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**fishy bob**

MrMoustaffa wrote:
*Talked to King of Sweden and had no idea who he was at the time (that was a fun reveal to see him on stage later)

How was his English? I'm asking because his Swedish is horrible.

**KingCracker**

I've met that Alfonso fella that played Carlton in fresh prince. He was a very pleasant fellow. Met Ted Nugent at a traffic light. Met the lead singer of the bands chiodos and DRUGS. He's related to a cousins husband, he was nice but I told him how surprised I was at his bands success because the music was just awful

**Maelstrom808**

I've met a lot through my jobs, but there isn't a lot of time to chat so it's not like we're making personal introductions.

Some of the more notables:

Via work:
-Willy Nelson
-Weird Al
-Randy Travis
-Faith Hill
-Bad Company
-The Temptations
-Kriss Kross (lulz)

Otherwise:
-Kurt Cobain
-Buzz Aldrin
-Gravity Kills
-Stabbing Westward (most of them anyway)
-Android Lust (opened for these guys, but I don't really consider it work)

**MrMoustaffa**

fishy bob wrote:
MrMoustaffa wrote:
*Talked to King of Sweden and had no idea who he was at the time (that was a fun reveal to see him on stage later)

How was his English? I'm asking because his Swedish is horrible.

Really heavily accented, but he did a decent job. I could tell he was foreign but nothing screamed "Swedish" when I met him. I figured he was just some foreign military officer since he had two men in military uniform with him at all time.

He gave a speech to the scouts at the boy scout national jamboree and if I remember correctly, I could have sworn he cracked several jokes as well. From the speech he seemed like a really nice guy and he apparently spent the whole day walking around and meeting people.

But I was halfway into my second 100+ hour week by then so I could easily be imagining things.

**Howard A Treesong**

As well as the Queen and the Duke, I've met deputy PM Nick Clegg, biologist Steve Jones and through my time going to Doctor Who conventions I've met a huge number of people in the show including 6 of the 8 original Doctors.

Also since moving to London I've spotted a lot of people on the tube or in the street, Bill Oddie, John Prescott, etc.

**dreamakuma**

At a meat and greet, Brian "head" Welch from korn accidentally elbowed me in the crotch as he got up from the table in 2002, and got a VIP pass from falling over.

I met WWE superstar Antonio Cesaro at a gas station, really cool guy. I also talked with Glenn Jacobs(kane) for 4 hours on writing and the St.Louis area.

and I was a pen pal with stephen king at the age of 12. He wrote a note to my mother after she passed away, apologizing to her about how long it took for a dark tower book to come out (she had cancer). I wrote him back telling him thank you. He really helped me those 6 months when nobody did.

**Some_Call_Me_Tim?**

Well, I've met the guys from Switchfoot. They're essentially you're stereotypical California surfer dudes that just happen to be in a band together. Very nice guys that seem to be fans of their fans, which is always cool. They always do free open-air acoustic concerts for anyone that stays around long enough after their shows.

Other than that, I haven't met anybody famous. I don't get out a lot...

~Tim?

**Monster Rain**

This is me and Jonathan Coulton. No big deal.

**MrDwhitey**

You're the guy outside whose tshirt I can barely see from under his black top, right.

**Monster Rain**

Nope, behind him.

**Snrub**

Oh just remembered, i met Jerry Cantrell from Alice in Chains once at a Soundwave festival a few years back. He was walking around looking for food.
I also had Lemmy from Motorhead wave at me while i was crowdsurfing at a motorhead gig. Highlight of the night.

**chromedog**

Monster Rain wrote:

This is me and Jonathan Coulton. No big deal.

Which one's Jonathan Coulton and what IS a Jonathan Coulton, anyway?

It's customary to at least put an indicator in the caption so people can pick out which is which - especially when "celebrities" may not be known outside your country.

**Monster Rain**

If you don't know who JoCo is, that's your misfortune.

**PredaKhaine**

Another couple of people I forgot - I met Terry Pratchett at a book signing.

I met Shefali Oza at college. But then, you'll only know of her if you live in the right part of the midlands - what with her being a regional news/weather lady...

We were doing capoeira and she descibed it as 'a full contact sport, so its definitely one for the boys.'

I don't think she was used to being heckled.

**Hivefleet Oblivion**

I got hugged,enveloped really, and kissed by a semi-naked, very very sweaty Johnny Vegas.

**gianlucafiorentini123**

Wyrmalla wrote:
I've met all of the major cast from the old Scottish comedy show Chewin' the Fat (and had dinner with three of them). ...Which isn't much of a challenge considering most of them live within a few miles of me... However as most of the "celebrities" I've met probably aren't known outside of Scotland, and again live in the same city of me, I doubt any of them count for non Scots. =/

Are they the same guys who made Still Game?

I've also met most of the BL writers, not that famous but it was a pretty big deal for me. I've also met most of the Man Utd. team a couple of years ago along with some of the Sunderland team. Not me but made was friendlyish with Queen. I've also met Jerry Adams and Martin McGuiness and asked Jerry Adams what it was like to be shot (I was about 3 or 4).

**PredaKhaine**

Another one - I had to push past Jeremy Vetock at warhammer world.
He was stood right in the doorway to the bar...

**Swan-of-War**

I've met:

The Beastie Boys!
Joe Namath!
Mahammad Ahli!
Shigeru Miyamoto!
Stanley Marcus (of Neiman Marcus)

**ProtoClone**

I've also opened for Voltaire and the Hellblinki Sextet.

**Relapse**

Swan-of-War wrote:
I've met:

The Beastie Boys!
Joe Namath!
Mahammad Ahli!
Shigeru Miyamoto!
Stanley Marcus (of Neiman Marcus)

The Beastie Boys stayed at the hotel in New Orleans where I worked and were pretty much dicks to everybody that worked there.

**Tazz Azrael**

I got to shake hands with and chat with the guitarist from 54-40.

**Ardaric_Vaanes**

I've seen the actor who played Martin Platt in Coronation street in the restaurant I frequent a few times. I also briefly saw Pope John Paul II on his balcony in the Vatican waving to people whilst on a school trip there, didn't meet and greet him or anything though so I guess it doesn't really count. That's about it really, nothing to really boast about.

Slightly off topic here but hypothetically, IF I had the chance to meet any famous person of my own choosing however, it'd either be Steve Coogan (Alan Partridge) or Lena Headey (Scary looking woman in my avatar.) After seeing her in Dredd and Game of Thrones she's quickly become my favourite actress, (don't think I've seen her in a role I haven't liked yet.)

**Orlanth**

I know a couple of politicians and a major media celebrity via different routes. As I know them rather than just met them I wont mention them.

On rare occasion I have therefore met others, a lot of faces one would see on the TV either in the News or in the entertainment industry or sports.

I was very impressed by Henry Cooper and Frank Bruno.

**matapata98**

I've met Bear Gryllys, Joseph Delaney, Mark Walden and Will Hill. Can't think of any others.

**Insurgency Walker**

I squared off against Tesco Vee on an arcade game of Asteroids and lost. Apparently he was a master back in the day.

Automatically Appended Next Post:
HR used me as a brace for leaning out over the crowd. Bad Brains were some seriously large dudes!

**Dreadclaw69**

gianlucafiorentini123 wrote:
I've also met Jerry Adams and Martin McGuiness and asked Jerry Adams what it was like to be shot (I was about 3 or 4).

I think you mean Gerry Adams

Closest I've ever been to a celeb was a few feet away from Brian May at the US embassy in London last year when I was being interviewed for my visa. It looked like he was there on business so I didn't go over to disturb him. It was also almost time for me to be called for my interview too

**Monster Rain**

ProtoClone wrote:
I've also opened for Voltaire and the Hellblinki Sextet.

I love Voltaire.

I'm quite jealous.

**chrisyella**

Blackie from The Hard-Ons (great Aussie punk band) used to baby sit me when I was growing up in Sydney.

Had the honour and pleasure of meeting 3 living Medal of Honor recipients; Michael Thornton, Thomas Norris, and Sammy Davis.

Went to a republican fund-raiser and met Newt Gingrich, also got a photograph with him and his wife.

Had a college class with Dave Arneson (RIP) - f

k you Gygax you thief...
Also had a college class with Richard Wright - author and developer/designer of OpenGL (computer graphics language)

**Soladrin**

Paul Verhoeven and Rutger Hauer just randomly in Amsterdam and Eindhoven.

I've run into Sharon van Adel (main vocalist for Within Temptation) and Anneke van Giersbergen (ex-main vocalist of The Gathering) on numerous accasions in the super market, they both lived pretty near my parents.

edit:

Oh, and Geert Wilders

He was doing some promotional stuff or whatever in the city 5 minutes away from me. I was mainly occupied by not laughing at his hair.

**Avatar 720**

Soladrin wrote:
I've run into Sharon van Adel (main vocalist for Within Temptation)

I've still not forgiven you for that.