Famous People You Have Met

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Greetings everyone! Just another Off-Topic thread that I thought could be fun. The rules are simple: be honest and give a brief scenario of the meeting. This is open to all forum members, so yes that includes Autogeek employees and forum moderators.

I'll start with my short list:

Ric Flair - Charleston Civic Center (WV) waiting to see the show

Kareem Abdul Jabbar - Pittsburgh airport on my way to Marine Corps boot camp

Scottie Pippen - D.C. hotel returning from a military training class, shared an elevator and he started a conversation with me about the military, super nice guy.

That's it for me, now it's your turn! Remember, be honest.
 
I've only got one..

Captain Johnathan Hillstrand - Captain of the Time Bandit on Deadilist Catch. I met him in a bar in NYC right across from Madison Square Garden. He was at a boat show across the street and came over for a drink. My girlfriend and I had a drink with him and had our pics taken. He's a very down to earth guy.
 
Chris Burke (Corky) from Life Goes On - As a teenager, I worked at Pine Valley Country Club in Fort Wayne, IN. They had a convention there on Down Syndrome and Chris Burke was the key speaker. He's a nice guy and very full of energy.

Aaaaaand, that's all.

Mark
 
Ive met a few.

Ru Paul - I used to frequent NYC clubs like the limelight and tunnel back in the day.

Sharon Stone - NYC the Tunnel

Artie Lang - A guy I work with is a cousin

Warren Buffet - I worked with an insurance company he owns (one of many) and he joined us for lunch. I was silent and in awe lol.

I know I have met more but it was a lifetime ago when I was alot more social then I am now.
 
I met Dennis Rodman in Las Vegas. My buddy said some wise stuff as he walked by and he responded with some choice words about the guy and his girlfriend @ the time. Not appropriate to post it on here,but his response was hilarious.
 
Ted DiBiase (million dollar man) - I have a friend I visit in Clinton, MS on a regular basis and we ran into him at a video store. He is HUGE!

The Judd's - when I was about 17, got my picture taken with them after a concert my Dad got free tickets for.

Jermaine Taylor - living in LR I see his black lambo around from time to time. Saw the man himself at a gun show one time, with his bodyguards no less :) Shook his hand, nice guy.
 
Queensryche- I used to be a dj at a radio station in Taylorville,IL and got to meet them backstage in Springfield,IL really nice guys.
Also ran into the Smothers brothers when I was working at an rv dealership in Vegas.
 
here we go
presidents
Bush 41
Clinton
Bush
Obama
Hillary Clinton
#### Cheney
Donald Rumsfeld
Willie Nelson
Kid Rock
Brad Paisley
Foo Fighters
Stevie Wonder
Michael York
Clint Eastwood
David Spade
Gary Sinease
Glen Close
Alan Jackson
Bon jovi
John Walsh
Kenny chesney
Brian Setzer
Paul Simon
I would be here all day!!!! And lets just say I do not get star struck.
 
When I was a Federal cop I was assigned to the security details of a number of politicians, celebrities, foreign diplomats and royalty. Doing that I met two Presidents...George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Mrs. Marilyn Quayle, VP Al Gore, a number of Congressmen and Senators, Elizabeth Taylor, Marlo Thomas, former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, Sam Donaldson of ABC News, and during the 50th Anniversary NATO meeting in DC I escorted the daughter of some Greek minister. I don't remember her name but she was gorgeous.

When I was a kid, my dad owned a newspaper and met many, many politicians and celebrities. I have his collection of autographed photos of many of them...John Wayne, Frank Sinatra, George Burns, Bob Hope, J. Edgar Hoover, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan both as Governor of California and as President, and many others.

It's interesting to note of all the people I met or my dad met, how personable many were and how supremely arrogant and pompous others were. You can't always tell by how they appear on tv or the movie screen.
 
Charles Barkley - Biltmore @ Phoenix, AZ (I managed a Blockbuster Music store years ago)
Shaquille Oneal (Phoenix playoffs with the Spurs @ same store)
Sandra Bullock (@ her restaurant here in Austin)
Sammy Hagar (@ Cabo Wabo)
Arnold Schwarzenegger (@ the music store in Phoenix)
Dolly Parton (while I was playing BJ @ Caesars Palace)
Nicholas Cage (private collector car show in Beverly Hills)
Stevie Nicks (@ the music store in Phoenix)
Danny Ainge (@ the music store in Phoenix)
Sylvester Stallone (his studio in Beverly Hills last year)
Charlton Heston (months before he passed away @ a NRA rally)
Beau Jackson (@ the music store in Phoenix)

Mostly sports figures for me .......
 
The original Allman Brothers Band, many years ago backstage at a concert in New Orleans

Johnny Carson, he bought some clothes from me at a men's store I was working at while a college student
 
Mike Phillips
Meghan
Dwayne


:D

The only one I can think of right now that I actually spoke to is Chad Kroeger from Nickelback. Ran into him at a club in Minneapolis.
 
neil diamond. he was promoting his first new song and i was a young kid at a coffee shop. asked me to leave a note for a dj in san diego. earnest borgnine. in sister oregon at a rib house. hes a ford car guy which helped the discussion. hes still acting at 93 years old. a true stud
 
02CAMSS said:
here we go

presidents

Bush 41

Clinton

Bush

Obama

Hillary Clinton

#### Cheney

Donald Rumsfeld

Willie Nelson

Kid Rock

Brad Paisley

Foo Fighters

Stevie Wonder

Michael York

Clint Eastwood

David Spade

Gary Sinease

Glen Close

Alan Jackson

Bon jovi

John Walsh

Kenny chesney

Brian Setzer

Paul Simon

I would be here all day!!!! And lets just say I do not get star struck.
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You forgot Gandhi? :laughing:
 
Gene Simmons-girlfriend and I got our picture taken with him at the airport.

Amber Lynn-you older guys know who she is. Met her and pic taken after one of her "dances".
 
I went to the Smoky Mountain Fan Fest in Pigeon Forge once, where they had a bunch of the cars and several cast members from the TV series The Dukes of Hazzard (most of the cars were privately owned by various individuals). These are the actors that were there:

Ben Jones: played Cooter Davenport
James Best: played Rosco P. Coltrane
Sonny Shroyer: played Enos Strait
Rick Hurst: played Cletus Hogg
Don Pedro Colley: played Sheriff Little of Chickasaw County
Catherine Bach: played Daisy Duke
Byron Cherry: played Coy Duke in Season 5
Donna Douglas: Elly May Clampett in The Beverly Hillbillies
Butch Patricke: Eddie Munster in The Munsters
Margaret Pelligrini: played a Munchkin in The Wizard of Oz

I got the chance to meet and shake hands with James Best and Byron Cherry. Got both their autographs, too. Got pics of James Best, Ben Jones, Sonny Shroyer, Rick Hurst, Donna Douglas, Margaret Pellegrini, and Butch Patrick. Saw but didn't get pics of Catherine Bach, Don Pedro Colley, and Byron Cherry. View thread on this and pics here.

I also met Michael Blackburn (late American sharpshooter and former bounty hunter - we met him and his family at a campground we were staying at), Rusty Wallace (Christmas party for our dealership), James Rogers (Dollywood), Jay Teter (he's a country singer, works at the Dixie Stampede in Pigeon Forge - just google him). Also got to meet Max, Meghan, Dwayne, Mike Phillips, and a few of the other geeks. :D I think that's it. If there's anybody else they're slipping my mind at the moment.
 
Eva Longoria @ Rudy's BBQ standing next to me in line, I started making small talk and didn't even realize who it was till the employee told me "dude do you know who you were just talking too?!!" I was wondering why they were cutting her BBQ into little cubes, they would never do that for me :(
 
several,

the coolest I would have to say was Steven Tyler of Aerosmith. Had backstage pass and he came up and met us.

Met Slash from Guns and Roses here at a show he did in Atlanta. That was amazing, I about fell over.

Ive met T-pain while at school at FSU two times. He was doing a show at FAMU homecoming and I was talking to him in starbucks. Didnt know it was him until I was joking and said man you lok a lot like Tpain. He put on his glasses and I was like ####, you are tpain!

Met several of the buccaneers. They lived in our subdivision in Tampa.

Met Martin Lawrence while he was filming a movie in atlanta at the local mall.
 
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