Do You Have A Lame Claim to Fame?

[Evienne]

So on Weird Al's new album "Mandatory Fun" (which hit #1 on the billboards charts) there is a song on it called "Lame Claim to Fame" If you don't know what that means, it's basically that "I know a guy, who knows a guy, who knows a guy, who knows Brad Pitt." So I felt like asking, does anybody have a lame claim to fame? I can think of 3 for myself.

1.) I know someone who's daughter got to dance on stage with weird al in a concert once. So funny that I have a lame claim to fame to the person who wrote the song anyways XD

2.) My sister met Eddie Murphy walking down the street. She also got to see Michelle Obama now that I think of it.

3.) At my first job, I got to work with a girl who's distant cousin was the guy who invented Minecraft.

So those are mine. What do you guys and gals have?

[KimSails]

I'll play!

1) a guy I work with is friends with Kid Rock.

2) I once saw Ray Charles walking by in an airport. He didn't see me! 

3) I got a tour of Air Force One when President Obama was in town (This was after seeing the plane land and the President depart for the day in a limo, so he was not there)  My daughters got to sit in his chair!

Kim

[Jess42]

I give up, I thought and thought and I have no lame claims to fame. But I have one helluva legitimate claim to infamy and that would be me..

[Emmaline]

I grew up with, and learned to ride on, the horse that towed Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the start of the film.

I once punched a kangaroo.  It was pitch black and I thought it was a mugger.  I am lucky to be alive.

My art was on the cover of the game of the year 2004.

[Evienne]

Pretty cool stories!
Emmaline, do you have a pic of your art? I'd be interested in seeing it.

[Jessica Merriman]

Being a Paramedic all of mine are real. I worked events where I met several people (Journey, Charlie Daniels, Clint Black, Reba McEntire and many more people and groups). I was the second EMS unit to respond to the Edmond Post Office Shooting where the term "Going Postal" was coined. I worked several high profile murders with extended news coverage, etc. It has been an amazing life, but the best one is I am the first Trans person in my Cities history! Boy were they just thrilled!  It is one of those towns where the whole thing shuts down for Friday night High School Football games if that tells you anything. 

[Evienne]

Being a Paramedic all of mine are real. I worked events where I met several people (Journey, Charlie Daniels, Clint Black, Reba McEntire and many more people and groups). I was the second EMS unit to respond to the Edmond Post Office Shooting where the term "Going Postal" was coined. I worked several high profile murders with extended news coverage, etc. It has been an amazing life, but the best one is I am the first Trans person in my Cities history! Boy were they just thrilled!  It is one of those towns where the whole thing shuts down for Friday night High School Football games if that tells you anything. 

Sounds then like you have broken the rules by posting a "Cool Claim to fame." I see how it is now.

[Jessica Merriman]

Sounds then like you have broken the rules by posting a "Cool Claim to fame." I see how it is now.
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Sorry, it is way past my bedtime. I just saw claim to fame, OOPS! Um, make love not war? *giggle*

[Jill F]

Crap, apparently I could be here all day with this one.

Where do I even start?

I've been in a local TV commercial.
I'm in Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar On Me" video from 1988 and an Ozzy concert video from 1992 (among others).
Some of my friends are real famous people.  Me, not so much...
I once picked up a quarter that David Carradine dropped at the grocery store and told him to snatch it from my hand.  OK, I'm kidding, but only about the last part.  (Sorry if you don't get that one, Grasshopper!) I really just handed him the quarter.
I've played "Kashmir" on Jimmy Page's Danelectro.
I've literally run into Stevie Wonder.  To be fair, it was more like the other way around.
I've told Ace Frehley to go f*** himself.
I got drunk with Slash once.  I declined the selfie he offered with me wearing his top hat. (Ewww!)
I have a blood relative who is in prison for being an Islamic terrorist and another who was a convicted axe murderer. 
We got Christmas cards last year from President Obama and Iron Maiden.  Sublime, meet ridiculous...

I am apparently *cue ominous music* THE MOST INTERESTING WOMAN IN THE WORLD!

[Eevee]

I can only think of one. I trained under Chip Wright, who is Chuck Norris's stunt double. My boyfriend is a huge fan of Chuck, so he's jealous. Honestly though, I was never a fan.

[Kaylee]

I've got a few little minor tidbits, may as well through them in here

- I've gotten drunk with Elastrica (90's UK britpop band)
- I've gotten wasted with Feeder (Uk indie rock band)
- Me and some friends nicked The Prodigy's Crunchy Nut Cornflakes from their dressing room at Leeds Festival
- I was once featured on the local news after helping rescue a duckling that had gotten separated from its family and helped guide them to a safe lake
- Had a piggy back fight with a friend, my partner was Andy Cairns, the lead singer from Therapy?
(of fame, his was the drummer (I rescued 2 tiny girls from the middle of the major mosh pit at a gig as they were being pushed about all over by a couple of dicks.  They came to thank me for helping them and asked if I fancied a drink with them and their friends...we looked to where they were point and noticed their friends were the band!).  We ended up getting wasted on Jack and Coke with them, had a great time and caused all sorts of shenanigans!
-  Worked and had back stage access to pretty much every major UK music festival, actually ended up camping right behind the main stage when I did Reading and had loads of fun using crowd surfing as a way of getting back to my tent!
- Won one of the episodes of 1 vs 100 on the first night it launched in the UK on XBox Live
- I figured out that there are only 4 degrees of separation between me and Kurt Cobain
- I squeed like a major fangirl after bumping into and having a little chat with Duncan from the Yogscast (biggest YouTube channels in the UK)

I think thats about it for now, but one of my very close friends does the front of house sound for a major local venue so I'm sure more fun times will come my way eventually (he's done Public Enemy, Alice in Chains and the Stevan Segal Band in the last few weeks)

[Jill F]

- I figured out that there are only 4 degrees of separation between me and Kurt Cobain Hi, I'm Jill.  You're down to 3 now.   I know a few people who knew him.

I think thats about it for now, but one of my very close friends does the front of house sound for a major local venue so I'm sure more fun times will come my way eventually (he's done Public Enemy, Alice in Chains and the Stevan Segal Band in the last few weeks)

I used to do bass tech work for Mike Inez of AIC, and I once shared an elevator with Steven Seagal before preparing his Hiwatt amplifiers at a NAMM show.  I don't have much of a connection with Public Enemy, but my ex-bandmate was their driver once...

[xponentialshift]

Hmm... My "aunt", not related, was good friends with Fred Rogers from Mr Rogers' neighborhood.

My grand-uncle dated some famous furniture maker who furnished the cruise ship for a presidential family (I think). The wife or sister or whoever it was, was famous for having completely nude cruises. (He used whale foreskin to cover the barstools...)

[LordKAT]

I win! The lamest claim is....I have a friend whos daughter is a 3rd cousin (or something like that?) to Dick Trickle.

Unless you are a racing fan that means nothing, therefore, my claim is the lamest.

[Jess42]

I win! The lamest claim is....I have a friend whos daughter is a 3rd cousin (or something like that?) to Dick Trickle.

Unless you are a racing fan that means nothing, therefore, my claim is the lamest.

I am definately surprised that no one has use that as a user name yet. Yeah I'm from the south and even MTFs have heard that name in the right age groups. If not, maybe its just one of my many fantasies. I definately wouldn't say lamest in the least. I better shut up before I get moderated or banned though.

[kelly_aus]

Lame claim to fame? Kylie Minogue came to my show - where I was impersonating her. Her biggest complaint was that I was too tall.

I win! The lamest claim is....I have a friend whos daughter is a 3rd cousin (or something like that?) to Dick Trickle.

Unless you are a racing fan that means nothing, therefore, my claim is the lamest.

I'm an Aussie and F1 racing is more my thing, but even I've heard of Dick..

[CalmRage]

i placed 2nd in a nation-wide award.

[Jess42]

I gotta' retract my original statement, I just found out today talking to my dad on the phone that a great aunt went out with Elvis Presely once or twice when he was driving a truck and a no name. Her dad forbid her to go out with a loser like him. She worked at a restaraunt in eastern Arkansas at the time.

I bet my great great uncle kicked his own but many times after Elvis got famous. I never knew either one of them though so more or less a extra lame claim to fame for me.

[Felix]

I hung out with Gallagher in a bar once. He gave me a holographic button.

I was featured in a low quality coffee-table photo book about homeless youth when I was a teenager, and I've been in a couple grad student documentaries over the years.

I own revealing pictures of members of a semi-famous grindcore band, but I promised not to post them anywhere.

I once dated a guy who was the son of a music producer who managed some b-list celebrity rock musicians.

This thread is hilarious.

[Kaylee]

I just thought of a few more!

- I drank lots of tequila with Terrorvision (wrote a song called Tequila)
- My aunt used to be Dave Coverdale's (of Whitesnake and Deep Purple fame) baby sitter while growing up!