Name-Dropping for Fun...
 

I'll start with a mild one...I shook hands w/Paul Hornung in the MN airport.
I was on leave from the military and asked, and he said, "Sure kid."
We looked at each other, shook hands and parted. The End.
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Shook the hand of Bob Richards (Decathlon) & Joe Montana.
Worked out at Fitness 101 in Menlo Park, CA and on first-name basis with 49ers Jamie Williams, Jerry Rice, Tom Rathman, and NFL MVP Roger Craig. Craig and I sat buck naked in the locker room once and bragged about how well we could BBQ chicken. He liked to soak his in Heineken beer.
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OK, who's next?

Since you started the sentence with "Craig and I sat buck naked..." please clarify what you mean when you wrote "He liked to soak his in Heineken beer."

:p

I worked on Space Jam, so I met and shot hoops with Michael Jordan, Patrick Ewing, Muggsy Bogues and Larry Johnson. And Charles Barkley told me he was going to "kick my ass!" (he was joking). I also worked on Steel and shot around with Shaq.

Ok, z. :p

I've helped the Governor of Florida pick a few games out for his son (Bob Graham). Being a 12 year old, I had no idea of who he was until he thanked me and gave me a business card.

My family has had close calls with fame and fortune...

Grandpa Jack was approached by his buddy Sam in the early 20s about these newfangled moving picture things. Gramps wasn't sure and wasn't gonna bet the grocery money on it, so Sam Goldwyn found a different partner to form MGM with. :(

Grandpa Jack's wife was the secretary to the GM for the '32 Olympics - my mom and uncle both have a set of medals from those games, and Coke bought a ton of her personal footage to possibly use for commercials when the '84 games were back in LA (they didn't use it...) ... one of her best friends got a modeling contract and posed for the painting that became the "Columbia Lady" for Columbia motion pictures.

How about some more Olympic stuff? A cousin was in the trials to compete for the year we boycotted the Russian games. When I worked at a local hospital, one the guys in my department was a diver for the Belgian Olympic team. Here at the college, our former TV studio manager was the coach for the US Fencing team. One of our instructors got a medal in a long distance running event for Jamaica.

When I was learning to program at an after school program in the early 80s one of my classmates - Craig Silverstein - was a few seats down. He applied himself in high school (I smoked dope and chased girls) and went to college at Stanford, and was approached about forming a company. He denied, and opted to become the first employee instead. The company? Google.

My wife used to help Andrew Copeland (Sister Hazel) with his homework, and I've gotten fishing advice from Tom Petty's father.

dinner with maya angelou

dinner with many astronauts

used to play golf with R Lee Ermey (his locker was next to mine at the country club)

next door neighbor is the guitarist for rob zombie, john lowery (john5)...we talk about cars.

Sigourney Weaver was in a cafe with Giovanni Ribisi and she kept REALLY looking at me. I was expecting someone to deliver me a note saying "Ms Weaver would like to see you in her hotel room at 7:00 sharp." Strangely no note arrived :( I look like lots of people and she maybe mistakenly thought I was someone important :rolleyes:

My industry is entertainment related so my list is way too long.

Probably a blip compared to Hugh's though.

Met Imelda Marcos in 1986. She knew my grandma and used to come over.

No, I didn't see the shoes.

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My most recent fun one was hanging out with Ginger Lynn after spotting her two seats over at a sushi bar. Had a good chat with her. Met Lemmy the next night at the Rainbow. On the way out I ran into Chris Squire and Peter Criss took the photo of me with Chris.

I once had a beer with Mick Doohan......well he was in the same bar at a hotel and we were both drinking beer.....close enough for me :)

Met most of the pro golfers including Jack, Rory, Phil and Tiger!

I rode down the parking lot elevator with Mike Ditka in Chicago once. He was wearing a super bowl ring that was big as a wristwatch. I said 'nice ring'. I think he said **** you when he got off.

I see Michael Moore once in a while. Actually, I try to see around him.

Just before I wake up I see Halle Barrry.

I also watch TV sometimes.

Lots of great stories...who knew?
I have a couple more, but mine aren't as fab as all of your's.
LOL on Mick Doohan.

I'd be more interested in knowing who the important people are that I've been around and not recognized, rather than "celebrities".

I am also frequently hounded for being Pierce Brosnan. What a pain.

Met many working in and around airports...arnold palmer,kenny rogers, all of aerosmith michical jackson, dick trickle, bobby allison, bob hoover, mr rogers, .......and I went to school and played football with the Steiner bros

In 1988 I was in NYC for thanksgiving with family. I was 16 and went down to the sidewalk to have a smoke. I went back into hotel and stepped in elevator and James Hetfield and Jason Newsted of Metallica stepped in. I was a huge fan and it was just the three of us. I was in shock and couldn't say a word. I remember James seemed so tall to me. I've met or bumped into many famous people since but that was my first and ill never forget it.

People are always eye ballin' me and asking who I am. If it's a female I usually tell her I'm a body double in the porn industry. If male, my identity is classified. If questionable, 'No Ingles, no Ingles.'

Honestly Motion, you wouldn't want to be Pierce Brosnan. Have you seen pics of his fat cow wife. She's about an exact opposite of yours.

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Somewhat similar:
A client secretly took this photo of me with a tele lens the day my company dropped a bunch of Oak trees on her building site. She ask later and I granted permission to use it for a Calif. Contractor's Charity calendar back in 2008. Even though my name and company was under the photo, folks asked her how she got a shot of Jim Morrison. I didn't mind...I liked the attention. :)
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Had dinner with Bud Selig.

I was introduced to Alan Watts on his house boat in Tiburon, CA.
I met a close friend of his in an EST Seminar back in the early 70s...and yes, she was a hottie.
She secured some pure liquid LSD from him and she and I dropped (1st time for me) some on our tongues and I've not been the same since, Thank God!

My wife and I went to the Porsche Double 50 at the Glen back in 1998 (I think). Walking through the garage area on Saturday morning when Brian Redman pulled up in his rental car. I was going to take a picture and he said, "Wait a minute, let's do this right", had my wife come over, put his arm around her and let me take a great picture :)

Redman counts as a superstar to me.

We are friends with Mike McCready (lead guitarist from Pearl Jam). He and his wife Ashley are great. Very civic minded folks who do a lot for the Seattle community.

We've run into Amitabh Bachchan in New Delhi. Not a name anyone in the US would know, but he's a god in Bollywood.

LOL, yeah, I've had that pic of him and his wife emailed to me before!

These two flew on my CH-47:

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My wife knows Jim Parsons (Big Bang) from college, before he was famous. We partied quite a few times in the day, they have met up on the infrequent times he comes to Houston.

Met and spoke with George Harrison at length about racing. We were in the Marlboro suite at Phoenix International Raceway.

I can see Morrison, but not Jim, more Van.

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When I was a kid in the early 60s, my Dad was a professor of Nuclear Engineering at MIT. I didn't realize it at the time, but he had lots of his MIT professors over for BBQs. Charles Townsend, Harold Edgerton, both Nobel prize winners, one for the laser, the other for high speed strobes. Also had a few Russians over on a scientific peacekeeping thing including Yuri Gagarin, first man in space. I didn't realize the significance because I was like 8 years old.

Love reading these posts...amazing. Historical.

Do you have a strangely oblong-shaped head, maybe a second set of teeth that slide out from inside your mouth?

Back in the mid eighties I ran the dailies for the production crew on a movie called Morgan Stewart's coming home, Lots of names in that box office flop but the best part was when John Cryer was *****ing me out for something and following me out of my studio to my car. I was going to a turkey shoot that night and had a Toyota Celcia full of shotguns. He backed off real fast when I opened the door to get in and all he saw were "big guns" as he told it. He was about as much of a douche as Paul Gleason, who by the way doesn't act in the part of an a55hole, he just speaks

Yeah that's me. They liked having me as an extra on Alien because they didn't need to make me up each day.

I once mentioned shaking hands with a former POTUS and the shi!t hit the fan. So I won't mention that. Did shake hands with Rudy Giuliani though. And Bush Sr.

No big deal to stand in a line to shake someone's hand and get a pic. As a youngster I ate lunch with Andy Devine and sat on the horse James Arness rode in Gunsmoke. This was on the set. I was pretty wide eyed. It really didn't set in until the next show aired.

I'm around actors (Movie and TV Stars; whatever) all day long, I don't hardly know who they are, and don't really care. A few of the young new ones are pleasant enough, I guess.

I had a nice long breakfast with, and gave a ride in my 911 to, the very talented keyboardist and steel guitarist from Big Head Todd and The Monsters. :cool:

heh heh. That's the first thing that popped into my PPOT-addled mind, too.

Got to meet Dave Matthews at the Sagamore Resort on Lake George NY a few summers back. We were there for the TSBL (Tri State Boxster League) rally in the Adirondacks and he had a concert at SPAC (Saratoga Performing Arts Center). One of my sons was getting something from the buffet and a llttle boy came up and grabbed a handful of hair from his leg. Mr Matthews came trotting over to get his kid and we all ended up chatting for bit. Cool guy and nice family.