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To: firebrand; Greg Packer
Haunting Hillary in Huntington (Carl Limbacher, Mike Seigel, and Sean Hannity Show Up)
Where was Greg Packer?
Isn't Huntington, N.Y. his home town?
From http://www.timessquare.com/bway/features/feat_guy.html:

First in Line Guy: Obsession or Art Form?
by Reid J. Epstein


Greg Packer stood in line for eight hours before meeting Brandy, the pop singer
PHOTO: David Phillips

 

By 8 o'clock on the coldest morning of the year, Greg Packer was already in his second hour waiting in line to go on a double-decker bus tour of Manhattan with Brandy, the R&B singer.

Spending a day waiting in line to meet celebrities is not unusual for the 38-year-old Huntington, N.Y., native, but his position so far back in the queue was. Packer has made obsessions out of being first in line and of being in the company of celebrities.
But on this day, he was 15th in line. That was good enough, for his goal was just to be among the first 50 who would make it on the Brandy bus.

If there's a global or celebrity-laden event in or near New York, odds are Packer is there, or is trying to be there...

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22 posted on 06/21/2003 10:59:02 AM PDT by RonDog
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To: RonDog
How does a boy with a spare tire like that not get the nickname "FUDGE"?
54 posted on 06/21/2003 2:49:49 PM PDT by Wondervixen (Ask for her by name--Accept no substitutes!)
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