Billy has a dream

Beijing Olympics 2008 - The Countdown Begins @ Yahoo! Video

Billy loves all kinds of sports. His favorite is football and his beloved Iowa Buckeyes. The puzzler has Jack Nicholson seating for the Buckeye season and has promised the tickets to Billy and us when they are out of town on their various traveling adventures. You can follow the adventures of the Puzzler by clicking here.

But this year Billy is conflicted. He can use the Puzzlers football tickets whilst they are in China for this years Olympics or...are you ready for this.....he can tag along with them in China.

Billy has a hard decision to make. His passport is up to date and he travels light (unless you factor in the lung) and he loves watching gymnastics....something he was never able to do himself.

Like I say he is conflicted. There will be a family meeting today at the Crippe household and we will be there to help make the right decision for him. So stay tuned. Will Billy see the first two Buckeye games or will he be a world traveler? Time is short, the Naked Gun is making the airport run tomorrow.

Bob the scrapper

Bob is a scrapper......I don't mean he likes to fight....He has been keeping copious records of people he knows since the mid- forties and preserving them in scrapbook form.

I'm sure the methods have changed as certain essentials were invented over the years ..like glue and color photography.

I stopped in the other day and asked him to show me a book or two. We plopped one down on his table near his poolside bar. Thats the area you will find him on any given Sunday, dressed in his signature "slingshot"...that is if he is dressed at all. Thats why they call him Naked Gun

The books are filled with everything associated with his life. Friends and family....one family member is nephew Tom Arnold and he gets a lot of press and space in the scrapbook.

You will remember it was Tom and his family comps that forced Billy to stay in the sweltering iron lung at the theatre parking lot during the premiere of the Final Season.......but thats another post from the past.

Some bloggies say the naked Gun looks a lot like Billy's Uncle Heinie. I've posted the two side by side. You make your own comparison.