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**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

And now for another completely pointless thread. Hurrahs!

In this one, I want you list up your lame to fame. Not so much 'Charlie Chaplin is my Dad' as that would indeed be a legitimate Claim to Fame. But this is lame to fame. I'm looking for really obscure links to the rich and the famous.

For instance....Sean Connery was once a Milkman in Edinburgh, and delivered Milk to my Gran. However, this is debatable as being a Lame to Fame, as I understand he might have been a childhood friend of my Great Uncle Val, though this information is currently uncorrborated....

And time for a good one...My Bosses son is an actor, and has been in a film with Jean Claude Van Damme., amongst other things.

**Greebynog**

I once sold Janet Street-Porter a telly. Now THAT is a lame to fame!

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Ooooh! Quality! I like that.

I once booked Jilly 'Pisshead off Good Food programme' Goolden in for a Contact Lens exam!

And I apparently turned up on Australian Princess.

**Anung Un Rama**

I once met the german comedian Jochen Busse on the street in Berlin. He was holding his hands on his dogs ears, because there was an ambulance rushing by.

**LuciusAR**

An obscure relative (3rd cousin I think) was an actor on the Bill. Cant remember his name but the character was a Red haired member of CID would left the show when the character was stabbed. I've met him only once at some relatives wedding when I was about 3.

My friend worked in a maternity clothes store and once measured ex swimmer and Gladiator Sharon Davis for a Bra. I've never been so jealous of her. Apparently they were very large and surprisingly firm for a woman in her late 30's.

**warpcrafter**

Nobody REALLY famous would be caught dead in Kansas City. However, Once I sat at a bar next to Keven Dubrow, the lead singer of Quiet Riot. The opening band was so loud that conversation was not possible, which is generally okay with me.

**olympia**

I took a piss next to Matthew Broderick at the airport in Dublin, Ireland.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

I've been in the same pub as a former Bassist for Punk legends The Damned.

Algie something or other.

**Deadshane1**

I got high with Flash Gordon back in my clubbing days!

I've told this story before here but I met Sam Jones in a Dallas, Tx. nightclub (he was doing an episode of "Walker, Tx Ranger), struck up a good conversation with him and he asked me if I know where he could score some weed. I told him "for FLASH GORDON, I'll {friggin} find some!"

We smoked out in the back of his limo!

**Le Grognard**

I have an autographed Gary Gygax clock. Was working in WotC retail when Gary was writing 'soapbox' articles in Dragon Magazine. We had this clock behind the counter and decided to pay homage to his greatness. When I left the shop it came with me and I got him to sign it at the 2001 Gen Con. Gary's comment? "This is fun!"

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

I see Tom 'Dr Who' Baker now and again in my town.

He gave me a strange look once.

**Morathi's Darkest Sin**

My Gran used to babysit Tom Jones when he was a kid back in the Rhondda. She had a thank you pic in her album before she passed away. I hope myuncles kept it.

Probably as good as it gets for me.

**reds8n**

I once accidentally prevented my mate from copping off with Jeremy Beadle's neice.

Once again James : I'm very sorry. We didn't know.

**Greebynog**

reds8n wrote: I once accidentally prevented my mate from copping off with Jeremy Beadle's neice.

Once again James : I'm very sorry. We didn't know.

Give yourself a big hand for that one.

**reds8n**

, yeah it was jokes like that, that kind of ruined everything.

Well, that and us refering to his hand as his "spanking claw", which didn't really go down well.

Oh well, the manin thing is we can look back now and laugh.
He IS dead right ?

**Platuan4th**

I used to live in New Orleans, so:
I've been to Anne Rice's house.
I've met most of the Manning family(they're friends of a former neighbor), including Eli, Payton, and their dad and been to their house.
I've been to NIN/Trent Reznor's studio multiple times.
I met Shaq at an LSU game.
The Barnes and Noble I worked at in Baton Rouge had the following recurring shoppers: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Chris Evans, Hilary Swank, Cristopher Lloyd, and Bryce Dallas Howard, amongst others. I also met David Sedaris when he was signing at the store(he's really nice).

**malfred**

Two of my students are the spawn of a 1985 Chicago Bear. They have a
step-father, and I really don't care to hear the details (they've never
offered them).

**Ensis Ferrae**

I've met and talked with vince McMahon, as well as John Cena... for those who either arent american, or dont otherwise know... they are in pro "wrestling"... also got to meet Curt Schilling, a fmr. Boston Red Sox pitcher

**The Thousandth Son**

Chris Cornell (Soundgarden/Audioslave) used to eat at a resuraunt that my parents owned at the time (I think it's a bike shop now).

**BloodofOrks**

I have bagged groceries for: Wayne Knight (Seinfeld, Jurassic Park) and Andre 3000, and I have sold fast food to Usher.

**malfred**

Oh yeah, and my mother-in-law is a distant cousin to Imelda Marcos.

"My grandchildren are growing up and they could not understand why the Marcoses are still being crucified although we keep on telling them that we did not steal from the Filipino people." -- quoted in the Philippine Daily Inquirer, December 1998

http://www.thewilyfilipino.com/imelda.htm

**Sha1emade**

I work in film. So I have had allot of run ins with famous people. Here is one.

I thought a bum had wandered into our production office while we were shooting Wonderland and was eating all our kraft service. (Snacks) I walked over and asked if I could help him find anything, in a rather stern tone I might add. He turned to me and said, "Ya have any gummi bears." All I could say was "No but the twizzlers are in season Mr. Kilmer." We had a few other conversations after that but it just struck me as funny that I coulda lost my job by kicking the star out of the office over gummie bears.

**somecallmeJack**

I was once walking to town, & a man who looked like tom morello, was driving an expensive sports car & was playing audioslave full blast drove past me...

Ergo, I theorise it was actually tom morello. Thats my lame to fame

**Vandez**

I sold fireworks to Adam Hart-Davis. That's right, the dude from the tax ads.

He has a watch sewn into the sleeve of his shirt. Eccentric fella.

**FITZZ**

Platuan4th wrote:I used to live in New Orleans, so:
I've been to Anne Rice's house.
I've met most of the Manning family(they're friends of a former neighbor), including Eli, Payton, and their dad and been to their house.
I've been to NIN/Trent Reznor's studio multiple times.
I met Shaq at an LSU game.
The Barnes and Noble I worked at in Baton Rouge had the following recurring shoppers: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Chris Evans, Hilary Swank, Cristopher Lloyd, and Bryce Dallas Howard, amongst others. I also met David Sedaris when he was signing at the store(he's really nice).

I also Lived in New Orleans until Katrina,so:
I've also been to Anne Rice's
I met Archie Manning when I was a child
met Twiggy Ramirez (Mansons Bass Player)
met Joey Ramone
met Nikki Sixx from Motley Crue
Met Rodney Dangerfield (gave him respect

)
Basicly,if your in "The Qaurter" walking around it's almost imposible NOT to meet famous people,especialy during Mardi Gras.

**grizgrin**

Quarter on Fat Tuesday is over rated. It's basically a big frat party, and I've seen enough of those.

Mark Harmon used to come into a bar I tended. Nice fella, but valued privacy and anoniminity.

**Arctik_Firangi**

Alexi Laiho stood on one of my hands whilst performing a solo at the first ever Australian Children Of Bodom gig.

One of my partner's uncles went to school with the current James Bond, Daniel Craig. They used to call him 'Potato Head,' apparently. That's probably why he worked out so much.

I know the keyboardist from the 70s-80s New Zealand new wave band, 'Misex'. I've played the Prophet synthesizer that is in their video clip for 'Computer Games' (youtube it, it's great!).

I'm related to Michiel Adriaanszoon de Ruijter, a 17th century supreme Commander of the Dutch Navy.

I think Supreme Commander is a great game.

Oh, and when I was eight I threw a handful of gravel at the Australian host of 'Who Dares Wins,' Mike Whitney, and ran away, after he angrily told us to get away from the guy who reflects light into his face with the big shiny silver thing. What's that called?

**dogma**

I slept with one of Walter Mondale's granddaughters.

One of my high school friends was on Jerry Springer.

I had a drink spilled on me by Fred Smoot.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

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!

But that is no reason not to continue!

I was once kissed, on the cheek, by Dannii Minogue.

I spotted Bob out of Vic and Bob in my local GW looking rather flustered.

I served Popcorn to now convicted pervert and comedy actor Chris Langham

One of the staff on a youth holiday I went on claimed to be Van Damme's cousin (I don't believe him though!)

And I've met Noel Edmonds, slimey little Weasel that he is.

**Kilkrazy**

Some of my astoundingly weak claims to fame...

I was at school with Helena Bonham-Carter and did stage lighting for some of her plays.

One of my cousins was at school with Rachel Weisz.

Another one of my cousin’s boyfriends played on the live single of Hawkwind’s Silver Machine.

Another one of my cousins worked as a civil engineer on the Millennium Dome. The BBC asked her and some of the builders onto a TV programme to show how to assemble a shed and she got it wrong. Later she went to work on the Cutty Sark and it burned down.

I sold 15mm Napoleonic wargame figures to Brian May in Chiswick in the mid 80s.

I’ve seen Richard Branson’s penis, and my wife pinched a jumper from his wardrobe.

My wife met the actor John Hannah several times while we used to live in Richmond, Surrey and they had a discussion about children’s clothes.

There's a very weak one about a Japanese princess but I'll save it for another post.