HA! Good question. But, unfortunately, not "a decent story here." In other words, not a very exciting story. The brother-in-law once ran for public office, and there was an article about him in the local press that mentioned his relationship to Paul. First, I doubt that many of the paper's readers read the article, and of those few who did, probably no one (but me!) remembered his connection to Paul. But his name was familiar to me the first time he came through my line, and I asked him how he was a brother-in-law. He is the brother of Paul's wife. For the next few years, we each recognized each other at the polls and exchanged pleasantries, e.g., I think I sent my congratulations on the birth of either Paul's first or second kid. I think he ran as a Republican, and I know he lost the election (and has never run again AFAIK). I seem to remember TV-related things. Similar to the other story, another local official, who is now the chief judge here, also had a piece written about him at the time he ran for the county board, I believe. The article mentioned that he had once acted on a soap opera I had gotten hooked on when I was a kid. In 1999, I served on a jury where he was the judge, and then about a week after the case was over, I ran into him at a grocery store -- and asked him not only about the case we had just spent 6 days of our lives on, but about being on the soap! I'll have more to say in this thread later, I think. Melissa P.
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Darren Glass Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 7:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [TV orNotTV] Re: Well, here's the first one. On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Pollak, Melissa F. <[email protected]> wrote: I used to work at the polls every election. At my old place, in the late 1980s or early 1990s, two noteworthy people used to come through my line: One of them was Paul Shaffer's brother-in-law. I actually got to meet Paul in October 2007 at an event at Lincoln Center celebrating Neil Sedaka. Paul was very nice, and the only thing I could quickly think of to mention to him was how I used to "serve" his brother-in-law at the polls. He told me that the brother-in-law was there at the celebration, but I'm not sure I would have recognized him. OK, Melissa, to shift the subject to something a bit lighter -- I have to ask how you knew that it was Paul Shaffer's brother-in-law. Given that this isnt something that would be on his voter id card and that brothers-in-law rarely share last names (and Shaffer isn't exactly a rare name), all of the ways I can think of that it would have come up either have you being a crazy stalker or him being a total tool ("Hi random lady, guess which B-list celebrity I am related to by marriage?"), or, I suppose, both. Is there a decent story here? - dg --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
