# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/161 "2003-11-17T22:50:28Z")
I’ve been in a couple of newspapers for my metro website, and run for office. Does that count? ---
**Author:** ![ataraxy22](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ataraxy22/32/307_2.png) [@ataraxy22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ataraxy22)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/162 "2003-11-17T23:00:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bradministrator \* > \*\*I was once quoted in the Roanoke Times. \*\* Well my parents supplied the 1995 Roanoke City Christmas tree which made the FRONT COVER of the Roanoke Times. Hah! ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/163 "2003-11-18T00:27:12Z")
And when I was 13, I was in a picture on the front page of the _Waukesha County Freeman_. They snapped a human intrest shot of me & my brother when we were fishing off the dam. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/164 "2003-11-18T00:35:20Z")
I’ve had , count 'em, _two_ letters to the editor published in the _Evanston Review,_ and my high school boyfriend won an Honorable Mention the Mr. Lover Boy Chicago contest that the _Chicago Tribune_ ran my sophomore year. The latter was one of the most mortifying moments of my entire life; I’d entered him as a joke, at a friend’s urging (actually blackmailing, the friend said if I didn’t nominate him, the friend would do it himself, and I wouldn’t like what he wrote), on the theory that there was no way in Hell it would ever get published. But it did. Imagine the mortification of my boyfriend’s mom, the college professor, upon walking into the faculty lounge the morning it was published, to the semi-gentle ribbing of her esteemed colleagues, who were mostly nuns. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/165 "2003-11-18T01:30:59Z")
I’m Elvis. I’ve been holed up with Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix for years. You would never guess what _their_ Doper names are! ---
**Author:** ![luluBahrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@luluBahrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luluBahrain)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/166 "2003-11-18T04:41:13Z")
I am the Queen of Skankified Sluttiness ---
**Author:** ![spogga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@spogga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spogga)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/167 "2003-11-18T07:39:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by luluBahrain \* > \*\*I am the Queen of Skankified Sluttiness \*\* We know, we know ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/168 "2003-11-18T18:46:57Z")
An in-law of mine knows David Byrne (he wrote “Psycho Killer” while hanging out in her loft) and the rest of the ex-Heads, and had Suzy Rotolo (Dylan’s girlfriend during on the “Freewheelin’” album) visiting in her apartment a little while ago. ---
**Author:** ![cowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/169 "2003-11-18T19:37:08Z")
I once ran into a school bus in my hometown and was in the local paper not once but _three times_ because they kept getting the story wrong and having to run corrections. What can I say, it was a small town … ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/170 "2003-11-19T01:39:50Z")
I went to college with and hung around a bit with the lead singer of Jet Set Satellites, if that name means anything to anyone… Beyond that I am singlehandedly responsible for the delayed second destruction of earth! ---
**Author:** ![gybefan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@gybefan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gybefan)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/171 "2003-11-19T02:11:04Z")
I had a letter to the editor (on media deregulation) published in the New York Times a couple months ago. ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/172 "2003-11-19T05:16:48Z")
Well damn, **Nichol\_storm**! I’m one impressed feller over here. That’s my kinda kin! I just hope that bombing of London thing ain’t genetic. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/173 "2003-11-19T05:48:04Z")
“Any of you Straight Dopers a bona fide celebrity?” Only in a sad little “I’m my own Grandpa” sort of way. Henry Kissinger signed my birth certificate. I see in near perfect 3D with only one functional eye. My brain re-wired itself because I was so young when the accident happened. That’s it. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/174 "2003-11-19T12:29:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by astro \* > \*\*“Any of you Straight Dopers a bona fide celebrity?” > > Only in a sad little “I’m my own Grandpa” sort of way. > > Henry Kissinger signed my birth certificate. > > I see in near perfect 3D with only one functional eye. My brain re-wired itself because I was so young when the accident happened. > > That’s it. \*\* How is this even _possible_? 2 eyes are needed for stereoscopics. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/175 "2003-11-19T20:25:14Z")
Well, my uncle is pretty well-connected in Democratic politics. I’ve met, talked with, and gotten drunk with any number of famous Science Fiction authors. I’ve jammed with Spider Robinson. I’ve been squelshed by Harlan Ellison. I once shook hands with Fred McMurray. ---
**Author:** ![blanx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f04885/32.png) [@blanx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blanx)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/176 "2003-11-19T20:32:48Z")
Voyager- what was Nash like? ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/177 "2003-11-19T21:04:48Z")
I can be seen on CSPAN on an infrequent, but somewhat regular, basis. But I never get to say anything. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/178 "2003-11-19T21:27:41Z")
Oh, and my fiancee once spilled coffee on Matthew Broderick, just as he was about to sign the contract to do “The Producers.” ---
**Author:** ![JerH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@JerH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerH)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/179 "2003-11-19T21:58:50Z")
I appeared briefly via videotape on an obscure Comedy Central show about 12 years ago. And my writing has been frequently seen on a little web site I like to call “the Straight Dope Message Board.” ---
**Author:** ![threeorange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@threeorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threeorange)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641/180 "2003-11-19T23:24:02Z")
I’m not famous now, nor am I likely to be in the future. But my great-great-grandfather was [this person](http://www.oberlin.edu/external/EOG/OYTT-images/JMLangston.html). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-of-you-straight-dopers-a-bona-fide-celebrity/212641.md?page=10)