Lake Ponchartrain is a bitch. My friend "Doodle" Smith died there.

[DemoTex]

She was on an Eastern Airlines DC-8 that crashed into Lake Ponchatraine on February 25, 1964. Her dad was a CIA pilot in Mexico City (did the "chicken run" to Havana every week). Her sister was my main squeeze for years.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. Keep writing. You've got the makings of a novel.

[BrotherBuzz]

2. Indeed

I visualize John LeCarré with a Carl Hiassen twist. Anybody that had a name of Doodle would certainly approve.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

3. I named you Doodles to make you tough.

-Johnny Cash

[BrotherBuzz]

4. !

:thumbsup:

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

5. Only in The South...

Would one find someone with the sobriquet "Doodle". ;-)

[lonestarnot]

6. Where did the name lake Pontchartrain come from, if you know.

[Bluebear]

7. Count Jerome de Pontchartrain

Several things named for him in and around Detroit too, matter of fact...

[lonestarnot]

8. Oh. Who was he? Not familiar enough with Louisiana history.