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Have you ever met someone famous?

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Actually, I have met someone famous. They were in a youtube video with over 13 million views. 😀 (They were just in their panties too, lulz)
 
Met or at least been in the same room with:
President George HW Bush & Barb
Bono & The Edge
Aerosmith
Tom Cruise & Penelope Cruze
Coldplay
Rachel Ray
The Wiggles
 
I've been in the same room with Warren Buffet once or twice. Met Reggie White on multiple occasions - great guy, shame he died so young.

Other than that, minor celebrities. Bloodhound Gang (total assholes). Iggy Pop (really nice guy).
 
Al Pacino, Morton Downey Jr, Lynne White, Al Sharpton and Kevin Bacon, in their own apartments.

I also met Dr. Zizmor if anyone in NY remembers his adverts in the NYC subway...his son had bad acne and was a wannabe gangster...lol
 
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Al Pacino, Morton Downey Jr, Lynn White, Al Sharpton and Kevin Bacon, in their own apartments.

I also met Dr. Zizmor if anyone in NY remembers his adverts in the NYC subway...his son had bad acne and was a wannabe gangster...lol
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What do you deliver? Wait, do we want to know?
 
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What do you deliver? Wait, do we want to know?
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Cable guy in NYC for 5 years. Back then I handled the computer part of a Road Runner install.

All of them had decent computers except for Al Pacino, who had an older PowerPC mac running OS9 that had an extension preventing the computer from starting up. (This was in 2001.)

He kicked all of us out after he got annoyed that the cable guys were taking too long to install the lines. None of us were allowed back in, which pissed me off since I got the computer running perfectly. lol
 
Hmm..

Gallagher
Willie Nelson
Dennis Rodman
Daryl Johnson
Kevin Smith
Michael Irvin
Kavika Pittman
Randall Godfrey
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Susan Lucci
Jimmy Stewart
Michael Caine
Mark Cuban
Carroll Shelby
Anne Rice (before she went all Jesus)
Mickey Rourke
Jennifer Love Hewitt

probably some more than I'm just forgetting at the moment. Willie Nelson and Jimmy Stewart were my faves, and SMG was cool and friendly, spent by far the most time with her and perhaps Mark Cuban (~1 hour or so).
 
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Cable guy in NYC for 5 years. Back then I handled the computer part of a Road Runner install.

All of them had decent computers except for Al Pacino, who had an older PowerPC mac running OS9 that had an extension preventing the computer from starting up. (This was in 2001.)

He kicked all of us out after he got annoyed that the cable guys were taking too long to install the lines. None of us were allowed back in, which pissed me off since I got the computer running perfectly. lol
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Haha, that's a pretty damn good story to be able to tell, though. "Taking too long." I guess the solution is to kick them out so they took too long and he didn't get what he wanted? WTF.

So who had the nicest pad?
 
I was on the same plane as Tony Shalhoub once. He was flying coach with his daughter, so I didn't bother him (I like Monk, so I wanted to get his autograph). He seemed like a nice guy; he was courteous, nice to his daughter, and mostly just read a book on method acting during the flight.
 
sjwaste said:
Haha, that's a pretty damn good story to be able to tell, though. "Taking too long." I guess the solution is to kick them out so they took too long and he didn't get what he wanted? WTF.

So who had the nicest pad?
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By faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar, Al Pacino. It was registered to come company and looked surreal. He had half the entire floor to himself, and was about 40 stories high on 57th & Broadway.

Lynn White was in the lower 70s (I think) on Central Park West. Nice big apartment, nothing special though.

Zizmor was East 80s somewhere... Bacon was in lower 70s & Bway - small pad for some reason. Sharpton was an office in Harlem (with purple rugs...lol) It was when he was running for President I think.

Downey was upper East 90s, he was already dying at the time. 🙁
 
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David Crosby, Snoop Dogg, the guy who started Roscoes House Of Chicken & Waffles. Rosanne Barr, Aisha Tyler, Samatto James
 
Met Walter Payton at an IndyCar event. I was really young, but I remember when I shook his hand his grip was ridiculously strong. He was cool though.
 
I met Alex Tribek at a filming of Jeopardy! it was pretty cool, he was nice, well spoken, and entertaining.

I briefly spoke to James Doohan, at a comic con, he was a nice grandfatherly guy.

My father nearly got in a fight with Dennis Rodman when he was playing for the Pistons (he was being an ass, and wouldn't give my brother an autograph), in the end Dennis backed down and drove away... quickly.

My friend, had a beer with Steve Wilkos after a taping of his show, he claims that he was pretty cool, but hes in to the young wimminz.
 
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