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My brother met Bill Shatner across the street from a Star Trek convention in Nashville back in the early-mid 90s. He was at a Subway across the way getting a sandwich, and the place was dead except one older guy behind him in line. The people working there weren't paying attention so they were just sitting there waiting to be noticed. So they eventually flag one kid down and get him to make sandwiches. They ended up joking around for a minute and Shatner invited him to sit down and eat. Shatner asked my brother if he was there for the convention and he said "Not really, I'm here while my dad goes to the convention. I really don't like Star Trek" and Shatner smiled and said "Me either" . He signed my brother's receipt. My dad called bullshit until he put it up to the picture of Shatner he stood in line for an hour to get and saw they matched up. My dad still has that receipt in his collection, right next to the nice signed 8x10 captain Kirk headshot
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My friend got LeVar Burton to sign his flask. He lost the flask not long after.
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Nov 21, 2015 01:43
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A few guys from my squadron met John Cena when the movie "The Marine" was coming out and the MWR on Edwards made a bunch of Marines show up to the premier in LA with John Cena attending. After the movie he went up to them and thanked them for their service and asked them how they liked the movie. They lied and said it was good. They said he was really nice and hung out with the XO's 8 year old who was a big wrestling fan for like 15 minutes answering all his wrestling questions. After that he told the kid something like "Your real hero should be your dad, he defends all of us from terrorists" and then the XO had to explain to his son later that a reserve squadron in the Air Wing doesn't do poo poo
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Nov 21, 2015 01:51
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I once served kebabs to 3 of the main members from hit Australian TV show Fat Pizza.
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Nov 21, 2015 01:53
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John Cena hold the record for most Make-A-Wish appearances
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Nov 21, 2015 01:54
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Hector Beerlioz posted:John Cena hold the record for most Make-A-Wish appearances Also holds record for "Most kids dead soon after hearing your inspirational speech"
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Nov 21, 2015 01:59
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FizFashizzle posted:I saw Titus andronichus walk off stage after someone unfurled a confederate flag. the dude with the confederate flag and the people that beat him up are both heroes
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Nov 21, 2015 02:08
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saw macho man randy savage once in a mall walking around in full sequined white-on-white getup and i yelled hey macho and he yelled back in the flesh baby
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Nov 21, 2015 02:11
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Whorelord posted:the dude with the confederate flag and the people that beat him up are both heroes went to a bocephus concert once and a dude in a speedo and confederate flag cape running around drunk off his rear end yelling im the king of the south
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Nov 21, 2015 02:13
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HD DAD posted:I was in a radio commercial with Gallagher when I was 7. He creeped me out. I flew a couple of times with Gallagher's brother Gerry, he was a flight instructor. Pretty nice, and he told the story of his brother telling him, "you gotta come see the show tonight, you won't believe it!" Turns out the surprise was the début of the watermelon smashing thing.
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Nov 21, 2015 02:13
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I walked into billy corgan by accident once. I really needed to piss so I didn't really register who it was Not me but on the same weekend my cousin got hit on by a radio DJ and Danny Brown
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Nov 21, 2015 02:16
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Aesop Poprock posted:She was laughing cause you'll be the first one up against the wall I'd like to think I toughened her up for the 2016 run. Given the alternatives as well ill gladly die against the wall of pantsuit than be enslaved to work on the Great Wall of Trump.
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Blue Raider posted:went to a bocephus concert once and a dude in a speedo and confederate flag cape running around drunk off his rear end yelling im the king of the south So you met Hank Williams Jr
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Tony Danza stumbled drunk out of a bar in Brooklyn wearing a tux with the tie and collar undone, barely able to walk, stumbling right into me as several handlers ran to catch him and guide him into a car, while looking at me and saying "wassa fu, fuggin, fu FAAGUT" true story
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Nov 21, 2015 02:19
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My mom got an autograph from Louis Armstrong and my dad has hung out a few times with a dude who got a nobel in physics
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Nov 21, 2015 02:19
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i chased bud tingwell down a back alley once
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Nov 21, 2015 02:19
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My dad is also really good friends with Peter Watts, if that counts. When I was younger he and I played "Black and White" and he told my dad that I was sadistic 
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Nov 21, 2015 02:26
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Asleep at my desk at a hotel AV job, the phone rings. It's George loving Carlin. "Get your rear end up here and program this VCR." I zipped up to the executive suite and set his VCR to record the Knicks game. Exchanged pleasantries; I parted with "poo poo piss gently caress oval office cocksucker mutherfucker tits." "Yeah now get the gently caress out" he replied.
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Nov 21, 2015 02:30
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The guy from dirty jobs bought me and and my friends a round in a lovely dive bar in miami while I was in college
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Nov 21, 2015 02:33
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I got Robert DeNiro a black coffee once (like he asked) but he didn't drink it. Young Foreskin Problems used to PA for an attorney 
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A friend of mine was trying to recruit Ted Raimi to be in a film he was doing and we walked up and started talking to him. Then my friend started describing the film in super-serious artsy film terms and I laughed out loud at him. Ted Raimi passed on the part.
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Waroduce posted:The guy from dirty jobs bought me and and my friends a round in a lovely dive bar in miami while I was in college mike rowe loving rules
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My Q-Face posted:A friend of mine was trying to recruit Ted Raimi to be in a film he was doing and we walked up and started talking to him. Then my friend started describing the film in super-serious artsy film terms and I laughed out loud at him. He's short as gently caress ain't he? Like maybe 5'1"
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Nov 21, 2015 02:52
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Neil Lomax came to my high school and gave some kind of motivational speech which consisted mostly of him bragging about throwing 4 touchdowns in a championship game or something. It was totally Bundyesque. Also, I'm pretty sure he was drunk. This was extra funny because this was a conservative Christian private school that I went to.
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Nov 21, 2015 02:59
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Not a bad celebrity encounter but kind of a non-starter-- I stood next to Barry Manilow once and made the usual UH IS THIS A CELEBRITY eye contact with him for a minute, but then I had to leave I should've tried to get his autograph, my parents are probably fans
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i once had to use a toilet that had just been clogged by David Liebe Hart from Tim & Eric i felt so honored
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Michael Irvin in a bar in North Dallas. He was playing pool horribly and he bet some serious cash he would win. I was taking a piss and Michael Irvin walked into a stall I heard the unmistakable sound of someone snorting coke. He was talking to himself he said "get it together Mike".
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Blue Raider posted:mike rowe loving rules My god Mike Rowe is so sexy I can't even stand it. If him and Ben Bailey did a bareback porn together, I'd sell my soul for it. Champenema posted:He's short as gently caress ain't he? Like maybe 5'1" Google says he's 6'2". Waroduce posted:The guy from dirty jobs bought me and and my friends a round in a lovely dive bar in miami while I was in college That just reminded me that when I was 19 the rock band Rammstein bought my friend Chad and I hot dogs at the hot dog restaurant across the street from Wrigley Field (Wrigley hotdogs?) They were really nice, but we kept asking if they were the band playing across the street (at the Egyptian room, I think it was called) and they kept denying. Then suddenly they said that one time they were playing a concert and they poured gas on the floor and lit it but it was ok because Germany was better, and we did the math and figured it out. There were a few other people there, apparently their opening act, a band called "hansel und Gretel". The girl with the orange hair from that band looked like baby spice did some meth.
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got a bjay from Paris hilton, she wasn't that good.
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texaholic posted:Michael Irvin in a bar in North Dallas. He was playing pool horribly and he bet some serious cash he would win. I was taking a piss and Michael Irvin walked into a stall I heard the unmistakable sound of someone snorting coke. He was talking to himself he said "get it together Mike". I 100% believe this story.
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I went to a Dogstar show when I lived in LA with a friend who was in the music business. We hung towards the back making snide comments on the band and after the set I headed into the men's room to take a piss. While I was at the urinal, in walks Keanu Reeves (bassist for Dogstar) with one of his posse and took his place at the urinal next to me. No, I didn't check out his dick. His posse dude said "Hey, there are a lot of hot chicks here tonight" and Keanu mumbled "Yeah...there're all 17." I should have looked at his dick.
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Got a handy from JLaw behind a Chili's but it turns out it was a 60 year old lady and also I have face blindness.
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Just because I'm an awkward unfunny idiot I mean mugged American Idol winner Taylor Hicks at a golf tournament I was working at. Just stood there with my arms crossed and stared at him as him and his dad drove by in their cart. He looked at me with a "what the gently caress?" expression. The next year I was working the same tourney and I had to clear out the crowd because one of Taylor's foursome (former Alabama quarterback/rear end in a top hat John Parker Wilson) hit out of bounds and I ended up talking to Taylor. He was a pretty nice guy, but I still ended the conversation with "my mom loves you". He gave me a defeated look and said he got that all the time. My brother was at a bar with Charles Barkley and said only "I loved you in Space Jam".
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LadyAmbien posted:Ugh. I wonder at what point in becoming/being a celebrity your humanity starts to drain away, and you begin to rationalize treating other human beings like that is okay? nah, she totally had me pegged, i was going to hit on her and ask for her phone #. couldn't pass up the opportunity.
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Was at a bar in down-town Toronto back in 2000 waiting for a friend when I heard a bunch of "cheering and whooping" and look over and see Ron Jeremy walk in. He was doing a local talk show (Mike Bullard) and I guess he wanted a drink. For the next 3 minutes he has to sign autographs and gets two free drinks pushed into his hand before he says, "I need some privacy, got to talk to my friend". I'm busy texting my friend on a phone with no backlight so I'm not paying attention to anything but the barely visible screen in the dark bar. A few seconds later Ron Jeremy sits down across from me in the booth and says, "hey, can I lie low here?". I tell him it's no problem and ask, "so why'd you choose this booth?" He replied, "you looked like you really didn't care who I was". We chatted for about 15 minutes before the people in the bar had regained their nerve and pretty much drove him out of the place with their pestering, but we had a pretty cool talk about getting into legit movies, how hard it was for him to get any sort of role that wasn't a, "hehe, this is that porn actor". We also talked about teaching, as I was just deciding to get into it and he had an education background when he went to university. He said when he wants to party, be seen, fawned over, and bough a million free drinks, his notoriety is the greatest thing in the world. When he wants to be alone and do something low-key, that's when idiots comes out of the woodwork and starts making things unbearable. When my friend finally arrived he didn't believe me until the waitress said, "Yeah, this guy is friends with Ron Jeremy".
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George The Animal Steele bought me an ice cream cone once when I was just a little fart. Don't remember what he said to me but he was nice.
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Orkin Mang posted:i chased bud tingwell down a back alley once Tingwell was the best and it's awesome that you chose him for your made up celebrity encounter. This one is true-- In the late 80s I saw Mr. T jogging in a park in Chicago. A father and son saw him, kid was maybe 7 and excited beyond belief. At this time Mr. T was doing all sorts of "Kids are OK, kids are the best, gotta be there for the kids" pr stuff. Dad gave the kid a piece of paper and and a pen and junior approached Mr. T, who waved the kid away without saying a word or slowing down. Father and son both visibly crumpled. Junior turned and walked back to dad, tears rolling down his cheeks, dad put his arm around son and the two shuffled off. I felt bad for both... Kid experiencing idol disappointment, and dad having to explain assholes to his son. Another time in this same park, I saw Oprah playing with her dog. Blistex posted:Was at a bar in down-town Toronto back in 2000 waiting for a friend when I heard a bunch of "cheering and whooping" and look over and see Ron Jeremy walk in. He was doing a local talk show (Mike Bullard) and I guess he wanted a drink. For the next 3 minutes he has to sign autographs and gets two free drinks pushed into his hand before he says, "I need some privacy, got to talk to my friend". I'm busy texting my friend on a phone with no backlight so I'm not paying attention to anything but the barely visible screen in the dark bar. A few seconds later Ron Jeremy sits down across from me in the booth and says, "hey, can I lie low here?". I tell him it's no problem and ask, "so why'd you choose this booth?" He replied, "you looked like you really didn't care who I was". Sir Nose fucked around with this message at 05:42 on Nov 21, 2015 |
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In 2005 I took my (then) 5 year old son to Disneyland. Screech from Saved by the Bell tried to cut in line in front of us. He didn't have a fastpass or anything, he just walked up with two girls and tried to go right in front of us. I said "excuse me?" and he just ignored me so I pushed past him to my spot in line and glared at him, he laughed and said "Hey, gently caress you" and tried to go in front of me again. I stepped in front of him and I think the girl working there saw what was happening because she came up told him to go to the back of the line. He told her to "gently caress off" too and left with the two girls. Ten years ago and I still remember how much of a dip-poo poo Screech was (and probably still is).
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The Fuzzy Hulk posted:
he is, and im ashamed to admit it, but hes my brother. im darrel diamond, celebrity brother.
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I've met a lot of celebrities over the years. Almost all of my encounters have been great. The worst one was not the fault of the celebrity. I made the mistake of going to a Creation Convention where Mark Hamill was signing autographs. I have a large Lithograph of a Star Wars poster on which I collect the autographs of folks who were in or worked on the films. I took it to the signing, only to have some dude from Creation accost me and tell me that "Mr. Hamill will only sign Official Creation Convention Merchandise." The guy was a real dick about it, even when I said I would pay for the damned picture separately if he could autograph the Litho. The guy continued to be a prick about it, to the point where Hamill became embarrassed by the whole thing. When the dick's attention was slightly diverted, Hamill had his agent rep give me a business card and said, very quietly "Show me this at a different convention and I'll sign that poster for you." I did have an instance where I felt like I stepped on my dick around a celebrity. Mrs. Genesplicer and I had gone to see a play at the Geffen Theater in Los Angeles. It is a small venue, and the cast has to leave after the performance through the lobby. It's generally a great way to meet celebrities. The play we had gone to see was "Radiance", about the life of Marie Curie, who happens to be a hero of mine. It was written by Alan Alda, and starred Anna Gunn and John de Lancie. At the end of the play, we went to the lobby to watch for the actors. While we are waiting a woman comes in carrying a messenger bag with the periodic table entry for Polonium. My brain instantly jams into Ultimate Science Teacher Nerd mode. I practically shout, with no preamble "Where did you get that bag??????" She looks somewhat taken aback and says "Uh...Mr. Alda gave them to all the cast and crew..." She hurried off, and Mrs. Genesplicer looked at me a bit accusingly and said "You were a bit abrupt..." A few minutes later The woman came walking out with John de Lancie. I approached her and apologized for being a creepy person and explained that I was just an easily excited science teacher and got really excited when I saw the bag. She accepted the apology, she and de Lancie said a couple of nice things and walked away. As they left, I heard her say "He's the one I told you about..."
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