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McFly41
03-20-02, 01:41 AM
What famous people have you had drinks with?
*Comedian Harlan Williams - pretty cool guy
*The guy who opened for Sam Kennison on his final tour. People kept buying him drinks and my cousin and I were sitting next to him. He had more booze than he could handle, so he started feeding his free-bees to us.
*Former Iowa Hawkeyes Jay Hilgenberg and Marv Cook. Hilgy played Center for the 85 Bears and Cook was a TE for the Rams. Hilgenberg and I went shot for shot at a bar in Iowa City just after he retired. Saw Cook cry one night after he topped his buddies beer and the bottle broke. Cut the guy up pretty bad. Drank with numerous Iowa and Northern Iowa athletes at different times, but I wouldn't call any of them famous.
*Jim Harbaugh...his college roomate is from Cedar Rapids. He visits here about once a year or so. Hell of a guy!
The bar I worked at was the closest place to both the local comedy club and the concert arena, so I served numerous Rockers and Comedians between '93-'96.
Another bar I worked at opened on the night the WWF was in town. Talked to McMahon at length and met the Hulkster, don't remember the others but there were about six or seven WWFers there with there peoples.
bunkyboy
03-20-02, 08:38 AM
Ameretto Sours with Hank Williams Jr and a band mate or two.
Beer and shots with Alice in Chains bass player.
Mixed Drinks with Peter Wolf.
Beer with comedian Brian Regan.
Smoked a doobie with Bimbo Coles.
BearBryant
03-20-02, 09:06 AM
Hank Williams Jr. drinks amaretto sours'? What color was his skirt?
BearBryant
03-20-02, 09:17 AM
Served John Daly drinks one night...he got hammered.
meatpile
03-20-02, 09:21 AM
Dave Matthews
The entire band 'Phish'
John Popper - didn't say much because he was literally cramming a gargantuan sandwich down his throat. This dude was HUGE.
I went to college with Matt Stone, but he wasn't famous yet.
All of these guys were completely normal, you'd never know they were famous. Particularly Trey and Dave Matthews.
I met Bob Weir once, and he was a jackass.
flyfisher
03-20-02, 09:28 AM
I was having a drink and saw Tommy LaSorta and Mike Ditka.
Was buying a drink and met Dom Deluese.
I drank beer with Matt Dillion at my buddy's wedding and got his autograph for my wife.
Had dinner with Roman Gabrielle.
Had a few with Craig Colquit, punter for Pitt. Steelers. I was dateing his sister back then.
Had a beer with Clarence Clemens, after Springsteens concert in Red Bank, NJ at a local bar:cool:
BearBryant
03-20-02, 09:28 AM
I forgot I have had drinks with Phish and Dave Matthews also. We were on Dave's bus smoking and my buddy coughed up a loogy and it landed on Dave Matthews knee.
Captain Morgan
03-20-02, 09:33 AM
Flew from LA to Toronto next to John Candy when the Kings played Toronto in the NHL Playoffs (no, Sly, the plane didn't tip to our side). We was a Crown man.
Was in a LA watering hole doing some silicon viewing and a "waitress" brought a sandwich to a patron next to my buddy on the bench seat. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a long black arm extend to hand the "waitress" a $20. A familiar voice said, "keep the change." I looked over to see Magic Johnson. He constantly had at least 5 "waitresses" hanging on him as we shared beers for a couple hours.
Partied often with many Rams players after games at El Torito down the street from Anaheim Stadium.
Flew to Canton/Akron with several NFL Hall of Famers. Quite the drinking bunch, but Chuck Bednarik (sp?) was the wildest. I think he could still kick some serious ass.
meatpile
03-20-02, 09:40 AM
Originally posted by BearBryant
I forgot I have had drinks with Phish and Dave Matthews also. We were on Dave's bus smoking and my buddy coughed up a loogy and it landed on Dave Matthews knee.
I had a concessions gig at Red Rocks for a few years, and he *dave* used to come early and hang out and drink coffee. He'd just chat. Made the girls that worked for me turn into 13 year olds.
One year, he lost track of time, and the gates opened. He got on all fours behind my stand, hiding from the teeny-boppers. A few saw him, and he hung out with them, signed autographs, posed for pictures, kissed them on the cheek, the whole deal. About as nice as a guy could be, rock star or not. To this day i buy his records for that reason alone. Matter of fact, they made a record out of that Red Rocks show. Must've been the lattes.
no drinking but have had a few celebrity run ins -
was shopping in the Ralph Lauren store on Rodeo drive - Joan Collins and her latest boy toy were looking through the same rack.
also almost got run over by Lorenzo Lamas in his Ferrari at a hotel in Palm Springs.
Bought liquor in a Ft Lauderdale booze store with Joe Namath - he wouldn't give me his autograph cause I looked like a crazed lunatic.
spent thirty minutes talking to Bobbie Allison in LAX during a layover. they were coming back from the first NASCAR race in Australia - they won and had this big ass trophy. One of the nicest guys I ever met.
Bo Diddley and band was on the same flight to Puerto Rico as the wife and I on our honey moon. I talked to him for a little while in the Atlanta airport . My wife was pale and hungover from the night before and thought he was BB King. That pissed him off and he just walked away.
BearBryant
03-20-02, 09:43 AM
Originally posted by meatpile
Made the girls that worked for me turn into 13 year olds.
He had the same effect on the girls in Tuscaloosa also.
BearBryant
03-20-02, 09:44 AM
Originally posted by Wossamotta U
also almost got run over by Lorenzo Lamas in his Ferrari at a hotel in Palm Springs.
Are you sure he missed?
Beer's with Mike Murphy in a small Dallas bar. he wrote and sang Wildfire and Carolina in the Pines.
I had a beer with Bonz from Stuck Mojo. Not sure if anyone knows who that is. Had a drink with the Phunk Junkees. My drunken roomate pissed of Henry Rollins. I was scared. Matt Dohortery came to my grandma's for Christmas. My cousin was a friend of his in college. Sly and WWJD will get a kick out of that.
slydevl
03-20-02, 09:52 AM
I have had drinks with Putt, Larry, Silver, Fred, Builder, meatpile, Wossa, Mags, Gutter, Barracuda, Ez, Chuck, Sds, Bunky, Turbo, celyn, kakia, QCH, Captain Morgan, and mramailman.
I would much rather drink with yall than a bunch of stupid celebrities.
Puttingood
03-20-02, 09:53 AM
David Allan Coe -- Slydevl
Geoffrey Beane -- Harvey Gantt
George Shinn -- Alabama (band)
Dale Earnhart -- Wossamotta
Buddy Baker -- Sam Ervin
Geoff Bodine ---
Humpy Wheeler (non alchohol) --- Sarah James
William Devane --- Turbo
Junior Johnson --- Joe Pope (Tams)
Kakia --- Myself
Jay Thomas
Larry Davidson
Bud Allen
Bob Murphy
Nelson Royal
Jimmy Valiant
Swede Hanson----Silver Surfer
Turbo
George Fuc*in Washington
Stan Musial
So many drinks----So little memory
I once drank a 6 pack waiting at Raquel Welches house down in Midland. She never came home but the police did.
meatpile
03-20-02, 09:57 AM
I forgot a good one that wasn't drinks...
I met a guy backstage at the Charlotte dead show in like 91. I'd seen him around, and since my folks lived here, I offered him a place to stay. He agreed. I asked him who gave him his pass - he said bear.
*for those that don't know, bear is Owsley Stanley. Owsley was basically the driving force of manufacturing and marketing LSD throughout the 60's. All of the Acid tests and Merry Prankster shit - Owsley acid*
I'd met bear a few times briefly - hard not to at that many Dead shows. He was a muscle head - and the guy that stayed at my house was some kind of All American wrestler. At any rate, I wake up the next morning, I'm talking with the guy, and the doorbell rings. I answer it - it was Owsley. At my parents house, in Myers Park.
That was a highlight.
boo-urns
03-20-02, 10:02 AM
I worked at a large hotel/golf course complex while in high school and during the summers while in college. It was a place in northern michigan that was a popular vacation spot. you'd run into people at the bars there. Steve Yzerman, Barry Sanders, Herman Moore, Alan Trammel, Walter Payton, Mike Ditka, Jack Morris, Chuck Daley, Joe Thiesman, Isaih Thomas, Bill Lambeer, several other red wings...they have training camp in the city....i met just about all of them. i haven't met one yet that was a jackass..including bill lambeer...he's actually a nice guy.
one of my friends drove the airport shuttle to the hotel. he picked up pat summeral one day who was there to do the golf tournament. my friend said he cussed the whole way...every other word. which for him was funny because he was driving and just heard that voice he knew from tv cussing.
i've meet the members of the band verve pipe. they are from the city i went to college in. they used to be called 'johnny with an eye.' the drum player slept with one of my friends girlfriends. from that day on...everything had an eye. "pass the salt with an eye" "change the channels with an eye" "let's go to the store with an eye" etc...he used to get so mad..
slydevl
03-20-02, 10:05 AM
No offense but y'all are a bunch of name droppers :D
Puttingood
03-20-02, 10:08 AM
Not me Sly----As much as I drink then odds are that someone will stumble by or I will stumble into them.:D
Originally posted by boo-urns
from that day on...everything had an eye. "pass the salt with an eye" "change the channels with an eye" "let's go to the store with an eye" etc...he used to get so mad..
funny stuff there.
I forgot, I eat supper once a month with Iron Man Jack Ingram at our SCV meeting in Asheville.:cool:
Puttingood
03-20-02, 10:20 AM
Beer's with Mike Murphy in a small Dallas bar.
I would have enjoyed that. ;)
how come I fee left out here??
ummmmmm, let me think of at least someone who i can say I met.............
I went to school with Brad Johnson (no drinks people, he was in the 8th grade, I was in the 6th)
I bought the entire group The Atomic Fireballs a round of beer and hung out with em at Swing 1000, does that count?
I met Ethan Phillips before?
damn, I've not met anyone really cool and famous.......I'm such aloser:( :( :(
Sportsgirl
03-20-02, 10:30 AM
I'm a teetotaller, but I have met or socialized with quite a few famous people in my day, mostly athletes, including John Salley, Kevin Johnson, Dusty Baker, John Starks, Barry Bonds, Bobby Bonds, Terry Pendleton, David Justice, Javy Lopez, Mark Lemke, Rod Woodson, Cecil Fielder, Steve Largent, Magic Johnson, Michael Cooper, Sam Mills, Donnie Shell, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Congressman Charles Rangel, and my high-school heart-throb singer El Debarge.
Puttingood
03-20-02, 10:47 AM
Sportsgirl----Do you work in probation and parole ? :fastgrin:
Just joking, been wanting to use that line for a while.
TommyBoy
03-20-02, 10:49 AM
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Congressman Charles Rangel............and I thought the Three Stooges were dead.
Shrapnel
03-20-02, 10:59 AM
I tried to finger Lulu Romans on the back of a hay wagon and nearly lost my hand in some sort of wild vacuum affect.
gridfaniker
03-20-02, 11:03 AM
I drank mai tais with Matthew Lesko.
the best i could come up with was seeing elliott gould in an airport. it was so un-memorable that i cant even remember what year it was or which airport. best guess is that it was in the 90s and in tampa, atlanta or charlotte.
Puttingood
03-20-02, 11:15 AM
Grid---Was he wearing his nifty bow-tie ?
gutter, don't you have a story about the Misfits and Rikki Rocket at Dillards?
and sadic, didnt you go to high school with jennifer connoley?
Originally posted by LarryD
gutter, don't you have a story about the Misfits and Rikki Rocket at Dillards?
OH YEAH!!!! I met Rikki at the Dillairds at Four Seasons. This was back when he needed a body guard. i was speechless. I was a HUGE Poison fan.
As for the Misfits, that was Twiggy. He went to (I think it's called DragonCon or something like that). He rode the elevator with them on three different occassions. He talked about the weather with them or something stoopid like that. I may have told you all it was me, but now that he posts here and you know who I am I can't lie about stuff anymore. Twiggy has some f'd up stories.
gridfaniker
03-20-02, 11:30 AM
Originally posted by Puttingood
Grid---Was he wearing his nifty bow-tie ?
No, he was wearing leather hip waders with suspenders, no shirt, a brass question mark bolo tie and cobra skin boots with spurs. I think he was strung out on heroin at the time. Me, I was knocking back quaaludes with cherry pop rock chasers.
Puttingood
03-20-02, 11:34 AM
Me, I was knocking back quaaludes with cherry pop rock chasers. posted by Grid
Thats very dangerous Grid. Them pop rock things can swell up in your stomach and explode you.;)
I dated this author when he was in school at ASU. That's about it...:) Turbulent Souls (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/038072930X/ref=ase_congregationeila/103-1975711-3855858)
Puttingood
03-20-02, 11:40 AM
A Catholic Son's Return to His Jewish Family
Got any good stuff on him ? Something we can use to get a discount ?:)
Originally posted by gutter
As for the Misfits, that was Twiggy. He went to (I think it's called DragonCon or something like that).
ask twiggy if he knows a guy named brian casselman, from tennessee.
meatpile
03-20-02, 11:43 AM
wrote this epic:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0397515839/qid=1016642370/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_3_1/102-1073183-8840153
I just found out last night, he has my wife working on his obituary.*nuts* Apparently, Janelle's cousin had to buy this book while getting her masters in organic chemistry.
He's a cool old dude. 92. Used to bring his gun to school, go hunting at lunch, and bring the kill and the gun back to class. The coat rack had as many guns as coats.
That reminded me...Dedra Hall (soap opera) and I in the same homeroom in HS. I tried to fuck her twin sister but she was a candy stripper at the hospital and knew this trick where she popped my dick with her finger and it went dead limp. No shit, I never seen anything like it.
Pissed me off:eek:
Originally posted by Puttingood
A Catholic Son's Return to His Jewish Family
Got any good stuff on him ? Something we can use to get a discount ?:)
And I thought he was going to be a rock star wanna-be! Little did I know that he would go on to wirte for NYTimes and then write this book! I spoke to him a few years ago after this book came out...I shoulda converted...
Puttingood
03-20-02, 11:57 AM
And I thought he was going to be a rock star wanna-be! Little did I know that he would go on to wirte for NYTimes and then write this book! posted by Lainey
What a loser ! Glad you was able to get shed of him ! :)
McFly41
03-20-02, 03:02 PM
Some good ones in there!
Reminded me of a couple things...
You guys were talking about Phish. When they played here a few years back they got to town a few hours early and their hotel wasn't ready, so they went into the YMCA next to the hotel to take a shower. Front Desk staff let them in no problem...then the old farts in the locker room got a look at them and called the manager to have them removed. They act like the Y is a god damn country club or something? It was a pretty ridiculous scene!
I almost ran over the drummer from Night Ranger. Dumbass walked right out in front of me.
meatpile
03-20-02, 03:10 PM
Originally posted by McFly41
I almost ran over the drummer from Night Ranger. Dumbass walked right out in front of me.
good one. I gained new respect for Night Ranger after boogie nights, though. Anybody ever do a lotta drugs? That scene was one of the best drug scenes ever put to film.
Another one was in The Royal Tennenbaums, when that dude jumps out the window to avoid rehab. The kicker though, was all the odd folks that were hanging out. Goddam took that right outta my brain.
yadda yadda yadda.
I guess it depends on what you'd consider famous.
About 10 years ago, I was on vacation and with a buddy at the Spanish Galleon in N.Myrtle playing pool and drinking. Around 10-11:00 this big group of TALL guys came in and we figured we had to know who they were. Turns out it was a bunch of Duke b-ball players. Drank a little with Billy King and Danny Ferry for a while. They seemed pretty cool. Almost glad they could hang with us instead of being ogled by the crowd. Anyway, they were there for someone's wedding and most of the rest of them were ripped. I think it was Quin Snyder's? I can't be sure, but Quin was smashed. (Didn't someone say they know his wife? Does this time frame sound right?)
To make a long story short, those guys turned out to be a lot cooler than you'd expect. And the LAST thing they wanted to talk about was basketball.
i saw matt geiger at presbyterian hospital one time. then, later that night i went to a party and got drunk. Does that count??
meatpile
03-20-02, 03:23 PM
Yep I know his wife. I was the first guy she kissed :D
She's a cutie. A chick in high school i decided to be friends with but should've boned.
Crazy thing, she's not 5' tall, and not 100 lbs. I've never seen the 2 of them together, but damn. I dunno about the time frame. I haven't seen her since I got engaged to Janelle, that was about 400 years ago.
Puttingood
03-20-02, 03:24 PM
i saw matt geiger at presbyterian hospital one time. then, later that night i went to a party and got drunk. Does that count??
I read WYDD s post and later tonight I am gonna get drunk. Does that count?
putt, the title of this thread isn't "the dumbest person you've ever drank with." Since you're ALWAYS talking about tractors putt, i remembered this sorry ass joke i saw on america's funniest people. (remember people, there has never been very good television on sundays until the simpsons finally went back.) It won the grand prize that year. It went like this:
What did the farmer say when he lost his tractor?
Where's my tractor?
Puttingood
03-20-02, 03:30 PM
Where was it ?
ya know, oddly enough, they never said. I'm sure somebody probably stole it when he went to school though.
SilverSurfer
03-20-02, 06:46 PM
Originally posted by Puttingood
Geoff Bodine --- Silver Surfer
:mad: :mad:
OK Putt - just remember if I insult you in another thread it's payback for that. I hate that no driving sumbitch. What did I do to deserve to be him?? :mad:
Puttingood
03-20-02, 06:49 PM
I fixed you up Surfer---put you down by the big Swede.
Sorry about that--a lot of people are touchy about the Bodine family. :)
SilverSurfer
03-20-02, 07:01 PM
Thanks Putt! :)
CarolinaBlues
06-05-02, 11:04 AM
I met John Travolta one night while visiting Scottsdale, AR. in 1993. The next morning he and his body guard joined our party at the pool during brunch and hung out. He is one cool character and a hell of a nice guy.
NormanNiner
06-27-02, 04:03 PM
A lot of beer with Rick Fox. The man can put away some beers.
Camping and a music festival with Andi McDowell in Hot Springs, NC.
gladhatter
07-08-02, 01:20 AM
After the summer Games in Atlanta I had a few cold ones with the US Syncronized swimming team.
Oh, I guess that was just a dream...they don't count do they?http://www.canoe.ca/2000GamesSynchroImages/us_sep28-AP.jpg
Honeygirl
09-16-02, 05:35 AM
A couple of years ago I met John Douglas from the FBI - he's a criminal profiler...and I met him while he was on tour promoting his book `Mindhunter'. There was this lunch thing (I was there for work reasons) and I had a grand time! He was very entertaining and insightful. We had a quick chat after the lunch, and he signed my book and made a comment about how "you people do the hard work and get none of the glory". Bless that man. :)
LushBoobs
10-02-02, 03:31 PM
hmm... thinking... thinking...
Buck Henry, Christina Ricci and Eric Estrada...
...but my best friend has had drinks with the star of " valley girl " and it just doesn't get much better than that!
Originally posted by LushBoobs
hmm... thinking... thinking...
Buck Henry, Christina Ricci and Eric Estrada...
...but my best friend has had drinks with the star of " valley girl " and it just doesn't get much better than that!
you mean nick cage?
LushBoobs
10-03-02, 05:23 PM
Originally posted by LarryD
you mean nick cage?
No silly - Deborah Foreman!
However - my brother and nick cage both "dated" lori depp - johnny's ex - does that count?
Inamorata
10-13-02, 11:19 AM
The kid who gets his tongue stuff to the pole in 'A Chritmas Story'. He is not looking all to good nowadays and is trying to restart his carrer.....he is in pornos now.
McFly41
12-27-02, 10:55 PM
Originally posted by Inamorata
The kid who gets his tongue stuff to the pole in 'A Chritmas Story'. He is not looking all to good nowadays and is trying to restart his carrer.....he is in pornos now.
Same kid that was in "The Toy", right?
hasbeens99
12-27-02, 11:38 PM
Originally posted by McFly41
Same kid that was in "The Toy", right?
Yup. :)
Originally posted by Puttingood
a lot of people are touchy about the Bodine family. :)
I agree, but I have always liked Jethro...a little daff, but a big heart! Don't know if he can drive too good.
I drank with Ted Williams one nite at Sid ands Roxy's but he didn't know it kinda because he was passed out face down on the bar. But it was all good anyway. I once drank cokes with gene connelly at the woodstock state fair he told stories about dick radaz (sp) and ted williams. he was playing cba basketball by then though.
I was at the Sheraton Airport Miami's bar several years ago drinking 20oz draught buds, Andre the Giant sat next to me. For every 20oz I drank, he had a fifth of wine.
I was knee walking after two hours and had to leave, I was told later that Andre had several more bottles of wine after I left.
i had one w/ hank williams III and arnest pile (drummer from lynard skynard) a couple of nights ago.
I dont drink but I have met
Union Underground
gODHEAD
Billie Joe from Green Day
Terry Labonte
Drowning Pool
Chester and Mike from Linkin Park
Johnny Knoxville
Lloyd Kaufman of Troma Pictures
Trey Parker
Kyle Petty
Bobby Labonte
oh yea and I was at a meet and greet with Britney Spears:D
Originally posted by TimTam
I dont drink but I have met
Union Underground
gODHEAD
Billie Joe from Green Day
Terry Labonte
Drowning Pool
Chester and Mike from Linkin Park
Johnny Knoxville
Lloyd Kaufman of Troma Pictures
Trey Parker
Kyle Petty
Bobby Labonte
oh yea and I was beating my meat to Britney Spears:D
McFly41
09-11-03, 07:10 PM
Originally posted by
Yup. :)
Didn't he wind up becoming a porn star?
Had a beer with Barry Sanders at the "Limelight" in London. This was just after he "retired". Only me and one other dude recognized him. Cool guy with no "posse". I miss seeing that guy playing football.
Inamorata
09-14-03, 05:35 AM
Originally posted by McFly41
Didn't he wind up becoming a porn star?
Yup.
That's how I meet him.
And no I didn't have anything to do with porn...it's a long story.
Austinniner
09-16-03, 12:16 AM
When I worked at Spring Garden, got to drink with Karl Malone. Didn't get to talk much, he had a few people with him.
Also, Carrot-Top was a regular there. Got to drink with him too. Don't know if I should be proud about that one, though.
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