I met Bill for the first time when I interviewed for a job in 1978.  Bill, Judy Worell, Ray Wilke, and I went to lunch as part of my formal interview.  The restaurant was rather noisy by Judy was very professional, doing her best to interview me.  Ray appeared to be happy for the free lunch and was quite amiable but every time he said something his teeth whistled.  Bill kept interrupting with goofy questions and comments and astonished me with how much he knew about me, my friends, even my home-town.  (This was well before Google and I was unnerved by his eerily accurate commentary).  Judy was annoyed, Ray's teeth kept whistling, and Bill kept on happily interrupting.  I felt like I was in an SNL skit and was becoming progressively more anxious.  Bill sensed this and (purposely, I now think) flipped his fork under the table between us.  We both dove under the table.  I turned to him and he had a huge grin on his face and said, "you having fun yet?"  He was just messing with me!  I decided to see if I could get him back.  I tilted my head toward Ray, touched my teeth and said "you can't just order them out of a catalogue, you have to have them fitted."  He hooted, bumped his head on the table, and the two of us were not able to make eye contact for the rest of the lunch.  We were like two little boys in church trying not to giggle.  We were friends ever since.  He often did things like this on first meeting someone and it took me years to figure out what he really meant by it.  He wasn't just trying to mess with you, he wanted to say:  You can take life seriously without always having to be serious.  Thanks for teaching me that, Bill.  Fred