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I'm Your Keynote Speaker, Man.

Post by Terry Y » Tue Jun 29, 2010 2:08 am

So yesterday was my graduation.  My whole family flew into town and we had a great couple of days tooling around L.A., yadda yadda yadda.

NANCY FREAKIN' CARTWRIGHT WAS OUR KEYNOTE SPEAKER.

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She gave a great motivating speech and even used the scene from "Bart Gets an F" (where Bart studies and still fails the test) to hammer home her point.  It was awesome.  I didn't even know she was going to be there until I saw her and wondered if she had a kid graduating with us!  But once I got up there, I got the chance to shake her hand, say what a hero she is to me and thank her for her time.  This is one of the highlights of my life.  :bart:
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Post by Stretch_Dude » Tue Jun 29, 2010 3:16 am

Holy crap. That is beyond awesome.

(Though I gotta admit that second photo makes me think, "THERE IS NO NANCY, ONLY ZUUL.")
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Post by Tony_Baritone » Tue Jun 29, 2010 3:56 am

Given MG's heritage, I hoped he would have been invited to do one of our graduations, but it hasn't happened.  Congratulations on the accomplishment and on the chance to meet Nancy.
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Post by SirMustapha » Wed Jun 30, 2010 4:46 pm

That was totally brilliant. Make sure to treasure that memory for as long as you can... pretty much forever, basically.
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Post by Officer 1BDI » Thu Jul 01, 2010 4:08 pm

I don't even remember who my keynote speaker was. :|  Lucky!

And congratulations on graduating, Terry!
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Post by c_nordlander » Fri Jul 02, 2010 4:12 pm

Congrats, and what an awesome choice of speaker!

Graham graduated in the same ceremony as BRIAN BLESSED got his honorary doctorate. That was also pretty cool.
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Post by missy_misery » Mon Jul 05, 2010 10:31 am

Congrats, Terry!  That's beyond awesome!
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Post by archonix » Mon Jul 05, 2010 12:27 pm

Ahh, I missed this! Awesome! Despite being stuck in that scientology morass she seems like a pretty cool lady. Even smiled at me when I got her to sign my book. :)

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