Most famous person you've ever spent time with

[BigDaddyShoo]

On my honeymoon in Vegas, my wife and I were waiting for a table at the noodle bar at Mandalay Bay and we met Steven Tyler of Aerosmith finishing up his bowl of soup. My wife damn near geeked out but held her composure enough to talk with him for a few minutes and got him to pose for a few pictures with us. He was pretty down-to-earth and didn't have any signs of superstar snobbiness. He even signed a menu & placemat for us. As we were eating, my wife half-jokingly said (pretty loudly) "Where's Joe Perry?!" and low and behold, he pops his head up from a booth a few tables down and we looked at each other akwardly. We got a picture with Joe too, but he wasn't nearly as personable as Steven was.

[tizzod]

There's been a few over the years. Burges Meridith had owned a house on the hudson river in Nyack NY. It was a great spot to fish, except the grounds keeper and security guard would chase you off the property. The grounds keeper started yelling at me one day, and instead of running off the property, I ran out into the water. He insisted I had to vacate the area, and I insisted they didn't own the river and I could fish from the water. As this was going on, here comes Mr Meridith laughing his butt off. He told the grounds keeper to go back to work, and called me onto shore. I recogonized him right off the bat, and we chatted for a while. He told me that I could fish there any time, and would inform the security people and grounds keepers.

A few times I was there, he came down and hung out with me, and we would just shoot the breese. Hell of a nice guy.

That is awesome. Glad to know ole Burgess was a cool guy.

Hung out with Jared the bass player from the Bloodhound Gang. He brought me and my bro backstage to drink and hang out. My bro kinda knows him. That was pretty cool. Kinda rough because they were sponsored by Jager.... and they like their fun time (!) but what I remember was a great time.

I used to have sex with an ex-Redskin's ex-wife when they were newly separated! Does that count?

Met Prince Charles too! He's a little guy. Anti-climactic, for the most part.

I'm sure there have been a few more. The drummer from Stryper ignored everyone with backstage passes to talk to me and my friends through a chain-link fence at Merriweather one night. That was cool. Then the guitarist walked all the way out to the parking lot just to hang and talk with us for a few minutes. Super cool dudes. I remember he was pleading with security to let us backstage, that we were his special guests even though we had no backstage passes, but security wasn't having it. I found it amusing. The raging Christian (allegedly) lying through his teeth to try to get me and my friends backstage...

[Burgold]

Edit: Oh yeah, I was a stand in for John Cleese in that movie The Jungle Book with Brandon Lee. John was a riot, actually had dinner with him on the set. Really nice guy. I also met the lady that was the stunt woman for Michelle Phiffer in the Batman movie , you know the one that M. Phiffer played catwoman in.

I got to meet John too with my work at WAMU. I second your opinion. He is a great guy. Michelle Pfiefer is one of my all-time hollywood crushes. I am officially jealous!

[Burgold]

[QUOTE=georgiaredskin2]Mostly sightings really.......


Ronald and Nancy Reagan came to the opening of the U.S. Olympic Festival in LA where I swam, and I got a picture of Ron up close and half of Nancy.

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You were an Olympic swimmer that is majorly cool. What event did you swim? I got to play volleyball once with a guy was an Olympic Gold winner for the U.S. once. He works at Special Olympics now here in D.C. We took one game from his squad (out of three total) Highlight, I actually blocked a spike of his (I'm 5'6 which makes it even cooler) Lowlight, after we won the first game and got up a little on the second, he started turning it on and really blasted me a couple of times

[Midnight Judges]

David Garrard was friends with the QB for my intramural flag football team. He actually came to one of our games and coached us up a little. That dude is a class act and a super friendly guy. At the time he was the starting QB for our college team and he takes the time to go to our little intramural thing. Awesome. We won it all that year.

I met Mike O'Meara from the Don and Mike show. He was freakin hilarious. I told him how funny I thought his Russel Crow imitation was and he went off saying all sorts of Autralian stereotypes and I was rolling on the floor laughing.

Last year at the Dallass game in Dallass after the game I was waiting outside by the Redskins team busses and Gregg Williams was talking to some family so I didn't interrupt. He was jokingly bragging about how his sport coat had his name embroidered on the inside pocket. When he was walking away I said "Coach Williams, we hope you stay in Washington for a long time." and he actually turned around pointed at me and said "I will."

I also shook Lavar's hand that day. He looked humbled but was very courtious.

[skinsfanevan]

I met Jeff Fisher on a flight from LAX to BWI (we had a stop in nashville) and I was talking to him after we landed in nashville until my dad woke up, saw him, and went "GO REDSKINS! WE'RE GOING TO BEAT TENNESSEE !!" and Jeff Fisher gave us a disgusted look and walked off the plane....

well, we beat tennessee that year

[BayouBrave86]

My best friend's sister used to play for the Washington Freedom, she is pretty smoking. She's now an assisstant coach for the women's team at Stanford. Not much, I know, but still pretty cool. She's actually really good friends with Byron Leftwich because they do alot of charity work together for D.C. and my best friend got to go down to Jacksonville for the Jacksonville-Indianapolis game a few years ago and hang out at Byrons for the weekend and got to go to the game with some great seats.

Met John Vought (sp) my freshman year at LSU, while they were filming for Glory Road. He is TALL as hell. Had a picture taken with Arnold Schwartzeneger (sp) when I was little. My mom worked at the governor's mansion in Jackson, Mississippi and he was visiting Gov. Fordice at the time, I guess doing the Republican promotion deal.

[PokerPacker]

i was at Ashburn Ice Arena and i met Mark Tinordi who was coaching a kids hockey team. he's a pretty cool guy.

[wshngtn1]

Probably the best of all was being in the Korn cage during the Korn concert and having Jonathan Davis sing "Blind" while standing about 1 foot in front of me. What a great freaking show.

Sweet...I tihnk they did that cage thing for a whole tour. I remember seeing them once and they had a bunch of fans come up and fill a cage thingy behind the band. Man, those were my crazy days...I still wish I had the energy to do all that mosh pit'n.

[DjTj]

I was Stephen Hawking's waiter once about five years ago - he told me he was allergic to gluten so I told him I could take the pasta out of our beef consomme, but he didn't think that would be a good solution. Although he speaks in a computerized monotone, he sounded a little annoyed...

I guess I've met a bunch of politicians - did a summer on Capitol Hill in Dianne Feinstein's office so had a lot of close encounters with Ted Kennedy, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Pat Leahy, Paul Sarbanes, Orrin Hatch, and others ... met John Edwards and his wife several times during the 2004 campaign. Last year I met Clarence Thomas who is actually a really nice guy and a big football fan.

Earlier this year I was in Vegas with Ignatius J. and we saw Shannon Elizabeth and Nikki Hilton in the Bellagio Poker Room...

[ZoEd]

Sweet...I tihnk they did that cage thing for a whole tour. I remember seeing them once and they had a bunch of fans come up and fill a cage thingy behind the band. Man, those were my crazy days...I still wish I had the energy to do all that mosh pit'n.

That's exactly how it happened for me and my buddy. Some big dude came up and asked if we wanted to be in the cage and I was like hell yea! So it was me and my buddy with about 40 girls. What a night.

[georgiaredskin]

You were an Olympic swimmer that is majorly cool. What event did you swim? I got to play volleyball once with a guy was an Olympic Gold winner for the U.S. once. He works at Special Olympics now here in D.C. We took one game from his squad (out of three total) Highlight, I actually blocked a spike of his (I'm 5'6 which makes it even cooler) Lowlight, after we won the first game and got up a little on the second, he started turning it on and really blasted me a couple of times

Well, thanks, but fell short-I went to Olympic Trials twice at age 14 & 18 in 200 m breaststroke. I got 54th the first time and 20th the second time. The Olympic Festival is an elite annual meet that takes the top 18 & under swimmers who place at Nationals.

Wow! You blocked his spike! But that is very cool.

[Burgold]

Well, thanks, but fell short-I went to Olympic Trials twice at age 14 & 18 in 200 m breaststroke. I got 54th the first time and 20th the second time. The Olympic Festival is an elite annual meet that takes the top 18 & under swimmers who place at Nationals.

Wow! You blocked his spike! But that is very cool.

Considering I probably couldn't place in the top 100 with an outboard motor and flippers, I am very impressed. To be good enough to make it to those trials is quite an accomplishment.

[stwasm]

While I was working for a wire-service company a while back, I was able to attend the annual Radio-TV Correspondence Dinner and chatted with, both, Colin Powell and Dexter King, son of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Burgold]

Cool. I briefly met Powell at WAMU. Was very impressed with him. Shame that they ostracized the man. Meeting the son of MLK Jr. is very cool. You have definately been in contact with some world changers.