I've met Ted Nugent several times, and even have a signed photo with him when I was about 10 or so.
Um... my friends met Chris Farley in Chicago before he died, they were at a bar and he came over and had some drinks with them. That makes me famous by association right???
"I find the most errotic part of the woman is the boobies." - Zap Brannigan
I have a couple of claims to fame. Some intentional, some otherwise, some still highly classified. Here's one that was unintentional.
1.) Inadvertently in last episode of Magnum PI. Worked at a photolab in Hawaii. Saw the StarWagons and the "Robin"series sequenced and license plated cars often seen in the show (i.e.: Magnum's Ferrari, Higgins' Jaguar, TC's VW Vanagon, etc... plus several "Robin" plated cars that I never saw in the series (Porsche 928, Excalibur, etc...)) on my way to work at Photo Finish Hawaii (1142 Bethel Street (Owners John and Pat Tomita)). Was doing quality control work (largely consisting of just flipping through the pictures looking for chemical or exposure issues) when suddenly Tom Selleck walks up to the big plate glass window and just smiles at us. I was something like 3 feet from him and it was the first of several times I encountered him during the several years that I in Honloulu. So like an idiot I just sat there mouth agape, flipping through photos, but looking at Tom. Same with my co-worker Marty. We actually made it to the on-air finale and we look like complete idiots. [For any Magnophiles out there it is the scene where Magnum is following a man following a woman that Magnum believes can lead him to find his daughter, Lily. but he is following her from across the street. She stops at a balloon vendor (like there is any such thing outside a zoo or amusement park in reality) and Magnum is watching her in the reflection of our plate glass window.] We looked like complete idiots and I got razzed pretty good by some of my Reserve buddies from the 100th Bn/442nd infantry at Ft. DeRussy. This was largely because I was an extra in three episodes of the first season of Tour of Duty, a Vietnam epic that was initially filmed in Hawaii.
It's all true, my friend. The highly classified one took them 10 years to acknowledge that I was correct. We were testing a new piece of hearability equipment. My target was a Command & Control structure of a major foreign power. I happened to see in traffic that it did something it had never done before, which significantly amplified it's threat to us, and in essence made it a modern military machine. I forwarded the KL up the chain, which as you know is supposed to be on the President's desk within 10 minutes, but it kept coming back marked "Not Credible." I had the full transcript, I had the Component C3 unit bringing up field units and then out of the blue it started bringing up field units of other Components and they responded in kind. I researched the living crap out of it before forwarding the KL. All units in all components used known and expected call signs and frequencies, they RDFd to known positions for them, respectively, and I had valid traffic for all of them. I even brought in Analysts from other missions and components in-house myself to verify that what I was looking at was real. They all concurred that it was legitimate and that we were witnessing something truly unique, and scary, because of the signifcant increase in threat this represented. After 10 attempts the SOC finally told me to give up. 10 years later, on the same date, the target did it again and I was recognized for the ident.
It wasn't the first or last time that I made a major discovery, also with that same piece of test equipment. One of the discoveries involved the CIA (not the NSA as one would expect with MI) coming in-house, debriefing us, confiscating all known materials (they should have checked under the floor) and immediately incinerating them. This incident involved a slew of countries,a POW-MIA investigation, and an election 1992 Presidential Contender copied in foreign traffic as a participant. Turns out the Contender was a CIA man. Oddly enough, or perhaps not oddly at all, all 3 were.
I was a damn good analyst, G_Man, and my CW3 told me I was the best in the facility, which was why he got pissed off at me when I snuck out the door on the early out.
Location: Cowering in the dark recesses of my mind, or Ohio!
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You'll love this. I got dunked on by Shaquille O'Neal at an AAU National basketball tournament. I made the USA Today sports page. I literally thought I would I died of embarrassment. He was huge even as a teenager.
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