# I admit it, I'm famous **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 10, 2001, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-im-famous/57407 "2001-03-10T03:54:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![LittleTassie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@LittleTassie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LittleTassie)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2001, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-im-famous/57407/41 "2001-03-10T22:16:06Z")
er, _might_ ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2001, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-im-famous/57407/42 "2001-03-10T22:18:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by August West \* > \*\*I’m Generalissimo Francisco Franco. \*\* And I for one, sir, admire you for your desperate struggle in your fight to remain dead. Good for you. Keep it up. ---
**Author:** ![Totoro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Totoro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totoro)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2001, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-im-famous/57407/43 "2001-03-10T22:37:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Colibri \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by astro \* > > \*\* > > Colibri is Ed Asner > > \*\* > > Lies! Goddam it! I’m Wilfred Brimley! \*\* YOU’RE Wilfred Brimley? Then why have I been hitting on Ssskuggiii? ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2001, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-im-famous/57407/44 "2001-03-10T23:10:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zenster \* > \*\*So quit with the “I admit it, I’m famous” schtick and get with the SDMB Iron Chef round two! > > I need to avenge my honor with **JavaMaven** and all you’re doing is blatting on and on about being confused with Dave Barry. > > Rhully… \*\* Oh, right, and now I’m supposed to pretend I’m some Japanese billionaire? Like that’s going to help. (It’s been brewing in the back of my mind. If **I** do it (and you’re certainly free to do it without me,) I’d like to make sure that we iron out the flaws that plagued us in the last one, and strike the right balance between Lip-synced campiness, and kick-ass cuisine.) ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2001, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-im-famous/57407/45 "2001-03-10T23:44:03Z")
I’m really John Corrado, and John Corrado is really Mariah Carey. ---
**Author:** ![ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c77e96/32.png) [@ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2001, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-im-famous/57407/46 "2001-03-10T23:51:53Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by Scylla \* \*\* > [@](#): > > I’d like to make sure that we iron out the flaws that plagued us in the last one…\*\* Oh, I get it! “ironed out”…Iron Chef! That is SO unbelievably funny. You ARE Dave Barry! I knew it! -L ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2001, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-im-famous/57407/47 "2001-03-10T23:59:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SexyWriter \* > **You ARE Dave Barry! I knew it!** If it turns you on, I’ll be Dave Barry… ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2001, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-im-famous/57407/48 "2001-03-11T00:01:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Totoro \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Colibri \* > > \*\* > > > > > [@](#): > > > > > > \*Originally posted by astro \* > > > \*\* > > > Colibri is Ed Asner > > > \*\* > > > > Lies! Goddam it! I’m Wilfred Brimley! \*\* > > YOU’RE Wilfred Brimley? Then why have I been hitting on Ssskuggiii? \*\* An oatmeal deficiency, perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2001, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-im-famous/57407/49 "2001-03-11T00:23:12Z")
**inor** : > [@](#): > > And who is Hester Pryne and why does that name make me think of those little seam rippers that people who sew use? Hester Prynne (note correct spelling) is the subject of the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel The Scarlet Letter, and IIRC she was a seamstress. So there you go. I usually refer to her not as Hester Prynne but as Mother-of-Pearl. ---
**Author:** ![ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c77e96/32.png) [@ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2001, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-im-famous/57407/50 "2001-03-11T00:29:46Z")
Okay, thanks to all who ruined my ruse. Here was my plan: Step 1: I don’t know the source of the quote that Scylla tossed at me, but I’ll make a smart ass remark and see if anyone fills me in. Step 2: Aha! Now I realize that I know something Inor doesn’t know. Perhaps I can trade him MY information for HIS and thus, come out looking like I’m bright on my own. Consequently, I assumed everyone knew about Mother-of-Pearl. It wasn’t intended to be cryptic…just stupid. Step 3: You all pre-inform Inor so that I can’t get any information out of him and now I STILL don’t know where that stupid line came from and no one will tell me. The reason I asked for a SEAM ripper is so I could tear this damned “A” off my chest. Get it? I could have also asked for a pair of scissors, but I figured then someone would ask me why I was giving myself a haircut. -L P.S. Frogs turn me on more than Dave Barry. ---
**Author:** ![inor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f475e1/32.png) [@inor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inor)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2001, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-im-famous/57407/51 "2001-03-11T00:32:59Z")
Now who’s Pearl then? (This is not a hijack- Scylla is famous, famous is Scylla, stupid email, stupid email, Scylla is famous. And so is everybody else unless they aren’t…) Sexy- I’on’t know where that drinkin thing comes from, I jsut know it didn’t come from the big book. And quit lyin, you butt fart head, you did to think so, yer jsut tryina be all smart and 'at. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2001, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-im-famous/57407/52 "2001-03-11T00:40:58Z")
Whataminit! **More** than 3 threadspotting threads? That has to be some kind of record. I, for one, cannot imagine our Scylla[sup]TM[/sup] sitting at home in his bathrobe drinking a case of Budweiser a day and getting married 3 or 4 times. He’s definitely _not_ Dave Barry. And yes, I said _our_ Scylla. We own him. See the trademark? Scylla[sup]TM ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2001, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-im-famous/57407/53 "2001-03-11T00:57:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SexyWriter \* > \*\*P.S. Frogs turn me on more than Dave Barry. \*\* How much is Dave Barry turned on by Frogs? And, excuse me, but you were really trying to barter information with _inor_??? 😕 (No offense inor, but information is not your usual stock-in-trade. ;)) ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2001, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-im-famous/57407/54 "2001-03-11T01:06:18Z")
Who cares how Dave Barry feels about frogs? The important question is how does **SexyWriter** feel about Bat Boys. ---
**Author:** ![ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c77e96/32.png) [@ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2001, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-im-famous/57407/55 "2001-03-11T01:22:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Crunchy Frog \* > \*\*The important question is how does **SexyWriter** feel about Bat Boys. \*\* Yeah, I’m famous. I’m famous for inadvertantly hijacking threads. And I LOVE Bad Boys. Oh, you said Bat Boys. Cute kids…I often wonder how they get those jobs with the basball teams. And as long as I’ve already gotten off the subject, fuck you very much, Fiver, for correcting my spelling. Because I didn’t feel stupid enough already. And Pearl is Hester’s illegitimate daugther, Inor. Thus the joke, “mother-of-pearl.” Get it now? -Wednesday ---
**Author:** ![Bboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@Bboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bboy)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2001, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-im-famous/57407/56 "2001-03-11T01:51:51Z")
> [@](#): > > _StephenG said:_ > \*\*I’m famous. No, really. I’ve had my face plastered everywhere. (Well, alright, all over campus. Well, okay, but just in the residences, but…) Okay, so let’s just say I’m well-known? > > And hey, I have a song recorded about me! Who else can say that? Not just written, but recorded! Performed by a group! And yes, that’s all I’m going to say on this topic…\*\* You are a sexual predator, and the song was **‘The Rapper’** by the Jaggerz (from the early '70’s, before Rap as we know and _ahem_, love it today.) Din’t think anyone would know, _DIDJA?_ ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2001, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-im-famous/57407/57 "2001-03-11T06:03:49Z")
I’m Elvis. Thank you very much. StG ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2001, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-im-famous/57407/58 "2001-03-11T14:40:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > \*\*I’m really John Corrado, and John Corrado is really Mariah Carey. \*\* Hey! I’ve _met_ John Corrado! And while he does have that same sexy smile that Mariah has, I don’t think she can sing as well as he can! As for fame…will you settle for notorious? I once told a competitor of the magazine I was working for at the time that I would drive him into the ground and ensure that he children grew up cold and hungry. And I did this at a convention, on the trade show floor. I’m **still** hearing about it. Jonathan “He takes business a bit too seriously” Chance ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2001, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-im-famous/57407/59 "2001-03-11T15:13:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Biggirl \* > \*\*Whataminit! **More** than 3 threadspotting threads? That has to be some kind of record. > \*\* ::Sucks in gut, sticks out chest:: I’ll have you know young lady, that I have at least **8** threadspotting threads, and I think I’m missing one or two. (and thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to point that out) It seems to me that this is an accomplishment that has never been equalled in all of human history. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2001, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-im-famous/57407/60 "2001-03-11T17:47:01Z")
**8**!? Wow. Can I be in your fan club? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-im-famous/57407.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-admit-it-im-famous/57407.md?page=4)