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.

Billy meets the big guy......

The pope has a real neat form of transportation....its called oddly enuff...a Popemobile.......How do I know this? Its because we got to see it close up. You see it turns out the Pope follows the Billy blog and he emailed us about Billy and said he was coming to America.

Could we come to New York while he was visiting? I felt it was not that much of an imposition since he came all the way across the pond and all. In fact Billy was honored...it was his first pope visitation and will most likely be his only popeathon.

We had to choose between venturing to NYC or being present for the autograph session for the Final Season DVD premiere. We opted for the pope gig and are glad we did. We were treated quite nicely and never had a crowd issue like we would have had at the Best Buy Store with the Final Season Event.

Billy got a chance to sort of sit in the Popemobile...of course not while the Pope was occupying it. But you know, it just doesn't matter. He later had a discussion regarding the Pope's carbon footprint and recommended the Mercedes Smart Car be used as the new Popemobile. Lets see what developes.

While we were in the big apple, we had to do some touristy things and we ran into a celebrity. Borat was hanging with some fans and I snapped the picture shown here.

Who is Billy?

Billy is a friend of the family, actually I dated his aunt and that is how I met Billy. Billy has a bit of a disability due to the fact that he is confined to an iron lung. I try to help the family out as much as possible and take Billy on field trips and try to entertain him whenever possible.

He has become a good buddy. Like this weekend, ( I usually like to do things which him on weekends) he had the wish to go to an Iowa Hawkeye game in Iowa City. Well I just about had the iron lung loaded in the back of my Hummer H2 when the next door neighbor queried me as to where we were headed. I told him I was taking Billy to the Carver - Hawkeye Arena for the game. He said there was no game there and that they were playing at the State Penn against some Lions or something like that. Well I didn't have any time to run to this State Penn place so there was no football for Billy.

Billy's mom, Prisilla Lee Schulte grew up in Watkins, Iowa and went to school in Norway. Prisilla Lee was quick to learn the splits as a young lady and she would be destined to become a cheerleader at Norway High School. Prisilla Lee was a frisky girl if you know what I mean and she didnt take to wearing underwear very often. This could be evidenced at her stint has head cheerleader. The team soon caught on to the fact that she was missing part of her uniform and soon was dating most of the team...well everyone ...except the Butz boy who was left out for some reason. Billy's mom was proud of her conquests and often sat around the family dinner table discussing in detail her extra curricular activities with the Norway High School Baseball team.

Well, lo and behold, this Sunday was the premiere of the movie The Final Season which was filmed in Norway and was about the team. Billy asked me if I could take him to the premiere. This was an invitation only premiere and my attempts to get some tickets were unsuccessful. It seems that one of the actors a certain Tom Arnold had hogged a bunch of the comps for his family and Billy was forced to stay in the theatre parking lot in his iron lung in the sweltering 88 degree heat. He damn near died! He wanted to go to the movie because he is convinced that one of the Norway ballplayers of 1990 -1991 season is his real dad.

Instead, I decided to take Billy to the local dog shelter....I call it the dog pound...he was wanting one of those designer dogs...I think it was called a Snickerdoodle....well the pound did not have a Snickerdoodle but the nice lady at the pound took pity on Billy in the iron lung and pushed him back and forth thru the different holding pens of the puppys for adoption. She pointed out this one puppy she said was special and Billy took an immediate liking to her.


Well we took the dog home to Billys mom and dad and Billy was wondering what was so special about this dog. He thought it was just a Heinz 57 sort of dog. The family turned the dog on his back and they discovered the dog had two vaginas. Billy named the dog "Snatches".