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sjrm
Joined: 27 Jul 2005
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- Tom Green (he's an a**hole in real life)
- Alanis Morisette
- Joe Clarke (Former PM of Canada)
- Colin James
- Jennifer Batten (Michael Jackson's guitarist)
- Jean Charest (Former Premier of Quebec)
- Marc Garneau (First Canadian in space)
- Van Halen (whole band, during the 10 minutes Gary Cherone was lead singer, no David Lee Roth)
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la pi�ce de la resistance...
NATALIE PORTMAN
I met her when she was in T.O. for the Toronto International Film Festival. She was shopping downtown and I said hello. We talked for a few minutes and I invited her for a drink and she said yes.  She told me about her press schedule and plans to go back and visit Israel after the junket was over. Very nice person in real life! Exactly like you see her on the big screen. |
I can see Tom Green being an A-hole, but I never liked him anyway. I always thought he was an idiot. |
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Thewhiteyalbum
Joined: 13 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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David Lange twice- super nice guy
Peter Blake belonged to the same yacht club as me, but each time I met him I was a bit over-awed to have anything sensible to say. I was 20 on a yoof development racing programme, he had just won every single leg of the Whitbred round the world race. He shouted us beers every now and again, 'cos he knew we were all on the bones of our arse. Sweet dude. I cried when he was murdered.
Anton Oliver (up close the dude looks like he carved outta rock!) and a buncha other All Blacks. NZ is a small place- most celebs are pretty easy to meet if thats yr buzz. |
My best mate at the time was living in Wellington. His roomate was John Toogood (Shihad). John would stay in his room all day playing guitar, he wouldn't even come out for q smoke with us. He said he was gonna be famous.
Graham Brazier saw me stagger out of the bathroom and asked me how the hell I was gonna enjoy the Hello sailor show being as wasted as I was. I enjoyed the show.
AJ Hacket (The Bungee inventor guy) was waiting behind me to use a cash machine in Malaysia. He was there to set up a new Bungee jump venture.
Tim and Neil Finn came to dinner once. My Mom went to school with Tim. |
who was your flatmate? I was good mates with the Shihad guys for years and prolly know him. NZ can be frightening small.. |
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DaeguKid
Joined: 09 Dec 2006
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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-Canadian Senator Allan J. MacEachren- I sat on the Board of Govenors with him at my uni. A fossil but a damn nice guy.
-Larry Kelly-sports agent. met him the sameway and he helped get me a great summer job.
-Gruff Rhys-lead singer of the Super Furry Animals. I worked in his neighborhood. One of the most humble fellas ever...once told me he got some new wheels...i asked "a Beamer? Mercedes? Audi?" He replies...."no way, you see parking in this area! Sucks! I got a serious kick ass mountain bike!
-Rhys Ifans-told me the funniest story ever while he was in Canada filming the Shipping News...read below.
-Annie Lennox-I was her personal driver for her, her mom and two daughters for a week. Coolest person ever! Got drunk with her one night too!
-Mike Fisher-Forward for the Ottawa Senators. One of the nicest guys going. Met him through a friend and the second time we ran into each other was at a club. He made a point to come over, said he forgot my name, but remembers when we met and how am I doing. Class act.
-Partied with Big Sugar twice-Gordie Johnson is an a-hole but the bass player with the dreds is a top shelf guy!
The Rhys Ifans story...so im working at this hotel/bar in Wales and he comes in with some friends at midnight on a Tuesday night. Place was dead. He pulls up to the bar and asks where im from..."Canada" i say "Canada!!! I love Canada...I just got back from filming in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. What a beautiful place!" I agreed having attended uni out that way....
So he goes on...."I got a great story for you! One day we finished filming early and Kevin...Spacey that is (he said with a wink, as in that is who i role with! hilar) went for a pint at the local. So we walk in and there are only two people in the pub. The barmaid is as weathered as time and this old fella out like a light from the booze at the end of the bar. Kevin says to the bar maid 'two pints' please....She was in the middle of reading her paper with a smoke hanging out of her mouth and looks at them as if she is being bothered! She motions to the drunk at the end of the bar "Johnny bye...im getting up! Do ya wan na udder?"
"Spacey looks at her and says "lady if that guy can order a drink, IM BUYING IT!!" She snickers and says "Johnny bye...you wan na single or a double?"
"Facedown with one arm wrapped around his head and face, the other clenching his empty rum glass...he takes his glass and pounds it twice on the bar!"
"The barmaid looks at Spacey and says you owe me for two pints and a double rum and coke bye! I LOVE CANADA" Says Rhys Ifans...CLASSIC STORY!
DK
ps, i agree about the dreads vs bald guys theory... |
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sarbonn
Joined: 14 Oct 2008
Location: Michigan
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My best friend and I used to have lunch with Dom Deluise every day at McDonald's in Santa Monica, California. We met him at the department store next door (no longer there as it was turned into the Santa Monica Mall). But he recognized my friend and I used to play hide n seek in the department store, and he was always there looking for clothes. Then he used to run into us at McDonalds and then started buying us lunch every day (we were really poor back then). He was a great guy.
One day, my mom and I were at Carls Jr pretty far from there, and my mom pointed to a table (like she was being real sneaky about it) and said, "Look, there's Dom Deluise." As we got closer, Dom jumped up and said, "Duane, great to see you. Is this your lovely mother?" So we joined Dom Deluise for dinner. When we were done and on our way, my mom hit me in the arm and yelled "Why didn't you tell me you knew Dom Deluise?????"
Great times. |
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the boy next door
Joined: 08 Jun 2008
Location: next door
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 4:24 am Post subject: |
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i went to school with Celine Dion.  |
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lisac1983
Joined: 14 Dec 2008
Location: sydney, australia
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 5:29 am Post subject: |
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| the boy next door wrote: |
| i went to school with Celine Dion. |
You win, hands down  |
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Crockpot2001
Joined: 01 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 5:31 am Post subject: |
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I met Stu thomson at a BMX race when I was a kid. I about SOILED myself. You will never understand.
I WILL fertilize myself if I meet Sarah McLaughlin. She ain't so cute but her songs get me. Maybe you undertand.
I was at a very formal NY eve party outside Boulder, CO in 1994. The topic of snowboarding came up and many participants were not yet hip to anything outside of normal skiing. 30 minutes or so later a posse of 4 fully geared up snowboarders trudges in boots, bibs, and everything. Everyone looks at my girlfriend and I since we likely invited the "punks". The owner of the house threw open his arms and ran over to the guests yelling "JACKSON!". It was jackson Brown, his son and their two 18 year old girlfriends. Mind you this was post Daryl Hanna (I think). My girlfriend who was 34 at the time gushes about how she loves his tunes and has all of his records (total f'n lie).
Skip forward 2 hours. I am out on the deck, sick of the party and out walks snow punk number 1. He asked to join me as we watched the snow fall. I told him I saw him on GM American and was not blown away by the tune. He blinked once then we continued to BS about boarding and then mountain biking. He just needed to escape. We talked for probably 30 minutes until some ninny stuck her head out the door, brandished a kazoo, and asked Jackson to come in to play kazoo at the strike of midnight. We both went in, covered in snow. His life is not one I would want. |
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roadwork
Joined: 24 Nov 2008
Location: Goin' up the country
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 4:21 pm Post subject: |
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Stu Thomson = Redline Master. I had a Redline when I was in junior high school. ACS Z-rims, Shimano 3-pc cranks...I miss that bike
I used to work at this deli in the upscale part of Portland, Oregon and Danny Glover used to come in there quite a bit. One day my friend, who would shoot his mouth off without thinking, asked Glover "You know, Lethal Weapon 1 and 2 were pretty good, and even Lethal Weapon 3 was okay, but did you really have to go and make Lethal Weapon 4?"
Glover just glared at him and walked away. The next day the head chef calls my friend over and standing there next to the chef is Mr. Glover himself. The chef made my friend formally apologize to Glover. The strange thing is, that sort of started a bond with them. Anytime Danny Glover came in, my friend would go up and talk to him for 5 or 10 minutes. |
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sjrm
Joined: 27 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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| the boy next door wrote: |
| i went to school with Celine Dion. |
And you didn't shoot her when you had the chance?! |
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the boy next door
Joined: 08 Jun 2008
Location: next door
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| Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 6:50 am Post subject: |
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| sjrm wrote: |
| the boy next door wrote: |
| i went to school with Celine Dion. |
And you didn't shoot her when you had the chance?! |
no. she was 16 and i was 13 at the time. went to the same church, too... smoked a joint with her before service in the church basement and my young, handsome ass lost my virginity to her that fateful sunday, bloody sunday, baby... |
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kcs0001
Joined: 24 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 10:49 am Post subject: |
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I met that "Mini Me" guy Vern in the LAX international terminal bar waiting for an LAX-ICN flight. He was on his way to Hong Kong to film a commercial apparently. He was beyond drunk when they wheeled him out on some new-fangled carriage/wheel chair type of contraption.
Nice enough guy though. |
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RJjr
Joined: 17 Aug 2006
Location: Turning on a Lamp
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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Hakeem Olojuwan - met him at a autograph signing |
I got Olajuwon's autograph at some fan event at the Final Four in San Antonio last year.
My parents have a photo of me with former University of Tennessee player/coach Johnny Majors, but I was so young at the time, I can't remember meeting him.
In 1984, my dad took my twin brother and I to the NCAA Final Four in Lexington, KY. We had perfect seats for the championship game... until my dad ran into Alabama basketball coach Wimp Sanderson. Dad gave him my brother's seat, so my bro was sitting on my lap the whole second half while dad talked with Wimp.
In 1985, UT was playing Alabama in Birmingham. Former Alabama QB Kenny Stabler was eating breakfast in a restaurant in the Hyatt (now a Sheraton). My dad interrupted his meal, but Stabler was polite about it. Dad asked Stabler if I could see his Super Bowl ring, and instead of just showing his ring still on his hand, Stabler took it off and slid it across the table to me.
In 1991, I got Shaquille O'Neal's autograph in the lobby of the Stouffers Hotel (now Rennaissance, I think) in Nashville.
A year later in Birmingham, Tennessee player Carlus Groves fouled Shaq really hard and LSU coach Dale Brown ran out onto the court and threw a punch at Groves and a brawl ensued with the whole crowd shouting, "Throw Dale out! Throw Dale out!" The very next day, my dad, my brother, and I were on the road heading to watch the basketball games and my brother said, "There's the LSU team." Sure enough, their team bus was in the interstate lane to the right of ours. As we passed the bus, Dale Brown was standing in the front of the bus. I laughed and flipped him a bird as he looked right at me, but his facial expression didn't change at all.
I went to a summer camp at the US Naval Academy in 1993. Their basketball coach, Don DeVoe, was at the University of Tennessee throughout the 1980s and my father wanted to speak to him, so we went to his office and talked for a half hour to an hour.
In 1996, when I was a student at the University of Tennessee, I had an International Economics class with quarterback Peyton Manning. A few months earlier, UT had beaten Alabama for the first time since the day in 1985 when I ran into Stabler. The '95 game was a blowout with Manning throwing and running for touchdowns, so I spent the whole fourth quarter going around the stadium in the Bama sections picking up game programs and ticket stubs to sell years down the road. I left the stadium with as many as I could carry. I took one of the programs in mint condition to class one day and got it autographed by Manning.
In 2004, I was getting some routine maintenance on my car at the Jiffy Lube in Hendersonville, TN, a suburb of Nashville. It was summer going into fall, and it was the first unseasonably cool day. I was in their waiting room in the back of their shop drinking coffee and reading the newspaper while they were working on my car. As I was waiting, I noticed someone walking to the shop who I immediately recognized as country singer Lorrie Morgan. She had a huge beige purse. So big, in fact, that she sat it down and pulled a sweatshirt out of it. As the purse was on the ground and she was getting the sweatshirt out, I had a clear view down her shirt. I wish I could say that I saw nipples, but those were unfortunately well-hidden by her bra. Still, it was as awesome as it was surreal. After she put the sweatshirt on over the shirt she already had on, she noticed me sitting in the waiting room. I think it may have dawned on her what happened because a little "well that sneaky bastard" smile came on her face before she walked into the work bay.
Still, none of that even comes close in comparison to seeing a totally hot non-celebrity classmate of mine working at a strip club, with her rubbing her boobs in my face and my buddy going crazy waving a $1 bill at her yelling, "YEEEEAAAAHHHH baby, you know what daddy likes!!" I had eaten dinner with her and another lady at Long John Silvers just two days previous and had class with her again on Monday. |
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