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Hook
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Character in Catavina
I ran into one of the oddest characters I have even encountered on my last trip to Baja. He was a semi-toothless longhair in tattered clothing who, in
the space of 10 minutes, claimed:
1-he invented M&Ms and named them after Marilyn Monroe but his good friend Mae West threw a fit and one of the M's is for her.
2-he was the heir to 20 million in 1968 but his family conspired to keep it from him
3-he invented the hula-hoop, the frisbee and other Wham-o products.
4-John Lennon, a close personal friend before his death, convinced him to begin farming strawberries on the peninsula. As a result of this
collaboration, Lennon then wrote Strawberry Fields Forever. The individual in question then proceeded to panhandle from us for change so that he could
find his lost strawberry fields. They are "somewhere" west of Catavina.
As I drove off, I quietly concluded that there probably was an element of truth in one of his stories.......I think strawberry BLOTTER may have been
involved long ago. He was easily the worst burnout I have ever encountered in my life.
Certainly someone else has run into this guy. He seemed to be hanging out at the old Pemex station across from the hotel.
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David K
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Photos please!
Or, maybe not!??
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Mike Humfreville
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This guy sounds like he'd fit right in. Some of us enjoy life for the variances it throws at us. We'll look for him the next time through Catavina.
On an aside, my motorhome sat adjacent to the old Pemex at Catavina for a year after a breakdown and my late return to retrieve it. By the time I
arrived, unannounced, the local mechanic, Pancho, had my Onan 6.5 Kw generator feeding the entire cluster of folks with electrical power.
Life takes all kinds. I hope I live long enough to experience them all!
Thanks for your story.
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Bob H
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GREAT story Hook! I think this guy may have been responsible for the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" more than Strawberry Fields
Forever.
Anyway, how did you end up talking with this guy anyway? Sounds like a very interesting character indeed. What was his name? And, how old would you
say he is? Was he a gringo?
Wow, so many questions. Sorry.
Bob H
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capt. mike
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hope he swings by mulege, we're almost out.
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hope he swings by mulege, we're almost out.
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nuthing a piper can't handle, no????????
who da guy?
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ncampion
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Sounds like a classic schizophrenic actually. Those are all classic behaviors. Many street people all over the world are afflicted with this
disease.
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Mike
I have always loved your story of the purloined generator, and have re-told it (poorly) on several occasions to fellow Bajaphiles. It's a classic!
All my best, Semper Fi, Perry
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Bedman
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I know Exactly the person you are talking about. On my last trip through Catavina he approached me, at the restaurant next to the old Pemex. He was
mumbling something. After a few moments of listening to him he began to tell me all about Marilyn Monroe and the M&M story. He also regaled me
with the story of how he and Howard Hughs were stedfast friends and that Hughs left him a fortune that he could never collect. Also that he was a
child actor and his parents stole all his money. Yes, and he had invented all sorts of things, Hula Hoop, Slinky, Frisbee and Monopoly, just to name a
few. The stories went on for 20 minutes. Finally our lunch was served and I tipped him 5 pesos for the great entertainment/stories!!
Bedman
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I can only hope...
That the cowboys in various forms are still winning. And Perry: once...always!
Amigo Miguel
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Hook
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bedman
I know Exactly the person you are talking about. On my last trip through Catavina he approached me, at the restaurant next to the old Pemex. He was
mumbling something. After a few moments of listening to him he began to tell me all about Marilyn Monroe and the M&M story. He also regaled me
with the story of how he and Howard Hughs were stedfast friends and that Hughs left him a fortune that he could never collect. Also that he was a
child actor and his parents stole all his money. Yes, and he had invented all sorts of things, Hula Hoop, Slinky, Frisbee and Monopoly, just to name a
few. The stories went on for 20 minutes. Finally our lunch was served and I tipped him 5 pesos for the great entertainment/stories!!
Bedman |
YUP, I fergot the Howard Hughes angle. He told me that one, too.
BTW, Bob H., the strawberry blotter/flats/windowpane was a form of the drug you are referring to in the other Beatles song.
David K.-couldnt get a pic. He approached us so fast that with stories so outrageous that you begin to wonder what his reaction might be to a camera
pointed at him.
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wornout
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Hook
I ran into one of the oddest characters I have even encountered on my last trip to Baja. He was a semi-toothless longhair in tattered clothing who, in
the space of 10 minutes, claimed:
1-he invented M&Ms and named them after Marilyn Monroe but his good friend Mae West threw a fit and one of the M's is for her.
2-he was the heir to 20 million in 1968 but his family conspired to keep it from him
3-he invented the hula-hoop, the frisbee and other Wham-o products.
4-John Lennon, a close personal friend before his death, convinced him to begin farming strawberries on the peninsula. As a result of this
collaboration, Lennon then wrote Strawberry Fields Forever. The individual in question then proceeded to panhandle from us for change so that he could
find his lost strawberry fields. They are "somewhere" west of Catavina.
As I drove off, I quietly concluded that there probably was an element of truth in one of his stories.......I think strawberry BLOTTER may have been
involved long ago. He was easily the worst burnout I have ever encountered in my life.
Certainly someone else has run into this guy. He seemed to be hanging out at the old Pemex station across from the hotel. |
I bet it was the 'anonymous' poster.
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Diver
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This sounds a lot like a guy I met in Mulege three years ago. He was apparently in better shape when I saw him drinking his lunch but the stories are
very similar. I think he said he was Howard Hugh's nephew.
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Maybe it's all true???
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| Quote: | Originally posted by capt. mike
hope he swings by mulege, we're almost out. |
I'am on my way to Mulege.
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Slowmad
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Looks like he's there for the long haul, too.
I've seen him four times this year on that same wall, as reported a while back...
http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=9568#pid13176...
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capt. mike
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swing on by Nick!
formerly Ordained in Rev. Ewing\'s Church by Mail - busted on tax fraud.......
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SiReNiTa
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oh yeah he lives there...i have seen him every single time we drive through...some times he will ask you for money to catch the bus...witch is not
true but it's ok to give him some because he goes and buys food with it...and i have heard that story too...it's odd that he can tell it exactly the
same way over the years and never get it wrong...he is harmless though...and a nice person but he does get tireing after a while of hearing the
story...well i mean if it's true then where is all the money???
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DanO
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Maybe he's connected with the three long-haired guys (not that that's a bad thing -- some of my best friends have long hair) that I ran across on the
road from Punta San Jose to Santo Tomas on a really hot day about a dozen years ago. They were driving a N-zi Roadblock, er, I mean a VW microbus,
even more slowly than those things usually go.
We stopped to chat. They were completely dilated, giggling uncontrollably, you get the picture. One of them had what appeared to be a very recently
and badly broken arm. Not a lot of personal hygiene being practiced as far as I could tell. They claimed to be organic farmers who were raising baby
vegetables ("y'know, like carrots and stuff like that, man)" somewhere vaguely to the south.
We discussed the baby vegetable thing and traded some insights on groovy local surfbreaks, and then they clattered off. I proceeded to get a flat
about three miles outside of Santo Tomas, and spent some nice hot and dusty quiet time swapping the spare.
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Bob H
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This is the kind of charachter I'd love to meet. We'll be looking for him the next time trough.
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