Speaking of menus

[Alan Barnard]

One of my customers used to live in Southern California and worked for the City of Los Angeles. Her job was to approve and coordinate all the movie and television shoots that required streets to be blocked off, highways shut down, and that sort of thing. This brought her into contact with many celebs and she got to know quite a few.

Michael Landon was a heavy, heavy (4 packs a day) chain smoker of cigarettes (it's what killed him) and one day my customer saw him chatting with a bunch of kids while smoking one one after the other--they were filming an episode of Touched By An Angel. In a private moment, she chastised him for setting such a lousy example for the children. He ignored her with a shrug. So later, when more kids were around, she reached out, grabbed the cig right out of his mouth, and stomped on it. Nothing further was said, though she feared for her job.

Years later, when Mr. Landon was on the Carson show, Johnny asked him about fans who behave in some unexpected or outrageous behavior. Landon answered by relaying the story of my (still nice but a little nutty to this day) customer. He never forgot!

Alan Barnard
Salem, MO




Original message
From: "Willem Blees" 
To: Pianotech at ptg.org
Received: 3/10/2008 7:18:09 PM
Subject: Speaking of menus


 A while back, just before he died, Michael Landon appeared on the Johnny Carson Show and read a "Road Kill" menu. Shortly afterwards, while we were on a trip, my wife and I, along with our two boys, came up with a Piano Technician's Menu.  Enjoy. 


Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT
Piano Tuner/Technician
Honolulu, HI
Author of 
The Business of Piano Tuning
available from Potter Press
www.pianotuning.com


Piano Technician’s Menu

Drinks
Your choice of balance or front rail punch
A Diminished 5th of Jack Daniels
Egg Knob
A Case of Beer
So-La-Ti (our special blend of herb tea)

Appetizers (Hors D’oeuvres)
Stuffed Mushroom Capstans
Deep Fried Soundboard Buttons
String cheese
Egg Drop Screw Soup
Southern Fried Key Buttons
Marinated Monkey

Miscellaneous ( A LA Cart)
Stack of Pancakes
Treble String Beans
Lettuce Wedge
Key Bed of Spinach
Sour “do” Piano Rolls
Half Baked Piano Rolls (taken out of the oven a 16th hour early)
Wippen Potatoes (erved with spoons)
Potatoes chipped, (up to 445)

Pork, Steak, Lamb & Poultry
Butt Steak
Pork Belly Rail
Bar-B-Q Baby Back  Check Ribs
Hammer Shank Steak
New York Temperament Strip Steak
Let-off Rack of Lamb
Dark & White Turkey
Becket O’ Chicken

C Food
Lobster Tails
Bass Strings
Fish Prop Sticks
Jack Salmon
Fillet of Sol

Desserts.
Key Lime Pie
Plate Horn O’ Plenty




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