You know, the guy [who used to have a] shaggy, puddin' bowl haircut and who writhes around and waves his arms at many of the outdoor concerts.

10-time state champion and national master with over 40 years of chess-playing experience. Greg is called the Octopus because of his ability to play as many as 50 games of chess at once, and often makes his moves in 5 to 15 seconds

http://www.jrpc.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette_Rankin
Jeannette Rankin (June 11, 1880 " May 18, 1973) was the first woman elected to the United States House of Representatives and the first female member of Congress. A Republican and a lifelong pacifist, she was the only member of Congress to vote against United States entry into both World War I and World War II. Additionally, she led resistance to the Vietnam War.

he has a tv show! come on!

Rain or cold, he's always happy to offer me a sharpening for the blade I don't have. You can find him most days in front of the Army Navy store, downtown.

Photo anyone?

I think he passed away a few years ago. He used to stand around Higgins & Broadway, yelling with a bible in his hand. I heard he was actually nice to talk to.

Anyone have a picture? I think he was featured in the Independent at one time.

ya know...the lady selling the roses at the bars on the weekend.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Mansfield

Infamous would be a better word. She at one time owned 8 of the buildings on Front St. (the red light district of Missoula)

Her headstone is the only one in the city cemetery that faces north (not east). By request she wished to face the railroad tracks so she could see "her boys" get off the train.

http://www.missouladow...rical.phtml

Photo and description via Chris Lombardi's newest photography series, "Meet A Missoulian":
http://www.flickr.com/.../397719892/
N.A. Jaffery is Missoula's most famous street vendor and perhaps the most photographed person in town. "Just have a look," Jaffery urges to all who pass his table of wares in front of the Dark Room camera shop on the corner of Broadway and Higgins where he has done business for three years. Jaffrey left his home in Pakistan 20 years ago and has traveled the globe selling ethnic tribal Afghan jewelry featuring the lapis stone, especially popular among Missoula's community of belly dancers. His travels have led him to extended stays in Tokyo, Amsterdam, Bankok, and, yes, little ol' Missoula, though lately he has been hearing the call to return home to Pakistan to be with his aging mother.

http://www.missoulanew...asp?no=5577

He can ALWAYS be found either in Butterfly Herbs or walking to or from butterfly Herbs.

quote: "I don't like to go to the gym because the spots on the floor drive me crazy if I'm doin' Karate or something like that... they drive me crazy - spots do. I just like to sit at my desk at the same spot all the time."

-not necessarily my favorite Missoula character, as he actually fumes up the record store when he's there digging through the fifty cent-ers, but quite the interesting character. Dark glasses, green overcoat, real smelly.