Pedro Marquez

From Plastic Tub

Hard-working river fisherman and cowboy singer hailing from San Luis Postosi, Mexico. Eschewing his region's rancheros for a love of American Country & Western, Marquez still draws them in Friday after Friday at La Casa de Tito in SLP.

Once during practice he uttered these words: "If there were a place you could stand while holding your breath but while breathing you could by smirking almost."

Meanwhile, across the globe, Kaoru Hashimoto of Osaka, Japan, a young secretary in a local utility, uttered the same words to a colleague during a marathon chat session. Hashimoto, a delirious anglophile, had never managed such a grammatically complex sentence. This was on September 19, 1999. Both said the words in Algonquin. Both bore an uncanny resemblance to Verna Cable.

Marquez is still an active singer today and is involved with a masked wrestler known as El Stimso.