Not gone BUT forgotten!

It all started in the London times Sunday Magazine September 16, 1990.  Reviewer Craig Brown was doing his job at the T.G.I. Friday's Covent Garden, London.  I will quote just a portion of his very up beat article; needless to say, management sent me a framed copy laughing all the way.  "Close to our table there was a framed black and white photograph of a short-haired gentleman with spectacles and an odd stare, looking like a rather young tycoon or a rather old assassin, as is so often the case among white American middle-class males.  Our waitress did not know who he was, but went to find out.  It emerged that he was none other than Daniel Scoggin, founder of Thank God It's Friday's, but now, it was thought, sadly deceased."

After returning from my last sailing adventure and deciding to write my book, I became interested in my presence in the world, as it would be helpful in selling books. So I first went to my old company's website under history. Evidently they had read the article above or had purged me from their history for some yet to be determined reason. My wife, who is an excellent researcher, after a couple of days found an obscure reference to me being an antique buyer for the company dealing in canoes! The shame of it all, you know, it was the crowning achievement of my life. (The picture above was sent to me before the purge by a former CEO. It's the tip bell from the first store I built, thanks former CEO.)

Now to my current demise. My publicist has made several, ok, maybe a hundred submissions to Wikipedia. The submissions were modeled after one of my fine competitors. Every rejection comes back labeled "Too much strutting!" We go back and re-read my competitor's entry, who is credited with everything but the light bulb, take a deep breath and submit again. I think we are down to my name and birth date which I think they want footnoted. The 'first breath' was taken out for strutting! My only conclusion is they read the article that started it all!