interesting people you've met

[Jake the Dog]

I recently met one. not that he was in one or two ways specifically very interesting but the combination of meeting this person at the time and place that I did made him an interesting fellow indeed.

his name is Cornelius and he’s is a 22 y/o, married with children, Zimbabwean chicken Veterinarian who's here in Melbourne furthering his studies in Vet Science and I met him in a nightclub at 4am. we struck up a conversation on various political and cultural topics, even discissing how McDonald's in Amsterdam tastes like McDonald's everywhere else (!). I learnt that he loves Australia because some men here (myself a case in point) are 'allowed' by their wives to go out partying to all hours of the morning. odd, but interesting.

 

[Mercutio]

I met Hugh Hefner and his then-wife on a high school field trip. Some of my classmates showed up in the movie he was filming.
When I was in college I met and spoke to Neil Armstrong and Gene Cernan (the 1st and last men on the moon, respectively. Both attended Purdue.)
I once got a hug from Chasey Lain. That was a happy moment for an 18-year-old...
I met David Ogden Stiers (Winchester from MASH) at a Chicago Gloria Jean's coffee place.

I've met a couple of politicians who might be interesting, except they're republicans or weirdos (Perot) or both.

As far just plain old "interesting" people, when I was working in the computer labs at Purdue, there was a blind woman with a human "guide dog". She literally walked around campus with this dude on a chain. She had to use this one special computer up by the help desk, so I got to know her pretty well.

One of my current consulting clients used to be someone important in the KGB. He has pictures of himself with a bunch of Soviet politicians like Eduard Shevardnadze. He runs a commodities brokerage now.

 

[Pradeep]

For minute there Jake I thought you said chicken vegetarian

Only really famous guy I met was Arthur C Clark on a plane about 15 years ago, got his autograph and then left it behind, doh!

Mmmmm, Chasey. I would rather have met her on the plane....

 

[honold]

i knew most of the st louis blues (courtnall, pronger, macinnis, etc) pretty well a few years ago, but haven't been around any of the new ones.

one of them owed me a favor and happened to know seymore butts, so a couple phone calls later i was flying to the avn porn awards as seymore butts and alisha klass' (his then-fiance and host of the awards) guest and sat at their table. i turned down an offer to be in his movies.

i was in an elevator with kurt warner yesterday because his charity is in my office's building, spoken at length with tom arnold over the phone (?!). was friends with several members of the busch (beer) family. good story there, i heard kid rock bragging about getting free beer every week from them on howard stern. i don't like him or his music, so i suggested to them that it be looked into because of his questionable values and what it might say about the company.

anyway here are some pics from those awards and stuff. i guess this was 3-4 years ago?

www.badbeat.com/expo.jpg at main ces side-thing

www.badbeat.com/hotel.jpg in adam's then-assistants' (pictured) hotel room. 2 guys are from a band, guy in front of them was adam's former camera tech. if you've been watching 'family business' (his reality show on showtime) you'll notice he's not with alicia or either of these people now.

www.badbeat.com/seats.jpg post-show stuff from my actual seats. alisha is completely nude on stage.

www.badbeat.com/award.jpg adam up for an award

www.badbeat.com/ron.jpg can you guess?

 

[Mercutio]

I have a funny Ron Jeremy-related story.

I have a student who, despite all indications to the contrary on my part - up to and including threats of restraining orders - wants to, um, take me for a ride.

She's in her mid-30s, recovering alcoholic, so hyperactive her family force-feeds her sedatives. Her IQ is about the same as her bra size, and her bra size would be a comfortable room temperature. She dresses like Britney Spears. Quite possibly the least appealing woman I have ever seen. Seriously. To top it off, her name is Virgin, which is at least as oxymoronic as "military intelligence".
Virgin invites me to come visit her hot tub. Virgin finds reasons to smash her, um, assets up against head. Virgin bends over a lot, and absolutely none of Virgin's clothes fit. Virgin has no understanding of "personal space".
Most of my students are 50ish former steelworkers. She's been known to attract crowds. I guess she'd be a good time for a 50ish steelworker.

Me? I don't want anything to do with her. She's digusting, and I'm blunt enough to tell her that (I tried being nice about it at first. Now I'm just about to the "taser and pepper spray" stage).

So anyway, a few weeks ago, I rented a DVD called "Pornstar: The Legend of Ron Jeremy"[url] It's a documentary. Apparently one that's shown on HBO from time to time.
I wasn't really watching it, but I was listening. I was SF-ing at the time, in
fact.

All of a sudden, I hear HER VOICE. This woman's voice is unique. It's really raspy and she has a weird (Spanish - as in Spain) accent.
And she's talking about... gut-churning things she would like to do with Ron Jeremy.

I mean, seriously, I was nauseated.

I took some Pepto and watched the scene again, after my strength had recovered.

Exactly 60 minutes into the movie, there she is. She's clearly naked, although only filmed from the shoulders up - she gestures with her clothes. Her awful, ugly face... Best theory is that the bit was filmed at the nudist camp in Roselawn, Indiana.

I thought maybe I just imagined it. I phoned one of my co-workers, had her listen to it.

She said it was her. "You've GOT to bring that to work on Monday."

I couldn't bear to watch it again, but I set up a DVD player at noon that Monday. My co-worker took care of informing the rest of the staff. Now, I work in a smallish building. My company shares space with one other business, and everyone else who works in the building besides me is a woman. Several of them in their 60, several of them grandmothers. All of them, even the people who work for the other company, know Virgin. All of them, even the people from the other company, gathered in my office to watch the roughly 30 seconds of the most disgusting footage ever filmed.

I went outside and waited. When a roar of laughter that I could hear through four concrete walls pealed out from the building, I knew I hadn't been mistaken.

It's just a stupid anecdote, tangentally related to Ron Jeremy. It creeps the hell out of me.

 

[The Giver]

I have a funny Ron Jeremy-related story.

I have a student who, despite all indications to the contrary on my part - up to and including threats of restraining orders - wants to, um, take me for a ride.

She's in her mid-30s, recovering alcoholic, so hyperactive her family force-feeds her sedatives. Her IQ is about the same as her bra size, and her bra size would be a comfortable room temperature. She dresses like Britney Spears. Quite possibly the least appealing woman I have ever seen. Seriously. To top it off, her name is Virgin, which is at least as oxymoronic as "military intelligence".
Virgin invites me to come visit her hot tub. Virgin finds reasons to smash her, um, assets up against head. Virgin bends over a lot, and absolutely none of Virgin's clothes fit. Virgin has no understanding of "personal space".
Most of my students are 50ish former steelworkers. She's been known to attract crowds. I guess she'd be a good time for a 50ish steelworker.

Me? I don't want anything to do with her. She's digusting, and I'm blunt enough to tell her that (I tried being nice about it at first. Now I'm just about to the "taser and pepper spray" stage).

So anyway, a few weeks ago, I rented a DVD called "Pornstar: The Legend of Ron Jeremy"[url] It's a documentary. Apparently one that's shown on HBO from time to time.
I wasn't really watching it, but I was listening. I was SF-ing at the time, in
fact.

All of a sudden, I hear HER VOICE. This woman's voice is unique. It's really raspy and she has a weird (Spanish - as in Spain) accent.
And she's talking about... gut-churning things she would like to do with Ron Jeremy.

I mean, seriously, I was nauseated.

I took some Pepto and watched the scene again, after my strength had recovered.

Exactly 60 minutes into the movie, there she is. She's clearly naked, although only filmed from the shoulders up - she gestures with her clothes. Her awful, ugly face... Best theory is that the bit was filmed at the nudist camp in Roselawn, Indiana.

I thought maybe I just imagined it. I phoned one of my co-workers, had her listen to it.

She said it was her. "You've GOT to bring that to work on Monday."

I couldn't bear to watch it again, but I set up a DVD player at noon that Monday. My co-worker took care of informing the rest of the staff. Now, I work in a smallish building. My company shares space with one other business, and everyone else who works in the building besides me is a woman. Several of them in their 60, several of them grandmothers. All of them, even the people who work for the other company, know Virgin. All of them, even the people from the other company, gathered in my office to watch the roughly 30 seconds of the most disgusting footage ever filmed.

I went outside and waited. When a roar of laughter that I could hear through four concrete walls pealed out from the building, I knew I hadn't been mistaken.

It's just a stupid anecdote, tangentally related to Ron Jeremy. It creeps the hell out of me.

Can The Giver get her number?

 

[Mercutio]

If the giver is that hard up, then yes.

Personally, I'd rather go in for one of the professions previously suggested in another thread than have anything to do with that woman.

Just remember that there are some people for whom the phrase "Coyote Ugly" was coined. One could also coin the phrase "Coyote Stupid", just for her.

 

[The Giver]

Ugly is bad. Stupid is good. Mute is the best.

 

[Will Rickards WT]

I once met Bjorne Stroustrop and got his autograph.

 

[honold]

there's an engineer here in my company that actually worked with him while he was developing c++ (but didn't work on c++ itself, only made suggestions from the perspective of a guy that knew c).

he's 55 and employed, and will be for some time. could have something to do with lucent stock...

 

[jtr1962]

As far as those interesting and/or famous that I've met personally, I can't say I've had any conversations. I saw Nicholas Cage in person once. I was riding my bike around 10 one night and noticed a bunch of bright lights around a private house. I asked what they were doing, and they said filming a movie. I went home and my mom and I came back by car. We both saw Mr. Cage leaving the set getting into a car. My other "encounter" with famous people was in my sophomore year in college. Brooke Shields was in a psychology class I was taking. Despite my parents' pestering me to do so, I never got her autograph, and I never talked to her either. I basically put myself in her shoes, and figured if I was famous I would just want to be treated normally at school, as she apparently was since I never saw her get mobbed by fans.

In the category of interesting(to me anyway) but not so famous people I've actually talked to were a few teachers whose names I can't recall, a friend of mine who runs a taximeter shop, and of course my last girlfriend. I can also have fairly interesting involved conversations with my mom rivaling some of the SR or SF political threads, although with my father the conversation drifts off to left field pretty quickly if it's about anything other than baseball. I have a cousin who supposedly worked on the Manhattan Project, but he's also told his share of stories.

On the other side of the coin, ordinary and uninteresting people, I feel I've met more than my share.

 

[EdwardK]

I met the crown prince of Japan and his wife when they came for an official visit to the hospital I am working at. One thing I noticed during this visit is the contrast between the Australian and Japanese security/bodyguards. The Australians were like thugs/goons (big, burly, surly and mean looking). The Japanese on the other hand were lean and expressionless but they look like they can kill/disarm an attacker within seconds.

Cheers,
Edward