# Unique item presented for autograph? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 23, 2017, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unique-item-presented-for-autograph/787281 "2017-05-23T15:38:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unique-item-presented-for-autograph/787281/21 "2017-05-23T19:48:07Z")
I got a chance to meet Billy Gibbons a while back, and despite his handlers saying there would be not autographs, managed to get his undivided attention for a few minutes and asked him for one. He pulled out a little pad for that specific purpose, but I handed him an ancient cassette paper insert I’ve had since the early 80’s of a tape that was special to me. It was the double tape with _Tres Hombres_ on one side and _Fandango!_ on the other. Listened to it thousands of times. It lived in the cassette player in the Jeep for _years._ He looked at it and gave me a big smile and said he hadn’t seen one of those in decades! He signed it, as will as a second one on his little pad. I framed them with the tour poster and backstage pass. Hangin’ in the bedroom. I was gonna have Drive-By Truckers sign my Trucker Speed Coffee can [drive by truckers coffee - Bing](https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=uxKH%2f4dV&id=D88654DFCF555F43EA11E48324B7B2040564DE57&thid=OIP.uxKH_4dVgfjrCHm1WMRnPgEsDI&q=drive+by+truckers+coffee&simid=608051385010028677&selectedIndex=0&ajaxhist=0) but just had them sign a tour poster instead. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unique-item-presented-for-autograph/787281/22 "2017-05-23T20:36:48Z")
At a science fiction convention many years ago, I saw an author autographing a woman’s breast (attached to her at the time, you sickos) ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unique-item-presented-for-autograph/787281/23 "2017-05-23T20:54:37Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > You mean since the Lakers did it. Close, but not quite. Those Lakers went 11-0 to get to the finals. Not 12-0. The Warriors are the first ever to go 12-0. That Lakers team was a great one, though. They finished as champions, beating the 76ers 4-1, and having an overall 15-1 postseason record. > **[2000–01 Los Angeles Lakers season | Playoffs](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%9301_Los_Angeles_Lakers_season#Playoffs)** > > 1.By winning the Finals MVP award, Shaquille O'Neal joined the list of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, and Hakeem Olajuwon as the only players to win the award at least twice. Tim Duncan, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Kevin Durant, and Kawhi Leonard have since joined the list. Jordan, Olajuwon, O'Neal, Bryant, James, and Durant are the only six to win the award in back-to-back years. | > 2.The Lakers at the time had achieved the best ever NBA postseason record of 15-1... ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unique-item-presented-for-autograph/787281/24 "2017-05-23T21:16:26Z")
Autograph grabbers - the ones who hang out at airports and look for sightings and have a box of headshots of celebrities in their trunk to be ready - I have heard where they may toss a cheap-ass guitar in their trunk if the celebrity sighted is a rock star. Why such an accosted celebrity would sign _anything_ for a mercenary autograph hound like that is beyond me. When **Les Paul** played at the club Iridium in NYC up to his death, fanboys would line up for autographs. Some lugged their actual Les Paul guitars - I couldn’t imagine playing it after that if I really valued the signature. Most smart folks just brought a Les Paul pickguard 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unique-item-presented-for-autograph/787281/25 "2017-05-23T21:19:40Z")
In 1992 or 3 I got hold of a pair of red firefighters helmets. We had painted the Buffalo Bills logos on the sides and took them to training camp. It was a lot more relaxed than. We each got about two dozen autographs, I have the hall of gamers Andre Reed Thurman Thomas and Bruce Smith. My friend got Jim Kelley ( bastard) and a bunch of scrubs that never made the team. Anyways, when I got to Bruce Smith he said something to the effect, what the hell I just signed this. I told him, no my buddy has it’s twin. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unique-item-presented-for-autograph/787281/26 "2017-05-23T21:36:49Z")
I had kung fu movie legend Sammo Hung sign my birth certificate because it was the only thing I had on me at the time. ---
**Author:** ![TwoCarrotSnowman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twocarrotsnowman/32/15879_2.png) [@TwoCarrotSnowman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoCarrotSnowman)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2017, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unique-item-presented-for-autograph/787281/27 "2017-05-24T21:57:19Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > Autograph grabbers - the ones who hang out at airports and look for sightings and have a box of headshots of celebrities in their trunk to be ready - I have heard where they may toss a cheap-ass guitar in their trunk if the celebrity sighted is a rock star. Why such an accosted celebrity would sign _anything_ for a mercenary autograph hound like that is beyond me. > > When **Les Paul** played at the club Iridium in NYC up to his death, fanboys would line up for autographs. Some lugged their actual Les Paul guitars - I couldn’t imagine playing it after that if I really valued the signature. Most smart folks just brought a Les Paul pickguard 😉 I heard a (probably apocryphal) story that Keef Richards was handed a guitar to sign as he was getting on the tour bus… so he signed it, and hopped on the bus, still carrying the guitar. His explanation was that he was sick of seeing guitars he’d just signed turn up on eBay a day later. Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2017, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unique-item-presented-for-autograph/787281/28 "2017-05-24T22:03:53Z")
After the Cavs won the NBA championship last year one guy got JR Smith to [sign a pipe](http://deadspin.com/j-r-smith-signed-the-pipe-1782553513), which I think is hilarious! ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2017, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unique-item-presented-for-autograph/787281/29 "2017-05-24T22:04:13Z")
> [@TwoCarrotSnowman](#): > > I heard a (probably apocryphal) story that Keef Richards was handed a guitar to sign as he was getting on the tour bus… so he signed it, and hopped on the bus, still carrying the guitar. His explanation was that he was sick of seeing guitars he’d just signed turn up on eBay a day later. > > Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk Part of me is shocked that after all the drug use, Keef has object permanence. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2017, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unique-item-presented-for-autograph/787281/30 "2017-05-24T22:12:28Z")
Circa 1983, got a Richard Scarry book signed by the author. Not unusual. He asked if my son had any pets, and my son said, “A big black cat.” (Cat was a kitten at that time, not all that big really, but…). So Richard Scarry went through and drew a black cat on several of the pages, incorporating him into the action (_Cars and Trucks and Things That Go)_. So that’s unique. Also we had to buy another copy of the book, for him to actually read. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2017, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unique-item-presented-for-autograph/787281/31 "2017-05-24T22:26:37Z")
A guy on reddit posted a picture of his Lego _Slave 1_. He had the canopy piece signed by Jeremy Bulloch - the actor in the Boba Fett suit in \*ESB - \*at a convention. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unique-item-presented-for-autograph/787281/32 "2017-05-25T00:42:20Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Close, but not quite. Those Lakers went 11-0 to get to the finals. Not 12-0. The Warriors are the first ever to go 12-0. > > That Lakers team was a great one, though. They finished as champions, beating the 76ers 4-1, and having an overall 15-1 postseason record. > [2000–01 Los Angeles Lakers season - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%9301_Los_Angeles_Lakers_season#Playoffs) The Lakers couldn’t go 12-0 because the first series was only three games back in the day. The achievement is going undefeated through the playoffs, no? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unique-item-presented-for-autograph/787281/33 "2017-05-25T17:55:16Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > The Lakers couldn’t go 12-0 because the first series was only three games back in the day. The achievement is going undefeated through the playoffs, no? 😉 Two different things. One is being undefeated, the other undefeated with a particular record. There’s a similar situation in the NFL. The Miami Dolphins are the only team to win a Super Bowl after having a perfect season. In those days you would have 14 regular season games, then if you made it to the playoffs you’d need to win at least one divisional round game, then the conference championship, then finally the Super Bowl. (There’s also potentially a wild card game but that’s reserved for teams that barely make it into the playoffs and if you are undefeated in the regular season that shouldn’t apply to you.) In 1972 the Dolphins won every game they played, including the Super Bowl, giving them a 17-0 perfect record. In 1978 the NFL extended the regular season to 16 games. Today, if a team were to win every game in the regular season, and go on to win the Super Bowl, they would have a 19-0 record which would be the first of its kind in NFL history and noteworthy. It wouldn’t be the first perfect season but it would possibly eclipse that Dolphins record. So again… In one sense it’s the same but in another it’s not. And that’s not nitpicking; one or two extra wins is a big deal. Remember that often in sports having just one more win can be the difference between being a champion and almost being a champion. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unique-item-presented-for-autograph/787281/34 "2017-05-25T20:23:46Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > I had kung fu movie legend Sammo Hung sign my birth certificate because it was the only thing I had on me at the time. Maybe you could sue him for paternity. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unique-item-presented-for-autograph/787281/35 "2017-05-25T21:47:55Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > Maybe you could sue him for paternity. Ha! He signed it in chinese, so for all I know it says “fuck you, whitey!” ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unique-item-presented-for-autograph/787281/36 "2017-05-26T00:25:50Z")
Actually, you reminded me - my hat wasn’t the most interesting or unique item I asked him to sign. That honor would go to my very realistic rubber severed arm (the security people looked at me _real_ funny when they searched my bag on the way into the venue–they wanted to keep it for me until the meet and greet but I talked them out of it). I got it from a Chuck Palahniuk reading, and he signed it too. Alice thought it was cool (or at least he said so!) I also have a drumhead signed by the entire Alan Parsons Live Project (including Alan himself, Ian Bairnson, and Stuart Elliot). ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unique-item-presented-for-autograph/787281/37 "2017-05-26T12:55:20Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > The Lakers couldn’t go 12-0 because the first series was only three games back in the day. The achievement is going undefeated through the playoffs, no? 😉 No, because back in post #10 I said the Warriors are the first-ever team to go undefeated, 12-0. That’s how I defined the achievement. You are wanting to define the achievement differently, which is fine, but it lowers the bar a little. Like **Atamasama** said it. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unique-item-presented-for-autograph/787281/38 "2017-05-26T13:58:45Z")
Many years ago Tony Stewart was at a local Home Depot autographing stuff. Some guy came in with an blow up doll for Tony to sign. Bet no one has another. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unique-item-presented-for-autograph/787281/39 "2017-05-27T00:28:33Z")
John Astin played Gomez Addams. He also played Dr Grangrene in a few Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes projects. I had him sign a can of tomatoes. He was really entertained by the idea. He didn’t just write his name. He drew a medal, Dr Gangrene’s seal of disapproval and wrote “Don’t Eat, Fool!” I met Clive Barker at a film festival in the nineties. He was flattered people had brought things and said he’d happily “deface them”. I have a wooden puzzle cube I decorated to look like a Lament Configuration (the puzzle box from Hellraiser). If you pull out the lynchpin final piece, you will find Barker’s autograph. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unique-item-presented-for-autograph/787281/40 "2017-05-27T04:59:02Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > Ha! He signed it in chinese, so for all I know it says “fuck you, whitey!” Post a photo and we will verify the fuck you gweiloh. :smack: Seriously, Omar, that is way cool. and a hijack to someone up thread. My first ever MLB game had Willie Mays hit a grand slam in Candlestick circa 1969 ish [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unique-item-presented-for-autograph/787281.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unique-item-presented-for-autograph/787281.md?page=3)