Originally posted by jag312:
"I heard one year about a gal in a famous camera company's booth who was posing for pics. She was so daring that she was asked to put on a little more."
I believe this was at the Nikon booth where they had several very delectable young ladies from Playboy. Somewhere I have some pictures of one young lady from that year.
Yes, it was Nikon. The lady in question supposedly had on only a short tee shirt. She was asked to add panties or a bikini bottom. I missed her, but have seen some really nice ones. Two in the Winchester booth back when Johnny Falk was the PR guy were twin blondes. One sister was clearly a little more vain than the other, but both were friendly, and enjoyed posing. I think I may still have their pics somewhere, unless my ex threw them out during my marriage. She found a boxful of pics from my past and was quite unhappy, never mind that I hadn't dated or seen those girls in several years. Some, I'd seen only as models in the SHOT show, in fact.
Playmates have been at the show. A pal gave me a photo of one that he didn't want his wife to find. I think she was from Oklahoma. Donna Edmonds or Edwards? She wasn't one of my favorites, and my memory fails. I have met several others locally, in bookstores, in fact. and one at the grocer. Got to talking and realized who she was after she mentioned playing a clarinet. She used to do that in an Army band, and it clicked. Saw her later in a bookstore. She remembered me, and we talked a while. Amanda Hope, if you recall her pictorial.
I have been in bookstores when quite good writers were doing signings, and they had only a small crowd. That happened again two weeks ago, although the lady in question writes really good books. I've never seen over maybe 40 people at a time wanting an author's autograph.
Put a Playmate in a store, signing the month's issue of, "Playboy", and that changes. The last time I saw that, the line for autographs wound all through the aisles of the store, making it hard to get to some displays, then wound outside and over a block down the sidewalk!
The only time I've seen anything on par, Heidi Klum was giving autographs and photos at a new Victoria's Secret shop. By the way, she looks even better in person than on TV or in catalogs.
And she is a very smart lady, too.
What was said about gun store clerks is often true. At least, the SHOT show models don't pretend to know things that they don't.