# I wonder what it's like for a celebrity to NOT be noticed? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 5, 2016, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-what-its-like-for-a-celebrity-to-not-be-noticed/742211 "2016-01-05T08:34:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-what-its-like-for-a-celebrity-to-not-be-noticed/742211/101 "2016-01-08T04:19:22Z")
> [@CoastalMaineiac](#): > > Up here in my part of the country, it’s likely we really _do_ know who that famous person is over there, we just don’t give a shit. It’s one of the things that I like about midcoast and downeast Maine; we’re not all that impressed by status. No, only by the people who can winter over, right? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-what-its-like-for-a-celebrity-to-not-be-noticed/742211/102 "2016-01-08T05:58:36Z")
> [@Dangerosa](#): > > Sports isn’t big on the Dope and soccer isn’t big in the U.S. It is possible that a significant percentage of Dopers think the World Cup is a golf or hockey tournament. > > (I’m kidding on the last…I think). There’s more than one World Cup, actually. Most people when they say “World Cup” are talking about soccer, but hockey has a WC as well. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-what-its-like-for-a-celebrity-to-not-be-noticed/742211/103 "2016-01-08T12:25:12Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > There’s more than one World Cup, actually. Most people when they say “World Cup” are talking about soccer, but hockey has a WC as well. Rugby, too. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-what-its-like-for-a-celebrity-to-not-be-noticed/742211/104 "2016-01-08T12:34:15Z")
Old anecdote I’ve shared before. Drew Carey has told several interviewers that, when he wants to go incognito, it’s easy. All he has to do is put on contact lenses and let his hair grow out a few days, and voila! No one knows him. The one drawback? He admits that, when he does that, the service he receives is nowhere near as good! ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-what-its-like-for-a-celebrity-to-not-be-noticed/742211/105 "2016-01-08T13:30:02Z")
I think I remember John Lennon saying life was better when he and Yoko moved to New York and he again was allowed to walk the streets without a mob. Their is a good book about when Elvis was in the army stationed in Germany and he was treated just like any other soldier. Except for certain times people would bring up his fame or when out on maneuvers suddenly groups of teenage German girls would appear and somehow knew where he was. So imagine a convoy of jeeps and trucks driving stealthfully thru the forest right near the East German border when suddenly a group of teenage girls jumps out of the woods and zeros in on one particular jeep where the driver has his head down. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-what-its-like-for-a-celebrity-to-not-be-noticed/742211/106 "2016-01-08T13:51:12Z")
About 20 years ago, my friend and I were out when we spotted Leslie Neilson walking down the other side of the street. My friend points and yells across to him “Hey it’s Enrico Palazzo!” ``` Well... Leslie thought this was hilarious and almost keeled over laughing. He waved us over and we shook hands and exchanged Airplane! references, joked a sequel to Forbidden Planet, etc.. ``` Cool guy! ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-what-its-like-for-a-celebrity-to-not-be-noticed/742211/107 "2016-01-08T13:53:30Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > I think I remember John Lennon saying life was better when he and Yoko moved to New York and he again was allowed to walk the streets without a mob. ``` Yeah... sadly that didn't work out well for him in the end... ``` ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-what-its-like-for-a-celebrity-to-not-be-noticed/742211/108 "2016-01-08T14:29:26Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > Rugby, too. See, generally uninformed on the whole sport thing. I LIVE in Minnesota. I’m surrounded by hockey nuts. I’ve met about half the Miracle on Ice team. Rugby I wouldn’t have known, but hockey I should have. ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2016, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-what-its-like-for-a-celebrity-to-not-be-noticed/742211/109 "2016-01-10T05:32:02Z")
> [@Dangerosa](#): > > See, generally uninformed on the whole sport thing. I LIVE in Minnesota. I’m surrounded by hockey nuts. I’ve met about half the Miracle on Ice team. Rugby I wouldn’t have known, but hockey I should have. I imagine when a hockey player is cleaned up and in normal clothes he would be hard to recognize. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2016, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-what-its-like-for-a-celebrity-to-not-be-noticed/742211/110 "2016-01-10T06:59:27Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > I imagine when a hockey player is cleaned up and in normal clothes he would be hard to recognize. Depends on where you live and what player. Sidney Crosby couldn’t just walk around downtown Pittsburgh without getting noticed, for example. Then again, [Bobby Ryan](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahbdzYgT8Go) did something like this right after he was traded to Ottawa. ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-what-its-like-for-a-celebrity-to-not-be-noticed/742211/111 "2016-01-12T00:14:16Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > Badminton is a fun game played in American backyards. You mean people make money at it? > > Now your going to tell me there are also professional ping pong players. When traveling in India for work we drove past a several story building that was the “badminton academy” Hyderabad is serious about it’s badminton apparently. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-what-its-like-for-a-celebrity-to-not-be-noticed/742211/112 "2016-01-12T00:36:32Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > Badminton is a fun game played in American backyards. You mean people make money at it? > > Now your going to tell me there are also professional ping pong players. > [@BurnMeUp](#): > > When traveling in India for work we drove past a several story building that was the “badminton academy” Hyderabad is serious about it’s badminton apparently. It’s taken pretty seriously here in Thailand. There was even a drama series on TV back in the 1980s about a group of badminton players. Like all Thai TV it was crappy as all get out, but I enjoyed watching the opening montage of each episode. That showed the players all doing these really serious badminton warm-ups, almost like they were preparing for battle. It was supposed to be serious, but it looked comical. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-what-its-like-for-a-celebrity-to-not-be-noticed/742211.md?page=5)