# Famous People you would love to hear from. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 20, 2013, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-would-love-to-hear-from/661522 "2013-06-20T23:55:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2013, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-would-love-to-hear-from/661522/21 "2013-06-22T11:28:04Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Oh, okay, so, Blue Sky type of thing. > > Well…I wouldn’t mind hearing from octogenarian SF author Julian May. Or from another octogenarian, novelist Ruth Rendell. Or from non-octagenarian language experts Suzette Haden Elgin or **Steven Pinker**. Or from Jon Stewart or Christopher Nolan. I emailed Steven Pinker once to say how much I enjoyed his contributions to a TV series that Stephen Fry did about language (Fry’s Planet Word). He wrote me a nice email back saying that he hoped I had as much fun watching it as he had making it. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2013, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-would-love-to-hear-from/661522/22 "2013-06-22T15:31:12Z")
Leon Russell, I love you in a place where there’s no space or time. Call me, maybe. Todd Rundgren, can I be your houseboy? Since you live in Hawaii? We can both wear skirts. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2013, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-would-love-to-hear-from/661522/23 "2013-06-22T17:19:05Z")
Any of them. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2013, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-would-love-to-hear-from/661522/24 "2013-06-22T17:47:47Z")
> [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](#): > > Who is Boris Putin? If only we had some method of finding this out… mmm ---
**Author:** ![JustinC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justinc/32/8083_2.png) [@JustinC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustinC)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2013, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-would-love-to-hear-from/661522/25 "2013-06-22T18:08:46Z")
> [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](#): > > Who is Boris Putin? Not sure but [here](http://londonist.com/2013/05/borisputin.php) is an amusing look at the contrast in Boris Johnson and Vladimir Putin’s photo ops. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2013, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-would-love-to-hear-from/661522/26 "2013-06-22T18:37:04Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Neil deGrasse Tyson is up there, too. You beat me to it! Michio Kaku would be pretty awesome too. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2013, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-would-love-to-hear-from/661522/27 "2013-06-22T18:54:46Z")
Weird Al. Word on the street is that he lurks here. Anybody associated with _Mythbusters_, too. I follow them on Twitter, but they rarely respond to fan questions. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2013, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-would-love-to-hear-from/661522/28 "2013-06-22T20:04:35Z")
> [@RobDog](#): > > I emailed Steven Pinker once to say how much I enjoyed his contributions to a TV series that Stephen Fry did about language (Fry’s Planet Word). > He wrote me a nice email back saying that he hoped I had as much fun watching it as he had making it. Cool! (And unsurprising. You can tell from his writing that he values courtesy.) In re celebrities being here: I was just reading a TV Tropes page that says Wil Wheaton “seems to have an account on every single nerdy forum and website in existence.” And surely this one qualifies as “nerdy”…😉 ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2013, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-would-love-to-hear-from/661522/29 "2013-06-22T20:17:48Z")
> [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](#): > > Who is Boris Putin? > > I agree with Lifeson, and I would add the SDMB’s own Bad Astronomer. Let’s make that Vladimir Putin. I had my Russki leaders confused. ---
**Author:** ![Obnoxious\_Hood\_Ornament](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Obnoxious\_Hood\_Ornament](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Obnoxious_Hood_Ornament)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2013, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-would-love-to-hear-from/661522/30 "2013-06-23T19:33:03Z")
Douglas Adams. I have this sweet-ass Ouija board that has been collecting dust for several decades, and I think we can put it to good use… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-would-love-to-hear-from/661522/31 "2013-06-24T18:43:46Z")
[QUOTE=The Mad Hermit] Who is Boris Putin? [/QUOTE] I should have added a sarcasm smiley. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-you-would-love-to-hear-from/661522.md?page=1)