Reddevil63

I am originaly from Alvin, Tx which is where Nolan Ryan lives, so I have seen and talked to him at several restaraunts and stuff like that. And one of my friends used to live like 3 houses down from him. Hes a cool guy but i wish he would have done more for the town. I know its not required but the town had to cancel a little league baseball season because they did not have enough money to replace rotting light poles.

BigDonkey2

i met the TV geek from the show Beat the Geeks...he was in line at FRYS electronics in Burbank, CA.....my bro is a pro baseball player....so i know him...lol......i also saw Bill Murray at an In-N-Out down in San Diego

ktthequeen

i have worked 2 different private aviation airport jobs so i've met countless people

the highlights (aka nice folks):
victoria principle
dale earnhardt jr
gerald ford (who looks like a rotting corpse but is sweet nonetheless...)
heather locklear

the lowlights (aka total fucking pricks):
mariah carey
george steinbrenner

TIO

I got a hug from Martina Hingis at a tennis tournament

I also got in a lengthy conversation with Tyrone Noonan from George at a record store, and you can't live in Perth for long without seeing Heath Ledger once or twice. First time I saw him, he was perving on a friend of mine

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im2smrt4u

I saw David Hasselhoff at the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam. He was an asshole!

My kid sister and her friend wanted an autograph, and he told them to fuck off! How rude!

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Bill O'Rights

Don't know how...don't know why...but that somehow just doesn't surprise me one little bit.

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"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." - Susan B. Anthony

"Hedonism with rules isn't hedonism at all, it's the Republican party." - JumpinJesus

It is indisputable that true beauty lies within...but a nice rack sure doesn't hurt.

fuzzix

Um, I've only ever met Bob Hawke, ex, ex prime minister of australia :P

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dy156

GWBush at Governor's Christmas party in Austin-I was set up with the sister of a friend of mine's date. The sisters' father was, I guess, a big shot, and that's why we got to go. We joked about West Texas and new england boarding schools.

Guy from Dawson's Creek that's not Dawson -can't remember his name-at a bar in New Orleans. My wife started talking to him. My wife also knew the guy that was a lacrosse player on American Pie, Kevin Klien or Kline or something, in college.

My friend from college was on an episode of Walker, TX Ranger!
Other people I knew in college were on Survivor and that show where the guys wore masks and the girl picked them. My friend was the only normal one out of them all, and he didn't get picked.

Pat Green -got to know him at George's bar before he was big

Didn't really meet them, just interacted with them:

Clinton at state of the Union -the one where he held up a card and said that every American would have one and have access to health care-I was a congressional page at the very back and I just had a long arm I guess. My parents back home saw me on ABC.

Poppa Bush at Republican convention in 1992 when I worked at the convention center as a summer job, shook his hand.

Hakeem Olijuwan -our choir sang the national anthem at a Rockets game, and as we were walking on, the teams were still warming up. A ball was rolling toward me, I picked it up, and looked, and there was Hakeem, looking at me, so I passed it to him.

Nothing too exciting

platypus

I met Bill Gates about 10 years ago.

An application I developed was selected to show at the Microsoft booth at Comdex. Bill came around shaking hands and meeting with each of the presenters. He didn't spend much time at my display. Probably because I wrote the program in <b>Borland C</b>. Philippe Kahn (Borland's CEO at the time), however, stopped by and chatted with me for a long time.

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scansinboy

I've met Andrew 'Dice' Clay once. we were at a college fair which was connected to a hotel downtown and he was playing in town that night, we happened to bump into him.
I've also met all the members of Barenaked ladies and Cowboy Mouth (Who're they?) several times. I also 'met' Robin Williams once when we decided to hang out outside his hotel waiting for him to come out on his way to a gig, and then being swarmed by about 20 autograph seekers.
My Buddy, on the other hand, a 'professional autograph seeker' ('grapher) has probably met every professional wrestler and baseball player you can think of. (At least I was impressed when I saw his collection)

That is all.

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a2k

I drove R. Kelly's car. Forget meeting them - have they trusted you with their automobile?

splck

I've met: Al Pachino, Robert Duvall, Robert de Nero, Nicolas Cage, Crispin Glover, Diane Lane, Val Kilmer, Francis Ford Coppola, Tom Brokaw and a bunch of others but I can't remember their names.

I've seen a bunch of celebs too, but I could care less if I actually met them.

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ssander9

I don't know if professional drag racers count? If so here we go.
Shirley Muldowney, Don Garlits, Kenny Bernstein, Rhonda Hartman, Jim Head, Connie and Doug Kalitta, Bob Glidden (asshole), John Force (crazy sob, fun to talk to), Cruz and Tony Pedregon, Darrell Alderman, Bruce Allen, Warren Johnson (asshole), Larry Morgan and Jim Yates. Used to race with these guys before I retired from drag racing. Probably forgot a couple.

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Hanxter

Adm. Arleigh Burke - Chief of Naval Operations in the 50's
Gen'l. William Westmoreland - Superintendant of Cadets at West Point and field commander in Viet Nam
Nelson Rockefeller - former VP under Gerald Ford
Margaret Chase Smith - first female named to the US Senate
Mike Bossy - NY Islanders star forward
Bobby Orr - Boston Bruins star defenseman
Johnny Bucyk - Boston Bruins star forward
Carl Yaztremski - Boston Red Sox star outfielder
Ted Williams - Boston Red Sox star outfielder
Curt Gowdy - sportswriter and Boston Red Sox game caster
Bud Leavitt - syndicated sportswriter
Shirley Povich - sportswriter Wash. Post
John Hannah - only NE Patriot in the NFL Hall of Fame
Fred Biletnikoff - Oakland Raiders star reciever
John Havlicek - Boston Celtics star forward
Paul Newman - Message In A Bottle
Robin Wright Penn - Message In A Bottle
Kevin Costner - Message In A Bottle
Cameron Diaz - Head Above Water
Harvey Keitel - Head Above Water
Craig Sheffer - Head Above Water
Jim Wilson - director
Mel Gibson - Man Without A Face
John Kerry - 2004 presidential candidate
and last but not least...
Angus King - JACKASS former Governor of Maine

lions20

I met the Dahm triplets from Playboy if you can call them a celebrity and for you Howard Stern fans out there I met Beetlejuice.

Midnight_Son

Famous Musicians I’ve met:

Don Dokken
Steve Vai
Joe Satriani
Steve Lukather
Ted Nugent
Faster Pussycat (whole band)
Nikki Sixx
Neal McCoy
Jackal
Monty Montgomery
Steven Persey (singer from Ratt)

There’s a ton more really obscure ones but these are a few that I would hope most of have heard of.

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Jim Kata

-Sebastian Bach of Skid Row in 1990 (just an autograph)
-Dave Sabo of Skid Row in 1990 (just an autograph
-Adam Yauch aka MCA of the Beatie boys 1994 (just a handshake)
-B-Real of Cypress Hill..we smoked a couple of joints together and made fun of the insane clown posse (they were on stage).
-Jess Margera from CKY aka "The Jackass Band" had a few drinks with him.
-And whatever Mrs Hart's real name was (from that show Hart to Hart) while we were on Safari when I was a little kid.

God of Thunder

Met and had lunch with Ernie Harwell (Former radio announcer for the Detroit Tigers)

Got autographs from:
Mickey Redmond & Ken Daniels (TV Broadcasters for Detroit Redwings)
Darren McCarty (Redwings. At an autograph session.)
Chuck Mangione (Backstage after a show)
Members of Grand Funk Railroad after a show. (2001 line up: Mel Schacher, Don Brewer, Bruce Kulick, Tim Cashion and Max Carl)
I also met Mark Farner while I was working as a photographer for a local paper.

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Prince

Met Tori Amos once. Am a big fan nowadays, but back then I hadn't heard of her (told her as much), so most of my replies during the conversation were along the lines of "yeah, nice, that's interesting...mmhmm..".

Six years later, I feel like a jackass.

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blackdas

Christina Aguilera. My sister is highschool friends with one of her friends, so she came to my house for a few drinks.

hobo

My friend met that girl that used to be the Pepsi girl.

I've met Sir David Attenborough, a famous naturalist and broadcaster of wildlife videos. He was pretty funny.

Plan9Senior

I live in Orange County, California (save the cheesy TV show jokes) and I meet and run into "celebrities" all the time where I live. The little hole in the wall bar, walking distance from my house, is the regular drinking spot for a lot of known people like musicians from Kotton Mouth Kings, Lit, Papa Roach, and some other random bands. Also a lot of pro skaters and bikers will stumble in there to hang out. I met Randy Couture (he is an Ultimate Fighter who is fighting Tito Ortiz Sept 26th for the championship title) and is suprisingly a likeable nice guy. For anybody who is a skatebarding fan, last night Jonus Wray bought me 2 'shoot the roots' at the bar .

I also have season Laker tickets (Hal has seen pics of my sweet seats ) and for anybody who is star struck, a playoff laker game is the place to be.

tj2001cobra

I used to play tennis with Pat Green (Country Singer) when we were in the 10-15 year old range.

I've thrown down more than a few beers with Shannon Elizabeth in high school. Her name back then was Shannon Fadal but she dropped her last name and is now using her middle name as her last name.

I met Marily Manson back stage at a Nine Inch Nails concert back in 92 or 93 before he was popular. He opened for NIN and I thought he was disgusting. He had some long dildo-looking thing in his leather pants that was approx 24 inches long that he kept swinging around.

I was sitting on the riverwalk in San Antonio and Kevin Costner passed by with his kids and wife.

I said hi to Sinbad (the comic) in an airport once.

I've been to alot of concert and have been backstage a ton so I know there are more I am forgetting.

Johnny Rotten

I've met Ray Bradbury, Robert Silverberg, Ursula LeGuin, and Chris Taylor (president of Gas Powered Games, lead designer on the Dungeon Siege games).

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messy

Talk to Will Clark (Baseball legend) quite often. We share the same boat marina here in Louisiana. Will loves his fishing almost as much as myself.

Really nice guy.

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messy

Suprisingly?! No way. There was no doubt in my mind that this guy was total class. Never met him myself, but you can tell he is extremely down-to-earth.

Big fan

kwIII

I met the guy who played Bakala on the Sopranos at a hotel bar here in NC, he is much smaller in person. He wore a fat suit in the first threee seasons. A couple of the girls had pics taken with him, he seemed like a pretty cool guy.

sakvee

I met the whole Liverool Football club at training in the mid nineties. Bloody fantastic it was.

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Rodney

Mostly old science fiction writers, Ronald Reagan, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Reagan: got his autograph and a hearty handshake back in the'70s at a Boy's State convention in California. Actually don't like him, but he had real balls: stood up and told a crowd of 1000 horny high school seniors that abstinence was the only real birth control. We knew a master bullshitter when we saw one, and gave him a standing ovation. His hair was orange from a bad dye job.

The old science fiction writers:
Harlan Ellison (several times)
Robert Silverberg (house sat for him once, my wife and I slept in his bed)
Roger Zelazny, Michael Moorcock, Poul Anderson, Greg Bear, Fritz Leiber (a real gent, visited him at home), Theodore Sturgeon (he had a goat on his lap), Jerry Pournelle (drunk both times), Heinlein (just a handshake), William F. Nolan (wrote the original book "Logan's Run") and a bunch of others who may possibly be famous now but I stopped reading sf 20 years ago and wouldn't know.

Arnold I met at the grand opening of a gym in my home town. He was buddies with the gym owner, old time bodybuilding champ Dave Draper, who I do know fairly well.

Walter Mondale : congratulated him on a speech he'd just given, but that won't mean anything to you unless you were voting in the '80s or live in Minnesota. He has a limp fish handshake, by the way.

Performance artist Mark Pauline of Survival Research Lab. Went over to his warehouse once and he started up a few (moderately nondestructive) death machines for me.

Haven't met anyone even moderately famous in 10 years. Guess I don't get out much anymore.

Stiltzkin

You met God? I envy you!

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Blistex

My friend and I when we lived in toronto used to go to the airport a day or two before the differnt musical acts played. Sometimes we got lucky and saw someone, sometimes we bought a bunch of overpriced airport food.

Shania Twain = Both from northern Ontario, talked for 2 minutes.
Lene Nystrom = Signed an autograph (has the sexiest accent).
Good Charolette = From about 50 feet.
Sheryl Crow = HOT!!!
Gwen Stephani = Freaking ass!!! Wanted the whole terminal cleared so she didnt have to deal with fans.

And Jean Cretien (Prime Minister)
Mike Harris ( Former Ontario Premier)

That`s about it!

HughHugh

I've met Teresa of Calcutta, she only stood to the shoulders of most people in the room, but she's got a holiness thing nailed down, this woman knows how to work the crowd man

insect2003

i met t-mac and iverson on the street one day in nyc

metrodub

Living here in Richmond, VA doesn't afford one the luxury of seeing or meeting many celebrities, but I've met and hung out with a few.

Anthony Hopkins
Julianne Moore
Dave Matthews and the band (actually hung out with them all day and night before they were big)
Ben Affleck - was actually down to earth
Sandra Bullock - she was fun...and loves to dance
Penn and Teller
Everclear
Zoe Britton (adult/exotic dancer)

George W. Bush - met him at the ESPNZone in Baltimore when they used to do the live pre-show/halftime show on Monday Night Football. He was at the table next to my wife and I and some friends. We were there watching the Cowboys/Giants game. He was nice.

Frank Gifford - same event at the ESPNZone. He was standing near the bar and when my wife was getting a beer. She said hi but he didn't respond to her and shrugged her off. Needless to say...prick.

Chris Berman - again at the ESPNZone...extremely nice and loves his beer. Hung out and talked to him for a while and slung one back with him. Really big guy as well.

Jason Mraz - singer with a pretty modest hit on the radio these days. He's from the Richmond area and was crashing at an apartment across the hall from my brother. Met him right before his record came out. Pretty cool guy.

Lil Kim - short is an understatement. She actually has a funny sense of humor.

Sean Barber - linebacker for the Chiefs. Met him when he was with the Skins. He is good friends with one of my old co-workers and was in the office/radio station hanging out. Told him I was a Cowboys fan and thought the Skins sucked. Needless to say, I had a nice bruise on my arm. All in fun of course.

Fat Joe - yeah, he's fat.

Various country music stars...but I hate country music, so I couldn't tell you who they were.

tenchi069

Met Johnny Cash in Vanderbilt Hospital when i was there for a collapsed lung when I was about 8. Didn't ask for an autograph cause he was visiting family that was in there, but I said hello to him and he said hello back. Not much of a meeting, but still cool.

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frankx

I've actually met Colin Powell and Oliver North in an official capacity.

When I lived in L.A., I saw celebs all the time. A short list:

Arnold Schwarzeneggar and Linda Hamilton (while filming T2)

Betty White (Golden Girls). She smiled and waved back.

Magic Johnson

Sylvester Stallone (surprisingly short in real life)

Henry Rollins (I shook hands with him, but didn't really get to talk to him. He seemed pretty cool.)

Axl Rose, when GNR were extremely popular (Personal note: Quite possibly the biggest asshole walking the planet. Not at all nice to the people who were handling him at that particular moment, and just plain rude to his fans who just wanted his autograph. Sure, everyone can have a bad day, but this could possibly help explain why not many people buy GNR albums anymore).

I saw Richard Simmons in the airport in Charlotte, N.C. a month or so ago. Ten minutes later, I saw Arn Anderson (WWE wrestler). Talk about going from one extreme to another! They were both in a hurry, and I don't collect autographs anyway, so I left them alone. However, Richard Simmons was gracious enough to stop and sign autographs and talk to a few people.

I met Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton and Jessica Corbin at a Screen Savers taping in July in SF. They were all super nice people.

I have met several local celebs in New Orleans. I've met Paul Prudhomme more than once. I have also met Emeril Lagasse (nice guy). I have seen Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails around a couple of times but never met him.

I have never actually met John Goodman, but I know his wife and her family.

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kris

carson daly- he is a pretty big dickhead

vanbeast

Rupert Murdock at a convention.

IckUber

all i can think of is ernest. You know, Ernest scared stupid, stuff like that. He used to do Braums commercials, and when i was like 2 or some shit, my mom and me were at braums, and he was filming a commercial, and i got pictures with him and shit, but i was 2 so i dont remember that. If i find the picture ill scan it in!

My mom on the other hand has met lots more than me, she was an extra in the movie, UHF so she met "the nanny" Kramer (micheal richards) werid al, and a few others. Also she just did the make up for "joe millionair" he was acting in some small film they were filming in tulsa, and she has pictures with him too.

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