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Famous people meme

• Posted by Rob (#1) on July 18, 2006 23:08 CEST

I'm starting a meme:

List all famous people you have met and tell how. You must have actually spoken to them and preferably they had some clue who you are. Then appoint five people to repost the meme and say who you think they would love to meet.

Here's mine in approximate order of notability:

• The Offspring. In 1996 I hosted the most prominent website and ran a mailinglist for the band. When the operator of the site, Cory Hammer, got a job at Epitapth to work on the then new official site, that eventually resulted in an after-show pass for me and the opportunity to hang out with Dexter Holland, Noodles and Greg.
• Nerf Herder. They always chat up their fans after a gig and I made them say something funny on video. One of the band members used to date Alyson Hannigan (of Buffy the Vampire Slayer for which NH did the theme song, American Wedding), so that's a pretty cool indirect bonus as well.
• A. Travelled to London for a concert in 2001 (my first foreign trip just to see a gig). Hooked up with some fans who waited outside to meet the band. One of the band members threw a cucumber and some casino chips at us in a friendly manner. Fun. And Jason gave me a beer at the Amsterdam concert, which was a lot more intimate with a crowd of 30 people or so.
• PinBoys. Saw them twice in Rotterdam and they remembered me the second time because we hung out a while the first time. In May I chatted them up on MySpace because I was going to travel to Copenhagen to see them (and the lovely Kirsten), which I did, so we chatted again.
• Cheap Thrills. Another band I follow. I'm now making a web site for them and hope they will get signed and become more than a local Dutch band.
• Patrick Volkerding. Met him at Linux World. I run Slackware, so to me he's quite famous.
• Rob Malda of Slashdot fame. Met him at several Linux World's. We got along and had a running joke on both being Rob from Holland (he's from Michigan, I'm from the country). It's easy to meet high-profile people from the open source world, my list includes Richard M. Stallman, Eric S. Raymond and of course most of the active KDE developers through my participance in the KDE project.
• Maxi from Mini and Maxi, a popular Dutch music/comedy act. One of the singers lives in Oostvoorne, where my parents live, and we talked briefly at a bistro there once or twice.
• Judith Nijssen. Surely some people will remember the girl who covered "I will survive" with the Hermes House Band. She's married to my ex-employer. Met her at the office several times, and at their house when installing his wireless network.

I'm appointing: Inge (wants to meet Evanescence's Amy more than Lauri/Aki or James Marsters, I bet), Dorith (Kotani Kinya?), Charlotte (Rufus?), Neil (George Bush) and Kris (no idea so I'll just say Ville Valo). Happy meming!

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