# Any of you Straight Dopers a bona fide celebrity? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 11, 2003, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641 "2003-11-11T18:24:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![MC\_Master\_of\_Ceremonies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@MC\_Master\_of\_Ceremonies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MC_Master_of_Ceremonies)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/101 "2003-11-13T02:03:26Z")
Radiohead are friends of friend. ---
**Author:** ![biddee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@biddee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/biddee)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/102 "2003-11-13T02:22:43Z")
My best friend was very briefly involved with the VERY well known captain of an international cricket team. Through her, I managed to meet and get to know a lot of the team (bunch of conceited men!) Otherwise, I was in the local newspaper at the age of 5 when Richard Burton and Roger Moore were filming the Wild Geese in a tiny little town called Messina in South Africa…our nursery school class went on a field trip to watch them filming and I managed to get in front of a publicity photo… Where I live, it’s also very easy to bump into celebrities…I was having lunch in the same restaurant as Timothy Dalton and have met Eric Clapton and Robin Leach on a couple of occasions. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/103 "2003-11-13T03:19:04Z")
Brothers and sisters have I none, but that man’s father is my father’s son. Also, I am the world’s leading authority on the mating behaviour of the common manduck. ---
**Author:** ![Ms2001](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ms2001/32/18463_2.png) [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/104 "2003-11-13T04:22:02Z")
I was one of the youngest contestants in the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee in 4th grade, and briefly appeared on TV and in the paper. I’ve been recognized, on this board and on IRC, for the software I’ve written. I’m related to James Cook and Samuel Morse. I’ve shaken hands with Howard Dean, and I receive form letters from his campaign on a near-daily basis. Um… what else… I won a contest on the Comedy World Radio Network when I guessed the weight of a porn star’s breasts. If that isn’t bona fide, I don’t know what is! ---
**Author:** ![Trom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@Trom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trom)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/105 "2003-11-13T06:14:01Z")
Hmmm…When visiting my cousins I used to play Nintendo classics, mainly Mario 2 and Contra with Coner Oberst from Bright Eyes… ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/106 "2003-11-13T06:32:24Z")
Off to IMHO bibliophage moderator GQ ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/107 "2003-11-13T06:39:28Z")
While I was still a teenager, Bill Medley of the Righteous Brothers and country singer (and Hee Haw star) Buck Owens recorded promos for my radio show. This is not as big a deal as it sounds on the surface, I hasten to add. Back in the late 60s, singers would often sit down in a studio and record dozens of these at a time, as requested by program directors across the country. They believed (correctly, in my case) that by so doing, I would play their songs more often. Also have had drinks and conversation with a gracious Gary Owens of Laugh-In fame and my picture taken with Dick Clark. Oh, and had one of my letters read on Wall Street Week by Louis Rukeyser. ---
**Author:** ![suezeekay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@suezeekay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suezeekay)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/108 "2003-11-13T06:39:36Z")
I sold my house in NY to the uncle of the little boy on 7th Heaven (well, he was little then). ---
**Author:** ![Bob55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Bob55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob55)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/109 "2003-11-13T07:32:31Z")
I made the set of the play that the kid destroyed in the movie _Parenthood_, and was catcher for the pitcher in the movie once he reached high school. Oh and a friend of mine is a pro football player for the Dallas Cowboys, does that count? The funniest part is he plays online role playing games like Asheron’s Call - you’d never expect a huge 315 pound pro lineman on the other end of that cartoon character, would ya?!?! ---
**Author:** ![DreadCthulhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DreadCthulhu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DreadCthulhu)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/110 "2003-11-13T07:36:22Z")
I am one of the Great Old Ones, and, When The Stars Are Right, will rise from the depths and destroy humanity. Till then, I waste time posting of the dope. ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/111 "2003-11-13T07:45:51Z")
I fingered a woman who slept with a guy who married one of the Manson Family. That makes me 3 or 4 degrees of sexual separation from Charles Manson. I also had sex with someone who had sex with one of the guys from Deep Blue Something. And I sat on the lap of Erin Moran, once. ---
**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/112 "2003-11-13T07:53:37Z")
The Rock of wrestling fame came over to my table and flirted with me. I got a pic 'round here somewhere. I’ll post when I find it. ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/113 "2003-11-13T08:07:49Z")
I have been published in the Fortean Times, the Lieutenant Governor once waved at my dog, I had my picture on the front page of a 200,000+ copy circulation newspaper because I was drinking coffee and reading Lovecraft at a bus stop when a photographer needed to document how people were dealing with the -46C weather, one of the guys who invented the steam engine was a direct ancestor of my Grandmother, my two year old daughter once tackled a professional football player, and some time in the next 40 years I will be able to say I smoked dope with a major Canadian politician or lawyer (given the amount of dope I smoked in law school and how smart those other guys were). Oh, and I once won a radio contest by being able to name the inventor of the crown bottlecap. Strangely enough, I’m still not a celebrity. There’s something wrong here. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/114 "2003-11-13T08:30:27Z")
My great-great-aunt ended the Chinese slave trade in San Francisco. My aunt once dated Mike “Beavis and Butthead” Judge. My other aunt is a leading authority on the Hopi indians. My uncle bears an uncanny resemblence to Gary Sinise. I’m a friend of a friend of the guy who designed Gotham City for the first Batman movie. One of my best friends was in charge of the new _Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon_ video game, and he wants you to know that he’s very, very sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/115 "2003-11-13T08:59:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by confessorknight \* > Really!!! > What praise is this? (regarding Terry Pratchett being a fan of Cecil Adams) [Link](http://www.ie.lspace.org/books/apf/good-omens.html#p165107) and > [@](#): > > “Whenever I go to the States I always return with my luggage\* stuffed with Panati’s and Straight Dope books.” From [here.](http://www.ie.lspace.org/books/apf/words-from-the-master.html) \*Does _that_ explain The Luggage? ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/116 "2003-11-13T10:43:13Z")
[Isn’t this more of a MPSIMS thread? Where’s the opinion?] ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/117 "2003-11-13T11:18:38Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Mr2001_ > > I was one of the youngest contestants in the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee in 4th grade, and briefly appeared on TV and in the paper. Yes. I was in the NSB as well, though I was an 8th grader at the time, and also briefly appeared in the paper and on TV. I remember getting up very early one morning to do an interview on a red-eye news show. I’m also (finally!) a published poet. But nowhere near famous. ---
**Author:** ![Jennyrosity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/118 "2003-11-13T11:27:26Z")
I was once an extra on “Byker Grove”. And yes, I did get to meet Ant and Dec. My mum got groped by Micheal Winner while working as a waitress in the 70s. She subsequently got sacked for slapping his face. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/119 "2003-11-13T11:40:59Z")
My dad nearly ran over Chubby Checker with his moped in London. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/120 "2003-11-13T11:59:15Z")
Well, my **country** is on TV all the time! It’s a small country! Really! And I am a direct descendent of Adam and Eve (of biblical fame)! (and I can’t believe I’m the first to come up with that one!) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641.md?page=7)