Say a celebrity was a member and actually wanted us to know it. How could he/she possibly convince us that he/she was actually that person?
You know, I asked Angelina that very same question just this morning after our morning sexercise, but she was more concerned with deciding which country we should adopt a kid from next…
By posting on his or her own celebrity website, and saying something like . . .
Of course, somebody like Tina Fey might be persuaded to do it for a joke. But I guess that is how it could be confirmed.
Show up at a DopeFest.
When you’re as famous as I am, you don’t need to bother about proof.
Tell us which celebrity you are, and we’ll tell you how to convince us. But I’m not convinced many celebs live in southern Illinois.
Whitey Herzog, John Malkovich, Dick and Jerry VanDyke, Paul Simon, Gretchen Wilson and many other celebs hail from Southern Illinois. They did live there, at one point. I’m sure there are many others.
The answer to this is simple, naked pictures.
Not *that *Paul Simon.
Posting a picture of your face with a webcam pointed toward an SDMB screen with your “Welcome [Username]” readable in the background would do it for me.
Of course, we’ll have to endure the hue and cry of “Photoshopped!” :rolleyes:
Well, yeah, before they were celebs. Are there any current celebs living there? (Not dumping on you. I grew up in desolate West Texas.)
EDIT: I had to look up Gretchen Wilson.
I’m convinced that some people would cry “Photoshopped!” about pictures that they themselves are in.
We have had a few minor celebrities known on the SDMB. For the most part, they haven’t had to provide any further proof than demonstrating their known area of expertise.
This might, of course, be a little more complicated for those celebrities whose area of expertise is “Looking really pretty”, or the like.
Just a minute, Is Abby Winters a celeb or not?
Gets my vote.
Well, there’s a difference between “well known” and “celibrity”. **Abby **is well known due to her endevors, but I doubt she’d be counted as a celeb anywhere else but the net.
You’re from Desolate? We used to play their high school in football!
You make it sound unpleasant. 
In reality, I’m from Bumfuck.
And now you’re in Bangkok.
Next time they’re on Leno or Letterman or whatever, casually work into the conversation about how odd it is that we’ve been to the Moon, but we’ve only been to the bottom of the Marianas Trench. Once. For twenty minutes. Or drop a reference to “1920’s style death rays”.
Or just say “And a shout out to all my homies on the Straight Dope Message Board! Yo!”