[quote]Jack Urboady wrote:
I used to be a doorman at a top swish Glasgow restaraunt and met my fair share of celebrities. Some were nice as pie and others were total cunts.
KD Lang - Totally up herself and reeked of bad attitude. Looks like a fucking dude as well.
Helena Christiansen - Hot as fuck but a fucking rude cow. Didn’t even leave me a tip. Even Z listers leave tips but this uber babe turned whorebag was on some superior shit. Beautiful eyes though.[/quote]
Nobody owes you anything.
A friend of mine has met Jerry Rice and said the guy is super nice and polite and his children are very well mannered.
My ex’s father did valet for the Hilton in SF and would frequently see Barry Bonds and said the guy is an asshole. I met a chef at a teppan steak house who is an amazing artist and did some sketches of Giants players; said of all the ones whose pictures he’d done and that had come to eat there, only Barry Bonds didn’t sign his sketch.
A friend met Conan O’brien and said the guy is hilarious.
Robin Williams and Sean Penn live up here and are both supposedly very polite and nice guys.
Clint Eastwood is allegedly a jerk; mom’s friend saw him at a pharmacy and when she went up to him to say hello he scowled at her and looked the other way while she was talking.
A college classmate of mine is friends with Milla Jovovich (their families know each other) and said she is a sweetheart and really funny and polite to everyone when she’s been out with Milla.
Sat next to Willard Scott (weather guy on tv) on a flight from DC to St Louis once. Had me in tears the entire flight, funniest MF I’ve ever met.
[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:
Robin Williams and Sean Penn live up here and are both supposedly very polite and nice guys.
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I assume you live in Marin, what part? My earlier story about James Hetfield (Metallica) was in Novato.
I’ve met quite a few australian celebrities…probably the most interesting one was ms universe 2004 at the logies this year(equivalent of the emmy’s i guess), she seemed nice but she had handlers with her almost the whole time…spoke to her for about 2-3 minutes, everything she said was almost like it was read from a script. For being miss universe in real life I’d expect her too look better, she was tall for a girl but no different from anything else you could find at a night club
I’ve also met scribe(NZ rapper) cool guy, me and a mate went real early too a show of his which also had talib kweli, he came out the doors and there were a few other people standing around and didn’t notice him or say anything. I said whats up and he asked me and my mate if we would like to go out the back and have a beer. Thought that was pretty sweet
Don Johnson…Arrogant, vain, dismissive of the “little people”…
I met Scott and Rick steiner when they came to my town ( their hometownn) to compete. Scotty knew who my mom was and they talked for a while. I just said hi lmao. Up in MI theres not many clebs…well I do know josh Mcmillan…though he is not really famous out of the PL world
[quote]Blacksnake wrote:
Don Johnson…Arrogant, vain, dismissive of the “little people”…[/quote]
I believe every word of it. Don Johnson doesn’t seem like a good human being.
[quote]Blacksnake wrote:
Don Johnson…Arrogant, vain, dismissive of the “little people”…[/quote]
Don Johnson went to my highschool and grew up just down the road from where I grew up.
When I was a kid I met Barry Sanders at a Cincinnati Reds baseball game (true story). Atleast he said he was Barry Sanders. I felt like a jackass having him sign my Mizuno baseball mit.
3 weeks ago I met Cris Carter at the Ohio State / USC football game. Class act.
Shit, if we’re counting some of these people as celebrities… I met Chris Berman at a shitty mexican restaurant at like 3 in the morning. He was wearing a hawaiin shirt and drinking with another guy and a woman about his age. He was pretty cool. Won tickets to a show where People Under the Stairs were headlining. One of the opening acts was Gym Class Heroes. To this day they’re one of -if not the- best live bands I’ve ever seen. On my way to the pisser I ran into the lead singer who’s at least 6’7" and MAYBE 180lbs. He sat there and shot the shit for a good solid 10 minutes. I told him me and my boy thought they reminded us of the Pharcyde and he was genuinely appreciative of the compliment. Bought the cd at the show and only kinda liked one song. A few months later they’re all over MTV and the radio. Have played ball with a handful of NBA players [and NFL players like McNabb who was as nice as can be] and most were pretty cool. Shawn Kemp was cool but completely full of shit. I caught a dunk on the break and he told me I had hops. I said thanks and walked to the water fountain. Some guy walked up to him and asked him what his vert was, and Kemp replied “54”. I’ll never understand why the Reignman felt the need to lie like that.
At the Rock the Bells concert in SF a couple years ago (the one with Rage and the Wu-Tang), I had a couple of beers with Black Thought from The Roots. We were chillin’ at the beer stand next to the stage during Wu-Tang’s performance and for some reason, no one really noticed him, even though he was wearing the same shit he’d been wearing on the stage 2 hours beforehand. He was pretty cool, but he didn’t buy me any beer.
Back in 2000, I was at a SF Giants game at AT&T Park where they have the chainlink fences in right field and you can stand about ten feet from the players shagging in the outfield during batting practice. Anyways, the Giants were playing the A’s, and even though it was 2 hrs before the game, I’m fucking hammered and I start screaming a bunch of gibberish at any A’s player within earshot. Matt Stairs came up to the fence and starts jawing at me and I’m jawing at him for about ten minutes, just talkin’ a bunch of shit back and forth. He couldn’t keep a straight face though 'cuz everytime Shawn Estes would run by (he was getting some cardio in running along the warning track) I stop what I was yelling at Stairs and start calling Estes a headcase, even though he was a Giant and I was clearly a Giants fan.
My dad is a fucking mirror image of Harrison Ford. I’ve seen probably 20 or 30 people come up to him over the years really nervous-like and everything and ask him if he’s Han Solo or Indiana Jones or some shit. He usually just tells them that he isn’t but that he gets that a lot, but a couple of times when the people approaching him looked like real fucking space cadets, he told them that he was indeed Harrison Ford and gave them an autograph. He even signed a guy’s shirt “Han Solo, may the Force be with you”.
artw- thats too bad about dimaggio he was a good friend of my grandpas and he was always a class act i heard from family but that could be bc they were friends. he was probably too old and cenile when you talked to him anyways.
my mom redid michael jordans kitchen and she said he was never there but from what some of the workers said he was kind of a prick. she also said 24-48 hrs prior to entering his home any and all visitors had to give notice and 2 forms of identification
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
Both my oldest brother and a good buddy have met Matthew Mconaghay [I know that’s not spelled right] and both said he’s the definition of jerk-off. I’ve played ball with a handful of NBA players and most were pretty cool. My dad used to have lunch with Chuck Norris about once a year and he’s a really nice guy. I don’t think I personally have had any bad celebrity experiences.
EDIT: Scratch that. When I was like 10 my neighbor tried to get Warren Moons autograph at a swim meet. Moon asked if he had 20 bucks, to which my neighbor laughed. Moon asked “does it look like I’m joking?” and told him to scram. What kind of douchebag would charge a 12 year old kid $20 for an autograph?[/quote]
Weird. Back in my memorabilia collecting days, I wrote him and he sent me back an autographed picture. It looks legit. But who knows.
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
Some guy walked up to him and asked him what his vert was, and Kemp replied “54”. I’ll never understand why the Reignman felt the need to lie like that.[/quote]
Maybe slightly inaccurate, but not necessarily an outright lie. Squat Dr. on here as a running vert of 51" if I recall correctly. I wouldn’t be surprised if Kemp hit 54" on the run. Maybe that’s what he was thinking of.
[quote]brighttbrad wrote:
WhiteFlash wrote:
Both my oldest brother and a good buddy have met Matthew Mconaghay [I know that’s not spelled right] and both said he’s the definition of jerk-off. I’ve played ball with a handful of NBA players and most were pretty cool. My dad used to have lunch with Chuck Norris about once a year and he’s a really nice guy. I don’t think I personally have had any bad celebrity experiences.
EDIT: Scratch that. When I was like 10 my neighbor tried to get Warren Moons autograph at a swim meet. Moon asked if he had 20 bucks, to which my neighbor laughed. Moon asked “does it look like I’m joking?” and told him to scram. What kind of douchebag would charge a 12 year old kid $20 for an autograph?
Weird. Back in my memorabilia collecting days, I wrote him and he sent me back an autographed picture. It looks legit. But who knows.[/quote]
Apparently you owe Warren a Jackson.
[quote]eic wrote:
WhiteFlash wrote:
Some guy walked up to him and asked him what his vert was, and Kemp replied “54”. I’ll never understand why the Reignman felt the need to lie like that.
Maybe slightly inaccurate, but not necessarily an outright lie. Squat Dr. on here as a running vert of 51" if I recall correctly. I wouldn’t be surprised if Kemp hit 54" on the run. Maybe that’s what he was thinking of. [/quote]
Uh, squat Dr is a fraud dude. If Shawn Kemp had a 54" vert he’s be able to shit in the rim. Just to clarify, Squat Dr is a fraud.
Back in the day, I got backstage for a pre-concert meet and greet with Blink 182 before their show with Green Day in San Antonio. I only got to meet Mark and Tom; Travis was behind the restricted area. I think that’s kind of dickish, but whatever. Tom and Mark were pretty cool. They signed my CDs. Both were tall motherfuckers, though. Like maybe 6’4"? Mark was flirting with my girlfriend at the time, which I thought was pretty sweet.
When I was in law school at Nebraska, Tommy Lee was filming his show where he goes back to school. I remember they locked the reading room at the law library because Tommy Lee was taking his final for a class.
Also, I got to meet and talk to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but I doubt anyone on here knows who she is.
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
eic wrote:
WhiteFlash wrote:
Some guy walked up to him and asked him what his vert was, and Kemp replied “54”. I’ll never understand why the Reignman felt the need to lie like that.
Maybe slightly inaccurate, but not necessarily an outright lie. Squat Dr. on here as a running vert of 51" if I recall correctly. I wouldn’t be surprised if Kemp hit 54" on the run. Maybe that’s what he was thinking of.
Uh, squat Dr is a fraud dude. If Shawn Kemp had a 54" vert he’s be able to shit in the rim. Just to clarify, Squat Dr is a fraud.[/quote]
What makes you say AC is a fraud? Because you don’t believe his numbers or is there some other objective proof?
Also, I’m sure you’re exaggerating, but a 54" running jump would not get Kemp’s asshole even remotely close to the rim.
The rim is 10’ or 120" high. Kemp is 6’10" (82") and assuming his asshole is roughly half way up (41"), that means it would be 95" high at a running jump of 54".