Remember that Snickers bar from Sunset Bowl that the Seattle Channel put up for auction on eBay? It sold for $52.03, with the proceeds going to the J.P. Patches statue going up in Fremont.
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5 responses so far ↓
1 JuneBug // Apr 24, 2008 at 2:51 pm
That better be one damn good Snickers bar.
2 Suthii // Apr 24, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Will JP Patches’s statue be down there in the hall of mass murderers along with Lenin?
3 M // Apr 24, 2008 at 7:37 pm
wow Suthii - Don’t even joke about JP… and if you really don’t know where the statue is going you should study up on local icons
4 Duncan // Apr 25, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Wow, nothing’s funnier than comparing a beloved local icon — especially a terminally ill icon — to a mass murderer. Real classy.
Also, other than Lenin, I’m not aware of any other statues of mass murderers anywhere in the city — certainly not enough for a “hall.”
5 Silver // May 1, 2008 at 8:20 am
I’ve met famous authors, movie stars, rock stars and politicians. None of them turned my brain to mush like JP Patches!
Decades ago I was a receptionist at the Seattle Center, and one day Chris Wedes called. When I figured out he was JP, I turned into a hopeless groupie. “Oh I just LOVE you!!” etc., etc.
I wonder if he was mildly irritated, or if he got a kick out of it? He was very nice on the phone. ;-)
People who aren’t from around here just don’t “get it” about JP.
- Silver
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