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Your 15 minutes of Fame

gue_bariumgue_barium Posts: 5,515
edited March 2007 in A Moving Train
I think it was Andy Warhol that said everyone will experience a moment of "fame" in their lifetime.
What do you imagine yours will be? Or, maybe you've already had that momement. What was it?

Given my propensity to walk aimlessly in the wilderness a few times a year, I kind of figure I'll make the news after being mauled by a grizzly bear or a cougar.
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  • hippiemomhippiemom Posts: 3,326
    I will enjoy a brief moment of posthumous fame when it's discovered that I was the only person never to achieve any sort of fame at all in my lifetime.
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
  • gue_bariumgue_barium Posts: 5,515
    hippiemom wrote:
    I will enjoy a brief moment of posthumous fame when it's discovered that I was the only person never to achieve any sort of fame at all in my lifetime.

    Awww, c'mon now, surely you can let your guard down for a moment and come up with something a little more fantastic than that. That was kind of funny, though.
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  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    i imagine ill make national news when it comes out that im banging the cute college girl that's volunteering on my campaign.
  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    someone in here is bound to shoot Bush or Cheney sooner or later...

    I called it...
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

    (\__/)
    ( o.O)
    (")_(")
  • mammasanmammasan Posts: 5,656
    My 15 minutes will come when I get arrested for joking about trying to pull off a Guy Fawkes on the Capital building.
    "When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
  • gue_bariumgue_barium Posts: 5,515
    mammasan wrote:
    My 15 minutes will come when I try to pull a Guy Fawkes on the Capital building.

    Was that the Batman dad in London?
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  • mammasanmammasan Posts: 5,656
    gue_barium wrote:
    Was that the Batman dad in London?

    Who?
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  • gue_bariumgue_barium Posts: 5,515
    mammasan wrote:
    Who?

    I guess not. There was a father protesting the treatment of divorced father's in England (I think) in regard to their place in raising the child. He dressed himself up in a Batman costume, evaded detection by the royal guards, and scaled the wall of Parliament (or someplace like that). It makes for a funny picture.
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  • gue_bariumgue_barium Posts: 5,515
    mammasan wrote:
    Who?

    Here it is:


    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/3653160.stm
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  • mammasanmammasan Posts: 5,656
    gue_barium wrote:
    I guess not. There was a father protesting the treatment of divorced father's in England (I think) in regard to their place in raising the child. He dressed himself up in a Batman costume, evaded detection by the royal guards, and scaled the wall of Parliament (or someplace like that). It makes for a funny picture.

    No Guy Fawkes attempted to blow up Parliment in 1605. Below is a link.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes
    "When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
  • gue_bariumgue_barium Posts: 5,515
    mammasan wrote:
    No Guy Fawkes attempted to blow up Parliment in 1605. Below is a link.

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

    Oh.
    Well aren't we in a grumpy mood this morning?
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  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    gue_barium wrote:
    I guess not. There was a father protesting the treatment of divorced father's in England (I think) in regard to their place in raising the child. He dressed himself up in a Batman costume, evaded detection by the royal guards, and scaled the wall of Parliament (or someplace like that). It makes for a funny picture.


    Definitely sounds like a he's a Guy Fawke (english accent)
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

    (\__/)
    ( o.O)
    (")_(")
  • mammasanmammasan Posts: 5,656
    gue_barium wrote:
    Oh.
    Well aren't we in a grumpy mood this morning?

    I have a case of the Mondays.
    "When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
  • FoxwellFoxwell Posts: 142
    For all my braggadocio, my fifteen minutes will probably go something like this:

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15643614/
    "In the depths of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." -- Albert Camus

    "He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that." -- John Stuart Mill

    "Mongo just a pawn in game of life." -- Mongo
  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    Foxwell wrote:
    For all my braggadocio, my fifteen minutes will probably go something like this:

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15643614/

    Funny they never mention the hamster...
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

    (\__/)
    ( o.O)
    (")_(")
  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    Foxwell wrote:
    For all my braggadocio, my fifteen minutes will probably go something like this:

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15643614/


    "Several of the man’s friends recorded the incident on a mobile phone. The blurry images show a man bent over with his pants down and a white flash as the firecracker explodes."

    Now where are those pictures? :)
  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    http://emuse.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/1195
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

    (\__/)
    ( o.O)
    (")_(")
  • gue_bariumgue_barium Posts: 5,515
    Seeing as the way the "contract" thread is going I will probably become an investment banker charged with fraud and thrown in prison for life.
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  • AhnimusAhnimus Posts: 10,560
    I don't know what is classified by fame, but I've been in the papers and on the news a few times. Most notably is when I was part of lobbyist group in Canada.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • parel jamparel jam Posts: 7,223
    Everybody was shouting my name on the Lowlands festival in 2004 (http://www.lowlands.nl). My name is Theo.

    In the end, I got interviewed by lots of papers and internet sites. And I was a national radio a couple of times, just because lots of drunken and stoned people at this festival were screaming my name. In the end it was fun, but I'm glad it's over.

    http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&q=Theo%20Lowlands&btnG=Zoeken&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=iw
    ♪♫♪♫♫

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=U_-WGNRyRzU

    ♪♫♪♫♫
  • prismprism Posts: 2,440
    I was part of documentry on the NICU at a D.C. area hospital when my daughter was born. it starts off with her being born


    the reviewer from the Washington Post said that the babies were too beautiful to be believeable. along side the review was a picture of my kidlet. I guess all premmies are supposed to look like rats. could i help it that my baby girl was gorgeous?


    it was really weird when it aired I had people that i hadn't seen or talked in ages (one since second grade) as well as friends and aquaintances calling me to say "hey, you're on t.v." and i had to respond with "yes, I know it. and I'd really like to watch it so could you call back later?"
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  • gue_bariumgue_barium Posts: 5,515
    prism and parel jam...a couple of great stories there. surely there are more people out there with their own stories to tell.
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  • gossardstradlingossardstradlin Posts: 324
    Winning the middle school talent show contest lip synching to Judas Priest. I was Rob Halford. Crowd gave us a standing ovation. We definitely had the least talent. ;)
    "She knows there is no success like failure
    And that failure's no success at all."

    "Don't ya think its sometimes wise not to grow up."

    "Cause life ain't nothing but a good groove
    A good mixed tape to put you in the right mood."
  • AbookamongstthemanyAbookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    This place is probably as close to fame as I'll ever get (more people know me here than in my real life:D). And I'm 100% cool with that. :)
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • gue_bariumgue_barium Posts: 5,515
    They didn't use my name in the newspaper but I was reported lost in the North Cascades a few years ago. I wasn't lost, actually, just a little off track. I was on the trail home when the mountain rescue team caught up with me.
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  • Bu2Bu2 Posts: 1,693
    some of my poems, that's good enough for me.
    Feels Good Inc.
  • gue_bariumgue_barium Posts: 5,515
    Bu2 wrote:
    some of my poems, that's good enough for me.

    I'll give it a go if you provide a link.
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  • gue_bariumgue_barium Posts: 5,515
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    This place is probably as close to fame as I'll ever get (more people know me here than in my real life:D). And I'm 100% cool with that. :)

    I kind of feel the same way.
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  • gue_bariumgue_barium Posts: 5,515
    gue_barium wrote:
    I kind of feel the same way.

    kinda.

    the world deserves to know me.

    lol.
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  • Bu2Bu2 Posts: 1,693
    gue_barium wrote:
    I'll give it a go if you provide a link.

    I post in our own poetry page quite a lot. Do a search on my name, look up "posts started by" under Poetry, Prose, Music and Art, and you'll find most of them. Otherwise, I have some at http://www.poetry.com under my real name, Lis Baumann (not to be confused with Lisa Baumann, no relation). For the record, I don't care for poetry.com -- they're a bunch of money grabbers. I just post my poems there for the 15 minutes they get me.
    Feels Good Inc.
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