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Fun Stuff => CHATTER => Topic started by: Dissy on 02 Jan 2008, 13:54
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A copule people mentioned meeting, or seeing, several famous people. So whynot have a thread about all the famous people you've met or know.
Ready? GO!
What? Me first? Fine.
I use to live in Chicago, born there actually, and my dad use to play basketball with some members of the Chicago Bears. My dad became fast friends with the late, great Walter "Sweetness" Payton and I met him several times.
Luc (Luke?) Longley was also in my mum's economics class in college. He use to drive an old Honda Civic hatchback. In order to fit into the car, he had to remove the driverside seat.
I've seen Ah-nuld a few times, once when he was filming Twins, and several times down in Cabo San Lucas.
I've also met Sammy Hagar and his band down in CSL. They were some awesome dudes.
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Lee from Steps, I guess. He's a nice guy. I'm not really sure who's famous or not, so I can't think of any others.
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After this lets make a thread about who has the biggest penis.
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hey you can never have too many threads about chuck
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while riding on the bus, i overheard a woman tell the bus driver that she went to high school with john legend.
i saw george lopez walk out of the premiere of miss congeniality 2 at mann's chinese theatre.
also, my grandfather went to college with jiang zemin.
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as related in a previous post (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,18531.msg581481.html#msg581481), i saw edward norton in a markham grocery store last september but was too terrified to actually say anything to him and hid in the cereal aisle instead.
i also met the coheed guys when i was 16 and somehow thought they were really great but i think maybe that one counts for negative points now.
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i met jason mewes when he hosted some kind of battle of the bands thing at my college.
i met vienna teng (does anybody even know who she is?) and skybox at concerts they gave at notre dame.
and i met jason mraz and talib kweli after a concert that notre dame has every year to deter students from going to the rally in the alley party the first weekend of school. i gave them directions to the rally, which was postponed until after the concert ended.
yaaaaay.
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When I was in NYC for choir we went to the Early Show. David Krumholtz (Numbers, Serenity, etc) was on and I got his autograph and a picture with him. He was ridiculously nice to all of the people in to audience and was chatting with everyone.
Also on that trip we had a choir workshop with some Broadway performers. One was playing Raoul in Phantom of the opera at the time, the other was in Rent. They were both really nice and were cracking lots of jokes. I got a picture with them also.
As for musicians, I met all the members of The Spill Canvas after a concert of theirs and got all of their autographs on a poster, which is hanging above my computer. In a similar fashion I met the guys from Minus the Bear while heading to their show. I was going to get in line, they were going to Subway to get some food.
I talked to Ted Leo himself before they started their set, and also Ben Bridwell from Band of Horses on a differ occasion. This is why I get to the shows early so I can stand front and center.
And lastly, I shared a couch with Phil Elv(e)rum (The Microphones/Mt. Eerie) and had a nice chat with him throughout a concert before he went up on stage.
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My favorite celeb story is the time my gf and I barreled past Philip Seymour Hoffman and his son while rushing through Greenwich Village.
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I used to work at the Uni bar, so I have served a whole bunch of Australian bands hot chips during their sound checks. I waitressed at Jennifer Hawkins' (in her Miss Universe year) brother's wedding and accidentally stuck my butt in her face while I was offering canapes to someone on the next table.
Also the bastard Bank Manager from the Greater Building Society ads used to be a regular when I worked at an Italian cafe, and every time he spoke to me I wanted to punch him.
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I met Gordie Howe when I was little, and my dad went to school with Glenn Frey and played baseball with him.
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I met Ricky from Kaiser Chiefs (and saw the other guys, but they were busy carrying stuff, Ricky was just roaming around) at an airport before a festival a couple of years ago. He had the softest hands I've ever felt on a man, and I guess he was a nice guy - dunno, didn't talk too much.
Other than that, just a few minor Norwegian celebrities, none you'd have heard of. A couple of Norwegian football players (John Arne Riise, Ole Gunnar Solskjær, Thomas Myhre, Steffen Iversen ++) as well, but more like "Hey, could I get an autograph?" than actually meeting them.
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My favorite celeb story is the time my gf and I barreled past Philip Seymour Hoffman and his son while rushing through Greenwich Village.
I thought he was gay.
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I met Bob Saget in California two years ago, and I saw Johnny Depp at the Premiere of Charlie and the Chocolate factory. I didnt actually speak to him though.
Also,I dont know if this counts as "Meeting" but the lead singer of Boys like girls said he loved me [He mouthed "I lvoe you too" In the middle of playing the Great escape at Warped tour].My friend and I were making the "♥" symbol with our hands and pointing at him,and he apparently saw me and noticed. My friend pretty much went catatonic for a few seconds and then snapped out of it and we started screaming bloody murder,and the girls in front of us turned back and looked like they wanted to murder us. After they finished we snuck around back [You were only supposed to get in if you had a wrist band] and we yelled his name and he smiled and waved at us, but then security came so we bolted. It was a fun day.
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I thought he was gay.
I don't think so, and anyway gay couples sometimes adopt children.
ADDITION: Wikipedia says he has two children with his longtime girlfriend.
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I met Dicky Barret (The Might Mighty Bosstones) when I was 10. It seemed cool back in the day. And I saw Russel Crowe at the zoo. I would have gone and said hi but he was with his hot wife and inexplicably hideous child so I thought he might beat me to death with a household item (this was soon after the phone incident).
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I thought he was gay.
I don't think so, and anyway gay couples sometimes adopt children.
ADDITION: Wikipedia says he has two children with his longtime girlfriend.
I meant you, Joe Hocking.
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Dennis Leary past by me in New York City. That counts, right?
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I meant you, Joe Hocking.
She's my beard.
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I have had my picture taken with Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter.
I have also been quite close to a couple of the major Democratic U.S. presidential candidates. I worked for a non-profit that thought it would be worthwhile to wave signs and generally annoy them.
A few years ago I had a conversation about playing bass with Richard Davis. Kudos if you know who Richard Davis is.
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I talked to John Lovitz once while my friend was cutting sushi for him at a Bristol Farms grocery store.
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hey you can never have too many threads about chuck
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i also met the coheed guys when i was 16 and somehow thought they were really great but i think maybe that one counts for negative points now.
jesus it is like you are asking me to make fun of you
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This one time I
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the time my gf and I
She's my beard.
???
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At warped tour 2003 I was running to get to the mosh pit when I slammed into this guy with huge green mohawk and thought nothing of it untill a few sets later when I saw Rancid on stage. Turns out the guy i ran into was Tim.
I live near Vancouver and was at a battle of the bands for a local radio station at the the Roxy, one of the judges was Chad Krouger( Nickleback) who happened to be absolutly shitfaced. I was up at the bar and about to order my drink when chad was apparently getting people to back out so they could kick some guy out. As he is walk ing by a turn around to see wft is going on and he was right behind me and ended up with both my tits in his hands. At the time I was 5'3" with a 6g septum ring, and the look that I gave him was enough for him to jump back and yell OMG I am so sorry, and then run away. I scared a "rockstar".
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I saw Khofi Annan when i was in London a couple years ago, around the time of G8 in 2007. Then I met Ralph Nader in at Powershift in November. Bowling for Soup was at my school last semester, i didn't go to the show, but they made a huge scene in the cafeteria belittling the staff. Finally (I think) the guy from Killswitch Engage used toteach guitar at the local music shop, and he was a guest judge at the talent show at my old high school.
Oh yeah, if Derrick Jackson or Bill Mckibben count (they are big-time journalists) they came to my school too and i had to do Q&A forums with them for class.
Oh and Ben Kweller gave my g/f a hug and me a high 5 at a concert at Pearl Street last spring.
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I ended up at a beach party in Hawaii at the same time as Kelly Slater and Gabrielle Reece (the volleyball player). Also, this was the same time Lost was first filming, and I could have sworn I saw Domonic Monaghan, but I can't confirm that.
When I was in Hong Kong, some of my friends met Jackie Chan, but I wasn't there for that, so it probably doesn't count, huh?
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Oh, heavens... I used to go to Disneyland a lot, and there were always "famous" people there.
I saw Nicholas Cage and his daughter getting on California Screamin. I met John Ritter about a week before his death at California Adventure, the entire cast of "Just Shoot Me." I was at my friend's dad's restaurant and sat in the booth over from Mel Gibson... at a drama festival, there was some kid from the cast of All That, whom I beat in a cold reading event... *shrugs* I live in Orange County. I forget who all I've seen. I worked in a high-end entertainment store (think those stores that build super rich people those home theatres), and several very big names came in, but I'm literally not allowed to talk about it. Oh, and our beaches always have those surfer kids with way too much money. I know a couple Moto X "stars" (Kyle Loza goes to my church... he's the guy who won best trick at those extreme olympics thingies... I forget what it's called. Meh).
I actually "know" one big "Hollywood" person (he's family), but I feel like a dirty little whore when I name drop like that. Suffice it to say he's on TV every night, and he came to my wedding.
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My Dad went to High school with Patrick Swayze, apparently they were decent friends, were in the same drama class one year, and my Dad crashed at his house after a party. I've seen the yearbook. So I believe.
I've shook hands with Paul Simon and Bill Clinton on separate occasions, and said some brief words with them. Paul Simon I saw in Central Park when we first went up there a couple years ago. And I high-fived Wierd Al at the concert I went to for him after the show.
I saw Harrison Ford once, but didn't get very close.
And I was really close friends' with the son of the local Weatherman Ron Roberts back in Lubbock, and ate dinner at their house several different times. But that one isn't as cool as the others.
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Its Carlos Diaz isn't it? I bet she's talking about Carlos Diaz guys.
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Caiphana unleash your inner whore and let it out. You know you wanna. And now I am curious, so if not for you, do it for me, some person on a forum that you dont even know.
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Would you dance, if I asked you to dance.
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Slick, sit down for a minute. I have to ask you something important. Are you doing drugs? For a while now you've been talking kinda funny. I didn't say anything at first because I didn't want to make a big deal, but it's been weeks (months maybe, I can't remember exactly when it started) and it's really starting to concern me.
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Joe, thanks for asking.
No, I'm not on drugs.
I don't know what it is.
It is kind of weird.
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He has basically shamed a bunch of lesser threads and posters over the last six months. He also beat the shit out of the Postmodern Image Macros thread.
It is disconcerting but also really entertaining.
On-topic, Canadian readers will appreciate this one. I met Star! TV personality and minor sub-celebrity Sean Gehon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Gehon) at a friend's going-away party prior to Sean's time on MuchMusic. I beat the absolute hell out of him in Scene It! and he was not pleased.
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my ex's dad went to art college with John Lennon, Lil Eric Clapton, and some of the floyd guys (i dont remember which ones)
when i was 6 or so we saw the Doug Anthony Allstars and Tim Ferguson stole my brother (pram and all), Paul mcdermot tried to sell him
yo
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Who the hell is Carlos Diaz?
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I went to junior high school with Brenden Yurie, lead singer of Panic! at the Disco. Kid is a major douchebag and makes shitty music, but I knew him. I also know a lot of people who were friends with Brandon Flowers of The Killers. Something about being Mormon I guess, you tend to "know" every other famous Mormon person.
I've met and shook hands with Gladys Knight. My dad's played golf with a number of famous sports celebrities from Las Vegas (Greg and Mike Maddux, and Andre Agassi).
I also have met and shook hands with Nevada Senator John Ensign, attended a church Sunday session in Nevada Senator Harry Reid's ward in Washington D.C., and passed by Hilary Clinton in a tour of the Senate building on a vacation with the folks to the nation's capital a couple years back.
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My dad dropped a piano on Kriss Akabusi's foot when he was helping us move.
Har har.
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Who?
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Lesseeeeeee...
Sarah Chalke and Johnny Pesky.
Also, Jake from The Casualties, Quentin and Ryder from Vaux, and Mark from The Unseen.
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I met that guy from Tool once, he was pretty fucking arrogant.
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Ole Gunnar Solskjær
I think Mari won the thread, guys. At least to me.
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I hung out with Bo Diddley for like half an hour, and I met one of the Drifters in Sea-Tac Int'l Airport. I've met John Penney, who is only truly famous in air racing circles, and Brian Shul, an SR-71 pilot and famed author. I've hung out with Steve Hinton, who has flown just about every airplane stunt you've ever seen in the movies. I talked to Dave Lerner back when he was still playing bass with Ted Leo and the Pharmacists. I met John Mayall and got his autograph, he was a fucking asshole.
Also, you know that guy who did the cover art for The Sims, The Sims 2, and just about all the expansion packs? Yeah I jam with him whenever I'm back in my hometown and I'm best friends with both of his sons. The only guy I've ever paid for guitar lessons? He's played several gigs with his band at the Whiskey A Go-Go. I've jammed with a man who has opened for B.B. King, Santana, Ray Charles, and many others.
tl;dr lots
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Kanye West is my avatar?
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The only (remotely) famous person i've met is Bill Oddie, and that was in Ikea in Wembley.
How's that for a claim to fame.
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Ole Gunnar Solskjær
I think Mari won the thread, guys. At least to me.
I didn't really "meet" him, though, more like "Hey, can I get an autograph?" and "Yeah, sure.". I think I've lost it, though, which kinda sucks :/
But yeah, he's pretty damn awesome. More football players/people should be like him.
ETA: I'd love to meet Bjørn Dæhlie. He's just..awesome. He was an idol of mine when I was a kid, and I wasn't even that into skiing.
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My mum met Robert plant who lent her his coat, thought that was pretty cool. I personally havn't met anyone famous though.
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I really hate this thread, but Caiphana's obvious desire to have people beg to know what C-List Pseudoceleb is "family" was nauseating.
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Hey Kieffer, how far can you piss?
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CHALLENGE PISSING
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I know a guy who, when battered, was genuinely convinced he could piss right over a mountain and was arguing with people animatedly when they disagreed. He eventually managed the feat of pissing off a bridge.
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On New Year's Eve, I loudly proclaimed that, "Star Trek: The Next Generation is seven dicks, but I am eight dicks."
Monday was not my proudest night.
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I've rode with Snoop Dogg on an elevator.
The bassist (http://www.spin.com/bumbershoot06/images/2006/09/060902_thermals_1.jpg) from The Thermals pushed my girlfriend out of the way.
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I used to intern at Troma Entertainment, so I've met some cool people, one of which just happened to be walking past the Troma building and didn't go inside (Gilbert Gottfried). I've also met Adam West, Ron Jeremy, and an adult film actress by the name of Ataria Starling through Troma- all when I worked at a convention they attended called Chiller Theatre.
I also met John Turturro when I was interning at GreeneStreet Films. Weird guy.
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Yeah but how far can you piss?
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i can't piss very far, to be honest. accuracy over distance, i always say
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Challenge pissing isn't very fair to the women of the board. Can we switch to a different competition?
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Chipping accuracy? *waves 9 iron about*
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I say we just stick to number of famous people met, because I might have a chance at that one.
Also I suck at golf.
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Challenge pissing isn't very fair to the women of the board. Can we switch to a different competition?
What, just 'cause you're a girly-type means you can't pee?
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I play a mean game of mini golf.
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What, just 'cause you're a girly-type means you can't pee?
No, it just means that we can't really do anything special while peeing.
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I play a mean game of mini golf.
Tommy would definitely lose.
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I used to intern at Troma Entertainment
I hate you. I hate you so much.
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Kytt, I've met Ron Jeremy as well, though I rather wish I hadn't. He came to be the pro side in a debate about pornography at the student center on campus (where I work) and he made a pass at me in the greenroom. He is fat and greasy and horrible.
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apparently I'm somehow related to Larry Bird (my great-grandma's third cousin is his mother in law or something). Other than that, I really got nothing. I saw Danny Glover in an airport once, and that's about it.
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A guy that I work with ran into Bruce Campbell at the airport, I didnt belive him untill he showed me proof in the for of a picture. I can honestly say that I am extremly jelouse.
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A guy I know got Bruce Campbell to sign his gf's boobs.
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Alternatively, one could say he convinced his gf to let Bruce Campbell sign her boobs.
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Actually, I'm pretty sure all parties involved were pleased.
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I saw Bobby Lee at a Radiohead concert. I didn't know it was him at first, so I was vaguely confused as to why I recognized him.
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As long as we're on the subject of things we ourselves weren't involved in, but that involve Bruce Campbell: a friend of mine who has a tech support business has been to Bruce Campbell's house multiple times to fix his computer and stuff.
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I've rode with Snoop Dogg on an elevator.
I rode in an elevator with the Supertones.
The O.C. Supertones
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I used to intern at Troma Entertainment
I hate you. I hate you so much.
Why?
Kytt, I've met Ron Jeremy as well, though I rather wish I hadn't. He came to be the pro side in a debate about pornography at the student center on campus (where I work) and he made a pass at me in the greenroom. He is fat and greasy and horrible.
The adult film actress that I know (who is actually a really nice girl- we spent the majority of the time chatting it up since she was selling her shit at the Troma booth) mentioned that she and Ron Jeremy were on a panel together once and he tried to fist her under the table as they were on stage.
Needless to say, I lol'd.
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All these bruce campbell stories make me sad because I have been a fan since I was like 8. All the other little girls had crushes on JTT and Deven sawa but not me. Nooooo. I had to have a crush on the guy that killed the undead in that super sweet movie. ( Army of darkness is the greatest movie ever).
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Army of darkness is the greatest movie ever.
so close
(http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/allposters/97/1800062697p.jpg)
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No, it just means that we can't really do anything special while peeing.
The tubes of the interweb disagree with you.
http://nbtsc.org/~ganimede/stp.html
"Eventually you may become good enough to be able to write your name in the snow. (yes I've done this!) Hope this insight helps."
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I think I could've gone my entire life without ever finding necessity to read that, and yet there it is.
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Hey Kieffer, how far can you piss?
Like fuckin, 60 feet.
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No, it just means that we can't really do anything special while peeing.
The tubes of the interweb disagree with you.
http://nbtsc.org/~ganimede/stp.html
"Eventually you may become good enough to be able to write your name in the snow. (yes I've done this!) Hope this insight helps."
You're an awful awful man
you happy now dirk? lol
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That is not how you spell Awful.
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*rolls eyes at entire thread*
Hell, I'm a celebrity. WHOOO HOO, everyone line up for my autograph!
I've always wondered what the attraction in asking people for their autograph is. I'm fairly certain it's not worth anything... is it just to prove that you met them?
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It's worth stuff when they die.
I think it's more a sentimental thing, a tangible piece of evidence that you met someone who, on the basis of how many people have heard of them, is better than you. I kinda understand why celebrities get mad at being asked for autographs but it doesn't mean they are bad people, maybe they were just having a bad day, you know?
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Off-topic: Jimmy, for some reason when I looked at your avatar it looked like a picture of a piece of cake from a really weird perspective.
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Brb cake.
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Squid. cake. Same thing.
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I hate you. I hate you so much.
Why?
Because you have been to the magical land where they created The Toxic Avenger and Chopper Chicks In Zombietown. I have not.
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Hey Kieffer, how far can you piss?
Like fuckin, 60 feet.
So you can fuck 60 feet as well? Is that all at once?
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I think it's more a sentimental thing, a tangible piece of evidence that you met someone who, on the basis of how many people have heard of them, is better than you. I kinda understand why celebrities get mad at being asked for autographs but it doesn't mean they are bad people, maybe they were just having a bad day, you know?
I guess that makes sense.
I would think that celebrities don't like signing things sometimes because they might think that you're just going to turn around and sell it on eBay. That would kinda tick me off.
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I hate you. I hate you so much.
Why?
Because you have been to the magical land where they created The Toxic Avenger and Chopper Chicks In Zombietown. I have not.
Oh, yeah, it's a pretty cool place. They have dildos and fake tits in their marketing and sales room.
Oh, right, and you wanna start hating me even more? I'm on the intros to 5 of their DVDs, including the 21st anniversary of The Toxic Avenger- I played Toxie, though they redubbed the voice and I was in the costume. I'm also in Class of Nuke'Em High 2, the French release of Evil Clutch, Pot Zombies, and Tromadance Volume 3... or 2... I forget. Ataria Starling, the adult film actress I keep mentioning, is on the cover of it, that's all I remember.
Good times...
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I would think that celebrities don't like signing things sometimes because they might think that you're just going to turn around and sell it on eBay. That would kinda tick me off.
Man I would be so jazzed to find out people were selling objects with my autograph on ebay.
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Hey Kieffer, how far can you piss?
Like fuckin, 60 feet.
So you can fuck 60 feet as well? Is that all at once?
I can fuck a girl in the ass, go through her intestines, out her mouth, and then pee on her chest.
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I post on forums where this Internet-famous comic writing guy posts.
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One time I got an email from Rstevens.
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You're an awful, awful man
Awww... you only say that because it is true.
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I once got a very drunken foot massage from JRo! Although I think he must have been way more pissed than the nigh-empty growler he'd brought with him led me to believe, because having met him several times since I don't think he ever remembers who I am.
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OH! i forgot this one for the wrestling fans. My cousin is married to of Jimmy "superfly" Snuka's cousins. he's a pretty cool guy, a little crazy, but cool
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The only (remotely) famous person i've met is Bill Oddie, and that was in Ikea in Wembley.
How's that for a claim to fame.
!!!!!!!
I heart the Goodies.
Also I have never met anyone famous.
I could have met Nick Cave but my brother was all nooooooooo I dont want to go to the Pancake Manour after the show, I spend all my time there wooorrrkiiiingg. Waaaah. And then his friends went and Nick Cave was there and he was angry because the bar wasn't open and he couldnt get any booze.
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I rode in an elevator with the Supertones.
The O.C. Supertones
Nice, man. Nice.
I went to a concert of theirs when I was like twelve, and hung out in The Underground and watched them practice a couple times.
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Julia, if you're reading this, RUN.
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i forgot, Lou Barlow is/was my friends neighbor.
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Guys you all fucking know me right now.
Think to the fucking future.
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james i need to meet you someday
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After this lets make a thread about who has the biggest penis.
hey you can never have too many threads about chuck
Seriously. Why has this not happened yet?
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I met the former governor of Colorado a few summers ago; he came into the retail store at Coors Field where I was working. Unfortunately he had secret service guys with him so I just had to smile and shake his hand instead of telling him what I really thought of him.
But my ex-boyfriend went to NYU with Gregory Peck's grandson, and my mom met John Elway a long time ago. Clearly they are more exciting than I.
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james i need to meet you someday
Your place or mine?
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Ivanka Trump was a freshman at my highschool when I was a senior. There was this douchebag who was the class president and on the football team and stuff, and apparently he left her a voicemail asking if she wanted him to show her around. She forwarded the message to her friends, and from there it ended up going to everyone in the entire school. hilarious
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Men can be gold-diggers too you know.
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dude how old do you think I am
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It's not necessarily a comment on your age, man, nobody ever said she was a genius.
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Ryan Cooley went to my high school, yeah degrassi fans, kinda know who he is... personally I didn't like him that much. Oh, my cousins married to some guy on the L.A. Kings, and up at my cottage theres Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russel and some guy from the Toronto maple Leafs. Theres also a rumor about Vince Vaughn being up there, but I'm not sure.
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Damon Foreman is my guitar teacher. Dunno if anybody's heard of him, but considering he's toured around the world it's a possibility.
The guys from OAR went to high school somewhere near Jeph, and I only live like, twenty minutes from there. Sadly I haven't met them.
Ed Norton went to high school nearby me as well. His grandfather was the man who laid the foundation for the town I live in.
Basically I need to meet more famous people.
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Really depends on what your definition of celebrity is.
Most of the people I know/grew up with/have met are 'celebrities' in the extreme sporting world only. Examples:
-Met the Presidents and/or CEOs of: Adidas, Wipika, Gaastra, Salomon
-Grew up around Corey Roesler, Inventor of Kitesurfing
-Met Robby Naish a few times
-Snowboarded with Mike Jacoby (http://expn.go.com/athletes/bios/JACOBY_MIKE.html)
-Vacationed with both the Gaastra and Wipika Kite teams
Blah blah every pro windsurfer/Kiteboarder ever
"Real celebrities"
-Saw Matthew Perry going into our hotel in Florida
One time I got an email from Rstevens.
One time I got an email from Squidi.
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I haven't met that many famous people. I mean, I've met a bunch of webcomic dudes and ladies, but regardless of your opinion of the height of their celebrity it isn't really a mean feat. You turn up to a con, you say hi.
Other than that I haven't really had all that much to do with celebrities, and I don't feel like I'm missing out on much.
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I met Jim Corr. He was an utter cunt. Nearly hit me because HE spilled MY drink on MY shoes. Dickhead.
I also met Therapy? They are lovely.
I went on a pubcrawl with Ash.
I met British Sea Power while very drunk.
Preston from the Ordinary Boys, Jo Neary, that bird who plays Maid Marian in the new Robin Hood, they are all regulars at my pub.
Can't think of anyone else but the Yeah Yeah Yeahs once wished me and some friends luck (they were in the same backstage changing rooms just before us.
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I passed Sir Martin Evans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Evans#Awards_and_recognition) in a corridor once. We were walking past a display about his Nobel work and I did a massive double take.
I'm not sure if he counts though.
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up at my cottage theres Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russel and some guy from the Toronto maple Leafs. Theres also a rumor about Vince Vaughn being up there, but I'm not sure.
"Up at your cottage"? What, buried under the floorboards? Drinking ginger beer and having a secret club meeting? I'm confused!
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I met two people who turned out to be killers. One was a mass murderer, and one was just a regular murderer who only took two fathers away from their children. (Not two gay fathers. Two different sets of kids.) They're both famous now!
P.S. If you plan on killing people in the future, don't intro yourself to me, I've already surpassed my quota.
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I taught English for two weeks to a kid who was in the Ring (1, 2, and 3) and Drillbit Taylor and Texas Chainsaw Massacre and a couple of other things. He's a pretty cool kid!
I went to middle school with a kid who was in Cheaper by the Dozen, Dragonfly, and Phantom of the Megaplex. He was not a pretty cool kid. He was kind of an arrogant asshole.
A friend of mine went to driving school with Haley Joel Osment, who was apparently really sad-looking and sat in the back of the classroom with his bodyguards surrounding him and talked to no one.
Results? Two-thirds of child stars are unhappy or assholes and the other third are really cool. Also I don't know enough child stars for these results to be statistically significant.
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I met Jesse Sykes once, after a show. She shook my hand and called me sweet because I was drunk and babbling about how awesome she is.
I didn't meet them, but I have been in the same bar as Matthew Mcconaughey and Britt Daniels (two different occasions). Turns out they are both kind of jerks.
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A friend of mine is good friends with Steve Buscemi's son. This friend of a friend is in a band that played at my school b/c our mutual friend set up a show for the band. Anywho, Steve Buscemi was at the show, hanging out in SMOG, a rather tiny garage/venue on campus. We talked a bit. It was cool.
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That IS really cool.
I annoyed the shit out of Dan from Wolf Parade and Handsome Furs. That tends to happen a lot when you are incredibly drunk, and they are not. At least I got a free shirt though!
Somewhere, the 2002 Olympic gold medalist Sarah Hughes has a picture of us. We talked to her at the Minneapolis airport and she whipped out the camera.
And I met Little Richard once at a hotel. He was terrifying. Calvin Johnson is also terrifying; when he looks at you he has the creepiest stare.
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I have met a whole hell of a lot of bass players, which is kind of odd because I only kind of dabble in bass, but I play guitar.
Also odd I think is that of what is about to be a very long list, I don't really know any of these folks. As in... we're not buddies. Nobody's given me their cell number, you know? But I've met every one of them.
Bass Players
Doug Wimbish (http://www.dougwimbish.com/) twice, about 15 years apart. Once in D.C., once in New York
Dave Ellefson (http://www.davidellefson.com/)
JD DeServio (http://www.johnjddeservio.com/www/index.htm)
Tony Levin (http://www.tonylevin.com/)
Leland Sklar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Sklar)
Rode in an elevator with Stu Hamm (http://www.stuarthamm.net/)
Chuck Rainey (http://www.chuckrainey.com/)
Other Musicians
I Drove Tim Alexander (http://www.timalexander.org/) around D.C. in a lowrider I used to own and eventually dropped him off at his hotel
I've been in the dressing room of the old 930 club with Sick of it All (http://www.sickofitall.com/index2.php)
Also at the old 930 I talked briefly with Nivek Ogre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nivek_Ogre)
I've met all the guys in Fugazi, Skeeter from Scream, met the Bad Brains, the Cro-Mags, and lots of other even lesser known bands.
I worked briefly in the early 90s at a club in D.C called The Bayou (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bayou). Met a ton of the acts. Hell, the first night I worked there White Zombie was playing. Approximately eleven and a half billion shitty college metal bands came through while I was there, as well as Sophie B. Hawkins, Lynch Mob, LSD, and Jackal.
Actors
I spent about five minutes talking with Stacy Keach (http://www.stacykeach.com/index.htm) when I was about 17, and when I was ten or eleven I stood in line at the local video store to get James Doohan (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001150/) to autograph a comic book.
Favorite 'famous' guy
About a year before he died, I got to meet MSG Roy Benavidez (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Benavidez). He was the great uncle of a guy that worked for me at the time and was just soooooo cool.
*whew* I think that covers it.
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is contact with james the new "my penis is bigger than yours"?!
he stayed at my house for three days and made me bread. fuck yoooooouuuuu
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The Pink Spiders are from the next town over and played a lot of shows at the club my brother used to book for. They're pretty nice guys.
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Is Gary Paulsen famous enough? 'Cause I've met him a couple of times, he came to my hometown on different occasions promoting one of those books, The Hatchet or Brian's Winter or whatever it was that he'd just released. I was like 8 or something but he was really nice.
...I suppose if you're going to be a children's author you had fucking well better be nice.
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Is Gary Paulsen famous enough? 'Cause I've met him a couple of times, he came to my hometown on different occasions promoting one of those books, The Hatchet or Brian's Winter or whatever it was that he'd just released. I was like 8 or something but he was really nice.
...I suppose if you're going to be a children's author you had fucking well better be nice.
I dunno, maybe it's different for children's TV stars, but Bill Nye was a dick to my friend when he was little.
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I know people who ran into Bill Nye on an elevator once -- I must have taken the stairs or something.
This was like at the Grand Hyatt in NYC, only a block or two away from Grand Central Station.
They mentioned he was not very friendly. I suspect if XKCD is accurate, then it's to be expected, though. I sure would hate being him in that sort of situation.
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A friend of mind went outside of a stand-up place and smoked a cig with Dave Chapelle a few years ago.
Er..this week I met the Ambassador of France, the Ambassador of Turkey, Senator Russ Feingold and Senator Joe Biden. Do they count as famous people?
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The dudes from The Stills bummed me for cigs and asked where the bathroom was at this bar I was at. They then decided to flirt with me for about 30 minutes, it was pretty funny.
Then there is Marlon Wayans, Meg White, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and the dudes from Ambulance LTD all whom I've had a few conversations with. There is also Adrien Brody, I saw him get into a town car in midtown.
oh yeah and I hung out with the dude from the dresden dolls at a Dinosaur Jr show
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Ran into Thurston frigging Moore last night, awesome. Also talked to John Vanderslice for a minute after the show.
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up at my cottage theres Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russel and some guy from the Toronto maple Leafs. Theres also a rumor about Vince Vaughn being up there, but I'm not sure.
"Up at your cottage"? What, buried under the floorboards? Drinking ginger beer and having a secret club meeting? I'm confused!
On the same lake, we run into them occasionally, but now you've got me thinking......
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I've met Lemmy, Al Jourgenson, Kirby Puckett, Darryl Hall, Kent Hrbek and that one fucker in ever Everclear who turned out to be kind of a dick.
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Er..this week I met the Ambassador of France, the Ambassador of Turkey, Senator Russ Feingold and Senator Joe Biden. Do they count as famous people?
I say yes.
Speaking of political people, I've met, shook hands, and spoken with Senator John Ensign (Nevada-R) when my family was in Washington D.C. a couple years back. We passed by Senator Clinton in the halls while we were on a tour, as well, although we didn't attempt to stop her because I'm fairly certain my dad would have punched her in the face.
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If politicians count, I've met the premier of Ontario a couple times (separate ones) and I had a conversation with the minister of tourism at the Rolling Stones concert in Toronto in 2003, I have his business card and a Canada flag pin he was wearing.
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I went to high school with the drummer from Scatter the Ashes, and I think he may have dated my sister briefly.
I've also hung out with Matt from the Pink Spiders at WH a few times, when he was in Silent Friction. SF sucked just as much as the Pink Spiders, but he's a really nice guy.
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Hm, I just remembered that I've met a couple of the Tuskegee Airmen and shaken hands with the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
She's kindof a MILF.
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I've met Lemmy
WINNER.
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If politicians count, I've met Gen. Petraeus, I was in a German club with his son my freshman year.
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up at my cottage theres Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russel and some guy from the Toronto maple Leafs.
See, I would hang around the area, waiting for Kurt Russel to walk by, just so I could say 'I heard you were dead'.
james i need to meet you someday
Hey, don't you live in San Francisco or something? I've been considering being a hobo this summer and trying to get there on freight trains.
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I once humped John Lithgow's leg. Does that count?
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A friend of mind went outside of a stand-up place and smoked a cig with Dave Chapelle a few years ago.
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Not gonna lie, I kinda forgot about this thread.
up at my cottage theres Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russel and some guy from the Toronto maple Leafs.
See, I would hang around the area, waiting for Kurt Russel to walk by, just so I could say 'I heard you were dead'.
james i need to meet you someday
Hey, don't you live in San Francisco or something? I've been considering being a hobo this summer and trying to get there on freight trains.
I live in Berkeley. I think that would be fantastic!
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Wait, will you be staying in Berkeley over the summer, Roo?
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Ah, good point. I'm not even sure where I'll be this summer. I might go to New Orleans, actually, and then New York after that. Or I may go to China instead of either of those. But either way I'll probably be spending most of my time in San Diego or Chicago and not norcal.
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Well, theoretically I could end up anywhere near where the freight trains go. Stowing away to New Orleans seems like a terribly terrible idea. In the best possible way.
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Hey you could probably contact Cory for hangouts if you're in Loozianne. I'd be kindof envious, he's rad.
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Hey, don't you live in San Francisco or something? I've been considering being a hobo this summer and trying to get there on freight trains.
You should try and hobo your way through Fargo. It is pretty okay during the summer, and I will be there!
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I've met and had dinner with Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. They're on the board for the Westport County Playhouse in CT and my dad was the architect for the new playhouse and b/c the Newman and Woodward give a bajillion dollars to the place they were often meeting with him to talk about things. That was pretty cool I guess.
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that one fucker in ever Everclear who turned out to be kind of a dick.
I've heard this more than once. A D.J. on a radio show I once listened to claimed that of all the performers he's ever interviewed, Art Alexakis was the biggest asshole.
It makes me feel better about despising them.
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I'm not sure why you felt bad about disliking Everclear.
(for the record, I don't recall what Everclear sounds like. I think I may like them, or rather liked them.)
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They were horrible
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In review (you should see two pictures):
(http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/1272/everclearhiresox6.jpg)
is not the same as
(http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/84/everclearbandxb3.jpg)
The difference is that one of these can give you a headache if you have too much of it.
The other one is 190 proof grain alcohol.
I don't even like them, and my two most recent music purchases were U2 and the White Stripes.
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Never been a big Everclear fan myself, actually, but my girlfriend at the time was a huge fan, which is really probably the most damning thing about the whole scenario. We were in highschool at the time, so he was basically a gigantic douchebag to a 16 year old girl. I mean, yeah, teenagers are obnoxious at times, but it's not like she was squealing and babbling incoherently or anything. I mean, maybe it's really hard being a celebrity, (after all, I wouldn't know), but I still think you can do better than ogling a fan for 15 seconds and then being really dismissive.
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Everclear...they did that "AM Radio" song, right?
Christ, what dipshits.
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They also did a pisspoor cover of "Brown Eyed Girl".
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Yeah, but who hasn't covered "Brown Eyed Girl" (and really, when it comes down to it, who can hope to top Van Morrison there?)?
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Actually I was pretty impressed with Jimmy Buffet's version of it.
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Aww come on, that guy with the tambourine looks pretty cool. I mean, he has a tambourine! That's super musical skill right there! The rest of them look like cocks, though.
(actually, he looks like a guy around here who hangs out with my housemates. He's a pretty cool guy, so tambourine-guy is nice in my book!)
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Actually I was pretty impressed with Jimmy Buffet's version of it.
For the longest time I actually thought he did the original, because it was all I ever heard growing up. It holds a special place in my heart.
I was pretty disappointed when I saw him on the Tiki Time tour. It was... yeah it was shit. Pure shit until the second part. N*Sync's concert 4 years earlier impressed me more and was consistently rad.
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Damn your Everclear slandering, I want to talk about how I have talked to, played music with, and had a few drinks with Gary Ablett on several occasions.
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I met Josie Long tonight! (Lovely comedian from England.) I went to her show at the Melbourne Comedy Festival and then went up to thank her afterwards, and because I was at her show Kindness and Exuberance last year I got a little zine she put together of some of her favourite responses that she got when she asked audience members at that show to write down their favourite small thing.
Then when I got to the tram stop and started reading it, it turned out that the thing that I wrote down was on the first inside page! So I went back to the venue and found her again (like a stalker!) and introduced myself, and we had a nice little chat for a couple of minutes about interconnectedness and astronomy and spirituality sans God. Then I went back to the tram stop.
She's great!
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You joke but I use trams from the 1920s on a regular basis. (http://hampage.hu/trams/milano/e_index.html)
Oh and also (to try and link transportation in with the topic of famous people) my dad served the previous pope (rip) on an airplane once. There is a photo of them shaking hands on our mantlepiece, mostly because it always gets everyone laughing.