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   Hello George Pope!   
      
   ** On Wednesday 29.12.21 - 10:12, George Pope wrote to August Abolins:   
      
    >> ...Greets from my Telegram app!   
      
    GP> Wuzzat?   
      
   Telegram is a message app for for iOS/MacOS/Android/Win/Linux:   
      
    Info=https://shrtco.de/tpJ9yV   
      
   Combined with the creative genious of the fellow operating a     
   Fido node in Russia: Stas Mishchenkov (2:460/256), a curated     
   selection of echos are traversing between Fidoland and the     
   Telegram system.   
      
   Just install Telegram (you will need access to a smartphone     
   that accepts SMS for activation - but it *doesn't* have to be     
   your smartphone particularly) and then send the command %HELP     
   to the entity @Fido2telebot. If you send the coommand %LIST,     
   you will get a list of all echos available, including the     
   Russian ones that Stas' is supporting in his own native     
   language. You should be able to recognize the English ones; the     
   tagnames are the same as used in Fidoland.   
      
      
    >> One of the singers of the Good Lovelies dropped by my shop   
    >> with her family of kids just now.  Celebs always seem to   
    >> look different in their relaxed offstage identity.   
      
    GP> Never heard of "Good Lovelies"; are they local? What kind   
    GP> of music? (I know you well enough to presume it's not rap   
    GP> *LOL*)   
      
   They present folky contemporary material.  And.. you are quite     
   right about my attitude about rap. The only rap tune that I     
   *do* still admire in a musical way is Gangsta Paradise by     
   Coolio.   
      
      
    GP> I've never met a celeb -- doubt I'd recognize even the   
    GP> most famous omes if I  met them & even shook their hand.   
    GP> Well, the lovely ladies I have my low-key  celeb crushes   
    GP> on, maybe, & maybe those with a most distinctive physical   
    GP> aspect/look (e.g. Tony Randall, if he's still among us)   
      
   Perhaps most of them appreciate not being noticed in the public     
   when they just want a "normal" outting to shop or run an     
   errand.   
      
   I can still only count on my hand the number of celebs that     
   have dropped in to my shop:  Lloyd Robertson (CBC/CTV     
   newsanchor), Ed Robertson (singer/songwriter of Barenaked     
   Ladies), one of the Good Lovlies, ..oh, and perhaps a few     
   federal politicians that may have visited the area in the past.   
      
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