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One of my brothers was a heavily made-up extra in the movie "A Texas Funeral" - I think Martin Sheen was in it.

Now THAT'S obscure.

Errr! I shaked the hand of the King of Spain last november. I can cure baldness now I think (Terry Pratchet reference)


M.

Oh! I got stoned in the same disused Graveyard Sid Vicious reputedly frequented for the same reason!

And it's entirely possible I have walked some of the same streets as Shane McGowan, him having been born in Tunbridge Wells.

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Dogma wins the thread with the Jerry Springer Anecdote. A totally unsubstantiated report of someone no one else knows on a show no longer broadcast!

Not so obscure. If his location is Chicago and he had a friend who was a subculture
kid, or dressed that way, it was probably really easy to get on the show. It would have
helped if his friend was melodramatic.

Ah, but....we wouldn't know his friend from Adam, all the episodes were exactly the same...

I still think it's obtuse and lame enough to win not only the thread, but it's prize of Ten Thousand Internets!

malfred wrote:
Not so obscure. If his location is Chicago and he had a friend who was a subculture
kid, or dressed that way, it was probably really easy to get on the show. It would have
helped if his friend was melodramatic.

Not melodramatic, but he was incredibly promiscuous, and his mom had a thing for the rock.

I once danced on stage with Mark Wahlberg (when he was Marky Mark).

I once gave Nico Smith (of American Idol "fame" -- also, Ozzie Smith's son) a pony ride.

I used to talk to Elaine Cunningham (WotC author) quite a bit via email and have a personalized, autographed copy of one of her books that she sent me (still in the bubble envelope she sent it in) from her personal stash.

Used to talk to Roger Moore, too... but he never sent me anything.

I have Research credit in an AD&D 2nd edition Forgotten Realms supplement.

The best:

The psycopathic mother of an ex-girlfriend of mine was a member of the Manson family (one who DIDN'T get tried & jailed).

Eric

My coworker games with Greg Stolze, the author of Unknown Armies.

When I introduced myself to him at GenCon, he tried to sell me his latest
book, Reign, which I respectfully declined as a non-budgeted item. (I don't
even play role playing games, much less cool alt-indy ones.) He told me
that some people had to toil all year long.

I still haven't bought the book.

grizgrin wrote:Quarter on Fat Tuesday is over rated.

QFT.

For you wwe buffs
I used to hang out with Marti Ganetti from the rock and roll express all the time. We'd drink beers and he would tell me stories of how big of a bastard Shawn Michaels is and how much coke all the wwf guys used to do.