Who's the most famous person you have met?

iamica · July 2011

I was an extra in the movie "The Lake House"...on set it was really hush-hush what the movie was about and who was in it; the title wasn't even the same. While I was waiting at the spot they told me to stand in, I saw a guy getting makeup put on him, and I guess I started staring at him because he looked really familiar. He caught me staring, smiled and said "hi". Then I realized it was Keanu Reeves. :shock:

loveontwolegs · July 2011

Willie Gault, Doug Flutie, Jackie Mason, Ernest Borgnine, Mark Grace, Bill Clinton, Al Gore...

But THE most famous?

DITKA!

Yellow Ledbelly · July 2011

Just a few....of minor importance
Johnny Bench
Kenyatta Walker of the Tampa Bay Bucs who played football at florida and at the same time one of his teammates from Florida who I can't remember

A few years back the new Madden NFL game was unveiled in the tiny community of Madden in my county (I work at the newspaper).....Jerry Rice, Marshall Faulk and Warren Moon were there
http://www.planetxbox360.com/article_27 ... adden_Miss

Met Sean Lennon at a Huddle House in Oxford, MS after seeing him open for Lenny Kravitz

Had a telephone interview with Charlie Daniels

Met blues legend Little Milton

Had the opportunity to hang out with members of Lynyrd Skynyrd several years ago in the Peabody Hotel bar in Memphis but stayed away

I swear it seems like I'm forgetting a pretty big one....

Oh, some of you might recognize the name of baseball player Marcus Thames, we were semi-pals during college

EmBleve · July 2011

Kevin Hart. The guys from Collective Soul (in the mid-90s, this was pretty cool; my ex-husband went to high school with one of them). Dustin Hoffman--didn't meet him but I was sitting at a bar in a restaurant in New Orleans, and he was sitting by himself at a table reading the newspaper with a straw hat on. The bartender told me it was him, but that I shouldn't bother him because he didn't like it. Trent Reznor.

AmherstJammer · July 2011

1. Eddie Vedder
2. Mike McCready
3. Larry Mullen Jr
4. Bono

aspoonfulweighsaton · July 2011

I've only ever met musicians and mostly mediocre hockey players and baseball players.

Musicians that I can recall:

Peter Buck
Tom Morello
Maynard James Keenan
Jeff Tweedy (actually all of Wilco)
The White Stripes
Wayne Coyne
Queensryche
Sean Lennon

The only decent athletes:

Dwight Gooden
Ron Francis

electronblue · July 2011

aspoonfulweighsaton wrote:

I've only ever met musicians and mostly mediocre hockey players and baseball players.

Musicians that I can recall:

Peter Buck
Tom Morello
Maynard James Keenan
Jeff Tweedy (actually all of Wilco)
The White Stripes
Wayne Coyne
Queensryche
Sean Lennon

The only decent athletes:

Dwight Gooden
Ron Francis

Peter Buck!!!

Yellow Ledbelly · July 2011

Yellow Ledbelly wrote:

Just a few....of minor importance
Johnny Bench
Kenyatta Walker of the Tampa Bay Bucs who played football at florida and at the same time one of his teammates from Florida who I can't remember

A few years back the new Madden NFL game was unveiled in the tiny community of Madden in my county (I work at the newspaper).....Jerry Rice, Marshall Faulk and Warren Moon were there
http://www.planetxbox360.com/article_27 ... adden_Miss

Met Sean Lennon at a Huddle House in Oxford, MS after seeing him open for Lenny Kravitz

Had a telephone interview with Charlie Daniels

Met blues legend Little Milton

Had the opportunity to hang out with members of Lynyrd Skynyrd several years ago in the Peabody Hotel bar in Memphis but stayed away

I swear it seems like I'm forgetting a pretty big one....

Oh, some of you might recognize the name of baseball player Marcus Thames, we were semi-pals during college

Oh i hung out with and had a beer with a drunken Archie Manning once

Also, I took the greatest girl in the world to see Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley. She is a big Carrie fan, so we sneaked around to the buses, waited in the freezing cold and caught her getting on the bus for pictures and a little chit chat. That was when she was just getting started....nowadays we would've been shot

Green Circle · July 2011

Sports : Jimmy Connors

Music : Joe Perry

81 · July 2011

EmBleve wrote:

he was sitting by himself at a table reading the newspaper with a straw hat on. The bartender told me it was him, but that I shouldn't bother him because he didn't like it.

imo, unless you are under the age of say 15, it's just rude to bother somebody having dinner. Ran into Urlacher at the local Morton's and didn't bother him. He was their with i a kid, a buddy/brother and a couple of cuties. i'd feel like a douche. if i ran into him coming or going, i'd say hi and kick the packers ass.

JonnyPistachio · July 2011

Flavor Flav..random run-in in LV. Same trip I saw Laird Hamilton and Gabrielle Reese.
Wade Boggs
Ron Guidry
Thurman Muson a few months before he died
Steve-O from Jackass

I met and talked with Paul O'Neil in the Boca Raton Mall for awhile just before he retired from baseball. He was very friendly.

I worked for Pete Rose's restaurant and met him several times..not the nicest fella. He had me confused with someone else the day I walked into his restaurant for an interview..he f-ing yelled at me actually, then he didnt even apologize when he realized I wasnt the person he thought I was.

After I quit his shitty restaurant (a few months later), my friend who drives an old camaroSS and drives like an asshole, almost ran over Pete Rose in a parking lot on accident. THAT was funny seeing his face as he froze in front of our speeding, nearly out of control car..

81 · July 2011

JonnyPistachio wrote:

camaroSS

pics

Kel Varnsen · July 2011

I rode a haywagon at a beerfestival sitting next to George Wendt (Norm from Cheers).

DS1119 · July 2011

Kel Varnsen wrote:

I rode a haywagon at a beerfestival sitting next to George Wendt (Norm from Cheers).

Does it get better than a hayride at a beer festival with Normie?

aspoonfulweighsaton · July 2011

electron blue wrote:

aspoonfulweighsaton wrote:

I've only ever met musicians and mostly mediocre hockey players and baseball players.

Musicians that I can recall:

Peter Buck
Tom Morello
Maynard James Keenan
Jeff Tweedy (actually all of Wilco)
The White Stripes
Wayne Coyne
Queensryche
Sean Lennon

The only decent athletes:

Dwight Gooden
Ron Francis

Peter Buck!!!

He's on top for a reason!

RKCNDY · July 2011

81 wrote:

imo, unless you are under the age of say 15, it's just rude to bother somebody having dinner. .

What about lunch? Let's say at Wendy's?
Well known Seattle baseball player was eating lunch at Wendy's with his manager (?), my friend and I were there, she wanted to say 'hi' and I told her not to. There was a total of 6 customers in there (including me and my friend).

Little kid about 9, wearing his jersey was there with his dad too, he politely went up to the guy, asked him for his autograph and the player said, 'Go away kid I'm busy'. You could almost hear the poor kid's heart break.

After the player left the kid said , "I HATE that guy!"

81 · July 2011

RKCNDY wrote:

81 wrote:

imo, unless you are under the age of say 15, it's just rude to bother somebody having dinner. .

What about lunch? Let's say at Wendy's?
Well known Seattle baseball player was eating lunch at Wendy's with his manager (?), my friend and I were there, she wanted to say 'hi' and I told her not to. There was a total of 6 customers in there (including me and my friend).

Little kid about 9, wearing his jersey was there with his dad too, he politely went up to the guy, asked him for his autograph and the player said, 'Go away kid I'm busy'. You could almost hear the poor kid's heart break.

After the player left the kid said , "I HATE that guy!"

IMO, that's a douche move by the player.

the kids parent might have been better served to tell the kid to wait until the player was ready to leave, but still, the ball player should still have signed for the kid.

if i was a ball player, i would have no problem signing for kids. however, if a 30 year old guy came up to me at wendy's, i have a feeling i would say "really?"

DS1119 · July 2011

81 wrote:

RKCNDY wrote:

81 wrote:

imo, unless you are under the age of say 15, it's just rude to bother somebody having dinner. .

What about lunch? Let's say at Wendy's?
Well known Seattle baseball player was eating lunch at Wendy's with his manager (?), my friend and I were there, she wanted to say 'hi' and I told her not to. There was a total of 6 customers in there (including me and my friend).

Little kid about 9, wearing his jersey was there with his dad too, he politely went up to the guy, asked him for his autograph and the player said, 'Go away kid I'm busy'. You could almost hear the poor kid's heart break.

After the player left the kid said , "I HATE that guy!"

IMO, that's a douche move by the player.

the kids parent might have been better served to tell the kid to wait until the player was ready to leave, but still, the ball player should still have signed for the kid.

if i was a ball player, i would have no problem signing for kids. however, if a 30 year old guy came up to me at wendy's, i have a feeling i would say "really?"

Saw Rollie Fingers do this in Cooperstown during Hall of Fame Weekend a few years back. Nice stache asshole.

EmBleve · July 2011

81 wrote:

EmBleve wrote:

he was sitting by himself at a table reading the newspaper with a straw hat on. The bartender told me it was him, but that I shouldn't bother him because he didn't like it.

imo, unless you are under the age of say 15, it's just rude to bother somebody having dinner. Ran into Urlacher at the local Morton's and didn't bother him. He was their with i a kid, a buddy/brother and a couple of cuties. i'd feel like a douche. if i ran into him coming or going, i'd say hi and kick the packers ass.

yes, this would be true if he had been eating. He was just reading the paper, no food on the table. It was early on a Sunday morning (I worked nights and walked to and from work and was on my way home when I stopped in this place). There was hardly anyone in there...but I didn't bother him. I got the feeling that the bartender meant he didn't want to be approached regardless.

81 · July 2011

EmBleve wrote:

81 wrote:

EmBleve wrote:

he was sitting by himself at a table reading the newspaper with a straw hat on. The bartender told me it was him, but that I shouldn't bother him because he didn't like it.

imo, unless you are under the age of say 15, it's just rude to bother somebody having dinner. Ran into Urlacher at the local Morton's and didn't bother him. He was their with i a kid, a buddy/brother and a couple of cuties. i'd feel like a douche. if i ran into him coming or going, i'd say hi and kick the packers ass.

yes, this would be true if he had been eating. He was just reading the paper, no food on the table. It was early on a Sunday morning (I worked nights and walked to and from work and was on my way home when I stopped in this place). There was hardly anyone in there...but I didn't bother him. I got the feeling that the bartender meant he didn't want to be approached regardless.

would you be ok if random people kept coming up to you and saying hi while you are having breakfast? that's my test on this sort of stuff. i would not want that, so i wouldn't do that. now if you are in a diner/bar, and you are sitting at the bar, then it's a little different since that's a little more of a social area. if i'm sitting at a bar, i'll might make conversation if you are sitting next to me. sitting at a table is a no no.

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