Whats your "claim to fame" ?

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Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 10:41 pm

I actually am Friday3.....What more needs to be said Very Happy

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 10:41 pm

I have a few minor ones...

* Last year I made the front page of my local paper.

* For winning one of MTV's charity auctions a few years back, they called me on the phone and I was live on-air for a couple of minutes.

* And I've had dinner with John Romero (programmer of "Doom").

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 10:44 pm

Righteous wrote:

... I made the front page of my local paper. ...

Which DTP software did you use? Laughing

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 10:46 pm

1. I was once an extra in a low-budget Western that was being filmed on the same movie set where the Manson family was living at the time.

2. Jay Silverheel (Tonto on the Lone Ranger) had a pet shop down the street from my house.

3. I went to the same school as the kid from "Courtship of Eddie's Father." You'd have to be real old to remember that one. A long line of kids used to follow him around at the schoolyard; it was the weirdest thing to see.

4. After moving away from L.A., and working as a grocery bagger. I sacked Tiny Tim's groceries. Tiny Tim had come in to visit one of the gay guys who worked there. Note that my usage of "sacked his groceries" is NOT a euphamism.

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 10:48 pm

Pro-wrestler Davey Boy Smith (the British Bulldog) threatened to beat the shit out of me when I heckled him at a house show back in the late 90s. I had ordered Dynamite Kid's (Smith's ex-tag team partner) through a .uk website. These two did not really get along at all, and the book is filled with some rather abrasive quotes about Davey. I had third row seats, and spent the whole match yelling out some of the juicier ones. I guess I finally hit a nerve, as he pulled his opponent over to side of the ring where I was sitting, placed him in a resthold, and, in a voice the entire building could hear, threatened to kick the shit out of me if I didn't stop. Considering he died before any lawsuit could have worked its way through the courts, stopping was a wise decision on my parts.

On a nicer note, meet my cousin:

http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Olympics/2006Turin/MomentsOfGlory/2006/02/10/1436284-sun.html

Western Union · Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 10:51 pm

I once got a PM from Friday3.

Just once, mind.

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 10:52 pm

I live in a part of north London that is awash with actors, celebs and the well-to-do. One day a few years back when I was on my way to the bank, I saw five 'EastEnders' in the space of five minutes. A record I have yet to beat. They were all oblivious to the others going about their business, or they were just ignoring each other.

My claim to fame is... being in the same local bar as, and informing 'Beppe' (aka Michael Greco) that the blond he was with, was trying to drag the hair extensions out of the head of another blond. They were really going for it outside of the bogs downstairs. I kept well out of it! Shocked

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 11:09 pm

I know leccy.

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 11:13 pm

I got a nasty-gram fron Nurse Nasty Laughing

Not quite a Newb Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Posts: 68

I was in the audience of TISWAS. A well known childrens show in the UK.

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 11:49 pm

For all you Brits:

Boris Johnson once cycled past me, and I blew him a kiss.

I once bumped into Andrew Marr.

Jeffry Archer once ran past me Laughing

I saw Gillian McKeith outside a train station. Yes, she is as pinch-faced as she looks on the TV.

And...

... One of my ex-friends stalked Pete Doherty when the Libertines were up-and-coming, and dragged me along to their album launch at Filthy McNasty's. She made me help write him a poem Rolling Eyes

On the other hand, Pete bought me a drink and said he liked my T shirt. Cool

For that, my friend hasn't spoken to me since.

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:09 am

I am a personal friend of Prof Charles Soludo, the Governer of the Bank of Nigeria. He's always sending me emails and stuff.

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:19 am

I'm a member of Eater!

I shook Ronald Reagan's hand when I was 9 or 10 and he was running for Governer of California.

I won an essay contest while in Junior High and got a product set from the Scripto company.

At 14, I met "Deacon" Jones of the LA Rams while I was in a hospital (I have a press picture to prove it).

I have seen Phyllis Diller and Susan Anton in LAX.

I have written for several publications (including having my doctoral project published).

I have been listed in several "Who's Who" publications.

I have help write State legislation.

I have been on local TV discussing MH issues.

My dog likes me. Very Happy

EDIT: I forgot, I have met Sandy Kaufax as a customer at a store my family owned and I was a radio DJ in the late 70s for a short time.

419Eater is my life Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Posts: 365

Rescued a woman from a burning house.

Rescued a woman from a burning vehicle after a vehicle accident.

Audie Murphy(most decorated soldier in WW2 and actor) was my cousin.

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 1:48 am

I never got the whole celeb thing so I never recognise anyone till after the fact when someone says "do you know who that was you where talking too?"
And the ones who I did know just treated them normal and thats the way they treat you back.

I made the nightly news once. "boy thown from Donkey hospitalised with head injuries" Embarassed

Yep that's what happened

419Eater Admin Joined: 30 Sep 2003 Posts: 7469

I appear in a Peter Kay DVD 8 times Smile

Yes, my life is perfect!

Not quite a Newb Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 63

The only claim to fame I have is that I'm (distantly) related to Hitler's right hand man, Joesph Goebbels

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 2:37 am

I used to have a newspaper route in Beverly Hills, so I've met countless celebrities. I shook hands with Ray Charles in an alley at midnight.
When I worked as a tow truck driver, I gave Keanu Reeves a ride home when his motorcycle crapped out on him.

Oh, and I've hugged Lotta! Wink

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 2:40 am

I waved to Rich Little in his limo when I lived at Tahoe. Got a letter from Bill Clinton, in response. Never ever got any return mail from a republican however. Ever. Ever. Ever.

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 4:41 am

^^ You got a letter from Clinton in response to waving at Rich Little? Damn, Little has more clout than I ever imagined!

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 5:46 am

Miss Behaving wrote:

Jeffry Archer once ran past me Laughing

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Were the Rozzers chasing him? Laughing

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:06 am

I shaked Price Charles's hand when I was a kid. I also know someone in the Darwin Awards book - honourable mention only tho, he's still alive.

I keep my head down a lot nowadays.

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:56 am

I've never done anything extraordinary that would result in media coverage, although as a uni student, I discovered a new species of ant Cool

There was a paternal male forebear who served as a ship's surgeon on one of Nelson's ships and saw action at Trafalgar.

Oh, and I know one of the actors in the "House of Wax (2005)".

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 9:29 am

i got beat up by sam fox`s henchmen.

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 9:30 am

Boy George once called me a c**t for bumping into him in a night club.

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