A question for UK listers

[Paul Mackin]

On Oct 16, 2006, at 1:32 PM, Steve Maas wrote:

> Montecito makes my neighboring town of Santa Barbara look like a  
> poor relative. For example, Oprah Winfrey has a $50+ million estate  
> in Montecito, and many people like Beanie Baby Billionaire Ty  
> Warner call it home.

Don't even remember Montecito.  Did it develop around an actual old  
Californiatown (sort of  old) featuring a Bank of America on the most  
prominent corner of downtown? Prolly not.


>
> I once ran into John Cleese at a Santa Barbara farmer's market. He  
> was very pleasant about my brief interruption of his peaceful  
> Saturday morning. One of only a handful of celebrities I've ever  
> had any interest in meeting. Now there is a certain author though....
>
> Steve Maas
>
> Dave Monroe Wrote:
>> Are we "stalking" John Cleese now?  Though I actually
>> once did.  Or, at any rate, was stuck in a small
>> gellery with him to the point that it felt like it. He finally  
>> said something by asking me about on eof
>> the commandments in a 19th century French painting of
>> Moses bearing the tablets.  "'Tu ne desrobai ...?' Thou shalt not  
>> disrobe?"  I actually said, "I have to
>> ask, are you John Cleese?"  "No," he answered, "I'm
>> Michael Palin."  He was apparently in town shooting
>> some industrial film.  Came back on the weekend ...
>
> Keith McMullen wrote:
>>> This is John Cleese's current neighborhood.
>>> http://tinyurl.com/yxmavx
>
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