# What is your claim to fame? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 3, 2013, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/645987 "2013-01-03T18:57:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/645987/1 "2013-01-03T18:57:07Z")
I was thinking about mortality this morning and pondering what I’ve done in my life that might be somewhat unique. I came up with the following: I may be the only person on the planet who has capsized a sailboat in Africa and also capsized a dogsled in Alaska. I’ve also been drunk in twenty-plus countries, but I think that’s a dubious achievement. How about you, for better or worse? ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/645987/2 "2013-01-03T19:02:56Z")
It really has all been done. lol. ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Mama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@Atomic\_Mama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Mama)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/645987/3 "2013-01-03T19:23:35Z")
I’ve been a volunteer blues DJ in the following locations: Evanston & Chicago IL; Memphis TN; Holly Springs and Oxford MS; Anchorage AK; Blue Hill ME. A very dubious claim to “fame.” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/645987/4 "2013-01-03T19:48:20Z")
I am a nationally-published [cartoonist](http://www.muppetlabs.com/~eric/comic/peacon_copy.jpg). (It went from my college newspaper (who wouldn’t run it for copyright reasons) to the campus underground newspaper (who did print it) to an outfit called the New Liberation News Service (by which time they had a copy of a copy of a copy) who, I think, sent it out to somebody, somewhere.) ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/645987/5 "2013-01-03T20:50:12Z")
Books give me some hope that in the thirty-first century I will be cited in some tedious scholar’s tedious dissertation, which is my greatest ambition. Thank you, Library of Congress. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/645987/6 "2013-01-03T20:57:54Z")
I managed to do the thing that was the exception that proves Rule 34. I was also one of the first 500 folks to see Halley’s Comet on this last go around. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/645987/7 "2013-01-03T21:00:41Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I am a nationally-published [cartoonist](http://www.muppetlabs.com/~eric/comic/peacon_copy.jpg). > (It went from my college newspaper (who wouldn’t run it for copyright reasons) to the campus underground newspaper (who did print it) to an outfit called the New Liberation News Service (by which time they had a copy of a copy of a copy) who, I think, sent it out to somebody, somewhere.) That’s a lovely cartoon. I was on the news for about 5 seconds back in high school. I even recorded it when it ran later that night, on a VHS tape. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/645987/8 "2013-01-03T21:09:35Z")
I’ve lead a pretty unusual life and been in some unusual circumstances but nothing that I can think of that would be interesting or one for the history books. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/645987/9 "2013-01-03T21:15:55Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > I was on the news for about 5 seconds back in high school. I’ve been on TV three times. Two of those were on the news. But I don’t think that those two times added up to 5 seconds together. I knew three different actors before they became famous. I talked to Julia Child on the phone. Twice. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/645987/10 "2013-01-03T21:22:04Z")
I’ve kept a daily diary since December 25, 1962 (my eighth birthday). When I die, they will probably go into the trash. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/645987/11 "2013-01-03T21:23:48Z")
I’m the only person on Earth who has no claim to fame. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/645987/12 "2013-01-03T21:43:12Z")
I invented awesomeness. I’m too lazy to practce it, but I did create it. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/645987/13 "2013-01-03T21:50:55Z")
Back when Mark McQuire was in the heat of the single season home run record, CNN wanted to do a fluff piece on little league players view of the chase. I was coach of a little league baseball team. My co-coach was a CNN producer. Convenient. They filmed our entire practice, interviewed the players and boiled it down to a 1 minute feature. Let’s see, I’ve been alive over 25 million minutes, and was “famous” for less than one. Suits me! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/645987/14 "2013-01-03T23:30:08Z")
My sig is my fame. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/645987/15 "2013-01-04T00:15:02Z")
I used to be able to play “Mary Had A Little Lamb” on the piano with one hand, and “London Bridge” with the other. But really, I suppose any fairly good pianist could do it. And I can’t do it well anymore, as I don’t have a piano to practice on. ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/645987/16 "2013-01-04T00:25:34Z")
1. I own one of a few (I think) signed copies of Dean Koontz’s “House of Thunder”. It’s an edition that was published under the Leigh Nichols pseudonym. The writing above the signature says only 500 were distributed 2. I have rolled a UPS truck. Turns out when you do that, doors break open and packages go everywhere. Also, it can be the beginning of a new and different career. 3. I have flown a B-17 bomber. [This](http://www.warbirdsandairshows.com/images/airshows%202011/Hamilton%202011/b-17-chuckie-107w-3.jpg) one, if you’re interested. It’s in my logbook. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/645987/17 "2013-01-04T00:35:38Z")
Written a couple of books, two of which are foundational works in their fields. Shaped, managed and executed a well-regarded international special event for 800 people. There is a chance that I may become a household name this year, or at least extremely widely known, as a result of a socioeconomic engineering project I am now pulling together. ---
**Author:** ![CatherineZeta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@CatherineZeta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatherineZeta)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/645987/18 "2013-01-04T00:52:28Z")
I took pictures of Karl Lagerfeld and a magazine that my then boss’s girlfriend worked for published the pictures on their blog. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/645987/19 "2013-01-04T01:31:16Z")
I am the most hated person on the SDMB! ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/645987/20 "2013-01-04T02:13:58Z")
> [@voguevixen](#): > > I am the most hated person on the SDMB! I’m sure I’ve seen more disliked people than you on here. Though I haven’t been around nearly as long as you on the board, so maybe I just don’t know. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/645987.md?page=2)