Have you had 15 minutes of fame?

[Anonymous]

By total freak accident, I got a hole-in-one at the firm golf outing as a 1st yr associate in big law. I haven’t so much as won $1 on a scratch off ticket in the 20 yrs since. But it paved my way at the firm. Top schools, clerkship, above average writing skills, good on my feet etc etc, but guess what partners and clients always wanted to talk about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have the same name as a once-famous food critic. Once I gave my name at a restaurant (because I made a reservation) and was treated like a star! Free appetizers, an introduction to the chef, the whole star treatment. It took about 30 minutes before the staff realized I wasn't the critic and I was subsequently ignored for the remainder of the meal.

This happened to us once at a popular dc restaurant. They thought my husband was a silent partner. The chef came out at the end of the meal and was peeved.

[Anonymous]

only if being on NPR with Susan Stamberg and a couple morning new shows, cable shows counts.

[Anonymous]

My wife and I were the featured guests on an not well known cooking show called Emeril Green with Emeril Lagasse. The premise was that you had to submit a cooking predicament to Emeril, who would shop with you and teach you a few recipes to resolve the “conflict.” It aired on Planet Green on cable maybe 8 years ago. We filmed it in the giant Whole Foods in Fairfax, got to hang out with Emeril a bit. He was laid back and cool. We also got to take all the food home!

[Anonymous]

I was an extra in a movie a long time ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I started a dcum post that got to 23 pages once

Love it! I was in a very popular commercial overseas that helped pay for grad school. When I travel to that region, sometimes people call out my commercial's catchphrase want to take pictures with me. I could see it getting annoying if it happened at home but it's fun when I'm travelling.

Please tell us what the catch phrase was! Because in my head it's, "Madge! I soaked in it!"

[Anonymous]

I work in law enforcement and received an errant, wrong number text message requesting that I engage in criminal activity. I played along and the person got arrested for a serious crime. The story was in hundreds of national news outlets, including the New York Post, Washington Post, NY Times, and many other big cities. As well as some online news and feature sites like BroBible. When I Google myself it is now the only thing that comes up for pages and pages.

[Anonymous]

I never, ever want any fame. Never. Kudos to anyone who wants fame. They're welcome to it.

[Anonymous]

I was on MTV. The documentary of "Fat Camp Part 2". I was a counselor not overweight myself. I did an AMA a long time ago in here.

[Anonymous]

I was on Jeopardy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was on Jeopardy.

Awesome!

[Anonymous]

Visiting Vegas, first time to Cirque De Soleil and I was greeted by a clown who asked to see my ticket and offered to escort me to my seat. It took me about 5 minutes to figure out that that a spotlight was on me, he took my tickets, ripped them up and then escorted me and my friend to our seats, which was a circuitous route that included a trip across the stage. My friend took the trip across the stage willingly, but I being a bit neurotic needed a lot of coaxing and refused to go at first out of genuine stage fright... the audience was roaring since they thought it was all staged... I reluctantly crossed, only after much encouragement from the audience and the clown was pulling on my arm. Turns out I am a comedic natural... the entire crowd was roaring, with laughter... My 15 minutes of fame! The actual show it self was a snooze fest. I think I fell asleep about 20 mins into the show... but before that it was a true great time!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My wife and I were the featured guests on an not well known cooking show called Emeril Green with Emeril Lagasse. The premise was that you had to submit a cooking predicament to Emeril, who would shop with you and teach you a few recipes to resolve the “conflict.” It aired on Planet Green on cable maybe 8 years ago. We filmed it in the giant Whole Foods in Fairfax, got to hang out with Emeril a bit. He was laid back and cool. We also got to take all the food home!

We love Emeril! For some reason the kids were always very entertained by him when they were really little. So cool that you were on the show!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Visiting Vegas, first time to Cirque De Soleil and I was greeted by a clown who asked to see my ticket and offered to escort me to my seat. It took me about 5 minutes to figure out that that a spotlight was on me, he took my tickets, ripped them up and then escorted me and my friend to our seats, which was a circuitous route that included a trip across the stage. My friend took the trip across the stage willingly, but I being a bit neurotic needed a lot of coaxing and refused to go at first out of genuine stage fright... the audience was roaring since they thought it was all staged... I reluctantly crossed, only after much encouragement from the audience and the clown was pulling on my arm. Turns out I am a comedic natural... the entire crowd was roaring, with laughter... My 15 minutes of fame! The actual show it self was a snooze fest. I think I fell asleep about 20 mins into the show... but before that it was a true great time!

I've always wondered if things like this are staged. I saw something like this in Vegas as well. I remember thinking thank goodness I didn't get picked if it happened to be real.

[Anonymous]

I was a Cappy Dick national prize winner. I won a set of World Book encyclopedias. Anybody here old enough to remember Cappy Dick?