CONFESS!!!! What is your claim to fame???

[LynneSin]

Me?

I'm the one that started the trend of saying 'challenges' instead of 'problems'

[driver8]

1. I came up with the phrase, "LIVE Nude Dancing"...

It used to be "Nude Dancing"...but I came up with the idea of adding "LIVE"!

[Chan790]

2. I got thrown out of the state Academic Bowl competition for being right.

On statewide TV.

No lie. I got thrown off because I got asked a question that I knew the answer to and when they said I was wrong I went absolutely ballistic and called out the judges. Told the moderator to shut the fuck up. Afterward, I told them off in the reception as I carried around a book proving I was right.

[Kali]

3. sounds like GD

[Chan790]

10. I dunno.

I mean yes, but even GD would have gotten this right. It was "What celebration of the Jewish calendar was Jesus arrested during?"

The answer is Passover. It's not a hard question.

The moron judges said it was Pentecost (which means 50th day...it's the 50th day after the resurrection and celebrates the Holy Ghost bestowing the gift of tongues on the disciples.) I was super super religious at that point (I was entering the seminary.) and after I offered to go fetch a Bible, they still said I was wrong because the notecard said I was wrong.

It's right out of "The Moops" episode of Seinfeld.

[Kali]

15. I think I stand by the gd thought.

even more after that - yes moops

[Lindsey]

4. I actually came up with "The Dude" (not really). I just wanted to

make sure that my star took!

[Lindsey]

5. Oh no, where's my star???????????? n/t

[Kali]

17. seems to be there

I can see it.

[denbot]

6. I invented the inner-tubes..

Where's my parade?

[MilesColtrane]

7. I had a drink named after me in a local restaurant.

(It was actually a particular shot/chaser combination to be precise, and it wasn't on the menu, but when someone ordered a *MilesColtrane* the bartenders knew what to pour.)

[here_is_to_hope]

8. My Daughter, Stella

[Bucky]

9. I have created a parallel Earth

But it's not famous yet.

[Moondog]

11. I can hit the spot called "G"

with my tongue, whilst humming "The Flight of the Bumblebee" (in a baritone register).

:P

[Chan790]

12. I must learn that trick.

Teach me oh wise and benevolent sensei.

[Moondog]

23. Very well, grasshopper.

First, judging from your photograph, you must learn to groom your eyebrows. The hard way.

Report back when you have accomplished this.

[Chan790]

25. That's a drawing of John Maynard Keynes.

My eyebrows are well groomed.



That was my Halloween costume. "vaguely-creepy sexy nerd."

[Moondog]

26. ~

Never mind.

[struggle4progress]

13. I started the "Amish punk" fad that everyone remembers so fondly

[MilesColtrane]

14. Wow. You were an original member of the Butthole Rumspingas?

[struggle4progress]

18. No, they shunned me for being inadequately Amish

[abq e streeter]

16. one of my old college roommates is the actual author of the words : "Tough actin' tinactin".

Guess that's really his claim to fame, not mine...

[Crystal Clarity]

19. I invented post its.

Yup. It was me. :evilgrin:

[Kali]

20. I was cited in a published book for my work on diagenesis (anthropological context).

what I actually did was take daily pictures of a dead bull decomposing and then the scattering of the skeleton. None of them got published.

[Duer 157099]

21. Big Bang? That was me.

I don't usually tell people that though.

[Joe Fields]

22. I was kicked out of Texas and told never to come back...(yea!!)

[yankeepants]

24. I have a world class New Year's DAY party every year!

Food Food Food. Champagne. Rum and eggnog. Oyster Stew. Guiness Venison stew. Eight varieties of quiche. Shrimp. Barbecue and tons more. Starts at 11 AM and we end it around 8 pm.

Card Tournament (pitch) and many big laughs. And this year a full size Tepee complete with fire inside in the backyard for the smokers.


It's all to celebrate the END OF THE HOLIDAYS!

I also cured the chronic stress diarrhea at the dog kennel that I work at by introducing mandatory probiotics in the diet of every dog there but I don't like to brag.

[madinmaryland]

27. I know how much a brazilian is, and I have had

sex in a tollbooth!

[amerikat]

32. What exit? Did you have to pay a toll?

Beats having sex in the EZ-Pass.

[gratuitous]

28. During my undergrad days

I was introduced to a prospective student as a legend in my own time. By the professor of psychology. To this day (30 years later) I do not know what he meant by that. But it's a claim to fame for sure.

[Dinger]

29. Seriously?

I played the piano for Liberace once, for real. I was 16 at the time.

[Ptah]

30. In real life, I am known far and wide for my welding and fabricatins skills.

In the lounge I am known to be a nighthawk,




a parent,




a sunflower gardener,



and a goof.



********Edit to add ------------>

in mythology, I am the creator!!!!! {Ptah for the win!!!!!!!!}



It was said (in the Shabaka Stone) that it was Ptah who called the world into being,
having dreamt creation in his heart, and speaking it, his name meaning opener,
in the sense of opener of the mouth. Indeed the opening of the mouth ceremony,
performed by priests at funerals to release souls from their corpses, was said to
have been created by Ptah. Atum was said to have been created by Ptah to rule over
the creation, sitting upon the primordial mound.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptah

[EFerrari]

31. My contribution to pop culture, "Caribou Barbie".

lol

Not my published poems, not my muckraking essays, not the people I met booking comedy. Oh, no. It was something posted on DU late on a snarky late Friday night Palin thread.

:rofl:

[keroro gunsou]

44. and we love you for it

i guess.... :evilgrin:

[Tikki]

33. I can flip you off...

I can do the 'flip you off' with all five fingers on my hand...
Geez, I wish there was a way to show you.....

Tikki

[CaliforniaPeggy]

34. My dear LynneSin...

Um, I suspect you already know....

The thread in GD?

Yeah.

That one...:blush:

[Name removed]

36. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[LynneSin]

48. OMG someone got their message deleted replying to you

always wondered what I missed.

Not sure of what thread you speak of in GD. Were you recently patted down by TSA?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

49. Not to worry!

I spoke privately to the poster who is a friend of mine. Said poster was making a joke, but it was a bit over the top shall we say?

Said poster offered to have the post deleted, and so it was done.

I was referring to my thread offering to buy starless folk a star...

:hi:

[applegrove]

35. I posted the hymn "fight the good fight" on the DU in 2004 and that phrase went viral.

I've loved that phrase since they hymn was sung at my grandfather's funeral.

[A HERETIC I AM]

37. I'm the reason all Formula One Team truck drivers coat the treads of their tires with tire dressing

when they are parked at a European Grand Prix.

Back in the 1990's. I worked for an engine manufacturer that built engines for Indy Cars and subsequently Formula One. I drove their technical support tractor trailer.

This one;


It had long been my practice to not only coat the sidewall of the tires with tire dressing (I didn't use "Armor All" but a professional grade tire dressing I bought by the gallon) but the tread as well. I would use a small screwdriver to pick put every single little pebble that would stick to the grooves of the tires and then proceed to dress them. I included the inside of both the steer tires and the inside of the outer and inner tires of the drive and trailer tandems. I would liberally spray on the dressing then after a few minutes, wipe off with a sponge. The resulting effect was the tires would be so shiny you could see yourself in the black sidewalls. You can see the gleam on the sidewalls in the above picture.

Here's a pic of that Peterbilt with the engine cover raised where you can see the left front steer tire with the tread dressed;


The owner of the company liked what I did and their driver of their Formula One truck was sent pictures and asked to replicate what I did on their F1 truck at the European races. I was asked to send him a case or two of the tire dressing.

I was told that after the first race at which he duplicated my methods, every single race team "truckee" was doing the same thing.

So if it continues to this day by all these guys;

it was because I started it in the US.

Now...I don't claim to be the first display truck driver to spray tire dressing on the treads of his tires.

But I do claim to be the one who perfected it with a working truck that rolled in to a racetrack on Wednesday, shined like a mirror all weekend and left Sunday night to such an extent that the entire paddock of an international racing series half a world away emulated my methods.


Obscure, but there you go.

[PJPhreak]

38. My claim to fame?

Being the crazed Hippy that smoked a Doob in the Rotunda of the Texas State Capitol...Nightly on my way home from work!

Also did the same thing in a Judges Chair overlooking the Courtroom...And in Hizzoners Chambers.

Really I did...Tho this was so long ago I'm sure the Statute of Limitations has long run out.

Sex inna Tollbooth? How about the Unemployment Office Steps? Yup,Texas Workforce Commission Office on Guadlupe in Austin....Again Really!

Jus doing my part to help Keep Austin Weird!

[bluedigger]

39. I won the inaugural Chester Greenwood Day race when I was 17.

It's been downhill ever since, but they can NEVER take that away from me!:rofl:

[sakabatou]

40. The Life and Death of Maes Hughes video

look it up.

[denem]

41. Being me.

Not much but it's enough.

I could have done callous but real damage. I chose not to.

[AllenVanAllen]

42. Jon Stewart's Earth (The Book)

has a sculpture of mine in it. Uncredited, but still a cosmic win.

[LynneSin]

45. OOOO I just bought that book.

What page?

[AllenVanAllen]

53. In the chapter on marriage on page 77

It's a Hulk action figure at the bottom of the page. I did the master sculpture for the figure, China and the photographer did the rest. Although not one of my favorite sculpts, I'm not complaining. :)

[keroro gunsou]

43. standing up to the repiglican....

that owns the franchise where i work over his choice to spend more on internal security cams to catch the employees stealing at my location than on advertising for the new menu items and still managing to keep my job....

oh, did i mention that 90% of the staff where i work is non-white, in one of the the whitest, tea-baggin', republican suburbs in wisconsin? silly me.... :evilgrin:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

46. truly? in a very small circle of people -- I am the ex of a fairly well known

horse trainer.

[hobbit709]

47. won't say, the statute of limitations hasn't expired yet.

[NV Whino]

50. Designed the graphics

for the Emergency 911 signs in CA. (Minus the hyphens. That came later when they discovered that there are certain members of our society who couldn't find the eleven on the phone. True story.)

[MiddleFingerMom]

51. I may have been the first person to streak in Europe when the craze hit in the States in the 70's.

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I was in the Army in Germany and we had read about streaking. I decided to do it
here -- and all the medics got involved. We treated it like a bank heist, as no one
knew how severe the response might be if I were caught. We had diagrams of the
movie theater I had decided on -- both inside and the surrounding terrain. We had
an inside man on the job who left a key door unlocked for me and set a garbage
can upside-down inside the high fencegate that I had decided to vault over on my
way out.
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Stopped at a German apartment complex's well-shrubberied quadrangle across the
street from the post and took off all but my underwear (I wore my unit's distinctive
black beret, combat boots, gamma goat goggles -- big driving goggles -- and a
surgical mask).Waited 'til no traffic and climbed the fencegate mentioned above. Sat
behind a dumpster by the side door that had been left unlocked until Security drove
by in their Jeep.
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Dropped the underwear (shivering like a maniac... it was COLD and drizzly that night).
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STOP it. Cold and drizzly... that's my story and I'm sticking with it.
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Was blinded by the lights of the empty lobby that I crept through. Waited at one of
the entrances for the right moment -- movie screen brightly-lit so I could see once
I was IN tne theater itself. Took off running for the center aisle JUST as the screen
went completely black -- couldn't see a thing. My arms swinging, I cut the corner a
LEETLE too sharp and WHACKED the back of the head of the guy sitting on the corner.
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His, "MOTHERFUCKER!!!!!" alerted the crowd to the fact that something was amiss.
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As planned, I started screaming our company motto... and could hear nervous laughter
(there were a LOT of people losing it over there -- and the crowd at first thought it
was just someone else who had snapped). I was CONVINCED there were footsteps
RIGHT behind me (turns out when the crowd did realize what I was doing, I got a
standing ovation that moved down row-by-row with me -- the applause was the
"footsteps" that I heard).
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My partners-in-crime had arrived early and had taken all the front seats on the side
where I was to make my exit (to block/tackle anyone who might have chased me).
I hit the door release bar... ... ... ... and it didn't open.
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I thought our inside man had betrayed me as a joke (and my only way out now was
to get up on that well-lit screen stage :rofl:). Hit it again and it opened. Hit the
garbage can on the fly and VAULTED over that fencegate (still convinced someone
was right behind me, I'm not sure I ever had to touch it). Sprained my ankle BADLY
on my landing (got out of two month's running because of that -- got to ride my
bike instead in the nearby park -- WOOHOO!!!).
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Went up to the EM Club (bar) onpost and I and my buddies listened to the crowd
arriving post-movie and all the excited misinformation that was flying.
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Serious good times.
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Oh... after I sprained my ankle... the road I had to cross back over had TONS of traffic
stopped waiting for the light to change, so I had to, um... you know... LIMP (cold and
drizzly, remember?) buck nekkid (except for my bizarre accessories) across the street
THROUGH all those waiting Germans, who simply laughed and beeped and hooted and
applauded.
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Germany was (and Germans were) so cool.
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[zipplewrath]

52. I "almost" run down celebrities

I'll be walking along, or worse running, and not paying attention, and then just about run over some celebrity. I was "nose to nose" with Sofia Loren, much to the shock of her body guards, in Paris. Ran across a street as she was getting out of a limo at the hotel. I wasn't looking where I was going until the last second.

I was equally nose to nose with Tom Cruise. He was going out the door, I was going in, we were both "looking back" saying good bye to people when we met in the doorway.

I was at a very crowded bar in NYC, down in Soho, trying to get a drink. It was 3 deep and I was in "row two". Some guy in row three was crowding a tad close and I was about to jab an elbow to create a bit of personal space, when I thought better of it. I looked over my shoulder to see Willem Dafoe standing there.

I was walking through Central Park in NYC when someones small (very small) dog suddenly decided my ankle would make a good chew toy. I was about to give it a swift kick, when Marsha Mason turned around and yanked it back.

I was not being careful when walking through a packing area at the Perris, CA dropzone and I hooked my foot on the lines of "Mary Ellen's" parachute (Judy Norton Taylor of The Walton's fame). A very undiplomatic and generally not cool thing to do to someone repacking their parachute.