool...having him at the school.”

“Colt 45, Kids!

Works Every Time!”

“Yes, I was going to say... Don't forget the malt liquor commercials! <G>

Tall Boys!”

“I remember a fake commercial they did on Saturday Night Live a decade or so ago, where they poked fun at malt liquor commercials. I wish I could remember how it went exactly, but all I really remember is that after a chugging a can, the drinker ended up with a black eye. It was hilarious.

My wife got a few bad pics of him. Unfortunately it was inside, and she was pretty far away, so they're very dark. I brightened them and adjusted the contrast some, so you can just barely tell it's Billy Dee Williams, if you already know what he looks like.

I'll put one up on my Webshots...

here it is

It may be awhile before it's available. Sorry for the poor quality of the picture.”

“Londo!”

“"Damn. That's one strong malt liquor!"


And there's the Chris Rock reference, too....

"Yo, I'm chillin' like Bob Dylan, and I'm killin' like penicillin!"”

“it's lando....and he's acting in something pretty decent right now i think...saw part of it..and didn't laugh at the sadness of it...i forget what it was”

“Didn't BDW play Gale Sayers in Brian's Song?”

“Yep. That's probably why my wife thinks he played football, lol...”

“Remember when (in the movie) when Brian Piccolo tells Sayers that George Halas (sp?) is deaf in one ear? So Sayers (BDW) keeps hopping around to Halas' "good" ear, which drives him crazy!”

“There was also, of course, the mashed potatoes incident....”

“I was a little kid the last time I saw "Brian's Song", but I do remember reading about the "deaf ear" incident, lol...”

“A little kid?! Come on, bit, you're as old as I am!”

“I know I was less than 10...I must have watched it when it originally ran in 1971, haven't watched it since.”

“OK, fair enough.... But it's a classic - go rent it!”

“bit - I was born in '71”

“So it was definitely a re-run when you saw it?”

“Thanks for the link to the pic, Bit.”

“No problem! Sorry it was so bad, but I didn't have a lot to work with.”