Maggie Vespa
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Tue, 22 Nov 2022 23:51:36 +0000
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Tue, 22 Nov 2022 23:51:36 +0000 quote
Watching NBC News with my mother tonight, one story about shopping on Black Friday was presented by a reporter named Maggie Vespa.

I don't remember seeing anyone with the last name Vespa.

Could it be her real name?

Bill
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Tue, 22 Nov 2022 23:58:11 +0000 quote
Does she report the news while riding on a scooter?
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Wed, 23 Nov 2022 00:00:48 +0000 quote
According to this site there are 802 families in Italy whose surname is Vespa:

https://www.cognomix.it/mappe-dei-cognomi-italiani/VESPA

I don't know about where you live...!
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Wed, 23 Nov 2022 00:22:32 +0000 quote
JKJ-FZ6 wrote:
Does she report the news while riding on a scooter?
No scooter.

She was doing the normal talking head routine, standing and talking with something pretty or interesting in the background.

Bill
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Wed, 23 Nov 2022 00:53:37 +0000
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Wed, 23 Nov 2022 00:53:37 +0000 quote
Mauro150LX wrote:
According to this site there are 802 families in Italy whose surname is Vespa:

I don't know about where you live...!
She is the first non scooter Vespa I have encountered.

Maybe she hails from Italy.

Bill
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Wed, 23 Nov 2022 00:56:34 +0000 quote
She's Protestant? Anglo Saxon?
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Wed, 23 Nov 2022 01:09:12 +0000 quote
znomit wrote:
She's Protestant? Anglo Saxon?
Umm…I didn't ask.

I did Google her and found that she appears to be from exotic Peoria, Illinois.


Google even had a photo.

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Wed, 23 Nov 2022 01:59:50 +0000 quote
znomit wrote:
She's Protestant? Anglo Saxon?
Good one.
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Wed, 23 Nov 2022 02:16:45 +0000 quote
She's from Illinois, but just left us here in Portland, Oregon to return home for a great job. It always made my day seeing her on the news....
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Wed, 23 Nov 2022 02:50:36 +0000 quote
More about her at an earlier post:
With a name like Maggie Vespa …
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Wed, 23 Nov 2022 03:42:27 +0000 quote
She is in the Wasp family
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Wed, 23 Nov 2022 04:01:10 +0000 quote
When I was young we used to have Tricia Toyota on the Channel 4 news. Not really pertinent, but neither am I.
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Wed, 23 Nov 2022 07:07:19 +0000 quote
There was a song - Stuck in a pagoda with Tricia Toyota - but I can't remember the band....
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Wed, 23 Nov 2022 08:18:47 +0000 quote
That one!
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Wed, 23 Nov 2022 09:26:38 +0000 quote
We do have a Maggie on this site with a Vespa maybe more than one Vespa even.🙂
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Wed, 23 Nov 2022 10:26:52 +0000 quote
WLeuthold wrote:
Umm…I didn't ask.

I did Google her and found that she appears to be from exotic Peoria, Illinois.
She looks malnourished!
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Wed, 23 Nov 2022 15:05:14 +0000 quote
Mauro150LX wrote:
She looks malnourished!
That's just the Hollywood standard. A functional bulimic.
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Wed, 23 Nov 2022 15:24:56 +0000 quote
TIDWILLOW wrote:
She's from Illinois, but just left us here in Portland, Oregon to return home for a great job. It always made my day seeing her on the news....
When I lived in Portland, it was not uncommon to see her in various neighborhoods working on location. I bumped into her more than once on Mississippi.
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Thu, 24 Nov 2022 14:24:17 +0000 quote
Another with the surname. And a Druish princess too.



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Thu, 24 Nov 2022 15:01:13 +0000 quote
If I buy another Vespa, and I do need a new one as Rocket, Razzo and Vanessa are all over fifteen years old, I will name it Maggie.

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