# Any celebrity/famous dopers? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 10, 2004, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrity-famous-dopers/244513 "2004-05-10T20:34:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrity-famous-dopers/244513/21 "2004-05-12T04:49:23Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Jack Webb washed out? (snickering at his expense) Nope, just ‘the facts.’ Webb was OK as as a compatriot, although I didn’t know him well because he ran with a different group than I did as he was somewhat older. He and some college thespians put on a home-grown show at Primary Flight School which he directed and even then he was thoroughly professional at it. It’s just that flying didn’t happen to be one of his skills. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrity-famous-dopers/244513/22 "2004-05-18T19:49:26Z")
I was an extra in the movie “Sidekicks”. Does that count? Don’t blick or you’ll miss my appearance. Movies run at 24 frames a second; I think I’m on for 17 frames or so. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrity-famous-dopers/244513/23 "2004-05-18T20:02:15Z")
Does church Drama Team count? I’m not on it anymore though, at least for now. Still, several hundred people know who I am. 😉 I do, however, know a fair number of four footed acters. ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrity-famous-dopers/244513/24 "2004-05-18T20:02:16Z")
Hey, if anyone here reads _Popular Photography and Imaging_ magazine, I was the subject of a feature article in the May issue called ‘Digital Eye for the Film Guy’. Of course, the June issue is out now, so it’s back to the shadows for me… ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrity-famous-dopers/244513/25 "2004-05-18T21:38:46Z")
> [@dnooman](#): > > yeah that’s right, I said Foghat baby. Drummer from Foghat, that’s my drummer! Not one of those BOOM SNICK BOOM SNICK drummers…drummer from Foghat. That’s my drummer. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrity-famous-dopers/244513/26 "2004-05-18T21:59:19Z")
Recently \* I,\* Shirley Ujest and her two kids, a friend and her child, started her sportswear modeling career for Addidas through Dunham’s Sporting Goods. It was in the last Sunday’s ad for April. I strongly suspect it was the alpha and the omega of my _cough_ modeling _cough_ career. So, at least I’ve got that going for me. Braggin’ rights. ---
**Author:** ![Mottpot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Mottpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mottpot)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrity-famous-dopers/244513/27 "2004-05-18T23:25:40Z")
I had half an episode of “I Lost It” on the Discovery Health Channel. I lost a lot of weight and was profiled. I wasn’t too particularly happy with the outcome because they edited it so that I seemed like a loser (imagine!) until I lost weight. But I hear they re-run it a lot. I was my exact 15 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![adhemar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@adhemar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhemar)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrity-famous-dopers/244513/28 "2004-05-19T02:33:38Z")
Me and about 2000 other people were the crowd voices in the movie “Rollerball”. We got to chant various cities names like “Tok-yo! Tok-yo!”. ---
**Author:** ![flamingbananas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrity-famous-dopers/244513/29 "2004-05-19T03:10:53Z")
[QUOTE=dnoomanI have shared stages with several national celebrities. Foghat being one of them, yeah that’s right, I said Foghat baby. .[/QUOTE] Who’s that? I think I have heard of them, but I dunno… My friend’s mom went to highschool with Chris Farely. Oh, and one of my life goals is to sleep with a rock star, if that counts at all. So like, if he gets me pregnant, I could go on \*Ricki Lake \* or _Maury_ on a show that is titled _A Rock Star Got Me Pregnant, And I Want Child Support!_ That way lots of people would know me! And I could have a rock star baby! Horah! ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrity-famous-dopers/244513/30 "2004-05-19T03:37:26Z")
I was in an episode of _Murder She Wrote_. Okay, okay, not exactly. The footage of me (throwing on a potter’s wheel) ended up on the cutting room floor, but you can still see my colorful pottery in the background behind Angela Lansbury in a scene. I’ve also visited a multitude of movie sets and locations. I was off camera just to the right a little—yeah, right there—of a scene in _Blade Runner_ (where Pris meets Sebastian for the first time). They shot that scene all night. I’ve also written a book. (Self-published, selling off of my website, eventually to be on [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com). It’s a non-fiction how-to book.) Woo! ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrity-famous-dopers/244513/31 "2004-05-19T15:12:09Z")
> [@postcards](#): > > Hey, if anyone here reads _Popular Photography and Imaging_ magazine, I was the subject of a feature article in the May issue called ‘Digital Eye for the Film Guy’. > > Of course, the June issue is out now, so it’s back to the shadows for me… I hadn’t bought a Photography magazine for probably 20 years, but I’m in the market for a digital camera, so I picked up that issue. Nice article. ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrity-famous-dopers/244513/32 "2004-05-19T15:13:38Z")
> [@yosemite](#): > > I’ve also written a book. (Self-published, selling off of my website, eventually to be on [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com). It’s a non-fiction how-to book.) Woo! How-to-what? Some of us may need it! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![verbenabeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@verbenabeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verbenabeast)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrity-famous-dopers/244513/33 "2004-05-19T17:16:34Z")
I am the King of Verbena, Alabama… So I am not only famous, I am rich and powerful as well… they _invented_ two-story trailers for people like me who _have_ the money… now I just need to find a queen to help me rule this idyllic kingdom… I keep reading the cotillion thread and no Alabama wimmin-folk… sometimes the crown weighs heavy upon the brow… ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrity-famous-dopers/244513/34 "2004-05-19T19:42:48Z")
I appeared in the 1964-65 and 1965-6 Cub Scout Catalogs. In fact, I’m on the cover of the former. (True! That’s my claim to fame, and I’m stickin’ to it.) ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrity-famous-dopers/244513/35 "2004-05-19T23:50:40Z")
> [@Flander](#): > > Drummer from Foghat, that’s my drummer! Not one of those BOOM SNICK BOOM SNICK drummers…drummer from Foghat. That’s my drummer. You said it Carl. “I don’t need no instructions to know how to rock!” ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrity-famous-dopers/244513/36 "2004-05-20T01:19:37Z")
I would imagine there are at least a few famous people here but I doubt they’ll ever admit it in a thread like this and I don’t blame them. There are lots of famous people the play Everquest, for instance, but if they admit it at all it’s only to their closest online friends. I doubt any of them has ever shouted “I’m in the Allman Brothers!” or “I play for the Cubs!” across a zone. If I ever became famous I would probably ask the admins here to delete certain posts of mine from the past, if they would be so kind as to do it. I enjoy the semi-anonymity here, and I would _really_ enjoy it if I was famous. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-celebrity-famous-dopers/244513.md?page=1)