Yeah, I figured.
And for everybody talking about not treating anybody here different or not if they’re a celebrity, this thread isn’t about that. This is only dealing with A) If a celeb revealed themself, how could they prove it’s really them, and B) If a disliked celeb was on the board, would you want them to reveal themself, or stay hidden?
If they did it during a Mafia game, they would promptly get offed by the Vigilante. I speak from sad experience 
Holy crud. I was in school with him when he did Adventures in Babysitting. He was rude to the people who complimented him. Because we all said more or less the same thing, and he got tired of hearing it. So he hasn’t changed, eh?
We have had a number of minor or former celebrities on this board like Bad Astronomer and a member of the 60’s pop-bad, The Five Americans plus several others that received world-wide media exposure due to contests, game-shows, and books. It wasn’t very hard to tell that they were genuine. If you are talking about the current TV, music, and movie A-list, flash in the pan type people, I don’t that the topic will ever come up.
I don’t think I’d want a celeb to out him-or-herself. I prefer to interact with folks here according to my own preconceptions. I wouldn’t want outside prejudices to affect that interaction.
Although it would be entertaining if someone famous tossed one of our buzzwords or phrases out during an interview or something.
Buckeyes
Cracks me up! Still.
So, you got a sex change operation. Big deal. You looked like a man anyway.
Jerry vouches them from their name on their credit card?
OK Natalie Hershlag, come out and say hi 
I was going to mention BadAstro but I see its already been done. I don’t think he posts much anymore, no?
And it reminds me of an interview I read with (I think) Bill Gates who mentioned that he was the Bill Gates in some message board many years back. They banned him for being a dumbass faker.
Really, it all depends upon who the poster is and what they’re posting on. If its someone who mostly lurks and only posts occassionally, I’m not going to shift my opinion one way or the other. If, OTOH, it turns out that one of our local nutters (say Jack Dean Tyler) was really Samuel L. Jackson, I’m going to be sorely disappointed in Mr. Jackson. And if one of our intelligent and respected posters (say Stranger on a Train) is revealed to be Tom Cruise, I’m gonna have a big WTF moment.
I should also like to point out that Jim Beaver, star of Deadwood and other roles has posted here in the past and was well treated by folks.
I believe a similar thing happened to Bruce Willis once…then he jumped on his webcam to prove it was really him.
I hope he started (with the Mods’ permission!) a second account where he could remain anonymous.
3 posts in one thread from a successful character actor does not celebrity poster make. That was a very interesting post he did make though.
You know, they never Did say what she did with her mole afterwards…
“C’mere, Matthew. You’ve been a Bad Boy…!” :eek:
Note: to anybody who may now be (or ever be) famous reading this, well done.
(Hey, I like shopping early…)
No ‘The Horror of Blimps’…?
Uhm…say what?
On the Firefly fansite, I interacted a couple of times with whatshisname who played Jayne. He was kind of a dork–a strong conservative whose debate method often consisted of copying & pasting material from opinion columnists.
Terry Pratchett used to be (still is, for all I know) a regular in the Usenet group alt.fan.pratchett, though more so when he was well and less encumbered by other commitments. And sure enough, maybe three times a year newbies asked, “Do you really expect us to believe that you’re Terry Pratchett?”
Of course, his presence made it necessary to keep speculative threads on Discworld out of his eyes and clearly marked as such, since he didn’t want potential lawsuits from people saying that he’d stolen their ideas. I remember a case where someone threw out that it’d be great with a Discworld novel on Sound of Music with Susan Sto Helit as Maria, and Terry replied, “Gee, thanks. Now that story is almost certainly never going to get written.”
On the issue of celebs and usernames, I have a friend who works for a publicist. She told me that it was nay impossible for celebs to create an account with their own names, people already had done so.
You’re just jealous because nobody famous ever dropped into one of your threads. 
(Besides, we do have plenty of posters who only post about once or twice a year, if that. Odds are, its those folks who’d be a celeb, not somebody like you or I with thousands of posts to their names.)