Most Surprising Parrothead Discovery?

MrTwain · Post by **MrTwain** » April 29, 2008 2:00 pm

Carolinadreamin' wrote:
lilsalty wrote:Why is it so surprising that teachers would be parrotheads?? We're not all boring sticks-in-the-mud who sit home grading papers and listening to Kenny G.....hee hee
It's the best profession for a parrothead with the summers off ya know...more beach time
Except for the awkward moments at a concert tailgate when the kids see you doing shots of rum and then see your husband put a temporary tat on your boob.........not that I would know ANYTHNING about that!!!!

Where were all these teachers when I was in school, huh?

Cubbie Bear · Post by **Cubbie Bear** » April 29, 2008 2:00 pm

From third grade through high school Jeff ws my best friend, we did so much together, people often thought we were brothers. He went to Iowa State University and i went to Illinois State University and we started to drift apart as friends. He got into a circle of friends that was a little too hard core for my liking and we seperated more. Sometime around 1979-80 he just disappeared off the face of the earth. I thought he had gotten into some kind of trouble, because when I called his Mom for our tenth reunion she would not tell me his whereabouts.

About 17 years since the last time I had seen him, I was sitting in my livingroom watching Bob Villa reruns and the phone rang. At the time, due to some major medical problems with the birth of our first daughter, we were in a very difficult financial situation. The person on the other end of the line asked "Is William Robert K@#%&# available", to which I responded, "Who are you and how much do I owe you". That was greeted with hysterical laughter as my friend let on who was calling.

Jeff and I talked for about two hours that day, at first it was kind of uncomfortable and then it got like old times. At one point he said, "what do you guys do for fun?" I told him with a two year old and one on the way, not much, "But we do set aside a grown-up weekend alone every year to see Jimmy Buffett at Alpine Valley".

When he had vanished years ago, I had just become acquainted with Buffett and given he was in another state, he probably had no idea how hooked I was. When I said that, I think he dropped the phone. "You gotta be f*#king kidding me" was the response". At the time, 1996 or 97 he had seen Jimmy about 15 times I think. I was up to about 20. We both had every album and usually listened to nothing else. He especially enjoyed Buckeye lake (I think) near Columbus, we loved Alpine and we both had been to many venues and even had been at some of the same shows.

Just goes to show you, all those years of people thinking we were brothers, we grew up almost exactly the same. Dan Fogelberg called it "Twin Sons of Different Mothers" and nothing could be more correct

Carolinadreamin' · Post by **Carolinadreamin'** » April 29, 2008 5:23 pm

MrTwain wrote:
Carolinadreamin' wrote:
lilsalty wrote:Why is it so surprising that teachers would be parrotheads?? We're not all boring sticks-in-the-mud who sit home grading papers and listening to Kenny G.....hee hee
It's the best profession for a parrothead with the summers off ya know...more beach time
Except for the awkward moments at a concert tailgate when the kids see you doing shots of rum and then see your husband put a temporary tat on your boob.........not that I would know ANYTHNING about that!!!!
Where were all these teachers when I was in school, huh?

Prolly ducking behind the tiki hut......

Salukulady · Post by **Salukulady** » April 29, 2008 5:31 pm

Carolinadreamin' wrote:
MrTwain wrote:
Carolinadreamin' wrote:
lilsalty wrote:Why is it so surprising that teachers would be parrotheads?? We're not all boring sticks-in-the-mud who sit home grading papers and listening to Kenny G.....hee hee
It's the best profession for a parrothead with the summers off ya know...more beach time
Except for the awkward moments at a concert tailgate when the kids see you doing shots of rum and then see your husband put a temporary tat on your boob.........not that I would know ANYTHNING about that!!!!
Where were all these teachers when I was in school, huh?
Prolly ducking behind the tiki hut......

When we were in school they were closet Deadheads....I dated one of my high school teachers (after I graduated). Smoked a lot of pot with that guy......

buffett81611 · Post by **buffett81611** » April 29, 2008 6:05 pm

As some know, I'm a pastor. On my first visit to the congregation I'm currently serving, I was met at the door by our maintenance man in a Buffett shirt. I knew I was in the right place and moved from Colorado to be here. (Well, not the only reason...)

At my first interview with the congregational leaders, I was laughing quite a bit and they said something about it. I responded, "well, as the great theologian Jimmy Buffett says, 'If we didn't laugh we would all go insane.'" A trustee then talked about for five minutes about what a Buffett fan he is and the tiki bar he has.

It seemed appropriate to have my first speaking part at a worship service be a Jimmy Buffett quote. You can hear it pretty clearly in the first minute of the 11-11-07 sermon at http://www.stmichaellcms.org/podcasting_a.php

I've used a few other quotes since then as well. Someone just walked into my office last week and when I commented on their Buffett shirt and said I was a fan, she said, "My pastor's a parrothead, cool."

Peace,
Matt

springparrot · Post by **springparrot** » April 29, 2008 6:10 pm

buffett81611 wrote:As some know, I'm a pastor. On my first visit to the congregation I'm currently serving, I was met at the door by our maintenance man in a Buffett shirt. I knew I was in the right place and moved from Colorado to be here. (Well, not the only reason...)

At my first interview with the congregational leaders, I was laughing quite a bit and they said something about it. I responded, "well, as the great theologian Jimmy Buffett says, 'If we didn't laugh we would all go insane.'" A trustee then talked about for five minutes about what a Buffett fan he is and the tiki bar he has.

It seemed appropriate to have my first speaking part at a worship service be a Jimmy Buffett quote. You can hear it pretty clearly in the first minute of the 11-11-07 sermon at http://www.stmichaellcms.org/podcasting_a.php

I've used a few other quotes since then as well. Someone just walked into my office last week and when I commented on their Buffett shirt and said I was a fan, she said, "My pastor's a parrothead, cool."

Peace,
Matt

very cool, Matt!

pojo · Post by **pojo** » April 29, 2008 9:03 pm

I was on an ICMOP (In-Country Movement of Passengers) back in December and my aircraft commander brought out his Ipod and about 90% of the tunes on there was JB.... Found out his daughter was named Savannah.

seaswirl3 · Post by **seaswirl3** » April 29, 2008 9:36 pm

RinglingRingling wrote:
Carolinadreamin' wrote:
lilsalty wrote:Why is it so surprising that teachers would be parrotheads?? We're not all boring sticks-in-the-mud who sit home grading papers and listening to Kenny G.....hee hee
It's the best profession for a parrothead with the summers off ya know...more beach time
Except for the awkward moments at a concert tailgate when the kids see you doing shots of rum and then see your husband put a temporary tat on your boob.........not that I would know ANYTHNING about that!!!!
your own version of yellow stars and red hearts?

just rub some dirt on it, they'll be fine.... ;D

Yes, we teachers are the people your parents warned you about, when we get out for the summer!!!! 38 more days!
We had some young folks at Great Woods in total awe that we were 4 teachers, and 2 school librarians. Duh...Jimmy writes books and teachers have lives!
Our school custodian was the most shocked by my revelation of being a Parrot Head.