Who's the most famous person you have met?

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  • maj4e
    maj4e Posts: 605
    I met Evander Holyfield at an Auburn game, took a quick pic and said hello.
  • EmBleve
    EmBleve Posts: 3,019
    81 wrote:
    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.
    He wasn't having breakfast, but I see your point. And if I were Dustin Hoffman I think I would sort of expect such incidents. Frankly I would be scared/embarrassed to just approach people like that anyway, but yes it would be easier had he been sitting beside me at the bar.
  • locked
    locked Boston Posts: 4,048
    if "met"= hung out with, talked for more than one second...?

    Steven Tyler

    Pat DiNizio (lead singer of Smithereens)

    The Tragically Hip (got to hang out with the entire band 2x)

    Ted Williams (went to his baseball camp as a teen and he happened to visit for first time in 5 years, still have baseball he signed!)
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  • BinauralJam
    BinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    Byrnzie wrote:
    BinauralJam wrote:
    Joe Dimaggio, Arnold Schwarznagger, Beyonce, came close to meeting Jordan, got Star Struck, froze like a deer in headlights.

    You met Joe Dimaggio, Arnold Schwarznagger, and Beyonce, but froze like a deer in headlights when coming close to meeting a dumb essex girl with a paint-brush make-up job and a big stupid gob?

    How? Why? What the holy F(^&((???

    :lol: Micheal Jordan, i don't know who that girl is.
  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,894
    Newch91 wrote:
    Poncier wrote:
    I've met a fair amount of musicians, tough to say who's the most famous...I guess it would be either Robert Plant, Bono or Bruce Springsteen...each was probably considered more famous than the others at different times over the past few decades.

    Met Plant backstage after winning a radio station contest. Here's a photo of me with him...

    http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa10 ... 009002.jpg
    That's awesome! I can't believe you met three music legends.
    I've met more than that (including Eddie, Jeff and Mike)...just thought those 3 would be in the running for "most famous" to answer the thread.
    We did a thread like this several years ago on the old board and I posted the entire list at the time.

    I have my picture with 3 musicians, Plant as above, Mike McCready and Nikki Sixx.
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  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,894
    locked wrote:
    Ted Williams (went to his baseball camp as a teen and he happened to visit for first time in 5 years, still have baseball he signed!)
    Did you witness him sign it for you...it might be the only one in existence not signed by John Henry Williams. :mrgreen:
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  • unlost dogs
    unlost dogs Greater Boston Posts: 12,553
    Boston Lou.

    He was quite charming and agreed to having a photo taken with me.

    I appear quite tipsy in said photo.
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  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,894
    unlost dogs wrote:
    Boston Lou.

    He was quite charming and agreed to having a photo taken with me.

    I appear quite tipsy in said photo.
    I thought your most famous encounter was the Dunkman's Village Travelling Kilt Team or whatever they were called.
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  • unlost dogs
    unlost dogs Greater Boston Posts: 12,553
    Poncier wrote:
    unlost dogs wrote:
    Boston Lou.

    He was quite charming and agreed to having a photo taken with me.

    I appear quite tipsy in said photo.
    I thought your most famous encounter was the Dunkman's Village Travelling Kilt Team or whatever they were called.

    Whoa! I stand corrected!

    *scrolls through iPhone photos to relieve the moment*

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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Dave Navarro sat next to me outside the Subterranea in London and asked me if I had any drugs. Unfortunately I didn't. This was in 1990. He ended up calling one of the girls I was sitting with up on stage and snogging her in front of everyone. I then saw him with this same girl on stage a year later at the Astoria.
    I still to this day I wish I'd had some drugs with me - mainly so that I could have have gotten on the guest list and gotten in for free.
    This was the gig at which Perry Farrel lost his voice and had to cancel their Reading appearance, and so decided to create Lollapalooza.
    Also, I was hanging about by the venue whislt a crowd of fans were congregated up the street and just noticed some fella walking towards me whilst I was leaning up against a barrier, and then as he walked past me we made eye contact and he gave me a big cheeky smile - I smiled back before realising that it was Perry Farrel.
  • mikalina
    mikalina Posts: 7,206
    Michael Stanley from the Michael Stanley Band...

    I always see him at Borders Bookstore in Solon, Ohio - we were standing right next to each other looking at the books in front of us - I then realized who he was and said - Hi... he said Hi- right back... :D
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  • Kel Varnsen
    Kel Varnsen Posts: 1,952
    DS1119 wrote:
    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? :lol:

    It was actually a total fluke too. It was an Oktoberfest in Canada, and we knew Norm was going to be the guest of honour, but we weren't really sure when he was showing up. They had haywagon rides from the fairgrounds to the brewery that was hosting the event, so we decided to go for one, to pick up some beer to take home and do a tour. While we were at the brewery he showed up to meet the owners, and look around. He took some pictures with the group that was there. Then we got back on the haywagon to go back to the fairgrounds before he got there. He was going to ride there in a car, but all the people on the wagon were shouting for him to join us so he did. SInce I was the last person on the wagon when he got on he sat at the back right next to me.
  • Mamasan23
    Mamasan23 Posts: 16,390
    My hubby's friends with Tim McIlrath of Rise Against, he's a really cool guy. I remember seeing them play basement shows in Carbondale, IL and Knights of Columbus Halls before they started to get big - we always knew Tim was going to 'make it' one day!

    Randomly got to meet the guys from Anberlin last weekend - my sis is a huge fan - they were pretty cool too. Of course I really only like them because they're one of Aaron Rodgers' favorite bands :mrgreen:
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  • CJMST3K
    CJMST3K Posts: 9,722
    DS1119 wrote:
    maj4e wrote:
    What constitutes met? Handshake, close proximity or convo?


    I'm going to go with at least a handshake and short conversation.


    Going strictly by the above definition (and "brief words to long conversation", instead of "short conversation"):
    Ed Ved
    Diana Ross
    PJ Harvey
    Stephen Tyler
    Elton John
    Howard Stern
    Billy Corgan
    D'arcy
    James Iha
    Dean Butterworth (Ben Harper's drummer from 90's)
    Gwen Steffani
    Jennifer Lopez
    Ben Harper
    Bruce Hornsby
    Madonna
    Metallica
    a bunch of wrestlers
    Bob Weir
    Kevin Bacon
    RHCP

    There's more, but this is off the top of my head. All of which all were incidental, except for Ed.
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  • washedinblack91
    washedinblack91 Posts: 3,079
    i talked to Stone once, and when i worked in Godiva i sold chocolate to Jimmy Smits, he looked at me with this smile that either said "you're cute" (which i get a lot) or "yes... that's right... i AM Jimmy Smits.. your eyes are not deceiving you.." but i didn't really recognize him until after the fact. if i didn't brain fart every time i meet a celebrity i probably would have asked for an autograph since my dad's a huge Star Wars fan.
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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Lawrence Ferlinghetti smiled at me whilst I was queuing up at City Lights with a big pile of books. It was oje of those contagious smiles that pulled me out of my self-absorbtion. I didn't know it was him until about an hout later when I saw his photo on the back of one of the books I'd bought. This was in 1992.

    Though I realise this doesn't quite fit the criteria.
  • neilybabes86
    neilybabes86 Posts: 16,057
    this is the weakest group of famous people ever put together :? :lol:
    i post on the board of a band that doesn't exsist anymore .......i need my head examined.......
  • Nothingman54
    Nothingman54 Posts: 2,251
    Steven Tyler
    Joe Perry
    Courtney Love
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  • DS1119
    DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    neilybabes86 wrote:
    this is the weakest group of famous people ever put together :? :lol:


    Have you ever met anyone famous?
  • JonnyPistachio
    JonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,219
    oh, I almost forgot..I got to hang with the guys from Nada Surf when they came through FLorida a couple of years ago. Had some beers with them in Jacksonville, and they put me on their guest list for the Orlando and Miami shows! They're semi-famous I guess..or "Popular"? :)
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