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RockGolf 
"1500+ reviews. 1 joke."
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 Posted - 02/06/2008 : 22:36:11
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My big "brush with celebrity" stories are almost all on Canadian politicians. I got a wink from Pierre Trudeau once. It was 1979 & he was just defeated in the last general election, the Conservatives forming a minority government. I asked him to sign his autograph as "Prime Minister Trudeau" but date it 1980. He chuckled, winked at me mysteriously and signed "P E Trudeau" (his initials). Two weeks later he announced his retirement, and I thought "ah, that's what the wink meant". Two weeks after that the Conservative lose a confidence vote, forcing an election, with no heir apparent, Trudeau is asked to hang on, and wins the election. It is 1980 and he is again Prime Minister Trudeau and I think "ah, that's what the wink meant!"
I met Ted Nugent at a barber shop. Jesus, he's short.
And I ran into Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Bo Diddley at the airport. I was absolutely star struck. Stupidly, I could only remember his real name of Elias McDaniel but couldn't remember his stage name for my life. He saw me staring at him slack-jawed and said "How ya doin'". All I could say was "I saw you at Live Aid with... with..." "George Thorogood" he helpfully completed. "Yeahhhhhh" was all I could reply, looking like every dumbstruck sitcom cliche in existence. "Nice to meet you" he said, heading off. I think I mumbled, "It's an honor", and you know for me, it was. |
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ChocolateLady 
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 02/07/2008 : 12:42:29
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Since I'm sure I told the story about Placido and my father just after Pavarotti died, here's the other one.
Way back in the days when newsgroups were more popular than these types of forums, I was on misc.writing. One of the people there was Eric Garcia. One day he asks us a question: "If there was one food you would be willing to eat every single day and not get tired of it, what would that one food be?" My reply was that despite my username, it wouldn't be chocolate. As long as I could still have my cigarettes, that food would be tuna fish. Later Eric publishes the book "Matchstick Men" where the main character (later portrayed by Nicolas Cage in the movie) only buys tuna fish to eat at home, and is a smoker. When I asked Eric if my answer went into that character's attributes, his answer was "I won't deny it".
(I think that's my last one exept that a young man who worked with me for a couple of years was Natalie Portman's salsa dancing partner when they were both studying at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.)
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Ali
"Those aren't pillows."
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Posted - 02/08/2008 : 06:58:58
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Another great story from Chocolate Lady.
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silly 
"That rabbit's DYNAMITE."
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Posted - 02/08/2008 : 16:56:18
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I thought of another quasi-close brush.
I had a good friend in College that was told by the Secret Service he could not attend then-Vice President George H.W. Bush's speech at our campus, on account of him (my friend, not Bush) being too radical.
I really am boring when it comes to celebs. |
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Josh the cat
"ice wouldn't melt, you'd think ....."
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Posted - 02/08/2008 : 17:16:44
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Originally posted by R o � k G 0 1 f
I met Ted Nugent at a barber shop. Jesus, he's short.
Are you sure he just wasn't sitting down
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Whippersnapper. 
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 02/08/2008 : 17:59:54
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One day I was in St James's Park when I saw a cat, with a somewhat disgruntled expression, incongruously sitting on one of the benches, surrounded by pigeons and ducks who treated his presence with apparent indifference. Still, I walked around to the park keeper's office and knocked on the door. I explained that there was a cat sitting on one of the benches. "What does 'e look like?" asked the keeper. "Well, he's medium sized, black and white and furry" I replied. "Oh," says the keeper. "That's not our cat." After a pause he continued "That's 'Umphrey, the Prime Minister's cat.
I saw him there on several further occasions, sometimes pointing out to tourists that that cat's Humphrey, the world's most famous cat, but I don't think they believed me. 
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Downtown 
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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Posted - 02/08/2008 : 23:19:24
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| I once tailgated at Stanford with Jim Plunkett and Bill Walsh. That was cool. According to the other guys there Jim still breaks fingers with his passes when they play pickup games. |
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w22dheartlivie
"Kitty Lover"
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Posted - 02/08/2008 : 23:53:10
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I met Leonard Nimoy once. I don't remember if I've told this or not, so please indulge me if I have. My friend and I went to Indy to a Star Trek convention (yeah, yeah). I collect autographs and knew that it was usually easy to get them at the conventions. Nimoy was supposed to appear so I brought along my really neat and cool vinyl covered 1976 Star Trek Technical Manual that I'd saved my hard earned money to buy years before. After Nimoy spoke, they announced he would not be signing that day, so my friend and I, disgruntled, decided to leave. It was late summer, which is a bear in Indiana, and as we arrived at the parking lot, we could see that a rainstorm was approaching. We got to the car, which was in the first row behind the building and lo and behold, there sat a running limousine behind the building! Obviously it was waiting for Nimoy, so I grabbed my book and headed for the limo. As I arrived, Nimoy and his wife left the building and I met him at the car door, just as the rain was beginning to fall. Nimoy said "I'd be glad to sign this, but you'll have to get inside out of the rain."
Well, it was a bit of an inconvenience for me (HA!), but I got inside with them. We talked for several minutes about Star Trek and he spent a relatively long bit of time looking at my book, as he'd never seen it before. He signed it and said it was good to meet me, and I departed. Later, I told another friend, who is an autograph dealer about this, and within a week, I was infamous among the autograph set for being the only person at the conventions who got a Nimoy autograph. 'Twas cool. |
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Sean
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Yukon
"Co-editor of FWFR book"
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Posted - 02/10/2008 : 21:20:36
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| Wow, those are some amazing stories! Thanks for the link. I love Noncentz's Jack Lemmon story and MGuyx's near-fight with Jamie Foxx. |
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Brushes with fame
