# Have any famous people ever posted on Straight Dope? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 5, 2001, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-famous-people-ever-posted-on-straight-dope/85570 "2001-10-05T13:45:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2001, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-famous-people-ever-posted-on-straight-dope/85570/61 "2001-10-08T14:37:59Z")
When I was seven years old, I was in a public-service announcement on a local independent TV station. ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2001, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-famous-people-ever-posted-on-straight-dope/85570/62 "2001-10-08T14:51:20Z")
Doesn’t the Bad Astronomer look like Ben Stein in drag? Or is it just me?😃 [http://www.badastronomy.com/info/whois.html](http://www.badastronomy.com/info/whois.html) ---
**Author:** ![Darkrabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@Darkrabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkrabbit)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2001, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-famous-people-ever-posted-on-straight-dope/85570/63 "2001-10-08T17:57:41Z")
> [@](#): > > **clayton\_e** > I started this thread while thinking of posts by people under their real names with insight to the e-masses. Not someone trying to conceal their true identity. I wasn’t responding to your original post, just to the general direction the thread was going. **DarkRabbit** ---
**Author:** ![The\_Bad\_Astronomer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@The\_Bad\_Astronomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Bad_Astronomer)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2001, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-famous-people-ever-posted-on-straight-dope/85570/64 "2001-10-08T22:21:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by omni-not \* > **Doesn’t the Bad Astronomer look like Ben Stein in drag? Or is it just me?** Cripes, I hope it’s just you. Actually, I do look a bit like Anthony Edwards from E.R. I have been mistaken for him once: Woman in parking lot: “You look a lot like the doctor from E.R.” Me: “I _am_ the doctor from E.R.!” (getting in car and driving away quickly) Also, I have never been in a visine commercial. ---
**Author:** ![Sue\_Duhnym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2001, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-famous-people-ever-posted-on-straight-dope/85570/65 "2001-10-08T22:38:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by omni-not \* > Doesn’t the Bad Astronomer look like Ben Stein in drag? Or is it just me?😃 > > [Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Info](http://www.badastronomy.com/info/whois.html) Awww, I think he’s kinda cute! Although he should stay out of the sun…you’d think even a bad astronomer would know that it causes wrinkles. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Bad\_Astronomer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@The\_Bad\_Astronomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Bad_Astronomer)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2001, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-famous-people-ever-posted-on-straight-dope/85570/66 "2001-10-09T03:31:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sue Duhnym \* > \*\* > Awww, I think he’s kinda cute! Although he should stay out of the sun…you’d think even a bad astronomer would know that it causes wrinkles. 😉 \*\* \ Sue Duhnym thinks I’m cute! Woohoo! Now, to tell my wife… (and S.D., check your eyesight. That picture is not terribly good. But it must be better than [this one](http://www.astronomy.com/content/static/misc/images/plait.jpg).) ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2001, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-famous-people-ever-posted-on-straight-dope/85570/67 "2001-10-09T03:40:59Z")
I was mildly famous for a short time in a small venue. I was briefly one of the most well-known polymer clay artists in the US, and even got thanked for my inspiration by another artist in her book. Plus I published a few magazine articles on the subject. Unfortunately, very few people really know what polymer clay is, and even fewer people care. There are roughly 30 well-known polymer clay artists in the whole world, so in that sense I probably WAS pretty famous. I guess. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2001, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-famous-people-ever-posted-on-straight-dope/85570/68 "2001-10-09T03:57:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \ > Sue Duhnym thinks I’m cute! Woohoo! You owe me one. If Sue thinks you’re cute, that’s good enough for me. I hereby withdraw my (not-too-celestial) observation. ---
**Author:** ![KellyM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/57b2e6/32.png) [@KellyM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KellyM)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2001, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-famous-people-ever-posted-on-straight-dope/85570/69 "2001-10-09T04:09:35Z")
I was interviewed once by the _New York Times_, and eventually quoted in an article which made the A section of the national edition. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-famous-people-ever-posted-on-straight-dope/85570.md?page=3)