In NYC, there’s The Naked Cowboy, who hangs around Times Square dressed in briefs, a cowboy hat, and a guitar (Even in winter).
Hey, you can get famous just for waking up in the morning if you do it enough times: Oldest people - Wikipedia
gigi, one of my entries to the Style Invitational contest in The Washington Post that got an honorable mention and thus was published was for a contest in which you were to propose a new urban myth. Mine was that Cool “Disco” Dan was actually Dan Quayle. The period in which that graffiti appeared did, in fact, correspond closely to Quayle’s time as Vice-President:
http://nrars.org/0%20The%20Book%20of%20Weeks/archive/new/04%20html%20scrape%20or%20search/0088.htm
But was the graffiti spelled correctly?
Stephen Harold Gascoigne aka Yabba has a statue of himself at the Sydney Cricket Ground, seated near where he used to spectate cricket matches in the 1930’s.
He was famous for being there, watching the cricket and making comments and providing advice to players in a voice that could carry a suburb or two.
By the way I have to post a (broken) link to a very NSFW but wonderful picture of Erica Roe mentioned above. I bet that one cop’s wife wanted a word with him after she saw this picture…
“Hey, wha’ happened?” – Mike LaFontaine
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“Are ya havin’ a laugh?”* – Andy Millman
A single tag is a graffitoe.
“Seriously, dear, I was just doing my job. She wasn’t even pretty up close. There was this errant kinky hair on her left areola. I was starring cause I was grossed out. Now unlock this door, please. The neighbors are all looking.”
In the 1970s, the Pitt Panther’s basketball team had a rabid fan, Tiger Paul (Auslander). He was nuts. A short, unattractive guy, he put on a helluva show at every home game. He worked the fans into a frenzy pretty much non-stop. There were some controversial situations when the team asked him to tone it down, and he called local sports talk radio to cry about it.
[He died in 1992.](He died in 1992.) His decomposed body was found in a motel room. He was 48.
Ying tong iddle i po!
The early evening news on ABC in Chicago is broadcast from a ground level studio with windows facing the street. At the end of the newscast the camera focuses on the folks outside waving and smiling for the camera. For a long time there was one gentleman there every night wearing a zoot-suit who did a little dance move. I thought it was kind of neat. Don’t see him any more.
You’re suggesting Spike Milligan and the Goons were famous for repeating one line?
Seriously?
You silly, twisted boy.
Well, Milligan himself claimed that a catchphrase is just a meaningless remark repeated until the audience is brainwashed into laughing at it. (Cite: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography)
Well sure but he was famous for being funny in many ways besides catchphrases.
I remember Mrs. Miller!
Nm
Mrs. Miller did parlay her non-talent into some recording deals. Her singing, as opposed to being mundane/useless, drew mocking listeners because it was so bad, and she didn’t seem to know it (it didn’t start with William Hung!):
Marian and Vivian Brown were identical twins who lived in San Francisco. They were famous for dressing alike and doing things in unison: they walked in lockstep and coordinated their movements while eating.
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Mrs. Miller did parlay her non-talent into some recording deals. Her singing, as opposed to being mundane/useless, drew mocking listeners because it was so bad, and she didn’t seem to know it (it didn’t start with William Hung!):
[/QUOTE] Two different Mrs. Millers.