This is Going To Be An Almost Completely True Story
Last night, one of our long, long time customers, Brian, held a debate watching party in Tillamook, Oregon. No, I did not make up that place. There is a real place called Tillamook. Supposedly, it’s in Oregon.
He heard that a woman named Lorrie from White Salmon, Washington, (no, seriously, I am not making up these names) who had been a delegate to the national convention was going to show up for the debate watching party at his office in Tillamook. Brian was a national delegate, too.
So, the minute Lorrie shows up, Brian naturally asks, “Do you know Fenway Fran from The World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc? She was a delegate to the national convention from Washington.”
Lorrie is Fenway Fran.
Now, I have to tell you something weird about Oregon. They have very confused time measurements there. When it’s midnight Texas time, it’s not in Oregon. So, I start getting text messages from Lorrie when she gets home about TWMDBS customers half a world away meeting and plotting. I was half asleep but I think I did threaten to tell about the time she and I got a tipsy on bloody Mary’s at the county fair parade and mooned the Republican District Attorney as he cruised by his parade convertible is he kept waking me up with that unnatural time thing.
Brian sent a picture. That’s Fenway Fran / Lorrie on the end of the front row. I think they are going to purchase a franchise operation in the Pacific Northwest.
So…… Fenway (which is Boston’s famous Ball Park) Fran is from Oregon??
O.K.
1Good story. Tillamook, Oregon makes great cheese – I lived in Monmouth-Independence, Oregon for 3 years in the 80s, very nice people, beautiful.
2Tillamook is indeed a real place (as is White Salmon) and you will find TWO great cheese factories there (Tillamook and Blue Heron) plus all the weird beauty and people of the Oregon Coast. Also, these are by far NOT the strangest place names we have up in this neck of the woods.
Never been to White Salmon, but Tillamook is a quirky old town, and you can’t miss it if you drive the Oregon Coast.
3Todd Snyder signs a great song about sitting in the Tillamook County jail.
4That’s Tillamook County- arrive on vacation, leave on probation.
Washington’s Olympic Peninsula has the best names by far. Pysht, Hoh Head, Queets and Humptulips are just a few.
C’mon, Humptulips?
5I know Fenway Fran! She’s from all over, really gets around 😉
Last week I saw her in Yakima, this weekend I’ll see her in Seattle, two weeks ago it was Charlotte.
Wait, that makes it look like I get around too!
*blush*
6I’ll go anywhere for Democrats…One of these days I’ll see Upanatm in Spokane! LOL. And Tillamook does not only make great cheese, they make great ICE CREAM. Shhhh…Lloyd says it’s better than Blue Bell….
7Miemaw…I was born in Boston, just a few miles from Fenway Park…am a lifelong Red Sox fan (yes, still)…and my mom, most of my siblings, cousins and one daughter live there. Not to mention tons of friends. PS Very few are Romney fans.
8Washington place names tend to be a weird mixture of Northern Salish, Chinook Jargon, and God knows what else. We’ve got Duckabush, Dosawallips, Humptulips, Salmon la Sac, Sedro Wooly, Enumclaw, and Sequim (pronounced “squim”). Snoqualmie is very near where I live, and it’s the name of a tribe who call themselves sdukʷalbixʷ.
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