# What is your claim to fame? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 15, 2016, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956 "2016-08-15T22:14:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hbk4894](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e68b1a/32.png) [@Hbk4894](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hbk4894)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/1 "2016-08-15T22:14:59Z")
Mine is got a retweet from Mario from Towie ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/2 "2016-08-15T22:28:20Z")
I was on “Real People” back in 1983. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/3 "2016-08-15T22:31:59Z")
Miss Virginia sang Happy Birthday to me, and it wound up on the local TV station ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/4 "2016-08-15T23:38:39Z")
I was in the stadium crowd for the in-game scenes of “Major League”. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2016, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/5 "2016-08-15T23:45:04Z")
Too many to list, really. A writer for Slate said my e-mail was the funniest thing he’d read in years, and my saliva contains powerful adhesive properties. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2016, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/6 "2016-08-16T00:11:12Z")
Researcher for several of Kathy Reichs’ (Bones) novels, including creating some godawful poetry in the meter of **Evangeline** in the voice of a French-Canadian teenage girl whose first language was not English. So I have more international bestsellers than anybody here. 🙂 ---
**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:** [August 16, 2016, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/7 "2016-08-16T00:19:13Z")
Depends on your definition of “fame” Though I suppose I’ve had more anonymous people recognize me from an episode of Blind Date that I was on than anything else. But there are a few…stories…I’m sure are going around of my antics from years ago. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/8 "2016-08-16T00:30:29Z")
I have an IMDB listing (for credits in front of and behind the camera). My IMDPro STARmeter ranking is currently 7,010,562 ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/9 "2016-08-16T00:34:02Z")
I created all the characters for the Hasbro toy **Army Ants** and also have an IMDB listing, credit on the original animated Transformers movie. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/10 "2016-08-16T00:36:30Z")
I was on local TV and national TV as a child. Locally when I was in the New York Puerto Rican Day Parade and nationally when I was in the Labor Day Parade. I wasn’t highlighted or anything. Just marching with my school in one and with the ILGWU in the other. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/11 "2016-08-16T00:37:58Z")
My Great uncle Ross called the 1912 Progressive third party convention of Teddy Roosevelt to order by making his Bullmoose call. Still the best any third party has ever achieved. He was head of the Maine Guides. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/12 "2016-08-16T01:01:05Z")
Somewhere on the internet is a metal magazine type site that has a video of a Q&A with Alice Cooper where the audience asks the questions. It was from a horror con outside Dallas about six years ago. Anyway, I’m on it asking him something and then him laughing and answering. I used to have it bookmarked, but that’s been several phones ago. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/13 "2016-08-16T01:10:42Z")
I once broke the nose of a Republican Politician. ---
**Author:** ![DrumBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@DrumBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrumBum)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/14 "2016-08-16T01:13:45Z")
Our band played a gig for the US Ambassador to Angola. He was a big fan of CCR so we got him up to sing “Born on the Bayou” and “Green River.” ---
**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:** [August 16, 2016, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/15 "2016-08-16T01:24:37Z")
Writing [science fiction](http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?557), including an entry in the [Science Fiction Encyclopedia](http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/rothman_chuck) ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/16 "2016-08-16T01:55:46Z")
I did stand-up comedy for about 6 years. There’s a quick cutaway joke I’m telling that was featured on one of the cable comedy specials. I also one called Michael Stipe (REM) a cocksucker to his face. ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/17 "2016-08-16T02:08:37Z")
Kickstarter has invited me to be one of their Super Backers, or something like that, when they start it. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/18 "2016-08-16T03:04:35Z")
My nature photography has been featured in several different national magazines. I also have six sf novels written aand selling on Amazon. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/19 "2016-08-16T03:09:00Z")
There’s a 1982\* “Year in Medicine” publication by World Book Encyclopedia that has an article about child prodigies. A photograph of 8-year-old me playing the violin at a street fair illustrates the section on musical prodigies. FTR, I was nothing like a musical prodigy, but I was a tiny little moppet who didn’t mind crowds, and the photographer was good. - All the details in the post are my best memories; I may have the year, the title, and even the encyclopedia company wrong. My ex-violin teacher pulled it out to show me when I last saw her a couple decades ago. ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/20 "2016-08-16T03:17:01Z")
> [@Hbk4894](#): > > Mine is got a retweet from Mario from Towie That is so cool!!! Umm… who is Mario and what is Towie? I responded to a challenge from snopes (David) to come up with a legend similar to the ring around the rosie myth for their newly created “The Repository of Lost Legends” aka TROLL. I wrote a piece which they included and has since been listed as true in both a board game and a TV show. Looks like it was sometime around 2008… damn I’ve been wasting time at work longer than I thought. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956.md?page=2)