# The Celebrity Factor **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 15, 2003, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-factor/181950 "2003-06-15T02:40:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jb\_007clone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@jb\_007clone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jb_007clone)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-factor/181950/1 "2003-06-15T02:40:57Z")
What are the chances that a celebrity has/does post on SDMB? I mean odds are there must be at least one of two right? Hell, for all you guys know, I could be a celebrity! So has anybody ever fessed up to being someone famous? BTW I use the term celebrity quite loosely, basically any level of notoriety in which the majority of the public would have atleast heard of you. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2003, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-factor/181950/2 "2003-06-15T03:49:32Z")
Try the search engine! This topic comes up about once per week. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-factor/181950/3 "2003-06-15T04:12:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Bad Astronomer \* > \*\*Try the search engine! This topic comes up about once per week. šŸ™‚ \*\* Sez one of our resident celebs! šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Adman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ccd318/32.png) [@Adman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Adman)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-factor/181950/4 "2003-06-15T04:12:55Z")
Yeah, Iā€™m Brad Pitt. I log on after drilling Jennifer every night. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-factor/181950/5 "2003-06-15T04:39:01Z")
Define ā€œcelebrity.ā€ Iā€™d say a nationally known author like **Eve** qualifies. ---
**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-factor/181950/6 "2003-06-15T05:05:37Z")
I say someone email [Wil Wheaton](http://www.wilwheaton.net) and tell him to stop beinā€™ such a Fark nerd and join the SDMBā€¦or has he already? ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-factor/181950/7 "2003-06-15T08:22:44Z")
Well, thereā€™s **aha** , onetime member of the Five Americans, famous for their song ā€œWestern Union.ā€ I believe **Opal** has said that [Fathom](http://fff.fathom.org/), her website, was listed in some magazine as one of Pamela Andersonā€™s favorite sites. Sorta makes you wonder whether the Big-Chested One has graced the SDMB with her presenceā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-factor/181950/8 "2003-06-15T09:27:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Anamorphic \* > \*\*Sez one of our resident celebs! šŸ˜ƒ \*\* Oh! Look whoā€™s talkinā€™! Ok, so you might be a household name in ā€¦ uh, Norway, is it? šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-factor/181950/9 "2003-06-15T13:55:07Z")
Peoply say I _look_ like Alanis Morrissette. And sound like Bugs Bunny. ---
**Author:** ![jb\_007clone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@jb\_007clone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jb_007clone)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-factor/181950/10 "2003-06-15T15:24:57Z")
With 36,000 or so members chances are one has to be a huge celebrity though, am I wrong? ---
**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:** [June 19, 2003, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-factor/181950/11 "2003-06-19T23:20:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jb\_007clone \* > \*\*With 36,000 or so members chances are one has to be a huge celebrity though, am I wrong? \*\* I live in a town of roughly that size, without one huge celebrity. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-factor/181950/12 "2003-06-20T02:25:38Z")
Bad, are you kidding? Youā€™re HUGE! I saw you on ā€œEncounters With the Unexplainedā€ and everything. You know what they say, today PAX, tomorrow the WB. And Scott Simonā€™s interview with GregAtlanta was featured on the NPR site for months. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-factor/181950/13 "2003-06-20T02:30:46Z")
Iā€™m having my fifteen minutes of fame 11:30 to 11:45 pm on October 4th 2019. ---
**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:** [June 20, 2003, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-factor/181950/14 "2003-06-20T05:33:38Z")
Blech. That ā€œEncountersā€ episode is one of my worst performances ever. I was stilted, and I cringe when I see it now. I should have ad-libbed. And I thought for a looooong time about helping out the Pax networkā€¦ but in the end, I wanted to debunk the Moon Hoax silliness, and they have a big audience. Hmmmā€¦ WB. Iā€™d rather have a guest role on a certain UPN showā€¦ ā€œCaptain Archer! Plait in astrometrics here! The magnetic field of the superjovian is about to reconnect, and weā€™ll be flooded with a lethal amount of radiation in ten minutes if we donā€™t get out of here!ā€ ā€œAcknowledged. Mayweather, you heard the astronomer. Warp 2.ā€ Woohoo!