neodata686 All American 11577 Posts user info edit post |
Documentary on him at the 2012 Charlotte film festival if anyone knows him / interested.
Good read as well:
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2009/01/30/501708/who-in-the-world-is-delmar.html#storylink=misearch 3/14/2012 12:20:04 PM |
EuroTitToss All American 4790 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "And now, after a lifetime of soul-searching and long hours of neurological and psychological tests, he thinks he has it figured out." |
I swear I fucking called it right here. I have aspergers-dar or something.
Quote : | "He ran for Homecoming Queen his senior year, which upset university administrators who suspected he was trying to make a political statement of some sort. Delmar had no ulterior motive. He did it on a dare.
And, with shaggy hair and all, he won. Because who at Chapel Hill in 1975 didn't know Delmar?" |
There's a joke in there.3/14/2012 5:13:31 PM |
neodata686 All American 11577 Posts user info edit post |
My parents said they knew him in the 80's.
Quote : | "He estimates, conservatively, he went to at least 200 parties each year from 1972 to 1985. Some years closer to 300, almost a party a day, most informal get-togethers, not invitation-only galas. He might be invited to one party and someone there would tell him about another, and he would move on, never hesitating if he didn't know the host or many of the guests. Being Delmar, he would meet them.
Nixon was president when Delmar began partying and Reagan when he slowed. In between, Ford and Carter, inflation, the Iran hostages, the end of war in Vietnam, the beginning of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Delmar mastered the art of partying in Chapel Hill, where he would collect $1 a student for a keg party. He perfected it in the 1980s when Charlotte was still small enough that the annual Tacky Party was a big deal, attracting 1,800 drunken revelers in polyester and polka dots. When you've been to 2,600 parties, more or less, they begin to run together. But the Tacky Parties, where “HONK if you know DELMAR!” bumper stickers sold for $1, stand as Delmar's favorites.
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2009/01/30/501708/who-in-the-world-is-delmar.html#storylink=misearch#storylink=cpy" |
3/14/2012 5:17:25 PM |
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