grass cutter

The targets of his search included a highway grass cutter, a gravedigger and a janitor, all of whose musical talents were at the time basically unknown.

Stunt driver Jess Hawkins took the modified grass cutter from zero to 100 mph in an average of 6.29 seconds on May 6 near Dresden, Germany, the company said Monday.

When I first started working, the kids in the community would sort of mock me: ‘You just a grass cutter’ and ‘All you do is blow leaves,’ ” Smith said.

A lover of classic rock, he wears cuff links in the shape of tiny guitars; many of his friends growing up were musicians, and he had planned to leave Green-Wood, where he began working as a grass cutter in 1972, only in order to manage one of their careers, had any of them become famous.

“I was thinking it was a totally wild place, but the biggest differences were the food and dancing. Everyone is human, and the food is good, even if it takes some getting used to. A delicacy is a big rat called a grass cutter. It was always pretty good. I ate iguana once, but we mostly ate goat and sheep. We lived on a river, so we had lots of fish. There was nothing hissing at me.”