You can take your name-dropping and shove it right up your rectum.

My favorite caller ever was the guy who threatened to tell his good friend Sheriff Bob Jones all about how unhelpful his deputies were being. He’s been good friends with Sheriff Bob Jones for years, you see, and when he told Sheriff Bob Jones about what was going on Sheriff Bob Jones was going to see that something got done, dagnabbit!

“The sheriff’s first name is Dennis,” I told him. He hung up on me. It was a sweet, sweet moment in my life.

My father-in-law does that at restaurants. Yeah, maybe he knew the owner a decade or two ago when he worked in the food business, but it’s been a while. The last time I heard him try it, he was asking the manager if “(Name in Restaurant Name)” was in because he thought he saw his car in the lot. I was impressed at how well the manager avoided openly sneering when he corrected my FIL as to the owner’s name (nothing related to the restaurant’s name) and said that no, he was not in.

Not quite the same, but in a similar vein: I once went to a very good, but very small restaurant an was patiently waiting in line to put my name on the list for a seat. A very pushy woman pushed her way up to the hostess (pushy people do that, you know) and proclaimed loudly: We have a reservation! The hostess looked up and, very politely, said: Uhm, we don’t take reservations. The pushy woman didn’t even blush, but we all got a great laugh.

Just yesterfay I was talking to the Godster

He attended a party at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at which Alice Cooper was also present. (He says they exchanged a few lines of small-talk.) Lemmy from Motorhead was there, too. (I wonder, if Hubby wants to drop his name if he should call him “The Lem-ster”?)

Nope, referring to him as “Coop” would be proper. :wink:

Can I hang around your husband? Just to, you know, absorb?

Part of my job description involves occasionally handling irate customers who have managed to ratchet up the totem pole. I get to stop them before they get any further up :smiley:

Anyway - my compan is privately owned by a pretty decent guy who’s name is well-known in the area. If I had a nickel for everyone who says “I know XYZ PDQ and I’m going to call him!”, I could retire. I am always so tempted to say “I know him too - he signs my paycheck every week”.

VCNJ~

I’ve heard a lot of newbies here complain that no one ever talks to them. I’d just like to point out that both tomndebb and Marlitharn replied to my post above.

Henceforth, I shall refer to them as my buddy tomndebb and my good friend Marlitharn.

No, no, you’ve got it backwards, silly! A mod is your good friend and another mere Doper is your buddy. Please make a note of this. :smiley:

You know who really hates name dropping? Batman.

Well, I didn’t want to make it look like I was sucking up, you know.

Hey, didn’t we go to high school together?

Why do you think I married him?

He’s actually met quite a few rock stars. He used to work for a company which oversaw the security for concerts.

The point isn’t that I call him Billy. The point is that he calls me Sir.

So I was discussing this thread with Cecil over breakfast, and…

So I was discussing this thread with Cec over breakfast, and…

Meryl Streep once told me that one of the things she hates most about Hollywood is the name dropping.

So the other Day, Meryl Streep was all like, how she hung out with P-Lizzy all weekend and I was like… whateva!

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Well, Meryl and I… that is to say, “Mer”, as I call her, were talking about the whole name dropping thing, which is why I posted about it in the first place.

I’m totally telling Stevie about this, too.

(you know… Spielberg.)

There’s an online poet who does this, but it’s so much more pathetic when you’re name-dropping other poets. At least if you drop a name, make it be a name! I could drop poet names and none of you would even know who the hell I was dropping. That makes it just sad.

Thanks Vibrotronica! That was brilliant and hilarious. Oh,Elvis sez to tell you that’s kinda like the parties at Graceland were like, back in the day, and that lactating makes him HunkaHunka hot.