Who Here Has Touched (Physically) Someone Famous?

[Dinger]

Poll question: Who Here Has Touched (Physically) Someone Famous?

Me:

Wesley Clark*, John Kerry (handshakes)
Van Cliburn, Liberace (handshakes)
Billy Ray Cyrus (hug!)
Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson (Handshakes)
There are more, but these are then ones that come to mind.


*Barbara Lawton (Wi. Lt. Governor) took a pic of Wes & Me (arms around each other!), and my pic turned out, but Wes's head was cut off, & he was wearing a Favre jersey!

[graywarrior]

1. A fuckload.

[Poiuyt]

4. My handshaking colection won't be complete until I shake hands with Graywarrior

[graywarrior]

7. Make sure you ask where my hands were last.

:rofl:

[Poiuyt]

19. Eewwwww!

[rateyes]

138. Hey,

:hi:

[Dinger]

8. C'mon, NAMES!!! I Want NAMES!!! (nt)

[graywarrior]

9. I used to promote concerts. Use your imagination.

[bridgit]

21. i worked for Bill Graham Prod, ain't that scene a hoot!

[Redbear]

52. You know Yianni?????

or John Tesh maybe?

[graywarrior]

56. Fuck no.

Hard rock dudes. Outlaw country dudes.

[Redbear]

57. Kidding out of respect.

I knew what you meant and that is really cool.

[graywarrior]

59. I know.

:rofl:

[Parche]

131. TEACHER DINGER

John Kerry
David WU (my congressman)
Clyde Drexler (NBA)
Terry Porter (NBA)
Jerome Kersey (NBA)
Detlef Schrempf (NBA)
Magic Johnson
Martin Short
Paul Sorvino
Peter Jacobson (Golfer)
Bernadette Peters
John Kitzhaber (Ex Oregon Gov)
Barbara Roberts (Ex Oregon Gov)
Vera Katz (Ex Portland Mayor)

Kobe Bryant (did travel for while working at Adidas, talked with him but never met, as I cant stand him.....)

WAHOO

[LadyoftheRabbits]

2. John Kerry and John Glenn...

:D

[Poiuyt]

3. I shook hands with Van Cliburn too. It was probably at the same concert

[Dinger]

10. Milwaukee, 1994

Moscow Philharmonic, playing Tschaikovky's Piano Concerto # 1 ib B Flat Minor! A breathtaking concert. There is no way in hell I will ever go to a concert experience like that!

[Poiuyt]

18. Appleton, about 1974

I got him to autograph my program, but then kept using my pen to sign everyone elses. When I asked for my pen back, he shook my hand and said in this deep baritone voice, "Oh, I'm terribly sorry!" A true southern gentleman.

I thought Cliburn had retired by 94. That Tschaikovky piece was his signature.

I was taking pictures of Red Skelton backstage after a performance, and when I was done, I went up to him to thank him for his time. He said, "What about you? Don't you want your picture taken? Give your camera to someone else and have your picture taken with me." So now I have a great photo of myself with Red Skelton.

[Dinger]

23. I Met Him In '78

He played a concert with the Milwaukee Symphony, it was Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto.
Unbelievable! I got his autograph at both concerts too. I had the scores of each piece, and they are signed by Van.:)

[driver8]

5. A big hug from Slash of Guns n' Roses...

He was working in the recording studio that I used to work at for about three or four weeks. We got to know him pretty well and spoke to him almost everyday. When he was leaving, I stuck out my hand to shake and he grabbed me and gave me a big hug. He said, "I'm gonna miss you guys!"

He is, without a doubt, one of the nicest people that I have ever met.

[Dinger]

12. WOW!!!

Can I have your autograph?

[driver8]

22. Here's another Guns n' Roses story...

The studio I worked at is where Guns n' Roses recorded "Appetite for Destruction" and also where they fired Steven Adler. Needless to say, the guys loved to work there.

While Slash was working there, he was scheduled to appear on the Letterman show. At the same time, Axel was in producing a demo for an unsigned band.

We all got together in the lounge to watch Slash on Letterman. Someone sat down beside me and I looked over and it was Axel. Not only that, but I had brought in a 6 pack of Dr. Pepper and Axel drank five of them!!

One more story --

One night Slash and his band took a break and went out to a strip club. When they came back, they had a couple of strippers with them -- these girls were 19 or 20. The studio they were working in had an upstairs lounge and they were all partying up there.

I happened to be standing there when I saw one of the strippers come stumbling down the stairs -- drunk as a skunk. A couple of the guys (including Slash) came down after her. I asked them what happened and they said "she tried to drink Jack Daniels with Slash." (Big mistake).

The stripper lays on the couch and starts to get sick. I grab a trash can and run over to her. Slash yells, "don't let her hair get in the puke!" So I'm standing there holding the trash can and Slash is holding the girl's hair. I think to myself, "My friends back home will never believe this story..."

[Withywindle]

76. Awwwww

In rock'n'roll terms, a guy who'll hold a girl's hair out of the way while she's puking is a real gentleman!

[driver8]

79. Ain't that the truth!

It was such a surreal situation -- here I was holding a bucket so a stripper can puke in it while one of the biggest rock stars in music holds her hair out of the puke.

I just kept thinking, "No one is going to believe this story."

[treestar]

68. That's surprising

"Nice" is not a term I would have guessed would apply!

[driver8]

70. Looks can be deceiving!

He is actually very soft spoken and very polite. He could have come in with all kinds of "rock star attitude" but he didn't. He was always nice to everyone.

[XemaSab]

6. Clinton, Kathleen Brown, Dean, Harkin

It's clear where *I* hang out. :D

[gmoney]

11. A few...

Big names probably are James Brown, Lou Reed, John Edward...

[slj0101]

13. I just learned that an old neighbor of mine once beat up Todd Rundgren.

I guess Rundgren was a bit of a punk.

[darkstar]

45. Can we hear more about this?

Pre or post fame?
Rundgren's punk behavior?

Right up there w/ Rather's what the frequency Kenneth episode is a robbery at Rundgren's house, wherein he was tied to chair and place was looted while the robbers sang a number of his songs....

[slj0101]

62. I think it was pre-fame..

I don't know the exact details; my sister just passed this on to me. :)

[kedrys]

14. Al Gore and Trent Reznor

I try to lead an eclectic life. :P

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. A few:

Wes Clark, Al Gore, Krzysztof Penderecki, Olivier Messaien, Al Franken, Warren Burger, Chuck Yeager, Beverly Sills, Garrison Keillor.

[GenDem]

16. Hillary, Big Dawg, and Elliot Spitzer

I've had my picture taken twice with Hillary, and have talked to her four times with handshakes, and one hug.

Was standing a couple of feet from the Big Dawg at an event at the fair last summer. I have to say that was a huge thrill. Ate the same lunch sitting two tables away.

I presented a drawing I did to Elliot Spitzer (a little over a year ago) and told him that I looked forward to him becoming the next Governor.

I guess that would make me a political groupie.

[MrSlayer]

17. I've met a ton of rock stars and a few actors, pro sports guys and politicians.

I suppose the most famous person I ever shook hands with was Bill Clinton.

[bridgit]

20. oh lord yes...

:)

[Cobalt Violet]

24. It wouldn't be professional for me to name names.

But I have.

[TheMightyFavog]

25. Russ Feingold. Met him at a listening session a few years back

John Edwards. I shook his hand at a rally in Stevens Point in 2004.

Journalist Robert Krulwich. I shook his hand at a talk with him last year.

[Dinger]

28. Damn, I Forgot John Edwards!

My friend took our pics. Had our arms around each other - really!:blush:

I look like shit though. His bus stopped in Wittenberg, Wisconsin, in front of a gas station. I got a call the night before, telling about this "Spontaneous" pitstop. Had to take the long way home!
Damn, he is gorgeous!

[RevolutionaryActs]

26. Will Pitt count?

I've hugged him. :P

[Dinger]

29. Hell Yeah It Counts!

Lucky you!

[RevolutionaryActs]

31. He even baby-sat my luggage.

:rofl:

[bridgit]

30. no, Pitt don't count...

:rofl:

[RevolutionaryActs]

32. Aw man.

:rofl:

[bridgit]

34. oh alright then, Pitt counts...

:rofl:

[RevolutionaryActs]

35. You nut!

[bridgit]

36. Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don't (dune dune dune dune)..

Peter Paul Almond Joy's got nuts Mounds don't

[RevolutionaryActs]

37. Rock it!

teehee

[bridgit]

38. hahahaha, i'm say'n...

:headbang:

[RevolutionaryActs]

40. Sha, sha, shake it like a Polaroid picture.

Now look you what you've started. :rofl:

[bridgit]

41. oh i know...

:woohoo:

[RevolutionaryActs]

42. Gettin' jiggy wit it

This one makes me giggle. :rofl:

[bridgit]

43. LOL, i'm snag'n that one fair & square...

:bounce:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

49. How about this one?

[GalleryGod]

105. Hell No!

:rofl: :spray: :rofl:

[AwakeAtLast]

27. Billy Joel

I won front row center seats to one of his concerts (in '92 or so). Slapped his hand and the drummer gave me his drumstick. I think my ex-husband took off with it though. :grr:

[LibraLiz1973]

33. Off the top o' me head

Anthony Kiedis


Dr. John


Tommy Lee



Alyssa Milano

Heather Locklear



Nikki Sixx




Slash


Sammy Hagar


Billy Idol


Keanu Reeves



John Edwards


Oliver Stone


Stewart Copeland

G.W. Bailey



There are more but nothing else is bubbling up

Sadly I've never met George Clooney, Bill Clinton, Brad Pitt, John Cusack...... the list is long

[jilln]

64. How did you meet Reeves and Copeland?

[LibraLiz1973]

100. I ate lunch next to him in an LA Deli one day

and he struck up a conversation. He's really friendly, very sweet.

Copeland I met in a studio when he was doing sound work for an Oliver Stone film. Either Talk Radio or Born on the Fourth of July- I don't remember. He was also very very nice.

[Aristus]

39. Here's me with curmudgeon and writer extraordinaire Harlan Ellison:

[hunter]

95. OMG, he's old now!

And when I look in the mirror it's like "Who is that middle aged guy?"

I'd tell a story, but I'm still terrified of my past. If anyone remembers me from the times I was meeting folks like Harlan Ellison, they'll also remember I was insane.

:silly:

[Redbear]

44. Clinton, Gore.,Hill, and Tipp

during 1992 campaign

[AngryAmish]

46. I shook hands with DITKA!!!

When I was younger I was a caddy at a fancy golf club. I met a lot of famous people (Bob Hope!).

However, I have a soft spot for The Coach.

[Carni]

114. Did he have a nice lookin sports coat? eom

[Strawman]

47. Chris Elliott

And I think I came off like a complete ass when I met him at his book signing.

I asked him if there was a large print version of his book for my grandma because she was a big fan.

He thought I was serious.

"Oh, I'm just fuckin' with ya" came out of my mouth next.

[Redbear]

51. That is hilarious

Espaecially because it sounds like the type of joke he would make.

[Pendrench]

48. Brooks Robinson (a true gentleman) - I was almost run over by former Mayor, Governor, and Comptrolle...

William Donald Schaefer when he was exiting a building (and I was walking in). And for those folks who grew up in Maryland, I also met and shook hands with Captain Chesapeake and Stu Kerr :)

Tim

[Ilsa]

50. I'm not shaking hands with anyone else until I get my

three Gardisil shots. ;)

[Left Is Write]

53. Many, many of them.

[Radical Activist]

54. Many.

Politicians: Bill & Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Kerry, John Edwards, Dennis Kucinich, Dick Durbin, Al Gore, Ralph Nader, Paul Simon, and many others.

Others: Al Franken, Mimi Kennedy, the real Patch Adams, Michael Moore, Ani DiFranco, Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, Howard Zinn.

[Downtown Hound]

55. Charles Schultz and Amy Goodman

I used to landscape right by his house. I'd see him out walking every day, and once I shook his hand. Also, met Amy at a conference once, and shook her hand.

[KitchenWitch]

58. Several

Tony Orlando
Prince
Billy Squier
The lead singer for Def Leppard
Kirby Puckett
Kent Hrbek
Kevin Tapani
Tony Oliva
Harmon Killebrew
Dan Gladden
Dick Bremer
Eddie Guardado
Bert Blyleven
And several other Minnesota Twins notables.

(I used to work at a golf course that had an annual Minnesota Twins charitable golf tournament)

[SPKrazy]

60. Didn't You Take Your Pain Pills And Go To Bed?

posting while pain pilled

:hug:

feel better

[KitchenWitch]

61. Waitin for it to hit!

[jilln]

63. Elton John, Alec Baldwin, Tom Scholz (Boston), Alicia Silverstone, James Cromwell

Paul Watson (Sea Shepherd), Casey Kasem, Ingrid Newkirk, Rikki Rockett, Howard Lyman, Bobby Seale, David Hilliard among others.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

65. I've shaken hands with many music stars

During my 20 years in Nashville, 17 of which I spent as a landscaper, I found myself at the residences of more than one famous person- Peter Frampton, Lee Greenwood (boo hiss), Alan Jackson, Ray Stevens (I talked to him in his garage), Peaches Blank (one-time Lt. Governor of Tennessee), and a few others I don't recall at the moment.

They're just people, and they appreciate it when they are treated as such.

[av8rdave]

66. Maynard Ferguson, Paul Tuetle Sr (Orange County Chopper guy),

Howard Dean, Jim Irwin, Dave Scott (both walked on the moon) Frank Borman, Robert Kiyosaki, Tommy Emmanuel, Richard Tyson, Michael Caine, Newt Gingrich (ok, I did NOT shake his hand), Evander Holyfield, Pat Green, Bo Svenson, Danny Glover.

[regnaD kciN]

67. Jerry Brown, Kevin McHale...

I'm sure there have been others I can't recall at this moment. Oh, George Karl (coach of many NBA teams) and Duffy Bishop (blues musician) as well.

I also passed within a couple of feet of both Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel once, but there was no physical contact.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

69. Only a couple.......but what a couple!

Jerry Brown put his arm around me! And I have photographic proof!

And I got to not only meet Will Pitt, but kiss him!*

:woohoo: :woohoo:

















*On the cheek, you pervs!:evilgrin:

[Writer]

71. I have touched, spoken to, or both....

Ann Richards
Alan Thicke
Tracey Morgan
Michael Chikliss (sp?)
Ann Curry
Conan O'Brien - we made EYES :P
Lorne Michaels - we also made EYES :P
Martin Sheen
Bradley Whitford
Kristen Chenowith
Stephanie March - in high school... a L&O person
Angie Harmon - also high school... another L&O person
David Alan Grier (sp?) (not a good experience)
Gen. Wesley Clark
Various local news folks

But that was my former life. Alas, 'tis no more.

One thing I want to say is that, because of my interactions, I think the assumption that celebrities are vain, arrogant, and disagreeable is mostly wrong. There always are those one or two who you don't want to approach. But I get disgusted when individuals say that a celebrity is doing something "just for the publicity" or that they're any more dysfunctional than you, me, or anyone else who doesn't act in front of a camera. They are ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.

Writer the Lurker.

[Evoman]

72. Bad experience with David Alan Grier? Care to tell us?

And Conan? Eyes? Stories!

[Writer]

74. David Alan Grier...

was on a narcotic when I met him. He was taking pictures with various network employees, and mouthed off at his publicist that we already had taken a picture with him (although we hadn't.) He was visibly on something...

I happened to be leaving work at the same time Conan was leaving after taping his show. He gave me a double-take, dawg. Meow!

[BlueStorm]

73. Jesse Jackson

During last year's Prop. 2 rally. I got to hug him and shake his hand.

I also got his autograph.

Blue

[Broken_Hero]

75. A few

1. Dale Ellis, NBA player

2. Scott Pollard, during his KU basketball dayz.

on edit:Steve Wallace, 49ner lineman.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

77. Several. Democrats and musicians.

Samuel Ramey (hugs!!), Bill Bradley (hug!even though I came up to his elbow, probably),

Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, former senator Bob Krueger, Gov. John Connally, Vice President Lyndon Johnson (gave me a pass to the Senate), Molly Ivins, Sissy Farenthold, James Galway, Van Cliburn, Andre Previn, Sir John Barbirolli, Roberta Peters, Robert Shaw, Woody Herman, Gatemouth Brown, Aaron Copland (met him when I was in junior high school after he'd conducted the local symphony)-Handshakes. I told Mr. Copland, "I saw you on TV last week!" and he said "Was I good?" and I answered yes. He was on PBS conducting a performance of some of his works. I was twelve or thirteen and a symphony nerd.

I was a little kid when I met Connally & Johnson. Must have been between 1961-1963, since Lyndon was VP. It was in the Rice Hotel Ballroom and people were totally jammed together. No Secret Service guys that I could see. My daddy had to pick me up and carry me in his arms to keep me from getting crushed. So even though I was a little kid, I was just a bit below eye level. Gov. Connally asked me my name and he said "I have a little girl named (my name). Totally shocked me. Said daughter, who looks like her mother Nellie, later got famous accusing Sen. Hutchison of whacking her in the head with a plastic ring binder during a hissy fit.

Never got to meet any of the many rockstars I went to see, dadgummit. Too much security.

As far as politicians, Bill Clinton has more charisma than the law allows. I went to see him campaign in '92, and at 100 feet I was turned into a babbling idiot who could barely speak. When I was leaving all I could do was look down and shake my head and mumble, "God, he is a DOLL." Apparently millions of women around the world have this same problem. :evilgrin:

Bob Krueger also has plenty of charisma and was too smart to get elected in Texas. He can quote Shakespeare and speak Spanish fluently, so he is not to be trusted.

I watched Hillary make a stump speech with no notes in 1992 for about an hour and she also has lots of charisma. Unfortunately, none of the liberal goals she talked about in that speech were accomplished. I know, because I videotaped it myself. And no it's not on YouTube.

[khashka]

78. A lot

O.J.before the murder thang.
Paul and Linda Macartney. (No one believes I used to hang with a Beatle.)
Too many famous authors who will remain nameless because we had torrid affairs and I don't want to tell about it without their permission.
James Hunt, the race car driver, either at Heathrow or Gatwick, but an incribly nice man.
Richard Burton.
Nancy Pelosi.
Barbara Boxer.
Jane Fonda.

Many others... if someone interests me I try to meet them.

[ForrestGump]

80. A fair few. My favorite was Vanity -- she held my hand

I was in love. The way things worked out with my marriage, maybe I should have felt out the possibility of leaving the place with her. :D

I haven't made a habit of touching celebrities, but some I remember (handshakes, mostly) are James Brown, Dwight Yoakum, Al Gore, Herbie Hancock, Kenny Rogers, Robert Stack, some of the Kentucky Headhunters, Slash, A**hole Axl Rose (he careened into me...he was an obnoxious pig, too), the actress who was in And The Cradle Will Rock (Roseanne Arquette?), Tom Poston, Ricardo Montalban, a bunch of gangsta rappers whose oeuvre I wasn't familiar with, and some lesser-known (in the US) singers, actors, and TV 'personalities' and performers from other countries, as well as scientists (Edward O. Wilson, Eugenie Clark, and Sylvia Earle, for example), explorers, underwater filmmakers and photographers, climbers, and other outdoorsy 'stars.' Most of my celebrity-fondling came from when I lived in Los Angeles, married in to a showbiz family.

Oh, yeah: almost forgot -- Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Phillip, Prince Charles, and I think maybe Princess Anne (I was a really little kid for Anne, but I got the royal handshake from Chucky on two different occasions -- ate some of his leftovers, too, once -- and I may have done the same with his Mummy and Daddy (early '70s and late '80s).

And Bubbles, Mikey Jackson's chimp!!!! :D

The most recent was a dude (Hispanic) who plays some kind of police officer on The Shield, but I've never seen the show so didn't recognize him at all and I forget his name now...he was cool, though (I know his sister, a beautiful young lady who is a bartender at one of the clubs here in Las Vegas). That's actually the trouble with not watching any TV: twice in one week, in LA, I was standing right next to some dude from ER and didn't know it until the person with me pointed it out to me. I had no idea who he was and still don't. He was just some regular-looking guy. I could be standing right next to one of the most famous TV actors around and not know. And they'd probably be grateful I didn't know,especially given my propensity for grabbing famous people. :P

These people are just people, but I have always tended to admire people who do things very, very well, so in that respect I think that many of these 'celebrities' deserve a little recognition not for their fame and/or fortune but for their abilities, whether it's in art, performing, athletics, science, or whatever. It doesn't make them inherently worthier, but neither does their 'celebrity' status make them less worthy -- there is a fair bit of iconoclast sentiment hereabouts, for example, much of it doubtless warranted in the degree to which the US media and PR machines hype the glitterati and the Hollywood set -- or somehow brand them as shallow cads. A good actor is as much a craftsperson as is a maker of fine furniture, custom musical instruments, or surfboards; only the medium of expression is different, at heart.



There're a couple of celebrities I wouldn't mind yet touching....

[Orsino]

81. Shook hands with Liz Taylor and the senior George Bush, and...

Stephen Colbert sneezed down the back of my neck in a community theater production of The Good Doctor.

[QMPMom]

82. Bobby Kennedy about a month before he was assassinated.

[GenDem]

106. I had forgotten about Bobby Kennedy

He was making a campaign swing through our town. My father took me up to the American Legion to see him. I was a little kid and have a blurred memory of it, but am proud that I shook his hand.

[QMPMom]

107. He was making a campaign appearance and my parents took me.

I was 11 at the time and remember it very well. When he was shot they got me out of bed so I could watch the news with them. My parents were/are very socially aware and made sure that we were well informed on what was going on in the world.

[NewWaveChick1981]

83. I shook hands with Nelson Rockefeller....

...:P That was in seventh grade, before I knew the real differences between Republicans and Democrats. He was on a tour of schools in NC, and it was cool to shake hands with the VP. At least he was on the somewhat liberal side of the Repuke Party...:P

Ate lunch and shook hands with Celia Weston (actress). I once saw Kenny G from a distance but ran screaming in the other direction before any physical contact could occur. :P And I saw Edward James Olmos standing outside the Russian Tea Room in NYC but didn't get close enough to bump into him. :P

[Art_from_Ark]

84. Bill and Hillary Clinton

Alger Hiss
Jean Chretien
Barry Goldwater, Jr.
Jean-Pierre Rampal

[Lumily]

85. A few.

I got a handshake and a hug from Mikhail Baryshnikov.

I shook hands with Jimmy Carter, when he came to speak at my college (Elon College).

I got a couple of great hugs from James Marsters, who played Spike on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."

I also bumped into Connie Stevens, almost knocking both of us down, in the streets of Atlanta.


All were very nice people.

[Burma Jones]

86. Edward Albee, Count Basie, Jerry Garcia, Maynard Ferguson,

Going through my days at college, working lights for concerts, I shook hands with David Bromberg, Asleep at the Wheel, Luther Allison, Muddy Waters and The Ramones. KoKo Taylor give me a hug and let me play with her.....

I've met up with a bunch of politicians, Carter, Clinton, Bush the elder, Ted Kennedy, Dukakis, Mo Udall, Guiliani

I knocked Barbara Mikulski over at the Preakness...

Others: Dick Butkis, Sonny Jurgenson and other Football stars, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Bill Walton, Cal Ripkin

Probably others I can't recall......

[raccoon]

87. Teddy Kennedy! I shook his hand, in 1970. nt

[RetroLounge]

88. I don't like to talk about it much

But my affair with Mary Pickford was very special to me...

RL

[deutsey]

89. Frank Zappa, Chuck Berry, Howard Dean, Joe Trippi, Mitch Snyder

Cornell West, Medea Benjamin

[crim son]

90. I shook Stephen King's hand once, in Borders.

I'm so proud! :D

[Mad_Dem_X]

110. How cool!

I would love to meet him.

[mikeytherat]

91. Michael Jordan, Sam Donaldson, Quincy Jones, Bo Derek - in one night

Here's a pic of my band with Bo - I am standing directly behind her (guess what I'm touching)...



:evilgrin:

mikey_the_rat

[YDogg]

92. Lady Bird Johnson, back in the day.

I met her at the Chapel Hill, NC Public Library. Around 1972? I was just a bit too young to truly appreciate how wonderful it was to meet her, but it is a most pleasant memory.

[Mad_Dem_X]

93. Got to shake Kevin Spacey's hand

At the end of his concert in Atlantic City of couple of years ago.

[Jimbo S]

94. Mark Borchardt

used to be a co-worker with my wife.

She introduced me to him last year after a screening at an indie film festival.

I'm sure there have politicians and athletes I have met over the years.

[HughBeaumont]

96. Some . . .

Mick Foley, Mastodon (all), Primus (all), Kerry King (Slayer), High on Fire (all), Henry Rollins, Dennis Kucinich, Geddy Lee, Rob Flynn (Machine Head), a whole ton of metal groups (Defiance, Napalm Death, Forced Entry, D.B.C., Billy Milano/Scott Ian/Dan Lilker of S.O.D., Agony Column, Keelhaul, Dillinger Escape Plan, etc), Trey Spruance/Danny Heifetz (Mr. Bungle/Secret Cheifs 3), Tub Ring (all), 10 feet away from both Sean Penn and Jane Fonda recently, Mo Rocca and Todd Rundgren.

[babydollhead]

97. Sting

new years 1985

[hunter]

98. Peter Ustinov and Marty Feldman.

Bozo the Clown, Sheriff John, Miss Barbara, Belinda Carlisle, Donnie and Marie (their security took me away after I started carrying on about Donnie like all the cute teenaged girls they'd packed the front rows with... They weren't quite sure who's guest I was so they were very nice, but forceful. I was not the wholesome television they wanted to project...)

I was fortunate to escape Hollywood. I could have ended up wandering the streets like Gypsy Boots...

http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/FIST2004-1/X0493_Deceased-_Gypsy_Boot.html

(Yeah, I met him too.)

[RedStateShame]

99. To name a few:

Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Bob Pollard, Jon Spencer, Lee Riley, and that's all I can think of.

[GOPisEvil]

101. I shook Jimmy Carter's hand when I was about 10.

He was visiting Hawaii while serving as President.

[Blue-Jay]

102. I smoked pot with Chuck Mangione.

[hippiechick]

118. now THAT would be cool!

:applause:

[DUHandle]

103. L.B.J.

[xmas74]

104. Quite a few

but won't post most of them. (I have a few family members reading this board now and they know who I am. If they see me post who a few of them are they'll want to know how we met and I'd rather not go into the stories.)

Al Molinaro sang Happy Birthday to my aunt while he was still on Happy Days and there are pics of me as a little girl w/ his arm around me. And it used to be a tradition w/ my dad that both myself and my sibling had to be passed over to Proxmire when we were young children so that he could take a pic of us. Every time he was in a parade Dad dragged us out of the crowd and rushed him, dragging two small children in tow to shake his hand. Dad was a huge fan.

Besides that, my parents know I met Donald Trump (asshole), Bill and Hillary, Bush I (our high school band played for him and Barbara), Al and Tipper and a number of Missouri players in politics. The others are my secret.

[LynneSin]

108. We'll start with Robert Plant

I had front row at his concert in 1988 and got to hold his hand that he stretched out while he was singing the second chorus of the song "In the Mood"

I've drank with several of the players from the Cincinnati Reds circa 1990-2. I was the baseball groupie but I never did anything naughty.

At the SXSW festival in Austin TX back in 2005 I got hugged by Billy Idol. I thought he would smell but he actually smelled rather nice.

And if I have to list all the politician hands I've shaken we'd be here all day but some of the major ones include Howard Dean, Al Gore, pretty much every major politician from Delaware, John Edwards, Bob Casey,(Jr and Sr), Ed Rendell, too many democratic congressional representatives that I can count and unfortunately a few republican ones like Tom Ridge and yes, Rick Santorum (way back before he was a big name on politics)

My oddest encounter - former US representative George Gekas (Harrisburg and suburbs in PA - last of PA-17) once shook my hand back when I was like 10 years ago and gave me his business card, which he said was good for a free ice cream in New Zealand. I found him annoying that he treated me like some kid who knew nothing about politics.

[mulsh]

109. Cary Grant, Fred Astaire

when I around four years old my aunt's friend Cary took us out to lunch & I sat on his lap most of the time. He used to call me and my twin brother "My fine young man.". I was never sure if he could remember our names or tell us apart.
My grandmother grew up with the Astaires, Fred would visit her a couple of times a year. There are some more famous people but I met them when I was very young and my grandmother and aunt were still alive.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

137. Two of the most suave gentlemen of the last 100 years...

Wow! I envy you! :)

[tigereye]

111. Mick Jagger walked within 6 inches of me once

i don't think that counts though.

trying to touch would have been incredibly uncool, I think, since his wife at the time was with him. ;)

[Patiod]

112. A famous actor hit on my S.O.

We like the guy too much to out him (plus he's in a long-term relationship), but we went to see this actor we love in a gay-themed play, and went over and shook his hand and thanked him for his amazing performance.

We saw him afterwards, leaving a restaurant were we were dining outside. He came over and sat with us, and I got a really strong feeling that he was flirting with my S.O.. At one point he asked S.O. "so, where do you live?" then asked me "and where do you live?". Most people automatically assume we're married, but he wasn't picking that up at all.

I told a gay friend the story, and he didn't even let me finish. When I got to the part where the actor asked me where I lived he jumped in with "...oh me? Never mind me, I'm just the beard, honey!"

To this day, when we see him on TV, I start laughing. S.O. just says "oh, shut up," but I think he was a little bit flattered.

[Deep13]

113. James Lovell among others.

"Houston we have a problem."

Also Apollo 12's Alan Bean.

Also, HRC, Jimmy Carter, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Gov. Ted Strickland (D-OH), former Gov. Michael Dukakis (D-MA), authors Ray Bradbury and Anne Rice.

[TheBaldyMan]

115. Rush Limbaugh paid me $50 bucks to shit on his face.

:sarcasm:

[montanto]

120. Sarcasm??

Right, he didn't have to pay you!

[TheBaldyMan]

124. I have to use that so other DUers know I'm joking

there isn't a satire smiley

[hippiechick]

116. Does The Unknown Comic count ?

:rofl:

The Unknown Comic,
Big Dawg,
Al Gore
Barbara Lawton
Russ Feingold
Howard Dean
Jerry Brown
Ralph Nader
Indy Mayor Bart Peterson
(Senator) Evan Bayh
(Rep) Julia Carson
a few NASCAR drivers
a few former pro-Football players


... would any of these people remember meeting me? Doubt it. :freak:

[montanto]

121. Who IS the unknown comic???

Always wondered

[hippiechick]

125. Murray Langston

Google him, he's still out there! :hi:

[montanto]

127. Cool, thanks!

A twenty year old mystery solved!! Thanks again!



:hi:

[hippiechick]

132. Photo:

It didn't scan well because it's a color pic and I only have a b/w scanner ... but it's him wearing 2 strategically placed paper bags and nothing else. :rofl:

He gave this to me when I was a 17 year old hotel clerk! :wow:

[mark414]

117. i used to tackle fall out boy's drummer on a semi regular basis

(pre-fall out boy fame)

he's from milwaukee and we had a group of friends that used to play football in a park here on sunday mornings in the spring summer and fall...good times, i miss those days

[hippiechick]

119. tsk. wasting your tackling talents ...

when here i sit ... untackled ... :P

[mark414]

122. heyyyyyy....

:* :9 :D

it's been awhile...check yer pm

[XNASA]

123. I shook hands with the most famous person on the planet at the time.

[MissMillie]

126. I shook hands w/ Jesse Jackson

that's about it.

[sinkingfeeling]

128. Both Clintons and Robert Redford.

[Dulcinea]

129. I have shaken hands with:

Al Gore (a very nice-looking man in person!)
Clint Eastwood
George Foreman
Franco Harris, many moons ago when he played for the Steelers.

[bettyellen]

130. geo clooney wrapped his arm around me, coyly introduced himself and we talked about Darfur

and joked about whether my ass was fine. He said he thought it was. Very charming man.

[stuntcat]

133. okay well, everyone's hugged and made out with all these important people :(

Not me so much :| But once I waited in line at a nightclub with Milla Jovovich and we shook hands and talked a while.
And I rubbed elbows with Tracey Thorn at a club in London, that almost counts I think.
I got autographs of a few singers but I just chatted and gave them my paper :headbang:

[CBHagman]

134. I shook hands with Bill Clinton.

Believe it or not, when I was 17, I shook hands with Strom Thurmond, who used to lurk around the registration area waiting for incoming University of South Carolina students. Of course, the joke was on ol' Strom, as a lot of the students were from Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey. :rofl:

[Dinger]

135. Damn, I Checked & I Was Surprised To See This Thread Still "Up"

Over 1500 vews - I feel validated now:P

[In_The_Wind]

136. Donald Trump & Will Pitt

[rateyes]

139. Just got a phone call from...

Peyton Manning, asking me for my blood!

Hate to admit some of this...my Grandfather took me around to every Republican Rally he could drag me to...one reason I'm a Democrat...some, I'm happy to have met...

Ronald Reagan
Jimmy Carter
Lamar Alexander
Howard Baker
Jimmy Connors
Don Meredith
Warren Moon
(Came within 6 feet of Nixon)
Don't know if you remember the DIShonorable Gov. of Georgia, Lester Maddux (bigot)---had my pic with him in his Governor's office when I was 8 years old.

[Emops]

140. Al Sharpton grabbed me and patted me on the back

Quite unexpectedly, I might add.

I've shaken the hands of Wes Clark, John Kerry (twice), John Edwards (three times), Dennis Kucinich, John Glenn, Rhine McLin (mayor of Dayton, OH, who seemed surprised that I knew who she was), Pete Rose, Jon Anderson (singer of Yes)...maybe others, I can't remember. Oh, and Dusty Hill pointed at me once when I was in the front row at a ZZ Top concert.

[femmedem]

141. My SO's son sat on B.B. King's lap.

He was really little (the son, not B.B.) He was dressed as a tiny Blues Brother. :)

Me? A handshake with Lamont. Does that count?

[City Lights]

142. Me. Michael Jackson's right thigh.

Kinda :blush: about it now, seeing what a freak he's become. I touched him back in the 70's before the skin lightening and facial adjustments.

[MrScorpio]

143. Jesse Jackson, Marion Barry, Roy Ayers and Donald Byrd

Shook hands with all

[BuelahWitch]

144. A rather odd list

Howard Dean (a couple of times)
Donny Osmond
Jimmy Osmond
Lauren Tewes (Julie on The Love Boat)
John Schneider
Betty Garrett (was in On the Town with Kelly and Sinatra)
Ted Cassidy (Lurch from The Addams Family)
Didn't touch Mickey Rooney but I had my picture taken with him.

My mother kissed Burt Reynolds when he was doing summer stock in Ohio in 1972.

[NNadir]

145. Richard Nixon.

When I was 16 years old in 1968 I shook his hand at a mall where he was making a campaign stop.

The main thing I remember is all the make up he was wearing.

I was a dumb kid and didn't realize that he was, well, Richard Nixon. I actually thought it was kind of cool in a dumb kid kind of way.

About two years later I had a brief conversation with Jerry Garcia, but I don't know that we touched one another.

I sat - in silence - next to the Nobel Laureate Glenn Seaborg for about an hour once at a seminar he was attending on the subject of einsteinium Chemistry. I'm sure we didn't touch or speak but I will remember that hour for the rest of my life.

I once ordered a falafel while waiting in line behind Toni Morrison, but I didn't bother her either.

I also was recently in a food court when John Nash was ordering stuff from a Japanese fast food place. He dresses badly.

I drove down a road where Andrew Wiles - who proved Fermat's last theorem - was taking a walk.