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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on May 21, 2008, 02:37:00 pm
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My all time list is huge, but I had one today
I was running by the WW2 Memorial, and there was a big crowd and a parade with a bunch of veterans in wheelchairs with lots of cheering.
The crap part was that the parade went right through my running route, and I had to leap between wheelchairs to make it through the parade. As I was leaping, there was an old decrepit looking guy in a suit and fake brown hair no more than three or four feet away.He was shaking hands with one of the wheelchair guys, and said "Congratulations, thank you for your service." After a few seconds of thinking, I realized the old guy was Bob Dole.
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I've met a ton of people, some situations more random than others. Here's a list off the top of my head:
James Earl Jones
Dolly Parton
Donovan Leitch
Charles Durning
John Mahoney
Doc Severinsen
Chevy Chase
Tom Selleck
Woody Harrelson
Carole King
Danny Glover
Tiny Tim
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I saw Jim Jarmusch carrying groceries in the Bowery.
I saw Rick Ocasek walking down the street in NYC, and was right behind him in line at Newbury Comics in Boston (he has Social D. Sonic Youth and Madonna among his swag).
I saw the Mayor Ed Kock coming out of "The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and Her Lover" with tears in his eyes.
I saw then Mayor David Dinkins pressing the flesh on the street in Staten Island.
I shook hands with River Phoenix and jokingly called him "Christian (as in Slater)".
I saw Jerry Lewis getting out of a limo on Connecticut Ave.
I took a piss next to Jon Langford (is he famous enough?) in a bar (didn't notice if the rumors about his large tool were true)
Sure would have been cool to encounter some famous female hotties, but I can't think of any...except one sort of hottie...
saw Winona Ryder, Daniel Day Lewis, and Martin Scorcese filming the Age of Innocence in upstate NY
saw Winona Ryder and Dave Pirner shoosing away a street vagarant outside a cafe in Baltimore
ran into Evan Dando in a strip mall parking lot prior to and in-store.
Saw Mike Ness strolling around on my college campus on his way to our college radio station
ok, enough for now
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Joel Madden washed my hair once.
According to Rick Astley, I am his friend.
Countless others....
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Did I ever mention the time Gwyneth Paltrow tried to pick me up?
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Did I ever mention the time Gwyneth Paltrow tried to pick me up?
Yes.
Weren't you sitting on Apple or something?
I played golf with Jack Sikma.
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Maybe that explains her being with Chris Martin. ;)
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Did I ever mention the time Gwyneth Paltrow tried to pick me up?
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I saw John McLaughlin walking around grumpily in Dupont.
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I literally bumped into Charles Bronson in Georgetown Park.
I stood next to Sandra Bullock at a bar and made small talk for a few minutes.
Tucker Carlson gave me an extra concert ticket outside of 9:30 once.
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dick cheney
bob dole
dan rather
katie couric
bob schieffer
i used to work at cbs news..
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Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
I literally bumped into Charles Bronson in Georgetown Park.
You sir, must have had a Death Wish.
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either i don't have any "saw X walking out of a grocery store"-type experiences, or i don't remember them. maybe i only remember more intense celeb encounters:
- i knew dave eggers's girlfriend before they started dating, and went to his wedding which was a who's who of modern lit. david sedaris, zadie smith, nick horny, etc etc. at one point i was doing shots with two pulitzer prize winners.
- participated in a small 2-day round-table discussion chaired by Bono. got to chat a few times with him, he was surprisingly humble and approachable. Originally posted by Relaxer:
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Did I ever mention the time Gwyneth Paltrow tried to pick me up?
Yes.
Weren't you sitting on Apple or something?[/b]
ok, maybe it's not just the "judas priest" thread... nice one.
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shared a Whistler chairlift with Seal about ten years ago
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Originally posted by Relaxer:
Weren't you sitting on Apple or something?
She was hoping I'd sit on cherry instead *nudge nudge wink wink*
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I have taken bong hits in Harry Reid's kitchen. While tripping.
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sean penn - SF
robin williams - SF (he was riding a WV bug)
pierce brosnan - LAX
ryan gosling - Oakland airport
tom waits - santa rosa
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george lucas - marin county, ca
james hetfield - marin county
huey lewis - marin county (went to one of the band members weddings) :D
the guys in Journey shop at my parents health food store as well as countless other musicians that live in marin.
whoopi goldberg - sf
gabriel byrne - coming out of the IFC - NYC
and lots of other celebs here
ringo starr - shoe store on Melrose (one of the biggest a$$holes ive ever met)
janeane garafolo - on melrose (shes even worse than ringo)
and friends lived on the same dorm floor at ucsb with gwyneth (she only went there for a year if that). my ex was hit on by her also.
ive become oblivious to it all living in nyc. pretty much everywhere you go, you can see someone. at concerts it can be a 'who's who', depending on which 'it' band is playing.
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Mike Tyson shoe-shopping in Montgomery mall about ten years ago.
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I'm just wondering when will this thread turn into pictures.
I've only ever met that one guy from that one tv show and Marv Albert.
MindCage
Mindless Faith (http://www.mindlessfaith.com)
Deep6 Productions (http://www.deep6.com)
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Random people I've run in to...
Jared from Subway at WJFK (worked there)
Gallagher at WJFK
Jerry Springer at a bar in Athens, Ohio
Henry Rollins at Tower
Pat Smear at Tower
Evan Dando at Tower
Richard Baluyut from Versus on the metro green line
Jason Schwartzman at RFK
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Originally posted by DriveWay:
Jerry Springer at a bar in Athens, Ohio
I believe that would have been Pawpurr's he was at and 1994. I was across the street at the C.I. :)
MindCage
Mindless Faith (http://www.mindlessfaith.com)
Deep6 Productions (http://www.deep6.com)
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Sen. Phil Gramm and his wife at 930 club
Strom Thurmond at some lobbyist event I attended
Mario Lemieux on the corner of Connecticut Ave and L- he was looking for the Men's Wearhouse
Bob Mould at Liberty Lunch in Austin- Magnapop was playing
Robert Patrick on the set of "Ladder 49"
that's all i can remember off the top of my head.
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Met Michael Stipe at a bar in Philly.
Jammed with Dave Grohl in a friends basement.
Kid Congo Powers...hung with him a few times mutual friends he lives here in DC now.
Curley from the Harlem Globetrotters on the ferry to the statue of liberty.
Used to see Sam Donaldson all the time when I worked on 17th street.
Met Sonny Jourgenson and Joe Theisman.
My friend went on a date or hung out with Bob Mould about a year ago and I was having a secret man crush through him....
All I can think of now. My brain is mush.
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Kid Congo Powers...hung with him a few times mutual friends he lives here in DC now.
I think he opened for the Apes at the black cat a couple months ago.
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too many to name. but i've basically met/run into half of hollywood and so on, and we all seem to go to the same Ralph's in LA.
and then there's the whole fashion week in new york deal...
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Originally posted by azaghal1981:
Kid Congo Powers...hung with him a few times mutual friends he lives here in DC now.
I think he opened for the Apes at the black cat a couple months ago. [/b]
Yeah one of my best friends, Arthur, was playing bass with him that night.
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I've seen quite a few in my day, but I'll post some of my favorites...
Robert Plant in Nashville a few months ago
Elvis Costello on my flight to NYC recently (we had a quick convo)
Bob Weir and Mickey Hart - met them a few times
Mark Messier - right after his 94 Stanley Cup win
Isaac Hayes
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I got mashed against the bar at the Continental Club in South Austin by Colin Farrell once. Dale Watson was playing. Colin offered to buy me a cocktail by way of apology, but I had just gotten one. So I said no thanks. He was quickly surrounded by plenty of other people who wanted him to buy them drinks though. He was very polite to them too, considering how rude and demanding they were. I'm not a Colin Farrell fan at all. Why couldn't it have been Viggo?
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Drew Barrymore, Union Square
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yesterday i saw stat-boy walking down 14th street near R ... it was pretty amazing
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Met Willie Nelson on a golf course. When I was a kid, we'd collect lost golf balls and re-sell them to the golfers. He was in the bar/restaurant and he was the nicest guy ever. Gave us 100 bucks for a sack of crappy golf balls and signed autographs for us.
I'm guessing after-show chats with artists don't count, so I'll stop at this one.
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My favorite is David Byrne at Club Charles in Baltimore a few years back.
I also got into a verbal altercation with John Water's props person once (over a mushroom chair), and dressed all the people in Cecil B. Demented (but the only person I remember was Maggie Gyllenhall) for their first scene. (I was working in the vintage store next door to the filming at the time...)
Could there be any more () in that sentence?
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Speaking of John Waters, I just remembered some more:
John Waters
Mink Stole
Selma Blair
Chris Isaak
Ahmet Zappa
Dave Thomas (of Wendy's fame)
Rob Lowe
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What is the Dave Thomas/John Waters connection?
I also saw John Waters a few times when I lived in Baltimore in the 90's.
Originally posted by bearman:
Speaking of John Waters, I just remembered some more:
John Waters
Mink Stole
Selma Blair
Chris Isaak
Ahmet Zappa
Dave Thomas (of Wendy's fame)
Rob Lowe
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I'm pretty sure if you're from Baltimore (or have lived there), you've seen John Waters. ;)
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No connection...I just remembered that I met them, different times. I did go to the cast wrap party for a Dirty Shame and met Waters, Mink Stole, Chris Isaak, Selma Blair, and her then-boyfriend Ahmet Zappa. I wonder if they're still together.
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Kid Congo Powers...hung with him a few times mutual friends he lives here in DC now.
Just saw him at Comet. Truly great. He could use a sound man though
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Celebrity encounters are kind of dime a dozen for someone from LA/OC, so I'll list more than just bumping into them or seeing them some place.
I was at Taos in Vegas with Chase Crawford and his sister who was in the Miss America Pageant a few weeks ago. After the Venetian, he got us a limo and we went to a gentlemans club.
Zach De La Rocha and Vince Vaughn used to be in my fantasy football league.
Gwen Stefani and my sister were good friends growing up and I still see her on occasion.
The Sports Guy and I Are still supposed to watch a United/Tottenham match someday, but I doubt that ever happens.
Scotty Gomez still owes me a drink after a night of partying in NY.
I'm pretty sure I posted this here once before but I once asked Shannen Doherty that if I called her Brenda if would should call me a dick? She said no, so I called her Brenda and she promptly called me a dick.
Adam Corolla and Jimmy Kimmel used to be regulars at a poker game I used to play in with guys from KROQ in LA.
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
After a few seconds of thinking, I realized the old guy was Bob Dole.
I used to work with him (well when he was actually IN the office.) It was a little strange to know that the head honcho of the office and my direct supervisor were on viagara...and that there was an air mattress in the closet.
One of my favorite recent ones has to be Ron Jeremy at the Roxy.
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Couple DC-centric ones I forgot about:
Ari Fleischer, Pete Domenici, and Dick Gephardt's daughter are all clients of my wife's business. Ben Bernanke used to be.
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What breed of dogs so each of them have?
Originally posted by Relaxer:
Couple DC-centric ones I forgot about:
Ari Fleischer, Pete Domenici, and Dick Gephardt's daughter are all clients of my wife's business. Ben Bernanke used to be.
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Vansmack, I am really jealous of the Chase Crawford one as Gossip Girl is my new favorite guilty pleasure tv show.
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Originally posted by Relaxer:
Couple DC-centric ones I forgot about:
I played poker with Madeleine Albright once.
And this bummed me out because it reminded of the time I bumped into (literally) Ted Kennedy coming around the corner by the elevator at the Willard Hotel at Clinton's second inauguration. He is not small.
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
What breed of dogs so each of them have?
Originally posted by Relaxer:
Couple DC-centric ones I forgot about:
Ari Fleischer, Pete Domenici, and Dick Gephardt's daughter are all clients of my wife's business. Ben Bernanke used to be.
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expensive ones
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I once partied with The Directorâ?¢
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a lot of senators and house members from working on the hill, I would rather forget those experiences
I took a class in college called Oliver Stone's America and he came to our class a couple of times
Andres Gallaraga at the mall right after he broke his arm his only year with the cardinals
Ozzie Smith left a signing when I was 12 years old and was the next person in line, I still dont like him because of that
a lot of musicians like the rest of you, favorite being watching Markie and Poorlulu disappear into a winnebago with Anton Newcombe at 3am outside the velvet lounge and it starts to drive away
probably forgetting others
oh and Ben Stiller in a bar in new york, he is REALLY short
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I once rode the Metro with Pollard.
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
I once partied with The Directorâ?¢
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Originally posted by K8teebug:
Vansmack, I am really jealous of the Chase Crawford one as Gossip Girl is my new favorite guilty pleasure tv show.
Mine too now. I had seen the show once before, but Smackette LOVES the show. When I texted her that I was partying with Miss Missouri, she immediately knew it was Chase's sister, to which I replied who the hell is Chase Crawford? Right up until I met him I thought I was meeting Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgely).
He turned out to be a genuinely nice guy, picked up the tab for everything, provided access to all kinds of stuff I could never get into, and did a lot for his adoring fans (and there's a lot of them). I just sat back in awe of all the young girls he took photos with in Vegas.
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
I once partied with The Directorâ?¢
If The Directorâ?¢ were still posting, I'm sure he'd reply....
The Directorâ?¢ once partied with ggwâ?¢ and Vansmack.
True Story.
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he's not posting, but i can assure you he's reading. his ego is rather stroked right now.
Originally posted by vansmack:
The Directorâ?¢ once partied with ggwâ?¢ and Vansmack.
The Directorâ?¢ often parties with callat703 and sweetcell.
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Originally posted by sweetcell:
The Directorâ?¢ often parties with callat703 and sweetcell.
Now there's a recipe for trouble.
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actually, we now pace ourselves enough to ensure that we only cause temporary damage. might have something to do with having scared/scarred ourselves in vegas last year.
thedirector + smackie + ggw, on the other hand - be afraid. i am. i'd approach that combo in the same way i might heroin: bad idea, going to regret it later... but will probably do it anyways.
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I worked at Virgin Megastore in LA for almost a year in the mid-90's so the celeb customer spotting there was a dime a dozen. Though there were a few highlights like meeting childhood idol Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and providing personal security for Neil Diamond when he did an in-store there (which if you saw me physically back then was a fucking hilarious choice by store management). Watching all of the other employees shit themselves over douchebag Morrissey coming into the store sporting a Morrissey tee shirt with his picture on it was pretty funny as well. Oddly enough though I never really saw any celebrities outside of the work setting for the couple years I lived in LA (save running into Gene Simmons at the post office haha). The funniest celebrity encounter was cornering Paul Stanley last year outside of White Flint Mall after an artshow where he wouldn't take pictures or sign anything for fans unless you paid in upwards of $2-$50K for his artwork so my friend and I took that as a challenge, the off-duty police providing security told us he was going to cut out early so my friend and my half-drunk ass (due to cheap wine courtesy of the Wentworth Gallery) went out by the loading dock and got in between the exit and his Lincoln Town Car there to pick him up and had him take pictures with us when he walked out haha
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Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
Originally posted by sweetcell:
The Directorâ?¢ often parties with callat703 and sweetcell.
Now there's a recipe for trouble. [/b]
my liver agrees.
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i've met a lot of random people but this one takes the cake.
was flying back to Kansas from the east coast, and I had been bumped off like 3 flights, so they finally stuck me on one, and put me first class.
I'm all "yey" and curl up in my chair with my new book.
Person comes in, sits next to me, orders a drink what have you. Looks over at me.
"So what book are you reading?"
"oh, Marilyn Manson's book, it's pretty neat" (at this point I hadn't looked over yet, I was really engrossed in it)
Plane takes off. guy gets his drink. about 2 minutes later:
"So what do you like about it?"
"oh, well, it's well written, i like the opinionated thoughts.." finally pull my head out of the book and my face goes white.
"Yeah, I'm glad you like it. Want me to sign it?"
So for 2.5 hours i got to sit by Marilyn Manson and talk about his book and literature and stuff.
was fucking awesome. lol.
aside from that I've met an absolute shitton of celebrities, but I don't know I have better stories than this one.
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Originally posted by TheREALHunter:
save running into Gene Simmons at the post office haha
I saw him in the Denver airport last year with his whole family, seriously weird looking face due to plastic surgery
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Originally posted by pdx pollard:
Originally posted by TheREALHunter:
save running into Gene Simmons at the post office haha
I saw him in the Denver airport last year with his whole family, seriously weird looking face due to plastic surgery [/b]
Dude is not... handsome
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i made drinks for martin sheen and some other people i didn't recognize when i was in high school and working at a starbucks in frederick. they had been filming nearby for the west wing and all stopped by.
he had a raspberry creme frappuccino, which from that point onward, on the rare occasion someone ordered it, we referred to as "the martin sheen."
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I just got an email saying that Vic Chestnutt is playing at some dude's desk down the hall from me, right now.
And Urban Verbs is playing here in an hour or so. That's kind of groovy, though I have no idea who they are.
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i worked at an airport during college, so i made sandwiches for quite a few celebs. i think the only one i ever gave a free meal to was mark recchi
i sat in the car while one of my friends walked up to barry bonds and asked for an autograph. at barry's house
the most surreal night of my life was the night the lemonheads played at my college and then came back to party with us. their drummer was murph from dinosaur jr
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There's been quite a few for me but a couple of funny ones. ...
I was at the DMV in Arlington and the que was eff'n enormous. There were a couple of young girls about two spots in front of me, and a bloke in front of them. They were whispering and giggling so this bloke turns around and says, "Yes, it's me"....it was Dave Grohl.
I was in the bathroom at National Airport and there were two other blokes taking a pee....I hear one guy say "I didn't kill my wife" and the other turns to him and says "I don't care"...the bloke who said "I don't care" was Harrison Ford. It took me a while to get the humour in the exchange of words until someone explained to me about The Fugitive.
I also met Tico Torres in the mens room so we had a little chat..what's up with me, celebs and mens rooms??? :eek: I'll have nightmares of meeting George Michael in a mens room now....
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Originally posted by 47 YEAR OLD VIRGIN:
what's up with me, celebs and mens rooms???
It's your wide stance.
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Originally posted by 47 YEAR OLD VIRGIN:
what's up with me, celebs and mens rooms???
have you considered FloMax?
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Originally posted by vansmack:
Originally posted by 47 YEAR OLD VIRGIN:
what's up with me, celebs and mens rooms???
It's your wide stance. [/b]
Wide something I'm sure...
I just thought of another from years ago..
When I served in the Royal Navy I was on HMS Brazen and Prince Andrew was our helicopter pilot. The ship came into Baltimore on the way home from the Falkland Islands. We docked right up in the inner harbour across from Phillips. The crowd was enormous with flags and stuff waving all over the place. We were standing in procedure alpha which is when the ships crew stand up on deck all ceremonial in our cutesy sailor suits. I was stood right next to Prince Andrew up on the signal deck. He leaned over and said jokingly to me "see all those women out there...well they're ALL waiting to see me' so I replied "and if there's any snipers out there, so are they" his reply? "bastard"
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Originally posted by 47 YEAR OLD VIRGIN:
what's up with me, celebs and mens rooms??? :eek: I'll have nightmares of meeting George Michael in a mens room now....
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Chuck D told me that my husband was the man, and Chuck was just taking notes.
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I ran into Herman Cain on my lunchtime run today.
He said "Outta my way faggot, I got some ladies i gotta go screw."
Geez, I just realized...I hope certain mods aren't friends with Herman Cain.
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you are odd today.
of course, im sure some people are saying . . . today?