In that boardroom there. I brought up Mel Dodge here at the Parks and Recreation, Ken Cook, who’s now rose to be one of the top vice presidents of Price Waterhouse. Pretty bright guy. I brought, I dunno, myself, I dunno, about five of us, that’s all went. And Steve… Read More
“Pack your bags, get the you-know-what out of here. “Now, everybody with me in this room, bam, big deal.” Slammed it down, walked and slammed the door. Steve’s there just sitting there. Got in the car, Ken didn’t say a word all went back to Columbus from Cleveland. Then we… Read More
Yes, we were happy. You kidding me?… Read More
What did, now what’d I do wrong?… Read More
All of a sudden I get kicked out of the AZA, the zoo does. They take away our newsletter for one year, or whatever it was. I don’t remember, take away whatever my membership was. I don’t remember that. But before they did that, we went to Cleveland and I’ll… Read More
And he went on to what he was saying. Maybe some of it was right. You know, maybe they are, excuse my language, bastardizing the panda. Read More
To me that wasn’t happening, okay?… Read More
That’s just me, Jack, Hanna. Others zoos probably thought that, or the guys at AZA board, whatever, big deal, okay. It didn’t take one hour. He slammed his thing down. The pandas are coming, period. That’s the end of the story next. You know, get the hell out of the… Read More
He goes, “Pack your bags, we’re done.” Like that, you know?… Read More
And right then I go like, I just smiled, I didn’t, I keep my mouth shut. Read More
And then finally he just went on, you know?… Read More
“We don’t want breeding loans and that type of thing.” Or something like that, right?… Read More
Bam! Slammed his camera down, his mallet. He goes, “Excuse me, I’m a judge here. “I’m a federal judge, “but I’m not quite understanding the two “three-year-old males and the breeding with that. “I may be wrong, but I don’t think “the males can breed each other like that.” Courtroom… Read More
“Do you understand now?” “Yes sir, understood it.” And now, judge, “what’s going on?… Read More
“What’s what’s the objection here?” “Well, we’re bringing our two pandas, “we’re bringing two male pandas here.” I can’t remember. I’m sorry. I wish I remembered. Two or three years old. I don’t remember. Maybe it was a year old. I don’t, maybe it was two or three years. I… Read More
“This is a panda bear in this court room from now on. Read More
“Not the Latin name of the animal, okay?… Read More
“It’s a Panda bear.” Being nice, but firm, “It’s a Panda bear.” The guy starts off again for about two minutes. He used the Latin name again. Bam. He goes, “Excuse me, I said it once. “I don’t intend to say it again. “It’s a Panda bear to me, “and… Read More
Make a long story short, went to court, right?… Read More
All of a sudden, ’cause people know about this thing. I walked in there, I had my tie on, and I’m real nervous, ’cause I don’t know what the heck I’ve done wrong. All of a sudden then, the trial starts, Judge Canary gets it, slams this thing down, he… Read More