Whose hand have you had the pleasure of shaking?

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

The hand I'm proudest of having clasped belongs to Buz Aldrin. (Interesting note: Google has both "Buz" and "Buzz" as acceptable spellings. I made my choice. :evilgrin: )

I've also had the pleasure of slippin' skin with Peter Frampton, Ray Stevens, Lee Greenwood (boo hiss), Alan Jackson, and a few others I've since forgotten.

G'ahead. Impress me. If you can.... :rofl:

[NightWatcher]

1. Clint Eastwood while filming Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

2. Dayum.

You're GOOD.

[kedrys]

3. Buzz Aldrin me too!

Trent Reznor, Al Gore, Jean Beliveau (for Canadiens hockey junkies only), Robert Drake (astrophysicist and cool sci-fi author), Tom Rech (Nobel Prize winner and RNA wonk).

Not trying to impress you though. :P

[DarkTirade]

4. ... I got nothin'.

Met a few famous/interesting people, don't think I ever shook any of their hands. :P

[Starbucks Anarchist]

5. Henry Winkler, Ray Manzarek, Black Thought from the Roots.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

7. Ooooh. The Fonz.

Aaaaayyyyyyyy. :rofl:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

16. He was my college-graduation speaker.

Nice guy. Quite short, too. ;)

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

18. They're ALL short.

:shrug:

[DS1]

74. Larry King looks like an overgrown Geico Gecko in person

It's rather shocking

[martymar64]

132. Kevin Costner is really tall.

So is Kris Novoselic.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. My dear Prisoner_Number_Six!

I shook the hand of our wonderful Jerry Brown, our newest Attorney General!

Plus he put his arm around me for a picture!

I can fetch it if you need proof... ;-)

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

11. Too, too cool!

Although I don't need proof, who am I to deprive you of an opportunity to post such a historically significant captured moment?

:evilgrin:

[SeattleGirl]

8. Bill Cosby, Susan St. James, Jessica Lange, Jane Curtain,

President Ford, and Ginger Rogers. There are a few more that I can't recall right now.

[Thurston Howell III]

26. When/Where did you see Ford? Bill Cosby?

Thanks.

[SeattleGirl]

34. At a hotel I worked at in Eugene, OR.

Both of them stayed there.

[Parche]

133. Hey

Which hotel did you work at in Eugene?

My mommy lives there, I had a friend that worked at the Eugene Hilton downtown years ago...

:hi:

[Bennyboy]

9. Jerry Garcia, Michael Franti, Wavy Gravy, Ken Kesey,

Gregg Allman,Timothy Leary,Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Vince Herman (Leftover Salmon) members of String Cheese Incident, Bruce Springsteen.........

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

12. I keep asking myself what all those people had in common

... my answer is "quite a bit". :toast:

[Bennyboy]

20. And Tom Hanks!

[RushIsRot]

10. Bobby Kennedy

[SeattleGirl]

14. Oh my.

I wish I could have done that. I was 13 when he was assassinated. I still think he would have been an amazing President.

[RushIsRot]

He was Attorney General at the time. I was a file clerk at the FBI.

Department of Justice had a fine arts festival and I entered several photographs. I won first place in color photography. Ethel was to present the awards, but Bobby popped into the festivities, leaned against the wall and shook the hands of all the winners along with Ethel after she had given out the ribbons. It was a heady moment for a young guy, I can tell you.

[nuxvomica]

51. I met him when he was the junior senator from New York

Hairiest hand I've ever shook. He was quite taken with my developmentally disabled brother and gave him a PT-109 tie clasp as a souvenir.

[Rhiannon12866]

113. Very impressive! Does he still have it, I hope?! That is a lovely story...

:-)

[nuxvomica]

118. I just called my mom and my brother still has it

When I get a chance I'll take a picture and post it.

[HERVEPA]

13. Reggie

[pokerfan]

15. Buzz Aldrin for me, too.

Man, that guy gets around. I met him at a Mars Convention along with James Cameron, Bob Zubrin amd Robert Forward.

Met Story Musgrave at an AstroCon.

Shared a smoke with Warren Zevon once.

And the guy that got shot down in Bosnia, name is escaping me. ETA: Scott O'Grady.

Those are the ones that come to mind at the moment.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

22. I met Buzz at the space museum/space camp in Huntsville.

I went there several times when I lived in Nashville- on Saturday I used to take my bike all the way to Huntsville on the back roads. It was great fun, and I loved the museum.

On edit: by "bike" I mean my motorcycle... :evilgrin:

[pokerfan]

28. Don't they have a Saturn V there?

[Ptah]

17. Edgar Bergen

[drmeow]

19. Michael Collins

he's my mom's cousin. Granted, he didn't walk on the moon ... but they needed him more than he needed them :)

Actually, I probably got a hug rather than a hand shake. My family (minus Dad) with Michael Collins in his office at the Air and Space Museum - 1979:

<>

edited to add picture and to say ... hey, I broke 100

[madinmaryland]

21. IBTL!! You frickin pevs!

[Critters2]

23. Howard Dean once chaired a pastoral search committee that interviewed me.

They ended up offering me the job, too. But another church beat 'em to me. Else, I would've been Howard Dean's pastor!

[Thurston Howell III]

36. What's Dean like in person?

[Critters2]

37. Very unassuming.

He was Lieutenant Governor at the time. He was supposed to pick me up and show me around town before the interview, and he was very late. When he arrived, he apologized, saying he'd been at the state legislature until 3 am that morning. One of my uncles was a lobbyist in Springfield, so I don't necessarily assume being at a meeting of the legisiature means one is an elected official. I said "You work in the Capitol?" Him: "Yeah, I'm the Lieutenant Governor". What struck me was that I was sitting right next to him in the front seat of this little foreign car of some kind. In Illinois, an official like that would have a big car with a driver and a bunch of Secretary of State police hanging around--trust me, I've seen it. Not Howard. Just him and me, driving around Montpelier, seeing the sights.

It would've been interesting to be his pastor.

[Thurston Howell III]

43. Wow! Thanks.

[NNadir]

24. I wouldn't say "pleasure" necessarily but Richard M. Nixon and I shook hands.

It was in a parking lot at the ironically named "Walt Whitman Mall" in Huntington Station in 1968.

I was there to buy socks or something like that and I noticed this huge crowd in the parking lot and curiosity got the best of me, so I stood in the crowd.

There were a lot of guys from the SDS there, by the way, chanting and shouting anti-war slogans.

He made a completely meaningless speech - 3 minutes at most - then "spontaneously - leaped into the crowd right near me. He extended his hand and I shook it.

Ow.

This was the "New Nixon." The startling thing about the "New Nixon" was the amount of make-up he was wearing. No wonder his jowls sagged.

[Robeson]

25. Al Gore and Gore Vidal...

...I was most happy to be able to meet Gore Vidal and chat with him.

[Jamastiene]

27. I read that subject line soooo wrong.

:evilgrin:

:rofl:

I shook Joan Jett's hand and Ricky Byrd's hand. Both were real honors for me. :patriot:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

29. I'm surprised you're the only one in all those posts.

This IS the Lounge, after all.... :rofl:

[Quantess]

30. Nancy Sinatra

her hand was little and cold, even though she had been running around onstage.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

31. Wow. I had a real crush on her at one time.

Seems like a billion years ago. :toast:

[abq e streeter]

71. bad news for both of us- Nancy Sinatra?-that WAS about a billion years ago

[Metta]

32. Jay McShann and Red Rodney, one degree of separation from Charlie Parker.

Also, Wilbur Ware and many, many folk singers.

[Fox Mulder]

33. The only "famous" person's hand I shook was fmr. MN Gov. Arne Carlson.

Not that I'm proud of it.

[mitchum]

35. Hubert Sumlin, Johnny Cash, Bill Clinton, Paul Stanley...

and others

[Kat45]

38. Wes Clark, three times, once on TV. And Elton John once.

[enigmatic]

39. Sun Ra

That was a good night.

[enigmatic]

45. Damn, I forgot about Robert Anton Wilson

A billiant mind, and a funny, funny man:



http://www.rawilson.com/main.shtml

[Missy Vixen]

40. Al Gore and the governor of my state, Christine Gregoire

When Governor Gregoire was Attorney General Gregoire, she went after an unscrupulous businessman that not only cost Mr. JulieRB and I money we could ill afford, he did it to several thousand others in our state as well.

I'm happy to say that the unscrupulous businessman can't do business in WA anymore.

In the meantime, shaking Al Gore's hand last year was one of the highlights of my life.

Julie

[Oeditpus Rex]

41. My dad's

[begin_within]

42. Not me, but my Dad

met Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart at the same time, at a National Geographic Society luncheon approximately 1932 or 1933. He was either 14 or 15 at the time. My grandparents went to all the luncheons and met most of the speakers/honorees. They also had Gloria Steinem as a dinner guest in their house in Chevy Chase, Maryland. My sister dated Lew Alcindor (now Kareem Abdul Jabbar) while she was a student at UCLA in the late 1960s.

[libnnc]

44. Dr. Cornel West

He did a lecture and book signing at my university a few years ago.

[ptvet]

46. Cindy Sheehan, Sean Penn, David Cline

Roy Firestone, Sherman Alexie, Kermit Washington, Jane Fonda and a few too many politicians :hi:
But I am most proud to have met the many IVAW and VFP vets in my travels....

[noamnety]

125. My immediate thoughts echoed yours.

The hands I was proudest to shake weren't necessarily the ones people here would know - just a bunch of veterans and relief workers. :)

[ptvet]

127. Amazing people

Doing so much...I salute them. :patriot:

[huskerlaw]

47. Today? Aaron Sorkin

Other days... John Edwards, Elizabeth Edwards, Allison Janney, Bradley Whitford, John Wells, Martin Sheen (sensing a theme yet?), Jane Kaczmarek, Kate Walsh...um, I *know* I'm forgetting people. Like, lots of people. Ah well.

[democracyindanger]

48. Carl Lewis, Spike Lee, Bill Walton,

Drew Bledsoe, Sheryl Swoopes, Elliot Smith, Eartha Kitt...off the top of my head.

[qb]

49. Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak

He knocked on my door during his first campaign. He also shows up to a lot of local park events.

[Inchworm]

50. The one that is the neatest for me was Gerald Ford

I was a wee one and he wanted my vote.

:hi:

[hippywife]

52. Dennis J. Kucinich.

I'm sure there are others but this one meant the most.

[Orsino]

53. George H. W. Bush's

There wasn't much pleasure in it, but I was getting my diploma, and the Secret Service probably wouldn't have let me shake it any harder. :patriot:

[lightningandsnow]

54. The Cliks (one of my favorite bands)

Actually, I didn't shake their hands... I HUGGED all of them!

Because I'm just that kind of person.

[GOPisEvil]

55. Jimmy Carter and Tiger Woods.

Not at the same time.

Jimmy Carter back when he was President and I was but a wee lad of 9 or 10. Tiger back in 1996.

[Whoa_Nelly]

56. Bill Maher

Wayne Brady, Pat Simmons, Eddie Money (he kissed my hand...swoon!),
Bud Wilkinson (Was the OU football coach...came to dinner at our house several times when I was young...Wiki on him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Wilkinson)

Am sure there are a few more,
but I just got up
and am still shakin' the cobwebs outta my head....

[Thurston Howell III]

85. I heard that Bill Maher can be a prima donna. Is that true?

[Whoa_Nelly]

99. You heard right!

When we were backstage after the show in Reno, he got all pissy over there not being any liquor in the green room.

Stormed out of the room, and then came back in, ran into me (damn, he's short), didn't apologize (I did and asked if he was all right), then he proceeded to say some deprecating things to the few people in the room.

I chose to leave at that point.

He's not real pleasant to be around.

[Thurston Howell III]

110. OMG! That's sad to hear about him.

I met Steve Perry - not a handshake - of Journey. He seems like a nice guy but a little snotty.

[ordinaryaveragegirl]

57. Several...

Bill Clinton, B.B. King, Eddie George (ex-Tennessee Titans), John Glenn, Barry Sanders (twice), Joe Walsh (Eagles - 4 times), Johnny Bench, Brad Delp (Boston), Harrison Ford, Carrie Underwood, Stedman Graham (Oprah's longtime partner), LP (Yellowcard), Bill Cosby, Ron Wood, Charlie Watts, Vince Neil (Motley Crue), and many, many others.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

58. Al Gore, Olivier Messaien, Beverly Sills, Wes Clark, Paul Wellstone, Walter Mondale.

[AwakeAtLast]

115. Messaien - very impressive!

Do tell!

:hi:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

121. This was a long time ago; I was in college.

Messiaen and his wife Yvonne Loriod were performing at a recital, and I met them through my piano teacher. He seemed like a nice old guy. Weird music, though.

[AwakeAtLast]

129. LOL! Yes, his music was challenging to hear

My freshman year of college (Music Major) was, I believe, the 100th anniversary of his birth. I heard many, many Messiaen pieces that year. Some were fantastic, others.....not so much. :D

[theredpen]

59. Peter Gabriel

Ha! Top that!

[tekisui]

60. Ladybird Johnson.

[EstimatedProphet]

61. I look at it as how many people have had the pleasure of shaking my hand instead

[gmoney]

62. James Brown!

Granted, from the edge of the stage, but it was pretty cool. :)

[WritingIsMyReligion]

63. Hillary Rodham Clinton's, actually. Twice.

:evilgrin:

[BeachBaby]

64. Do hugs and kisses count?

Hug and kiss from Joe Perry (Aerosmith)
Hug and kiss from Tre Cool (Green Day)
Handshake from DeeDee Myers
Handshake from Marcia Clark
Hugs from Greg Luzinski and Ron Jaworski - customary of my Polish brethren :)

[Justpat]

65. James Brown and Hubert Humphrey

I met James Brown in Hubert Humphrey's office in '67. My roommate in college was
Robert McNamara's daughter and we used to go to the WH to visit him all the time
in those days.

So when James Brown came to the WH to receive some award we made sure that we
were invited.

[NNadir]

66. I just recalled that I shook my Congressman's hand too.

That would be Rush Holt.

I introduced him to my oldest son at a science fair.

He also read to my youngest son at a preschool.

I also had a conversation with him about climate change in a public forum.

[Coyote_Bandit]

67. Johnny Cash,

B. B. King. Bill and Hillary Clinton - during his first campaign in Arkansas. And some less than honorable folks including John Tyson, Sam Walton, David Glass, and Oral Roberts.

Nothing tops the Man in Black.

[Va Lefty]

68. Alan Alda, George McGovern, Cal Ripken

I met Mr. Alda on a NY-LA flight in '84 or '85. Quite possibly the nicest man alive. He came back in coach (the plane was about half full) and signed autographs and visited with people for almost two hours. Just a very charming, polite, intelligent man.

Shook McGovern's hand at campaign rally in Iowa when he was running for President in '88. A great American who would have made a great President.

Shook Cal Ripken's hand at a AA baseball game in Bowie MD in '05. As a life long Oriole fan that was a trill for me.

[tpsbmam]

78. I've met lots of cool people....

but I'm jealous of you flying with Alda. Always wanted to meet him because he always came across as just what you describe. Glad to have it confirmed!

[abq e streeter]

69. Al Gore, Ernie Banks, Del Shannon, Martie and Emily of the Dixie Chicks...

Clinton chief of staff John Podesta , Bill Richardson, Albert Collins, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, , James McMurtry, , Joe Ely, former NM governor Gary Johnson ( right wing libertarian but also bravely championed drug legalization) , Stones' saxman Bobby Keys, ... oh yeah, and my old roommate Bennett Inkeles, who's the author of the words " tough actin' tinactin"

[Beausoir]

70. Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale, Wendall Anderson, Mike Landon, Eric Estrada, Jason Bateman,

Whole bunch more celebs..way back in the early 80's.

[Puglover]

72. Bobby Kennedy n/t

[FloridaJudy]

73. Alan Ginsberg

My kid got to shake Hillary Clinton's hand back in 1992 (he was 10). He refused to wash his hand for a week afterwards. I let him, but did insist he wash his left hand so that he could eat - I'm not a completely negligent parent. Not that I thought HRC had cooties, but have you ever seen a 10 year old's hand that hasn't been washed for a week? Yuck!

[MarianJack]

75. Quite a Few that I'm proud of!

George McGovern twice, Hubert Humphrey, Ed Rendell, John Street, Lew Blackwell (former Congressman & Philadelphia City Councilman), Lynn Yeakel (who could've beaten arlen specter in '92), Bob Edgar (a 6 term congressman from the incredible rethuglican Philadelphia suburb of Delaware County), Mike Michaud (3 times. He's now my congressman), Gov John Baldacci, Patrick Kennedy & Eunice Shriver.

I've shaken hand with a few turds, too, but I'll pass on listing them!

BTW, in 1960, a few days before he was elected, my parents took me to see JFK in a parade down (I think) Macdade Blvd in Darby PA. My father was holding me up and HE said that Kennedy ruffled my hair, my mom said he just waved at me. I have no memory of this, but given their histories and their perspectives, I'd guess that my mom was right. More than likely, my little 5 year old tush was right in front of my dad's face.

[Mad_Dem_X]

76. Kevin Spacey's

At the end of a concert he did in Atlantic City. He has nice, smooth hands. :)

[SecularMotion]

77. Joe Strummer

Paul Westerberg, Joey Ramone, David Johansen..

on edit: Just remembered - David Letterman

[tpsbmam]

79. I dunno about "pleasure" in some of these cases......

John Kennedy, Bobby & Ethel Kennedy, Nixon (still taking showers to clean off those cooties), Jackie Kennedy, LBJ & Lady Bird, Gerald Ford, Dodd, Ted & Joan Kennedy, McGovern, Humphrey, George H.W. Bush (that one required more disinfectant than a shower was up to), Howard Dean, Herb Brownell (Eisenhower's AG), Moynihan, Javits, tons of other congresspersons & senators, Nelson & Happy Rockefeller, John & Mary Lindsay, Gloria Steinem, Bella Abzug, Germaine Greer, etc etc. Hollywood types and musicians (fav actor in person: Rita Moreno -- cool woman; fav from the music world in person: Andre Kostelanetz -- true mensch; biggest asshole: Danny Kaye). Some sports people who were totally forgettable. Apollo 11 astronauts, King Hussein (the elder), Golda Meir, Moshe Dyan and my creepiest: J. Edgar Hoover.

Dear god, most of the people are dead. Methuselah honey, roll over -- you're snoring again!

[charlie and algernon]

81. what do you do that you got to meet all the politicos?

[tpsbmam]

82. I grew up with

a politician as a father.....evidently a long, long time ago! And I've been politically active on and off during my life. :hippie:

[charlie and algernon]

80. Barack Obama, John Kerry, Mario Andretti, Janet Reno

[Burma Jones]

83. Count Basie, The Ramones, The Clintons, Ted Kennedy, Billy Graham, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter

Dizzy Gillespie, Maynard Ferguson, Maurice Andre, Doc Sevrensen, Gerry Mulligan, Charlie Byrd, other musicians such as Koko Taylor and David Hidalgo and a bunch of other politicians. I grew up in DC around power, had lunch at Billy Graham's house, played trumpet well and I was a sound and lighting technician for my College's Union Board.

[IntravenousDemilo]

84. Buzz Aldrin sure gets around, doesn't he?

I met him back in 1975 when he came to our town to talk about clinical depression. Our HS student council sent me and another member of the council to the event as representatives of Thom Collegiate. He would absolutely not talk about walking on the moon.

Other than that... Stephen Sondheim, Katharine Hepburn, Spalding Gray (he saw me looking sad and depressed and invited me to dinner), Alex Trebek ;), Ron Howard, former prime ministers John Diefenbaker, Joe Clark & Pierre Trudeau, Russell Crowe, Paul Giamatti, Red Buttons, Pete Seeger, Chris Noth, Blythe Danner, Hal Prince, William Christopher, Larry Linville, CTV news anchor Lloyd Robertson, Renée Zellweger, Ted Lange, Judy Norton-Taylor (remember the oldest Walton girl?), Rob Morrow, James Spader, Harvey Keitel, the cast of Kids in the Hall, The Chieftains (apparently they don't like Guinness or something, because all we had were Coronas), George Carlin, John Cleese, critic John Simon, and a bunch of others I can't think of right now...

I hope I've also met some people who are not yet famous, but will be.

[WinkyDink]

86. Carter, Gore, Mondale, Ferraro, Kerry, Edwards, Cuomo, and Diana Ross!

[Maestro]

87. Walter Mondale, Jesse Jackson and Stevie Ray Vaughn

come to mind.

[Deja Q]

88. Mine.

After washing up having took a leak in the loo and following those detail descriptions on the tile glued to the mirror over the sink...


:hide:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

91. Wowsers! You really go for the gusto, don't cha!

:rofl: :toast:

[AngryOldDem]

89. John Kerry n/t

[Lydia Leftcoast]

90. Dennis Kucinich, Hubert Humphrey, Dick Cavett, Wendy Wasserstein, and

a number of mystery writers, including J.A. Jance, Anne Perry, Earl Emerson, Barbara Nealy, Aaron Elkins, Kent Kruger, Ruth Rendell, James Lee Burke, Bill Pronzini, Erin Hart, Sara Paretsky, and Andrew Vachss. (I used to live near a mystery bookstore.)

Oh, also Amy Tan, Libby Larsen, Studs Terkel, Jimmy Carter, and Helmuth Schmidt when they came to the college where I taught.

[Mojambo]

92. Howard Zinn. n/t

[pengillian101]

93. Robert Redford

At a Minnesota Democratic fundraiser in the 1980's and he was very personable. What a posh party. I knew someone who had tickets and got invited to this very fancy home where he gave a speech. I have a picture of me shaking his hand buried somewhere in picture albums. I think it cost $65, but I sure had fun with that picture, sending out Christmas photo greetings,

He was a heart-throb! Turned out he was just a bit taller than me (5'4) and was so thin that I could notice his ribs. Still - what a hunk! :9


This picture is not mine, but probably in the same time-frame.

[femmocrat]

94. Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro.

We waited for hours to get a first row spot.

[pengillian101]

103. Wellstone, Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro

I attended a few of those fundraisers, myself.

Nice to greet ya!

My last 'job' was typing up a Wellstone flyer that was never posted. He died that day up here in the northwoods of Minnesota.

I miss him still.

[easttexaslefty]

95. Dennis Kucinich,

Anne Rice, Cindy Sheehan, Dallas folks..not easy being a progressive here

[electron_blue]

96. Neil Armstrong

I'm still smiling about it.

Beyond that, I don't think I have anyone famous.

[Turbineguy]

97. Story Musgrave, the Astronaut

Maxim Vengarov the Violinist.

[Aristus]

98. Senator John Kerry.

And world-renowned author Harlan Ellison:

[China_cat]

138. I've met Kerry but not shook his hand,

but I'm sooooooooooooo jealous of you sitting there with Ellison. I adore the man.

[Aristus]

100. Funny thing about John Kerry. Not funny ha-ha, just odd.

These pics were taken at an event sponsored by the Colored Women's Association of Tacoma (I'm neither "colored" nor a woman, just a die-hard Democrat, so they let me in). I don't know if you can tell by the picture, but the blazer he's wearing is a little on the cheap side, and his shirt and tie were just ordinary. I thought it was strange for a wealthy man, and a United States Senator. It probably points to a complete lack of pretension on his part, which I applaud; but I'm a bit of a clothes-horse, and I couldn't help noticing...

[mokawanis]

101. I have a few

Jesse Jackson (anti-war ally in Chicago and at a demo against ADM in Decatur, Ill.), Ralph Nader (founding convention in Ohio for the Labor Party), Kurt Vonnegut (at a speech here at UW Madison), Dennis Kucinich (campaign appearance last election).

[cemaphonic]

102. Neville Marriner

the conductor.

[DemoTex]

104. George W. Bu$h flew my JetStar-II jumpseat in my Ken Lay days ..

I shook his hand. He shook mine. No pleasure, either side.

[Lorien]

105. Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, John Kerry, and too may celebrities to remember

(I used to work in a major motion picture film studio). Lots of people who weren't a pleasure to meet- like Henry Kissinger and Michael Jackson. Michael came around a lot-and he's as odd as you think he is.

[dpbrown]

106. Dennis Kucinich, Dr. Patch Adams, George McGovern, Al Franken, Mo Rocca, Alan Page

And others.

[speedoo]

107. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, a few weeks before..

he was assassinated.:cry:

[av8rdave]

108. A few of the Apollo astronauts....

Jim Irwin, Dave Scott, Frank Borman, Charles Duke. Also Howard Dean, Maynard Ferguson, Curtis LeMay, Tommy Emmanuel, Tip O'Neill, Pat Green...Those are all off of the top of my head.

[Radical Activist]

109. Al Gore, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry

Al Franken, Dick Durbin, others.

[k8conant]

111. Martin Luther King, Jr, and Bobby Kennedy...

After June 1968, I quit shaking hands with anyone famous that I admired :-(

[raccoon]

112. Ted Kennedy. nt

[AwakeAtLast]

114. Skinner, Al Unser, Sr., and I touched Billy Joel's foot (front row center)

:D

[x-g.o.p.er]

116. Garrison Keillor, Archie Griffin, Woody Hayes,

CLinton press secretary Mike McCurry. And when I was four, Hubert H. Humphrey ruffled my hair and called me a "future Democrat".

My Mom the Republican was none too pleased, but she always enjoyed telling the story. I have no recollection.

[no name no slogan]

117. Paul Wellstone (several times), Dennis Kucinich, Fritz Mondale, Mike Dukakis

I knew Paul Wellstone back when he was a college professor, and shook his hand a number of times.

I also hung out with a few members of various 80s/90s indie bands, but otherwise that's the extent of the famous people I've met.

[triguy46]

119. My son's...

in the Duke Medical Center ER last August when we found out he not only survived a C5 fracture, but had no paralysis.

[GoneOffShore]

120. Judy Collins

John Denver, Ashley Hutchings, Claude Terrail, Cedric Dickens (great grandson of the author), China Forbes, Thomas Lauderdale, Pavarotti, HRH Prince Phillip (yuck), Jean Marie LaCroix (Chef not fashion designer).

[mzteris]

122. Does - um - more

than a handshake count?

:evilgrin:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

124. Only if you give a full, detailed description.

Photos, videos, or voice recordings are a definite plus. :evilgrin:

[JackBeck]

123. Muhammad Ali when I was 7.

And then the next would be Hillary Clinton when Bill first ran for President. Followed most recently by shaking hands with Bill in Toronto at a conference.

There have been others, but those three stand out.

[BarenakedLady]

126. is handshake a euphemism?

:shrug:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

128. Personally, it was a real question about a real gesture.

I can't vouch for all the replies.

[guitar man]

130. Ray Benson

Ray is probably my favorite, a hero of mine. A big sumbitch with a huge paw. It was when Asleep at the Wheel was in town back in '92 and I cought up with him at the Cains to get his autograph on my guitar. :)

[martymar64]

131. Dean Martin

also Chevy Chase, John Carpenter, Bill Paxton, Joe Bob Briggs.

[China_cat]

134. Septima Clark.

Not just a handshake. I got to hug her.

[YankeyMCC]

135. Many Veterans

from WWII and Vietnam mostly, mostly in my family.

Wes Clark

Buzz Aldrin

And last but not least the man who found my son when he was lost in the crowd at the beach and returned him to me.

[ThatsMyBarack]

136. Oprah Winfrey!

She came to speak at my high school on MLK day, 1986! :bounce:

[Parche]

137. John Kerry/Magic Johnson/Martin Short/Peter Jacobson

Clyde Drexler/Terry Porter/Jerome Kersey/Detlef Schrempf/

:woohoo: :hi:

[Redneck Socialist]

139. Bruce Babbit, Bela Fleck...

Several of NH's Senators, past and present, but they're pukes so they don't count. Most of the presidential candidates in 1992, even the wacky ones. One of the perks of being a political junkie in NH.

Oh yeah, and a whole bunch of blue grass stars, people you've never heard of unless you're into bluegrass.

[ashling]

140. Howard Dean,

Texas Senator Ralph Yarborough, Ann Richards

[SKKY]

141. Recently, these two guys...