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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?

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 :)

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.. >:-)

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.

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

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!  ;D It is one of those towns where the whole thing shuts down for Friday night High School Football games if that tells you anything.  :laugh:

Quote from: Jessica Merriman on July 26, 2014, 01:49:16 AM
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!  ;D It is one of those towns where the whole thing shuts down for Friday night High School Football games if that tells you anything.  :laugh:

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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Quote from: Sam314 on July 26, 2014, 01:53:15 AM
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* :angel:

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!

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.

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 Screamager (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDVsIvvFtcs)Nowhere (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bcpj-q0Snc) 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)

Quote from: Kaylee on July 26, 2014, 03:44:28 AM

- 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...

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...)

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.

Quote from: LordKAT on July 26, 2014, 02:24:59 PM
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. ;D 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. :)

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

Quote from: LordKAT on July 26, 2014, 02:24:59 PM
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..

i placed 2nd in a nation-wide award.

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.

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.

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!

Nice.

1, My best friend proposed to his gf Allie on an overpass, that overpass is in a Jason Aldean video.

2, My sister knows a girl whose sister met Blake Shelton at the Opery.

3, when I was in Iraq Toby Keith came to my base to play for us, the guy next to me caught a bandana he tossed into the crowd.

4, I know a guy, who knows a guy who's sister is married to a guy who we believe is Seal Team 6.

that's all I really got lol

Dave Allen, Irish comedian of the 70s, told me to "be careful" as I struggled with one of those so-called portable tvs back in the 80s. We were on a train.

I may have taught the Scary Spice 'oop north of England back in the 90s. It may have been someone else, mind. She learnt nowt 'cos she were right daft, by the way.

Will Anderson, Aussie standup, stomped past me on a Sydney street a few years ago. A few days later I heard his tv show had been canned.

I'm sure there's more, but that'll do for now.

Barry Sheene told me to **** off when I asked him for his autograph.
I'm in a safety at work film driving a blue Vauxhall Cresta
I had a one night stand with a soap actress's fiance
My Dad is a film extra in a George Formby film
An extra in a soap lived round the corner from me

I'm in the last episode of the X-Files that was shot in Vancouver along with my wife (...and 20,000 other people at the stadium it was filmed at lol  :P)

Oh if sexual adventures are up...

I used to date a girl who is an illegitimate half sister to a famous movie start/director/producer whom she resembled.  Oooh.

As a wild teen I had an affair with the wife of a certain punk bands guitarist.  Oooh.

Quote from: Emmaline on July 27, 2014, 08:18:09 AM
Oh if sexual adventures are up...

I used to date a girl who is an illegitimate half sister to a famous movie start/director/producer whom she resembled.  Oooh.

As a wild teen I had an affair with the wife of a certain punk bands guitarist.  Oooh.

...haay! Its not a lame claim if we are trying to figure out who these people are  ;)

I spent an afternoon with Clint Eastwood at his bar, the hogs breath, in Carmel by the ocean 16 yeas ago. He was really cool !

The former drummer of Nickelback used to rent an apartment from my dad. My dad didn't like him because he left the toilet running for two weeks and things like that.

Not sure this counts but my father once resolved a property dispute in less than a week which had been going on for 30-40 years. The First minister of Scotland described him as "a ->-bleeped-<- hot lawyer". I'm not sure how flattering that really is...

Arnold Schwarzenegger has stayed at my family's summer cabin before. So technically I have slept in the same bed he has.

Lame... hmmmm, idk..  I had a bad landing in Hot Springs, Va, with Nancy Reagan and a planeful of Guys with things in their ears, dark glasses and bulges under their arms...

I flew the guy that was played $chemer on Shining Time Station.  I sat next to, and got to chat with Tom Wopat (think the Gen. Lee and sliding across the hood) on a flt to Nashville.
I got to talk to John Walsh for close to 20 mins, abt his youngest son who was one of my passengers. And about Adam, too.

I was Strom Thurmonds' family pilot.  I flew John Kerry before he ran for president.

I'm not famous in the least, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night..

 

I saw G Bush when he was president. I didn't like him even then, but I wanted to be able to say I saw a real president, while he was president.

I still have a certificate signed by Thomas Allen one of the greatest ground breaking pilots ever. It was for two hours (my first lesson) in a Link trainer!  :)

It was me in the grassy noll...

I was told that my great grandmother was one of the passengers on the RMS Carpathia, when it picked up the survivors of the Titanic sinking. I have my doubts, but there you go.

I once sold a horse to Phyllis Diller.

I played soccer with someone who almost made the roster of the Chicago Sting.

I was one of three students who visited with Jimmy Carter when he visited our University of NH dorm as he was just beginning his run for president in 76.

Quote from: Zóôt Threepwood on July 26, 2014, 06:42:43 PM
i placed 2nd in a nation-wide award.

The simple profundity of that one keeps nagging at me. I kind of think you win, so far anyway. You were probably as good as the winner, but didn't get any glory for it. Ranking number two must be the the definition of "lame claim to fame".

I was in the same prison as Jeffery Dahmer.

I forgot, when I was twelve and visited the UK as an academic "diplomat" we rented a bus that was last rented by Michael Jackson. It had a peculiar smell that I've tried to place ever since, but that was probably just generic air freshener. :D

Quote from: Felix on July 28, 2014, 12:38:37 AM
I forgot, when I was twelve and visited the UK as an academic "diplomat" we rented a bus that was last rented by Michael Jackson. It had a peculiar smell that I've tried to place ever since, but that was probably just generic air freshener. :D

That had to be a thriller...badading!! ☺

Felix reminded me of this one.

My daughter was in the same place as Ed Gein when he was locked up. Obviously in a different ward, but on the same grounds.

Quote from: Felix on July 28, 2014, 12:38:37 AM
I forgot, when I was twelve and visited the UK as an academic "diplomat" we rented a bus that was last rented by Michael Jackson. It had a peculiar smell that I've tried to place ever since, but that was probably just generic air freshener. :D

If it would have been Willie Nelson that had rented the bus before, we all know what that smell would be. 8)

When I was a bell-hop I carried Van Johnson's bags to his room.

I drove a van once..

QuoteI drove a van once..

DING!!! We have a winner...  :icon_clap:

I remembered another, which is really lame for me at least, because my old principle's daughter once dated some lead singer of a boy band that I can't remember the name of for I never heard of them before. But she broke up with him, so he wrote a song about her.

Oh, and apparently now I remember that my cousin is dating the singer to Emblem 3. I've never heard of them before, I just know that people around our town went crazy about hearing that.

A friend of mine from high school was on The X Factor and is now in a boy band (and his mom was on Deal or No Deal).

I have literally run into Ryan Stiles at the grocery store AND the DMV (I have a hard time paying attention to where I am going).

One of my grandma's best friends was the sister of actor Eddie Jones (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0428008/).

1) My Dad had a couple of classes in high school with 1994 Olympic Gold Medalist Dan Jansen.

2) My sister had a conversation with Community and Rick and Morty creator Dan Harmon at a bar in LA because he saw her Wisconsin ID and he is originally a Wisconsinite. 

3) While working as a waiter, I served the Hamm brothers (of Olympic gymnastics fame).  They were pretty rude.

4) About a month ago, again while working as a waiter, Alexis Texas, who I learned is a famous porn star, sat at our bar.  I also found out that apparently everyone watches porn because I was the only one on the mostly female staff that had no clue who she was.

I have some lame claims to fame for y'all:

• I used to work with someone whose kids went to the same school as Alison Goldfrapp's kids.
• Our office cleaner was Tricky's on/off girlfriend.
• I'm related to someone who went to school with the girls from Bananarama, including the one who is now the long-term partner of Andrew Ridgeley from Wham!
• I saw Prince Charles outside a healthfood shop a couple of months ago. He didn't bother to say 'hi'.
• My friends once humiliated me on a train in front of Anthony Head, aka Rupert from Buffy, who was sitting a few rows away from me, staring at me and laughing.
• I have flown over Buckingham Palace. Whilst in a holding pattern, waiting to land at Heathrow.
• A couple of weeks ago, I visited Baker Street in London. I took a photo of the outside of the (fictitious) 221B. Nobody important was there; just a bunch of tourists. Benedict Cumberbatch was nowhere to be seen.
• I'm separated from Kevin Bacon by one degree: I have eaten bacon.

You ate Kevin?  Wow.

I once bounced the stage for Blondie and Lou Reed.

I have placed bets on for the man who claims to be Sydney's only honest brothel owner

Quote from: immortal gypsy on July 30, 2014, 06:22:08 AM
I have placed bets on for the man who claims to be Sydney's only honest brothel owner

Several years ago I sat in a food court near (Sydney radio presenter) Kyle Sandilands. Your honest punter wouldn't be a business friend Of Mr Sandilands?

P.S - I think your claim is pretty lame Ms Gypsy......!

Quote from: rosinstraya on July 30, 2014, 07:19:43 AM
Several years ago I sat in a food court near (Sydney radio presenter) Kyle Sandilands. Your honest punter wouldn't be a business friend Of Mr Sandilands?

P.S - I think your claim is pretty lame Ms Gypsy......!

I don't know if they are friends and Eddie H. has been warned off the track twice now that I know of.  So being an honest brothel owner doesn't mean you're and honest punter.

I have seen and talked to a few interesting people thanks to work, 
Former Australian cricketer (Michael Slater).
Former rugby league play for St. George Ian Herron.
Current Samoan international rugby league player Krisnan Inu.
Ex Wallabies (rugby union) captain Nick Far-Jones

Gosh I would dump my drink over Sandilands then get a refill.  Nasty piggish waste of space.

I was featured on a ABC TV network add break for many years.
Was filmed running in a half marathon years ago which they used for a 30 sec filler.
Shown I slow motion running hard up to the finish, all sweaty.
The short version I as heavily featured.

It was run many times a day and I always was told I looked familiar when I met people... :D
First I knew about it was when someone called as I had no idea.

Got no money but I could not escape it.
The running group gave me hell for it...
Jealous I bet.

I did have actual fame as well but this is the lame one...

I once spotted a well-known actress... in Sainsbury's. She was doing her weekly shop with her teenage son.

Quote from: pianoforte on July 29, 2014, 12:41:26 AM
I have literally run into Ryan Stiles at the grocery store AND the DMV (I have a hard time paying attention to where I am going).

We used to see Nolan Ryan at the grocery store occasionally. I don't know if he was really famous or just locally famous, though, and we certainly never talked to him.

I have physically bumped into the following people.  Literally.  I nearly knocked some of them over.

Rose Byrne (Newtown- the bank hotel)  near spilled my drink.
Anthony Stuart Head (Leister Sq)  sorry Giles!
Keanu Reeves (Soho)  -whoah!  Clipped shoulders and he apologized.

I went to the same high school as a very pretty actress who had to drive a bus very fast. Another actress played Endora in a witchy movie with Nicole Kidman, who (not nicole) also has an actor brother that played a gay hairdresser in a '70s movie.  Another hs graduate played Cpl. Agarn's Sargent in F-Troop.

Quote from: Emmaline on August 01, 2014, 06:52:33 AM
Gosh I would dump my drink over Sandilands then get a refill.  Nasty piggish waste of space.

He was with someone else in a small food court, so I didn't feel I could tip my stir fry special over him as it might have hit his unfortunate dining partner. Anyhow, he really likes coke, so that would have been a good choice. I think I could have outrun him easily, but I am a paragon of upstanding society and it's not really good manners!  ;)

The high school I went to is actually famous for a movie that came out years ago.

I touched Jeff Hardy's The Great Khali's, and Melina's hand at a  WWE event.  My hand was the last hand Jeff Hardy touched while he was running down the ramp, while coming from the other side touching other people's hands.

I went to camp one time and got to meet the members Christian band called DecembeRadio and get their autographs.

I got to meet a couple of our local news reporters and get their autographs.

I've been on the local new before.

I had my picture taken with a local rock radio host on Free Comic Book day.

My cousin claims to be related to Michael Jackson.

Some guy allegedly gave me the yahoo id of Drew McIntyre. 

My first grade signature has been in space.

I briefly spoke with Lucia Iman on Myspace

I was the aircrewman that all the pilots knew they could count on to "moon" their buddies out the side window or off the ramp of the helicopter.  ( still no clue how ALL the pilots knew and I never got in trouble)

Worked on Dexter Hollands race jet.  Only plane I have ever seen with zebra print seats and the floor was covered in pink feathers.

Helped fix the airplane that got towed into John Travolta's private viewing box.

The county treasurer asked me for a slice of my pizza, while I was working on his plane.

Drank with one of the guys from one of the boy bands that was famous in the late 90s/early 2000s ( not trying to be vague, I really don't remember his name), he was playing with the band that was playing at a bar in key West.  We being Marines were all in the bar and drunk by 430, he seemed to enjoy us there every night.

My uncle is in pictures with Carlos Hathcock.

1. My French toast game is pretty tight

2. Made Lars from Metallica a coffee once, he tipped me $5 for a $5 drink. I was like KILL EM ALL!

3. Dogs and cats totally love me, and yes I do mean all of them. They can't get enough!

My lame claims to fame... unfortunately I can't detail all of them but:

I meet and greet celebrities often. The most memorable was meeting Stan Lee. I also regularly work out at the gym with a few of those that I work with (I work at a TV network). I am most assuredly not a celebrity but they seem like ordinary people once you get to know them.

The founder and owner of the most popular soft drink company in my old country (http://smjaleel.net/) saved my life when I was a few weeks old. He is a doctor and was working at the hospital I was born in.

I went to school with this guy. (http://machel.mworldonline.com/home) And these guys. (http://kestheband.com/)

I'm friends with a Nobel prize winner.

I've been featured in two national magazines for volunteer work.

I was a founding member of the ISOC (http://www.internetsociety.org/) chapter in my old country.

I have played chess against a few grandmasters. Can't remember who they were, but I was 8 years old. I lost of course but I put up a pretty good fight.

Lame but my claims to fame!

I once parked next to the rapper NIMS bus at a wal Mart.

I was the cashier one time at wal mart for Jamie Lee Curtis. Her daughter went to the college I was attending and she visited regularly.