Subj : unsuspecting celebs
To   : George Pope
From : August Abolins
Date : Thu Jan 06 2022 07:53:00

Hello George Pope!

** On Wednesday 29.12.21 - 10:12, George Pope wrote to August Abolins:

 >> ...Greets from my Telegram app!

 GP> Wuzzat?

Telegram is a message app for for iOS/MacOS/Android/Win/Linux:

 Info=https://shrtco.de/tpJ9yV

Combined with the creative genious of the fellow operating a  
Fido node in Russia: Stas Mishchenkov (2:460/256), a curated  
selection of echos are traversing between Fidoland and the  
Telegram system.

Just install Telegram (you will need access to a smartphone  
that accepts SMS for activation - but it *doesn't* have to be  
your smartphone particularly) and then send the command %HELP  
to the entity @Fido2telebot. If you send the coommand %LIST,  
you will get a list of all echos available, including the  
Russian ones that Stas' is supporting in his own native  
language. You should be able to recognize the English ones; the  
tagnames are the same as used in Fidoland.


 >> One of the singers of the Good Lovelies dropped by my shop
 >> with her family of kids just now.  Celebs always seem to
 >> look different in their relaxed offstage identity.

 GP> Never heard of "Good Lovelies"; are they local? What kind
 GP> of music? (I know you well enough to presume it's not rap
 GP> *LOL*)

They present folky contemporary material.  And.. you are quite  
right about my attitude about rap. The only rap tune that I  
*do* still admire in a musical way is Gangsta Paradise by  
Coolio.


 GP> I've never met a celeb -- doubt I'd recognize even the
 GP> most famous omes if I  met them & even shook their hand.
 GP> Well, the lovely ladies I have my low-key  celeb crushes
 GP> on, maybe, & maybe those with a most distinctive physical
 GP> aspect/look (e.g. Tony Randall, if he's still among us)

Perhaps most of them appreciate not being noticed in the public  
when they just want a "normal" outting to shop or run an  
errand.

I can still only count on my hand the number of celebs that  
have dropped in to my shop:  Lloyd Robertson (CBC/CTV  
newsanchor), Ed Robertson (singer/songwriter of Barenaked  
Ladies), one of the Good Lovlies, ..oh, and perhaps a few  
federal politicians that may have visited the area in the past.

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  ../|ug

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