# Ever get insulted by a celebrity?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 29, 2004, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-insulted-by-a-celebrity/252772 "2004-06-29T21:39:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2004, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-insulted-by-a-celebrity/252772/81 "2004-07-03T02:12:14Z")

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**Timothy Leary** once told me I was full of shit. Probably because I had said as much to him moments earlier, although I said it in a much more polite manner after listening to him give an utterly absurd lecture.

But my favorite story is definitely about \*\* Bill Buckner\*\*. Remember him? The Red Sox first baseman that let a critical ground ball go through his legs during the '86 World Series with the Mets.

In April of that year I had interviewed him in the Fenway dugout before a game, and he was very rude. He actually said to a teammate nearby, “I was hoping to give a reporter some shit today.” At that time I was about 15, an apprentice reporter for a high school radio station.

So a few months later he pretty much blew the series for the Sox on a play a Little League kid could have completed. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. Sometimes there is justice in the world.

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