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To: Westlander
Funny story: one of my friends from Chicago was doing his emergency-medicine residency at Detroit Receiving (I think) during the 90's. One evening, they brought in Steve Yzerman for x-rays or something. My friend, being the n00b, was tasked to "do" the patient's history. Mr. Yzerman's uniform/equipment had been removed, but it might not have made any difference. The conversation went like this:

Name, please?
Uh, I'm Steve.
Great. And your last name?

[For those of you who don't get it, Steve Yzerman was God in Detroit]

My friend says they both laughed it off. My understanding is that famous people actually enjoy not being recognized.

226 posted on 09/16/2006 3:02:03 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

"Name, please?
Uh, I'm Steve.
Great. And your last name?"




About 1986 in Houston, I was in the back of an overflowing sports bar, when two of my buddies insisted on dragging me up to the front to take a picture.

There were three of us in army uniforms, but a civilian kept trying to get into the picture with us.

I got exasperated with his pushiness and asked "who the hell are you?", he gave me a name and I turned back to the camera, well he kept trying to elbow in, and he had such a confused look on his face that I thought he may have a purpose.

When I asked him what he did he said "I'm a Quarterback", well he had the most peculiar look on his face, but I studied him closer and realized he had the glow of a high level athlete, thats when I let him in beside me and the picture was taken.

Turns out he was a famous Quarterback, and that the night at the sports bar was for fans to have photos taken with him.

I always took the uniform very seriously and I think my treating him as a glory hound trying to squeeze into our picture affected him a little.


232 posted on 09/16/2006 3:28:04 PM PDT by ansel12 (Life is exquisite... of great beauty, keenly felt.)
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To: 1rudeboy

Come'in back at you with my CAT scan Tech Experiences (i'm a tech), The Hulk when the the Undertaker beat him on the head with a chair-his real name is Terri Bonilla, Mike Utley-Detroit Lions player with C4 thru C6 fractures, Coleman Young-than Mayor of Detroit with ETOH encephalopathy, Steve Yzerman when I gave him 24 oz. of oral contrast to drink prior to his upper abdominal CT scan--he had one sip and said "that's all I'm drinking"-I told him you can leave now because I have 2 teenagers with grey matter leaking out of their heads due to GSW's and your tying up my table, theirs more....but I have to follow the wumping M is putting on ND.

40-14 with 13:30 in the fourth.


233 posted on 09/16/2006 3:28:58 PM PDT by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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