Famous encounters
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I made a banana split for Joe Namath once. And yes, I KNEW it was him (I'd seen that episode of the Brady Bunch enough times to know what he looked like).
Someday, everything is gonna be diff'rent
When I paint my masterpiece.
When I paint my masterpiece.
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I met Nano once! 
He was at a session playing his cittern.
I bask to this day!
He was at a session playing his cittern.I bask to this day!
It is important not to mistake the edge of a rut for the horizon!
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But did you know it was me at the time?
"If you take music out of this world, you will have nothing but a ball of fire." - Balochi musician
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Well, no. 
but I do now! 
doesn't that count?
but I do now! doesn't that count?
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Of course! That's the the idea of the OP: people you met but didn't know at the time that they were who they were when you met them until later when for some reason or another you realised who they were and you remembered that you'd met them before you knew they were who they were.gregdidge wrote:Well, no.
doesn't that count?
Only difference is I ain't famous.
Close as I get to that is that I've been compared to Paul McCartney, Joe Namath, Michael J. Fox, Eric Clapton, and lately Eric Stoltz. Don't ask...I can't figure it out, either. No one ever mentions Mel Gibson, dammit.
Never met any of them that I know of.
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Was it? Oh, never mind about Joe Namath thenNanohedron wrote: Of course! That's the the idea of the OP: people you met but didn't know at the time that they were who they were when you met them until later when for some reason or another you realised who they were and you remembered that you'd met them before you knew they were who they were.
And here I'd get myself a bit of notoriety, but y'all had to make RULES. A pox upon you all!Someday, everything is gonna be diff'rent
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When I paint my masterpiece.
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Well, you're already in good company for that in this thread, so...you know.izzarina wrote:Was it? Oh, never mind about Joe Namath thenNanohedron wrote: Of course! That's the the idea of the OP: people you met but didn't know at the time that they were who they were when you met them until later when for some reason or another you realised who they were and you remembered that you'd met them before you knew they were who they were.
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When I was younger, much younger, a sports writer told me I was a ringer for Joe Zdeb, utility outfielder for the Kansas City Royals from 1977 to 1979.Nanohedron wrote: Close as I get to that is that I've been compared to Paul McCartney, Joe Namath, Michael J. Fox, Eric Clapton, and lately Eric Stoltz. Don't ask...I can't figure it out, either. No one ever mentions Mel Gibson, dammit.
Sadly, he was right.
Crazy for the blue white and red
Crazy for the blue white and red
And yellow fringe
Crazy for the blue white red and yellow
Crazy for the blue white and red
And yellow fringe
Crazy for the blue white red and yellow
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I once bought a bodhran frame from Brother Steve.
And now there was no doubt that the trees were really moving - moving in and out through one another as if in a complicated country dance. ('And I suppose,' thought Lucy, 'when trees dance, it must be a very, very country dance indeed.')
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I had dinner with Steve Allen and was at a party with Burr Tillstrom, both because my sister was the coordinator of a University of Chicago comedy festival and, well, I'm her sister.
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My dad's been on the Today show, Good Morning America (twice), CNN, several local news shows, newspapers all over the country (via an AP story), the National Enquirer, The Star, Weekly World News, and even Ripley's Believe It Or Not comic strip.
I met him before his 15 minutes of fame.....does that count?
I met him before his 15 minutes of fame.....does that count?
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Okay, THAT one I wanna know about!rebl_rn wrote:My dad's been on...even Ripley's Believe It Or Not comic strip.
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I'll have to scan in the strip someday.Nanohedron wrote:Okay, THAT one I wanna know about!rebl_rn wrote:My dad's been on...even Ripley's Believe It Or Not comic strip.
Between the years of 1978-1982, my dad was Chief of Police (Buffalo Grove IL) and an ordained Episcopal priest (assisting priest at another Chicago suburb church). People apparently thought that was an odd combination. That's what all the press was about.
In 1982 he retired from the police department and became a full time priest.
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