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SubTitle: True Characters
Posted by: rs on 1/04/1998@21:53hrs:
We've mentioned a few people, actors, actresses, other public figures like Mark Twain, and fantasized that they seem as though they could or could not have come from SI. Being down-to-earth is probably the operative characteristic. So I was halfway paying attention to the football games on the tube over the N'Years weekend when I heard Coach John Madden, formerly of the Oakland Raiders, and a native of Daly City, CA, which borders San Francisco, and the thought struck me that this guy is Staten Island, I don't care where he really comes from.
There are a number of people who have SI written all over them, and a lot more who would need a passport to get off the ferry.
When you encounter a character, real or fictional, do you ever think, this is an Islander, or could be, or couldn't?
I've given you a couple that have occurred to me; what are yours?