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Who is the most Famous or influential person you've ever met?

Posted on 08/26/2016 7:27:58 AM PDT by gigster

My most famous or influential people include Red Skelton, B. B. King, Tim Allen at a party, and Tom Gale, The designer and collaborator with Bob Lutz on the Dodge Viper and variants.


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To: gigster

In order of their appearance:

Tennessee Williams

Jon Voight

Jeremy Irons

Hugh Jackman

Daniel Craig.


321 posted on 08/26/2016 5:11:08 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: gigster

Does it count if I eat in an empty restaurant with the only other customer being Hillary Clinton and her guest?

My husband and I made sure to stay far away so we didn’t have to pretend at niceties and say we were voting for Bill


322 posted on 08/26/2016 5:15:23 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: BuffaloJack
Your mom was right, of course !
I'd guess the 3hrs to get back was due to headwind from shore ?
That's one of those experiences that becomes 'humorous' with time only for having lived thru it .. lol !

Thanks

323 posted on 08/26/2016 5:25:52 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: gigster

Barry Goldwater.

The Beach Boys a few times in the 80’s and 90’s I think.


324 posted on 08/26/2016 5:29:07 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: mad_as_he$$

He was young (and very good looking) when I met him. I worked on Capital Hill and he had an appointment with my boss. He had to be about 28 or 29.

I met many famous people when I worked there in the early to mid eighties—but in retrospect no one as ultimately influential as SJ.


325 posted on 08/26/2016 5:43:05 PM PDT by BelleAl (Proud to be a member of the party of NO! NO more deficit spending and government control!)
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To: DonnDe

That would be Proviso West?? I grew up in the Western ‘burbs.....


326 posted on 08/26/2016 6:45:15 PM PDT by soozla (Truth prevails, regardless of who is willing to accept it ~ now or later.)
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To: gigster

Theodore Sturgeon, Adolf Galland, and Jessica Watson


327 posted on 08/26/2016 6:58:58 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (I shot a woman in Punta Gorda, just to watch her die)
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To: Oztrich Boy

Adolph Galland? Really? Wow! That’s a new one. Thanks.


328 posted on 08/26/2016 7:30:22 PM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: gigster

Dr. Detlev Bronk and Bernie Parent (not on the same occasion)......


329 posted on 08/26/2016 8:48:08 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: gigster; Jim Robinson; onyx; Hildy; doug from upland

JIM ROBINSON - he passed out pamphlet copies of the Constitution to the freepers attending dinner at a restaurant in San Diego.
:::he autographed my copy::: “;^)

I also had the pleasure of sketching his portrait at the Ronald Reagan Library/barbecue.

Can we ever be grateful enough to Jim for this treasured Free Republic home and safe gathering place?

JERRY SEINFELD - charming, generous, deeply kind and thoughtful.

Granted our son an interview backstage between performances in San Diego for KPBS when our son was a teen host.


330 posted on 08/26/2016 9:15:09 PM PDT by b9 (TRiUMPh!)
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To: mumblypeg

What a story!!!

Absolutely terrifying.


331 posted on 08/26/2016 9:57:19 PM PDT by b9 (TRiUMPh!)
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To: gigster
met Mitch Miller crossing the street about 40 yrs ago...

.saw Robt Kennedy up close and personal

don't hate me but met Jane Fonda at a college talk (Colgate) back in the 70's when I was a crazy McGovernite...we followed her to her car afterwards and she was carrying a can of pineapple juice...oh the days...

almost fell over the foot of Bob Lanier, basketball player....he had size 20 shoes I think...

Bishop Cuprich..before he was in Chicago... in Vegas .at an Irish bar where Catholic Charities was hosting an open bar and hor devours for Gonzaga fans.....

332 posted on 08/26/2016 10:03:17 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Boogieman

yes, I ran into that pervert from Subway but I mistakenly thought he was Clark Howard....lol....I really pissed him off....


333 posted on 08/26/2016 10:09:53 PM PDT by cherry
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To: treetopsandroofs

being a Yankee fan back in the day, Thurmon Munson was a hero to all of my family....I had already moved out west when I heard on the radio that he had died....remember to this day where I was and how sad it made me...


334 posted on 08/26/2016 10:11:19 PM PDT by cherry
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To: credo 2

My dtr and I went to an event in DC about that time and I recall Jim was there....it was right off Dupont Circle...maybe it was the Hilton I don’t remember....Anne Colture had her book on each of he seats for free........


335 posted on 08/26/2016 10:14:33 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Pilgrim's Progress
. . . but that hardly holds water to October 25, 1976 at 3:45 p.m. when I met Jesus Christ for the first time when he became my personal Saviour!

September 7, 1976, 8:30 p.m. when I accepted Christ as my Savior and passed out of death into life. :)

336 posted on 08/26/2016 10:31:35 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: gigster

When I was quite young I lived in Jordan for two years. My famliy visited Petra, ancient city carved in rock. Had to ride donkeys through a very narrow chasm to get there. One VERY little very funky hotel with no electricity. My sister and I were in one room were making a lot of noise, right next to the “main” room, I guess a kind of dining room. Katherine Hepburn was also a visitor and she yelled at us to shut up.


337 posted on 08/26/2016 10:48:25 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: gigster

Let’s see. Jim Robinson, Nixon, Paula Jones, John O’Neill, Gary Aldrich, Arnold Schwarzeneggar, Jay Leno (spent three hours in his garage), Chris Daughtry, Andrew Breitbart, George Putnam, Hannity, Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham, Katherine Prudhomme O’Brien, Hugh Hewitt, Michael Reagan, Fred Thompson, Jon Voight, Barbie Benton, Larry Elder, Steve Bannon, Ann Coulter, Milton Berle, Telly Savalas, Cindy Williams, Ted Danson, Debbie Allen, Pat Buchanan, Celine Dion, Duncan Hunter, George Pataki, Peter Paul (former partner of Spiderman Stan Lee and now my partner in a major venture), Ed Begley Jr, Jack Black in an elevator at Beverly Hills Hotel, Dennis Praeger, David Horowitz, Josh Groban (went to LA County HS for the Arts with my daughter), Colin Powell (at a book signing and at an auto event in DC), Steve Garvey (have a photo of him holding my son at his first Dodger game), Kiki Vandeweghe, Michael Medved, Amar’e Stoudemire, Paul Michael Glaser, Jesse Lee Peterson, homeless activist Ted Hayes.


338 posted on 08/26/2016 10:52:10 PM PDT by doug from upland
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To: doug from upland

You win!


339 posted on 08/26/2016 10:54:56 PM PDT by weston (SO HERE'S THE STORY: As far as I'm concerned, it's Christ or nothing!)
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To: gigster

Whoops, forgot Larry Nichols, Larry Patterson, Roger Perry, L.D. Brown, David Kendall (confronted him outside courtroom and I have the tape somewhere), Michael Isikoff.

And in a dream, Bill and Hillary. They came to my house to film a commercial and I threw their asses out.


340 posted on 08/26/2016 11:00:24 PM PDT by doug from upland
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