Claims To Fame, or "I touched a celebrity"
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I have a few.
This is probably the best because it is so utterly embarrassing.
As you may know, I live in one of the largest sailing areas in the world, we are inundated with amazing sailors and especially short-handed sailors. I am in awe of them all, Sir Robin, Alex Thompson, Dame Ellen etc etc…
Dee Caffari is another http://www.deecaffari.co.uk/en/index.php and she used to have her offices close to ours.
I read her book after her last single handed circumnavigation. And I new it inside out. At one point, she was stuck up the mast in the Southern Ocean for 90 minutes, the boat sailing itself, with a storm approaching. At this point, the closest human being to her was in the space station....
Anyway, we were at a party and I popped to the loo, when I got back Paula was chatting to a group of people. I started talking to the only female in the group (of course). I asked her how she knew the host and where she worked. When she told me where she worked, the following ensued:
G - Isn't that where Dee Caffari's place is?
D - I am Dee Caffari!
G - (Digging himself in even deeper) - I want your babies.....I invited her to our next party, she did not come......
True story. Ask Paula, she was listening and was even more embarrassed than me.....
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^hahaha ooops!! Did I say that out loud?!
Another good one… me and a slightly more famous Chuck from St. Louis:
I'd be much obliged if you'd ignore the hair
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That's my boy, @Giles.
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Thats fucking awesome @xtcclassic
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My father worked for over 30 years for the Lufthansa, not as a pilot, but he worked there and had some good connections.
So, my mother and father had some nice honeymoon time in Johannesburg (South Africa). I was not born, but my mom was pregnant.
On the fly home there was some trouble with their seats, the booked business class, got tickets, but there was no place for them, and mommies belly was too big for the economy class.
So they got some nice seats from our local rockband the SCORPIONS, they played a show in South Africa and they we´re on their way back home too.I also met this fine dude(s):
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Hahaha!
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I also have a picture of me and Corey Feldman at the Playboy Mansion.
Something tells me that that's not the wildest thing that happened that night?
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The Playboy Mansion?
Corey Feldman?
Something tells me that's not even half the story!
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Film sets which Pam and I have been asked to leave from…
Jersey Girl (in Central Park, apparently we were talking too loud whilst "BEN IS IN SHOT!!!!", as the guy screamed at us)
Just Like Heaven (shitty Reece Witherspoon rom/com filmed in San Francisco, we were blocking the camera from seeing Reece).
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Some great stories guys and even better pics. MCL sportin some sweet hair bro.
Mega, dennis leary was the man. My fave comedian when i was younger. Trickhell, bill murray is fuckin awesome dude!! Always has been, not because someone made a website and said he was and now EVERYONE loves him. Dude is fuckin funny. PB mansion and feldman plus Henry rollins are no slouch either man. You look sooo diff in that pic with corey tho. Like a columbian hitman lol. Great stories.
Urb, Harry from "harry and the hendersons" is a cool meet. Were you scared at all?
Louisbosco, kevin cheng is fuckin hillarious "gaaaybooy"
Xtcclassic, fuckin GnR bro?? Thats an amazing story dude. I still love GnR, appetite is prob one of the best albums of all time….ya, i said it
Giles, lol. Right infront of the Madame? Haha
Jcmx800, scorps rock. Watched them at a small venue about 4yrs ago. Pushed to the stage with my gf. Bad idea cuz Claus kept tryin to pick her up lolAwesome thread. Ive got a couple minor stories. Ill try and dig up the pics
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I also have met Nick Nolte and Geena Davis and Jeff Goldblum.
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I got to meet (and record) Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and Terry Jones and they were all just the nicest blokes. When TJ started doing his old female voices I could barely control the recording software due to laughing so much.
David Walliams….not so funny :|
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…and yes, Bill Murray takes the crown. Nice one @TrickHell
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Honorable mention: Cameron Diaz. She and I used to get gas at the same station when she lived in my
area in the mid 90's. We were on a first name basis, so very nice, much like her character in the first
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Thats pretty awesome BH. She seems like she would b a nice person.
I got to meet Classified (canadian rapper) went out back of the venue to have a "smoke" and he came out to have one aswell. So my friends and i shared ours with him and chatted him up a lil.
2009 i think
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Cameron was great, always so friendly and happy. Great pic pillow! I love this thread!
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i was living in the east village and walked out of my apartment one day, and there comes Aziz Ansari down the street. I knew of only one thing to do, so I put my hand out for a high five without saying a word. He reciprocated, and then as he walked off i jumped in the air and said "tom haverford"
was a pretty good day
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@TrickHell:
I'd probably die if I met Guns N Roses. They're pretty much my favorite band of all time.
random trivia fact:
duff beer in simpsons is named after duff mckagan who axel rose once called "the king of beers". He decided to calm down get sober and invest in a local book store, coffee shop and tech company. Those were Amazon, Starbucks and Microsoft.
