Hello George Pope!
** On Wednesday 29.12.21 - 10:12, George Pope wrote to August Abolins:
...Greets from my Telegram app!
Wuzzat?
Telegram is a message app for for iOS/MacOS/Android/Win/Linux:
 Info=
https://shrtco.de/tpJ9yV
Combined with the creative genious of the fellow operating a  
Fido node in Russia: Stas Mishchenkov (2:460/256), a curated  
selection of echos are traversing between Fidoland and the  
Telegram system.
Just install Telegram (you will need access to a smartphone  
that accepts SMS for activation - but it *doesn't* have to be  
your smartphone particularly) and then send the command %HELP  
to the entity @Fido2telebot. If you send the coommand %LIST,  
you will get a list of all echos available, including the  
Russian ones that Stas' is supporting in his own native  
language. You should be able to recognize the English ones; the  
tagnames are the same as used in Fidoland.
One of the singers of the Good Lovelies dropped by my shop
with her family of kids just now.  Celebs always seem to
look different in their relaxed offstage identity.
Never heard of "Good Lovelies"; are they local? What kind
of music? (I know you well enough to presume it's not rap
*LOL*)
They present folky contemporary material.  And.. you are quite  
right about my attitude about rap. The only rap tune that I  
*do* still admire in a musical way is Gangsta Paradise by  
Coolio.
I've never met a celeb -- doubt I'd recognize even the
most famous omes if I  met them & even shook their hand.
Well, the lovely ladies I have my low-key  celeb crushes
on, maybe, & maybe those with a most distinctive physical
aspect/look (e.g. Tony Randall, if he's still among us)
Perhaps most of them appreciate not being noticed in the public  
when they just want a "normal" outting to shop or run an  
errand.
I can still only count on my hand the number of celebs that  
have dropped in to my shop:  Lloyd Robertson (CBC/CTV  
newsanchor), Ed Robertson (singer/songwriter of Barenaked  
Ladies), one of the Good Lovlies, ..oh, and perhaps a few  
federal politicians that may have visited the area in the past.
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  ../|ug
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