What was your best personal "15 minutes of fame?"
15While my radio career got me known a bit (not as much as Howard Stern, etc.), I once-and only once- got worldwide attention in 1997 for one day. I came up with a novelty item to promote spaying and neutering of cats. Kitty Kondoms. What was your moment in the sun?
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Disney Channel: I was one of the founding kids on "cool pets" segment. That for United States. Then Australian attention from a CNN segment of Footgolf that blew up over there for some reason.
slayed it
It interviewed a few times on national television for a shoe business that I started... and by national television I mean Bulgarian national television...
@luvche21 I once owned a pair of black leather shoes made in Bulgaria.
@radi0j0hn
:O Can i have your autograph?
@luvche21 Did you use Kickstarter initially? Shoes that had a woven upper?
@FroodyFrog yep:
--luvche21
Good enough?
@magic_cave yeah! I think you backed us! Did you like them?
@radi0j0hn they do make some nice leather too!
@luvche21 Здравей :)
@vesoganev здравей :) говориш ли на български?
@luvche21 @vesoganev ние само говорим 'mehrican в тези части тук . който е основно "хибрид на Фолклорна , valleygirl , вътрешен град жаргон и различни грухтене".
@carl669 ама май преди година горе-долу говорихме и на корейски. можем да говорим на български, корейски, и на mehrican. Нали става?
@luvche21 true dat.
@luvche21 Говоря, все пак съм си българче :)
@carl669 mehrican is my favorite. The Google translation is somewhat wacky with the valleygirl thingy but close enough.
@vesoganev и от кой град си? Не е често да се посрещна с българче!
Живях в България за горе-долу 2 години преди няколко години. Чакам с нетърпение да се върна някой ден! Още се страя да говоря на български когато може, и даже чета всеки ден чета на български за да не забравям доста много. Много ми липсва държавата и приятелите ми там!
@luvche21 Роден съм в Сливен, но последните 5-6 години, докато бях все още там, прекарах в Пловдив. Тук съм от около 5 години (2011). Каква е твоята история? :)
@vesoganev аз съм от Щатите, а бях мисионер в България за църквата си - там научих езика.
Живях в Пловдив, Перник, Добрич, Стара Загора, и София. За мене ми харесва най много Пловдив - много красив град беше, и всеки път когато се разхождам из улиците на стария град, чувствам че ли съм вкъщи... трудно е да се обясня. Беше трудно време в живота ми, а винаги когато бях в стария град в Пловдив се чувствах щастлив.
Живях там от 2006 до 2007 г. и се върнах в България само веднъж на екскурзия.
Никога не съм бил в Сливен, как беше там?
@luvche21 Скучно. Пловдив е много по-хубав град. Ако се прибера в България, определено бих искал да живея там. Все още мисля, че е едно от най-чудесните места на света.
@vesoganev да, и аз си мисля така.
Липсва ми българската кухния, а пак направя мусака, баница и гювече често!
I have had no fame, so maybe it is something to look forward to in the future.
@Barney I love purple.
@connorbush The world would be a far better place if everyone loved purple.
@Barney my business had purple walls. I was on TV for my business
@Mellaine Aww, I love purple.
My brother won a dog on "Romper Room" and I got to be on TV.
When I was 5 or 6, I was in the newspaper for eating a tuna fish sandwich with my cat.
@metaphore purr thing
My hometown growing up is also the home of the Grotto of the Redemption. Pretty amazing place if you every get the chance to go to tiny town Iowa. A film crew came to town when I was in elementary school and there was a contest to see who would appear. I was one of ten kids from our school drawn to audition. Naturally, I crushed everyone and earned a spot as a guest interview on the film. Haven't seen the film in a while but I still remember my one line. "I like to go to the pond, and feed the duuuuuuuccccckkkkkkks." Director could see I had talent and allowed my well thought out decision to overemphasize the word ducks to remain in the final cut. Back at the parent's house I have a VHS copy somewhere. Other than that I made my hometown newspaper probably over 100 times with various sport and academic achievements.
@studerc I do some media work for the big Lacrosse, WI, Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Because nobody else wanted to be on camera, I'm in a major documentary shown world-wide. A cardinal, some Vatican experts, scientists, historians...and me???
@studerc hey i've been there!
I put the temperature of my hot tub on the internet. The world wide web was so young that the article about it in the New York Times Sunday Magazine include my street address, but not the URL.
I yelled "Fuck her in the Pussy" on a live weather remote outside the Mail about 2 years ago. The Camera and Mic guy were laughing but the on air guy was a tool.
@somf69 I think you are in a Youtube compilation.
@somf69 You're that guy. I hate that guy. If I'm not fast enough to hit the delay button my job gets threatened.
@radi0j0hn link?
@jqubed You had a delay button? Our definition of a character generator wasn't a Chyron, it was any live shot.
@DaveInSoCal Not you, but relevant: http://gawker.com/creator-of-fuck-her-right-in-the-pussy-admits-it-was-1677160604
There is a photo of me in my high school yearbook. That's about as famous as I'll ever get.
@cengland0 What about your goathood ?
Oh yeah, I forgot about that.
Most of my fame has been behind the scenes; stuff I was involved with or responsible for became famous. I've previously mentioned my part in winamp whipping the llama's ass, which touched everyone with a computer in the late 90s. And the clocktower incident just brought up in two truths and a lie was mentioned on NPR and holds a position in many top 10 college prank lists, clickbait though they are, right up there with legendary MIT and Harvard hacks. I'm happy to not personally make the spotlight.
One of the few times I was on TV, though, was when I was in high school and volunteered with a friend to work a call center for a Congressman's campaign. I saw the TV camera lights shining from behind me and was on a call. Someone touched me on the shoulder to get my attention and I said something quietly over my shoulder to the effect of "hush, I'm on the phone" without looking at what was going on. Later that night on the news I watched b-roll of myself, from behind, brushing off the congressman himself when he tried to say something to me (or maybe even get on the phone with a constituent). I don't think I even knew he was there as I was working the call lists like I was asked to do and not paying attention to anything else.
@djslack
How'd you feel when you saw what had happened?
@FroodyFrog kinda meh. A little "wow, I told a congressman to shut up" mixed with a little "I never knew that happened!". I wasn't really pulling for that congressman or even invested in politics, the call center gig was something a friend roped me into. I'm not even positive it was volunteer work, we might have been doing it for extra money now that I'm thinking about it.
@djslack That's funny. Did the congressman seem annoyed that you brushed (or shushed) him off?
@mehbee It was a wide shot from across the room and was just running as b-roll while the newscasters were talking about him coming to the area to visit with campaign workers. I didn't notice his reaction, that moment just happened to be the part that played.
I do remember that my movement/manner looked irritated and kind of rude. I did regret that a little, maybe.
@djslack You were involved in Winamp? I love Winamp! I'm really hoping its new owners can restore its glory.
@jqubed Nah, I wasn't, but I am behind the events leading to JJ McKay recording those words. https://meh.com/forum/topics/gogroove-move-l3d-mood-light-speaker#55e0a4b6e5e81c3401932b2b
We had a photography club back in high school. With a 'real' darkroom and everything (for those of you Millennials, this was back in the days of film cameras.) I had a half-assed camera, but loved playing with what you could do back in the day.
Got my picture in the local paper when the school got new equipment. Also took pictures of a classmate getting her car my senior year that was published in a Chrysler National Salespublication)
That's all she wrote.
Well, at least all I can tell. I have other claims to fame, but if I told you, I'd have to kill you, lest I go to jail.
@Cerridwyn I miss the smell of darkrooms.
@Cerridwyn @connorbush
That's nothing. In my day, we didn't have cameras with this newfangled film. Instead, we had to wait for the photographer to set up his camera, and then prepare the flash powder.
Risky business i tell you, especially since the powder couldn't be wet, or else.
@connorbush it was fun. And I had a source for free color development of film and slides as well, but we were only set up for black and white.
Photo paper had texture, like an oil painting, and you would choose the texture for the effect you wanted.
We lost something in the art word when we went all digital. We gained things too, but some of the art went out of photography.
And oddly, these days, although I own what was in it's day a high end digital SLR camera, I rarely use it. I don't even do pics with my cell phone often save for silliness sake.
@connorbush me too.
I met a guy who the radioman on the Nautilus. THAT impressed me!
Two quick ones. I was a regular radio panelist on a NYC comedy quiz show with the incomparable Dick Summer. I got to meet other hosts at the station including Dr. Ruth. During college in the late 70's I was the Student Union Chair so got to have dinner with acts we booked like Billy Joel and Harry Chapin.
Shortly after 9/11 I me and my girlfriend (ex-girlfriend at the time, but still a good friend) went down to Ground Zero. While there and looking at the site I was comforting her and we were hugging. An AP photographer took a picture of us and it circulated pretty widely. It was on a montage on Oprah (with a further coincidence that my friend had been on Oprah at one point years earlier). And the Washington Post's website used it as one of four or five rotating pictures in its 9/11 dedicated section. The pictures were things like a picture of an F-16, a Marine burial ceremony, President Bush, and then me hugging my friend staring at Ground Zero.
I ran a pretty successful start-up dotcom in the late '90s, early 2000's. I was a 20-something making 450k on a side-gig. That was pretty great. It dried up once Amazon and Ebay started getting big, but we had a good 4-year run.
Oh, and I met Paul McCartney. That was cool.
I nearly had 900 up votes on a reddit comment a while back.
@Kevin Hey its me ur brother.
i haven't had my 15 minutes of fame yet. i'm hoping it'll happen this wednesday when i hit that 1.4 billion powerball.
@carl669 I hope you do too. You deserve it.
@carl669 You should totally do the breakfast octopus hand signal in your interview if you win. Unless you are lucky to be in one of the states that allows you to stay anonymous.
@MrMark If I were to win, I'd change my name to something a little more ethnic before claiming my money. No one would expect Juan Rodriguez to be a white dude
@MrMark YES! i will definitely do that. when the interviewer asks what i'm doing, i'll just shout "breakfast octopus motherfuckers!"
I played a German pilot on a moderately successful 80s comedy called The Three Amigos
@capguncowboy Cool! Were you featured? Did you have lines?
@ACraigL
I should have expressed that this was merely a joke, but I suppose that ruins the fun
@capguncowboy I was really really hoping this was real. Take it back!
@luvche21 I too wish it was true. By far, one of the best comedies of all time. However, I was only 3 at the time. I probably wouldn't have been very convincing in that role.
I was featured in a few Ask Irk Questions... Oh and a short video had a clip of me! I lead the rebellion of toilet papering Meh HQ Aside from that... I have been keeping a low profile... I do Extra life and stream it... but Sadly When I post on Twitter I lose followers... I had 300+ before I made a single post... I start posting and it dries up faster than a puddle in the desert!
@sohmageek Yeah well, I don't have a life either so...
[edit: Damn, I forgot that sarcasm emoticon again. ;-} ]
Or is that the smart ass emoticon. I'm easily confused.
One time they asked me stuff on The People's Court.
@Starblind I was on the People's Court back in September. Same thing as you.
Many years ago when I was in 9th grade (1976) I was the emcee of our school's annual Veteran's Day program. I got to shake the hand of, and get an autograph from, our Arkansas Attorney General William Jefferson Clinton. His life went downhill from there.
when I was a newborn, I starred in the instructional "how to bathe your baby" video at the hospital
That one time when the Travel Channel followed my girlfriend and me to Japan to ride the world's longest roller coaster. http://www.travelchannel.com/shows/insane-coaster-wars-world-domination/video/japan-s-steel-dragon-2000
Some people on the internet found me trustworthy enough to allow me to moderate comments on an ecommerce site.
@Thumperchick
Well you know what they say...
Right?
RIGHT?!?
My first claim was the night that involved 2 nurses. It lasted longer then 15 minutes but I was a young buck back then. LOL.
I did a lot of security at our restored movie theater. I met and interacted with lots of entertainers. Took David Copperfield to the mall so he could do some shopping.
He's great on stage but a jerk when he's off.
My favorite was BB King. After the show was invited into his dressing room and I had him sign the back of my business card. He was class act to everyone he crossed paths with backstage. That's not the norm.
When I was in 9th grade the band director at our high school was accused of having sexual relations with a female student and I was interviewed by the news getting students reactions to the accusation. I wasn't even in band.
I once had a newscast I directed rebroadcast on ABC's World News Now. But that was 30 minutes not 15 so how about I sat directly behind Bob Hope and his wife during the taping of a Bob Hope Special onboard the USS Lexington (CVT-16) in Pensacola.
And then there was this:
And then this:
@BillLehecka You are my hero.
I had an article published in Rolling Stone.
I was just trying to score some drugs, next thing I knew I found myself in a Mexican jungle at the compound of El Chapo. When I returned to the U.S., Rolling Stone asked me to write about the experience. (The Feds have questions, too. Um – looks like they’re arriving now. Quick! Send my attor . . .
@KDemo Sweet! It also turns out you were also married to an old coworker's cousin, then, too. If you ever come back to visit, stop by and say hey!
@djslack - Will do! As soon as I clear up this little misunderstanding.
I guess for me I've had two things. Earlier this year, I was interviewed with my family during an entire episode of the People's Court (as mentioned earlier) and twenty years ago, I hit a hole in one on local Detroit television. It was pretty exciting to have my greatest shot televised.
My mom called me "adorable" in the LA Times when I was 7 when she was being interviewed about something.
Up until two years ago when I bought my name as a .com it was the first Google result for my name.
Prospective employers who Googled my name learned that I was very adorable.
I won Chopped a few years back. Quite fun.
@AnnaB What were your dishes?
@AnnaB My wife watches Food Network religiously. Got an season/episode number you care to share?
@JerseyFrank I think it was Season 19 maybe Episode 7. It was called Cool, Palm, and Perfected.
@AnnaB Blowfish tails?!? o_O
@FroodyFrog Relax, they were farm raised, and were not poisonous.
Oh. You know, now that you mentioned that they were not poisonous, I think I remember seeing this episode?
Really?
Yeah.
Well good for you.
Thanks :)
I was on a radio promotion in 2006 called "Mall survivor" to try and win a PS3 (just released and impossible to get). 5 of us living in a shop in the mall for 5 days. Each morning we would go into the station and goof off with the morning show. At the end of the morning show, the listeners vote 1 person off. We did events at bars, local hockey games, restaurants, comedy club (got hypnotized by Jay Medicine Hat) by etc. Otherwise, we hung out in the shop and chatted with people who would come by and talk to us.
I slept on the cement floor for 5 days, and got 2nd place. Got a stack of 30 promotional CDs as my prize... totally not worth it.
I was invited to star in an infomercial for ING Direct's then-little-known 5/1 ARM mortgage. I was offered $250 and a coffee mug for an hour of my time. I got them to also ask my wife, also for another $250. And a coffee mug.
We are given a bunch of canned, leading questions and play our part dutifully. I'd often take the lead in answering. They'd let me finish and then have my wife repeat the same thing so that they could have plenty of material to produce the desired cut in post production.
That cut consisted of my wife on-camera along with my elbow on the edge of the frame. It was easily the most money that elbow has ever earned.
@JerseyFrank
I hope you thanked your elbow.
@FroodyFrog