# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/21 "2016-08-16T04:45:44Z")
When I was 16 I got interviewed for a book on teen issues. My quotes are in the “suicide” chapter. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/22 "2016-08-16T04:58:59Z")
I had about 10 seconds of screen-time on a TV mini-series years ago. No lines, but I have a Bacon Number! Also wrote and gave away a program back in the early days of home computing. I found out that ppl used it in the USA, Canada, Germany, and some other European countries. This was back in the days of 2400-baud modems, so I thought it was cool that it got around that much. A few ppl I met, when they found out I wrote it, asked me to autograph their copy. Pretty silly, but nice to know your work is appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/23 "2016-08-16T05:31:24Z")
When I was a teenager, I played violin on local TV. Rave reviews. Several years later, I beat Ayn Rand at Scrabble a few times. She was the best Scrabble player I’ve ever encountered, and she was thoroughly delighted when I won. I’ve also walked in on Alan Greenspan in Rand’s bathroom. And a few decades later, I had sex with a very renowned _Jeopardy!_ champion. ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/24 "2016-08-16T05:50:35Z")
I was in a French documentary with the [1-800-AUTOPSY](http://1800autopsy.com/) guy in Los Angeles sometime in the 90’s. I was shown delivering a customer. I can find no trace of this thing on YouTube or anywhere online, but dammit, I’m in some videotape vault in Paris somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/25 "2016-08-16T13:21:50Z")
In February 1995 (when I was 23) I had a nonfiction article published in _Catholic Digest_, for which I was paid $100. That was both the start and the end\* of my magazine-writing career. \*I did try one more time: later in 1995 I pitched a Peace Corps article to _TIME_ magazine. I got a well-deserved postcard rejection. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/26 "2016-08-16T14:54:18Z")
My three great sons, a brief appearance in _The Avengers_, and about two dozen court decisions of mine which have been officially reported and will be available forever. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/27 "2016-08-16T15:07:48Z")
I appeared as the employee performing tasks safely in a series of safety videos that were commonly used in manufacturing facilities in the 1990s. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/28 "2016-08-16T15:42:30Z")
I have solos (admittedly short) on two choral CDs that received international release and reviews. Sung a couple of times on TV. Sung at Carnegie Hall (in a chorus of 120, but my picture was in the NY Times review). Several local reviews of my solo singing (and one of my hair). ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/29 "2016-08-16T15:45:08Z")
I’ve self-published two novels (lousy sales) and had one short story published in a magazine. Still writing! ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/30 "2016-08-16T16:45:14Z")
Mostly photography related these days, I’ve had my images featured in a couple of different magazines and have won some awards. People in certain circles know know of me a little b/c I helped build up the Earwolf podcast network back in its early years. These are very small circles though. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/31 "2016-08-16T16:49:44Z")
I wrote the Legion of Super-Heroes Reference File, which is now about 14 years out-of-date, but is probably still pretty well remembered by Legion fans. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/32 "2016-08-16T16:50:32Z")
I was profiled in\* High Times.\* ---
**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:** [August 16, 2016, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/33 "2016-08-16T17:29:45Z")
I was the Worst Writer in the World in 2007. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/34 "2016-08-16T18:27:26Z")
> [@fachverwirrt](#): > > I have solos (admittedly short) on two choral CDs that received international release and reviews. Also, with the same choir, recorded part of the soundtrack for a [made for TV movie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-COSoBTCPKA#t=7m12s). (Never watched it. Heard it’s terrible.) ---
**Author:** ![Polly\_Pointless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/858c86/32.png) [@Polly\_Pointless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polly_Pointless)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/35 "2016-08-16T18:40:48Z")
Dr. Demento gave me his cell phone number. ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/36 "2016-08-16T18:42:01Z")
There are a few things that I could mention, but this is the one that probably reached the widest audience: I had about two seconds of screen time in one of Robert Irvine’s last _Dinner: Impossible_ episodes. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/37 "2016-08-16T19:01:12Z")
Romper Room star! No, I don’t do autographs. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/38 "2016-08-16T19:01:32Z")
> [@MovieMogul](#): > > I have an IMDB listing (for credits in front of and behind the camera). > > My IMDPro STARmeter ranking is currently 7,010,562 Psh. What is your Bacon Number? I was on _Jeopardy!_. Didn’t win though, but got a trip to Puerto Vallarta out of it. ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/39 "2016-08-16T19:32:19Z")
My eye doctor took a photograph of the inside of my eye and used it in a medical school textbook he was contributing to. It is captioned “Healthy Eye.” ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/40 "2016-08-16T19:49:51Z")
In a choral rehearsal, John Rutter stopped the choir and said the sopranos missed their entrance because they were watching that “interesting bloke”, pointing at me. (I think they were really looking at my headless Kramer bass.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956.md?page=3)