‘Top of the world, Ma!’

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Circledoug

That was the headline on this e-mail sent by blog regular Doug Ross. Here’s the text:

FYI, my picture is on the front page of the Sunday paper today… that’s
my son’s baseball team playing at Brookland-Cayce and that’s me sitting by myself down at the bottom of the stands behind home plate.   Some might say it’s my best side.  🙂

-dr

And that’s I believe, is the picture above. I doctored it Officer Obie-style, with a circle indicating Doug (I think). Doug, let me know if I’m circling the wrong guy.

Congratulations! Not even Grandmaster Bud has made the front page, so that’s saying something. Don’t ask me exactly what it says, but it must say something.

Oh, and for those of you who don’t recognize Doug’s movie allusion — it’s James Cagney in "White Heat." Here’s a clip.

6 thoughts on “‘Top of the world, Ma!’”

  2. Brad Warthen

    And in keeping with my penchant for over-explaining EVERYthing whenever possible, my reference to Officer Obie has to do with the evidence he compiled against Arlo Guthrie in the famous "Alice’s Restaurant" littering case:

    "They was taking plaster tire tracks, foot prints, dog smelling prints, and they took twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us…."

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  3. bill

    He said,”Kid,we found your name on an envelope at the bottom of a half a ton of garbage,and just wanted to know if you had any information about it.”And I said,”Yes,sir,Officer Obie,I cannot tell a lie,I put that envelope under that garbage.”

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  4. p.m.

    Well, a picture of me taking a picture of some other people was on the front page of The State once, but that happened before I ever blogged here using an assumed name, so I wouldn’t put much stock in it.
    I didn’t put much stock in it then, either, as someone else pointed out to me that I was in the photograph.

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  5. Brad Warthen

    Drop by the office sometime and I’ll take a picture of you pointing to the picture of you taking a picture of some other people.
    That may cause us to jump into hyperspace or something…

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  6. p.m.

    Hey, you get your 15 minutes in the saddle, but who said what horse you’d be riding, or if it would be the same horse for all 15 minutes?
    I’m thinking I’ve got 12 or 13 minutes left with my feet in the stirrups of fame, but on the whole, I’d rather be in Philadelphia.

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