Do you have a "Claim to Fame"?

My boasts:My 25 year-old daughter is a casting assistant for the television series "Without A Trace." She previously worked as a production assistant for the television series "Supernatural".

I will share out of my treasure.
Mid nineteen seventys. Pontiac Michigan. The silverdome. Capacity:eighty thousand. Attendance:two to three hundred. Event: Div II A.S.L championship. Under three minutes left, the score is still zero-zero. Slide tackle, steal the ball, break down the left wing, pursuers hot on my heels, I let off a shot. To this day I haven't a clue where that strength came from, but, that ball soared about thirty five yards into the upper right corner of the net.

I attended a Conway Twitty concert, at a time when he would have attracted an audience of just three hundred ninety nine persons. My entrance rounded out the whole four hundred. (Shortly after that, he went from rockabilly to country, and expanded his fan base).

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Thank you, thank you, please line up for autographs on my left here.

Awwww Reyn~ >swoooon< :wink:


I have sorted claims to fame, but my lawyer won't let me discuss them publicly.

First, when I first ordered an Egg McMuffin here in the states, it was served open-face, with a knife and fork and a packet of jelly. The idea was that you would eat the egg, bacon, and muffin with a knife and fork, and then put jelly on the other half of the muffin for "dessert"... Was it that way in Canada, Reyn?

On the Claim to Fame front, I was once roommates with Nina Blackwood (one of the original MTV V-Jays). She also plays the harp, which I loved to listen to when she practicedl.

I won 2nd prize (and $15-) in a national Chiquita Banana jingle contest when I was a kid. I thought that it was so special that I made my mother put the letter that told me that I had won the prize in her safety deposit vault at the bank!

1985 was my CtF year, and i can thank frisbee for it.

• the NY Post published a photo of me playing in central park
• a friend wrote a piece for Games Magazine, and a photo i took was used in the article

My claim to fame is that I won a poetry reading competition at school.

I won my school spelling bee in 4th grade, and represented at a citywide competition.

Actually, I do have a claim to fame. Back in 1988, as an advertising art director, I was running through a stack of headshots from this dinky little modeling agency and ran across a very pretty girl [...] Halle Berry [...]
(I had a hell of a time deciding which shot to use. The girl can't take a bad picture!!!)

[..] I let off a shot. To this day I haven't a clue where that strength came from, but, that ball soared about thirty five yards into the upper right corner of the net.

My boasts:

My father is a professor. He had a book published and acknowledged me as the manuscript's first proofreader.

My younger brother was in the original version of "Rollins Band" and was the bassist for two of Henry Rollins' albums.

My 25 year-old daughter is a casting assistant for the television series "Without A Trace." She previously worked as a production assistant for the television series "Supernatural".

I was the first born of the year in my hospital.

Linkat wrote:

I was the first born of the year in my hospital.

My brother too, Linkat. January 1st !! Came in a couple of minutes after
midnight. The fireworks were still lighting up the sky. What an entrance!

As for me, I have no claim to fame, even living in southern California -
nothing has rubbed off.

RP wrote:

1985 was my CtF year, and i can thank frisbee for it.

• the NY Post published a photo of me playing in central park
• a friend wrote a piece for Games Magazine, and a photo i took was used in the article

Nice! Did you keep the photo?

the Post photo is also there, framed and hanging...

[...] He also was the animator of the opening for the Howdy Doody Show (cuckoo clock). [...]

[...]I was the youngest person to have her OWN library card in the local branch of the library. (Most kids had cards with their parents.) [...]

My claim to fame (besides being a super hero):

I was the first born of the year in my hospital.

Im a Kellogg

yes, it's buried in a desk drawer somewhere at my folk's.
the Post photo is also there, framed and hanging...

When I was 12 I attended an enriched class at a neighbouring rural school once every couple of weeks and always got back near the end of art class. The deal was, that in order to attend this class, I had to keep up with all my regular class work. By the end of the year I had somehow missed two art assignments and was given an "F" for the year. That same teacher had the nerve to submit a water colour I'd done to a local summer fair and I won! When he handed me the red ribbon in September I wasn't sure whether to thank him or deck him.

Thanks to djjd it was professionally framed and now it hangs in my foyer.

I won two scholarships in college, through my sorority, where I held 12 offices and won a regional award for chapter service. I also worked on the 1984 Biden Senate campaign and have met the Senator and his family, including his son, Joe, Jr. (called Beau) who is now the Delaware Attorney General or something high up like that. Beau had a face full of braces the last time I saw him.

Ted Williams taught me to fly cast.

I can cast a fly over the tallest building in Boston.