In defence of Scrooge McDuck.

[catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> Christian wrote:
> 
> <very long, frighteningly detailed biography of Scrooge McDuck>
> 
> Christian, is there anything you aren't an expert in?  Trains, 
> battleships (is that the right term?), HP, and now Scrooge McDuck.  
I 
> bow my head in humble admiration.
> 
> I must confess to a lifelong bias against Donald as well, because, 
> like George Harrison, I can't understand what he's saying.  (Yes, 
GH 
> really said that.  I don't know why anyone asked him, but 
apparently 
> it got around that he disliked Donald Duck.)
> 
> Amy Z

The George Harrison reference just made me have to tell this story.  
A close friend of my husband was flying back from Sydney recently, 
and was upgraded to First Class.  He sat next to this guy, and as it 
is a very long flight back to London, they started chatting, as you 
do.  Ed (our friend) asked him what he did for a living, and the man 
replied, "Oh, I'm in the music business."  A few hours later, Ed 
realised that a lot of people were coming to the front of the plane 
to have a look.  He went over to the flight attendant, and asked who 
it was he was sitting next to - the answer was George Harrison.  The 
stupid man hadn't recognised him, and was therefore quite embarrassed 
for the rest of the flight.  George Harrison, however, said that he 
found it quite refreshing.

Coincidently, Ed's wife, Evelyn, had a 40th birthday party in the 
same year, and we all trooped off to their favourite restaurant in 
Kensington.  One member of the party saw Chris de Burgh in the main 
part of the restaurant (him of "Lady in Red" fame) and asked him to 
come over and wish Evelyn happy birthday.  He kindly obliged, and was 
mortified when she asked him who he was - she is American, and had 
never heard of him.

I can never figure out whether all these famous people who bemoan the 
fact that they never have any privacy actually cherish it as much as 
they say they do - I am sure that the majority of them expect to be 
noticed, and feel somehow cheated if they aren't.

Catherine