# Almost Famous People **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [March 20, 2016, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708 "2016-03-20T22:52:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/181 "2016-04-01T04:52:18Z")
1. I haven’t been to space; I haven’t been to the moon … I’m a nothing! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/182 "2016-04-01T05:02:41Z")
1. Some call me notorious, but I feel like I’m stuck in my routine. Rut Bader Ginsberg. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/183 "2016-04-01T05:06:35Z")
1. I like to give people automobiles. Car Grant! (Hellooooo? Anyone out there? I believe I am winning this game.) ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/184 "2016-04-01T05:13:20Z")
1. With 82, I am spicy, but rarely served with frankfurters. 2. Compared to 81, I’m a little bland. But don’t cry for me, I’m still a superstar. I’ve got “Antony Wiener”, but I can’t do with anything with Cleopatra. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/185 "2016-04-01T05:19:34Z")
1. When those little bugs are purple colored, they are much easier to detect. Lice Walker. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/186 "2016-04-01T05:23:17Z")
1. I’m always being told to sit without moving a muscle. Be Stiller. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/187 "2016-04-01T11:37:46Z")
> [@Karen\_Lingel](#): > > 1. I like to give people automobiles. > > Car Grant! > > (Hellooooo? Anyone out there? I believe I am winning this game.) I’m certain you are. You’re good. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2016, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/188 "2016-04-02T01:03:05Z")
I am going to cheat with this one (subtract two letters), because my answer is just too good: 77. I don’t have a big role at all, in fact it’s a very small part or amount. John Cameo Mitchell. (Because of the angry _inch_, get it?) Ha ha ha! I slay me. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2016, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/189 "2016-04-02T18:50:53Z")
1. While trying to warm up the house by stirring my wife’s lingerie in the fireplace, I came up with an awesome idea for a horror novel. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/190 "2016-04-03T07:44:58Z")
1. While trying to warm up the house by stirring my wife’s lingerie in the fireplace, I came up with an awesome idea for a horror novel. Ray Brabury? (Bury really isn’t the same as burn though…) ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/191 "2016-04-03T18:06:40Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > 1. While trying to warm up the house by stirring my wife’s lingerie in the fireplace, I came up with an awesome idea for a horror novel. Bra Stoker! ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/192 "2016-04-03T18:28:44Z")
> [@Karen\_Lingel](#): > > 1. I haven’t been to space; I haven’t been to the moon … I’m a nothing! ☹ Er, Zero Motel? ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/193 "2016-04-03T18:35:38Z")
1. Yes, yes, yes, I think it’s so nice to have you back where you belong. 2. I’m what you’d do to the fourth letter of the alphabet after you marinade it but before you smoke it. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/194 "2016-04-03T19:37:49Z")
1. Angels always exclaim when they see me climb inside a horse carcass. 2. When I have a fever, my brain tends to get scrambled. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/195 "2016-04-03T19:40:36Z")
1. Of course I have a really, really fast car. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/196 "2016-04-03T19:43:29Z")
1. I am a master of underwater anesthesiology. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/197 "2016-04-03T20:16:42Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > Er, Zero Motel? Ha ha, that’s a good one, but not the one I was thinking of. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/198 "2016-04-03T20:18:50Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > 1. I’m what you’d do to the fourth letter of the alphabet after you marinade it but before you smoke it. :eek: You’re doing WHAT to the D? ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/199 "2016-04-03T20:29:05Z")
1. When I have a fever, my brain tends to get scrambled. Eggy Lipton? ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/200 "2016-04-03T20:37:27Z")
1. I need to move my ears back, get rid of these parentheses around my mouth, and add some more context to my eyebrows. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708.md?page=11)