Who's the most famous person you've never met?

[BikeWriter]

I'd never posted a copycat post and I had it to do so there! :)

[BikeWriter]

1. Winston Churchill!

[CubsFan1982]

2. Abraham Lincoln.

But I think it's safe to say that I'm not alone in that respect. :D

[pres2032]

3. i actually saw him reading in my college library

there's a lot of displays in there about him, so he likes to spend his free time there reading and hanging with the college kids.

[BikeWriter]

6. Hey, bring him by here! :-)

[pres2032]

11. sure!

he needs alot of rest after getting shot, but he still gets around. I'll try to see if he wants to join us in a friendly chit-chat as he likes to say.

[BikeWriter]

12. Hey, way cool, Dude. I'll buy the drinks! I'd love to meet him!

[pres2032]

17. sounds good

as you know, he a writer too, so he'd be thrilled to meet you. only thing is, we can't take him to see a show. he's petrified of theaters.

[BikeWriter]

19. Hey, no shit! Tell him I'll stick a rocket in my pocket for protection.

:-)

[pres2032]

21. won't work

I wanted to take him to see Phantom of the Opera in NYC and even said he would be entitled to Secret Service protection. but nope, refused to go.

[BikeWriter]

22. Aw hell, well, maybe we can get him out for a few brewskis. :-)

[pres2032]

23. that'd be good

he'd like that. i'll tell him tomorrow.

[BikeWriter]

24. Hey thanks, Pard. Here's one to you! :-)

[qnr]

4. Well, technically, I've never been introduced to myself, and I'm

pretty much hot stuff in my own eyes.

[BikeWriter]

7. Damn, Gnr. You are famous!

[Penndems]

5. Any one of The Beatles

but especially John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

[BikeWriter]

8. That's a coincidence. I haven't met them, too! :-)

[Historic NY]

9. George Washington.........

[BikeWriter]

10. Damn, I never met him, too, NY! WOW!

[jdots]

13. I once didn't meet Regis Philbin

he is famous but no one knows why.
I didn't meet Maggy (legs) Thatcher, but have wet dreams about her if I eat lentil soup.

[BikeWriter]

15. ROFL! Well, I've never eaten lentil soup is why I haven't met Maggy! :-)

[AuntiBush]

14. Keanu Reeves

Give me a break. It's been a long time. :( Widow on my end and just getting over a :hangover: from too much :beer: last night while having my annual lonely pity :party:

[BikeWriter]

16. Here's to your meeting Keanu! Salut!

[Sporadicus]

18. never mind

always read the title of the post carefully

[BikeWriter]

20. ROFLOL! :-)

[BlueJazz]

25. Julie Andrews...I also went out to supper with BobCrane....

..(Hogans Hero's)
Talk to Neil Diamond for awhile.
Once had a chat with Nick Nolte.
rode an escalator with Barbara Streisand

I lived in downtown San Fran. at the time so it wasn't really that big a deal to see "stars"

[BikeWriter]

26. What? I never met any of those! This is a copy cat post. Who have you...

...never met?

[BikeWriter]

27. I've never met Bob Hope, either, though he did USO shows within...

...a few miles of where I was in VietNam.

[RadicalMom]

28. The Pope. My grandparents DID meet whoever the Pope was in 1956,

but they're all dead now. I didn't meet him either.

[BikeWriter]

31. I didn't meet him, too. Either one of the last two. That's probably...

...a good thing. I don't speal Polish or Italian.

[RadicalMom]

36. You would have needed the help of Father Guido Sarducci, who I haven't

met either. See, the circle keeps expanding. What can we do about it?

[BikeWriter]

39. I haven't the foggiest. If we never meet them, we'll never know! :-(

[bmovies]

29. John Travolta and Elliot Gould.

Back in the late seventies when Welcome Back Kotter was still on the air, John Travolta came to a clothing store in my neighborhood, only down the block from where I was living (in Brooklyn). I don't remember if this was just after his movie Grease was released or before it, or before or after Saturday Night Fever was released.

I have no idea why he came to that particular clothing store in the first place. It was a small personal clothing store. Not one of those superstore franchises that you see today. Dont even know why he was in my neighborhood at all. My neighborhood was pretty much poor and rundown.

Anyways, word went up and down the block, and throughout the entire neighborhood that John Travolta was in that clothing store. As a result, there was a hell of a big crowd hanging out by the front entrance of the store. No one going in or out. People were even climbing on top of the traffic light to get a better look into the store so that they could catch a glimpse of him. I took one look at that crowd and realized that there was no way in hell I would be able to squeeze past all those people in order to get to the front door of the store in order to look inside.

Instead, me and a neighborhood friend of mine just hung back. We noticed a shiny, all white cadillac eldorado (a convertible) parked on the corner of our block. Some people who went by said that it was John Travolta's own car (no one but us kids stood around the car. Everyone else were standing around the entrance of the store across the street). It HAD to be John Travolta's car. In my poor neighborhood, very few people owned cars. And the few that did, none were as fancy as that Cadillac. I've never seen something that expensive and fancy parked on my street before or since.

In the front passenger seat, it had a giant, as big as I was, Pink Panther doll and it was wearing a giant pair of sunglasses. My friend dared me to steal it, but I refused. Not because it was beneath me, but because I was too scared. I KNEW that it would be impossible to miss the kid walking away with a giant stuffed Pink Panther cartoon figure in his hands. Especially in a very poor neighborhood like mine. Stuck on the trunk of the vehicle were these magnets of Warner Brothers cartoon characters. Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam, etc. My friend dared me to steal those as well. Pointing out that, unlike the Pink Panther doll, I could slip those into my pocket and walk away and no one would be the wiser. No one would notice those gone. I contemplated that dare ALOT. I even removed a couple of magnets from the trunk to hold it in my hands and actually thought of stealing one or two. But I chickened out of that dare too and put the magnets back in their exact place.

I never managed to get a glimpse of John Travolta. Me and my friend got tired of waiting around for him to emrge from the store and went off to play, the usual kid stuff (getting a glimpse of a celebrity wasnt important to us kids the way it was to all the older people that were hanging around the front of the store).

About a week or two later when all the excitement had died down, I was walking past the store, took a glimpse inside (I've never actually been inside that store the entire time I lived near there) and saw an autographed photo of John Travolta prominently displayed inside.

Hey John. If you're reading this, I could have stolen your pink panther doll and/or your magnets, but I didnt (and your entire car for that matter, you left the top down as wel las the windows). Really nice not meeting you John.

As for Elliot Gould, he was shooting the movie "Over the Brooklyn Bridge" in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn. I was on my way home one day, going past the location (a lunchonette right next door to a movie theater) when he popped out of the lunchonette. Some old lady from the neighborhood was trying to take a photo of him with her little camera, but Elliot was basically ignoring her, looking past her as if she didnt even exist. He strolled across the street to one of the several winnebagoes that was parked there. Some poor crew member was trying to eat his lunch, but every couple of minutes someone would interrupt to ask him what the name of the movie was and he answered "My Little Shiksa". Which was the working title then. They later changed it to "Over the Brooklyn Bridge"

[shunt]

30. Madeline Albright

I grilled her on her 60 minutes comment at a "speaking engagement"

it was fun/times

[BikeWriter]

40. I didn't meet her either.

[BikeWriter]

43. I didn't meet either one of those guys. :-)

[New Earth]

32. GRRR

wrong thread! f*cking copycat bullshit!!!!! *@#%*&^#^*(@ :D

[BikeWriter]

35. Hree hee hee! Sorry, Faye. The devil made me do it! :-)

[DU GrovelBot]

33. ## PLEASE DONATE TO DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND! ##

==================
GROVELBOT.EXE v3.0
==================



This week is our first quarter 2005 fund drive. Democratic
Underground is a completely independent website. We depend almost entirely
on donations from our members to cover our costs. Thank you so much for
your support.

[BikeWriter]

37. Thanks for the reminder Grovelbot. I donated again. :-)

[GumboYaYa]

34. I did not meet Elvis.

As a matter of fact I did not meet him last week, the week before or any time before that.

[BikeWriter]

38. That's an unbelievable coincidence, GumboYaYa!

I didn't meet him, too!

[loudestchick]

41. Jesus Christ--I know that alot of you have, but not me.

[BikeWriter]

42. I haven't met Him either. What a coinkadink!

[twenty2strings]

44. Shirley McLaine...

In the S.F. Museum of Erotic Art. I was doing sheetrock work and she said,"Slap some of that plaster on there for me." It was 1973 and she sure was gorgeous.:bounce:

[BikeWriter]

45. I've never met her, but I'd like to!

[B Calm]

46. I have a co worker who looks like Jack Nicholson, even acts

like him..

[BikeWriter]

47. Oh wow, that guy's spooky! I always thought he was a great actor though.