Re: JDTV

john v. omlor (omlor@packet.net)
Mon, 20 Oct 1997 20:06:22 -0500

Someone remembers the story line on *The Single Guy*

>So one of the
>single guy's friends tells the girl that he (the single guy) is taking her
>out to dinner and guess who is gonna be there? JD Salinger. So she gets all
>drooly and stuff because of course JD is her favorite writer of all time.
>The single guy goes nuts yelling at his friend and explaining to him that
>JD Salinger is like a hermit and nobody has seen him in like 50 years.


Yes, well, someone else I know (I'll protect the name since it might be a
fellow list member) once conspired to place an announcement in their
college newspaper that JD was going to turn up and give a brief talk at, of
all places, an all-male dorm on a small, southern campus.  And yes, some
people bought it, including, if I remember right, a man of the cloth.
There was much hiding involved I seem to recall.  And that's all I'm
prepared to say about this at this point in time.

--JVO (remaining diplomatic to this day)