# I just heard this fron Robin Williams on the telethon.. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 22, 2001, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-heard-this-fron-robin-williams-on-the-telethon/83140 "2001-09-22T01:49:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-heard-this-fron-robin-williams-on-the-telethon/83140/81 "2001-09-22T03:15:59Z")
That’s what is so great about the net…her a bunch of almost total strangers from all across the country shared a touching moment in our history…my thanks and gratitude to everyone who joined…and to those that just read. ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-heard-this-fron-robin-williams-on-the-telethon/83140/82 "2001-09-22T03:17:16Z")
**Cheese** : Fred Durst is from Limp Bizkit, I believe. But don’t quote me on that. I thought off the bat it was Wyclef, didn’t realize Peter Tosh was dead. My bad. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-heard-this-fron-robin-williams-on-the-telethon/83140/83 "2001-09-22T03:18:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Geobabe \* > \*\*You should come to the NYDope in January. Somebody is guaranteed to get lucky at that thing. \*\* I would but: 1. no place to stay 2. not enough cash for hotel and plane fair 3. AT&T isn’t the most job secure place to be working right now and I wouldn’t want to use up money I may need to have in my savings account when the union’s contract expires in May. 4. was that a come-on? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-heard-this-fron-robin-williams-on-the-telethon/83140/84 "2001-09-22T03:18:37Z")
> [@](#): > > Yes, they are making a cd, I heard that a few days ago, can’t wait. And an unknown band from right here in my city of Flint, MI is going to be performing on it, too. No, it’s not my husband’s band (I WISH!). They’re called Rev. Right-Time and the First Cuzins of Funk. And they don’t suck. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-heard-this-fron-robin-williams-on-the-telethon/83140/85 "2001-09-22T03:20:50Z")
OK. Someone alert the rest of us when they release the CD. I am definately buying that one. ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-heard-this-fron-robin-williams-on-the-telethon/83140/86 "2001-09-22T03:21:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Crunchy Frog \* > \*\* 4) was that a come-on? 😉 \*\* Just stating a fact, my friend. Did you want it to be? Gee, another MPSIMS thread breaks down into flirting. _Quelle surprise_. Well, with Arden, Crunchy and myself all in here, it’s almost an inevitability. ---
**Author:** ![Salem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Salem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salem)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-heard-this-fron-robin-williams-on-the-telethon/83140/87 "2001-09-22T03:21:30Z")
What the heck was Mariah Scarey’s problem? Did anyone else hear her trying (and failing miserably for the most part) to harmonize here and there and then randomly chiming in with what amounted to a screech? Someone should have wrestled the mic away from the woman. They panned in on her several times that I saw and she looked like she was at a big ol’ party…and had been there for quite some time. Was it just me or did anyone else feel like she was acting completely inappropriately? ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-heard-this-fron-robin-williams-on-the-telethon/83140/88 "2001-09-22T03:22:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Big Cheese \* > **Who was the guy doing the other solo with Stevie Wonder???** Someone will correct me if I’m wrong, but I think the group behind Stevie Wonder was Take Six. I don’t know the name of the guy that had the solo though. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-heard-this-fron-robin-williams-on-the-telethon/83140/89 "2001-09-22T03:27:34Z")
According to today’s Flint Journal, there’s a single coming out, which will be recorded this weekend. An “all-star charity version” of “We Are Family.” Proceeds will go to victims, and it also will feature rescue workers. Don’t know when it’ll be released, though. This single is the one that Rev. Right-Time is performing on. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-heard-this-fron-robin-williams-on-the-telethon/83140/90 "2001-09-22T03:35:23Z")
I heard about that one. Not sure how that’s gonna turn out. I’m almost afraid. But I want a CD of tonight’s show. ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-heard-this-fron-robin-williams-on-the-telethon/83140/91 "2001-09-22T03:37:39Z")
Yup, that was Take6 singing with Stevie Wonder. Take 6 is a christian sextet. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Big\_Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@The\_Big\_Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Big_Cheese)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-heard-this-fron-robin-williams-on-the-telethon/83140/92 "2001-09-22T03:40:03Z")
Heard Nile Rodgers is producing ‘We Are Family’, he wrote it I think, may turn out all right. Tosh was murdered in Sep 1987. Yea, if Mariah hadn’t had that song to her credit, they woulda passed her over in a heartbeat. I loved what Stevie Wonder said, something like ‘religious people don’t kill in the name of God’. [bad hijack]The sad part is with all this emotion going, looks like we’re still headed for war. [/bad hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-heard-this-fron-robin-williams-on-the-telethon/83140/93 "2001-09-22T03:44:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Geobabe \* > Gee, another MPSIMS thread breaks down into flirting. _Quelle surprise_. Well, with Arden, Crunchy and myself all in here, it’s almost an inevitability. I’ll save you! I can kill any flirt in an instant. See, like that. ---
**Author:** ![jmonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dbc845/32.png) [@jmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jmonster)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-heard-this-fron-robin-williams-on-the-telethon/83140/94 "2001-09-22T03:48:47Z")
So, Tom Petty is pretty much Willie Nelson Jr. now, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-heard-this-fron-robin-williams-on-the-telethon/83140/95 "2001-09-22T03:49:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Robot Arm \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Geobabe \* > > Gee, another MPSIMS thread breaks down into flirting. _Quelle surprise_. Well, with Arden, Crunchy and myself all in here, it’s almost an inevitability. > > I’ll save you! I can kill any flirt in an instant. > > See, like that. \*\* Don’t be silly, my vested friend. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-heard-this-fron-robin-williams-on-the-telethon/83140/96 "2001-09-22T03:58:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Big Cheese \* > \*\*Peter Tosh got murdered at least 10 years ago. It was Wyclef. > > \*\* Peter Tosh got murdered almost exactly 14 years ago (September 11, 1987.) I can’t believe it took someone that long to point that out. And…I only caught a split second of the show while at work, and only because someone was channel surfing and I heard Redemption Song and told them to stop, but, wasn’t that guys hair too long to be Wyclef’s? I thought it was one of Bob’s kids. And the fugee’s usually butcher Marley, that guy sounded good. ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-heard-this-fron-robin-williams-on-the-telethon/83140/97 "2001-09-22T04:03:03Z")
Well, perhaps you were right after all, **Robot Arm**. Crunchy and Arden seem to have disappeared. Now whydja have to go and chase 'em off like that? ---
**Author:** ![Flymaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c4cdca/32.png) [@Flymaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flymaster)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-heard-this-fron-robin-williams-on-the-telethon/83140/98 "2001-09-22T04:07:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SmackFu \* > \*\*Who was the guy with curly black hair playing guitar at the end? Slash? \*\* I thought Slash, too, but my roommate and I have concluded that it definetly was not. He looked like a half Slash/half Ozzie Osbourne combo. I wish I knew who he was, though. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-heard-this-fron-robin-williams-on-the-telethon/83140/99 "2001-09-22T04:12:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Geobabe \* > \*\*Well, perhaps you were right after all, **Robot Arm**. Crunchy and Arden seem to have disappeared. Now whydja have to go and chase 'em off like that? \*\* Take more than that to run me off from you, babe. ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-heard-this-fron-robin-williams-on-the-telethon/83140/100 "2001-09-22T04:19:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Arden Ranger \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Geobabe \* > > \*\*Well, perhaps you were right after all, **Robot Arm**. Crunchy and Arden seem to have disappeared. Now whydja have to go and chase 'em off like that? \*\* > > Take more than that to run me off from you, babe. \*\* Aawwwwww! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-heard-this-fron-robin-williams-on-the-telethon/83140.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-heard-this-fron-robin-williams-on-the-telethon/83140.md?page=6)