Sorry, kid, I think your old dad is just stringing you along:
John Mellencamp's son Speck has taken to Facebook in an effort to convince his Rock & Roll Hall of Fame father to quit smoking. “I made a deal with my dad that if I get a 1,000,000 to join this group he will quit smoking,” Speck writes on the Facebook group page. That means it'll only take a platinum plaque's worth of fellow Facebookers to get Mellencamp to ditch the nicotine and live a healthier lifestyle. It's been written that Mellencamp used to smoke four packs a day, and while he's since cut down that number significantly, he remains a smoker to this day.
A million is a pretty high bar, don't you think? And he won't quit for himself or for you, but he will for 1 million strangers?
And why in the world would anyone saddle his kid with a name like "Speck"?
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I wouldn't care what John Mellencamp named me, as long as he names me in the will.
Speck was also the name of John Mellencamp's grandfather.
Good lord, the whole family's nuts.
Ughh.... 'Speck'. Reminds me of Richard Speck.
At least he dropped that "Cougar" crap.
Leo, well said..I needed that today..