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Posted: Mar 12 2009 05:12 pm

The place I work at sells gold toilets, so I see rappers like Master P all the time. Ok, I'm lying about all of that, but when I used to work at Office Depot, Head from Korn would come in occasionally. He was ok I guess, just sucks everyone's celebrity stories around here revolve around Korn,

I once saw Scott Bacula at a shop in Oxnard.

Posted: Mar 12 2009 07:39 pm

Burt Reynolds wrote:

I once saw Scott Bacula at a shop in Oxnard.

Lucky bastard! I LOVE Scott Bakula. I would love to meet him. The irony is, the theatre I worked at did a play with him in it like five months after I got fired...I was so sad. :/

Posted: Mar 13 2009 02:32 am

SoldierHawk wrote:

Burt Reynolds wrote:

I once saw Scott Bacula at a shop in Oxnard.

Lucky bastard! I LOVE Scott Bakula. I would love to meet him. The irony is, the theatre I worked at did a play with him in it like five months after I got fired...I was so sad. :/

Meh, John DeLancie's cooler IMO.

Posted: Mar 13 2009 02:35 am

lordsathien wrote:

SoldierHawk wrote:

Burt Reynolds wrote:

I once saw Scott Bacula at a shop in Oxnard.

Lucky bastard! I LOVE Scott Bakula. I would love to meet him. The irony is, the theatre I worked at did a play with him in it like five months after I got fired...I was so sad. :/

Meh, John DeLancie's cooler IMO.

I do love John de L. He actually came back to the theatre a few years later because he was in town for Comic Con and wanted to see a play. I happened to be the one he bought the ticket from, and he totally recognized me and was like, "hey, you saved my ass on that play helping me learn my lines!"

So yes, he is totally awesome. I do love Scott B though.

Posted: Mar 15 2009 02:30 pm

Taylor Hawkins (drummer of the Foo Fighters) used to play golf alot where my roommate used to caddy in Northern Virginia.

Posted: Mar 15 2009 04:11 pm

Art Alexakis of Everclear is a really cool guy. I met him backstage when I interned for a radio station at one of those compilation concerts that go on every now and then, and we talked for a good 5 minutes about all kinds of stuff.

When I worked at a hoity toity Chinese restaurant in Sacramento, players from the Sacramento Kings would come in all the time, like Vlade Divac, Chris Webber (who came in once with his girlfriend at the time, Tyra Banks, who was a total bitch), and Predrag Stojakovic who was on fire at the time.

I also met John Woo when he had a pitch dinner at the restaurant while checking out Sacramento as a possible movie location.

Posted: Mar 16 2009 10:47 pm

I would trade a couple of these for Scott Bakula, haha, but ever since Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana's been kind of a hotbed of celebrity activity, and I have celebrity savvy and pop-culture nerd friends, so I've been privy to the following:

-Willie Nelson. He got arrested (or something) in New Iberia (about 15 minutes south of my house) and he was actually courteous enough to sign autographs as he walked out of the courthouse on his court date.

-Ali Landry and Mario Lopez. This was kind of a given, as I worked at Dillards at the time, and Ali's hometown is about 10 minutes northeast of here.

- Tommy Lee Jones. Word has it he ate at a particular restaurant in New Iberia every night while they were filming In The Electric Mist here, and it was my good fortune to have my sister eating at said restaurant just as he came in. Couldn't pass that shit up. Got a phone call from my sis, rushed on down, got him to sign a copy of Batman Forever lol.

- Philip Anselmo. New Orleans mainstay. But is kind of a jerk.

-Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie... almost. I was in New Orleans on a family vacation, literally arriving there about 12 hours after they'd left. Ah well.

-Ron Jeremy. His standup comedy sucks and it's outrageous that he actually charges to take pictures with him, but well, you can't pass an opportunity to pose with the Hedgehog. And... yeah, I paid $15 to take a picture with him. Sad.

If I were a bigger nerd, I'd move to Shreveport. It's 3 hours north of here, but it's starting to turn into Hollywood, Jr.

Posted: Mar 16 2009 10:53 pm

Undeath wrote:

- Philip Anselmo. New Orleans mainstay. But is kind of a jerk.

NICE! Was this before or after the heroin?

Not me, but my Dad flies Texas politicians sometimes (he's a pilot.) He flew George W. Bush before he was president, Lady Bird Johnson, a few others.
And my mom actually worked for Mr. Harry Whittington, AKA the man that Dick Cheney shot in the face. We couldn't believe it when it happened, we were watching The Daily Show in disbelief. The next day at school, I got to tell everyone that I'd met and shook hands with the guy Dick Cheney shot in the face. I bet I could use that as a pickup line.

Posted: Mar 16 2009 10:54 pm

That guy from the Steelers, used to be quarterback wide reciever, kick returner, punter...can't remember his name, Billy Blanks and Kurt Angle. A guy who worked at the game store roomed with him at Clarion. Sadly his wife did not accompany him. Billy is an energetic spaz though.

Posted: Mar 16 2009 11:20 pm

Douche McCallister wrote:

That guy from the Steelers, used to be quarterback wide reciever, kick returner, punter...can't remember his name, Billy Blanks and Kurt Angle. A guy who worked at the game store roomed with him at Clarion. Sadly his wife did not accompany him. Billy is an energetic spaz though.

Hahaha Tae Bo Billy Blanks?? That is random as a motherfucker.

I don't trust him...

Posted: Mar 16 2009 11:37 pm

Douche McCallister wrote:

That guy from the Steelers, used to be quarterback wide reciever, kick returner, punter...can't remember his name,

kordell stewart?

Posted: Mar 19 2009 08:34 am

Douche McCallister wrote:

That guy from the Steelers, used to be quarterback wide reciever, kick returner, punter...can't remember his name

Antwaan Randle-El I believe.

Posted: Mar 19 2009 12:43 pm

username wrote:

Douche McCallister wrote:

That guy from the Steelers, used to be quarterback wide reciever, kick returner, punter...can't remember his name,

kordell stewart?

DING!! Thank you that's been bugging me to know end.

Posted: Mar 19 2009 01:13 pm

Douche McCallister wrote:

username wrote:

Douche McCallister wrote:

That guy from the Steelers, used to be quarterback wide reciever, kick returner, punter...can't remember his name,

kordell stewart?

DING!! Thank you that's been bugging me to know end.

glad to be of help. Kordell go in there and punt

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Not huge celebrities, but we always get the Penn State coaches (Paterno, Dechellis,) stopping into restaurants I've worked at.

Posted: Mar 19 2009 06:23 pm

This was not at a job but one time I was at a fancy restaurant in Keystone, Colorado and a couple tables away was the owner and head coach of the Colorado Avalanche.

Title: Midnight Scientist Joined: Dec 07 2006 Posts: 518

A while back my dad did security and met Tommy Dreamer and Nunzio at a wrestling event. I had a chance to go but was sick. Oh how angry I was.

And Arnold Schwarzenegger. He said Arnold was kind of a dick. Huh.

Posted: Mar 20 2009 12:09 am

IceWarm wrote:

This was not at a job but one time I was at a fancy restaurant in Keystone, Colorado and a couple tables away was the owner and head coach of the Colorado Avalanche.

Tony Granato owns them too?

Posted: Mar 22 2009 12:28 am

I just thought of one when Douche mentioned Kurt Angle.

We waited outside after a RAW show here about 5 or so years ago to see who we could get to sign shit... and the only autograph and photo we got was with Rico. At least it was after the Billy and Chuck fiasco.