"stands out "

Just a little...

My wife Elaine Davis 42 years ago. Don

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The Names Familiar

Manson Family?

thats cool

When I was working at the Limo company I had gotten off the road for a little while and tried dispatching and reservations.

Stevie Wonders people called. They wanted a white Limo. I asked "how would he know?"

LOL

Kevin Costner, we were in a scene together in one of his movies. A real great guy.

Met and talked with Newt Gingrich at a town hall meeting. Wish he was leading the country today.

Had lunch with Bob Hoover at an airshow.

Jeana Yeagar, Dick and Burt Rutan

Pappy Boington

Chuck Yeagar

John Glenn

Clarence "Kelly" Johnson

I was on a Golf team that won a charity golf tournment in Denver and our prize was flying to an away game on the airplane with the Denver Broncos. We went to Pittsburg and I sat next to Tony Dorsett who finished his career with them. He was a great guy and he was a real person and fun to ne around.

Roman Gabriel

Redd Foxx

Jay Leno called me at work a year or so ago about a Harley but I've never met him in person.

Oh I forgot. Played paintball with Robin Williams and his two sons.

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Memory of Randy Freas-Rimfired

Sir, as a young PFC at Camp Pendleton, I briefly met Gen. O.P. Smith at a dog-and-pony show. He was the CG of the 1st MarDiv at the Chosin Reservoir.

In the mid-'90s I did some work on Kyle Petty's house on the Isle of Palms. He wasn't there, but his wife, Patty, and kids were. Very nice people.

As a reporter covering the Colorado legislature, I met a number of state senators and representatives, some of whom are now congressmen, but none famous outside their districts (and some maybe not even within). Mostly they seemed like good, conscientious people, which surprised me.

Covering the cable industry, I've met a number of high-level engineers and executive suite types, but again, nobody the average person would recognize.

Apparently I need to get out more.

Hope this helps, and Semper Fi.

Ron H.

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Wishin' don't make it so.

Around 1982, I was walking around downtown Norfolk, Virginia and stepped out into the street, thinking the way was clear. Stepped directly in front of a Mercedes sedan, the driver slammed on brakes and avoided hitting me.

I was stunned to see looking through the windshield at me none other than Jacque Cousteau, famous under sea explorer, complete with knit watch cap! He looked at me for a second, then gave me the universal hand gesture saying, "Well, are you getting out of the way?" I stepped back on the sidewalk and he went on his way.

At this time, his ship "Calypso" was home ported in Norfolk. To think I was only steps away from making history, to be run over by Jacque Cousteau....

All of them I've met in my line of work:

Gene Hackman (his Credit Card was maxed out!)
Kirk Russell
Goldy Hawn
John Oates (Hall & Oates)
Robert Wagner (really nice guy, his wife Jill St. John-not so much)
Wilford Brimley
Donny Osmond
Marie Osmond
Lance Armstrong
Don Henley
Kevin Costner (he's a cheapskate!)
John Stockton
Karl Malone

I could tell some stories about a few of them-

Humble Pie,
I have this old song in my head. "Thirty Days in the hole."]
and have it on a CD somewhere around here. Think I'll get it out .

Yep,

That's the reason for the name!

I ran for my life with Donnie Van Zant.

It was backstage at last year's 4th of July Volunteer Jam show in Blue Ash, Ohio. After the show (Shooter Jennings, 38 Special, and the Charlie Daniels Band) I went back with my buddy Spud to get some pictures and he talked shop with us for a bit, great guy!!! (shorter than I woulda thought...) We stayed there to watch the fireworks and they set off a row of huge tubes not 15 feet from where we were standing by the buses. Everybody scattered, mostly to their busese. Who planned that???

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30 days.


YouTube - Humble Pie - 30 Days In The Hole

Humble Pie bio[the Steve Marriot story].

http://www.humble-pie.net/

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WALSTIB

He would have thrown you in the trunk and you would have been next days chum. Nobody would have ever found the body.

A Medal of Honor winner, Vietnam Era. He was a Sergeant at the time, serving in Korea. A while back I looked up the citation, thanks to the internet.

Easy decision as to who was the most "Famous" person I ever met after reading that citation.

rayb

Met a few NASCAR drivers this year a Bristol, Hot Pass Jeff Gordon,Ryan Newman, Dale Jr.,Matt Kenseth and Mark Martin. Also met the cat in the hat Jack Roush. And Terry Labonte a few years ago.

And a lot of soldiers coming home from Deployment. All of them should be famous.

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SC Army National Guard

I had the honor of meeting and transporting a van full of Medal of Honor winners during their convention here a few years ago. All were friendly, unassuming, "down to earth" guys. Of lessor significance - Ricky Nelson, Johnny Cash, and Randy Meyers (MLB).

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SWCA #1917

Met Charlton Heston at the NRA convention in Reno. Stood in line, shook his hand & bought his book. A real gentleman.

Herb Alpert. Guess that tells a lot about my wild and wandering life...

Had the opportunity to guard George W. Bush when he ran for governor of Texas. He came to my city on a campaign trip, I was in plain clothes and the captain put me on the team and I was stay with him while he made the rounds. Chuck Norris was with him at the time.

He was very gracious and seem genuinely appreciative of my service.

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1601 (ret)

Met Wayne La Pierre coming down the elevator from the observation deck of the World Trade Center in 1998. He was with the family so I didn't take up too much of his time. I've met a few "celebrities" but I don't consider them famous. Joe

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Wisdom chases me; I'm faster

Hmmm.............famous people.
I've met Barb our famous moderator and Lee.
I once met Richard Petty, Frankie Laine, Redd Fox (such a vulgar disgusting vile man), Harold Betters, Oliver North, James Garner (I agree, not impressed), Dan Tanko, Dick Burg and Keith Brown. (I need some autographs guys!!!)((or a set of nice grips ( Y )))

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Lynnie, Professional Pest

Many years ago I traveled frequently on business and was a member of United Airline's Red Carpet Club. One evening while waiting for a delayed flight out of Washington Dulles, Tennesse Ernie Ford and I were the only patrons in the Club bar. We had a few drinks together and a little light conversation. He was very genial - a nice man!

I met Colonel Sanders many years ago, at Jekyll Island Georgia.That is just plain sad.

JESUS CHRIST and he is my personal friend and saviour.

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Did he share any recipes?

My only "celebrity" meetings have all been a result of the Smith & Wesson Collectors group! At one of the annual meetings, I rode down the elevator with Waylon Jennings and his wife, Jesse Coulter, only to meet my husband, Ray, talking with Johnny Cash and June Carter. They were in the area (Springfield MA) doing a concert. Ray invited Johnny to tour the show, but he was in the process of leaving.

Also, Gary Burghoff, Radar O'Reilly from MASH is related to one of our members and came to a show. Really nice guy! Course, his brother is one of the best as well!

Fun thread!

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SWHF

Quite a few, but ones that stand out:
Colonel Sanders for me, too. My dad worked for him.
Ken Harrelson. My sister babysat for him when he was with the Red Sox.
Rosanne Cash, Johnny's daughter and one of my favorite songwriter/singers.
Seth Wesson.
Julia Child.
Al Haig.
Bozo the Clown.

And the infamous Jim Shugart.

Geech........

Yes. Claimed to have held Rosemary LaBianca down while she was being stabbed.

wyo-man

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John Wayne, shook my hand at Ft. Bragg.....

Rule 303

I met George W. Bush when he was running for Texas governor. The coolest was when I was a kid, we lived a block away from Tom Landry. He would always answer his door, give out candy on Halloween and talk football with the awe-struck young boys in the neighborhood.

I've met Michal J Fox, Tommy Lee Jones, Chuck Norris, Hilary Clinton, George Lopez. I've been pretty close to but didn't meet Michal Douglas, Jay Leno.

I was at a local restaurant in 2006 when George Bush, Rick Perry and the service stepped in to have breakfast.

Friend of mines Dad was a Film Editor who belonged to the same country club Bob Hope did down in Palm Springs. My friends Dad complained that Bob Hope wasn't paying his dues. My friends Dad did not work again. Bob Hope in real life was a prick.

The golden arm Johnny Unitas back when football was real.

As I stated before, I worked for a short while as a studio cop for universal studios in the early 60s. I notice here and years ago, a lot of us are judgemental meeting someone just briefly. When I worked the job other officers would warn or brief me on certain actors. I would meet them and often as not come away with a opposite opinion than I had preconceived! I sure would hate to be judged for very small snapshots of my life when caught unawares or on a bad day!
When I was a kid I had a bad opinion of Broderick Crawford from watching highway patrol. To me he seemed brusk and overbearing. Then I had occasion to deal with him and have a nice conversation and liked him. I always liked Maureen Ohara. Then I had to meet her when she had a bad minuet. I know she wasnt herself at the time, and I still like her. I saw claude akins once comeing down on another guard when the guard wrote him a ticket for parking in a crosswalk and holding up traffic on the studio lot. I wouldnt have took the cussing out and language that guard took! It was worse than I ever took in 35 years on the job! At the time I had just quit and had handed in my uniform and was walking to my truck. I had seen him another time and he had gone out of his way to be friendly.
I do belive we can judge someone over a period of time by their actions, but I know its unfair to by one snapshot in their life!

(sniff) I never met nobody famous. I've seen a few but never met them.
Humble Pie, I like that. I saw them in Shreveport around 1973. Steve Mariott may be the most underappreciated rocker ever. What a voice.

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Torn & Frayed

If we are getting down to close but no cigar. I mooned Grace Slick in her limo on the way to a concert in Baltimore. She liked it, and gave us a thumbs up.

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My Mother likes me.

Luckier than first thought, I seem to remember a story about G.Slick going after someone with a shotgun.

I sat and sipped cocktails for a couple of hours with Gerry Garcia. The rest of the band was in and out as well.

Bob

Spoke very briefly with Al Greene ("Let's Stay Together", 1969) on a US Air flight from Cleveland to Memphis-daughter and I had just attended the opening of the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame, 1995. He kindly gave us his autograph after my teenage daughter stood and blocked him in the aisle on the airplane.

As a US Air agent at the Little Rock airport, I took the ticket from NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell who came late and delayed our flight. Also checked in Jason Bonham, son of John of Led Zeppelin. We chatted briefly about the English as I was dating one-now my Hubby-at the time. Saw Air Force One go in and out a lot with lots of Secret Service agents about when Slick Willy was in office. They were the nicest passengers in spite of delays or changes, especially when I had to fetch them out of the bar upstairs.

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I exchanged pleasantries with Janet Reno once.

She's a BIG girl.

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NRA Benefactor

Lets see, David Lee Roth...pre douche, if there was such a time for him, Ann Margaret , so cute, Tiny and sexy even in her late 50's when I met her, Wayne Newton..large man with tiny eyes...weird..,Robin Williams, nice man, the group Diamond Rio...dont know if they are still around...guess thats it for me...

Jeff Cooper, at Gunsite and a few other places. Skeeter Skelton, the morning after he got the American Handgunner award at an NRA convention (1976?). Cooper answered letters, Skelton didn't!

I saw Skeeter Skelton sitting in the SHOOTING TIMES magazine booth. He was, I knew later, a bit "worn out" from the previous evening's award dinner and celebration. I walked up to him, introduced myself and handed him a catridge I had with me. A .44 Special with a cast SWC bullet. I handed it to him and said, "Seven and a half grains of Unique." He looked at it, looked at me, looked around and said, "Let's go find something to drink." We went to some hospitality room, got coffee and a coke and talked handguns for almost an hour. I was a college kid and didn't know a lot but he treated me like an old shooter buddy. He conversed just like he wrote. It is a favorite memory. He was a tall guy, a lot taller than he looked in the magazine!

Gary Nixon, Dick 'Bugsy' Mann, Cal Rayborn, Kell Curruthers, Gene Romero, some others from that era.

Ronald Reagan at a state party convention the first time he ran for the Republican nomination for President.

Shirley McClaine flipped me the bird once at a George McGovern event.

Gary Nixon, Dick 'Bugsy' Mann, Cal Rayborn, Kell Curruthers, Gene Romero, some others from that era.

I would crew for Nixon's chief wrench Cliff Guild (waterboy mostly) at Pocono on occasion in the late Triumph/Kawasaki era. He lived in Timonium MD past home of Triumph. I worked at a bike shop named Boutwells. I had several occasions to try to keep up with him on the windy roads around Loch Raven Reservoir.

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My Mother likes me.

That's awesome! LOL!! I always imagine her as spunky & feisty as she seems in her acting roles. I bet she's a real handful.

I met Utah Senator Jake Garn once, in 1996. We talked for about 20 minutes about many subjects, including his space flight. He was like a normal guy & very easy to talk to.

I had the great misfortune of meeting Karl Malone once...what a horses azz that guy is!

I've got a picture of me and Joe Biden. Long time ago; he was losing his first set of hair. Met mayor Daley (the first) both Adlai Stevensons, and the only D I would vote for today Scoop Jackson (he probably wouldn't (couldn't?) be a D today.
Dad used to tell of meeting Al Capone.

I met Rod Serling at Auburn University around 1975. He had given a talk there. He did the opening intro from "The Twilight Zone" from memory. He said that he hadn't done it in years, but it came back to him pretty quick.

He said that the only other time he had been in Alabama was going to Phenix City in 1943, while stationed at Ft Benning, Georgia. He said he got rolled on 14th Street and never came back across the Chattahoochie River after that.

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WAR EAGLE!