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[peppermint]

-become a mod,
-throw a pie in President Roh's face
-lie and claim to be a celebrity
-this should give you some inspiration.

[marktoronto]

Endoftheworld: I'm good at nothing, that's why it would be such a challenge to become famous.
Anyway, I've changed my mind, I don't want to be famous anymore. I've decided to live alone in the mountains and only come down when the craving for Korean Barbecue is over-bearing.

[endofthewor1d]

that's a hell of an about face you've done there, marktoronto. famous to hermit in a couple of days' time.

[marktoronto]

Yeah, I know. I had time to think about becoming famous over the weekend. These were my thoughts:
1. Hmm, how can I become famous?
2. I'm hungry . . . . what should I eat?
3. I feel like Korean Barbecue, maybe I'll go next door.
4. That means I have to get dressed, maybe I'll order Pizza Hut
5. Wait, what was I thinking about?
6. Oh yah, should I live in the mountains?
7. The air is cleaner and I don't have to deal with crowded subways
8. OK, I'm moving to the mountains.

[helly]

I don't think I'd recommend taking the Naked Man of Berkeley course of action.

To better understand the story, it would be better to get the (ok, not really but kind-of) full story from one who was there. I'll give it to you straight from the mouth of one who took Russian History with him sophomore year at Berkeley (and in said class I first took notice of his road to nakedness.)

Andrew Martinez, better known as the Naked Guy (not man), did not start out as the Naked Guy. Actually, he was simply taking advantage of the weather that Berkeley offers. For months, he simply rode his skateboard to class and around campus without his shirt on. Tall, dark, broad-shouldered and handsome, he attracted his fair share of attention.

One day, while sitting in class waiting for one of the dryer professors on campus to arrive, Andrew Martinez (not yet naked) strolled into the lecture hall in a bright clean pair of tighty-whities and sat down next to me. Causing much a stir amongst the students, he didn't seem to care much. I leaned over and said "I see you've moved to the next level." He responded "I'm not done."

He went about 2 weeks walking around in his underwear, a pair of sandals, and a backpack (incidentally, he always wore a backpack, even when he became naked). He did cause a bit of a stir but we at Berkeley were fairly used to a host of interesting characters (Rick Star, the Hate Man, Y-Shu Ah, Hate Boy, Ball Man..........there was even a calendar with a nut-of-the-month).

One day, the pants came off and he became the Naked Guy. Strolling naked around campus and the city. News coverage, police citations, school warnings. While cases were pending, he started to wear a hankerchief as a loin-cloth but this didn't last long. I believe at one point he was expelled but then readmitted.

He spurred a wave of nakedness in the community. The old Berkeley hippies shed their clothes. Fat and unattractive men and women in their 40s and 50s took to galavanting up and down Telegraph Ave. Whelan's Smoke Shop, where I was employed at the time, refused entry to any of the hairy monsters (except THE Naked Guy because the owner thought he was hot).

Then, it kind of ended. The press lost interest. Andrew put his clothes on. The hippies went back to hempcloth and birkenstocks. An era came to a close.

A few years later, a reporter caught up with Andrew Martinez, formerly known as the Naked Guy, shooting pool at a local bar. When asked what he'd been up to lately, he responded, "smoking a lot of pot."

[Butterfly]

Learn to speak Korean, and make a complete clown of yourself on English language study programs on national television, poncing around and letting everyone laugh at you whilst you obliviously grin inanely at the camera and act like a pratt. You'll be a star!

[Circus Monkey]

[Tiger Beer]

[kangnamdragon]

[Butterfly]

[Gladiator]

Come on Butterfly, I can't think of anything more beneficial to a future career than being a human repeat machine on Korean TV. Can't you see the mileage it'll put on your future CV?

[Gladiator]

Hari Soo broke new ground and paved the way for Korean transgender celebrities. Can any one imagine the (tawdry) novelty of a waygookin on TV, speaking Korean AND a transexual? I'd say that's a fairly unassailable niche wouldn't you? As Korean entertainment TV has no taste boundaries I can see nothing but massive earning potential there.

Excuse me, but I have to get back to work now.

[mithridates]

You could go off to Chejudo, live there for three years and learn the dialect perfectly, move to Seoul and refuse to speak to them in their tongue. Speaking in a dialect trips people out. Now they're the ones struggling to keep up with you! A few months later you're famous for no special reason besides the fact that you talk a bit different from normal folk.

[helly]

So, what did you decide on? Where should we be looking to check out the newest foreign talent?

[gang ah jee]

a foreign hermit could easily become famous in korea, given the right PR company. it's not a bad idea at all.