This Guy Seems Legit
Spotted this hand scrawled ad in an old comic printed in 1982:
Oh yeah, this guy seems legit.
Mr. Robert Robbins, welcome to the internet. I wonder what you’re up to nowadays. Did you move on to hawking Sea Monkeys and lawn darts, write a best seller, morph into a late night 1-900 spiritual adviser, discover a cure for an uncommon disease, become the manager for the hardest working rock band in Iowa, get married to your high school sweetheart, or perhaps even obtain the American white-picket dream…or are you among the faceless hordes living hand to mouth, day in and day out, surviving alone and unknown in a dank ground floor apartment, just trying to squeak by until the next payday when you can stock up on Top Ramen and perhaps bring down the balance on your out-of-control credit cards?
Call me curious…
You inspired me so I decided to do a little digging. There’s a Robert Robbins who’s an astronomer at the University of Texas. That would be cool. There were more, but I didn’t want to pay for a Texas criminal records check. Not so cool.
I found several Robert Robbinses in Google’s phone directory, but only one in Graham. If that old ad had his middle initial, I could probably track him down for you and he could answer your question. How disturbing is this age we live in that I could do that?
Heh…nice detective work there, Lou! I guess we’ll have to wait to see if Robert Robbins happens to come across this post while ego surfing.