tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34798599.post1070266536347148716..comments2023-11-14T11:44:10.396-05:00Comments on The Legion of Decency: Lazy Sunday # 267: The Old Jokejimhenshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07815834271470133872noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34798599.post-13063322704478333022013-04-08T18:25:11.724-04:002013-04-08T18:25:11.724-04:00In the early nineties, I was in Western Mass. han...In the early nineties, I was in Western Mass. hanging out with some female musicians. One balmy spring day we were all invited up a mountain north of Amherst and North Hampton for a sauna and supper with friends of the band.<br /><br />Upon arrival at the gate to their 200 year old house, there stood a sauna and a picnic table. Unknown to me, we were greeted and invited promptly to amble over to to the sauna. Much to my surprise, everybody began disrobing like Woodstock hippies and I thought, what a rapid way to make friends...get naked within 2 minutes of meeting them. <br /><br />The sauna was ready for us and fabulous, the conversation was superb and the nakedness....very natural, even tho gravity was beginning to assault our middle age bodies. We stepped outside the sauna and sat down to iced tea and appetizers. It was not lost on me that we were sitting roadside, naked and no one was making any gestures towards getting dressed. <br /><br />This is when things got really quirky. I noticed a car rounding the bend and headed our way. I was about to say we perhaps should not inflict the occupants to our nudist antics when the female hostess jumped up and gleefully squealed " Ohhh...it's our neighbour". I could see the lone occupant was wearing dark sun glasses and possessed beaming white teeth as he slowed by our impromptu sideshow. <br /><br />It was a Rolls Royce circa 1967, and I believe silver. The driver called out" Have you had your sauna yet? because if you haven't, I'll join you " That is when I realized that it was Bill Cosby in the Rolls. Our hostess , butt naked, talking to him and it all appeared to be some weird celebrity scenario from a bizarre dream.<br /><br />Cosby was effervescent when our host told him folks were visiting from Canada...He called out "where in Canada" ...I said "Saskatchewan" Cosby paused and then said...".Do you know Joe Fafard?" I was taken aback. I said "yes indeed, very well" and that I had just been the production coordinator on his son's CD Joe'l Fafard. Cosby said, "that man is one of the best sculptors in the world. He just did one of me. Look for it in LIFE magazine"....and then off he rolled in the almost silent Rolls Royce.<br /><br />Some time later I opened up LIFE and there was Cosby, sitting next to his Fafard smoking a cigar. It indeed is a small world and reality does sometime become much funnier than comedy could imagine. I have been able to say, "I met Bill Cosby...and I was naked when I did! "Joel Scottnoreply@blogger.com