doormat
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posted on June 16, 2001 03:07:06 AM new
My e-mail address used to be [email protected]. This was many years ago when I first started exploring the internet and I wanted to be popular in the chat rooms. I would start out saying "jello everyone! What's shakin?". It worked like a charm. A lot better than my first name which was [email protected]. I even got 86'd from a few of them using that name. People would e-mail me, asking if I was the real Bill Cosby and, except for a sweet little girl, I usually ignored them which the real Bill Cosby would undoubtedly do, as well.
Anyway, why don't you go to Vegas during one of his shows (does he still do shows?) and get a good seat and see if you can attract his attention (before they kick you out) and ask him yourself?
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doormat
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posted on June 16, 2001 03:18:09 AM new
I forgot to mention that I actually kissed Bill Cosby on the left cheek at an Italian Restaurant in San Francisco. The poor guy could not get a single bite of his dinner without someone bugging him for an autograph. So when I walked up to him, he reached for his pen and I kissed him instead.
I am not sure which one he would have preferred.
Chopstix> What do you suppose a mortuary owner would do with a letter from Ted Bundy? I can't figure that one out but it sure does give me the chills.
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Pocono
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posted on June 16, 2001 06:23:11 AM new
Me and my buddy Al once beat the hell outta Abe Vigoda and Art Carney in a street brawl!
Damn freaks thought we were hookers...
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pumpkinhead
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posted on June 16, 2001 08:37:07 AM new
Sat next to Rodney Dangerfield once in a bar...Gave me the creeps.
Saw Michael Bolton pumping his own gas.
Hubby walked right on by JFK Jr a month or so before he passed on.
Paul Newman used to own a car dealership a couple of miles from here. Saw him a couple of times at a restaurant.
And, the lovely Martha Stewart lived nearby. The stories I heard about her would make you cringe!!
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labrat4gmos
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posted on June 16, 2001 09:50:52 AM new
I needed this thread. Please keep it going, I am still laughing! Thank you.
My husband met Buffalo Bob and puppet, Howdy Doody and had lunch (I think it was) with President Johnson. He has pictures of himself with both of them. Can't pry the Howdy Doody one away from him. Would like to put that on ebay.
My child knows a very close relative of Emmie Lous Harris. We were able to listen to her sing because of this relationship. What an absolute treat.
[ edited by labrat4gmos on Jun 16, 2001 09:52 AM ]
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tegan
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posted on June 16, 2001 11:12:56 AM new
I once sold a book to a Ozzie Osborn.
The address was in Oxford, England.
I asked if it was really he was the rock star but he never answered me. Sent me cash but I kept the envelope and the note with it just in case.
Is there any place you can check out autographs to see if it is the real thing?
My friends are split at 50 % think it is and 50 % think it isn't.
As for me "I want to believe".
[ edited by tegan on Jun 16, 2001 11:20 AM ]
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revvassago
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posted on June 16, 2001 11:23:02 AM new
tegan:
Doubtful it was the rock star, because his name is spelled Ozzy Osbourne
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tsunamii
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posted on June 16, 2001 01:44:34 PM new
Great thread!
My favorite was when I lived in California. My uncle looks exactly like Dick Van Dyke and we were at a restaurant in San Francisco called the Carnelian Room. Clint Eastwood walked over to my uncle, shook his hand and said so how's it going Dick?
The nicest one happened about 2 months ago here outside of Houston. We were eating dinner at our regular little mexican restaurant and my 7 year old son starts saying "Mom! Mom! That's the guy from Men In Black". Tommy Lee Jones was at the table next to us. Everyone kept going up to him asking for autographs and I wouldn't let my son. At the end of his meal he stood up turned to our table and said "thank you" and gave my son an autograph and a high five. I thought that was very nice.
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jlady
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posted on June 16, 2001 02:52:07 PM new
Is the street address...on Pecos Rd. His home is on Pecos Rd...at least the entry gate is!
Joyce
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chopstix
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posted on June 16, 2001 02:59:37 PM new
micheneraddict: I live in Savannah, Ga., which is where Judge Mills Lane is from. His family lives two blocks away from me.
doormat: I have no idea what a mortuary owner would do with a letter from Ted Bundy, but yes, it gave me the chills, too. Wonder what the rest of his collection consists of. Also, when I sold that letter, I did it under my husband's user ID because I was nervous about who would bid on it and all. So I got an e-mail from one guy and he lived 20 miles from us! He didn't even want to bid but wanted to know what all else I had that was serial killer related and did I want to get together and swap stuff!! Needless to say, I did not reply.
Yes, this is a great thread. I usually just lurk, but couldn't resist this one.
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gk4495
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posted on June 16, 2001 05:01:32 PM new
My wife used to wait on Ted Nugent fairly regularly in the department store she worked in. If you didn't make a big deal about who he was he would chat, etc. But if someone started to make a big deal, he was gone like a shot.
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candibates1
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posted on June 16, 2001 05:41:09 PM new
I once bought a car that belonged to Jon Voight.
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cathammer
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posted on June 16, 2001 06:11:06 PM new
Went to high school with a guy named Rhett Butler. Never had the heart to tell the poor guy he was fictional (& besides, he looked more like the Addams family butler, Lurch).
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
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ultimato
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posted on June 16, 2001 06:17:57 PM new
The closest I got to a celebrity buyer was the record producer Steve Lillywhite, who has produced U2 and other big bands. He bought a magazine from the '80s that had an interview with him! He said he didn't have any of the press he did back then and was trying to find some of the stories on him. I felt so cheap taking the $5 or so he bid for it that I returned his check and sent him the mag for free. Never bothered to thank me for it though.
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ultimato
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posted on June 16, 2001 06:21:52 PM new
One of my other favorite celeb stories was when I took a friend from out of town to a nice Italian restaurant in New York City. Sting and his family sat down at the table next to us and were starting to enjoy a nice quiet meal--no one in New York bats an eyelash when they see famous people and if anyone else noticed him there they left him alone. But the guy I was treating wasn't used to seeing stars and when he finally caught who had sat down next to us, he blurted out, "Holy s***, that's Sting!" I don't know who was more annoyed, me or Sting.
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mcjane
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posted on June 16, 2001 06:28:41 PM new
I used to manage a candy store at Philadelphia International Airport and many celebrities stopped in, among them was: Bob Hope, Bob Cummings, Three Dog Night, Connie Stevens, Mark Spitz, Milton Berle, Dick Clark, Peter Lawford, Don Rickles, June Allyson, Jeanne Crain & others I can't remember.
All gave me an autograph, I would take the autograph home to my two sons & the first one to figure out the name (all were hard to read)won it. The kids sure loved this game & I would sure love to have those autographs now. Only one I still have is Peter Lawford.
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cherrytreegirls
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posted on June 16, 2001 08:44:00 PM new
Last fall I sold a Gone With the Wind lamp to Delta Burk ( Designing Women )
The shipping address was Beverlyhills. The check was on a Warner Bros. Account.
I cashed mine too! I eBay for the $ ! But you know, it sure would have been nice if she would have left some feedback for me.
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geminspector
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posted on June 17, 2001 05:28:41 AM new
Artdoggy -- Beleive it or not I have a friend who is close to Wayne. He definately has a home in Vegas and spends quite a bit of time there. Also if it is jewelry you sell, chances are it was the "real" W.N. He is a jewelry nut. Especially unusual items.
--Brought to you by MHO Productions--
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Collegepark
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posted on June 17, 2001 09:31:05 AM new
The closest I've come was selling some movie books to a fellow on the TONIGHT SHOW staff that I mailed to the show address in Burbank.
My real celebrity story is that of working nearly two weeks on the film "Gettysburg" with Martin Sheen, Tom Berringer and others. I gave Sheen and Berringer autographed copies of a booklet I wrote. How's that for ego . I still have a journal I kept on set from that autographed by Sheen and Stephen Lang, who played Pickett. I ended up working on second unit [stunt unit] as a corpse one day when Lang was shooting a scene where he was knocked off a horse while watching Pickett's Charge.
The second unit director had worked on "Apocalypse Now".....It's a lonnnng story, better not get started.
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davidx
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posted on June 17, 2001 04:31:15 PM new
To the obviously elderly woman who has more time on her hands than most of us working folk, she or possibly "it" who has time to "do the math". I will respond only once. A certain doggy inspired me to join AW, I only lurked before. But stories so rich, so entertaining and soooo utterly pleasurable, have probably inspired many a red blooded male to come out of their lurker closet's and let their opinons be known. HERE HERE FOR MISS DOGGY
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runaroundsue
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posted on June 17, 2001 06:14:38 PM new
davidx...you may be waiting for Miss Doggy to reply for awhile.
Has nobody noticed that this thread has been revived from August 28 2000?
Just noticed myself...eerie.
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captian23
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posted on July 1, 2003 09:58:05 PM new
The closest I came on eBay is selling Bob Feller Cards to a guy named Robert Feller. I compared the signatures to check to see if it was the same.
In my real life I sold to a few minor celbrities. I worked at a convience store in college and sold to the producer of the Cosby Show. Her boyfreind was an agent for Led Zepplan and Will to Power. I knew it was for real when one thanksgiving they brought in the little girl from the show.
I also rented trucks to Chubby Checker, Dwayne from what's Happening and Brian Williams of the NY Giants.
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If you build it they will come........
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toasted36
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posted on July 1, 2003 11:16:20 PM new
captian23....you are so right !If you build it they will come...... I stood in line behind Sally Field in the Winn Dixie here while they were filming Forrest Gump(i didn't have the sense to ask for a autograph) and Tom Berenger lives here in my small town and I've never seen him in my 36 years of life lol  hmmm wonder where he hangs out at ? But I have met his bodyguard a few times.He liked to gamble and I used to work in a video poker place before the state of South Carolina outlawed it.I enjoyed reading this,It was funny ! Thanks !!
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horsey88
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posted on July 2, 2003 07:17:27 AM new
I sold an item to Miz Cleo in Florida and I was curious if it was the real Miss Cleo.
When I called the hotline to confirm my suspicions they told me it would be $6 a minute for the reading.
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capotasto
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posted on July 2, 2003 02:25:33 PM new
"He has begun a big contract to appear at the Stardust 40 weeks a year. I'm curious - how's his feedback ?"
The stardust has the nicest sign on the strip.
And BTW if you go to Vegas, don't miss downtown -- take the bus to the Fremont Street Experience.
Vinnie
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