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11-23-2008, 04:52 PM
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Location: Parts Unknown, Northern California
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James Weddell
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11-23-2008, 05:02 PM
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Location: Victoria TX
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Weddell Duddon.
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11-23-2008, 05:15 PM
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Location: Parts Unknown, Northern California
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I was a 51 year old manager of a furniture store's service department when one day when driving home from work, the bike riding 12 year old son of one of my neighbors darted out onto the street in front of my car. He was struck and killed.
The police ruled the incident an accident and no charges of any sort were filed against me. Four months later I disappeared from sight and have not been seen since.
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11-23-2008, 06:49 PM
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Location: Victoria TX
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John Favara.
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11-23-2008, 06:58 PM
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Location: Parts Unknown, Northern California
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Yup, fuhgedabou Fabara.
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11-23-2008, 07:10 PM
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Location: Victoria TX
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I developed a revolutionary system, that significantly impacted the whaling industry on the high seas, even though I never went to sea myself. My idea seems very simple when you think about it, but nobody had ever done it before. Now, a century and a half later, it is the primary process that enables a hugely important commercial industry. Many people got immediate wealth from my invention, but I failed to patent it, so I became impoverished, and as a reward for my work, the state of Pennsylvania awarded me a small annuity in my old age.
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11-23-2008, 08:25 PM
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Location: Parts Unknown, Northern California
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That's an easy one, you're Herman Melville and you invented the ponderous, plodding, verbose religious allegory novel.
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11-23-2008, 08:41 PM
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Location: Victoria TX
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Nope. But I was born the same year as Melville, in the same state.
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11-24-2008, 07:53 AM
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Lewis Temple...
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11-24-2008, 07:56 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Grandstander
I was a young Latino with a rising pop career who had a big chart hit with a song with a name that sounds like an explosive device dropped from an airplane. My career was cut short when I died in a plane crash along with the lead singer from The Crickets and another chart maker who was big and liked to bop.
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Grandstander,
Did I misunderstand this question? I believe you said the answer was Jim Croce. Wouldn't that have been Ritchie Valens aka Richard Valenzuela who recorded the hit, La Bamba?
Valens and J.P "The Big Bopper" Richardson died in 1959 in a plane crash with the great Buddy Holley of Crickets fame. Jim Croce died in another plane crash in 1973. Both Holley and Croce left an indelible mark on American music. Thanks.
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