# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/41 "2016-08-16T20:35:06Z")
I am almost willing to guarantee that my name has appeared in more publications than anyone here. Both as a writer and publisher. Working dailies with your own byline for years will do that to you. I tried to add it up once but it’s somewhere above 10,000. ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/42 "2016-08-16T21:45:23Z")
I wrote the 100,000th article on the English wikipedia. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/43 "2016-08-16T22:05:01Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > And a few decades later, I had sex with a very renowned \* Jeopardy!\* champion. Watson is fully equipped??? 🙂 My only CTF is that I have some very famous ancestors from American History. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/44 "2016-08-16T22:12:36Z")
I’m listed in the playtesting section of a D&D book. Also, when I was in high school a local TV news show shot some footage in my high school history class and so you could sometimes see the back of my head on the news whenever they needed some stock footage of a high school class. Also, I contributed to the alt.fan.conan-obrien FAQ in days of yore, so my name can still be found there. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/45 "2016-08-16T22:30:48Z")
I wrote a technical book that stayed at #1 in its Amazon category for over six months. ---
**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, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/46 "2016-08-16T22:35:52Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I was the Worst Writer in the World in 2007. I remember that. It was such a cool\* thing, not just for you but for the SDMB feeling proud vicariously through you! \*_The nerdiest kind of cool_ ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/47 "2016-08-16T23:10:13Z")
Played with and against capped international soccer players?? ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/48 "2016-08-17T00:55:28Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Psh. What is your Bacon Number? According to [The Oracle of Bacon](https://oracleofbacon.org/), my Bacon number is 3. I also had a profile written about me in a UK stamp collector’s magazine. ---
**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:** [August 17, 2016, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/49 "2016-08-17T01:10:04Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Psh. What is your Bacon Number? I’m not the guy you’re asking, but my Bacon Number is 2. Maybe that’s my claim to fame? ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/50 "2016-08-17T01:41:47Z")
I wrote a book on drugs that got translated into French, Spanish, Chinese, Slovak, and Polish. That was just before the USSR fell. Drug use soared in Eastern Europe when the police stopped handy-handed suppression. The Polish government put out two special editions of the book that were distributed through official channels to provide information. Made me a millionaire. In zlotys. At 1300 to the dollar. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/51 "2016-08-17T01:42:35Z")
It’s really my BFF and and my GF (two different people) who are the C-list Forrest Gumps. One has skateborded with Jason Lee, stunt worked in a Morgan Fairchild (Morrrrrrgannnn Fairchillllld) film (to name a couple of things) the other high-fived Russell Westbrook just the other day. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/52 "2016-08-17T02:10:23Z")
I was the President of the United States between 1969 and 1974. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/53 "2016-08-17T02:44:51Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > I was the President of the United States between 1969 and 1974. You’re Henry Kissinger!?!?! ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/54 "2016-08-17T02:51:07Z")
Shhhhhhhhhh! ---
**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 17, 2016, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/55 "2016-08-17T08:26:46Z")
Oh, oh! I was interviewed on 1010 WINS radio about a street fair I attended. They played it over and over and I was so mortified. I barely understood myself, I talk so fast. And I giggled. It was awful. ---
**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 17, 2016, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/56 "2016-08-17T08:30:43Z")
Oh! And I met Biggirl once, and she told me I had a pretty smile ---
**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 17, 2016, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/57 "2016-08-17T08:59:20Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Oh! And I met Biggirl once, and she told me I had a pretty smile Did I talk fast and giggle? Because I’ve been known to do that. ---
**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 17, 2016, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/58 "2016-08-17T09:53:14Z")
Honestly, I don’t remember. It was the Dopefest in NYC about 6 months after 9/11. I think it was in the foyer(?) Of that restaurant we all ate at. Was it the Americana? I remember them having a $7 pb&j on the menu. I had to order one for later. I was disappointed with it. White bread, grape jelly, creamy peanut butter. ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/59 "2016-08-17T10:42:07Z")
I was mentioned on the Den of Geek website recently. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956/60 "2016-08-17T11:04:15Z")
I am friends with someone who had a significant role in a movie that was Oscar-nominated for Best Picture. mmm [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-claim-to-fame/762956.md?page=4)