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11. What was your very first job (perhaps when you were still in school?).
My very first job was running a 'cut-off' band saw for my father when I was 6 years old. It was a very small task, but something my father needed done for his business. I think I got the princely sum of 6 cents for it. Even then one had to be 16 to work in a machine shop, but at least then they looked the other way if you were family. When I was nine my father came to me and asked me to run the shop's vertical band saw. That was a more dangerous piece of machinery. He was afraid that the middle-aged woman who was doing the job was being too careless and would cut off her fingers. I completed the job, and still have all my fingers. I started working regularly, getting paid for real and paying social security taxes when I was 16. The first job outside the family business was teaching Russian my second year of grad school (part of a fellowship I had.)
12. Have you ever crossed the equator?
Nope.
13. Do you remember The Monkees TV show?
Hey! Hey! We're the Donkeys. People say we donkey around! ... Seriously it was good clean fun. I wasn't surprised whenshadowkat said she had a crush on Davy Jones when she was little. She and a bazillion other little girls.
14. It’s Saint Valentine’s Day – when did you last drink champagne?
I can't remember when I had it last. Oddly, I like most white wine better than red or rosé. But it's the opposite when they are bubbly. Champagne is overrated. Not bad in any sense, but just not as great as people sometimes make out.
15. Do you like to watch reality TV shows?
No. I used to watch the home improvement shows, but that's a different matter. I watched the home make-over show once or twice till I realized the poor family getting their dream home would have to sell it before the property taxes on the new home came due!
shadowkat11. What was your very first job (perhaps when you were still in school?).
My very first job was running a 'cut-off' band saw for my father when I was 6 years old. It was a very small task, but something my father needed done for his business. I think I got the princely sum of 6 cents for it. Even then one had to be 16 to work in a machine shop, but at least then they looked the other way if you were family. When I was nine my father came to me and asked me to run the shop's vertical band saw. That was a more dangerous piece of machinery. He was afraid that the middle-aged woman who was doing the job was being too careless and would cut off her fingers. I completed the job, and still have all my fingers. I started working regularly, getting paid for real and paying social security taxes when I was 16. The first job outside the family business was teaching Russian my second year of grad school (part of a fellowship I had.)
12. Have you ever crossed the equator?
Nope.
13. Do you remember The Monkees TV show?
Hey! Hey! We're the Donkeys. People say we donkey around! ... Seriously it was good clean fun. I wasn't surprised when
shadowkat said she had a crush on Davy Jones when she was little. She and a bazillion other little girls. 14. It’s Saint Valentine’s Day – when did you last drink champagne?
I can't remember when I had it last. Oddly, I like most white wine better than red or rosé. But it's the opposite when they are bubbly. Champagne is overrated. Not bad in any sense, but just not as great as people sometimes make out.
15. Do you like to watch reality TV shows?
No. I used to watch the home improvement shows, but that's a different matter. I watched the home make-over show once or twice till I realized the poor family getting their dream home would have to sell it before the property taxes on the new home came due!
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Yup, about 85% of the women I've met that watched the Monkeys, had a crush on Davy Jones as a kid. He was our size and adorable. But, I've met a few who preferred Peter or Mickey, who were admittedly the musicians. Davy was the professional singer/actor (and former jockey), but Mickey and Peter and Mike were musicians.
I met Davy Jones in person in 2005 (?) At a DVD release party for The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show, Jones had been on the same show performing a scene from Oliver Twist as the Artful Dodger. He was about 4'10, if that. Very small. I towered over him. Looked the same, with the same accent. I also saw Martin Landau, and one of the band members of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band (who was also in the cast of the Sopranos), and Barbara Bach (Ringo's wife) and she's about the same height as Jones. Famous people look absurd in reality. Landau looked like he did in that film by Tim Burton, where he played the actor who played Dracula.