Astorian, it’s like this: some birds like oysters and some bees like snails…
Well thank heaven; I was beginning to think the novelty had worn off and I’d have to actually DO something do become interesting, rather than resting on the laurels of having a moderately famous ancestor.
So Samantha had two Dicks?
Another Jeopardy contestant here. 2nd place, no fame.
In high school, I was on “It’s Academic”, like College Bowl for high school. Our team won twice and lost in the third round. I have tapes of it somewhere, useful for blackmail purposes. My hair was tragic; but of course, now it’s just a memory.
I’m screwing the name up, but EJSgirl (something like that, I apologize) was on Win Ben Stein’s Money once, right after Kimmel left.
My appearance in the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions wll be rebroadcast later this summer. Stay tuned for date and time.
I am a 5 time undefeated Jeopardy! Champion with winnings of $50,703.00 and a 2002 Chevy Tahoe. Hence my user name.
OK, so far we have Eve, aha, and a bunch of people who have deluded themselves into thinking they’re famous. 
OK, you game-show players get a pass.
A rock band I used to sing in warmed up for Quiet Riot twice. But they were already very much washed up by that time. (They were dicks, too.)
My job occasionally allows me to be around famous people. I once sat on a porch in front of an old general store and shot the shit with Michael Palin of Monty Python fame, for about an hour. Just me and him. Nice guy.
He was shooting some documentary on the life of Ernest Hemingway, who spent a significant part of his young life less than 20 miles from where I live.
I sometimes correspond via email with Chris Moore, the co-producer of “Good Will Hunting” and the producer of “American Pie.”
I have the direct cell phone number of Geoffrey Fieger, Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s loud-mouthed, bad-haircutted attorney. He answers, too. It’s not just a voice-mail thing.
I’ve partied with Detroit Red Wing Sergei Fedorov before. (Professional hockey player, and perhaps still-boyfriend of tennis hottie Anna Kournikova. Unfortunately, this was pre-Anna.)
My favorite cousin holds an NCAA Division II swimming record.
One of my best friends’ uncle is James Hoffa, son of Jimmy and the president of the Teamster’s Union. I sat next to him at her wedding.
As a high-schooler, my ex-wife lived next door to Jewel in a dormitory at Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. I guess she (Jewel) played her acoustic guitar in the hallway and warbled until all hours of the night, and people would scream at her to shut the f**k up and go to sleep.
Boy, this thread has wandered away from the OP and turned into a “I rode on the same jetliner as that guy,…oh! What’s his name? You know, he was in that show!” sort of thing.
The high point of my television career was when a friend and I were filmed (surreptitiously) walking down Main Street at lunch one day and became the lead-in for a local station’s report on white collar drug abuse. I didn’t see it; my boss told me about it.
And I made an appearance on another station’s report on the drunks on the loose on Halloween. They didn’t interview me.
I’ll go away now.
Oh, now it’s Famous People I Met. OK, I can play!
Dennis Farina’s sister Bernadette is married to my uncle.
I met Meat Loaf (and got smooched), George Thorogood, Danny Bonaduce (who loves me) and Gallagher (who doesn’t).
And I knew John Gacy.
I myself have had brushes with fame as well. I was a fairly well known artist for awhile (big fish, small pond), I wrote articles for magazines and I currently write for webzines, and I was an extra in the Goldie Hawn movie Wildcats (you can’t see me even if you know where to look).
Not to hijack, but a collge friend of mine used to call this game “Brushes With Greatness.” I, unfortunately, have had none. Or maybe i have, but i’m just oblivious. Something to think about.
I got you ALL beat…I’ve had tea with Eve!
I got to get onstage with Eric Idle (of Monty Python) once… I also got to chat with him after the show. He liked my hat. 
I also met James Hong from Big Trouble in Little China (he was the villain). I met him at a sci-fi convention I was working; at the time Beanie Babies were popular, and since we had some at our booth he wanted to know what they were all about.
I have a cover of the Final Fantasy Anthology PSX game where the artist that did all the character design drew me a Moogle, my fav character Setzer, and wrote “to Jin” on it. I got this because I was friends with a guy who knows Neil Gamain (the Sandman comic guy), and he talked Neil, who is friends with [I can’t spell his name it’s Japanese]. He sent my booklet to Neil in NY, Neil sent it to Japan, Japan sent it back to Neil, and Neil sent it back to my friend, who sent it to me.
I have signed original art given to me by Tony DiTerlizzi, and I talked Phil Foglio into drawing a cartoon of me.
I have a letter and signed postcard thing from Mike Shank of “American Movie,” whom I wrote a letter to after seeing it. His mom also sent me a card because she paints, and she liked my artwork.
I also won an art contest in the paper when I was 14, and got to go to Florida and see a shuttle launch. When I got back I met with all the astronaughts for about half an hour in a private conference room and they signed autographs for me. I met Collins, Weatherbee, Janice Voss, Michael Foale (who was kind of cute), and a really grumpy Russian dude name Titov who didn’t understand why he had to sign a card for this kid, and pretended not to know English.
I have a pretty big pile of cards and prints signed for me by comic/fantasy artists and illustrators I’ve been friends with at one point or another.
For Ringo and the other locals – Ron Craft, the dude that owned Ron Craft Chevrolet, came in and framed an obscene amount of this American Indian art at my frame store. He sold his dealerships and him and his wife are moving up to a log cabin he built in Montana. He probably framed about a dozen pieces at $350-400 a pop… I think he was single-handedly supporting this artist that made these prints. And he had more diamonds in his watch than it should be legal to put in one piece of jewelry. The thing was so diamond-encrusted that it was outright ugly. He was a really, really nice guy though… very pleasant to work with.
I had this one customer that was bringing us a lot of artwork to frame that was pretty much a millionaire. (She was a really cool older lady that was into modern stuff.) Her husband was a lawyer. She told me about this local art magazine/organization she worked with, and a couple weeks later I picked one up and saw her picture in the front with a little gold statue – her and her husband had just given this art group a $25,000 donation.
That’s more than I make in a year.
Unfortunately I never had a chance to give her my business card.
Well, heck, if we can count “Brushes With Greatness”…
I shook hands with Bill Clinton (when he was Governor and was sweaty from jogging) and promptly wiped my hands on my pants.
When I was 8, I met the original Mikey from the Life cereal commercials. You know - “He likes it! Mikey likes it!”
He was probably in his early twenties by then.
That’s the best I can do.
I was in a Long John Silvers commercial when I was a kid.
I was Kid Eating Fish #3.
My mom was so proud.
Kipo Kupo! Being the biggest FF fanatic I know… I’m insanely jealous.
[sub]btw - My two favorite characters from VI were Celes and Locke.[/sub]
So why the hell isn’t your user name “Kid Eating Fish #3”?
Damn.
You know… that’s not a bad idea. Next time I have to pick a user name…
BTW- My directions as KEF#3 were to “take a bite of fake fish and high-five KEF #1”… we were all wearing baseball uniforms that were blue and white. How fitting eh?
We also weren’t to swallow the fake fish as it was basically edible fried fish shaped play-doh. Looked like LJS fish tho’.