My brush with fame
Tonight I had a brush with fame(the geek kind). My wife and I went to mall in downtown San Diego(Horton Plaza) to eat dinner. While we were leaving the restaurant I glanced at a group sitting at one of the outside tables, and did a quick double take. There sitting at the table were Gabe and Tycho from Penny Arcade. My wife had no clue who they were and was wondering why a was geeking out. I stopped and said "Hey, I know you guys," I said hi, welcomed them to San Diego. My wife then took a picture of me with them on my cell phone so I'd have proof, and we went our ways. My phone is REALLY small about 1" wide, and while the picture was being taken they were joking about me getting a skinner phone. Yes, my cell phone was mocked by Gabe and Tycho, which makes it that much cooler. While in the Game Stop I check to see if the picture was any good only to realize that my wife had failed to save the picture and that it was lost. Unfortunately, I couldn't bring myself to go back ask for a redo as I felt that would be too imposing, so now I have no proof. 
Anyways, it was neat unexpected moment in a great evening, and they seemed like nice guys, hopefully I'll get the chance to meet them again someday.
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Was Gabe antsy? He had some pretty considerable social waryness a few years ago.
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Didn't he start taking some medication for that? I remember a few blog posts about how strange it was for him to feel 'normal' now.
And so began the tale of how WizKid and his wife came to be divorced.
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Oh it's not misspelt - he was talking about their hammers.
I've only seen a couple of 'famous' people out and about but i try and leave them alone. I don't subscribe to the thinking that says they became famous and thereby forego their private lives. Internet celebrities are a bit different though
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-on L4DPictures or it didn't happen....
Oh, wait.
Just go to ComicCon and you can get another picture with them.
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Hey man, put that phone on e-bay and title the auction "a phone that's been insulted by Gabe and Tycho." The PA fanbase being what they are, I think you could make a tidy sum on that badboy. Also if you could find a way to get them to make a strip about it (seeing as you're all buddy buddy now) the price would skyrocket.
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Or at the very least, the explanation for her fancy new shiner.
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wordsmythe wrote:
He used to be grateful when his spelling was fixed. I think I prefer this reaction.
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I ate dinner at the table next to Dominic Hasek during the 2001 Stanley Cup finals. The rest of the Wings were in the bar. And this one time I was pumping gas into my car and there was this chick pumping gas across from me that looked just like Florence Henderson but it wasn't her unless she's recently taken up Spanish and moonlights for Merry Maids.
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there shooting a movie about 9/11 here in newfoundland. They were doing something right in front of my Work..i work at a supermarket. Anyway I seen the dude who played cyclops in the X-men..that was cool..at least I think it was him. Im not exactly gonna walk over in my uniform . They'd probably say something to my boss...Half the parking lot was there property for awhile..and they had strict ruls about who walked on it..
Is she among the type of people who make "did you try turning your computer off and on" a valid question?
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By hammer he means penis.
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I met Al Gore, he was pretty friendly.
No other brushes with fame, though. Doesn't really matter much to me; people are people. Famous or not, they're no different from you or me, just more publicly visible.
I got seated right in the middle of all the Village People on a flight once. There's an awkward question - how do you ask a guy if he is a member of the Village People without the threat of being beaten up?
They are all super nice, and gave the a signed picture. They probably could have dialed back the cologne a bit.
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Gonna have to disagree with you there. people are pathetic mortals doomed to go about their uninteresting lives, celebrities are transcendent beings who have attained a higher plain of existence and thus should be worshiped for offering us pathetic mortals a brief glimpse of their glory.
I hate you soo much Phil Collins!
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Hey, you want to start pushing your religion on me, we can take this to the P&C!
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My wife saw Steve Tyler and his other daughter (not Liv) at a Store 24 in Boston. The clerk refused to sell him a chocolate orange because there wasn't a pricetag on it and the scanner was broken.
According the The Missus, Tyler's other daughter is even prettier than Liv in person, and Tyler had the most amazing pair of sneakers she'd ever seen.
The closest I came to a brush with celebrity is when a local newscaster bought something from the Rite Aid I was working at. I didn't figure out who she was until after she left. I hope she wasn't insulted.
My Dad once got mistaken for Dom Delouise back in the days before he (Dom, not my father) got as big a a house. Signed an autograph and everything. Not sure that counts as a brush with fame, but it's funny to imagine the autograph seeker wondering why Dom Delouise signed someone elses name. He's such a kook!
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That was my assumption. I mean, it starts innocently enough with butt pats, but sooner or later it always comes back to finger --> butt. It's all downhill from there. Just as The Pillow.
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My borther and I where walking home late at night when I went to college in SF. This guy ina trenchcoat was passing us, my borther thought it was a homeless guy. It ended up being Danny Glover, I said hello mister glover when we pasted him, he looked up and smiled.
I have also served food to Britney Spears out of one of my Dad's fast food joint when I was working there. She was driving a badass Lambo, I requested she turn it off so I could hear her in the drive thru speaker.
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I was in the hospital having surgery when I 10 years old. David Hasselhoff and Lisa Hartman came to Herman Hospital to meet the kids (they were in town for some celeb event). I was unable to go to the community room, so they came by to my room. Yes, I used to have an autographed Hasselhoff album and I asked him where KITT was.
I still remember Lisa Hartmann saying, "Hot damn this room is clean." My mom was a little nervous about the surgery and everything, so she was sort of compulsively cleaning my hospital room.
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That's awesome. I once met Dave Nonis and Marc Crawford. Nonis was a nice guy and Crawford's hair is as perfect in real life as it appears on TV.
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McChuck wrote:
Gabe and Tycho are nice guys. Tycho can definately talk; we had a 10 minute discussion about the bottom pocket of my backpack once when I went into the offices for something.
I met a whole bunch of geek-types at MS when I worked there, but that's different than just running into them on the street. Outside of the convention/geek circuit, I've had a couple brushes. I met LL Cool J once when he was on a fishing trip in Kenai back in the late eighties. He was looking for firewood and came and talked to my Dad.
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It was at Ruth's Chris Steak house for our anniversary. My wife actually got major points that night as she was the one that said "I think that guy sitting next to us is a hockey player." I'm almost positive Hasek checked out my wife's rack on the way out. She wished them good luck the next day... southern hospitality and all. I was pretty star struck. The majority were at this big table in the bar area. I admit, I freaked out a little bit seeing Yzerman and Fedorov.
Rock Band Name Generator!... too funny to merely be coincidence.
"Truly, this mishap has set back the swamp sciences several years." - H.P. Lovesauce, lamenting a tragedy.
I once flew on the same flight as Richard Simmons. And, yes, he was wearing his trademark satin wifebeater and short shorts. Crazy dude (and SHORT).
I also met Colin Powel in the dotcom days when my company paid him nearly six figures to speak at a client event. He's short too. That was a bit surprising to me.
Hence the reason I didn't go back.
No, she was just weirded out that I was geeking out over a "couple of strangers" and wanted to get away, so she just closed the phone and didn't think about it, or so she claims...
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