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Subject: 15 Minutes of Fame
What was your 15 minutes and your claim to fame?
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My claim is that I once was in an online reality game with someone who claims to be the (former?) bodyguard of pop star Jessica Simpson.
...oh, and my great-great-great-uncle was the first man run over by a car in Charlotte....seriously, according to my grandmother.
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hmmmmm I have a few - but my fav one is the cheesiest one.
I had several scenes in a seriously SERIOUSLY bad 80's teen movie called Summer of 18 which starred Courtney Thorne Smith and Mariska Hargitay (in her first ever movie role). It was filmed in Lake Tahoe when I was living there and my boss did all the legal work for the film.
Its such a BAD movie that it never gets mentioned in the "classics" !!! And in all these years I have seen it once on TV at like 3am !!
I was also accused of being in a bitter love triangle with Courtney and her fella CD Barnes because he ran into me at the grocery store and drove me and my groceries home. It became a story in some tacky Nat.Enquirer type mag and forever etched into my mind that I despise lying paparrazzi photographers and to this day I refuse to purchase magazines that buy and publish photos from paparrazzi.
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Um, I guess taking 2nd place in the local Mars Music CD-DJ Spinoff in 2001. But I'm somewhat of a celebrity in certain circles here in the Triangle, from DJing at various venues over the years...
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Well, when I was 5 I was in a tap/ballet recital. For some reason the news was there (human interest story, I guess). The reporter asked me a couple of questions and I was on the news.
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I don't really have a 15 minutes of fame, but the only claim to any kind of fame I have is being related to Jane Seymour the 3rd wife of King Henry VIII, she is the wife who Henry VIII is buried with.
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My daughter and I got our pictures in the New York Times about a month and a half ago. The reporter was doing an article about food being marketed to kids by giving it fun shapes and weird colors.
I've occasionally called the local radio station and been put on the air during the morning show. Usually for their "Agony Aunt" special. Someone writes or e-mails the station with a problem (usually of a love/sex/romance nature) and the question is turned over to the listeners for advic
And my dad grew up in the same neighborhood as a very famous fugitive Mobster. :P
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I was one of the extras in Godzilla running away from the monster in the streets of Tokyo. Look for the Asian guy with the glasses ;)
*joke*
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I don't really have a 15 minutes of fame, but the only claim to any kind of fame I have is being related to Jane Seymour the 3rd wife of King Henry VIII, she is the wife who Henry VIII is buried with.
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So am I!
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I was one of the extras in Godzilla running away from the monster in the streets of Tokyo. Look for the Asian guy with the glasses ;)
*joke*
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OMG!! I remember seeing you in that movie!!! :D
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OMG!! I remember seeing you in that movie!!! :D
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Oh wow! You saw him too? ;D
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Oh wow! You saw him too? ;D
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Yeah!! :D I think he was in Gung Ho with Michael Keaton and George Wendt... ;D
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Yeah!! :D I think he was in Gung Ho with Michael Keaton and George Wendt... ;D
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Oooooh! You think he'll sign autographs? ;D
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OMG!! I remember seeing you in that movie!!! :D
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Was he the one screaming?
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Oooooh! You think he'll sign autographs? ;D
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I don't know. I heard he was busy with ER but I hardly ever see him on the show... ::)
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I don't know. I heard he was busy with ER but I hardly ever see him on the show... ::)
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LOL!
Yeah Jonman, he was the one screaming. :D So you saw him too? ;D
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Yeah Jonman, he was the one screaming. :D So you saw him too? ;D
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My screaming deserved an Academy Award nomination, darn it! That was the best screaming scene EVER! >:( ;D
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When we went on a trip to Virginia Beach, There was a big hurricane predicted called " Hurricane Emily". While everybody else was leaving, we stayed. it turned out it was nothing.We were on the news. I was sleeping in the bathroom ( I was only a year old back then).
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i've been in the news paper twice - once was for being in a japanese class (these japanese dude from a local college came to my elementary school and taught us some japanese) and another time was for my art. (that sounds so stuck up. :D)
my one uncle has met danny wegman (his family started the wegman's grocery store chain in new york). my cousin said danny's son is really annoying. lol.
and my history teacher was an extra in "gettysburg."
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I put this up earlier, then removed it, then decided to take the advice from a friend and just leave it up:
My 15 minutes were wasted by my being Miss Teen-age Texas 198-.
No big shakes, not a National Pageant or anything, and my Mother was happier about it than I was. :-/
'Nuff said. ::)
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OK, so I'll give you my 15 minutes of fame. When I was in high school, I was on a local version of "College Bowl" called "High School Bowl." Wish I had a VCR back then.
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I guess me being interviewed on ESPN would qualify as a 15 minutes of fame? :-/
But as for meeting famous people, I have had the pleasure of meeting quite a few, but the most memorable one for me was getting p!ss drunk with Fred Durst at a birthday party :o
("It wasn't me" - that's my story & I am sticking to it) ::)
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I guess me being interviewed on ESPN would qualify as a 15 minutes of fame? :-/
But as for meeting famous people, I have had the pleasure of meeting quite a few, but the most memorable one for me was getting p!ss drunk with Fred Durst at a birthday party :o
("It wasn't me" - that's my story & I am sticking to it) ::)
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Now that would be cool!
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So am I!
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Really?
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My claim to fame is that my fifteen minutes (of fame) has lasted for fifteen years, so far ! :D
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My 15 minutes was a film (which is about 15 minutes long). I created a film about the orginazation that I volunteer forabout 2 years ago. It was shown on public access t.v. It was shown again at our United Way meeting last week and I am still recieving completments about that. Yesterday my pic was in one local paper and today there was an article about the orginazation in another paper. But, they spelled my name wrong. :( I really hate when that happens.
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I was an extra in the movie Thinner, but no matter how many times I slow down the damned film, I can't see myself. Guess I'm just cutting room floor material more than fame material.
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I guess it depends on what you mean by fame. My letters get published in the local paper regularly - but they publish just about everything. I wrote to my governor and got a response with a personal note about them - he said he mostly agreed. I get published in scholarly journals on a regular basis. But you know, does any of this really matter? My impression of you all is that you are all hard working, good people, who should all get lots more "moments of fame" - I mean recognition - than you do. Its the average, hard working folks that make this world work, and the "leaders" that F**K it up.
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I did forget to mention that my great-grandfather founded Price Chopper supermarkets (for those people who are in the Northeast). At the time it was called Central Markets. My great-grandfather sold his half of the company to his partner. That is the family who owns it now. On their web-site, they make is sound that it was their family who came up with all the good ideas when it was my great-grandfather. Well, I guess that how it goes. At least they mention him.
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