So how are you not famous

[TBman]

My closest claim to fame is my late great uncle (my grandmother's brother-in-law) was Joe DiMaggio's barber and they played golf together. (At least once anyway, he had a picture of his foursome with Joe displayed in his barber shop)

What is your "almost, but not quite" story

All in fun.

[RP]

Well, I'm not this guy https://smile.amazon.com/Randy-Porte...8550290&sr=1-5 but I did get my very own 15 minutes of minor fame https://www.amazon.com/Randy-Porter/...8550409&sr=1-2...

[Jeremy]

I made Jay Leno laugh once...

[BrunoBlack]

I started playing golf when I was about 9 or 10 years old. There was an old golf pro who gave me lessons for a couple of summers. He was Babe Ruth’s instructor. Mr Keenan shot his age, 88, during the period he gave me lessons. He was a kind but cranky old man. He liked to teach kids who showed serious interest — very inexpensive, but demanding. If I didn’t address the ball correctly, I got a whack on my wrists with his cane.

[Everton FC]

My aunt - my mom's baby sister, and my godmother, was Script Supervisor for MASH and Designing Women.

One of my closest childhood friends, recently past Sept 2019, was a producer for The Simpson's, Rick & Morty, et al. He and I jammed a lot in his basement, in high school. We were pals since 3rd Grade.

I played the video game Home Run Derby w/Matt Dillon in Lawrence, when I was a KU, when they were filming the movie "Kansas". No joke - Andrew McCarthy declined my invitation to play. Dillon accepted, and whooped me!

Was in the Mud Club in '81, seeing (I think) Bobby Steele and the Undead. I was introduced to two guys and a gal, who were at that time, The Beastie Boys. Never liked them in any form, but you'd see them in the clubs back then, in the audience.

I leave it at that. I've never been famous!

[AmericanEagle]

My grandfather on my mother’s side was cousins with Romilda Villani, who was the mother of Sophia Loren. So I am actually related to Sophia (Sofia) Loren!

[buddyhu]

My dad was a film editor at the TV station in Los Angeles (KTLA) that broadcast the sports highlights shows of all the UCLA collegiate sports. He had a fair amount of contact with John Wooden, and some contact with Lew Alcindor (later to be Kareem Abdul Jabbar).

[Dirk Hofman]

I have a buddy who’s a producer for a popular late night show, and we’ve met a lot of celebs through that connection.

[Don Lampson]

Originally Posted by AmericanEagle

My grandfather on my mother’s side was cousins with Romilda Villani, who was the mother of Sophia Loren. So I am actually related to Sophia (Sofia) Loren!

Sophia Loren! She'll still be a babe at 100 years old! Does she ever send you any money for Christmas? HawHawHaw!

Don

[M19]

I made Jeremy laugh once.

[tbeltrans]

I am not famous because I have not done anything that a huge number of people across our culture recognize as being special. I don't count attaching any importance to having met, knowing, or otherwise attaching myself to somebody who is.

On the other hand, code that I have written is run on a very visible and well known company's routers and switches whenever data is sent across the internet. However, many thousands of other software engineers can say the same thing. So, again, not something that matters in the big picture.

I played guitar and foot pedal bass in a trio that played the Holiday Inn circuit, supper clubs, and resorts for a week at each gig back in the late 1970s, 6 nights a week, every week for about two years. But again, so did many, many other musicians do that back then. In the process, I met many household name musicians, but meeting them does not make me famous. Name dropping is really rather embarrassing, though the person doing it is the last to realize it.

So there are some reasons that I am not famous.

Tony

[Mbroady]

But...but....but don’t you know who I think I am...

[Heroditus]

Back in the mid 70’s when I was in college my buddy and I were a duo that played in the western Wisconsin mostly on weekends when we weren’t in class. We also had a manager that got us gigs. He had connections to folks in Minneapolis. One of those guys was Bob Dylan’s brother David who worked at Sound 80 recording studios. Apparently David heard (or heard of us, I was never quite sure) and he expressed an interest in recording us. I declined as I’d have had to quit school and move to Minneapolis to do this.

A short while later when Bob was making Blood on the Tracks he took the tapes he’d done with New York musicians and asked David to provide some local guys to re-record some of the tunes. One of those guys was also managed by our guy at the time, and another guy (Peter Ostrushko) played at one of the places I always did.

Not saying I’d have ended up on Blood on the Tracks, but who knows! Water under the bridge now, I guess.

[Brucebubs]

The star of 'Evil Dead' and I share the exact same names.

[Cypress Knee]

When I sold my little running store in Baltimore a few years ago, the story wound up on the front page of The Baltimore Sun on July 4, 2015. I don't know how.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/health/...703-story.html