It's 9:09 PM in Southfield, MI. How about a Q&A with MrScorpio

[MrScorpio]

Go ahead, you know you have a burning question that you want to ask me.

All I ask is that you lay off the Simpson questions, they are so overdone.

[Skinner]

Is the Claussen building still in Southfield? (nt)

[MrScorpio]

4. Last I heard it went on tour

It's doing Japanorama

[5thGenDemocrat]

1. Well, since it's Southfield

What ever happened to Bill Kennedy?
John
Also, what ever happened to Mister Belvedere ("WE DO GOOD WORK -- call us at Tyler 8-7100. If it's not done right HEADS WILL ROLL!" etc etc.)?

[Carni]

3. OMG LOL

Don't know about Kennedy, or Belvedere, but that imbecile Bill Bonds does Furniture store commercials now...LOL

[MrScorpio]

He's got a cameo in the third Planet of the Apes movie

Boy, that brings back memories

[Carni]

21. Believe it or not I just watched him in that!

We were just watching a Planet of the Apes flick about two weeks ago and there was Bill Bonds in all his splendor playing a news anchor! LOL

[MrScorpio]

6. Sadly Bill passed away seven years ago

Mr Belvedere got an ABC tv show that was cancelled way back in the day

[Lefty48197]

10. Hey! That's not the REAL Mr. Belvedere!

.

[MrScorpio]

14. Yeah, nobody can beat Clifton Webb

[Lefty48197]

17. That's not the REAL Mr. Belvedere either, damnit!

You're not fooling me!!!!!!!

[IdaBriggs]

2. Did you hear about our new Waterford office? nt

[MrScorpio]

7. You guys sell crystal?

MrsScorpio is looking for some

[slinkerwink]

5. what was our DU flamefest about? I can't remember---it's been so long

[MrScorpio]

8. I dunno, something stupid?

Isn't that what they're all about.

[Lefty48197]

9. Has rush hour traffic in Southfield thinned out yet?

?

[MrScorpio]

12. With the way Michigan is hemorrhaging jobs

I'll be surprised that they have any traffic at all

[Bluebear]

11. Whatever happened to Marilyn Turner, Sonny Eliot & Jerry Hodak?

Or am I dating myself?

[MrScorpio]

13. Here's the juicy shit

Marilyn Turner:

>>Marilyn Turner sues son for fraud over investment losses
By David Josar / The Detroit News What does a son have to do for his mother to sue him in federal court?

In the case of Dean C. Turner, being accused by his television personality mom Marilyn Turner of ripping her off for more than $900,000 as part of a multimillion dollar pyramid scheme does the trick, according to court documents.

Marilyn Turner, five other Oakland County residents and a trailer park association are the latest parties to sue Dean Turner for fraud. He is a former senior vice-president for Dean Witter Reynolds Inc.<<
http://www.forensic-intelligence.org/fraud/52170.htm

Sonny Elliot

(My Fave weather dude EVER!! ) is doing radio
http://www.wwj.com/showdj.asp?DJID=15201

Jerry Hodak
Still going strong on Channel 7
http://web.wxyz.com/weather/ask-jerry.html

[Bluebear]

15. Now THAT is research!

Thanks!

[Zookeeper]

24. Sonny Elliot....

I've told my kids about his old weatherman schtick, where he would remove the magnetic Kewaunaw (sp!) peninsula and say, "It's 20 degrees up here!" and make a squeeky noise. No Doppler Radar? I must have grown up in the dark ages!

[Bluebear]

16. Did you know Detroit bid to host the 1968 & 72 Summer Olympics?

Here's one for YOU!

A film from 1965 describing vibrant, cosmopolitan Detroit! It was produced to show to the IOC in their bid for the Olympics, apparently. Not quite the Detroit I remember.

http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?collection=prelinger&collectionid=08698

[MrScorpio]

18. I actually lived the first 21 years of my life in THAT city?

Whoa!!!

I guess back in Black Bottom we lived in a different reality.

[Lefty48197]

19. If you haven't been to Detroit for awhile, then you might be surprised

at how much it's changed in the last 10 years or so. It's not going to rival Chicago anytime soon, but...

[Bluebear]

20. Well I was in Ypsi on Saturday as a matter of fact....

But we did go to the MGM downtown a year ago, I-94 was closed so we had to find alternate routes and hoo hah, driving down Fort to I-75 was scary. But I truly hope there is a resurgence in my hometown!

[Carni]

22. It's not that bad... really

You just need to be careful not to start tooling around in neighborhoods that you aren't familiar with.
(although the shootings this year in Hart Plaza... I must addmit freaked me out and I haven't been there too often since)

I don't actually live in Detroit, apparently I live in Mr Scorpio's city! (Hey neighbor LOL)

[Lefty48197]

25. There is a come back going on in Detroit

Mostly along Woodward and the waterfront. It hasn't reached Fort St. yet.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

23. Do you take your name from that guy Hank Scorpio in The Simpsons?

[MrScorpio]

26. Actually, its from Robert Scorpio on General Hospital

" Ex-spy, ex-police commissioner (twice), ex-private eye, husband, and father." The story of my life (I wish)

http://www.scorpiofiles.com/webpages/robert.html

Then there's the Scorpio Comicbook villain from the '60s


(I'm a huge Steranko fan)

Plus, my zodiac sign is scorpio



Hank Scorpio is really an afterthought