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Jason English
Our Next Book Giveaway: FBI 100 Years: An Unofficial History
by Jason English - January 29, 2009 - 12:10 AM

[On Monday, I asked for your best photos with celebrities, and I've been obsessively checking the flossypics@gmail.com inbox ever since. Submissions include presidents, vice presidents, former candidates, other disgraced politicians, movie stars, geek legends, Super Bowl champions, various talk show hosts and so much more. I'll post some of our favorites on Friday. Keep them coming!]

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FBI-100.jpgLast month, our own Chris Weber sent me this picture of himself posing with the infamous Rod Blagojevich in front of Wrigley Field. I’ve been looking for an excuse to post it ever since, and I hope Chris (or the governor) doesn’t mind if we use the photo as the jumping-off point for today’s book giveaway. The prize is a good one—FBI 100 Years: An Unofficial History, and the challenge is a little different.

We want you to send us your best photo-taken-with-a-celebrity, be it a controversial politician, former child star, Olympic hero or reclusive author. Doesn’t matter why they’re famous, or how you convinced them to pose with you. Email your photos to flossypics@gmail.com. We’ll post some of the more enjoyable submissions on Friday, so you have time to do your scanning.

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Comments (11)

  1. Dang! I have a great photo of myself with Lou Ferigno where we’re both in undershirts & flexing (& this is back when I was really scrawny), but I don’t know where it is. I’ll do my best to find it, it’s pretty funny.

    posted by Mike on 1-26-2009 at 1:21 pm

  2. Haha! If I can find the picture of Whoopi and me from the mid-1990s, I’ll send that over. Fitting since Blago was supposed to be on The View today.

    posted by Linda on 1-26-2009 at 1:23 pm

  3. Have you published the winners of the Secret Society contest?

    posted by Sara on 1-26-2009 at 1:24 pm

  4. Sara — Here’s where the Secret Society winners were announced:

    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/21932

    The only one (besides Friday’s) that hasn’t been resolved is the town slogans contest. I’m going to wait until after the next issue of the magazine is completed to pick the winners. Stay tuned!

    posted by Jason English on 1-26-2009 at 1:28 pm

  5. I have one with Billy Ray Cyrus from his Achey Breaky Heart days… I have a perm, he has a mullet, we’re both line dancing.

    posted by Lauren on 1-26-2009 at 1:31 pm

  6. Dangnabbit! Wish a was a photos person.

    I was traveling through Salt Lake, and met Henry Winckler, best known as the Fonz to the older generation, and as lawyer Barry Zuckerhorn (he’s very good) from Arrested Development. He was in town to help in some capacity for the Special Olympics, and met him at an empty coffee shop. Very nice person, bought the gal I was with a piece of cake.

    LITERALLY almost ran into Al Sharpton at LAX. Made a quick stop turn and came about three inches from bumping heads. Again, seemed like a nice guy.

    Also, ran into Matt Dillon and Mira Sorvino in a hole in the wall hamburger joint named Matt’s Bar when they were in my hometown of Minneapolis shooting a movie, and Vince Vaughn when he was home visiting family.

    posted by Matt on 1-26-2009 at 1:48 pm

  7. What about the winners of the four book give away? I was at my mom’s over the weekend and haven’t seen anything about that yet.

    posted by Sarah in CA on 1-26-2009 at 2:36 pm

  8. Duh, I just saw the note at the end of the blog about it, ha.

    posted by Sarah in CA on 1-26-2009 at 2:40 pm

  9. Does my photo taken in front of the building next door to the White House with a lifesize cutout of ‘W’ count? I was flipping him off……

    posted by Vickey on 1-26-2009 at 7:15 pm

  10. me with Alan Thicke, my dad with Ralph Sampson, me with The Junkyard Dog….

    hmm…

    posted by Vince on 1-27-2009 at 1:59 pm

  11. Somewhere, amidst thousands of pictures of my bartending days, are the photos of me doing shots of Jaegermeister with Dan Patrick and Sean Salisbury at 4am. I will probably never locate these pictures, but being the enormous football fan that I am, this was by far one of the greatest nights of my life.

    I still have Dan Patrick’s phone number, though I’ll never call it. And anyway, he probably woke up the next morning, realized he gave his number to the hyper bartender, and immediately changed the number.

    posted by Heather on 1-28-2009 at 1:02 pm

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